The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only Podcast

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You want to understand Bitcoin, its implications on the world, and gain more financial self-sovereignty and freedom? Anita Posch, author of (L)earn Bitcoin, Founder of “Bitcoin for Fairness” and Bitcoin educator, takes you on a journey to understand the far reaching effects that this technology will have as it is enforcing human rights all around the world. From interviews with the builders of Bitcoin to guides and tutorials around self-custody and privacy. The Anita Posch Show breaks it all down in an understandable manner.

Spending Bitcoin Is Important with Carel van Wyk

I interview Carel van Wyk, a Bitcoin innovator who implemented Bitcoin Lightning payments at PicknPay, one of Africa’s biggest retail chains. Get first hand insights into the challenges and successes along the journey. Delve into discussions about Bitcoin’s major use cases, how it’s transforming everyday transactions in Africa’s complex regulatory environment, and about the future of Bitcoin. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Apr 1, 2024 • 30:07

Bitcoin Empowers Zambia and Zimbabwe

I appeared on Dale Warburton’s “Why Bitcoin Show” to discuss my Bitcoin education efforts in Africa, specifically how it empowers communities in Zimbabwe and Zambia. In this episode, we explored Bitcoin’s role in financial freedom, shared real stories of impact and change, and talked about Bitcoin’s global use and perception differences. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Mar 18, 2024 • 55:54

Financial Empowerment

I was a guest on the Lunaticoin podcast talking about my journey from urban planner to Bitcoin educator and activist, focusing my work on countries like Zimbabwe and Zambia. We discuss Bitcoin’s vital role in financial empowerment in the face of hyperinflation, the unique advantages of Bitcoin over stablecoins like USDTether, and the mission behind “Bitcoin for Fairness”. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Mar 5, 2024 • 42:20

On The Access Tribe Podcast

This is an interview with me, Anita Posch, from the Access Tribe podcast. During this episode I’m talking about my Bitcoin journey, my work in the Global South, my book and membership platform and I’m taking questions from the audience. Access Tribe will inspire, educate, and connect you with other women in the Bitcoin world, accelerating your learning journey and opening the door of opportunity. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Feb 19, 2024 • 39:39

Bitcoin For Fairness Review 2023

A review of what Bitcoin For Fairness and Anita Posch achieved for Bitcoin adoption in 2023. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Dec 26, 2023 • 25:44

How Bitcoin Safeguarded Elections in Guatemala

My guest is Rafael Cordon, co-founder and CEO of tech startup Simple Proof, that has built a solution ensuring transparent elections in Guatemala. Now you might say, what does this have to do with Bitcoin? They used Peter Todd’s OpenTimestamps tool to link tally sheets to the Bitcoin blockchain and make them immutable. This way the peoples votes have been safeguarded in the recent elections in Guatemala. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Oct 27, 2023 • 41:50

Original Bitcoin Island Bali

A new episode after a long break and I’m back with Dea Rezkitha, organizer of the Indonesia Bitcoin conference taking place in Sanur, Bali on October 26-27, 2023. We’re talking about Dea’s Bitcoin journey how Bali became the original Bitcoin island Bitcoin adoption in Indonesia insights about Bali for digital nomads and tourists visa and travel information the Bitcoin conference with speakers like Jack Dorsey their Lightning Hackathon Get 10% discount on every conference ticket using coupon co

Sep 1, 2023 • 44:35

The Humanitarian Case for Bitcoin Pt. 2

I’m sharing with you the second part of my arguments why Bitcoin is important for the world and especially for the Global South. If you like it please share it with your friends and family. Thanks to AranCircle for recording in Riga, Sept. 2022 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Mar 23, 2023 • 11:24

The Humanitarian Case for Bitcoin Pt. 1

10 minutes of arguments why Bitcoin is important for the world and especially for the Global South. Thanks to AranCircle for recording in Riga, Sept. 2022 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Mar 2, 2023 • 12:52

How Bitcoin Solves Financial Apartheid with Ray Youssef

I’m joined by Ray Youssef, the CEO of Paxful, the peer-to-peer exchange which recently removed Ethereum from their platform and he is the co-founder of Built with Bitcoin. This interview took place at the first African Bitcoin only conference in Ghana at the beginning of December 2022. As Mark Maraia writes in an article about Youssef in the Bitcoin Magazine: “Youssef is the only person you will ever meet who went into New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck and who flew into Egypt on

Jan 12, 2023 • 54:12

2022: A Year In Grassroots Bitcoin Adoption For Africa

Today I want to share with you what my initiative Bitcoin for Fairness achieved in terms of grassroots adoption in Africa in 2022. You can read this as an article at: https://anitaposch.com/bitcoin-africa-review-2022 This article was originally published on Bitcoin Magazine by BTC Inc. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Dec 28, 2022 • 24:12

How Bitcoin Enforces Human Rights

This is the audio version of my article Opposing the Corruptible Fiat System, Bitcoin Enforces Universal Human Rights. It lays out how Bitcoin directly enforces seven of the 30 human rights listed on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations. The article shows the correlations between authoritarianism, corruption, inflation and oppression and how financial exclusion is used as an instrument to keep two billions worldwide from using a financial service. This article was orig

Dec 4, 2022 • 1:02:42

Introducing Bitcoin To Zimbabwe

This episode is a recording of my appearance at “In Conversation With Trevor”. Trevor Ncube is a Zimbabwean media entrepreneur who is influential and well respected throughout Southern Africa. We’re discussing how Bitcoin can fix the money situation in Zimbabwe. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Nov 10, 2022 • 1:05:44

Using Bitcoin In Zambia | Mr. Mulos

Today I’m speaking with Mr. Mulos in Lusaka the capital of Zambia. Mr. Mulos has a YouTube channel, where he shares his insights on how one can exchange Kwacha to bitcoin with different payment methods. He has been helping people with their e-payments for a couple of years now and is a real expert on how to save fees and send money in and out of African countries. Recently he opened his own shop in Lusaka, where people can come by to get help with cryptocurrency and payments. Subscribe to my wee

Oct 27, 2022 • 44:32

Insights from a Bitcoin Enthusiast in Africa

Today I’m speaking with Joseph a Bitcoin enthusiast from Africa. Because of his long time interest in Bitcoin he has a lot of experience on how cryptocurrencies are being used within the continent. He has been traveling a lot and as a business owner himself he has made connections with Bitcoin traders and convicted holders. I invited him to get more insights on how cryptocurrency adoption will gain momentum in Africa. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anit

Oct 13, 2022 • 53:57

Bitcoin for Fairness on Cryptovoices

This episode is a recording of the conversation I had on the Cryptovoices podcast with Matthew Mezinskis from Eastern Europe and Alec Harris from Eastern US. It was recorded in July 2022. We’re talking about my human rights journey which has taken me around the world, from Africa to South America. I’m explaining how Bitcoin helps those in need and why they use it. We also talk about the differences in Bitcoin usage compared to how it’s used in more liberal democracies. Subscribe to my weekly new

Sep 28, 2022 • 1:01:18

Fedi - bringing simple, safe, and private access to Bitcoin

Today I’m speaking with Obi Nwosu and Pete Winn from Fedi, a new company that is building a community wallet on the Fedimint protocol. This is an exciting project because it opens a new form of shared custody for Bitcoin. The best custody is still self custody where you hold the keys to your Bitcoin, but for many people self custody is hard because they live in difficult circumstances, or can’t afford a signing device. With Fedi you trust your friends and trusted members of your community, who h

Sep 12, 2022 • 55:02

Advocating for Human Rights through Bitcoin - Anita Posch

This episode is a recording of the conversation I had on the Cryptopulse podcast with Kevin and Ben from the UK. It was recorded in late June 2022. We’re talking about my journey into Bitcoin, about writing my book, my work in Africa with Bitcoin for Fairness, EU regulation on crypto and my drive to educate. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Aug 18, 2022 • 39:14

Blueberries for Bitcoin in Zimbabwe | Dr. Edwin Moyo

My guest is Dr. Edwin Moyo, Chairman of Nhimbe Fresh one of Africa’s premier exporters of blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, and peas. Nhimbe Fresh is located in Zimbabwe and became famous in some Bitcoiner circles because they did a crowdfund for a solar power plant together with the Sun Exchange from South Africa. In this funding one could buy solar cells with traditional currency and with bitcoin. This fundraise turned out to be the biggest crowdfunding in Africa so far. In March 22 I vi

Aug 4, 2022 • 28:56

Bitcoin Is BOOMING In South Africa | Ricki Allardice

My guest is Ricki Allardice, co-founder of Bitvice a South African bitcoin broker in Cape Town. A former financial advisor he turned away from the legacy industry to foster Bitcoin adoption and self-custody in his home country. We’re discussing the reasons why South Africa is one of the countries with the highest adoption rate and at the same time a low number of full nodes, the importance of self-custody, the Lightning Network and the situation in the Central African Republic. Support

Jul 21, 2022 • 1:19:27

First Bitcoin Miner in Zimbabwe

My guest is the first person to mine Bitcoin in Zimbabwe with ASIC machines powered by solar. Zimbabwe’s monetary system is broken. After decades of mismanagement and corruption the country is running into another hyper-inflation period with 400% inflation in April 2022. Now the first Bitcoin miners arrived! Learn how my guest got into Bitcoin, what he thinks about the use of Bitcoin for Zimbabweans and his thoughts and experiences from mining. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoi

Jul 7, 2022 • 39:44

Bitcoin Privacy: Human Rights & Coinjoins with Sparrow | Craig Raw

My guest is Craig Raw founder and developer of Sparrow a Bitcoin desktop wallet with a focus on multi-signatures for distributed self-custody and privacy. In 2020 he started Sparrow out of the desire to build something with and for Bitcoin which can fill the gaps he saw within the existing wallets. I started to use Sparrow recently and asked specific questions related to Coinjoins and for his recommendations for human rights activists on how to use Bitcoin with a maximum of privacy. Support th

Jun 23, 2022 • 51:08

Unleashing Bitcoin's Full Potential | Carel van Wyk

My guest is Carel van Wyk a Bitcoin pioneer from South Africa. He found out about Bitcoin in 2010 and being a technically skilled entrepreneur he realized Bitcoin’s potential to change the world very early on. As a co-founder of Luno, one of the largest exchanges in the world he has a lot to say about Bitcoin, ideas where he sees it unleashing its full potential and also some critical views towards some strong opinions in the space. Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and

Jun 9, 2022 • 1:02:44

Building a Bitcoin Economy in a South African Township | Hermann Vivier

My guest is Hermann Vivier, initiator of Bitcoin Ekasi and co-founder of The Surfer Kids, a non-profit social enterprise working for a better world. The two projects are located around the JCC township and Diaz Beach in Mossel Bay, South Africa. In an environment of poverty, violence and hopelessness the educational efforts of Hermann and his team of coaches and volunteers teach the children fundamental life skills through surfing. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free

May 26, 2022 • 1:03:48

Zambia Bitcoin Adoption & Stablecoins Use | Daniel Simwaba

My guest is Daniel Simwaba country manager for Yellowcard, the first Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange in Zambia. Joining us is Ndesanjo Macha a Bitcoin blogger, journalist. We’re discussing the state of adoption, how to buy bitcoin with kwatcha via Yellowcard and the use of USDT stablecoins. The day of the recording was the 2nd year anniversary of Yellowcard in Zambia and 6th year anniversary of Yellowcard itself. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita

May 12, 2022 • 25:53

The Challenges Of Using Bitcoin In Zimbabwe | Alexandria

My guest is Alexandria a Bitcoin Maximalist from Bulawayo, the second biggest city of Zimbabwe. We’re talking about the political and living situation in his home country and how Bitcoin can be an instrument for a brighter future. Alexandria is keen on learning and he wants to setup the first Bitcoin and Lightning full-node in Zimbabwe. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Apr 28, 2022 • 1:28:08

Funding A School With Bitcoin in Zimbabwe | Miss Aurra

My guest is Miss Aurra headmistress at St. Anne’s school, a visionary and entrepreneur from Harare. She has been using bitcoin since 2020, when we first met and installed a BTC wallet on her phone. We’re talking about how she was able to re-open the school with the help of bitcoin donations and about the successful opening of a second premise. We also discuss the hardships of money inflation, what people think about Bitcoin and where much of the USD liquidity comes from. Subscribe to my weekly n

Apr 14, 2022 • 40:08

Bullish On Bitcoin in Zimbabwe with Kuda

My guest is Kudakwashe Sape Tshuma an online entrepreneur from Harare. He has been earning bitcoin for his marketing work from international companies since 2014. We’re talking about his experiences as a member of a local P2P community, where he is helping people to exchange cryptocurrencies to USD or the local Zimbabwean Dollar. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Mar 31, 2022 • 35:41

DeFi & Smart Contracts On The Bitcoin Network?! - Gabriel Kurman

My guest is Gabriel Kurman, Co-founder of the Rootstock protocol “RSK”, which is a merge-mined Bitcoin sidechain enabling smart contracts. Smart contracts on Bitcoin, won’t this make many Altcoins obsolete? I’m asking Gabriel about this too. We’re also discussing Money on Chain a decentralized stablecoin on Bitcoin. 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:01:00 – Brief Introduction to Gabriel 00:01:52 – Anita welcomes Gabriel 00:02:19 – The next LaBitconf conference in Argentina 00:03:49 – Who is Gabriel and

Mar 17, 2022 • 1:01:52

Bitcoin Adoption In Brazil - Carol Souza

This week I am speaking with Carol Souza, co-founder of the Brazilian YouTube channel “usecripto” with 138,000 subscribers. I saw the work of Carol and her co-host Kaka on Instagram first and after being interviewed by them and meeting in El Salvador in November, we decided to do more content together. The main focus of this conversation is Bitcoin adoption in Brazil. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Mar 3, 2022 • 38:23

Building Bitcoin Beach Wallet - Nicolas Burtey

My guest is Nicolas Burtey, Co-founder and CEO of Galoy Money the company behind the BitcoinBeach wallet that has been used since 2020 and was thrust into the spotlight, when La Ley Bitcoin (the “Bitcoin Law”) was passed in El Salvador in June 2021. We’re discussing the possibilities for communities to use bitcoin with a focus on shared custody and the learnings from starting BitcoinBeach. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Feb 17, 2022 • 47:46

Building Homes With Bitcoin - Josh Young

Josh Young, Chief of Staff at New Story, a non-profit organization pioneering solutions to end global homelessness. Since its founding New Story has built over 30 holistic communities impacting over 3,500 families/homes in Haiti, Bolivia, El Salvador, and Mexico and they built the first 3D-printed community. Now they are partnering with Galoy Money, the builders of the Bitcoin Beach wallet and Bitcoin Beach to setup a community in El Salvador. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin

Feb 3, 2022 • 42:30

Esteban de la Peña: Bitcoin in Guatemala

My guest is Esteban de la Peña founding partner at IBEXmercado a Bitcoin brokerage and payment service provider in Guatemala. We talk about use cases for Bitcoin in Central and South America, his thoughts on the Bitcoin law in El Salvador and Bitcoin’s advantages over the current financial system. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Jan 20, 2022 • 55:36

Anita Posch: The Art of (L)earning Bitcoin - a Starter's guide

This is Anita Posch’s talk at LaBitconf 2021 in El Salvador, the longest running Bitcoin conference in Latin America. If you’re interested in learning and using Bitcoin, this is your guide to start. With an explanation of the most important properties of Bitcoin, why they are important, the best Bitcoin wallets and recommendations for Spanish and English learning material. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Jan 6, 2022 • 21:30

Lightning and the Creator Economy - Adopting Bitcoin Panel

This is a recording of the panel discussion “Lightning and the Creator Economy: How the Lightning Network Will Power New Revenue Models for Artists and Creators” at the Adopting Bitcoin conference in San Salvador in November 2021. The panelists were Desiree Dickerson – CEO and co-founder of THRDgames, Colin Harper – Journalist and Content creator at Luxor Technologies, Roy Sheinfeld – Co-founder and CEO of Breez Technology and Michael Tidwell – Head of System Operations at Zebedee. I had the hon

Dec 30, 2021 • 45:42

Elizabeth Stark: Bringing Bitcoin to Billions with Lightning at LaBitconf 2021

This is a recording of a fireside chat with Elizabeth Stark at LaBitconf, the first Latin American Bitcoin conference which took place in San Salvador in November 2021. Stark is CEO and co-founder of Lightning Labs, a company that’s building a financial infrastructure on top of Bitcoin called the Lightning Network. I’m asking her about the possibilities to bring Bitcoin to billions of people, why Bitcoin is the most valuable internet money, how we will be able to earn bitcoin via th

Dec 23, 2021 • 33:12

Anita Posch: Impressions from Bitcoin in El Salvador

In November 2021 I visited El Salvador to research the use of Bitcoin, that has been legal tender there since early September. I was attending Bitcoin week in San Salvador, speaking at Adopting Bitcoin and LaBitconf, two Bitcoin conferences. Afterwards I moved to El Zonte at the Pacific Ocean, the village where Bitcoin Beach started in early 2020. I also visited “Bitcoin City SV” a cooperative in Sonzacate, that is educating their ~2,000 members about Bitcoin even longer than the fo

Dec 16, 2021 • 21:20

Mike Peterson: Bitcoin for Communities in El Salvador

While I was visiting El Salvador in November 2021 I met with Mike Peterson, the initiator of Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte. Over 40 businesses are accepting bitcoin as payment and the locals use it to pay for their daily needs. We’re discussing the effects of bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador, the Chivo wallet, it’s problems and how the community is using Bitcoin in a multisig shared custody model with the Bitcoin Beach Wallet. If you’re interested to learn more, Mike was my

Dec 9, 2021 • 37:32

Bitcoin Is Financial Emancipation

This is a conversation about my experiences in the Bitcoin space and in emerging countries, that I had with Svein Ølnes, a researcher and teacher at a Bitcoin course at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Svein started teaching the course in 2018 and this year there is a record interest with more than 200 students enrolled. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Nov 25, 2021 • 44:41

Rodolfo Andragnes: From Bitcoins.com to LaBitconf

My guest is Rodolfo Andragnes, co-founder and executive director of the non-profit organization Bitcoin Argentina and main organizer of the Latin American Bitcoin Conference LaBitconf. We’re talking about Rodolfo’s creation of the word Bitcoin in the year 2000, cryptocurrency adoption in Latin America and LaBitconf the first Bitcoin conference in Latin America, which is taking place in El Salvador this week. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/wee

Nov 16, 2021 • 45:35

Hong Fang: From China Via Wall Street to Bitcoin

My guest is Hong Fang, CEO of OKCoin, a global, US-licensed cryptocurrency platform serving 190+ countries – the largest reach of any US-based exchange. Hong was born and raised in China, holds an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. After that she worked at Goldman Sachs and left Wall Street for cryptocurrency after realizing digital assets offer the financial inclusion that traditional finance only claims to. Topics: – Hong

Nov 11, 2021 • 53:38

Johannes Zweng: Lightning - The Future of Payments

My guest is Johannes Zweng, software developer and backend engineer at Coinfinity, Austria’s first bitcoin broker. Johannes and I are walking through new techniques enabling future use cases of Bitcoin. How Taproot upgrades our privacy, how lightning invoices will allow us to walk through a retail store and get everything we buy delivered just by scanning QR codes. – Johannes Zweng’s Bitcoin story – How Bitcoin changed his thinking – new features enabled by Taproot – Schnorr signatures – Taproot

Nov 4, 2021 • 1:00:30

Alyse Killeen: Insights of a Bitcoin Venture Capitalist

Today’s guest is Alyse Killeen founding managing partner at StillMark, the Bitcoin Venture Capital Firm. Alyse has been in the Bitcoin space since 2013 and she is the Independent Director on Blockstream’s board of directors. StillMark’s portfolio includes companies such as CASA, Lightning Labs, lastbit and Sphinx. – Introduction Alyse Killeen – Alyse’s Bitcoin story – Why Bitcoin and not Altcoins? – KYC and regulations conflicting financial inclusion? – Will the suits take over? – How Bitcoin VC

Oct 28, 2021 • 44:35

Jörg Platzer: Insights of the World's First Bitcoin Merchant

Meet Jörg Platzer, co-founder of Room77 in Berlin, the very first bar in the world to accept bitcoin for beer and burgers in 2011. Bitcoiners from around the world met in the Room, and their discussions sparked dozens of projects and ideas. Jörg’s stories and views about Bitcoin and privacy are refreshing and motivating, he says “The future of Bitcoin is so bright, we’ll need sunglasses” and “Freedom of transaction is a meta human right.” “I wanted to h

Oct 21, 2021 • 51:21

Joshua Scigala: Bitcoin and Decentralized Stablecoins

My guest is a real Bitcoin OG, Joshua Scigala, co-founder of Vaultoro a bitcoin and physical gold trading platform established in 2015. We are talking about the future and current state of Bitcoin, how to hedge against bitcoin’s volatility using gold and his new project the Standard Euro. Topics: – insights of a Bitcoin OG – current state of Bitcoin – Bitcoin in El Salvador – Lightning Network and other interesting developments – how to hedge between Gold and

Oct 14, 2021 • 1:03:34

Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar: Bitcoin in Latin America and Rootstock

My guest is Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar one of the first people to foster and develop Bitcoin and blockchain technology in Latin America starting 2012. He is the CEO of IOV Labs, co-founder of LaBitconf, the first Bitcoin conference in Latin America and the co-founder of Bitcoin Iberoamérica an NGO devoted to Bitcoin education. His goal is to build a more decentralized world for a freer and fairer financial future. Rootstock, a sidechain of Bitcoin that enables smart contracts, is one of these buil

Oct 7, 2021 • 1:05:09

Christian Decker: The Lightning Network and Greenlight Nodes

My guest is Christian Decker one of the architects of the Lightning Network, a Bitcoin OG and a Core Tech engineer at Blockstream. He wrote the world’s first PhD dissertation about Bitcoin and has been involved in the community since 2009. Topics: – Introduction Christian Decker – The first eleven years – Growth of the Lightning Network – Privacy on the Lightning Network, Taproot – Hurdles for the adoption of Lightning – Purpose and goals of “Greenlight” – The future of Lightning and Bitcoin Sub

Sep 30, 2021 • 1:13:15

Jeff Gallas & Rootz: RaspiBlitz and the Speed of Lightning

My guests are Jeff Gallas and Rootz of Fulmo, an open source company dedicated to the research and development of the Lightning Network. They are the organizers of the Lightning Hackdays and the first Lightning Conference that took place in Berlin in 2019 and are supporters of the RaspiBlitz project, a Lightning and Bitcoin full node. “If you run a Lightning node you’re a part of replacing the VISA and Mastercard networks.” – Rootz Topics: 03:17 Introduction Fulmo 11:30 Development of the Ligh

