Bitcoin Builders

On this edition of the Bitcoin Builders Weekly Recap, NLW covers: Macro headwinds for BTC price  Short-term holder cost basis  Mining updates including SEC Marathona subpoena and pro-mining legislation in Montana and Texas The BRC20 debate and the Blocksize wars    Thanks to our sponsor: In Wolf's Clothing // Wolf is the first startup accelerator focused exclusively on Bitcoin and Lightning // Lea...

This week, President Biden ratcheted up the partisanship around Bitcoin when he tweeted that Republicans were trying to protect tax loopholes for wealthy crypto investors. Congressman Brad Sherman has been all over TV saying that the industry is just for tax evaders and criminals. Elizabeth Warren is making opposition to crypto a central pillar of her campaign.   Yet as much as the partisan bicker...

Bitcoin has recently set records for transactions. Fees are dramatically higher than they were a few months ago. Ordinals have ballooned to more than a million inscriptions per week. BRC-20 is a primitive token standard that uses ordinals to create a form of Bitcoin-native token. Just a couple months old, the market cap of BRC-20 tokens is over $400m and a great debate rages: is this Bitcoin build...

Des Dickerson is the CEO of THNDR Games. THNDR creates captivating mobile games that reward play with Bitcoin. 80% of their users have never interacted with Bitcoin before. 87% are out of the United States. In this conversation NLW talks with Des about how she started building in Bitcoin, THNDR's journey, and why games are a path in to Bitcoin.   Find Des on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dickerson_...

On this edition of the Bitcoin Builders Weekly Breakdown, NLW covers: Bitcoin's whipsaw markets, driven by thin liquidity and Mt. Gox/US Gov't sell rumors A short banks, long BTC narrative driver, with Standard Chartered Bank making a huge prediction WEF is now pro-Bitcoin mining?!  New Bitcoin policy org BTC Action Trammell Venture Partners Bitcoin startup ecosystem report highlights  To join the...

Ray Youssef is the co-founder and former CEO of Paxful. He's spent the last 8 years working to open up bitcoin access and financial freedom in the global south. Although Paxful is no more, Ray's mission continues. He and his team have just announced Civ Kit, a proposed protocol for open, unstoppable peer-to-peer bitcoin markets. On this episode Ray and NLW discussed what happened with Paxful, what...

Welcome back to the Bitcoin Builders Weekly Breakdown. The Weekly Breakdown is a chance to cover the most important news stories in and around the Bitcoin community. This week, NLW looks at: Increase in the percentage of BTC held by entities with less than 1 BTC  Lack of stress around recent price action Bernstein report saying Bitcoin is poised for biggest bull run ever  Arkansas passes right to...

Steve Lee is lead at Spiral, the Block's independent Bitcoin-focused subsidiary. In this episode of Bitcoin Builders, NLW and Steve discuss Spiral's mission to support Bitcoin, their grants program, their work on the Lightning Development Kit, and why even non-technical people can contribute to Bitcoin. To join the discussion: bit.ly/breakdownpod Thanks to our sponsor: In Wolf's Clothing // Wolf i...

In this data driven episode of Bitcoin Builders, Glassnode's James Check (Checkmate on Twitter) walks through the onchain data, discussing: The changing of hands from the leftover top buyers to new post-FTX bargain buyers The shift away from whales towards smaller holders  Why the most recent run past $30,000 has been driven by spot buying rather than leveraged trading To join the discussion: bit....

Erik Hersman is the CEO of Gridless, a bitcoin mining company that leverages bitcoin production to make mini grids and last mile energy production economically viable in Africa. The company has pilots in Kenya and Malawi and recently raised a seed round led by Block and Stillmark. In this episode, NLW and Erik talk about their shared social entrepreneurship background, how Erik and Gridless came t...

On this edition of the Bitcoin Builders Weekly Breakdown, NLW looks at a number of the big stories shaping bitcoin over the past week. He discusses the shutdown of P2P bitcoin marketplace Paxful, coming just months after the closure of Local Bitcoins. He also talks about Texas Senate Bill 1751 and the state-by-state battle for "Right to Mine" legislation.   To join the discussion: bit.ly/breakdown...

Bitcoin Builders is a show all about the developers, entrepreneurs, creatives, communities, artists and others participating in the Cambrian explosion of building on Bitcoin, Lightning and other freedom tech.  This is the Bitcoin show all about the fun, optimistic, irreverant side of Bitcoin, and features news shows, discussions, interviews, educational series and so much more.  It's hosted by NLW...