Connect The World

Connect The World EP036 | Alexandra Moxin | Advance Tech Media | Canada "Edward and Stef talk to Alexandra Moxin, founder of Advance Tech Media and host at Advance Tech Podcast. With her Advance Tech Media Podcast she interviewed a lot of inspirational people in the Bitcoin and Lightning space, like Ben Arc and Adam Beck. She shares her experience interviewing Roman Martinex, co-founder at Bitcoin...

Connect The World EP035 | Aryan Jabbari | Scarce City | New York USA "Edward and Stef talk to Aryan Jabbari, technical co-founder of Scarce City, an online marketplace for Bitcoin goods and Bitcoin NFT’s. Aryan started Scarce City together with Chris Tramount. They had help from honorary founder Chiefmonkey. He seeded the artist community and had the original idea for bitcoin-based auctions. They...

Jesse Berger wrote the book: Magic Internet Money. A book about Bitcoin, written in plain language to challenge readers to rethink the role of money in society. In this Quick Talk, author Jesse Berger, talks to Edward about his book and about why and how Jesse chose to re-release his book. Because this time it’s powered by Lightning! Thanks to Mash the original manuscript showcases a new way to mo...

Connect The World EP034 | Anthony Potdevin | Thunderhub | Amboss.space | Colombia "Edward and Stef talk to Antony Potdevin, the co-founder at Amboss.space and the main software engineer for the open source project Thunderhub. Thunderhub is an open-source Lightning Network LND node manager and gives users a great UI to manage their Lightning Node! Amboss.space is a Lightning Network Explorer which...

Geyser is a Lightning-native Bitcoin crowdfunding platform with a mission to help Bitcoin creators and creatives to transform their ideas into reality. In this Quick Talk, co-founder Mick Morucci, talks to Edward about the first idea he and co-founder Stellios Rammos had when they started with Geyser. Mick shares his view on the importance of self-custody and developments in the Bitcoin and Lightn...

Connect The World EP033 | Kevin Cai | Kollider | Massachusetts USA "Edward and Stef talk to Kevin Cai, an infrastructure and system engineer working at Kollider. He ensures that all systems at Kollider and their own Lightning Node running continue to run smoothly at all times! Kollider is a real-time settled derivative exchange. Their trading and settlement system uses the Lightning Network to ena...

Connect The World EP032 | Patrick Melder | Bitcoin Lake | Guatemala "Edward and Stef talk to Patrick Melder, the founder of Bitcoin Lago in Guatemala where he’s creating a circulair Bitcoin community! With Lake Bitcoin, Patrick believes that people will eventually start using Bitcoin and Lightning if we just show how it works and what benefits it can bring to the whole area around the lake. They t...

Connect The World EP031 | Olga Ukolova | Pandora | Ukraine "Edward and Stef talk to Olga Ukolova, the co-founder & COO of Pandora Core and working for the LNP/BP Standards Association and MyCitadel.io. At Pandora Core she’s busy developing RGB, a 2nd layer technology solution for scalable off-chain programmable digital assets and smart contracts running on top of the Bitcoin network! They talk...

With Connect the World we create the most valuable Lightning-oriented content out there! And while we are making our content, we always want to stay in close contact with our dedicated community! And nowadays there are a lot of possibilities for creators to offer value for value in the most interactive way out there! In this Quick Talk, Mash founder Jared Nusinoff and Edward talk about Mash and ho...

Connect The World EP30 | Sergei Tikhomirov | Chaincode Labs | New York USA "In the first part Edward and Stef show the new Connect the World website! And they share a Quick Talk about the experience of Edward and ZeroBTC of following the latest Chaincode Labs Lightning Seminar! After that they talk to Sergei Tikhomirov, a postdoctoral researcher at Chaincode Labs! He’s researching the security and...

In April of this year Edward and ZeroBTC attended the Chaincode Labs Lightning Protocol Seminar! A real deep dive full of inspiration! In this Quick Talk they talk about how it was to work, learn and meet people all over the world who share this same passion about Bitcoin and Lightning! Zero also shares briefly his vision on the Lightning Network and all developments which are needed in the near f...

Connect The World EP029 | Adam Curry | Texas USA "Edward and Stef talk to Adam Curry, The Podfather of Podcasting 2.0! Besides being a podcaster we also know him as a VJ on MTV back in the days! With his Podcast, The Daily Source Code (2004) he gained traction in the development of Podcasting. He was the first to use a combination of RSS, scripting and audio content. And all tested in the field! I...

