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The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only Podcast

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

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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
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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.


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 an empty plane while the Arab Spring was becoming very dangerous and who went into Africa eight years ago to better understand how the people from that continent might use Bitcoin as a solution to their economic problems.”
Ray was a guest on my show already in May 2020, listen in to hear his adventurous story at
Paxful has been doing a lot of educational work in several African countries. The Built with Bitcoin Foundation is a humanitarian organization devoted to creating equitable opportunity by providing clean water, access to quality education, sustainable farming, and humanitarian support—all powered by Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
Today we’re talking about building local communities, how to foster sustainable education, how the lives of people have been changed to the better and about the role Bitcoin is playing.
The Anita Posch Show is hosted on BTC Podcasting, a Bitcoin for Fairness project, where you can host your podcast for free and at the same time earn bitcoin. Prior solutions required that the host is running their own Lightning node, which is no easy task. At BTC Podcasting we’re working together with Alby to make earning bitcoin accessible for anyone.
On top of that the open-source platform enables hosts like me to add chapters and images to the episodes. If you use a podcast app like Breez.technology you can see the associated images and links and send some sats to me.
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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 originally published on Bitcoin Magazine by BTC Inc.
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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.
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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.
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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 the past. Saifedean is working as an assistant professor of economics at the Adnan Kassar School of Business in Beirut and holds a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University in New York, USA.

“Inflation and unemployment is not a god given thing” – Saifedean Ammous


“I don’t believe that bitcoin is going to completely replace the job of banking.” – Saifedean Ammous


“Ripple is probably the worst, it’s my least favourite of all of the shitcoins.” – Saifedean Ammous


“Nobody really controls bitcoin.” – Saifedean Ammous


“Bitcoin is a unique breakthrough. All the other coins are worthless copycats.” – Saifedean Ammous


“After all these years there is no single altcoin that is able to perform one single commercially viable thing that bitcoin does not perform.” – Saifedean Ammous

Transcript of parts of Saifedeans interview
His bitcoin skepticism
I was pretty skeptical about it quite a while. It took me a long time to understand how reliable and how unkillable this thing is. The period from 2010 to 2013 I was still largely skeptical that Bitcoin could work. After 2014 when all things that I thought it would kill it where happening and yet it continued to survive, that was when I started to really paying attention.
09:43 The Austrian School of Economics – History
The starting point of Austrian Economics is, that all value is always subjective, it depends on the person making the valuation.
You can’t analyse economics outside of analysing individual choices and actions. Because it’s the mind of the individual that decides on the value and it’s the mind of the individual that’s going to make the trade-offs with any particular economic decision.
There is no right and wrong in economics. There is only decisions people want to make and people make the decisions that are best for them. Therefore we see that in economic systems in which people are able to freely decide what they want to do, people prosper, people do better and the markets adjust.
The Austrians (Economists) believe that money is something that should emerge on the free market. Sound money, is money, who’s value is determined through people buying and selling things for one another freely. Whereas unsound money or bad money is money who’s value is determined through government coercion.
The School of Austrian Economics is relevant to bitcoin in the issuing of money:

Austrians believe a free market is capable of providing a modern economy with money simply by people choosing the money that they want and it’s value emerges on its own.
Keynesian economists, statist economists, central bank economists, government economists all think, that without the government as providers of money bad things would happen or we would not be able to have money.

