Connect The World

Connect The World EP053 | Bart Mol | Satoshi Radio | The Netherlands "Edward and Stef talk with Bart Mol, founder of the Dutch Satoshi Radio Podcast and Co-founder of the Dutch Bitcoin Alpha newsletter! This Episode is special in many ways! We’re celebrating the anniversary of the Connect the World Podcast! And we do that together with our very own Podfather from The Netherlands: Bart Mol! Bart st...

Connect The World EP052 | Christian Decker | Blockstream | Zurich | Switzerland "Edward and Stef talk with Christian Decker, core tech engineer at Blockstream. Christian found the Bitcoin Whitepaper in 2009, did his PhD on it between 2012 and 2016 and is working ever since on the Lightning Network as a continuation of his research. At Blockstream he started working on Core Lightning right away, sp...

Connect The World EP051 | Alby | Moritz Kaminski | Switzerland "Edward and Stef talk with Moritz Kaminski, co-founder of Alby, the Bitcoin Lightning App for the browser! The Alby browser extension gives a seamless experience with in-browser payments and identity. They focus on interoperability and therefore make it future proof and suitable for a broader group of users. They talk with Moritz about...

Connect The World EP050 | Noor El Huda El Bawab | Galoy Money | El Salvador "Edward and Stef talk with Noor, co-organizer of Adopting Bitcoin, the Lightning Summit held in El Salvador and Director of Partnership at Galoy Money. Adopting Bitcoin brings together the Bitcoin and Lightning community in San Salvador and El Zonte to connect and advance the future of money and payments in the Central Ame...

Legends of Lightning is a new online global tournament organized by BOLT.FUN. It’s aiming for makers to learn, connect, collaborate and build innovative applications and tools with Bitcoin and Lightning! In this Quick Talk, Johns Beharry and Ed Pratt talk to Edward about how they came up with the Legends of Lightning tournament and how it exactly works when applying. They also discuss the importan...

Connect The World EP049 | Rene Pickhardt | Data Scientist | Norway "Edward and Stef talk to Rene Pickhardt, a data scientist, consultant and co-writer of Mastering the Lightning Network. Rene is constantly working on open source projects, research on the Lightning Network and mentoring Lightning related projects during the Summer of Bitcoin. In April this year he received a grant from the Human Ri...

Connect The World EP48 | Soft Simon | Mempool.space | Dubai "Edward and Stef talk to Soft Simon, a full stack developer and Co-founder of the open source Bitcoin block explorer, Mempool.space! With over a million visits a month and despite the bear market, Mempool.space is still growing! They talk about Mempool.space being the first multi-layer explorer that is also open source. They’re interconne...

Connect The World EP047 | Romain Rouphaël | LNmarkets | Portugal "Edward and Stef talk to Romain Rouphaël, Co-founder of LN Markets and ITŌ. This is a new type of Bitcoin derivatives trading platform. LN Markets can only be accessed via the Lightning Network and all transactions occur in Bitcoin and no fiat money is involved! They talk about how with LN Markets the focus is to leverage the Lightni...

The Lightning Lounge EP005 | Sergej Kotliar | Bitrefill | Sweden "Edward and Stef talk to Sergej Kotliar, the CEO and Founder of Bitrefill. Based in Sweden, Bitrefill allows users to buy almost anything with Bitcoin through the sale of digital gift cards, bill pay, and mobile refills. Bitrefill is the number one place where people use their bitcoin, and is available in over 150 countries. Bitrefil...

The Lightning Lounge EP004 | John Carvalho | Synonym | Portugal "Edward and Stef talk to the CEO at Synonym: John Carvalho. John is CEO at Synonym, where they are building an ecosystem of software products and protocols to enable a hyperbitcoinized future. John enjoys educating Bitcoiners about the dynamics of Bitcoin and squashing popular misconceptions and false narratives with his series of "Go...

The Lightning Lounge EP003 | Ben Arc | LNBITS | Wales - United Kingdom "Edward and Stef talk to Ben Arc. A bitcoin and free and open-source hobbyist, advocate, educator, researcher and inventor. Ben has started a number of cheap and useful DIY bitcoin hardware projects and workshops for points-of-sale, ATMs, vending machines, node monitors, hardware wallets. Always with an emphasis on users taking...

The Lightning Lounge EP002 | Mick Morucci & Stelios Rammos | Geyser | United Kingdom & The Netherlands "Edward and Stef talk to Mick Morucci & Stelios Rammos from Geyser. Mick started Geyser with the aim of supporting Bitcoin creators, creatives and builders to reach and engage their communities through borderless & viral crowdfunding. His belief is that this can only happen on Bit...