Sep 23, 2021 • 58:52

Adam Back: Future of Bitcoin and Blockstream

My guest is Adam Back the inventor of Hashcash, that was used as the proof-of-work method in Bitcoin. His work is cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper as well as in the Tor Browser whitepaper. Adam is a seasoned cryptographer with a PhD in computer science and distributed systems. As co-founder and CEO of Blockstream he is building the infrastructure for the internet of the future. Topics: – Blockstream’s funding and future plans – Decentralization of mining – Greenlight: Lig

Sep 16, 2021 • 1:14:18

Andreas M. Antonopoulos: Lightning Unleashes Bitcoin

My guest is Andreas M. Antonopoulos one of the worlds foremost experts on Bitcoin and open blockchains. Andreas is an educator, author of five books and an excellent speaker. His new co-authored book “Mastering the Lightning Network” will be published at the end of 2021. I was especially excited to be able to speak with him in person while we both visited Berlin. Our topics: – the state of Bitcoin in 2021 – Taproot and why it’s important for Bitcoin – the ba

Sep 9, 2021 • 1:17:41

Team Satoshi: Sports and the Road to Bitcoin

My guests today are Vitus Zeller and Richard Taylor my team mates at Team Satoshi, a decentralized sports team. We’re talking about the interconnections between Bitcoin and sports and how you can participate in this movement. – Introduction Vitus and Richard – What is Bitcoin for you? – Why are you active in the Bitcoin space? – What is Team Satoshi and its goal – Bitcoin and sports – where is the connection – How do you stay healthy? Mental fitness – First adventure of Vitus, Satoshi Freeathlon

Sep 2, 2021 • 1:02:14

Lyn Alden: Bitcoin for Billions, Not Billionaires

Lyn Alden is one of the sharpest minds in the bitcoin space, an investment strategist with a background in engineering and finance, Lyn started investing at a young age and made equity research and investing her primary business. She is focusing on value investing with a global macro overlay. Recently she shared the stage at the Bitcoin2021 conference in Miami with Lightning Labs CEO Elizabeth Stark on the topic of Bitcoin for billions, not billionaires, which is the core of my work in the Bitco

Jul 1, 2021 • 55:47

Meron Estefanos from Eritrea: Bitcoin Can Take Down Dictators

Meron Estefanos is a Swedish-based Eritrean human rights activist and journalist, who works tirelessly to aid and raise awareness about the plight of Eritrean refugees, who have been kidnapped, tortured, raped and held for ransom in the Sudan and the Sinai. In her efforts to rise up against the dictatorship in Eritrea she is engaging researchers in Ethiopia, who she has been paying with bitcoin. We’re also discussing the fact that Bitcoin can take down dictators and many human rights activists u

Jun 24, 2021 • 51:59

Don't Trust, Verify! Scammers Send Fake Hardware Wallets

Bitcoin in the last 12 years, bullish signs, trading volume in the last year, reactions towards El Salvador’s decision to make bitcoin legal tender, fake hardware wallets, Blockstream’s Bitcoin strategy. This was Last Week in Bitcoin. Read here ▶ https://anitaposch.com/weekly-33 📧️ Subscribe for free ▶ https://anita.link/weekly/ Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Jun 18, 2021 • 9:38

Samson Mow: Blockstream's Bitcoin Strategy

In this episode I talk with Chief Strategy Officer Samson Mow about Blockstream’s Cypherpunk origins and their far stretching engagement in the Bitcoin space – from their Green and Aqua wallet, to their mining business, the Liquid sidechain and the Blockstream satellites, which enable receiving Bitcoin without the Internet. Samson Mow’s Bitcoin story Why Bitcoin is important Blockstream’s Cypherpunk background What is Liquid? Lightning Network and c-lightning Blockstream Green vs. Aqua wallet B

Jun 17, 2021 • 50:17

A New Bitcoin Epoch - Legal Tender in El Salvador

What does it mean, that Bitcoin will be legal tender in El Salvador? Taproot will be locked in successfully. Read here ▶ https://anitaposch.com/weekly-32 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Jun 11, 2021 • 9:13

El Salvador First Country to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender - Bitcoin Beach Improving Lives

June 9, 2021 a historical moment for Bitcoin. The first country of the world, El Salvador, made Bitcoin officially legal tender. Michael Peterson initiated Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte and started this whole development. I spoke with him two weeks before, he said, he is expecting a country to adopt Bitcoin, but we didn’t know, that it will happen so soon. Listen to the story of Bitcoin Beach and the people of El Salvador. Our topics: Michael Peterson’s Bitcoin story What is Bitcoin Beach? Descript

Jun 9, 2021 • 42:09

Bitcoin on the Moon - Last Week in Bitcoin

So many news this week… _Taproot on the way _Bitcoin adoption in Zimbabwe _Inflation hits new records _News from China and India _Bitcoin was on the moon _building a permissionless future Read here ▶ https://anitaposch.com/weekly-31 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Jun 4, 2021 • 9:44

Exiledsurfer: Building a Permissionless Future with Sovryn

Exiledsurfer is an early Bitcoiner, a Co-founder of Parallele Polis and now part of the communications team of Sovryn a Bitcoin-native DeFi platform. We’re talking about the historical developments and the roots of Bitcoin as a Hippie activists Utopia coming true, the community discussions around the differences between Ethereum and Bitcoin, and who the real enemies of Bitcoin are. Tldr: it’s companies like Coinbase. exiledsurfer’s Bitcoin story The Bitcoin Foundation Early history and differen

Jun 3, 2021 • 1:24:17

Last Week in Bitcoin: Keep Calm and Carry On

This week’s learnings: _Bitcoin privacy improvements with Taproot _mining developments in China _solar power is bad? _hodlers hodl _state of the Lightning Network _Bitcoin and new art forms Image credit: https://twitter.com/Labrahodl9 Read here ▶ https://anitaposch.com/weekly-30 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

May 28, 2021 • 7:54

Rarescrilla: Bitcoin Enables New Art Forms

Rarescrilla is a hip-hop musician and producer, who joined the cryptomusic journey in 2014 and created DJ PEPE in 2016 with a first of its kind access token based on the Counterparty platform, which is extending Bitcoin’s functionality. In 2020 he dropped the “Sound Money” album, a niche hip hop themed bitcoin album. Now he is into programmable music, where the owners of music layers control the output, which makes it living art and music. Rarescrilla’s Bitcoin journey First NFTs in 2014? Early

May 27, 2021 • 50:35

Last Week in Bitcoin: Bitcoin Is on Sale and That's Good

This week’s learnings: buy and earn bitcoin now. _Bitcoin dipping, what’s next? _volatility is good _where Bitcoin is needed the most _Sub-Saharan Africa’s trading volume up in 2021 _Bitcoin, NFTS and the arts _US regulatory crackdown will spur decentralization Music: Rarescrilla https://twitter.com/ScrillaVentura Image credit: https://twitter.com/LinaSeiche Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

May 21, 2021 • 14:21

Adam B. Levine: Bitcoin, NFTs and the Arts

My guest is Adam B. Levine the managing editor for podcasts at Coindesk, and host of the longest-running English language talk show about Bitcoin called “Speaking of Bitcoin” (formerly known as Let’s Talk Bitcoin). I appreciate Adam’s work a lot, I have been an avid listener of his podcast for many years. Adam is also the CEO of tokenly.com, has minted some NFTs and had Metakovan on his show, who bought Beeple’s NFT for $ 69 million – the most expensive NFT sold at an auction so far. Our topic i

May 20, 2021 • 1:23:31

Last Week in Bitcoin: The Eco-Narrative Against Bitcoin and Why It Doesn't Use Proof-of-Stake

With this week’s Tesla dismissing Bitcoin for its energy use and at the same time Elon Musk pumping the joke currency Doge another level of hypocrisy has been reached. We’re looking into why Elon Musk suddenly dismisses Bitcoin, how Tesla’s income relying on renewable energy credits, Elon Musk pumping Doge, and why Bitcoin doesn’t change to proof-of-stake? With shout outs to Andreas M. Antonopoulos, John Carvalho and Gabriel Shipton on behalf of Julian Assange. Image credit: https://twitter.com/

May 14, 2021 • 11:28

Gabriel Shipton: Defend Julian Assange, Defend Free Internet

This episode was recorded on World Press Freedom Day 2021, the perfect date for a conversation with Gabriel Shipton, half-brother of Julian Assange. We are talking about the current state of Julian, who is the first publisher charged under the US espionage act and is awaiting further trials locked up in Belmarsh high security prison, the connections between WikiLeaks, journalism and Bitcoin and why and how Bitcoiners can support Julian’s case. The current state of Julian Assange WikiLeaks and t

May 13, 2021 • 30:23

Last Week in Bitcoin: Don't Mess with Bitcoin

Don’t mess with Bitcoin, the most interesting stories in Bitcoin: _Bitcoin empowers Zimbabweans _Buckminster Fullers’ energy and wealth vision _Iran trying to regulate mining _censored mining _mining more decentralized _Taproot activation _Buffett and Munger yelling at Bitcoin _DeFi on Bitcoin _global adoption of Bitcoin Read here ▶ https://anitaposch.com/weekly-27 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

May 7, 2021 • 18:17

Miss Aurra: Bitcoin Empowers Zimbabweans

My guest is Miss Aurra from Harare, Zimbabwe. I got to know her at the beginning of 2020, when I visited Zimbabwe to research the possibilities and the use of Bitcoin in the country. In May 2020 we started a donation campaign for the school that Miss Aurra is leading. It had to be closed down due to Covid and the school lost its building. We are discussing the difficult living situation in Zimbabwe and how Bitcoin has been helping through your donations. Who is Miss Aurra? Living conditions Eco

May 6, 2021 • 50:34

Anita Posch: How Bitcoin Supports Democracy

The Central European Affairs podcast featured Anita Posch in an interview by Balasz Csekö about different aspects of Bitcoin, how blockchain is revolutionizing the global financial system, how cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin can help overcome Big Brother, and why every regulatory plan makes Bitcoin stronger. Civitas Institute is a European knowledge center created for the purpose of promoting European democracy and European integration through analyses and debates in the widest possible societal g

Apr 29, 2021 • 47:02

Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin a Trojan Horse for Freedom

My guest is Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded it 2005. We talk about how Bitcoin helps to defend human rights and promote liberal democracy. Alex is also the Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009 and a co-author of “The Little Bitcoin Book”. Topics: Alex Gladstein’s Bitcoin story Bitcoin’s importance as a human rights tool Mainstream media causing damage Savings instrum

Apr 22, 2021 • 51:31

Franco Amati: Bitcoin in Argentina

My guest is Franco Amati, founder of Bitcoin Argentina and member of laBitconf – the biggest Bitcoin conference in Latin America, the Bitcoin embassy Buenos Aires, and Bitcoin Iberoamérica foundation. We are discussing the importance of Bitcoin for the people of Argentina, who have to deal with harsh capital controls that allow them to only buy foreign currency up to 200 USD per month with 65% tax and an inflation of 50%. Franco Amati’s Bitcoin story 50% Inflation in Argentina How capital contr

Apr 15, 2021 • 1:00:10

Shermin Voshmgir: The Web 3 and Token Revolution

I sat down with Shermin Voshmgir, a researcher and author of “Token Economy” to discuss the hype around NFTs and how in the future every part of the economy will be merged into crypto. Shermin is the founder of Token Kitchen and BlockchainHub Berlin. On a personal sidenote: in early 2017 Shermin’s keynote about Bitcoin and open blockchains spurred my attention and deepened my interest to work in that field. “You can’t run a decentralized network like a centralized company.” – Shermin Voshmgir