The stock to flow ratio of gold is extremly high. The stockpile that exists today is higher compared to the new supply of gold that is produced this year.
The annual supply growth rate for gold is almost always around 1-2%. Every year we are adding 1-2% to the global stockpile of gold and that is why gold is money. Because it’s hard for people to make ore gold in response to great demand and so gold is the bubble that cannot pop, because you cannot increase the supply more. And that are the economic properties that bitcoin copies. Bitcoin has not the physical properties of gold, but it does have this monetary property.
Not only the supply growth rate declines constantly until we reach the fixed supply of 21 million. This is the first time that we have a liquid asset that is divideable, that is combineable, that you can send and receive easily, but also is strictly limited in its quantity. I think this makes it an excellent store of value, because it’s impossible for people to make more of it to devalue the value that you store in it. That is really an astonishing aspect of bitcoin that I think is possibly the most important economic characteristic of bitcoin. It’s truly unique.
23:59 Proof-of-Work and Security
If there was a cheap way to make bitcoin and to make the proof-of-work, then the bitcoin security would fall apart. Similarly, if the earth gets hit by a meteor made of gold and everybody could go and chip gold out of it, the monetary role of gold would be destroyed. If gold gets cheap to produce and the supply begins to increase very easily, gold would not be money.
The entire quantity of gold that has been mined in all human history would fit in to about 2 olympic swimmingpools.
27:33 The Price of Bitcoin
Cost of production follows the value that people give the thing. The reason that diamonds are expensive or that bitcoin is expensive is that people value it.
You could spend your entire day baking a pie made out of mud, just because you spent an entire day behind it does not mean that people will pay you the wages that you think you deserve for them. If people value the mudpie they will pay for it and then based on how much they value it and are willing to pay for it, you will dedicate resources in order to produce it for them. Value is always subjective and therefore the cost of production follows the value.
30:04 Bitcoins energy consumption
32:21 The best Store of Value
What are the alternatives? What is Bitcoin saving us from with this energy consumption? In my opinion what Bitcoin allows us to do, by utilizing electricity for energy consumption, is to make monetary policy free of human control, free of political control, completely independent from politicians. And I think you know once we understand, what the cost of having central banks control by governments has been, then there is absolutely no chance that you think any amount of electricity is too much for bitcoin. Having central banks control the money supply is why we’ve had wars in the 20th century that lasted for so much longer than in previous centuries.
Bitcoin is economic reality. The way I see it is, that if Bitcoin continues to operate successfully, which it might not, but if it does, it will continue to maintain it’s scarcity and it will continue to clear payments around the world and I think it’s going to impose itself that people will use it not because they agree with it’s political philosophy but because they are economically self interested. People will want to have a store of value that can allow them to hold wealth into the future and over time more and more people will realize that bitcoin is the best for doing that because of it’s scarcity and it’s neutrality.
38:45 Bitcoin is an alternative to central banking.
Why you cannot compare a bitcoin transaction to a mastercard transaction
40:09 Comparing the electricity cost of a bitcoin settlement transaction to traditional settlement banking
41:22 Ripple and other shitcoins vs. Bitcoin

“Bitcoin does not compete with altcoins. Bitcoin is competing with the Dollar, and the Euro and with the IMF standard drawing rights and gold and all these international currencies for the settlement of international payments.” – Saifedean Ammous

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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

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
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The Humanitarian Case for Bitcoin Pt. 2

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

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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

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.
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Using Bitcoin In Zambia | Mr. Mulos

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.
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Insights from a Bitcoin Enthusiast in Africa

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.
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Bitcoin for Fairness on Cryptovoices

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

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

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.
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Advocating for Human Rights through Bitcoin - Anita Posch

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.
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Blueberries for Bitcoin in Zimbabwe | Dr. Edwin Moyo


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&#8217;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. 

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Bitcoin Is BOOMING In South Africa | Ricki Allardice

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.
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First Bitcoin Miner in Zimbabwe


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.

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


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&#8217;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.

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Unleashing Bitcoin's Full Potential | Carel van Wyk

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

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.
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Zambia Bitcoin Adoption & Stablecoins Use | Daniel Simwaba

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.
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The Challenges Of Using Bitcoin In Zimbabwe | Alexandria

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.
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Funding A School With Bitcoin in Zimbabwe | Miss Aurra

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.
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Bullish On Bitcoin in Zimbabwe with Kuda

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

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

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.
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Bitcoin Adoption In Brazil - Carol Souza

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.
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Building Bitcoin Beach Wallet - Nicolas Burtey

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.
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Building Homes With Bitcoin - Josh Young

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.
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Esteban de la Peña: Bitcoin in Guatemala

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

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

Lightning and the Creator Economy - Adopting Bitcoin Panel


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&#8217;s building a financial infrastructure on top of Bitcoin called the Lightning Network. I&#8217;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

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


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 &#8220;Bitcoin City SV&#8221; a cooperative in Sonzacate, that is educating their ~2,000 members about Bitcoin even longer than the fo

Anita Posch: Impressions from Bitcoin 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&#8217;re discussing the effects of bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador, the Chivo wallet, it&#8217;s problems and how the community is using Bitcoin in a multisig shared custody model with the Bitcoin Beach Wallet.
If you&#8217;re interested to learn more, Mike was my 

Mike Peterson: Bitcoin for Communities in El Salvador

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.
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Bitcoin Is Financial Emancipation

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.
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Rodolfo Andragnes: From Bitcoins.com to LaBitconf

