The Juan Galt Show

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Why are we here? what’s the point of encrypting all the things? This speech, should answer your question. Video version here: Juan Galt. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.juangalt.com

Start a meetup. Do it every month for atleast a year, but ideally forever. Make it noob friendly and Bitcoin only. Then do a second meetup in between, but full nerd mode for the developers. A year later, sprinkle some magic and boom! Bitcoin community happens. Helps to have an amazing hacker garage to hang at, and work from. Cheers to Lightning developer Chris Guida! Juan Galt. This is a public ep...

Most interesting to me anyway. How about you? There’s a lot of going on in the world, but no other person alive seems to be able to handle so many impossible jobs at the same time as Elon Musk. Despite controversies and political positions he has taken recently. You have to admit, what ever his secret is to execution, it is one worth figuring out. Here’s a solo pod attempt by me to answer this que...

I’ve decided to join Top Builder. If you are an entrepreneur or builder, you should join as well! topbuilder.dev Juan Galt. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.juangalt.com

Start with a Bitcoin meetup. Convince some OGs to come hang out. Get sponsors to throw money into a hackathon pot. (Do a bunch of hard work nobody sees)And vuala! An awesome hackathon happens. Cheers! Juan Galt. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.juangalt.com

Max, a prolific Bitcoin open source contributor and tecnologist joins us to try and convince us to join him and the deepest bitcoin nerds on nostr! This conversation joins a series of discussions with Nostr entrepreneurs discussing the potential and friction points of Bitcoin’s native social network layer. If you like Nostr, follow me there! Juan Galt This is a public episode. If you would like to...

For the forseable future anyway, the cryptographic transformation of the dollar is not just inevitable but economically very attractive to the global south. Americans don’t get it, the Dollar is their water but the rest of the world is drowning in much worse fiat. Meanwhile Bitcoin is still in it’s distribution stage barely cracking 1% global adoption. One day Bitcoin can - I really believe - beco...

On this call we dove deep into the mechanics of Ark as a scaling technology, it’s differences with Lightning, the challenges to scaling and how Covenants would massively improved Bitcoin scaling technologies. Special thanks to Tiero and Ark Labs for the hard work on scaling Bitcoin self custody to the world. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.juangalt.com

Had a cool chat with Zachary Pardey CEO of Bold Bitcoin a new kind of Bitcoin bank, about the future of Bitcoin exchanges, what’s wrong with their security and service model, and where the industry is likely to go, given the cypher security realities of today’s age, the wide range of data hacks, the prevalence of identity theft and how these forces will shape Bitcoin exchanges going forward. This...

Hello everybody! Sorry for the lol in podcasts there this month. I've been traveling and fell down an AI rabbit hole that I'm temporarily emerging from right now. This conversation with the OCEAN guys was I thought very productive and informative. I asked some of the finer questions related to their approach to the Ordinals boom and the game theory around mining and I think got some new answers wo...

Mandrik, one of my favorite Bitcoiners joins us to reflect on the challanges of holding Bitcoin long term, navigating the industry as proffesional, the early days of Blockchain.info, and the era of Bitcoin US politics and Mainstream adoption. Juan Galt. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.juangalt.com

Get10101 joins us for a quick overview and deep dive into the technology that won them a hackathon award and is quickly becoming a Bitcoin futures platform without a custodian. Juan Galt This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.juangalt.com

I could not attend this show, but it came out great as Alp and Brad Mill discuss the various perspectives available to understand Bitcoin and how it’s consensus changes have played out. Juan Galt. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.juangalt.com

Shinobi, Rearden and Matt Blue sit down on a spontaneous spaces to discuss Bitcoin Covenant soft forks, their trade offs, advantages, and debate the finer points. This conversation was not hosted by BitcoinNews or Juan Galt, but I like to save important spaces like this one and put it out on a feed so that they are not lost to time. Expect more of the sort. Juan Galt. This is a public episode. If...

Stealth Addresses , a new kind of reusable address quickly being adopted by wallets like Cake Wallet , has hit the market. Josi Bake , Bitcoin core contirbutor joins us to discuss the relevan BIP, and the adoption plan for this application layer update to Bitcoin privacy. As we live in the shadow of the Samurai Wallet develper arrests, new privacy solutions like Sealth Addresses could not come and...

Scott Dedels , author of The Dao Of Bitcoin, join us to discuss and process out reaction to the arrest of the Samurai Wallet devs. Juan Galt This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.juangalt.com

Moonsettler, who recently decided to take a break from Bitcoin twitter, left us a fantastic interview, describing the inner workings of Bitcoin’s Chaumian ecash, what is being built, the trade offs and the potential. Juan Galt This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.juangalt.com

Jeff Swan, Bitcoin OG joins us to discuss the many challenges facing Bitcoin in this new stage of mainstream adoption, the many white pills to be found despite the negative news the past few weeks and how things should or should not evolve, for Bitcoin to adapt. Juan Galt This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog....

Rearden Former Casa and Bitgo engineer, joins us to discuss the latest effort in building consensus towards upgrading Bitcoin’s tooling. Initially proposed by Rusty Rustles out of the recent Bitcoin++ conference in Austin Texas. Rearden explains to us what restoring and fixing Bitcoin script means in general, what risks are being considered and how they can be solved by some of the sharpest engine...

I had an amazing conversation with Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether and CTO of Bitfinex, one of the most influential people in the Bitcoin and crypto industry which not man know much about. His experience, approach and outlook were refreshingly real and the technologies he is investing into to further the cypherpunk vision, were fascinating to discuss. Don’t forget to look us up on your favorite podca...

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I got to sit down with a couple of members of Blockstream.com who are working on adoption of the Liquid Network in Latino America. It was a very interesting discussion and overview with a couple of hot moments via a surprise guest. We talk about some of the barriers to Liquid adoption, how it can help scale Bitcoin and how it differs from other ‘layer 2’ solutions like the Lightning Network. I per...

Hello everyone, I’ve been traveling a lot this year and so have fallen behind a bit on publishing these podcasts. The good news is, I have a new editor! helping me get through them, so you can expect them to keep coming steadily going forward. On this show we dive into the use of the Lightning Network at the enterprise level and from a B2B perspective and explore the market dynamics around getting...