Connect The World EP028 | Graham Krizek | Voltage | Kansas USA "Edward and Stef talk to Graham Krizek, the founder and CEO of Voltage! They deliver enterprise-grade infrastructure for the Lightning Network and make it possible to run your Lightning node in the cloud! Graham shares his vision for the future of the Lightning Network and how he believes the metrics will explode in the near future! In...

Connect The World EP027 | El Profesor | Latinodos | Mexico "Edward and Stef talk to El Profesor, the founder of the Lightning Community Latinodos! This community is completely Spanish speaking! With this, El Profesor fills a void that existed for an all-Spanish Lightning community in regards to running a node. El Profesor tells us that Spanish-speaking countries have a big challenge getting starte...

René Aaron explains how he built a stunning looking widget which makes it super easy to start accepting Bitcoin payments on your website! Of course with no fees and with instant payouts! He started his project during the first BOLT.FUN hackathon in March 2022 and explains the whole process of getting inspired about a use case, starting building an idea, team up and enhancing the design and making...

Connect The World EP026 | Marc Lacoursière aka Roosoft | Igniter script | Canada "Edward and Stef talk to Marc Lacoursière (@roosoft), a full stack developer building Bitcoin and Lightning apps from Canada! He is the creator of the Igniter script, which saved us a lot of work as it is one of the easiest ways to perform a circular rebalance in a Ring of Fire! Marc shares about the developments on S...

Connect The World EP025 | Peter aka AZHODL | Bitcoin Farmer | Arizona USA "Edward and Stef talk to Peter from AZHODL, a husband and wife team from Arizona who strive together to live up to the Bitcoin Standard! And he says that time with our loved ones is the most valuable! Peter runs an amazing mining project with a Bitmain S19j powered by Solar Panels! He believes that if we embrace that our fut...

Connect The World EP024 | Koji Higashi | Diamond Hands | Japan "Edward and Stef talk to Koji Higashi, the founder of the Japanese Lightning Network community Diamond Hands. Koji helped build Nayuta Core, a fully non-custodial neutrino mobile wallet. He did this together with his best friend in the space, Christian Moss who is the co-founder and head of gaming R&D at ZeBeDee. They also worked t...

Connect The World EP023 | Fiatjaf | Humble Programmer | Brazil "Edward and Stef talk to Fiatjaf: in his own words, just a humble programmer, but in fact a real Lightning Guru and the builder of the LNTXBOT! He shares his opinion of the Lightning Network, BOLT12 and about the adoption of Bitcoin and Lightning in his neighborhood in Brazil. Fiatjaf further talks about the effect that LNTXBOT has and...

Connect The Connect The World EP022 | Elle Mouton | Lightning Labs Engineer | South Africa "Edward and Stef talk with Elle Mouton, an engineer at Lightning Labs from South Africa. She worked on a lot of projects, for example on Lightning Node Connect (LNC). That’s the communication logic that allows you to access your node from anywhere! Elle really breathes Bitcoin and Lightning! While working at...

Connect The World EP021 | Carsten Otto | Lightning Network Node Operator | Rebalance-LND  | Germany "Edward  and Stef talk with Carsten Otto, a developer and Lightning Network Node  specialist from Germany. His routing node is at the top of the BOS  score list! He started in 2018 building his first node. And from May 2021 he  really started building his routing node! He sa...

Connect The World EP020 | Jesse De Wit | Lightning Enthusiast Developer | The Netherlands "Edward and Stef talk with Jesse de Wit, software developer and a proficient Lightning Network enthusiast! Shivers all over his back… Jesse had his first amazing experience when paying for an article on yalls.org with his own node… Then the true magic began! He also attended the Lightning seminar at Chaincode...

Connect The World EP19 | Jestopher | Amboss.space | USA "Edward and Stef talk with Thomas Jestopher, the co-founder of Amboss Technologies. They created the Lightning Network Explorer Amboss.space! It all started with the idea to create a better, more private and user-friendly Lightning Network explorer. Together with technical co-founder Anthony Potdevin (from Thunderhub.io) they combine all P2P...

Connect The World EP18 | Rusty Russell | Lightning Developer | Blockstream | Australia "Edward  and Stef talk with Rusty, a Linux and Bitcoin developer and a Lightning  OG from Blockstream! We owe a lot to this lead Lightning protocol  developer! Rusty started hacking C-lightning in August 2015 and wrote “Reaching  The Ground with Lightning” in November that same year! He descr...

Kloek explains why he needed to recover his huge Routing Node Lightning. Watch. He gives an eyewitness account of what could go wrong with your Lightning Node. We also discuss some tips on how you can prevent such a disaster from happening and how you can best recover your Lightning Node! Let's listen to a conversation Edward had with Kloek about the recovery of his Routing Node Lightning. Watch!...