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.
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– Hong 

Hong Fang: From China Via Wall Street to Bitcoin

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

Johannes Zweng: Lightning - The Future of Payments

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

Alyse Killeen: Insights of a Bitcoin Venture Capitalist


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&#8217;s stories and views about Bitcoin and privacy are refreshing and motivating, he says &#8220;The future of Bitcoin is so bright, we&#8217;ll need sunglasses&#8221; and &#8220;Freedom of transaction is a meta human right.&#8221;
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Jörg Platzer: Insights of the World's First Bitcoin Merchant


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&#8217;s volatility using gold and his new project the Standard Euro.
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&#8211; current state of Bitcoin
&#8211; Bitcoin in El Salvador
&#8211; Lightning Network and other interesting developments
&#8211; how to hedge between Gold and

Joshua Scigala: Bitcoin and Decentralized Stablecoins

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

Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar: Bitcoin in Latin America and Rootstock

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
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Christian Decker: The Lightning Network and Greenlight Nodes

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

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03:17 Introduction Fulmo
11:30 Development of the Ligh

Jeff Gallas & Rootz: RaspiBlitz and the Speed of Lightning


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:
&#8211; Blockstream&#8217;s funding and future plans
&#8211; Decentralization of mining
&#8211; Greenlight: Lig

Adam Back: Future of Bitcoin and Blockstream


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 &#8220;Mastering the Lightning Network&#8221; 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. 
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&#8211; the state of Bitcoin in 2021
&#8211; Taproot and why it&#8217;s important for Bitcoin
&#8211; the ba

Andreas M. Antonopoulos: Lightning Unleashes 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

Team Satoshi: Sports and the Road to Bitcoin

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

Lyn Alden: Bitcoin for Billions, Not Billionaires

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

Meron Estefanos from Eritrea: Bitcoin Can Take Down Dictators

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

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

Samson Mow: Blockstream's Bitcoin Strategy

What does it mean, that Bitcoin will be legal tender in El Salvador? Taproot will be locked in successfully.
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A New Bitcoin Epoch - Legal Tender in El Salvador

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

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

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
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Bitcoin on the Moon - Last Week in Bitcoin

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

Exiledsurfer: Building a Permissionless Future with Sovryn

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
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Last Week in Bitcoin: Keep Calm and Carry On

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

Rarescrilla: Bitcoin Enables New Art Forms

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

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

Adam B. Levine: Bitcoin, NFTs and the Arts

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

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

Gabriel Shipton: Defend Julian Assange, Defend Free Internet

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
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Last Week in Bitcoin: Don't Mess with Bitcoin

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

Miss Aurra: Bitcoin Empowers Zimbabweans

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

Anita Posch: How Bitcoin Supports Democracy

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

Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin a Trojan Horse for Freedom

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

Franco Amati: Bitcoin in Argentina

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



Shermin Voshmgir: The Web 3 and Token Revolution

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 

Jonathan Chester: Get Paid in 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

Edan Yago: Sovereignty Through 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

Abe Cambridge: Invest in Solar Powered Bitcoin

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

Sébastien Gouspillou: Bitcoin Mining Funds Green Energy

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

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

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

Philippe Bekhazi: Bitcoin Mining in Practice

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 &amp; 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

Jameson Lopp: Bitcoin Mining and Censorship

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

Ben Arc: Building Bitcoin DIY Hardware and Software

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

Farooq Ahmed: Bitcoin in Pakistan

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

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

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&amp;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

Bitcoin Q & A, Jan. 2021

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

Fereshteh Forough: Bitcoin in Afghanistan

My guest is Derek Muhney, Director of Marketing &amp; 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

Derek Muhney: The Business of Bitcoin ATMs

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

Desiree Dickerson, Ryan Gentry: Lightning is Bitcoin

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

Andreas M. Antonopoulos: Bitcoin Outlook 2021

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?


Chris Tramount: Bitcoin Art, A New Renaissance

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

Jukka Blomberg: LocalBitcoins in Latin America

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

Nicolas Dorier: Be Your Own Bank with BTCPay

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

Nigerian Feminist Coalition: Bitcoin Is Power

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 &amp; 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

Roselyne Wanjiru: Bitcoin in Kenya

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

Philip Agyei Asare: Bitcoin in Ghana

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

Grey Jabesi: Bitcoin in South Africa

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.
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Fodé Diop: Bitcoin in Senegal

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