Apr 8, 2021 • 1:01:00

Jonathan Chester: Get Paid in Bitcoin

My guest is Jonathan Chester, he is the CEO and Founder of Bitwage, a company that enables employees and remote workers worldwide to get paid in Bitcoin. We discuss how individuals can earn their wage in bitcoin, what the advantages are, the details of their 401k retirement plans, and when public adoption of Bitcoin could feasibly take place. Topics: Jonathan Chester’s Bitcoin story The looming US Dollar fall Bitcoin enabling self-sovereignty Why earn bitcoin? Bitwage’s history Bitcoin payroll

Apr 1, 2021 • 48:21

Edan Yago: Sovereignty Through Bitcoin

Edan Yago is a neuroscientist and entrepreneur who turned his career around to focus on Bitcoin. He has been pivotal in establishing Sovryn one of the first Bitcoin-native DeFi platforms. We’re talking about how a decentralized bitcoin trading and lending platform like Sovryn will create a new, open economic system that empowers individuals globally. Topics: Why Edan Yago lived in a closet Why Bitcoin matters Advantages of Bitcoin DeFi to other blockchains NFTs are silly, but… The future of fin

Mar 25, 2021 • 53:01

Abe Cambridge: Invest in Solar Powered Bitcoin

My guest is Abe Cambridge, the founder and CEO of Sun Exchange, the world’s first peer-to-peer solar leasing platform. We’re discussing how to transition the world away from fossil fuels and towards solar power, the most deployable, affordable and accessible type of renewable energy. In combination with a decentralized money like Bitcoin it is possible to open up owning solar cells and earning from it to anyone for as little as 5 USD. Abraham Cambridge has an academic background in climate chang

Mar 18, 2021 • 47:56

Sébastien Gouspillou: Bitcoin Mining Funds Green Energy

My guest is Sébastien Gouspillou, he is the Co-Founder and CEO of BigBlock Datacenter a Bitcoin mining company based in France. BigBlock Datacenter is running several mining farms in Russia, Central Asia, and Africa. His mission is to qualify France in the world competition of proof-of-work. We are going deep into the business and the ecological effects of Bitcoin mining. “Since bitcoin responds to a major need and is there to last, it seems more relevant to take advantage of this new electrica

Mar 11, 2021 • 1:05:47

Max Keiser & Stacy Herbert: The 220k Bitcoin Orange Pill

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert are preaching Bitcoin in the Keiser Report since 2011. The Report is broadcasted on RT to a global audience. The YouTube channel has 4.1 million subscribers. In 2020 the dynamic couple started their own show, the Orange Pill Podcast. Max Keiser has made a bold price prediction for Bitcoin in 2021, he says it will reach 220,000 USD. I am asking him, why he thinks that this will be the case and how to assess the value of Bitcoin. We are talking about Stacy and Max’s ba

Mar 3, 2021 • 1:17:55

Philippe Bekhazi: Bitcoin Mining in Practice

My guest is Philippe Bekhazi, he is the CEO of XBTO Group a company active in market-making, OTC trading, venture capital, and Bitcoin and Ethereum mining. Our main topic is Bitcoin mining. XBTO Group is runnning a mining facility that is powered by electricity generated from Niagara Falls. Philippe Bekhazi is also the CEO of Stablehouse a regulated market-leading stablecoin platform bridging centralized and decentralized finance enabling payments, foreign exchange, trading and treasury for peop

Feb 25, 2021 • 49:55

Jameson Lopp: Bitcoin Mining and Censorship

My guest is Jameson Lopp, he calls himself a professional cypherpunk. His mission is to use his skills as a technologist to build tools that empower individuals. Our topic is nicely called “clean” mining or to say it in a more distinct way: censored mining. Is this an attack on Bitcoin and what are the possible strategies and outcomes? Jameson is the Co-founder & CTO of Casa a company dedicated to helping you to secure your bitcoin. It’s the second time that Jameson is my guest, listen to ou

Feb 18, 2021 • 51:03

Ben Arc: Building Bitcoin DIY Hardware and Software

My guest is Ben Arc from Wales. He is a FOSS hobbyist, advocate, and educator. FOSS stands for Free Open Source Software. Ben has been building hardware and software for Bitcoin and the Lightning Network since around 2014. We are talking about the Welsh Bitcoin scene and his projects like Bowser, a DIY Hardware Wallet, lnbits or the Nostr messaging client, which could enable completely decentralized markets and social media apps. Our topics: Ben Arc’s personal Bitcoin story Bitcoin scene in Wal

Feb 11, 2021 • 59:31

Farooq Ahmed: Bitcoin in Pakistan

My guest is Farooq Ahmed, President of the Bitcoin Association Pakistan. Pakistan is a country of over 200 million people, between Afghanistan and India. I recently released interviews with Fereshteh Forough and Sunny Ray about those countries as well. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading is banned in Pakistan at the moment, nonetheless the use of Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining is rising. We discuss: Farooq Ahmed’s personal Bitcoin story The situation in Pakistan Bitcoin’s legal status Trading and ho

Feb 4, 2021 • 33:09

Sunny Ray: Bitcoin's Win vs. India's Central Bank

My guest is Sunny Ray, he is a co-founder at Unocoin which is the first and leading bitcoin platform in India serving 1.5 million people. Sunny’s family stems from India and while he is spending most of the time living in Toronto, Canada he learned a lot about different cultures and their special ways to approach money and Bitcoin. We discuss Sunny Ray’s Bitcoin story Start and learning’s from Unocoin Bitcoin in India Bitcoin use cases in India The court case against the Reserve Bank of India H

Jan 28, 2021 • 51:56

Bitcoin Q & A, Jan. 2021

I asked for your Bitcoin questions. Here are my answers. Want to ask a Bitcoin question too? Subscribe to get a notification for the next Q&A. I was joined by Chris Chester. 0:01:00 Introduction 0:03:40 If you had to specify your options for preferred exchange, cold storage wallet, hardware wallet, software wallet, multi sig wallet – which would you choose and why? 0:09:21 Software wallets 0:12:15 Counter arguments to custodial wallets 0:16:50 Cold storage/paper wallets 0:24:10 Finding a buy

Jan 24, 2021 • 1:07:23

Fereshteh Forough: Bitcoin in Afghanistan

My guest is Fereshteh Forough, she is the founder of “Code to Inspire”, which is the first coding school for women in Afghanistan. We will be talking about her journey and her learning’s from being a refugee, the general situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which is one of the least developed nations in the world and of course about Bitcoin in Afghanistan and how it is used to support the female students of “Code to Inspire”. Fereshteh’s learning’s as a refugee Situation of women i

Jan 21, 2021 • 37:47

Derek Muhney: The Business of Bitcoin ATMs

My guest is Derek Muhney, Director of Marketing & Strategy at CoinSource the largest Bitcoin ATM network in the world. We are discussing the impact the 2020 pandemic is having on their business, about how Bitcoin ATMs work, and Bitcoin’s future from his perspective. Topics: Derek’s personal Bitcoin story Coinsource’s company development Impact of the pandemic Volume of transactions and users How does a Bitcoin ATM work from the user perspective Setting up an ATM Privacy and regulation Bitco

Jan 14, 2021 • 43:37

Desiree Dickerson, Ryan Gentry: Lightning is Bitcoin

My guests are Desiree Dickerson and Ryan Gentry. They are working for one of the – in my eyes – hottest companies in the Bitcoin space. Lightning Labs was founded in 2016 by Elizabeth Stark and Olaoluwa Osuntokun. The Lightning Network is a second layer protocol on top of the Bitcoin network. We will be talking about the Lightning Network, what it is and what it is enabling, their most interesting products and about their outlook for the Lightning Network in 2021. Our topics: Their personal Bit

Jan 7, 2021 • 56:56

Andreas M. Antonopoulos: Bitcoin Outlook 2021

My guest is Andreas M. Antonopoulos, who has been one of my biggest inspirations on my Bitcoin journey. We are discussing Bitcoin, the ultimate fairness system, why we need to strengthen privacy now, and his outlook for 2021. His talks have been inspiring and ensuring that is the space where my personal values and ethics find a place to work on something that is bigger than me, where I can contribute to changing the world to become a better place. Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a bitcoin and open bl

Dec 31, 2020 • 50:48

Chris Tramount: Bitcoin Art, A New Renaissance

My guest is Chris Tramount. He is the co-founder of Scarce.City an online marketplace for Bitcoin-related art and collectibles. We are discussing the possibilities to auction and verify digital art with Bitcoin and Lightning, and how this can enable a new Renaissance and completely new art forms. Our topics: Chris Tramount’s Bitcoin story What is Scarce.City? How is a Lightning Auction working? What are Bitcoin collectibles? How artists can participate What is the business plan of Scarce.City?

Dec 24, 2020 • 43:51

Jukka Blomberg: LocalBitcoins in Latin America

My guest is Jukka Blomberg, Chief Marketing Officer at LocalBitcoins, the biggest peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace in the world. With 6 million customers and operations in 189 countries LocalBitcoins is a global company with insights into the development of the Bitcoin space for every continent. We discuss the trading volume of Bitcoin in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, and the different use-cases for Bitcoin in different regions of the world. Topics: Investing in stocks in China compared to Bitc

Dec 17, 2020 • 49:22

Nicolas Dorier: Be Your Own Bank with BTCPay

Nicolas Dorier is a decentralized systems software developer and open-source advocate. He has been active in the Bitcoin community since 2014 and has contributed to several Bitcoin projects, including Bitcoin Core, before founding BTCPayServer, an open-source payment processor used by thousands of merchants globally. He is also the co-founder of METACO, a provider of security-critical infrastructure for financial institutions. Topics: Nicolas’ background as a Bitcoin and open-source advocate Wh

Dec 10, 2020 • 54:51

Nigerian Feminist Coalition: Bitcoin Is Power

I am thrilled to have Damilola Odufuwa and Ire Aderinokun Co-Founders of the Nigerian Feminist Coalition as my guests today. If you are following the developments in Africa, then you have heard of the #EndSARS movement. A protest movement against police brutality in Nigeria. When the central bank banned the Nigerian Feminist Coalition from using the traditional financial infrastructure to collect donations, they started using Bitcoin to fund their activities. Let’s hear from Dami and Ire how the

Dec 3, 2020 • 1:02:49

Roselyne Wanjiru: Bitcoin in Kenya

After covering Zimbabwe, Senegal, South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria, I have the honor to host a guest from Kenya. Roselyne Wanjiru is the Director of Growth & User Acquisition at Pesabase and an advocate for the digital economy in Kenya. “Bitcoin does not require an ID, does not require your tax ID, does not require any other major documentation. It just requires you to have an email address and that’s it. And that’s really huge.” – Roselyne Wanjiru Topics: Roselyne’s Bitcoin story Her edu

Nov 26, 2020 • 1:01:05

Philip Agyei Asare: Bitcoin in Ghana

In this episode I am talking with Philip Agyei Asare from Ghana. He is the Co-founder and CEO of BTC Ghana and the Blockchain Foundation Africa. Philip hosted the first Bitcoin conference in Ghana in 2014. We are talking about Bitcoin adoption, about the fact that Chinese people in Ghana prefer to send Bitcoin home and why he believes that Africa is the future of bitcoin. “Most people in Ghana use bitcoin as a form of payment.” – Philip Agyei Asare Topics Philip’s Bitcoin story Why Bitcoin is

