Stephan Livera Podcast Stephan Livera

Rusty Russell rejoins me on the show to talk about a new idea for a bitcoin soft fork that hopefully avoids some of the ‘horse trading’ dynamic that existed amongst other proposals. Listen in to learn more about the different paradigm that Rusty introduces here, so that developers can build more functionality and efficiency in, hopefully so that more people can use Bitcoin in self-custody. 


Bitcoin Script background


GSR overview


GSR benefits 


What is varops 


Contrast with APO or LNHANCE?


Will it enable shitcoins and spam?



Relevant previous episodes:


SLP565 Great Consensus Clean up, MEVil and LN isn’t dead – Steve Lee and Matt Corallo


SLP573 A Shift in Bitcoin Developer Thought? with Brandon Black (aka reardencode)



Links:


Rusty’s BTC plus plus talk on GSR


https://x.com/rusty_twit 



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CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)


Mempool.space



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Dan Gould of the PayJoin Dev Kit (sponsored by Spiral and Opensats) joins me to discuss how Bitcoin privacy could be improved with more PayJoin adoption. What’s more, it might also benefit users in consolidating their wallets or potentially even fee savings. We discuss how this could be integrated into more bitcoin wallets. 


What is a PayJoin?
How it helps privacy
Other benefits in efficiency
Downsides and trade offs
Changes with the v2 PayJoin protocol
PayJoin Directory
Payjoin Dev Kit


Links:


X: @bitgould 
X: @payjoindevkit
Site: PayjoinDevKit.org 
Site: Payjoin.org 

Sponsors:


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CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
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Adam Sullivan, CEO of Core Scientific joins me today as we chat about:


Going through bankruptcy as a Bitcoin miner
Debt financing
Role of capital structure in mining
What makes Core Scientific different?
Centralisation of mining pools
Fee dynamics going forward
2025 outlook on Mining

Links:


X: @_Adam_Sullivan1
Core Scientific: Corescientific.com

Sponsors:


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Rapha Zagury, CIO of Swan and Head of Swan Mining rejoins me on the show to talk about a range of topics, from Brazil’s flooding, Bitcoin Mining, Capital Structure, as well as share some insights on speaking to TradFi professionals about Bitcoin. 



Links:


X: @alphaazeta 
Site: Swan.com
Site: Nakamotoportfolio.com
Nakamoto Gauntlet: The Nakamoto Portfolio Gauntlet 

Sponsors:


Swan.com (code LIVERA)
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As you may know, at the recent Bitcoin++ conference, there was a ‘meeting of the minds’ and Brandon Black aka reardencode rejoins me on the show to discuss. We talk about: 


The state of various covenant proposals
What has shifted now in thinking
The promise of Great Script Restoration
Could it have bad side effects? 
Doing good engineering

Links:


X: @reardencode 
Bitcoin++: btcplusplus.dev 
Rusty’s talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSp8918HLnA

Sponsors:


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CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
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Miljan from Primal joins me to talk about why Bitcoiners should not sleep on Nostr. We chat:


Why he’s bullish on nostr
What the experience is like nowadays
Network effects for creators and devs
Dealing with spam and sybil
Why Openness is the killer feature

Links:


X: @mbraticevic
Site: Primal.net
Miljan’s Nostr npub: npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr
Miljan’s Nostr: miljan@primal.net 

Sponsors:


Swan.com (code LIVERA)
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Nomadcapitalist.com/apply

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