On Episode 24, and I discussed:
- Building
- Oracles, DLCs, & Schnorr Signatures
- Contract-based stablecoins & CFDs
- Emerging Smart Contract Tech on Bitcoin & Lightning
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/699531
📺: youtu.be/7QDt_maVrrQ
Conversation
On Episode 25, and I discussed:
- Building
- Investing in Lightning Network companies
- Lightning Business Models
- Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Lightning Adoption
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/703145
📺: youtu.be/uHrjnNbJvaA
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On Episode 26, and I discussed:
- Building
- Enabling Social Media on Lightning
- The Importance of Value 4 Value Payments
- Zion's Business Model & Adoption Metrics
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/708051
📺: youtu.be/KNbsxjxnciM
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On Episode 27, and I discussed:
- Building
- Moon's VISA Partnership
- Will Lightning Disrupt Payment Processors?
- Privacy, Censorship, E-commerce
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/713966
📺: youtu.be/z29or8NgM50
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On Episode 28, , and I discussed:
- Building
- Browser Extensions vs. Browsers vs. Mobile Apps
- Enabling Value 4 Value payments
- Identity on the Lightning Network
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/719647
📺: youtu.be/07HAcQDDAmo
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On Episode 29, and I discussed:
- Investing at
- Earning on the Lightning Network
- Bitcoin Business Models
- Lightning's Impact In The Developing World
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/722680
📺: youtu.be/eWY7Qqhdjvs
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On Episode 30, and I discussed:
- Making Bitcoin Legal Tender in the US
- Running for US Senate on a Bitcoin Campaign
- The Effects of Fiat Money on America
- The Importance of the Lightning Network
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/726488
📺: youtu.be/DtudmJA-RwA
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On Episode 31, and I discussed:
- Investing at
- & 's ₿ Trust
- Lightning adoption in Nigeria
- Educating Future Bitcoin Builders
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/727699
📺: youtu.be/wj5ddk5I-1s
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On Episode 32, and I discussed:
- Writing 's State of Lightning report
- Lightning adoption since the report was published
- Future Lightning growth catalysts
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/737485
📺: youtu.be/NtUHqYBcA1o
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On Episode 33, and I discussed:
- Building 's Lightning integration
- Why Kraken chose an LND node
- Trade-offs exchanges face when considering Lightning
- Lots of lightning predictions
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/753837
📺: youtu.be/5U6CmUFEmo0
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On Episode 34, and I discussed:
- Building
- Bitcoin as a store of value & medium of exchange
- Investing in Bitcoin companies
- Inflation & the macro-economic landscape
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/759359
📺: youtu.be/dcdNMucUy7A
Replying to
On Episode 35, and I discussed:
- Building
- Differences between Lightning implementations
- Centralization risks on Lightning
- Educating Bitcoin developers at
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/763493
📺: youtu.be/ETG0PV6WRNw
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On Episode 36, and I discussed:
- Building
- The pros & cons of fiat crowdfunding platforms
- Improving crowdfunding accessibility on Lightning
- Geyser's roadmap
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/769739
📺: youtu.be/_Df1dAMlepM
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On Episode 37, and I discussed:
- Building
- The future of Liquid & the Lightning Network
- The Bitcoin transaction fee debate
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/774424
📺: youtu.be/5AvzQRyoWpw
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On Episode 38, and I discussed:
- Building & Sensei
- Spiral's BDK & LDK
- The Lightning implementation landscape
- Emerging Lightning use cases
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/776076
📺: youtu.be/8zL7BtPhen4
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On Episode 39, and I discussed:
- Building
- Free & Open Source Software
- Merchants on the Lightning Network
- Value 4 Value as a Business Model
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/780792
📺: youtu.be/ZmTUdrfDGrk
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On Episode 40, and I discussed:
- Running one of the world's top LN nodes
- Scaling routing volume up to 10+ BTC/day
- Selling liquidity vs. earning routing fees
- Advice for routing node operators
🎧: play.fountain.fm/episode/784554
📺: youtu.be/en-SZZmnBUg
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On Episode 41, and I discussed:
- Network effects on Bitcoin & Lightning
- Stablecoins on Lightning
- Bitcoin as a medium of exchange & unit of account
- Nation-state Bitcoin adoption
- and much more!