The Lightning Lounge EP001 | Kwinten De Backer | Alby | Belgium "Edward and Stef talk to a Physicist-turned-software-engineer from Belgium. Kwinten has been on the Lightning Network since February 2018. He worked as a freelance consultant for various (Lightning-related) companies. Creator of the “Flitz” app ceased operations, which was a direct SEPA-to-Lightning on-ramp. He is now managing Lightni...

What is a Ring of Fire? Why is it helpful and How can you create your own? Together with Stef we wanted to answer all these questions during our Rings of Fire workshop at the Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022 Conference! Bitcoin Magazine made an awesome recording of it with video. This can be viewed on Youtube: https://youtu.be/fy2rvIE_7AQ. But we also recorded the audio ourselves to be able to publish it he...

Connect The World EP046 | Lisa Neigut aka Nifty | Blockstream | Base58 | Texas USA "Edward and Stef talk to Nifty (Lisa Neigut), a Lightning Protocol Engineer at Blockstream and co-founder of Base58! Nifty has been working more than 4 years on Lightning protocol improvements for Blockstream and she started Base58 to offer a developer-oriented Bitcoin transaction class. She also runs a blog site, B...

Slaapyhoofd is a Full-stack developer and built the batch create tool nfc-brrr-machine to write LNBits wallets to NFC tags for any event! In this Quick Talk, Slaapyhoofd talks to Edward about his technical effort to create an NFC card for Connect the World for the upcoming Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022 conference! This card is powered by LNBits and made possible by Satsback and TunnelSats! What is needed...

Connect The World EP045 | Roy Sheinfeld | Breez | Israel "Edward and Stef talk to Roy Sheinfeld, Co-founder and CEO of Breez. The Breez app is a fully functional Lightning Node running on your mobile phone! Roy describes Breez as not being just a wallet, but as an interface to the Lightning economy providing an infrastructure with services built on top! They talk about the Podcasting 2.0 and Point...

Connect The World EP044 | Dmitry Laptev aka Augustus Baggins | LN2ME | Switzerland "Edward and Stef talk to Dmitry Laptev, creator of ln2me.com. His ln2me node routes hundreds of payments per day and provides a service to help Lightning node operators with liquidity issues. Dmitry was the first to realize that getting inbound liquidity will be a huge problem for nodes. A real necessity for merchan...

Connect The World EP043 | Ben Arc | LNBITS | Wales - United Kingdom "Edward and Stef talk to Ben Arc, the creator of LNbits and a real Free Open Source Software developer, advocate, educator and builder of Bitcoin hardware and software from 2014! LNbits is often described as Wordpress for your Lightning Node. It’s a simple account system for multiple wallets and multiple users. You can add a lot o...

Connect The World EP042 | Desiree Dickerson | CEO THNDR | WASHINGTON DC USA "Edward and Stef talk to Desiree Dickerson, CEO of THNDR Games. They make it possible to earn Bitcoin while playing mobile games! Desiree shares how playing THNDR games is a great and easy way to reward pre-coiners to start stacking sats. This experience really helps the adoption of Bitcoin and Lightning! THNDR Games is hy...

Connect The World EP041 | Jose Lemus | CEO Ibex Mercado | Guatemala "Edward and Stef talk to Jose Lemus, CEO of IBEX Mercado. Their Payment Terminals make it possible to start accepting instant Lightning payments with the option of full USD convertibility! Jose shares the history in El Zonte, their relationship with Galoy Money and how IBEX is focusing all efforts on merchants by supporting instan...

Connect The World EP040 | Nitesh Balusu | Lightning Engineer | Georgia USA "Edward and Stef talk to Nitesh Balusu, an open source developer from Georgia USA who just started working at Foundry Digital! Nitesh wanted to contribute to the Lightning Space and decided to start with something he already used and loved, namely Alex Bosworth's Balance of Satoshis, the must-have script for managing your L...

Connect The World EP039 | Bastien Teinturier | Acinq | France "Edward and Stef talk to Bastien Teinturier, VP of Engineering at ACINQ, a Bitcoin technology company that wants to make the Lightning Network more user-friendly! ACINQ started in 2014 and first focused on hardware Bitcoin wallets. With the release of the Lightning paper they switched fully to Lightning! Bastien shares how they’ve drive...

Connect The World EP038 | Christian Keroles | Bitcoin Magazine | Nashville USA "In the first part Edward and Stef reveal yet another amazing news: Connect the World and The Daily Moon are official media partners of Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022! This way we will cover the whole conference and bring you all the Lightning related news out there! A big thanks to the whole team to make this happen! After tha...

Connect The World EP037 | Jared Nusinoff | Mash | Canada "In the first part Edward and Stef reveal an amazing scoop on the website of The Daily Moon thanks to the integration with Mash! After that they talk to Jared Nusinoff, the founder of Mash, a Bitcoin company trying to remonetize the internet and help people to earn more for quality content, experiences and tools! Mash provides an integrated...