Parker Lewis of Zaprite rejoins me on the show to discuss recent updates in the space and what’s happening with Zaprite and merchant adoption.

• “Then they fight you” ?
• Chilling Effect
• Zaprite
• Getting Bitcoin Payment Rails Ready
• Gradually, Then Suddenly
• Why hope should not be lost

Links:

• X: @parkeralewis
• Site: Zaprite.com
• Get Parker’s Book: thesifhouse.com

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• Swan.com (code LIVERA)
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A lot of people talk about Bitcoin Ossification. Today Steve Lee, Lead @ Spiral rejoins me to expand on why this is the wrong idea. We also talk about the recent situation with bitcoin mining pool centralisation and what is driving it.

Links:

• X: @moneyball
• AJ Town’s ‘Slow and Steady’ post mentioned:
• Earlier episode also mentioned: SLP433 : v2 P2P Transport Protocol for Bitcoin (BIP324)

Sponsors:

• Swan.com (code LIVERA)
• CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
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Jeff Booth, author, entrepreneur and founding partner of Ego Death Capital rejoins me on the show to talk about his bitcoin advocacy at various levels:

• Speaking to politicians about bitcoin
• The system you give energy to
• “Staying and fighting” in Canada vs supporting alternatives e.g. Madeira
• ‘Coincidental’ attack on Bitcoin?

Links:

• X: @JeffBooth
• nostr: npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe
• Site: Ego Death Capital

Sponsors:

• Swan.com (code LIVERA)
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• Mempool.space
• Nomadcapitalist.com/live

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How do you think about investing as a bitcoiner? Preston Pysh of TIP rejoins me on the show to talk about a range of related ideas:

• HODL vs invest in companies
• Microstrategy and other public companies
• VC and early stage investment
• Realistic investment hurdle rates
• Technical realities as bitcoin grows

Links:

• X: @PrestonPysh
• TIP: theinvestorspodcast.com
• nostr: npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z

Sponsors:

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Dmitry Nedospasov is a PhD in Chip Security, also known for his hardware wallet exploits in 2018 with the wallet.fail talk. Dmitry joins me to talk about hardware security in the world of bitcoin and how it compares with hardware chip security in other domains. We discuss:

• The 2018 wallet.fail talk
• Bitcoin compared with other industries
• Realistic hardware wallet attack types
• The cost of attacking a hardware device
• Backups and Shamir’s Secret Sharing

Links:

• X: @nedos
• LinkedIn: Dmitry Nedospasov
• Site: Keylabs.io
• Telegram: https://t.me/nedos
• wallet.fail talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1OBIGslgGM
• Recoverylabs.io

Sponsors:

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Steve Lee and Matt Corallo of Spiral rejoin me on the show to talk about a range of topics. Firstly we discuss the Great Consensus Clean Up which relates to fixing some long standing bugs in Bitcoin. Secondly we talk about MEV and why it’s the wrong term, instead we should be talking about MEVil and the implications for Bitcoin miner centralisation. Finally we address the rumours of Lightning Network being dead or not useful.

Links:

• X: @moneyball
• X: @TheBlueMatt
• BlueMatt's Blog: Stop Calling It MEV
• BIP Proposal: The Great Consensus Cleanup
• Delving post on Great Consensus Clean up Revival
• Steve’s X thread on GCC: https://twitter.com/moneyball/status/1760839436617875485

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Andrew Henderson rejoins me to discuss his story renouncing US citizenship, and whether the price was worth it. We discuss whether you should “stay and fight” as well as considerations relevant for Bitcoiners on pursuing their options in other countries. We also discuss Nomad Capitalist Live 2024, coming in KL Malaysia. Listen in to learn and stay up to date on global tax, investing and lifestyle strategies. Links:

• X: @nomadcapitalist

Sponsors:

• Swan.com (code LIVERA)
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Kevin Loaec of wizardsardine joins me to talk about bitcoin security and vaults. We get into a discussion about:

• Vaults and what’s possible today
• Timelocking and using them as part of self custody
• Inheritance scenarios
• Business use cases
• Covenant soft forks

Links:

• X: @KLoaec
• X: @Wizardsardine
• X: @revaultdev
• Site: Wizardsardine

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Chapters:

• 00:00 - Intro
• 02:07 - Revault
• 08:07 - Liana
• 14:48 - Overview of Liana and Supported Hardware Wallets
• 25:17 - Managing Time Locks in Liana: Rotating Coins and Duration
• 29:47 - Coinkite.com
• 30:47 - Swan.com
• 32:09 - Mempool.space
• 33:10 - Self-Custody with Liana
• 37:26 - Understanding Revault and Liana
• 44:56 - Exploring Decaying and Expanding Multi-Signature
• 49:15 - RBF and CPFP in Liana Transactions
• 56:07 - Transaction Size in Liana
• 01:00:42 - The Debate on Covenants
• 01:05:37 - Enhancing Organization Security with Cosigners
• 01:09:30 - The Future of Self-Custody