Exploring Bitcoin's Dual Nature: Investment vs. Freedom

Calle is the creator and lead maintainer of the cashu open source protocol, a bitcoin powered chaumian ecash implementation. The cashu ecosystem of wallets and backends provides users the ability to easily, cheaply, and privately use bitcoin, including the ability to make offline peer to peer payments.

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Cashu Resources: https://cashu.space/

Calle's Cashu Wallet: https://cashu.me

Calle on Nostr: https://primal.net/calle

EPISODE: 144
BLOCK: 870884
PRICE: 1086 sats per dollar

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(00:00:00) CNBC Intro

(00:05:07) Introduction to Citadel Dispatch

(00:06:01) Technical Difficulties and Live Streaming

(00:10:11) Conversation Begins

(00:15:01) Cashu Project Overview

(00:24:39) Attracting Developers to Bitcoin

(00:38:05) LNURL and Compliance Concerns

(00:50:52) Bitcoin as Freedom Money

(01:00:07) Choosing a Cashu Mint

(01:16:56) Nostr and Cashu Integration

(01:57:01) Future of Cashu and Blinded Amounts

(02:10:14) Nostr Adoption and Social Media