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**Stephan Livera Podcast**

Join Stephan as he interviews the sharpest economic and technical minds in Bitcoin & Austrian Economics to help you understand how money is changing and evolving. Leading names in the world of Bitcoin join the show to share their insights, whether they are developers, CEOs, economists, authors, analysts and more.

Latest Episodes:

SLP461 What Bitcoin Specialises In with Matt Corallo Feb 22, 2023

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Matt Corallo of Spiral Bitcoin rejoins me to chat about the purpose of Bitcoin and developments in the space:

Bitcoin contrasted with stablecoins
Bitcoin’s specialty
Future problems vs today problems
Canadian Trucker Bitcoin
Donations and adversarial environments
Cultural aspects
What does it take to have Bitcoin Soft forks again?
LDK

Links:

Twitter: @TheBlueMatt
Spiral: Spiral.xyz
LDK: Lightningdevkit.org
Async payment post
Prior episodes: SLP257 Matt Corallo – Bitcoin Soft Fork Activation, Taproot, and Playing Chicken

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SLP460 Bitcoin and the Dollar as Strange Bedfellows with Mark Goodwin Feb 18, 2023

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Mark Goodwin is the Editorial Director for Print at Bitcoin Magazine. He joins me to chat about the dynamics of Bitcoin and the Dollar:

Warring factions in the govt
Monetary dominance
Protocol risks created by stablecoins?
Bitcoin still surviving and thriving

Links:

Store: https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/
Twitter: @markgoodw_in
Article: Bitcoinmagazine.com
Article: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/stablecoin-monster-cbdc-red-herring

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SLP459 Q1 and Bitcoin Security with NVK Feb 14, 2023

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NVK (of Coinkite.com) rejoins me to chat about the latest in bitcoin security:

New device Q1 with QR
New Coldcard firmware
Combining security techniques
Bitcoin Gardening, not Ossification
OP_VAULT
Nostr

Links:

Q1: https://coldcard.com/docs/coldcard-q1
NVK's Nostr npub: npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8

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SLP458 AI and the Economy with Peter St Onge Feb 12, 2023

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Peter St Onge rejoins me on the show to talk about AI and what it means from an economic perspective. Many believe that all the jobs will disappear or there will be massive economic chaos.

We discuss:

AI and what jobs it will take
What new jobs will be created?
What about UBI?
Implications for choosing a career
ChatGPT and political bias
Existential risks
Trillion dollar coins

Links:

Twitter: @profstonge
Substack: HyperBitcoinization | stonge.substack.com
YouTube: @Profitsofchaos | Youtube.com
Prior episode: SLP272 Peter St. Onge - Bitcoin Energy Double Standards & Why Robots Are Not Taking All Our Jobs

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SLP457 Bitcoin as International Money with Bill Hill & Malcolm Weed Feb 08, 2023

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Bill Hill from Pouch (Bitcoin Island Philippines) and Malcolm Weed from Neutronpay join me to talk about Bitcoin as international money and the scene in Asia. Bill and Malcolm share some insights into Bitcoin and lightning on the ground, and remittance corridors. We also talk about their upcoming events, Lightningcon in Da Nang and Bitcoin Island Retreat coming up at the end of March. We chat:

Merchant adoption
Bitcoin remittances
Bitcoin and lightning companies collaborating
Knowledge about the lightning network
Bitcoin communities locally

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SLP456 Casey Rodarmor What are Ordinals? Feb 02, 2023

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Casey Rodarmor joins me to chat about Ordinals and Inscriptions. Now we get into the pros and cons of this, and whether it is bad for Bitcoin. We chat:

What Ordinals and Inscriptions are
The ‘bull’ case for Ordinals and Inscriptions
Do they spam the bitcoin blockchain?
Witness data on the input side, not output side
Is it harder to validate?
Can it even be stopped?
Marginal consumption of block space

Links:

Twitter: @rodarmor
Site: Ordinals.com
Podcast: https://hellpodcast.money/
BitMEX post: https://blog.bitmex.com/dapps-or-only-bitcoin-transactions-the-2014-debate/
Andrew Poelstra’s commentary: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-January/021372.html

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Buildonl2.com
BTCPrague.com

SLP455 Anant Tapadia - Single Sig or Multi Sig? Feb 01, 2023

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Anant of BitHyve (Hexa, Keeper) rejoins me on the show to chat about the question of securing your Bitcoin in single signature or multi signature. We also talk through best practices.

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