The Adopting Bitcoin Pod

Season 2 kick-off and live talk with the advisor team of Adopting Bitcoin 2022 about this year's event. Adopting Bitcoin will take place November 15-17 in San Salvador. Moritz Wietersheim from Specter , Giacomo Zucco , Jeff Gallas from Fulmo , Rodrigo Gomez from Bitrefill , Vlad Costea from BTCTKVR , Alexandre Bussutil from bolt.observer talk about the developments in El Salvador and their expecta...

There’s this wealth of knowledge about Bitcoin out there in the form of podcasts, articles, Youtube videos etc and it’s high quality, but it’s only accessible to people who speak English. There are efforts to localize and translate content into local languages, but it’s a lot of work and where should one really be starting? Luckily, we found just the right guys who have already done this with a lo...

We speak with Rich Swisher of MOTIV about their first steps building a Bitcoin Economy in Peru inspired by the success of Bitcoin Beach El Zonte. The project started when Rich and his partner discovered that the lack of proper footwear in a community was the cause of excess child mortality. After a successful intervention with very low cost, they decided to take it a step further and introduce Bit...

In this episode Andrew and Kemal are joined by Coindesk writer George Kaloudis to recap the Open Source Stage. Many visitors to the biggest Bitcoin conference to date said that this was where the signal was to be found. For George, Bitcoin 2022 was his first Bitcoin conference. He was immediately drawn to the Open Source Stage and wrote about his impressions from diving into it. 

It all started in 2013 with three friends having beers and musing how cool it would be if they could pay for their drinks with Bitcoin, and that was the moment Bitcoin City Arnhem was born. In this episode we talk with Patrick van der Meijde , one of the initiators about the beginnings, the challenges and success of turning a town in Netherlands into a Bitcoiner's paradise, with international groc...

In episode 17 we're joined by Brian Harrington , a Southern California Bitcoiner who has been orange-pilling individuals and merchants in the area for years. Brian is one of the initiators of the Orange County Bitcoin Network and a big proponent of real world meetups with Bitcoiners. He also advocates for more education around personal finance and for getting off fiat completely with the #GetOnZer...

Lebanon was once dubbed the Switzerland of the Middle East for its unique status as both a snow-capped destination and discreet banking hub for Gulf Arabs. But the average inflation rate by September 2021 reached 132.98%, higher than the average inflation rate of 66.13% over the first nine months in 2020. In this episode, Sooly and Marco from Bitcoin du Liban tell us about the events that led up t...

Fodè Diop , prolific Bitcoin application developer, decided to raise thousands of new Bitcoin application developers and is launching the Bitcoin Developers Academy on April 11, 2022 to do just that. The goal of the academy is to train the next generation of Bitcoin application developers at a reasonable cost. Anyone with an open mind and a laptop can enroll. Learners will have the support of more...

In this week's episode we have two very special guests who participated at the Lightning Hackdays this past weekend. The Lightning Hackdays are an unconference focused on the Lightning Network organized by Fulmo from Berlin and this time they took place at the Cobac Co-Working space in Istanbul right next to the Golden Horn. There were around 150 participants from many different countries and grea...

We are joined by Rikki from Bitcoin Italia podcast who shared his experiences living on Bitcoin only for over a month in El Salvador.

In this week's space Johns Beharry from Peakshift and Bitcoin Design joined us to talk about the different address and invoice types that wallets use to communicate with each other. We dive into the challenges resulting from different standards, possible solutions to mitigate in the now, as well as what we can expect to develop on the protocol and application level going forward.

It's one of those weeks when decades happened in Bitcoin, so Andrew and Kemal run through the news of this eventful week and discuss CashApp rolling out Lightning to 100% of their 36M users, the crazy weird couple that was caught with the hacked Bitfinex funds, Aarika Rhodes running against Brad Sherman, Bitcoiners thinking about Universal Basic Income and Russia's Bitcoin pivot . 

In our 10th space we had the privilege of hosting Lord Fusitu’a , who is working to bring Bitcoin to the island nation of Tonga. He is also deeply involved in recovery efforts following the massive volcanic eruption that recently displaced people from their homes and wiped out all communications to the island. This episode is a bit of a journey. Lord had to join us late due to a last minute confli...

In this episode we are joined by Jeff and Rootzoll who have been active contributors to the Bitcoin ecosystem for over a decade since 2011. They have been early adopters and proponents of the Lightning Network for 5 years since 2016. Their Berlin based company Fulmo , which means Lightning in Esperanto, is focussed on research, development and consultancy for the Bitcoin Lightning Network, and the...

In this 8th episode we’re excited to have John Carvalho from Synonym with us alongside Galoy engineer Justin Carter . Synonym had its coming out of stealth at the Adopting Bitcoin Lightning Summit in El Salvador past November in a talk John gave at the conference. Before that, the company was operating in stealth mode for over a year and kept many in the space following in suspense what new projec...

We speak with Gustavo Flores and Tristan Borges of Bitcoin Support by Bull Bitcoin . Bull Bitcoin is a Canadian Bitcoin only exchange serving Canadian users since 2015 and they recently launched Bitcoin Support  -  a service that helps people install, secure, and manage bitcoin wallets with one-on-one phone support. Unlike the centralized financial services that you may be used to, there...

We speak with Lee Salminen , Rich Scotford and Prem Govinda of Bitcoin Jungle , a company and community in Costa Rica who made leaps in bootstrapping a Bitcoin Circular Economy in the land of 'Pura Vida'. Bitcoin Jungle is one of many rising Bitcoin communities in Central America after the example of Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador, but the first of these to implement the Free and Open Source Galoy p...

We speak with Hermann of Bitcoin Ekasi ( @bitcoinekasi ) and Luthando, a Senior coach with The Surfer Kids ( @the_surfer_kids ) about their first steps building a Bitcoin Economy in a South African township inspired by the success of Bitcoin Beach El Zonte.  @BitcoinEkasi is teaching residents and merchants in the townships outside Mossel Bay how – and why – to use Bitcoin as money. The...

In this episode we were joined by Oleg Mikhalsky, partner at Fulgur ventures and Alexandre Bussutil, a researcher with Fulgur ventures. The two are producing a research series called “ Roads to Hyperbitcoinization ” that outlines the views and predictions made by the bitcoin community concerning the prospect of Hyperbitcoinization. 

In our 3rd live Twitter Space we talked to Patrick of Bitcoin Lake - an initiative to bootstrap Bitcoin adoption and a circular economy after the example of Bitcoin Beach at the beautiful Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. Patrick talks about his motivation, the conditions in Guatemala, the first steps undertaken to educate about Bitcoin and next steps in replicating the success in El Salvador. Bitcoin La...

Stephen DeLorme is a UX designer and Spiral (previously Square Crypto) grantee working on crafting UX best practices for Lightning network applications. During his trip to El Salvador for Adopting Bitcoin, Stephen documented his attempts to use bitcoin as money. In this space we dig into what worked, what didn’t, and where the biggest opportunities for improvement exist.

The Galoy team and Adopting Bitcoin organizers took to Twitter Spaces to break down Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's Bitcoin City announcement from the prior evening. Chris Hunter, Nicolas Burtey, Moritz Wietersheim (Specter Wallet), Peter Young (Free Private Cities), Veronika Kuett (Tipolis) and Samson Mow (Blockstream) recapped the event and fielded questions about the Bitcoin City project, t...