Bitcoin Rapid-Fire

Pablo Fernandez is an Argentinian software engineer, ‘Head of R&D’ at Swan Bitcoin, advisor to ‘ego death capital’, and most recently, developer of a number of projects on the Nostr protocol. In this discussion, I ask Pablo about the economic situation in Argentina, and his thoughts on the persistent troubles with inflation experienced there, and then we move on to a deep dive on Nostr, and th...

Peter Alexander is an entrepreneur who’s been living and doing business in Shanghai, China for nearly 30 years. He reached out to me recently after hearing one of the ‘Macro Hang’ episodes, where we briefly touched on the subject of China, and in which I suggested that we should be careful not to oversimplify the differences between China and ‘The West’ / US, especially in terms of economic 'm...

Jeremy is the founder of 'Escape To El Salvador', a business which provides services to people seeking to move to El Salvador. As many places around the world today appear to be pursuing nonsensical, increasingly authoritarian, and ultimately unsustainable policies, El Salvador is signalling that it is going in a different direction, particularly since it's announcement of bitcoin as l...

Hanging out with some of my bitcoin pals discussing the macro climate at the end of April 2023.   Enjoy! -- More from the guys: TWITTER (JEFF):  ⁠https://twitter.com/JeffBooth⁠ TWITTER (PRESTON):  ⁠https://twitter.com/PrestonPysh⁠ TWITTER (FOSS):  ⁠https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss More from me: TWITTER:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/2P7PUjA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ YOUTUBE:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3aBbZxg⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ MEDIUM:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http:...

Owen Gwilliam, also known as 'Beef Back Better', was on the show about a year ago, as he was making his first trip to El Salvador, doing research on the regenerative / organic ranching situation in the country. Since that time, he's returned to Australia, only to leave again, and move his whole life to El Salvador. He has spent his initial time there sourcing the absolute best quality...

Joe Martin is a musician and a pioneer in the emerging use of the so-called 'value 4 value' model for digital product publishing (and likely more in the future). Joe is about to launch his first full album 'Empty passenger Seat' on May 1st, and has already launched a couple songs from it on Wavelike, a value 4 value platform that makes it easy for listeners to seamlessly send value...

Mercedes Juárez is a 70+ year old Mexico native, who was introduced to me by a mutual friend. An advocate for Marxism earlier in life, she has more recently found bitcoin, gone down the rabbit hole, and is now pursuing initiatives to help promote and get the benefits of bitcoin to more people, particularly women in less-privileged circumstances in Mexico. I thought Mercedes' situation was inte...

This is another instalment in the 'Bitcoiner Book Club' series. When either myself, or others read a book that they thought was interesting, relevant to bitcoin, and worthy of further discussion, we put together one of these chats. The guests reviewing the books are always different, and are usually included because they asked to be involved (I've found that 4 is a good number). The cr...

Guy Swann is a friend, bitcoiner, and creator and host of 'Bitcoin Audible', a podcast where he reads the top articles in the bitcoin space, and provides extensive and valuable commentary on them.   Last week Guy and I recorded a podcast in which we discussed the recent 'banking crisis', and the individual psychological dynamics that are involved (both cause and effect) in a financ...

After a 7 month hiatus, the Hodl Hang crew is back to discuss some of the wild events and encouraging developments of the last half year. Enjoy! -- More from the boys: TWITTER (Rob): @Breedlove22 TWITTER (Erik): @Erikcason TWITTER (HODL): @americanhodl8 More from me: TWITTER:  ⁠http://bit.ly/2P7PUjA⁠ YOUTUBE:  ⁠https://bit.ly/3aBbZxg⁠ MEDIUM:  ⁠http://bit.ly/2Zk0Dex⁠ SUBSTACK:  ⁠Money Messiah⁠ VID...

Guy Swann is a friend, bitcoiner, and creator and host of 'Bitcoin Audible', a podcast where he reads the top articles in the bitcoin space, and provides extensive and valuable commentary on them.   I've known Guy since I've been in the bitcoin space, but we hadn't spoken in a while, so we booked a podcast to have a catch up and discuss some things happening in bitcoin that I was hoping to ge...

It's a very common phenomenon that when people get orange-pilled, and begin heading down the 'bitcoin rabbit-hole', they have an increasing desire to shift their job / career to work in bitcoin.   Additionally, while the bitcoin-only industry is still fairly small, if we are right about it's prospects, there will be a ton of new companies popping up over the coming years (and a ton of growth...