Nov 19, 2020 • 41:24

Grey Jabesi: Bitcoin in South Africa

This time I am talking about Bitcoin in South Africa with Grey Jabesi the founder of Crypto University and the Hardc0re Crypt0 YouTube channel. In the first segment, you will hear a message from Miss Aurra. She is talking about the result of our call for bitcoin donations at St. Anne’s school in Harare. The school had to be closed down due to the corona pandemic and a lack of funding. Topics: Importance of Bitcoin Why is Bitcoin especially important for Africa? Characteristics of South Africa F

Nov 12, 2020 • 55:40

Fodé Diop: Bitcoin in Senegal

Hello dear listener, this is Anita here and I have a short notice, regarding the interview you wanted to listen to with Fode Diop. I deleted this episode because I lost my trust in Mr. Diop in recent months. If I had known what I know today, I wouldn’t have invited him on my show. It is not for me to disclose the reasons for my action. Thank you, for your understanding. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Nov 5, 2020 • 0:27

Miss Aurra, Zimbabwe: Bitcoin Changed My Whole Life

Today’s episode is the start of a new series about Bitcoin in Africa. I have been traveling to Zimbabwe and Botswana in February 2020 to find out if and how Bitcoin is known and used there. When I left the African continent at the beginning of March it was unclear how the pandemic is going to change the economical situation of countries that were already in a deep crisis like Zimbabwe or Nigeria and how it would affect the adoption of bitcoin in Subsaharan countries. With the upcoming episodes I

Oct 29, 2020 • 1:16:16

Gloria Zhao: A College Student's Journey to Bitcoin Core Development

Todays guest is Gloria Zhao, she is a Bitcoin Core developer, former president of “Blockchain at Berkeley” and will finish her Computer Science studies at the end of 2020. We discuss how Bitcoin and blockchain technologies are seen by her fellow college students, why she chose to work on Bitcoin only instead of all the other Silicon Valley stuff and blockchain projects that are around. “Privacy and censorship resistance should be the default. We can’t keep measuring technologies or applications

Oct 22, 2020 • 1:00:30

Elyse Petersen: From Ancient Tea Currency To Using Bitcoin For Wholesale

Elyse Petersen is a food scientist and the founder of Tealet, a wholesale tea supply chain network. Tealet’s business model is based on cutting out unnecessary middlemen between tea growers and buyers, same like in Bitcoin. Since 2013 Tealet is using Bitcoin for payments, which eliminates the inefficiencies of global financial systems and saves a lot of transaction costs. Tealet was one of the first companies worldwide to use Bitcoin. Topics: History of tea as an international commodity Traditi

Oct 15, 2020 • 49:11

Zachary Kelman: Bitcoin an Alternative to the Current Unfair Financial System

Zachary Kelman is a New York-based attorney specializing in political, legal, and regulatory issues in and around Bitcoin, crypto and blockchain technology. Prior to this he was working in banking, monitoring international money transactions, looking for suspicious activities. Coming out of this environment he was introduced to Bitcoin by his brother Daniel Kelman, who was the architect of the civil rehabilitation plan for Mt. Gox creditors and Zachary afterwards left banking for crypto projects

Oct 8, 2020 • 56:43

Nic Carter: Bitcoin Disrupts Our Politicized Financial Infrastructure

Nic Carter is a Bitcoiner with a financial and philosophical background. I wanted to have him on the show for a long time. He is thoughtful and interesting to talk to as you will hear. We touch on some of his favourite topics like Bitcoin metaphysics, crypto-dollarization, historical references to free banking and the future of privacy and surveillance in the digital era. “Bitcoin is no one’s liability. There’s no one that guarantees the value of that Bitcoin. People say that’s a weakness. That

Oct 1, 2020 • 1:07:16

Is Bitcoin a Ponzi Scheme? The Story of Charles Ponzi

Wondering what a Ponzi scheme is? Somebody told you Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme? Listen to this episode of “The Context” where I tell the story of Italian born confidence trickster Carlo Ponzi. In 1920 it took him only nine months to defraud thirty thousand investors, who believed in getting rich quick, collecting 20 million USD in total. Ponzi promised 50% return on their investment in three months. His arrest in August 1920 brought down six banks and Ponzi’s investors were practically wiped out.

Sep 24, 2020 • 17:10

Douglas Bakkum: Building Bitcoin Hardware Wallets to Empower Individuals

My guest is Douglas Bakkum. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Swiss hardware wallet manufacturer Shift Crypto. Douglas holds a Phd in neuroscience and shifted his career from starting a scientific research lab in academia to building a hardware wallet manufacturer at a time, when no hardware wallets existed on the market. Douglas saw a problem and the need for a solution and started the company together with bitcoin core maintainer Jonas Schnelli in 2015. Shift Crypto is one of my sponsors, an

Sep 17, 2020 • 56:10

Liam Ball - Maui: Bitcoin Is Truth

Today I am talking with Liam Ball a real estate broker on Maui, who tells us his story of how he got into Bitcoin, why it is interesting to him, the parallels of Bitcoin to his personal journey and also my journey, his real life use cases with Bitcoin and why Bitcoin is real. Bitcoin can allow person to person generosity over the entire planet. I think that’s an incredible thing. You’re taking these charitable organizations out of the middle and you’re just saying, I feel like being generous, h

Sep 10, 2020 • 51:42

BCH, BSV, BTG, BTC, BTC2, BTCV...What to Invest In?

This time I am answering questions by a listener named Thamzin: What is the difference between Bitcoin Vault and LocalBitcoins? What are all those different Bitcoin versions that can be found on exchanges or Coinmarketcap? How do I know, what a good investment looks like? No financial advice. Do your own research. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

Sep 7, 2020 • 11:20

Dale Bewan: Using Bitcoin Only Since 2017

Todays guest is Dale Bewan. He is a married father of two, living in Germany. Since 2017 Bitcoin is the only money Dale is using. He does not own or hold any Fiat currency like Euros or US Dollars. We will talk about his motivation for doing so, how his wife and children deal with it, why he is using different identities, what LSD has to do with it, his Silkroad experiences, if he gets paid in Bitcoin and much more…. Topics: Therapeutical benefits of using LSD Was Satoshi on LSD? Pseudonyms and

Sep 3, 2020 • 52:39

Guy Swann: Bitcoin Is a Revolution With Historical Impact

Guy Swann is the host of the Bitcoin Audible podcast, where he is reading Bitcoin articles and essays by different authors. In 2011 he found out about Bitcoin. Back then Guy used money he did not have to buy Bitcoin, just to watch it loosing it’s value in the following bear market. For him, this was not the moment for an exit, it was the moment, when he really started to investigate and learn what Bitcoin is. Topics: Why he started his podcast Bitcoin Audible His Bitcoin story The real value pr

Aug 27, 2020 • 58:44

Kai Kremser: Coinfinity - Pushing Bitcoin Adoption in Austria Since 2014

Today I am talking with Kai Kremser a fellow Austrian working for Coinfinity, Austria’s first Bitcoin broker founded in 2014. Kai, a former software developer, is the product manager for the Card Wallet, that is produced by Coinfinity and the Austrian State Printinghouse. Coinfinity and Card Wallet are my longest standing loyal sponsors. I am very thankful for their support, but this did not change the questions I was asking. We are talking about their products, but also touch more general quest

Aug 20, 2020 • 44:22

Anita Posch: Interviewed by Japanese Crypto-Exchange BTCBOX

Lina Kather from the crypto-exchange BTCBOX Japan in Tokyo invited Anita Posch to do an interview about her Bitcoin experiences in Africa, the reasons why she is doing the work she does, her takes on Altcoins, privacy, the importance of the Lightning Network and why she believes that Bitcoin will stay the world’s dominant cryptocurrency in the future. “Bitcoin has been here for 11 years now and it runs very reliable and it’s very secure in itself. The old system, the banking system, we have had

Aug 13, 2020 • 47:17

Lyn Alden: Bullish on Bitcoin - a Strategic Value Investors View

Lyn Alden wrote a longform article about the 3 reasons why she is investing in Bitcoin. Lyn Alden is an investment strategist with a background in engineering and finance. She focusses on value investing with a global macro overlay. What are the main reasons why you are bullish on Bitcoin? “The first reason is, that, Bitcoin has demonstrated that it has a pretty strong network effect over time. The second reason is the halving, most of the bullish price action of Bitcoin tends to happen in the

Aug 6, 2020 • 45:56

Andy Edstrom: Why Buy Bitcoin? Investing Today in the Money of Tomorrow

My guest today is Andy Edstrom from Los Angeles. Andy spent 17 years in the investment world on Wall Street, working for Goldman Sachs and is now a wealth manager at his familiy’s firm West Cap Group. In the course of his consulting work, more and more people asked him about Bitcoin, that’s why he wrote a book about it called “Why Buy Bitcoin – Investing Today in the Money of Tomorrow”. Andy Edstrom recently took on the role of “Head of Institutional at Swan Bitcoin” and as always this interview

Jul 30, 2020 • 52:34

Elena Tonoyan, LocalBitcoins COO: Bitcoin Provides Financial Inclusion and Will Grow

Joining me is Elena Tonoyan, she is the Chief Operating Officer at LocalBitcoins, the peer to peer bitcoin exchange that was founded as early as in 2012. We are looking into the history of LocalBitcoins, it’s growth, and optimistic outlook for the years to come. You will also learn about the values and usecases of Bitcoin that Elena finds important, because they solve real problems and have a positive impact on peoples lives. Our topics: history and growth of LocalBitcoins financial inclusion e

Jul 23, 2020 • 34:43

Gigi: Bitcoin From Speculative Asset to Savings Technology

My guest today is Gigi a software developer and computer scientist. Gigi wrote “21Lessons”, a book in which he shares his learnings from falling down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. Two years ago he quit his job and started to work solely in the Bitcoin space. “Bitcoin already has all three functions of money. It is a store of value, medium of exchange and unit of account. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” – Gigi “As I see Bitcoin evolve, I think it will be a global settlement layer for somethin

Jul 16, 2020 • 53:03

Chimezie Chuta: Light Up Africa With Bitcoin Nodes

“A lot of Nigerians are using Bitcoin. Majorly among the young population. Those between the age of 22 and 35-40 are deeply using Bitcoin”, says Chimezie Chuta. He is a software developer, founder of blockchaingroup Nigeria and a Bitcoin user since 2015. With his “Spacebox” project he aims to put Africa on the map of Bitcoin and Lightning Network fullnodes. “Every week bitcoin worth 18 Million USD are exchanged in Nigeria.” – Chimezie Chuta Topics include: Bitcoin in 2015 Blockchain education

Jul 9, 2020 • 50:24

Rahim Taghizadegan: Money Is a Spontaneous Order Measuring the Cooperation of People

Rahim Taghizadegan is an economist, book author and principal of the Scholarium, an independent learning enterprise based in Vienna, Austria. He studied physics, sociology and economy and is an expert on the Austrian School of Economics. His recent book is called “The Zero Interest Trap”. We discuss: Differences in tackling COVID-19 in Singapore and Austria How to be prepared for crisis Loss of trust in politics Privacy aspects of health data usage Social unrest and wealth inequality The Worgl

Jul 2, 2020 • 56:05

Moritz Wietersheim: Why Bitcoin Is Superior to Altcoins or Stock Nonsense Like Wirecard

