

Stephan Livera Podcast
Stephan Livera
Join Stephan as he interviews the sharpest economic and technical minds in Bitcoin & Austrian Economics to help you understand how money is changing and evolving. Leading names in the world of Bitcoin join the show to share their insights, whether they are developers, CEOs, economists, authors, analysts and more.
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May 28, 2020 • 1h 16min
SLP177 Murch – Bitcoin Coin Selection
Murch joins me to talk about his work on Coin Selection, managing large wallets! We’ll talk about fees, selecting coins, the blockspace market, how you can think about optimising your wallet.
Murch:
Twitter: @murchandamus
Bitcoin Stack Exchange: Murch
Branch and Bound paper and coin selection strategies: Murch’s masters thesis
Relevant episodes:
SLP118 Mike Belshe, CEO BitGo
Sponsors:
Kraken
Coinfloor.co.uk
SwanBitcoin.com/livera
Unchained Capital
Stephan Livera links:
Show notes and website
Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera
Subscribe to the podcast
Patreon @stephanlivera

May 22, 2020 • 1h 28min
SLP176 Parker Lewis & Buck Perley – Caravan Multisig Bitcoin Wallet
Parker Lewis and Buck Perley of Unchained Capital join me on the show to talk about updates on the Caravan open source project, making multi sig accessible and easy for the masses. Previously it was single address only, and now it works as a wallet! We’ll chat:
Why use Caravan
What the new updates are
Hardware wallet testing
xPubs and multi sig
Bitcoiner Ventures raise
Parker Lewis & Buck Perley links:
Unchained blog: Gearing up the Caravan
Parker Lewis Twitter: @parkeralewis
Buck Perley Twitter: @buckperley
Related episode:
SLP131 Parker Lewis – Bitcoin is Intuitive
Sponsors:
Kraken
Unchained Capital
SwanBitcoin.com/livera
Cyphersafe
Stephan Livera links:
Show notes and website
Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera
Subscribe to the podcast
Patreon @stephanlivera

May 20, 2020 • 59min
SLP175 Matt Ahlborg – Bitcoin In the Developing World
Matt Ahlborg of UsefulTulips.org joins me on the show to talk about bitcoin use in South America, and Africa. Matt Ahlborg is a researcher and data scientist looking into the use of Bitcoin around the world.
Matt Ahlborg links:
Twitter: @MattAhlborg
Website: usefultulips.org
Article: Latin American Bitcoin Trading Follows the Heartbeat of Venezuela
Article: Paxful is the Most Important Bitcoin Company You Aren’t Paying Attention to
Related episode:
SLP143 Eduardo Gomez – Bitcoin As A Source Of Truth in Venezuela
Sponsors:
Kraken
Coinfloor.co.uk
SwanBitcoin.com/livera
Unchained Capital
Stephan Livera links:
Show notes and website
Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera
Subscribe to the podcast
Patreon @stephanlivera

May 18, 2020 • 56min
SLP174 Matt Ridley - Bitcoin & How Innovation Works
Matt Ridley is a writer, biologist & Rational Optimist. He joins me to talk about his views on science, economics, innovation and how they apply to Bitcoin.
Matt Ridley Links:
Website: mattridley.co.uk
Twitter @mattwridley
Book: How Innovation Works
Sponsors:
Kraken
Coinfloor.co.uk
SwanBitcoin.com
Unchained Capital
Stephan Livera links:
Show notes and website
Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera
Subscribe to the podcast
Patreon @stephanlivera

May 16, 2020 • 1h 22min
SLP173 Bitstein – Nakamoto Institute Bitcoin Literature Review
Bitstein aka Michael Goldstein, President of the Nakamoto Institute and co-host of Noded Bitcoin Podcast rejoins me on the show to talk about some Bitcoin literature.
Bitstein links:
Twitter @bitstein
Nakamoto Institute website
Noded
Literature:
The Cyphernomicon
Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities
Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority
Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks
Politics vs Technology
Previous episodes:
SLP111 Bitstein – Satoshi Nakamoto Institute Bitcoin Crash Course
SLP6 – Fiat Money As ‘Fad Diet’ with Bitstein
Sponsors:
Kraken
Cyphersafe
SwanBitcoin.com
Unchained Capital
Stephan Livera links:
Show notes and website
Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera
Subscribe to the podcast
Patreon @stephanlivera

