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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:

Max Keidun & Roman Snitko of Hodl Hodl Bitcoin Exchange & Baltic Honeybadger Mar 02, 2019

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Max Keidun and Roman Snitko (CEO and CTO of Hodl Hodl) join me to talk:

Why they started Hodl Hodl, a P2P exchange
How Hodl Hodl is different from the typical Bitcoin exchange
Education of users
Volume trends
Prediction market announcement
Baltic Honeybadger conference 2019

Max, Roman, Hodl Hodl & Baltic Honeybadger Links:

Max Keidun: https://twitter.com/keidunm
Roman Snitko: https://twitter.com/romansnitko
Hodl Hodl: https://hodlhodl.com/
Hodl Hodl twitter: https://twitter.com/hodlhodl
Baltic Honeybadger 2019: http://bh2019.hodlhodl.com/

Stephan Livera links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera
Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/stephan-livera-podcast/id1415720320?mt=2
Subscribe on Android: https://subscribeonandroid.com/anchor.fm/s/7d083a4/podcast/rss
Website: https://stephanlivera.com/

SLP55 Shinobi (Brian_Trollz) Feb 25, 2019

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Shinobi (aka Bitcoin Twitter character @Brian_Trollz) joins me in this episode to discuss a range of topics:

Problems with using Litecoin for paying with things
Confidential Transactions and the different approaches
The push for smaller blocks
Different approaches to scaling
Problems with sidechains and drivechains

Shinobi / Brian Trollz links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/brian_trollz
BlockDigest YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb53lXz2IzEFT5JNHSbdvPg

Stephan Livera links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera
Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/stephan-livera-podcast/id1415720320?mt=2
Subscribe on Android: https://subscribeonandroid.com/anchor.fm/s/7d083a4/podcast/rss
Website: https://stephanlivera.com/

SLP54 Justin Camarena of Bitrefill - Bitcoin Lightning & Channel Management Feb 21, 2019

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Justin Camarena of Bitrefill joins me to talk about his journey with Bitcoin Lightning development and pioneering Bitcoin Lightning payments at Bitrefill. We discuss:

Learning Lightning development
Pioneering Lightning payment at Bitrefill in the #reckless early days
Bitrefill Thor service
Lightning Channel Management
Thoughts on Lightning custodial wallets
What Lightning Network can enable

Justin Camarena Links:

Justin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/juscamarena
Bitrefill: https://www.bitrefill.com/
Bitrefill Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitrefill
Bitrefill Thor lightning service link: https://www.bitrefill.com/thor-lightning-network-channels/

Other links mentioned:

Turbo Channels: https://medium.com/@akumaigorodski/instant-channels-enable-safe-lightning-payments-with-unconfirmed-funding-8d640defa183
Alex Bosworth Channel Management talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlPIB6jt6ww

Stephan Livera links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera
Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/stephan-livera-podcast/id1415720320?mt=2
Subscribe on Android: https://subscribeonandroid.com/anchor.fm/s/7d083a4/podcast/rss
Website: https://stephanlivera.com/

SLP53 Andreas M. Antonopoulos - On Bitcoin Maximalism Feb 18, 2019

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Andreas M. Antonopoulos (best-selling author, speaker and bitcoin educator) joins me in this episode to talk about his views on Bitcoin Maximalism as contrasted with a multicoin view. Andreas and I disagree and present clashing visions. We also discuss other points such as whether Bitcoin challenges central banking more specifically, or banking generally.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/aantonop
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/aantonop
Website: https://antonopoulos.com/

Episode Sponsor BUIDL Bootcamp:

Website: https://buidlbootcamp.com/

Stephan Livera links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera
Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/stephan-livera-podcast/id1415720320?mt=2
Subscribe on Android: https://subscribeonandroid.com/anchor.fm/s/7d083a4/podcast/rss
Website: https://stephanlivera.com/

SLP52 Jack Dorsey & Elizabeth Stark - Bitcoin: Native Currency of the Internet Feb 11, 2019

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Jack Dorsey (CEO of Twitter & Square) & Elizabeth Stark (CEO of Lightning Labs) join me to talk about the vision of Bitcoin as native currency of the internet. Bitcoin's principles, resilience, and being 'of the internet' are what make it special. In this special episode we discuss:

How Jack came to understand Bitcoin and view it as potentially the native currency of the internet
Why everyone is so excited about the Lightning Network
Lightning Torch
Square and the Cash App
Twitter & Bitcoin
Future internet business models possible with Lightning Network
Bitcoin as foundational to the internet and society

Jack Dorsey Links:

Twitter account: https://twitter.com/@jack
Square: https://squareup.com/
Cash App: https://cash.app/

Elizabeth Stark Links:

Twitter account: https://twitter.com/@starkness
Lightning Labs: https://lightning.engineering/
Lightning Labs Twitter account: https://twitter.com/@lightning

Stephan Livera links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera
Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/stephan-livera-podcast/id1415720320?mt=2
Subscribe on Android: https://subscribeonandroid.com/anchor.fm/s/7d083a4/podcast/rss
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/StephanLivera
Tallycoin (BTC/LN donations): https://tallyco.in/stephanlivera/
Website: https://stephanlivera.com/