Today’s guest is Moritz Wietersheim. Moritz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Crypto Advance a company that focusses on security improvements and the secure management of private keys in the Bitcoin space. Together with CTO Stepan Snigirev the Specter wallet is developed, which allows you to have an air gapped and watch only wallet that runs together with your Bitcoin core node. That way you protect your privacy. Preparing for the interview I found out that Moritz and I we both, started to work full

Jun 25, 2020 • 42:11

Tim Akinbo: Bitcoin is a Store of Value for the African People

My guest in this episode is Tim Akinbo. He comes from Nigeria and is involved in the Bitcoin space since 2014. I got to know Tim when I asked for bitcoin donations for a school in Harare, Zimbabwe. He contacted me on Twitter and offered to setup a BTCpayserver so that we can receive lightning payments, too. That was of great help. I looked him up and realized that Tim is also a Bitcoin Core contributor, Software developer and has a lot of experience with e-commerce and international payments. “

Jun 18, 2020 • 49:53

Amiti Uttarwar: Developing Bitcoin - The Only Crypto Project With a Very Clear Goal

In this week’s episode I had the pleasure to interview Amiti Uttarwar. She is one of the first female engineers contributing to the Bitcoin Core software. Amiti is working full time as a Core developer, focusing on the peer to peer aspect of the protocol. Her latest contribution is a pull request that improves wallet privacy. I enjoyed our chat a lot, because Amiti has a clear and concise way to communicate which had even a calming effect on me. Maybe her daily meditation practice is the reason

Jun 11, 2020 • 1:03:24

Chris Maurice: Chances and Challenges of Running a Bitcoin Exchange in Africa

In this episode I talk with Chris Maurice, the CEO and Founder of Yellow Card Financial, a Nigeria based bitcoin and crypto exchange. Chris started his entrepreneurial endeavors as a SEO consultant at the age of 16 after that he sold bitcoin on eBay and in the backrooms of Taco Bell restaurants. Chris tells us how he came up with founding an exchange and why he did that in Africa. “Dollar can be extremely difficult to access in most countries, Dollar is a complete pain to handle whether you’re

Jun 4, 2020 • 40:31

Carla Kirk-Cohen: Bitcoin Is the Ability to Take Back Control Over Your Financial Situation

Today’s guest is Carla Kirk-Cohen she is a developer at Lightning Labs and is living in Cape Town in South Africa. Carla is building infrastructure around lightning nodes that makes it easier for people to run their own nodes at home. “I was really drawn to the security model of Bitcoin, really interested and thinking, oh, this can’t possibly work. There must be some way that it breaks. And then going back and learning a bit more and realizing how incredible the entire system actually is. For m

May 28, 2020 • 39:19

Ray Youssef: Bringing Bitcoin Into Africa With Gift Cards Is Solving Real Problems

On today’s episode I talk with Ray Youssef, Co-Founder and CEO of Paxful, a peer-to-peer marketplace for money transfers serving about 4 million people in every country of the world. He says that in the next five years Africa with its tremendous growth in trading volume is going to become the leading crypto continent. “Africa is leading all of our volume right now, and it’s growing tremendously. And every time a new country comes online, we start to see exponential growth. So you know this, the

May 21, 2020 • 44:58

Leo Wandersleb: Bitcoin Wallet Security to Avoid Exit Scams

Our topic today is all about Bitcoin wallets and their security. I am talking with Leo Wandersleb a german developer living in Chile, who is the founder of a project called Wallet Scrutiny. The goal of his project is to avoid exit scams through the verifiability of the wallet source code. “The goal of Wallet Scrutiny is to avoid exit scams and to avoid major flaws that would make all the users of a certain wallet vulnerable to some back doors that get injected by the provider or by somebody who

May 14, 2020 • 51:54

Tuur Demeester: The Bitcoin Reformation in Times of COVID-19

Today I am talking with Tuur Demeester, who recommended Bitcoin as an investment to his readers at $5 back in 2012. I would say Tuur is a philosopher with a greater perspective and an historical approach to today’s developments. We discuss his findings in his paper “The Bitcoin Reformation”. Published that at the end of 2019 he is drawing comparisons between the Dutch reformation in the 16th century and the emergence of Bitcoin in this century. This bring us to discuss COVID-19 and Tuur’s though

May 7, 2020 • 58:25

Andreas M. Antonopoulos: Bitcoin Removes Power From the Few and Gives It to the Many

Today’s guest is one of my favourite people in the space Andreas M. Antonopoulos. We are going to talk about the adoption of Bitcoin, censorship and fake news, the use of Bitcoin in Zimbabwe, corporate and nation state digital currencies, why he does not believe in Austrian economics, why the so-called “left” does not embrace Bitcoin and more. “When freedom is banned, only outlaws have freedom.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos “Bitcoin, this system of open currency removes power from the few and gi

Apr 30, 2020 • 45:18

Part 6: The Future of Bitcoin Is Big in Africa - With Alakanani Itireleng

In this episode I talk with Alakanani Itireleng, who founded the Satoshicentre in Botswana in 2014 and single-handedly built a growing Bitcoin community. She is the heart and center of Bitcoin education there, even the government is relying on her consultancy. We recorded this interview in February 2020, only days before the Covid-19 lockdowns went into effect. Her greatest ambition, the organization of a Bitcoin conference in Southern Africa will not come true soon. If you like to support her w

Apr 23, 2020 • 45:20

Part 5: Afriblocks, Lightning Network, COVID-19 & Answering Questions - Bitcoin in Africa - The Ubuntu Way

In this episode you will get to know a young man from Zimbabwe, Tongayi Choto, who is a software developer, entrepreneur and a bitcoin maximalist. He has founded Afriblocks, a Global Pan-African Freelance platform that connects professionals across the world. We talk about the problems young Zimbabweans are facing and his approach to make lives better. In the second part of this episode, I will answer listeners questions about the current use of bitcoin and other methods of payment in Zimbabwe.

Apr 16, 2020 • 39:18

Part 4: If Bitcoin Works in Zimbabwe, It Works Everywhere - Bitcoin in Africa: The Ubuntu Way

The fourth part of the six-part series about Bitcoin in Africa is an interview with a young woman from Harare. She calls herself a Digipreneur and is working as a teacher, too. With her organization that is focused on the digitalization of Africa, she aims to bring Zimbabwe forward. As the use of Bitcoin is outlawed and the state of human rights and free speech is rather poor in Zimbabwe, we agreed to not mention her name. We are talking about: The opportunities for bitcoin adoption Shutdown of

Apr 9, 2020 • 1:00:08

Part 3: Using Bitcoin in Zimbabwe - Bitcoin in Africa: The Ubuntu Way

In the third part of the six-part series about Bitcoin in Africa you will hear from two early bitcoin adopters based in Harare. We speak about the different use-cases for bitcoin, how it can be exchanged to US Dollar and RTGS, what the obstacles and pros are, about regulation and what the two online entrepreneurs want to tell people outside of Africa. After the two interviews I will answer a listener’s question about the possibilities for rural communities to use bitcoin. “Do you think that B

Apr 2, 2020 • 52:06

Part 2 Zimbabwe: Living in a Multi-Currency World - Bitcoin in Africa: The Ubuntu Way

This is the 2nd episode of a six-part series about Bitcoin in Africa. In February 2020, right before the start of quarantine and travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, I travelled Zimbabwe and Botswana to get a picture from the ground about the usage of bitcoin in these countries. Zimbabwe and Venezuela are very ofted named as countries where bitcoin could be making a difference, in supporting people’s economic situation. I wanted to see by myself, if this is true and in how far bi

Mar 26, 2020 • 43:12

Part 1 Zimbabwe: Ideal Conditions for Bitcoin? - Bitcoin in Africa: The Ubuntu Way

In this 1st part of the “Bitcoin in Africa” podcast documentary you get an insight about the current living situation of Zimbabweans and the countrys political history, which paints a picture about why things are how they are, as well as the state of human rights and free speech. In February 2020 right before the quarantine and travel restrictions due to the Corona Virus pandemic started, I travelled Zimbabwe and Botswana to get a picture from the ground about the usage of Bitcoin in these count

Mar 19, 2020 • 48:20

BUC Live: Digital Scarcity - Will Central Banks Be Obsolete Within This Century?

This is a live recording of a panel discussion at the “Value of Bitcoin Symposium” in Vienna, March 5th 2020. We discussed the advantages and disadvantages of digital scarcity and a hard capped supply versus fiat money, the impact of new players in the money game like Facebook’s Libra, the topic of central bank digital currencies and how that all relates to bitcoin. Participants were Rahim Taghizadegan – Austrian economist, Arthur Stadler – lawyer with blockchain expertise, Beat Weber – Austrian

Mar 12, 2020 • 1:01:48

Connie Gallippi: A Pioneer Bridging the Gap Between the Non-Profit Space and Bitcoin

Connie Gallippi is the Founder and Executive Director of BitGive. In May 2013, she founded BitGive, the first government recognized Bitcoin 501(c)(3) nonprofit and pioneer organization leveraging Bitcoin and Blockchain technology via practical applications for humanitarian work in the developing world. Under her leadership, BitGive has built a positive philanthropic representative organization for the Bitcoin and Blockchain industry, bridging the gap between an innovative technology and its prac

Mar 5, 2020 • 39:31

Randy Brito: How People Are Using Bitcoin in Venezuela

Randy Brito is the founder of bitcoinvenezuela.com and the CEO of Locha Mesh. In 2012 he started publishing educational material about Bitcoin in Spanish and translated the interface of the Electrum Wallet. We are talking about the economical situation in Venezuela, how authorities extorted miners in 2015 and how people are using bitcoin today. We talk about: Started bitcoinvenezuela.com in 2012 Economical situation Venezuela Spanish translator for electrum wallet 2012 Bitcoin is used to get mo

Feb 26, 2020 • 26:52

Pascal Huegli: The Problem With Today’s Banking and Monetary Colonialism

Pascal Hügli is a journalist working with financialmedia AG. He focuses on the topic of finance and economics. As such he considers himself as a life-long student trying to get a real understanding of the world. He’s the author of “Ignore at your own risk: the new decentralized world of Bitcoin and Blockchain”. He is also a lecturer at HWZ and moderates as well as debates in public. We talk about: Bitcoin is a social phenomenon Problem with banking Credit expansion and the ne

Feb 19, 2020 • 44:26

Philipp E. Dettwiler: Merging Traditional Banking With Bitcoin and Digital Assets

Phil Dettwiler is Head of Custody Storage & Transaction Banking at SEBA Bank AG, the first crypto bank that was granted a banking license in Switzerland. Being a banker all of his life, he sees the investment opportunity in bitcoin and likes the possibility of independent banking. Phil also answers the question: Why do we need banks in Bitcoin? SEBA Bank AG enables professional and institutional clients to invest, safely keep, trade and borrow against traditional and digital assets, as wel

Feb 13, 2020 • 33:37

Brandon Green: What to Expect From Bitcoin (In) 2020

In March the Bitcoin2020 conference is taking place in San Francisco. In this interview I talk with Brandon Green, who is a project manager at BTC Inc. for the conference. BTC Inc. is also the company behind the Bitcoin Magazine and the Let’s Talk Bitcoin podcast network. We talk about the latest developments in Bitcoin, the halving, their suspended Twitter account and what you can expect from the conference. Brandon is right hand to the CEO at BTC Inc. He’s been working in the Bitcoin sp

Feb 5, 2020 • 41:47

Tatiana Moroz: Bitcoin Is a Tool to Liberate Humanity and Gives Power to Creators