Aleks Svetski is an entrepreneur, friend, prolific writer in the bitcoin space, and author of the recently released book 'The UnCommunist Manifesto', a logical, and piercing takedown of 'Communist' thinking, and a simple explanation of the rationale (and virtues) of individual freedom and voluntary exchange.   It really is a great book to clarify ones own thinking, and counter the abundance o...

Jacob Wolki is an Australian entrepreneur and regenerative farmer. He started out in his family's record store, then moved to selling bicycles, and in 2019, went down the regenerative farming rabbit-hole, which he's now built into a rapidly growing full-time business. I first came across his work when he released a video which went viral, in which he showed how his un-staffed retail location worke...

I often ask the twitterverse if there are any bitcoiners out there who would like to jump on the podcast for a discussion about whatever they're into (or want to discuss).   This man (who wishes to remain anonymous) hit me up, listing his 'Christian anarchy', military history, large family, homeschooling of his children, and past experience as a pastor, as potentially interesting things to di...

Aljaz is the CEO and Co-Founder of BoltObserver, software which provides monitoring and management services for lightning nodes. He's also the co-founder of the Bitcoin Ljubljana meetup, and has worked in the bitcoin space for several years. He is another guest who booked themselves on the podcast (really enjoying this approach so far), and we had a great discussion about bitcoin in Slovenia, ligh...

Eyvy is a young Norwegian bitcoiner who, after hearing the stories of other bitcoiners who became interested and got involved in regenerative farming, decided to give up on his 'white collar' career and do the same. He has since bought some land and cattle, and begun his journey of learning how to raise and grow nutritious food, in a manner that is regenerative to the ecosystem, and both 'environm...

James O'Beirne is a friend and contributor to Bitcoin Core since 2015. He is also the author of the recently published 'OP_VAULT' white paper.  While I tend to focus more on the socio-cultural or 'philosophical' aspects of bitcoin, I still think it's very important to have an informed perspective on how bitcoin works 'under the hood', especially in terms of how potential changes or upgrades t...

Jameson Lopp is a technologist who has been involved in the bitcoin space for over 10 years. He has worked at bitcoin companies, created and contributed to several educational resources, and co-founded Casa, a service which helps customers self-custody their bitcoin. Jameson recently hit me up, asking if I'd be interested in a discussion about 'bitcoin covenants'. While I tend to focus more on the...

Shane Hazel is a veteran, bitcoiner, founder of the B.R.A.V.E PTSD Experience, and a political candidate, most recently in the Georgia gubernatorial race for the Libertarian Party. I watched some of the live debates for that race, and was impressed by both the ideas Shane was espousing, and the manner in which he was doing so, so I invited him on for a chat. Enjoy! -- More from Shane: TWITTER: @Sh...

I've recently been trying a new method of booking guests for the show, by posting a Calendly link, and allowing anyone who wishes to come on to book themselves in. I ask them to give a brief summary of what they'd like to discuss, and if it sounds interesting (and has nothing to do with shitcoins), then we go ahead with it. Benni was one such guest, who mentioned that he was trained in several 'th...

At the bitcoin 2022 conference, the President of Madeira got on stage, and announced that Madeira was 'adopting' bitcoin. While this led to much excitement about another potential 'bitcoin citadel' emerging, it also left many questions. Since that time, a number of bitcoiners who are either from there, or have moved there, have been advising the government on what they can do to make Madeira more...

Richard is the creator of some of the most awesome bitcoin-inspired music videos, which are always a big hit with the ‘bitcoin maximalists’ on twitter. I really enjoy his work, and feel its another beautiful example of how bitcoin is inspiring people, and granting them the freedom, to express themselves. Enjoy! --- More from Richard: TWITTER: @reelrichard YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@thericha...

Sometimes I like to put together an episode that is just meant to be a hangout with some of my friends in the bitcoin space. They are usually pretty open discussions about all things bitcoin and related topics.   As both Alex and Rodolfo run consumer-facing bitcoin businesses, we discussed their experiences / perspectives on 2022, and hit on a bunch of other themes / events which emerged thro...

Most people in the world don't yet realize that the internet is currently entering a new era. Thanks to the capabilities of bitcoin and the lightning network, a seamless, frictionless, value transfer layer is coming to our online actions and interactions, in what has recently become known as the 'Value Enabled Web'.   Now, money can flow as fast as information, which in addition to opening up...