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Stephan Livera Podcast Stephan Livera
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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. This is one of the leading podcasts in the space, and listening to this show is one of the fastest ways to learn and get up to speed on Bitcoin.
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SLP405 Paolo Ardoino Bitcoin Lightning, Tether & Keet
Paolo Ardoino (CTO of Bitfinex & Tether, CSO Holepunch) joins me on the show to chat about a wide range of topics:
Lightning security
Lightning adoption
Tether reserves - Does Tether Pump Bitcoin?
Tether creation/redemption process
Tether audits and attestations
Stablecoins and centralisation
Keet & Holepunch
Links:
Twitter: @paoloardoino
Site: Bitfinex.com
Site: Tether.to/en/
Site: Keet.io
Sponsors:
Swan Bitcoin
Mempool.space
Braiins.com
Voltage
Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
CoinKite.com(code LIVERA) -
SLP404 Gloria Zhao - What Do Bitcoin Core Maintainers Do?
Gloria Zhao, Bitcoin core contributor and maintainer, rejoins me on the show to chat about what bitcoin core maintainers do. We discuss:
What do Bitcoin Core maintainers do?
How does Bitcoin Core development work?
How much ‘power’ do maintainers have?
Mempools - what are they and why do we need them?
Interaction with L2 protocols
Mempool package relay
RBF
Links:
Twitter: @glozow
Package Relay Proposal
Site mentioned: Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
Github: glozow
Brink: @bitcoinbrink
Bitcoin Core PR Reviews: @BitcoinCorePRs
SLP216 Gloria Zhao Learning Bitcoin Core Contribution & Hosting PR Review Club
SLP242 Jonas Schnelli Maintaining Bitcoin Core: Contributions, Consensus, Conflict
Sponsors:
Swan Bitcoin
Mempool.space
Braiins.com
Voltage
Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
CoinKite.com(code LIVERA) -
SLP403 Alex B - Bitcoin Security Long Term & ETH Centralisation
Alex B rejoins me on the show to chat about bitcoin security over the longer term and updates on his ETH centralisation thesis. We discuss:
Bitcoin’s long term security and blockspace market
How miner fees shifted over time in Bitcoin and why
Tail emission arguments are dumb
Which nodes matter?
Lido and ETH centralisation
Will efforts to fix it work?
Links:
Twitter: @bergealex4
SLP303 Ethereum's Path To Centralisation With Alex B
Sponsors:
Swan Bitcoin
Mempool.space
Braiins.com
Voltage
Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
CoinKite.com(code LIVERA) -
SLP402 Pierre Rochard - Bitcoin Obsoletes Fractional Reserve Banking
Pierre Rochard rejoins me on the show to talk about Full Reserve, Fractional Reserve, and how Bitcoin obsolete Fractional Reserve Banking:
Full vs Fractional Reserve
Fiduciary media
Is the current system full or fractional reserve?
Various historical or current examples from the bitcoin economy
How would businesses work under a bitcoin full reserve system
Links:
Twitter: @BitcoinPierre
Related article: In Defense of Bitcoin Full Reserve: Not Anti-credit, but Anti-fiduciary Media
Previous Episodes:
SLP3 – Bitcoin Investment Theses with Pierre Rochard
SLP11 – Bitcoin’s Decentralised Governance, with Pierre Rochard
SLP35 Pierre Rochard – Lightning Power Excel Plugin, Lightning Residency
SLP147 Pierre Rochard & Saifedean Ammous – Bitcoin as Savings Technology & Number Go Up
SLP214 Pierre Rochard & Fabian Jahr – Where Are All The Bitcoins?
SLP367 Pierre Rochard – Lightning Network & Kraken
Sponsors:
Swan Bitcoin
Mempool.space
Braiins.com
Voltage
Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
CoinKite.com(code LIVERA) -
SLP401 Greg Foss - Sell Bonds, Buy Bitcoin
Greg Foss, Bond market veteran investor, and bitcoin/macro commentator rejoins me on the show to talk about the situation with global debt, bond markets and why Bitcoin is cheap protection. We chat:
US Fed
Japanese debt markets
The 60:40 stocks and bonds allocation and what changes
Sell Bonds, Buy Bitcoin
Scenarios for how this plays out
Looking Glass Education
Links:
Twitter: @FossGregfoss
Site: Lookingglasseducation.com
Prior episode:
SLP293 Greg Foss The Debt Problem You Can’t Ignore
Sponsors:
Swan Bitcoin
Mempool.space
Braiins.com
Voltage
Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
CoinKite.com(code LIVERA) -
SLP400 Jonas Nick & Tim Ruffing - Half Signature Aggregation: What is it and how does it help scale Bitcoin?
Jonas Nick & Tim Ruffing, bitcoin researchers and contributors at Blockstream rejoin me on the show, this time to chat about half signature aggregation. This is a scaling technique that can help scale Bitcoin and enable more transactions inside a block or help with L2 protocols. We discuss:
How this idea came to be
What is half aggregation vs ‘full aggregation’?
What kind of savings are possible?
What are the downsides?
How would this work in practice?
Is a soft fork required?
Next steps for discussion, research, contributors
Links:
Twitter: @n1ckler
Twitter: @real_or_random
Blog post: Half-Aggregation of BIP 340 Signatures
CISA github: Cross-Input Signature Aggregation (CISA)
Half aggregation: Half-Aggregation of BIP 340 signatures
Previous Episodes
SLP222 Jonas Nick and Tim Ruffing What’s MuSig2? What Does it Mean for Bitcoin Multisig?
SLP321 On-chain scaling with Bitcoin Core Developers Pieter Wuille, Andrew Poelstra, Andrew Chow & Murch
Sponsors
Swan Bitcoin
Braiins.com
Voltage
Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)
Stephan Livera links:
Show notes and website
Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
Subscribe to the podcast
Patreon @stephanlivera
Customer Reviews
Great Conversations on Money, Energy, Bitcoin, and more
I always look forward to my weekly Sunday road trip I take, as it ends up being a classroom on wheels with Stephan and his guests. I’ve really enjoyed this podcast and all of the excellent resources and content that Stephan makes available, thank you!
Highly Valued Missionary
Stephan provides a nice variety between economics, technology, politics and sociology. The technology is often above my ability to understand, but I like to read/listen “above my grade” to keep challenging myself to learn more. Stefan‘s leadership in this leaderless realm is a great gift.
Authentic
Stephan focuses on bitcoin through a lens of human rights. He is the pioneer in this unfortunately niche area of Bitcoin podcasting. I appreciate his dedication to hosting intelligent guests with technical knowledge and privacy focused concerns. He runs circles around Peter McCormack in terms of bitcoin knowledge and relevance. Thank you Stephan for providing your show for free and promoting the most important aspects of Bitcoin and digital life.