Tatiana Moroz is an American folk singer-songwriter, liberty activist, and peaceful revolutionary. She is in the Bitcoin space since 2012 and is pioneering creative autonomy and freedom as the creator of the world’s first artist cryptocurrency Tatiana Coin. Tatiana merges music with blockchain technology to renew the power of songwriters and creators. Her inspiring album “Keep The Faith” was released in 2017 and was funded completely with cryptocurrency. She wrote a song about Bitco

Jan 29, 2020 • 42:40

Locha Mesh - Chat and Send Bitcoin Anonymously Without Internet

Randy Brito is the founder of bitcoinvenezuela.com and the CEO of Locha Mesh. With the Locha Mesh device one can send text, audio, and Bitcoin without cell service or internet as long as the device has battery life. Locha Mesh nodes create high bandwith long range decentralized radio networks to connect devices at up to 4km away from each other, and relay information to reach longer distances. We talk about Locha Mesh censorship resistant payments and internet Bitcoin payments without interne

Jan 22, 2020 • 38:01

DEBNK: Building Global Trustless Peer Banking on Top of Bitcoin

My guests in this episode are Patrik Tjokorda, Josef Tětek and Tomas Marada, we met at the Hackers Congress in Prague. They are working on a project called DEBNK. Their goal is to build global peer banking on top of the bitcoin settlement layer. This trustless third layer on top of bitcoin will be able to store different assets and can make stablecoins obsolete. We talk about how this will be implemented, the use cases they see and about volatility and price discovery in bitcoin, the block subs

Jan 16, 2020 • 51:40

Alexandra Moxin: Bitcoin Changes the Power Dynamic - Back to the Individual

Alexandra Moxin is the host of the Advance Tech Podcast and a moderator at Bitcoin conferences, living in Vancouver in Canada. We met at the Baltic Honeybadger Conference in Riga back in September of 2019. Alexandra works for Microsoft as developer engagement lead for Azure and follows the developments in Bitcoin since 2017. We talk about why we are interested in bitcoin only, about podcasting, Bitcoin in Canada and learning resources for Bitcoin. “Bitcoins biggest strength is, that its s

Jan 9, 2020 • 44:18

Lisa Neigut: Bitcoin Is Mind-Boggling Cool and How She Became a C-Lightning Developer

Lisa Neigut is an engineer and developer at Blockstream working on c-lightning. We met at the Lightning Conference in Berlin in October 2019 and talked about a variety of topics ranging from quantum experiments, Bitcoin in general, stocks as currency, to the future of the Lightning Network. Before that she was working at Squarecash and at Etsy as an Android developer. People who want to start a career in programming and technology should listen to her story of how she got hired as a lightning d

Jan 2, 2020 • 1:05:54

Jan Čapek and Pavel Moravec: Bitcoiners by Heart Lead Us Behind the Scenes of Pool Mining

We will take a non-technical look into bitcoin mining in this episode. My guests are Jan Čapek and Pavel Moravec, the CEOs and Founders of Braiins, the company that is operating Slush pool, which is the world’s first bitcoin mining pool with more than 1 000 000 BTC mined since 2010. Jan and Pavels company is located in the Czech Republic in Prague. They are bitcoiners by heart and explain how pool mining works, what the challenges for miners are to be profitable, share their thoughts abou

Dec 26, 2019 • 46:08

Austin E. Alexander: Bitcoin Is a Complete, Total Game Changer. It’s an Opt-Out.

Austin E. Alexander is working for the office of the CEO at Kraken. He joined Kraken at the end of 2013. Back then, Kraken had only 20 to 30 employees. Today it is one of the biggest and most respected crypto exchanges in the world. I met Austin at several bitcoin conferences and at the Baltic Honeybadger in Riga in October, we finally sat down to chat about his career and the developments in the bitcoin space since 2011. In 2013 he was co-founding the Bitcoin Center New York with Nick Spanos.

Dec 19, 2019 • 59:25

Smuggler: A Cryptoanarchists View on Bitcoin, Democracy, Dark Nets and Privacy

The Bitcoin & Co. podcast is a bitcoin-only show that’s focusing on the why of Bitcoin. Why is it important for humanity, what are the implications from a privacy perspective, how are we able to grow this space together, what are the visions of the people who drive the Bitcoin space. I want to look behind the scenes and take you with me on this journey. Sometimes my guests are rather critical about bitcoin, which I think, is a good thing. Bitcoiners tend to be full of hopium and for

Dec 11, 2019 • 1:21:42

Jameson Lopp: Bitcoin Will Never Die, It’s a Pure Form of Economic Interaction

Jameson Lopp is very well known in the Bitcoin space for his wide expertise on security, technology and privacy. He is maintaining and curating a Bitcoin resources page with links to valuable information on Bitcoin and since his house was swatted by police in 2017 after an unknown attacker reported a false hostage situation, he is a cypherpunk at heart. Jameson is the CTO at Casa, a company devoted to providing products for personal sovereignty. “Bitcoin can’t be dead, until we all agree

Dec 5, 2019 • 45:13

John Carvalho: Bitcoin Is Not About Getting Rich, It Is Meant to Be Freedom Money

Wether you are a newbie or a Bitcoin enthusiast, this interview with John Carvalho, one of the rare people with strong views and rhetorical talent at the same time, will bring you joy and new insights. John is the CCO of Bitrefill, a swedish company that sells giftcards and phone refills for cryptocurrencies and offers “Thor” a lightning network services provider. He says, his higher boss is Bitcoin and he is working for bitcoin since it’s price was 10 USD. John Carvalho has seen a

Nov 28, 2019 • 58:23

Jonathan Leong: Building an Exchange for Easy Access to Bitcoin

Jonathan Leong is a coder as well as the Co-founder and CEO of BTSE a multi-currency digital assets exchange and derivatives platform. His goal for BTSE is to make bitcoin affordable for anyone by reducing the volatility of bitcoin through the allocation of liquidity. I also asked him about their criteria for altcoins to be listed on the exchange and how they managed to get through the bear market successfully. From mining farms to trading How to mine successfully through the bear market What

Nov 21, 2019 • 34:11

The Nodl Team: Behind the Scenes of Building Bitcoin Nodes

Let me introduce you to two true Bitcoiners: Ketominer and his business partner, who are building bitcoin and lightning full nodes under the brand “nodl” since 2018. In our interview they explain how they got into bitcoin, why it is important to them and how they bootstrap their “un-corporation” from one level to the next. How they got into the Bitcoin space Changes in the Bitcoin space in the last years How “nodl” came into life The first nodl box The importance of a full node How to receive

Nov 14, 2019 • 46:18

Jimmy Song: Bitcoin Makes Human Civilization Grow Again

“Regret is thinking you’re late. Gratitude is thinking you’re early. It’s still early to get Bitcoin.”, says Jimmy Song. He is a bitcoin educator, developer, entrepreneur, a lover of cowboy hats and boots and, as you can see on Twitter, a philosopher. He is the author of “Programming Bitcoin” and a co-author of “The Little Bitcoin Book“. I sat down to have a chat with him at the Baltic Honeybadger conference in Riga. Austrian economics Hat

Nov 7, 2019 • 34:54

Juraj Bednar: Using Bitcoin Is like a Filter for People with an Open Mind

Juraj Bednar is an entrepreneur, hacker and co-founder of Paralelná Polis Bratislava and Prague’s Paralelní Polis. It hosts a hackerspace called Institute of Cryptoanarchy and a cafeteria with best coffee in Prague and accepting only cryptocurrencies. His favourite cryptocurrency is bitcoin, he also uses monero as a medium of exchange. In his talk “Financial surveillance and crypto utopias” at the #HCPP19 Hackers Congress Juraj presented his research on how banks are enforcing KYC,

Oct 26, 2019 • 1:00:08

BUC Live: Lightning Hardware and Nodes Panel from The Lightning Conference Berlin

This is a Bitcoin & Co. live recording from the worlds first lightning conference that has been taking place this weekend in Berlin. For the first time around 500 lightning and bitcoin engineers, researches, developers, businesses, hardware builders and enthusiasts gathered to discuss and work on new projects. Two days packed with interesting talks, workshops and panels. You can find the live streams of most talks on YouTube in the conference channel. I had the honour to moderate the &#822

Oct 22, 2019 • 35:48

Janine Roemer: Censorship Resistant Journalism Needs Censorship Resistant Money

Janine Roemer is an independent journalist, who went from technophobe to cypherpunk. She heard about Bitcoin in 2012 and is working in the Bitcoin space since 2014. We talk about her concept of a revision controlled journalism that could lead to more objectiveness in the media landscape and replace churnalism and fake news through an independent funding model with bitcoin and lightning payments, research and quoting sources. We discuss: Definition of Cypherpunks Identity vs. anonymity Mass sur

Oct 17, 2019 • 1:09:08

Dan Held: Silicon Valley Fundamentally Doesn't Understand Bitcoin

Dan Held is the Director of Business Development for all products of Kraken. Kraken is one of the worlds biggest and well known cryptocurrency exchanges. Before that he co-founded and developed products like ZeroBlock and Interchange, that were aquired later on. In between he served in the rider growth team at Uber. He lives and works in Silicon Valley. We met at the Baltic Honeybadger Conference in Riga and discussed topics like the bitcoin distribution, what he finds surprising about Satoshi

Oct 10, 2019 • 35:19

Hass McCook: Bitcoin Is the Monetization of Energy. If It Does Not Succeed, Humanity Is in for a Bad Time.

Todays guest is Hass McCook, he is a civil engineer working on economic infrastructure like building roads and tunnels and has a lot of experience in mining. He did his MBA in Oxford and conducted his first research about the Sustainability of Bitcoin in 2014, he updated and expanded this work in 2018 with the paper “The Cost and Sustainability of Bitcoin” and was presenting his insights into the “Environmental & Social Impacts of Gold & Bitcoin” at the Baltic Honeybadger

Oct 3, 2019 • 50:06

Rodolfo Novak Bitcoin Goes to Zero or It Goes to the Moon

Rodolfo Novak is an entrepreneur and a long time bitcoiner. He is building products like the OpenDime, the Coldcard Wallet, the BlockClock and is experimenting with a lot of other stuff connected to bitcoin. We talk about security, privacy and the future of Bitcoin as well as why he started to build hardware wallets. We discuss: His journey into Bitcoin Coinkite payment terminals in 2013 How he realized that bitcoin is a store of value The inherent right of privacy If governments can forbid bi

Sep 26, 2019 • 37:45

The Petro Is a Scam and Bitcoin Is the Only Way to Send Money to Venezuela

Meet Aníbal Santaella Sánchez and Paola Rodriguez-Giustiniani from Venezuela. The couple left the country three years ago and live in Scotland now. Anibal started mining bitcoin back in Venezuela, but when the national forces started prosecuting miners, he stopped. Bitcoin is the only way for Aníbal to send money to his father in Venezuela. Listen to the podcast episode to find out how this works, how the exchange ban and the regime have ruined the country that ended in todays humanitarian cris

Sep 12, 2019 • 40:09

Max Hillebrand Is Busting FUD About the Lightning Network

Max Hillebrand is an economist who started reading Keynes when he was 9 and got into Bitcoin at the age of 16. He says “Bitcoin is for everyone”, even his grandmother runs a Lightning node. First we discuss Bitcoin and then Max is debunking misconceptions about the Lightning Network. We discuss: Cantillon effect Gold, silver and bitcoin how to reduce bitcoins volatility Satoshi never mentioned Blockchain only Timechain Censorship resistant time Lightning Network Malicious actors Pu

Sep 4, 2019 • 1:02:59

Federico Spitaleri the Lightning Network Enables Innovation in Gaming and Pricing

