Stephan Livera Podcast

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SLP371 Max Keiser - Investing For Hyperbitcoinisation With El Zonte Capital Apr 30, 2022

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Max Keiser, Bitcoiner, financial broadcaster, investor and writer joins me on the show to talk about his adventures in El Salvador and investments in line with the global hyperbitcoinisation thesis. We chat:

Living in El Salvador
Bitcoin and Lightning infrastructure
El Zonte Capital and who’s involved
Bitcoin Education
Bitcoin Gaming
Thoughts on Central African Republic
Bitcoin City

Links:

Twitter: @maxkeiser
Twitter: @ElZonteCapital
Twitter: @stacyherbert
Email: hello@elzontecapital.com

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SLP370 Alex Thorn - Why Are Bitcoin Fees Low? Apr 29, 2022

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Alex Thorn, Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy Digital (previously Avon Ventures & Fidelity) joins me to talk about how and why Bitcoin Fees are low. After going through eras of higher fees, it might be puzzling as to why they’re low now.

We talk:

Which factors had the biggest impact
SegWit
Batching
Lightning Network
Less OP_Returns
Less miner selling
What might cause fees to rise in future

Links:

Twitter: @intangiblecoins
Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/intangiblecoins/status/1511340416263766027
Report: Why are Bitcoin Transaction Fees So Low?

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SLP369 Daniel Frumkin - Calculating Bitcoin Mining Profitability Apr 27, 2022

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Daniel Frumkin of Braiins joins me on the show to talk about calculating Bitcoin Mining profitability and a load of topics:

Braiins insights dashboard
Stratum v2 benefits
Profitability calculator
Cost to mine calculator
CAPEX or OPEX costs for mining?
How to think about mining ROI
Updates coming

Links:

Twitter: @dfrumps
Site: insights.braiins.com

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SLP368 BitcoinQNA - Bitcoin Seed Tool Apr 26, 2022

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Bitcoin QNA of Bitcoiner.guide joins me on the show to talk about Bitcoin Seeds and a new Seed Tool created with SuperPhatArrow. In this show you’ll learn a little bit about how your bitcoin wallet works in the background:

Bitcoin and entropy
Seed Words
Passphrases
Bitcoin wallets and addresses
BIP85
BIP47 Stealth Addresses
Education for newcoiners in the space

Links:

Site: https://bitcoiner.guide/seed
Twitter: @BitcoinQ_A

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SLP367 Pierre Rochard - Lightning Network Comes to Kraken Apr 21, 2022

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Pierre Rochard, Bitcoin Lead Strategist at Kraken rejoins me on the show to talk about new lightning network developments and how Lightning network is growing:

Experience of setting up LN at Kraken
LN for day to day use not being big yet
Millions of people plugged into Lightning
Will LN node operation only be for pros?
Long term fee / security arguments
Thoughts on stablecoins vs Bitcoin

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Twitter: @pierre_rochard

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SLP366 Nate (BeefOrBacon) - How To Run Your Lightning Node Apr 19, 2022

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Nate (aka BeefOrBacon1, also working at Voltage) joins me to talk about how to run a Bitcoin Lightning node. We get into all sorts of information while keeping it accessible for people relatively new to running a lightning node.

Different lightning user types
How to run your lightning node
Different types of node: RPi, box, VPS
How to manage channels
Who to open channels with
What tools you can use
Should you use swap providers?
What kind of fees do you earn?
How do you backup your lightning node?
Payment reliability

Links:

Twitter: @beeforbacon1
Voltage: Voltage.cloud

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SLP365 Anita Posch - Bitcoin For Fairness in Zimbabwe and Zambia Apr 15, 2022

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Anita Posch, bitcoin educator, podcaster and founder of Bitcoin For Fairness joins me on the show to talk about her recent trip to Zimbabwe and Zambia. We chat about:

Why she went
Crypto Scammers vs Bitcoin Education
Bitcoin software and hardware
Main hurdles to adoption
Government views on Bitcoin
p2p Bitcoin

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SLP364 Max Hillebrand ZKSnacks Blacklisting Coins Apr 03, 2022

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Max Hillebrand, a bitcoin and privacy educator, also working at ZKSnacks (the company behind Wasabi Wallet) rejoins me to talk about why ZKSnacks is implementing blacklisting, and working with chain surveillance firms. We disagree a lot in this one! But we chat:

Wasabi Wallet default coordinator implementing censorship
Coinjoin coordinator models comparison
The contradiction between being anti surveillance firms and working with them
Is there a regulatory capture angle here?
Address re use in Wasabi Wallet
Wasabi Wallet 2 / wabisabi

Links:

ZKSnacks Blog Post: zkSNACKs' Blacklisting Update
Max Twitter: @HillebrandMax
Max Website: Towardsliberty.com

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SLP96 Max Hillebrand – Bitcoin Hardware Wallets for Newbies

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SLP363 Seth For Privacy - Bitcoin & Fungibility Discussion Mar 30, 2022

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Seth for Privacy joins me to chat about Bitcoin & Fungibility. We chat:

Privacy and fungibility
Practical real world difficulties of censoring
Bitcoin and Monero community differences
Technical and social reasons for not having protocol level privacy
The hopes for application level privacy with tools like Samourai Wallet & Sparrow Wallet
Growing the p2p bitcoin economy

Links:

Twitter: @sethforprivacy
Site: https://sethforprivacy.com/
Pieter Wuille StackExchange answer mentioned: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/101874

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SLP362 John Carvalho - Slashpay: Bitcoin Payment Negotiation Mar 28, 2022

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John Carvalho, Founder of Synonym joins me to talk about Slashpay and SlashTags, an ambitious attempt to dramatically smooth the process of exchanging bitcoin addresses or lightning invoices. What kind of things does this enable? We discuss:

Competing standards in Bitcoin
How it would work
Updating and revocation of SlashTags
What other things are enabled by this public keypair approach
Why not use a blockchain
Putting tether USD on lightning
Synonym

Links:

Slashpay Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Synonym_to/status/1498021273255002115
Site: https://synonym.to/
John’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitcoinErrorLog
John’s Podcast: http://thebiz.pro/

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