May 10, 2020 • 1h 8min
SLP172 Nicolas Dorier & Kukks – P2EP Comes To BTCPay Server
Nicolas Dorier and Mr Kukks rejoin me on the show to talk about updates with BTCPay Server, such as P2EP (Pay to End point), which will assist bitcoin accepting merchants to PayJoin with customers, adding to the privacy on Bitcoin.
Links:
Nicolas Dorier: https://twitter.com/nicolasdorier
MrKukks: https://twitter.com/mrkukks
BTCPay blog: https://blog.btcpayserver.org/btcpay-server-1-0-4-0/
BTCPay twitter: https://twitter.com/btcpayserver
BTCPay PayJoin guide: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver-doc/blob/master/Payjoin.md
BTCPay PayJoin spec: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver-doc/blob/master/Payjoin-spec.md
LaurentMT Payjoin discussion: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/LaurentMT/c38794ef6a62b2f8c76d7f694a3e7777/raw/cde5620d6ab59a8202af504e1650aef1ff907730/
Earlier appearances:
Nicolas: http://stephanlivera.com/48
Kukks: http://stephanlivera.com/91
Sponsor links:
Kraken
Coinfloor.co.uk
SwanBitcoin.com
Unchained Capital
Stephan Livera links:
Show notes and website
Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera
Subscribe to the podcast
Patreon @stephanlivera

May 5, 2020 • 1h 36min
SLP171 PlanB & Saifedean Ammous – Bitcoin S2FX, S2F, and Evolution From Collectible to Financial Asset
Bitcoin experts PlanB and Saifedean discuss Bitcoin's transition from a collectible to a financial asset, including debates on stock-to-flow modeling, phase transitions, and societal implications. They explore the precision of forecasting market behavior, Bitcoin's evolution as an institutional-grade asset, and the importance of cointegration in price analysis.

May 4, 2020 • 1h 6min
SLP170 Yuri de Gaia - Bitcoin’s Two Economies & Citadels
Yuri de Gaia, Partner at L2B Global (Reserve Bitcoin OTC, Liquiditi, Moontower) joins me to talk about Bitcoin’s two economies: the regulated compliant world, and the defiant crypto-anarchist world.
How they will grow
Do they support each other
Citadels, Monarchy, and Anarcho-capitalism
OTC Trading
Liquid
Moontower
Yuri Links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Y_deGaia
Personal blog: https://degaia.co/
L2B Global (company) https://l2b.global
Bitcoin Reserve (HNWI brokerage) https://bitcoinreserve.com
The Bitcoin Reserve Journal (blog) https://journal.bitcoinreserve.com
Moontower (retail) https://moontower.co/
Liquiditi.io (Liquid asset swap tool) https://liquiditi.io/
Article: https://degaia.co/bitcoins-two-economies/
Other relevant episodes:
SLP141 American HODL
SLP161 Titus Gebel - Bitcoin Citadels as Free Private Cities
Sponsor links:
Kraken
Unchained Capital
SwanBitcoin
Stephan Livera links:
Show notes and website
Subscribe on YouTube
Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera
Subscribe to the podcast
Patreon @stephanlivera

Apr 27, 2020 • 1h 13min
SLP169 Jeff Deist - Bitcoin & Acting Locally
Jeff Deist, President of the Mises Institute, talks about Bitcoin, Central Banking, Corona virus, libertarianism, and acting locally. They discuss the influence of Bitcoin on society, shifting perspectives on Bitcoin within the Mises Institute, regulatory arbitrage, the rise of UBI and MMT, negative returns on sovereign bonds, political activism, and the importance of sound money and Bitcoin.

Apr 24, 2020 • 1h 12min
SLP168 Lisa Neigut - Lightning Network Channel Accounting and Dual Funded Channels
Lisa Neigut of Blockstream joins me to talk about Lightning Network Channels, c-lightning, and Dual Funded Channels. We discuss:
How she got into Lightning development
How Lightning Channels work
How they could be accounted for in c-lightning
Dual Funding of Channels
PoDLE
Hardware wallet funding of lightning channels
Lisa Neigut links:
Twitter: @niftynei
C-lightning thread: https://twitter.com/clightningcomit/status/1212810910731063297
C-lightning github: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/niftynei/
Related episodes:
SLP134 Rusty Russell - Lightning Multi Part Payments
SLP59 Christian Decker - Lightning Channel Factories
Sponsor links:
Kraken
Unchained Capital
CypherWheel by CypherSafe
SwanBitcoin
Stephan Livera links:
Show notes and website
Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera
Subscribe to the podcast
Patreon @stephanlivera