Federico Spitaleri is the Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Satoshi’s Games. A gaming web platform on top of the Lightning Network, which features Lightning games and tournaments, where players can earn money in form of satoshis. At the time of our interview in June 2019 Satoshi’s Games had 6.000 unique users and enabled other developers to run their games over the platform, too. Our Topics: their games: a Supermario style game, Lightning Agar obstacles at building a platfo

Aug 28, 2019 • 26:13

Satoshi Freeathlon a Sports Event to Raise Awareness for Bitcoin

A group of sport- and Bitcoin enthusiasts got together to challenge themselves in a 4 day race with 14 km of swimming, 280 km of biking and 63 km of running to raise positive awareness for Bitcoin. The race is named Satoshi Freeathlon (freeathlon = Freestyle + Triathlon) and is organized by team satoshi. The idea behind team satoshi is to bring forward bitcoin and the decentralization of power and money as well as the ideals of Bitcoin, which come from the Cypherpunk Manifesto (human rights, fr

Aug 19, 2019 • 38:02

BUC Live: The Fight Against Money Laundering with Cryptocurrencies

Starting 10 January 2020, virtual currency service providers in Austria will be subject to the same know-your-customer and anti-money laundering obligations as credit and financial institutions. What does this mean for companies in the Cryptocurrency space and how does it affect you and me? I was invited to moderate this panel discussion by Stadler Völkel Attorneys at Law in Vienna. — Sorry, for the sometimes bad audio quality due to the live recording outdoors! — Panel guests inc

Aug 1, 2019 • 46:08

Matt Corallo on the Social Good of Bitcoin and the Mindset of a Bitcoin Developer

Early Bitcoin Core developer Matt Corallo started working on Bitcoin in 2011. At that time he still attended high school and lived in Germany near Frankfurt am Main. He was a cofounder of Blockstream before he started working on open source projects for Bitcoin at Chaincode Labs in New York. We discuss many different topics, ranging from his interest in Bitcoin at the beginning, to current issues like miner centralization, projects he is working on – Fibre, BetterHash and Rust lightning t

Jul 25, 2019 • 49:41

Max Keidun About the Possibilities of Non-Custodial Solutions and Memenomics in Bitcoin

Max Keidun is the CEO of the non-custodial, peer to-peer Bitcoin exchange hodlhodl. He was born in the former USSR and started his career as a journalist before he worked in the banking industry for 10 years. 2015 he quit his job in the finance industry and since then he is building products in the Bitcoin space. He is also a founder of the Baltic Honeybadger Conference in Riga. Our topics why he is fascinated by Bitcoin use cases for Bitcoin what it needs for mass adoption hodlhodl, his non-c

Jul 4, 2019 • 56:26

Andreas M. Antonopoulos Busting Arguments Against Bitcoin and Revealing Real Risks

In this podcast episode common misconceptions and FUD about Bitcoin like high volatility, energy consumption, inequalities in the distribution of wealth and the risk of possible failure are addressed by Andreas M. Antonopoulos. Andreas is one of the most influential and well-respected voices in the Bitcoin and Blockchain space. With four books, over 300 videos on YouTube and almost half a million followers on Twitter he is educating millions about this groundbreaking technology. I was lucky to

Jun 20, 2019 • 33:59

Richard Myers About Bitcoin Without Internet and the Importance of Financial Freedom

Richard Myers is the product engineer for txTenna, a project that extends the range for sending and receiving bitcoin transactions over the Blockstream bitcoin satellites and a mesh network. This basically enables using Bitcoin without internet connection. He presented the project together with Adam Back at the Magical Crypto Conference in May 2019. In the podcast interview we go deeper into the ideas and philosophy behind his interest in Bitcoin and how the mesh network allows for more privacy

Jun 13, 2019 • 37:55

Thomas Voegtlin About Creating the Electrum Wallet, Best Practices to Secure Your Funds and His Design Principles

Thomas Voegtlin was a researcher in computer science, specialized on machine learning and neural networks before he discovered Bitcoin at the end of 2010. He created the first versions of the Electrum wallet while experimenting with Bitcoin, because there were no secure and easy to use wallets in 2011. Electrum is one of the most popular bitcoin wallets today. Thomas Voegtlin announced and presented the implementation of Lightning payments into the wallet at the Lightning Hackdays in Munich in

Jun 6, 2019 • 43:08

Caitlin Long About Financial Freedom and Why Bitcoin Matters

Been in Bitcoin since 2012 and a blockchain evangelist since 2014, Caitlin is the Co-founder of the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition and gubernatorial appointee. She served on Morgan Stanley’s internal blockchain working group and has 22 years of corporate finance experience on Wall Street. Caitlin is a writer on Forbes and a graduate of Harvard Law School, the Kennedy School of Government and the University of Wyoming. “The traditional finance system is not solvent”, Caitlin Long We t

May 23, 2019 • 33:01

Leah Wald on Possibilities for Women in the Bitcoin Space and Why We Still Are in a Bear Market

Leah Wald is a development economist, financial analyst and Partner & Executive Vice President at Lucid Investment Strategies. Together with Tyler Jenks she is the host of their Hyperwave Channel on YouTube. Leah began her career at 19 working at the World Bank in the Africa Region and has applied social entrepreneurship to help goat herders in Mongolia, local entrepreneurs in Washington, D.C. as well as to first-time businesswomen in India. In this Bitcoin & Co. episode we discuss t

Apr 25, 2019 • 53:45

Adam Back on the Magic of Cryptography and Why Bitcoin Matters

Adam Back is the inventor of Hashcash, a method to prevent spam emails, that was used with minor changes as the proof-of-work method in Bitcoin. His work is cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper as well as in the Tor Browser whitepaper. He is a seasoned cryptographer with a PhD in computer science and distributed systems. As co-founder and CEO of Blockstream he is building the infrastructure for the internet of the future. The topics of our interview: his interests in school, growing up in England t

Apr 11, 2019 • 44:12

Demelza Hays the Way to the Highest-Quality Money, the Next Bitcoin Bull Market and Advice for Small Investors

Demelza Hays is a crypto researcher, asset manager, entrepreneur and is teaching at the University of Liechtenstein courses on blockchain technology. She installed the first Bitcoin ATM in Liechtenstein and is currently conducting a research on the correlation between hashrate and the price of Bitcoin. She is the Co-Author of the quarterly Cryptoresearch Report and asset manager at Incrementum AG. We had a fascinating discussion about a variety of topics around money, wealth, digital assets and

Mar 28, 2019 • 50:05

Shermin Voshmgir about Bitcoin as a Governance Revolution

Shermin Voshmgir is the director of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and the founder of BlockchainHub in Berlin. She is also a regular speaker at conferences and is consulting on the topic of blockchains – especially in the context of sustainability and social impact of future technologies. In spring 2017 I attended The Gamechanger Festival in Vienna and listened to Shermins talk about Blockchains & Smart Contracts. There I realized how

Mar 14, 2019 • 49:05

Robby Schwertner About Blockchain Use Cases with Return on Society and Asian Markets

Robby Schwertner, aka CryptoRobby is an advisor, speaker and analyst in the blockchain space. His mission can be summarized with the hashtag #ReturnOnSociety. He is supporting blockchain use cases with an added value to society for instance in green energy, real estate and mobility solutions. As Robby has lived and worked in Asia, we also discuss the differences between the european and asian cryptospace. “Lambos were necessary to reach the 99% of people.”Robert Schwertner [CryptoRobby] Spo

Feb 28, 2019 • 40:54

Aaron van Wirdum “It’s Bitcoin or Bust.”

Aaron van Wirdum is a technical editor for the Bitcoin Magazine. He started writing articles debunking Bitcoin myths in his personal blog in 2013. We are talking about the value propositions of Bitcoin, why he believes it is Bitcoin or bust, the privacy improvements in Bitcoin and Lightning and which effects “Cryptocurrencies” issued by central banks or “Facebook coins” could have. Recorded at the Israel Bitcoin Summit in January 2019. “The whole blockchain narrative

Feb 14, 2019 • 32:06

Alena Vranova on the Importance of User Experience in Bitcoin

I met Alena Vranova at the Israel Bitcoin Summit in Tel Aviv in January 2019. We talked about how she got into Bitcoin, why user experience is the most important factor for user adoption, why she wants her Mom to use Bitcoin, about her hopes that the Lightning Network – as a global financial network – is about to explode in 2019. We discuss how TREZOR, the hardware wallet manufacturer she co-founded, and CASA, where she is the Head of Business Development and Strategy, support the s

Jan 31, 2019 • 28:24

The Lightning Network Explained with René Pickhardt

“Lightning is Bitcoin”, says René Pickhardt a mathematician, data scientist and contributor to the Lightning Network. We talk about the evolution, goals and possible roadblocks of the Lightning Network and how it will bring massive utility to the Bitcoin Blockchain. René Pickhardt is also the author of the German Wikipedia article about the Lightning Network. René is creating an educational book about Lightning. This book targets developers who want to make use of the Lightning Netw

Jan 17, 2019 • 55:55

Pamela Morgan on Inheritance Planning for Crypto-Assets

In this episode I am talking with Pamela Morgan. She is the author of “Crypto-Asset Inheritance Planning: A Simple Guide for Owners” a book about strategies to store your private keys for bitcoin and other digital assets safely for your heirs. Pamela is an educator, attorney and entrepreneur. She has studied Business and Computer Programming before pursuing a Juris Doctors degree. In early 2015 Pamela has founded Thirdkey solutions (with Andreas M. Antonopoulos as CTO), a key consulting firm tha

Dec 6, 2018 • 45:35

Blockchain and Data Privacy with Lawyer Prof. Nikolaus Forgó

Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Forgó is the Head of the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the University of Vienna in Austria. We are talking about the implications of GDPR on Blockchains. What should Blockchain developers do? Where can data protection law be a problem? What are the most important regulations you should invest your 2 minutes of time on. Interdisciplinarity is always very popular and it’s very hard to live. – Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Forgó I don’t trust anybody predictin

Nov 22, 2018 • 33:33

Bitcoin and the Austrian School of Economics with Rahim Taghizadegan

In this episode I talk with Rahim Taghizadegan about the interconnections between a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and the ideas and philosophy of the Austrian School of Economics and we take a look at the broader picture, the economical context. What is money? How did mass-consumerism arise? Are cryptocurrencies a chance to change the existing economy, which is based on credit expansion, to the better? Rahim is an economist, book author and principal of the Scholarium, a learning enterprise based

Nov 6, 2018 • 49:24

Andreas M. Antonopoulos on Bitcoin, Privacy, Human Rights and the Future of Bitcoin

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts with 440,000 followers on Twitter. Since 2012 he is commenting, educating and advising people, businesses and governments about Bitcoin and open Blockchains. He is known for delivering electric talks that combine economics, psychology, technology, and game theory with current events, personal anecdotes, and historical facts. Andreas has been interviewed on the

Aug 15, 2018 • 32:39

Saifedean Ammous, Economist and Author of “The Bitcoin Standard”

In this episode Saifedean Ammous is talking about Austrian economics, it’s relation to Bitcoin, what sound money and inflation are, why proof-of-work is so important and his vision for money and bitcoin in the future. Also we talk about the origins of his interest in bitcoin and why many Bitcoiners are carnivores. Saifedean Ammous is the author of “The Bitcoin Standard” a book about the history of money, austrian economics and the reasons why Bitcoin is superior to other forms of money tried in

Aug 10, 2018 • 56:38