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/791235
📺: youtu.be/CvP7UFbqLhE
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On Episode 42, and I discussed:
- Building
- The addressable market for Lightning payments
- The hidden costs of using legacy payment rails
- Credit card network effects
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/793175
📺: youtu.be/To4NDL53_ZM
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On Episode 43, and I discussed:
- Building
- Solving email spam with Lightning
- Emerging internet business models
- Building on the API
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/799940
📺: youtu.be/M1_6T396qtY
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On Episode 44, and I discussed:
- Building
- Paying consumers Bitcoin for shopping
- Lightning-powered loyalty rewards
- Emerging Lightning applications
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/803890
📺: youtu.be/IxZu2ayX-sQ
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On Episode 45, and I discussed:
- Building Decentralized Identity at
- Self-hosting, DIDs, and verifiable credentials
- How works
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/810880
📺: youtu.be/RxwaUi3I99s
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On Episode 46, and I discussed:
- The pros and cons of independent research
- Mastering the Lightning Network
- Multi-Part Payments & Zero Base Fee
- Lightning Network limitations
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/819951
📺: youtu.be/F2i2b9GX_lk
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On Episode 47, @OleSkogstrom and I discussed:
- Building
- Bitcoin as a productive asset
- The addressable market for Lightning routing
- Skill and capital needs for routing node operators
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/831297
📺: youtu.be/1yy4Ll9r780
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On Episode 48, and I discussed:
- The dual adoption curves of Bitcoin
- LND, Loop, Pool, Terminal, & Taro
- The importance of the community
- The future of the Lightning Network
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/834464
📺: youtu.be/ZUctt_BPjnM
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On Episode 49, Paul Itoi and I discussed:
- Building &
- Earning Bitcoin for your time
- How AI and humans can work together
- Decentralized knowledge graphs on Lightning
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/839253
📺: youtu.be/972LzVeH8aA
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On Episode 50, and I discussed:
- Building
- Future Taro use cases
- Earning yield on Lightning
- Risk/reward trade-offs for Bitcoin holders
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/844256
📺: youtube.com/watch?v=qeil4X
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On Episode 51, and I discussed:
- Building
- Streaming sats to podcasters
- Merchants accepting Lightning
- Breez LSP & adoption metrics
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/851608
📺: youtu.be/dTcZmij8MXk
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On Episode 52, and I discussed:
- Building
- The value of direct audience funding
- Helping creators earn their fair share on the internet
- The advantages of building on Bitcoin
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/859299
📺: youtube.com/watch?v=Z6bVYc
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On Episode 53, and I discussed:
- Building
- Lightning nodes as 21st century railroads
- Emerging LN marketplaces and apps
- Investing in LN startups
- Onboarding 2 billion people to Lightning
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/864443
📺: youtu.be/lxGFo-opXGE
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On Episode 54, and I discussed:
- Building &
- Lightning as a communications layer
- The pros and cons of building on the web
- Nostr and decentralized social media
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/872851
📺: youtu.be/4GDanQZ3ZJI
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On Episode 55, and I discussed:
- How his views on Bitcoin have evolved over time
- The challenges & opportunities for Lightning
- Taro and the value of stablecoins
- And much more!
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/879673
📺: youtu.be/sDdVF-ClB2s
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On Episode 56, and I discussed:
- How internet business models are broken
- How Value 4 Value could be a solution
- Freedom in an information age
- Platforms vs. Protocols
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/890757
📺: youtu.be/XRxbrfbeThg
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On Episode 57, and I discussed:
- 's product line-up
- Lightning scalability
- Channel factories
- Peerswap, Liquidity ads, Eltoo & more
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/898588
📺: youtu.be/Vw2I-68y8XI
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On Episode 58, Alan Plus and I discussed:
- Building
- Competition for LN liquidity marketplaces
- The upcoming LN+ API
- Emerging Lightning apps
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/910458
📺: youtu.be/T5S5SDd5rcM
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On Episode 59, , and I discussed:
- Building Holepunch &
- Why we need peer-to-peer apps
- What developers might build on Holepunch
- Lightning adoption
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/916744
📺: youtu.be/LA7CMuX2_fc
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On Episode 60, Randy Naar and I discussed:
- Building
- Liquid & Lightning as Bitcoin scaling solutions
- Issuing assets on Liquid
- Current and future Liquid use cases
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/922332
📺: youtu.be/QjABCBWggZA
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On Episode 61, and I discussed:
- How Stablesats works
- Building
- The future of Bitcoin banking
- Bitcoin usage in El Salvador
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/931306
📺: youtu.be/qQBnfPmLbss
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On Episode 62, and I discussed:
- Building
- Helping people get paid in Bitcoin
- Payment speed, fees, and price stability
- Accounting on a Bitcoin Standard
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/948850
📺: youtu.be/ddnIVgG3pqI
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On Episode 63, and I discussed:
- Building
- P2P decentralized ride sharing
- Building on Bitcoin + Lightning + Nostr
- Enabling a circular Bitcoin economy
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/952331
📺: youtu.be/27OH5iaOcKk
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On Episode 64, and I discussed:
- The Time Value of the Lightning Network
- Bitcoin’s risk curve
- Lightning banks
- Taro’s impact on Lightning
🎧: fountain.fm/episode/964325
📺: youtu.be/AEukWM9-MyI
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