The Transformation of Value Cody Ellingham

I catch up again with Ben Jarvie a writer and kiwi Bitcoiner working for Amber App, a Bitcoin-only exchange.

We talk about Ben’s recent travels to El Salvador and Madeira, and we reflect on the declining situation of my beloved home country, New Zealand, and in particular the economic violence that the State and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand continues to unleash upon the people through its egregious manipulation of the money.

But that said, we know that Bitcoin fixes this, and we are here to build bridges and meet people where they are at!

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Links:

Previous episode with Ben - https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/maori-sovereignty-and-self-determination-through-bitcoin-with-ben-jarvie

Amber App - https://amber.app/

Reserve Bank considers the digital dollar: 'NZ's money must innovate to stay relevant' - https://archive.md/wip/QLHtP

The Crypto Sovereignty Project by Erik Cason - https://cryptosovereignty.org/

NZ On Nostr - https://primal.net/p/npub1fvzm7pn3p0hjxkdvsdlc2lyjew02xhsnsr9pw2pj9f4zzas0gjxs3er9hy

The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/588138

BIP 85 deterministic entropy info - https://bip85.com/

King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert L. Moore, Douglas Gillette - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/91781

I talk with Brad Henderson, a Power System Engineer and Head of Engineering and Design at ElectroNet, a New Zealand-owned consultancy firm.

Brad share some exciting details about a new Bitcoin mining facility that his firm has been involved with on the West Coast of New Zealand.

We discuss what energy sovereignty might mean for New Zealand, including the importance of electrifying the economy and how Bitcoin mining and solar power may help create energy abundance. 

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Links:

Brad Henderson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hendo/

Brad's Substack "Powerlines" - https://bradhenderson.substack.com/

Introduction to Bitcoin Mining For Businesses And Investors - https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/articles/introduction-to-bitcoin-mining-for-businesses-and-investors

Ocean Mining - https://www.ocean.xyz/

ElectroNet - https://www.electronetgroup.com/

Lightning Pay - https://lightningpay.nz/

The Use of Knowledge in Society, Hayek - https://german.yale.edu/sites/default/files/hayek_-_the_use_of_knowledge_in_society.pdf

The New Zealand Power Grid and Bitcoin with Mike Lazelle and Brad Henderson - https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/the-new-zealand-power-grid-and-bitcoin-with-mike-lazelle-and-brad-henderson

I host the Kiwi Bitcoin Builders monthly catchup for April 2024 (Recorded 7 April). This is a way to bring together people working on awesome Bitcoin businesses and projects in New Zealand. We share what we have been working on and what has been happening in the space.

We hear about the Bitcoin Alive conference that was held over in Sydney, follow up on the success of the Lightning Pay beta, as well as hear from SatFlow, a new Kiwi Bitcoin business exploring MEV on Bitcoin.

If you would like to share a Bitcoin project or business that you are working on in New Zealand do please reach out to me and we can connect, just send me an email me at hello@thetransformationofvalue.com

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Bitkiwi - ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Bitkiwi1

LightningPay - https://lightningpay.nz/

Satflow - https://satflow.com/

Fedimint - https://fedimint.org/

Bitcoin Alive - https://bitcoinalive.io/

Madison Reidy vs RBNZ Governor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnNqKfE1OUA

I talk with Matyáš Kuchař, co-founder of BTC Prague in the Czech Republic, Europe’s largest Bitcoin event.

We talk about BTC Prague’s origin and Matyáš's connection to New Zealand.

We also discuss the Bitcoin scene more broadly in the Czech Republic, with a number of well-known Bitcoin companies and projects emerging from the country.

I will be attending BTC Prague 2024, in June which is going to be awesome. There are some great speakers lined up including Adam Back, Michael Saylor, Parker Lewis, Peter Todd and many others.

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Links:

BTC Prague - ⁠https://www.btcprague.com/?promo_id=19708&key=8847c7d6a512fc3cbdb9abf3d64045d9⁠

In this episode I talk with Christian Lewe from Blockstream Research. Christian is working on Simplicity, a more robust programming language designed as an alternative to Bitcoin Script.



To own Bitcoin is to be able to spend it, and the way we currently do this is with Bitcoin Script which has challenges and limitations that means it can be very unforgiving to work with, and it limits more complex transactions and arrangements because you cannot formally verify what will actually happen.



Simplicity seeks to fix this. 



The project that has been in the works for over ten years and has been described by Adam Back as “the last soft fork”. There is some technical nuance to this statement, but as Christian shares, enabling simplicity could bypass a lot of the contentious soft fork discussions about things like covenants as this functionality is possible with Simplicity.



We talk about the proof of work and low time preference of Simplicity, as well as the plans to launch on the Liquid testnet and mainnet to validate the project through actual financial use before an eventual proposal to bring it into Bitcoin.



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Links:

Blockstream - https://blockstream.com/

Blockstream Research - https://research.blockstream.com/

From From Miniscript to Simplicity with Christian Lewe - ⁠https://blog.blockstream.com/from-miniscript-to-simplicity/⁠

Simplicity Overview by Andrew Poelstra - https://blog.blockstream.com/en-simplicity-github/

mempool.space - https://mempool.space/

Outdated OP_EVAL exploit - https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/5898/can-someone-explain-this-outdated-bip12-op-eval-exploit

Elements - https://elementsproject.org/

Bitcoin++ Austin - https://btcplusplus.dev/conf/atx24

Aqua Wallet - https://aquawallet.io/

Liana Wallet - https://wizardsardine.com/liana/

I talk with Rupert Carlyon, Founder and Managing Director of Kōura Wealth KiwiSaver.

KiwiSaver is the voluntary retirement savings scheme for New Zealand and Kōura Wealth offers a Carbon Neutral Crypto Fund KiwiSaver product, which is Bitcoin only.

This is a way for everyday kiwis to get some kind of Bitcoin exposure with government and employer matched contributions and tax benefits.

New Zealand was very late to the game with retirement savings schemes and the impact of this is beginning to be felt with very low savings, and old-age poverty issues.

With all the talk about the Bitcoin ETFs globally, it is interesting to explore how traditional finance in New Zealand interfaces with Bitcoin, and the regulatory challenges they have had to overcome to get this product launched.



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Links:

Kōura Wealth KiwiSaver - ⁠https://www.kourawealth.co.nz/⁠

Rupert Carlyon - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rupert-carlyon-a3417976/

How Muldoon threw away NZ's wealth - https://archive.md/qGX2G

NZ KiwiSaver History - https://retirement.govt.nz/policy-and-research/kiwisaver/