SLP51 Dr Guido Hülsmann - Austrian Monetary Economics & Bitcoin Feb 05, 2019

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Dr Guido Hülsmann, Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute, and Economics Professor at the University of Anger, France, joins me in this very special episode. We talk about government monetary intervention compared with a free market in money. We discuss many topics:

The process of government monetary intervention and deterioration in quality of money
Which kind of monetary intervention is worst?
Interaction of reserve requirements with capital requirements
How businesses and banking differ in a free market economy versus our fiat money economy
The tendency towards one most saleable good or money, even within the cryptocurrency world
Comments on 'stock to flow' ratio and hard money
Dr Hülsmann's economics book recommendations for listeners

Dr Guido Hülsmann links:

Website: http://www.guidohulsmann.com/
Guido Hülsmann'sThe Ethics of Money Production: https://mises.org/library/ethics-money-production
Murray Rothbard’s What Has Government Done To Our Money?: https://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-money
Hans-Hermann Hoppe How Is Fiat Money Possible?: https://mises.org/library/how-fiat-money-possible-or-devolution-money-and-credit
Ludwig von Mises Theory of Money and Credit: https://mises.org/library/theory-money-and-credit
Huerta de Soto Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles: https://mises.org/library/money-bank-credit-and-economic-cycles
Philipp Bagus In Defense of Deflation - https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319134277

Stephan Livera Links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera
Website: https://stephanlivera.com/
Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/stephan-livera-podcast/id1415720320?mt=2
Subscribe on Android: https://subscribeonandroid.com/anchor.fm/s/7d083a4/podcast/rss

SLP50 Rui Gomes & João Almeida of OpenNode - Helping merchants take Bitcoin Lightning Payments Feb 02, 2019

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Rui Gomes & João Almeida (CTO, co-founder) of OpenNode join me in this episode to discuss why they turned down Roger Ver's $1.25M, as well as the vision of OpenNode in enabling Bitcoin & Lightning payments. Topics include:

Background on OpenNode
Service structure and fees
Rejecting Roger Ver's $1.25M offer and why
Why OpenNode is Bitcoin-only
Comparison of OpenNode with self-hosted BTCPayServer approach
How users can set up
Getting tech support
Plans over the next year or so
Growth markets for Bitcoin Lightning payment

OpenNode Links:

OpenNode invite link (affiliate link): https://app.opennode.co/join/1b454baa-b233-45c0-8f0a-13893d4ae960
OpenNode website: https://www.opennode.co/
OpenNode twitter: https://twitter.com/opennodeco
Rui Gomes Twitter: https://twitter.com/ruigomeseu
João Almeida Twitter: https://twitter.com/joaodealmeida94

Stephan Links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera
Website: https://stephanlivera.com/
Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/stephan-livera-podcast/id1415720320?mt=2
Subscribe on Android: https://subscribeonandroid.com/anchor.fm/s/7d083a4/podcast/rss

SLP49 Marty Bent - Bitcoin content creation and curation, and 'mainstream' Economics Jan 24, 2019

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Marty Bent, host of the Tales From the Crypt podcast, and editor in chief of Marty's Bent joins me in this episode. We talk about Bitcoin content creation and curation, and also touch on the shifts in thinking from 'mainstream' economics required to understand Bitcoin.

Marty Bent links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent
Marty's Bent Newsletter: martysbent.com
Tales from the Crypt Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tales-from-the-crypt
TFTC21 Podcast twitter account: https://twitter.com/TFTC21

Stephan Livera links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera
Website: https://stephanlivera.com/
BTC/LN donation: https://tallyco.in/stephanlivera/

SLP48 Nicolas Dorier and BTCPayServer - self hosted Bitcoin and Lightning payments Jan 20, 2019

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Nicolas Dorier, a Bitcoin developer, joins me in this episode to talk about the open source project he started, BTCPayServer. BTCPayServer allows you to start accepting Bitcoin payments with 0% fees & no third-party. It is built with security, privacy and censorship-resistance at its core.

We cover:

Why Nicolas started BTCPayServer
What BitPay did to drive Nicolas to start his own open source version
Cost and ease of setting up BTCPayServer
Hardware node products that can be configured with BTCPayServer built in
Upcoming BTCPayServer features such as fiat exchange
How you can get involved

Nicolas Dorier & BTCPayServer links:

Nicola Twitter: https://twitter.com/NicolasDorier
BTCPayServer website: https://btcpayserver.org/
BTCPayServer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpG9WL6TJuoNfFVkaDMp9ug
BTCPayServer Github: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver
BTCPayServer Twitter: https://twitter.com/BtcpayServer
BTCPayServer Slack: http://slack.btcpayserver.org/

Stephan Livera links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera
Website: https://stephanlivera.com/

SLP47 Giacomo Zucco - Custodial LN, Altcoins, Financialisation, Attacks on Bitcoin Jan 15, 2019

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Giacomo Zucco, well known Bitcoin advocate, Supremo of BHB Network, and bitcoin consultant/teacher joins me in this episode. We talk:

His Bitcoin 'rage quit'!
The recent trend of Lightning Network custodial wallets, and whether this is on net a good or bad thing
Thoughts on altcoins - are some of them honest, good faith efforts? Might they be technologically interesting, but still not monetarily relevant?
Bitcoin financialisation - Does Bitcoin need financialisation or does finance need Bitcoin?
Attacks on Bitcoin that may come

Giacomo links: