Closing the Loop
Closing the Loop
Closing the Loop is a podcast about Bitcoin. In it, we will be speaking with the entrepreneurs, developers, and thinkers who are contributing to the evolution of this revolutionary technology. The podcast will also be an ongoing experiment of sorts, leveraging the latest developments in the broader ecosystem, highlighting and implementing solutions that foster censorship-resistant communication and new content monetization models. Join us in discovering the many possibilities that Bitcoin brings!
#36 - Francis Pouliot: Bitcoin is a Life Raft
1/25/2023 • 2hr 37m
For our final episode of season three, we were excited to have Francis Pouliot join us for a discussion. Francis is the founder and CEO of Bull Bitcoin, a popular 'non-custodial' bitcoin exchange and payment service in Canada. He has been heavily involved in the bitcoin industry since 2013, helping people understand and use bitcoin from the earliest days of Montreal's Bitcoin Embassy to Costa Rica's Bitcoin Jungle today. In that time, he has accrued a wealth of knowledge and experience, which in addition to his uniquely principled approach to things, has made him a popular...
#35 - Ray Youssef: Bitcoin is on the Right Side of History
1/9/2023 • 1hr 50m
In this episode of Closing The Loop, we’re honored to have Ray Youssef join us for a discussion. Ray is the founder and CEO of Paxful, a popular peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange, which offers users over 350 different payment methods to choose from. Paxful has placed a particular focus on what Ray refers to as the ‘Global South,’ where billions of unbanked or underbanked people are effectively cut-off from global markets and subject to numerous forms of financial repression. In this conversation, Ray and I discuss how bitcoin and Paxful have helped to level the pl...
#34 - Patrick O'Sullivan: 'Bitcoin Makes Baseball Better' w/ The World's First Chief Bitcoin Officer
12/16/2022 • 1hr 51m
Our guest today is Patrick O’Sullivan, the world’s first 'Chief Bitcoin Officer', for the Australian Baseball League club, The Perth Heat. In late 2021, Patrick convinced the organization to shift to a full 'bitcoin standard', and since then, they’ve been experimenting with all the ways in which they can leverage the benefits of bitcoin, to bring a higher-quality and more rewarding experience to players and spectators alike. Recently, grounded in a firm belief in the merits and possibilities of the bitcoin-enabled 'value-for-value' philosophy, the team has launched what their calling 'sats4stats', where live o...
#33 - Matt Hill: The Era of 'Sovereign Computing' is Here
12/1/2022 • 2hr 13m
Today's guest is Matt Hill, co-founder and CEO of Start9 Labs, a leading pioneer in what he calls ‘Sovereign Computing.’ In today’s world, many have become accustomed to using third-party platforms to interact online, host their data, and much else, but as the saying goes, ‘the cloud is just someone else’s computer.’ As a result of this, there is no true privacy, anyone can be censored, and data honeypots exist everywhere for dishonest or malicious actors to exploit. Matt and his team are determined to reverse this concerning trend, by making it easy and...
#32 - Jeff Booth: Bitcoin is the Answer to a Broken System
11/16/2022 • 2hr 5m
Today’s guest is Jeff Booth, a serial technology entrepreneur, advisor and board member to multiple businesses and organizations, and the author of the very popular book, ‘The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future'. Jeff is also a prolific speaker and advocate for bitcoin, educating people in all parts of the world, about the nature of the problems we all face, and how bitcoin is an essential tool for resolving them. Finally, to further enhance his impact, Jeff recently founded ego death capital, a venture fund which invests in comp...
#31 - Jason Les: Surviving and Thriving as a Publicly Traded Bitcoin Mining Company
11/2/2022 • 1hr 40m
Our guest today is Jason Les, CEO of Riot Blockchain. Riot is one of the largest publicly traded bitcoin miners in the world, with a current hash rate capacity of 4.8EH/s, and an expected self-mining capacity of 12.6EH/s by Q1 2023. The bitcoin mining industry is notoriously competitive, and that is especially the case right now in the fall of 2022, as a confluence of factors conspire to reveal which among the current operators are capable of weathering the storm. As such, I thought now would be a perfect time to have Jason...
#30 - Prince Filip of Serbia: The Merits of Monarchy, The Liberating Power of Bitcoin, and The History of the House of Karađorđević
10/20/2022 • 1hr 52m
Our guest today is Prince Filip Karađorđević, Hereditary Prince of Serbia and Yugoslavia, and Chief Strategy Officer of Jan 3, a digital infrastructure company focused on expanding access to bitcoin technology, and accelerating hyperbitcoinization. We first met Prince Filip at the Miami Bitcoin Conference in 2022, and were struck by both his down-to-earth demeanor, as well as his passion and enthusiasm for bitcoin. His family history is tremendously interesting, and Filip seems determined to follow in those footsteps, by using bitcoin, in conjunction with his other initiatives, to bring more freedom and prosperity to the peo...
#29 - Abubakar Nur Khalil: Building, Investing, and Training the Next Generation of Bitcoin Developers in Africa
10/4/2022 • 1hr 40m
This episode's guest is Abubakar Nur Khalil, a contributor to bitcoin core and co-founder of Qala, a non-profit focused on training the next generation of bitcoin and lightning developers in Africa. He is also the CEO of Recursive Capital, a venture capital fund focused on funding African bitcoin startups. Finally, Abubakar is a founding member of B Trust, a non-profit funded by Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z, with the stated purpose of supporting the people and initiatives working to decentralize bitcoin development further. Though still relatively young, Abubakar's accomplishments in the bitcoin space are substantial. His...
#28 - Brent Whitehead: The Giga Energy Story and Bitcoin as the Ultimate Incentive for Revolutionizing the Energy Industry
9/22/2022 • 2hr 30m
Today’s guest is Brent Whitehead, co-founder of Giga Energy, a company that builds, operates, and sells equipment for off-grid bitcoin mining operations. The mobility, viability, and adaptability of bitcoin mining has in the last few years become recognized for the unique opportunities it represents, for capturing and monetizing stranded or 'waste' energy. As a result, the industry is currently experiencing a boom, as market participants respond to the incentive which now exists to turn a liability, into an asset, which has a global market and operates 24/7/365. This method of bitcoin mining is he...
#27 - Jean Amiouny: Bringing Canadians into the 'Bitcoin Golden Age'
9/8/2022 • 1hr 49m
This episode's guest is Jean Amiouny, co-founder and CEO of Canadian bitcoin exchange, Shakepay. Launched in 2015, Shakepay has become one of the most popular ways to buy bitcoin in Canada, with $7 billion in transaction volume and over one million Canadians signed up to the platform. As you'll hear in this discussion, while their current focus is on making it as easy as possible for Canadians to accumulate bitcoin, they have much bigger aspirations of ultimately taking on the five big legacy banks in Canada, re-creating the financial system on top of bitcoin, and ushering in...
#26 - Lyn Alden: Bitcoin is the Technological Solution We Need
8/31/2022 • 2hr 15m
Today's guest is Lyn Alden, founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, board director of Swan Bitcoin, and advisor to ego death capital. Lyn is one of the most highly regarded voices in finance today, both for her excellent commentary on the macroeconomic landscape as well as for her sober, analytical approach to understanding bitcoin. Lyn's ability to distill complex, multi-disciplinary topics into insights that anyone can comprehend has made her a favorite amongst expert investors and humble savers alike. With all the recent developments in the bitcoin world, as well as the volatility and uncertainty...
#25 - Gigi: Bitcoin Offers Deep Stability
8/15/2022 • 2hr 37m
Welcome to Season 3 of Closing the Loop! As has become tradition, Gigi, our friend and colleague here at Seetee, software engineer, and prolific writer in the bitcoin space, has joined us once again, to get this season kicked off. In our conversation, we reflect on some of the guests and topics of Season 2, discuss our experiences at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway recently, and delve into some of the current events, developments, misunderstandings, and musings going on in 'bitcoin land' today. --- Follow Gigi: Twitter: @dergigi Website: dergigi.com
#24 - Leopoldo López: A Life-Long Struggle for Freedom in Venezuela
8/3/2022 • 1hr 58m
Our guest today is Leopoldo López, a democracy activist, former political prisoner of the Maduro government, and national coordinator of the 'Voluntad Popular' political party in Venezuela. We recently met Leopoldo at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway and subsequently had the chance to spend some time with him and hear the harrowing story of his life-long fight for freedom in Venezuela. We also spoke to him about Bitcoin, the ways in which it can and does support the cause of freedom, and the critical distinctions between it and all other 'cryptocurrencies.'
#23 - Bernard Parah: All-In on the Mission to Bring More Freedom to Africa w/ Bitcoin
7/20/2022 • 1hr 47m
For this episode, our guest is Bernard Parah. He is the founder and CEO of Bitnob, a Nigerian bitcoin exchange & financial services platform. We met Bernard recently at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway, where we had the chance to hear his story firsthand. His unique perspective on bitcoin, the experience he has gathered when launching Bitnob, and the many fascinating stories he has to share about the challenges of being an entrepreneur in Nigeria make him a unique voice in the ecosystem. Bernard's passion, purpose, and dedication to Bitcoin are as contagious as they...
#22 - Shaun Connell: Bitcoin Mining is the 'Holy Grail' for Power Grids
7/5/2022 • 2hr 24m
This episode's guest is Shaun Connell, Executive Vice President of Power at Lancium. Lancium develops technologies and builds infrastructure to improve the economic efficiency of power production, balance and stabilize the power grid, and improve the viability of renewable energy resources. Shaun has a wealth of experience in energy markets, in particular in energy trading and risk management, and through his work at Lancium, he is becoming a leading expert in the rapidly occurring integration of bitcoin mining and traditional energy infrastructure. We cover a lot of ground in this discussion, and as...
#21 - Farida Nabourema: Bitcoin and the Multi-Generational Struggle for Democracy & Human Rights in Togo
6/20/2022 • 1hr 42m
This episode's guest is Farida Nabourema, a social activist and writer, who since being a teenager, has been a fearless advocate for democracy and human rights in her native Togo. We met Farida recently at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway and were intrigued by her story, her work, and the ways in which she's been educating her followers and community about the benefits of Bitcoin. This conversation was not only illuminating with regards to the nature and degree of oppression in Togo (and elsewhere), but it also left us incredibly impressed by the courage...
#20 - Bob Burnett: 'Wild Mining' & Bringing the Market to the Molecule
6/8/2022 • 2hr 16m
This episode's guest is Bob Burnett, chairman and CEO at Barefoot mining. Barefoot focuses primarily on what they call 'wild mining,' or small-to-mid scale bitcoin mining operations, using independent or off-grid energy sources. Their approach is not only contributing to the monetization of remote or stranded energy resources, which otherwise likely would have remained unproductive, but it's also helping to diversify and decentralize the bitcoin mining ecosystem, making it more resilient to various potential risks and attacks. Bob is another great example of someone who was reinvigorated with purpose as a result...
#19 - Alex Leishman: The Future of Bitcoin Financial Services
5/19/2022 • 1hr 33m
This episode's guest is Alex Leishman, founder & CEO of River Financial. River is a bitcoin-native financial services firm that offers bitcoin acquisition and management products for individuals, as well as a variety of institutions and high-net-worth investors, through their private client services division. They've also recently begun offering a bitcoin-mining product, which allows their clients to own their own mining hardware and establish regular bitcoin-denominated income, or what's become known as "sats flow," while River takes care of all the work to make it happen. In this show, Alex and John have a wide-ranging discussion...
#18 - Grant Gilliam: Venture Investing in the Bitcoin-Native Ecosystem w/ Ten31
4/14/2022 • 1hr 41m
This episode's guest is Grant Gilliam, co-founder and managing partner of Ten 31. Ten31 is a venture capital firm that invests in leading bitcoin-native companies. In addition to that, Ten31 supports and invests in various free and open-source software projects in the Bitcoin ecosystem to help build out the infrastructure necessary for a hyperbitcoinized future. Grant comes from a traditional private equity background and has brought a ton of high-level experience with him to this new endeavor. While Grant and the team at Ten31 recognize the enormous opportunity that investing in early-stage bitcoin-only companies represents, they're...
#17 - Alex Gladstein: Why 'The Money' is the Biggest Missing Piece in the Fight for Human Rights
3/22/2022 • 1hr 29m
Our guest today is Alex Gladstein. Alex is the Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum, and the Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation, a non-partisan, non-profit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally. In recent years, Alex has placed particular focus and emphasis on speaking, writing, and educating about bitcoin. In particular, the powerful potential it has to serve as a means for people the world over to protect themselves from various forms of oppression, and establish greater freedom in their lives. His efforts, and in particular his prolific...
#16 - Keyan Kousha: Using Bitcoin to Foster 'Natural Communities' Online w/ Stacker News
3/8/2022 • 1hr 23m
This episode's guest is Keyan Kousha, founder of Stacker News. Stacker News is a user-generated, feed-style news platform, modeled after Hacker News, but with the important distinction of having natively-integrated bitcoin lightning payments, as a means of fostering more natural communities (think less spam and antisocial behavior), cultivating high-signal bitcoin content, and providing a better user experience overall. Stacker News is still in the very early days of its development, but it's a great showcase of how bitcoin can be used to improve upon an existing model, and in doing so, explore how improved incentives...
#15 - Oscar Merry: Building the Value4Value Infrastructure
2/18/2022 • 1hr 17m
This episode's guest is Oscar Merry, co-founder of Fountain, a popular Podcasting 2.0 app for sharing clips of your favorite podcast segments. The app is also value4value enabled, which means that it allows you to support your favorite show directly, by streaming and boosting sats. As you may have noticed, we at Seetee are big advocates of the emerging bitcoin lightning-enabled value4value model. We believe that this model is the future of free expression and digital media monetization, and so we love to see other teams working hard to build it into reality. With...
#14 - Rodolfo Novak: A Decade of Bitcoin Entrepreneurship
2/1/2022 • 1hr 53m
This episode's guest is Rodolfo Novak, co-founder and CEO of Coinkite, a popular bitcoin hardware manufacturing business, which has produced such classic products as the COLDCARD hardware wallet, the OPENDIME, and the BLOCKCLOCK MINI (to ensure one never loses track of Moscow time :p). Rodolfo has been an entrepreneur in the bitcoin space for over a decade and has a ton of unique insights regarding building a business in the space, as well as on bitcoin's history and emergence as a cultural phenomenon. It's apparent that the 'bitcoin ethos' permeates how he and the Coinkite...
#13 Gigi: The Future of Value
1/17/2022 • 1hr 38m
For our first episode of the year and season, we thought it would be fun to bring Gigi back on for a discussion about what the team has been working on, highlights and developments from Season 1, some thoughts around the evolution of the value4value model, and our focus for the upcoming year. Thanks to everyone involved, the incredible guests we had on for discussions, and all the people who have supported this show and the wider Bitcoin ecosystem. Here's to another great year ahead, as we continue building towards hyperbitcoinization. ---
#12 - Cory Klippsten: Building a Bitcoin Company for Bitcoiners, by Bitcoiners
12/23/2021 • 1hr 44m
This episode's guest is Cory Klippsten, founder and CEO of Swan Bitcoin, a popular US-based service for buying bitcoin. Swan began as a way to make it easy for people to dollar cost average their bitcoin buys, automating them on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Only bitcoin, and only buying. There is no option to sell with Swan — a not-so-subtle suggestion about how people should be engaging this asset. Swan is a great example of a company that benefited tremendously from hiring individuals that have been active and outspoken within the bitcoin space. Their te...
#11 - Steve Barbour: The Solution Is to Plug in More ASICs
12/9/2021 • 1hr 45m
For this episode, our guest is Steve Barbour, founder and CEO of Upstream Data. Since 2017, Upstream Data has been pioneering solutions to capture methane emissions in the upstream oil and gas industry. Steve and his team monetize the energy at the source with mobile bitcoin-mining rigs. Steve's ingenuity and success have caused many to begin thinking "outside the box" when it comes to potential energy sources for powering the Bitcoin network. This novel way of approaching things has spawned a burgeoning industry for taking wasted, isolated, unused, or underused energy resources, and turning them into...
#10 - David Bailey: Celebrating Bitcoin Culture
11/25/2021 • 2hr 9m
This episode's guest is David Bailey, CEO of BTC Inc., the company behind Bitcoin Magazine, The Bitcoin Conference, and several other brands in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Due to his involvement in Bitcoin since 2013, David has a ton of interesting insights and anecdotes to tell. Not only about the early days of Bitcoin and how things have evolved and progressed, but also personal stories about big successes, painful setbacks, and how he and his team navigate this emerging phenomenon and bring value to others. Today, David and his stellar team of hardcore bitcoiners are hitting their...
#09 - Adam Curry: Can't Stop the Signal
11/11/2021 • 2hr 26m
Today's guest is legendary broadcaster turned podcaster Adam Curry. Adam has had an extremely rich, unique, and interesting career in media. What began as pirate radio in Europe during his teens led to becoming a popular MTV VJ as well as several entrepreneurial ventures in the early days of the internet. Later on, he was one of the first to use and popularize the new medium of podcasting, defining in part what podcasting is and how it is best understood. Since that time, Adam has been a strong advocate for the value for...
#08 - Preston Pysh: A Once in a Millennium Opportunity
10/25/2021 • 1hr 38m
Today's guest is Preston Pysh, co-creator of The Investor's Podcast Network, one of the top global podcast brands for financial education. While his podcast network covers the goings-on in finance, investing, and economics broadly, Preston has more recently focused exclusively on Bitcoin. He is now hosting a weekly discussion with the top entrepreneurs, authors, and investors in this rapidly growing ecosystem. Preston is highly respected amongst his peers for his thoughtful, articulate, and insightful takes on the complex dynamics of the global economy and investing landscape and the impact that the emergence of bitcoin is...
#07 - Dhruv Bansal: Bitcoin-Native Financial Services w/ Unchained Capital
10/12/2021 • 1hr 50m
Today's guest is Dhruv Bansal, co-founder and CSO at Unchained Capital. Unchained is a bitcoin-native financial services company that builds products to help individuals and organizations to better custody and hodl their bitcoin. Crucial to this is their focus on collaborative custody using multisig, which allows them to offer robust key management solutions, transparent bitcoin collateralized loans, retirement and inheritance planning, and likely much more in the future. Unchained has built a great open-source tool called Caravan, which not only supports their product offering but makes valuable new ways of managing and using bitcoin available...
#06 - Whit Gibbs: Now Everyone Can Mine Bitcoin
9/24/2021 • 1hr 25m
Today's guest is Whit Gibbs, co-founder, and CEO of Compass Mining. According to their website, "Compass is a Bitcoin-first company, on a mission to support the decentralized growth of hashrate and strengthen network security, by helping more people learn, explore and mine Bitcoin." In the last couple of years, interest in bitcoin mining has seemingly exploded as the industry has developed and as more and more people begin to understand just how diverse its impact will be and the opportunity that it therefore represents. Additionally, many individuals are beginning to get involved, not...
#05 - Roy Sheinfeld: The Interface of the Peer to Peer Lightning Economy w/ Breez
9/7/2021 • 1hr 28m
Today's guest on Closing the Loop is Roy Sheinfeld. Roy is the CEO and Co-Founder of Breez, a mobile app that aspires to be 'The interface of the peer to peer lightning economy.' Roy and his team have taken a nascent, though still largely intimidating technology and abstracted away much of the complexity so that the average user can begin to interact with it and leverage the tremendous value which the lightning network increasingly represents. Podcasting 2.0, and the value for value model, are important focuses for us here at Closing the Loop, and Breez...
#04 - Daniel Buchner: Decentralized Identity on Bitcoin w/ Microsoft's ION
8/24/2021 • 1hr 35m
Today's guest on Closing the Loop is Daniel Buchner. Daniel is the Senior Product Manager for Decentralized Identity at Microsoft, which in March of 2021 culminated in the launch of ION. ION is an open, public, permissionless Layer 2 Decentralized Identifier network that runs atop the Bitcoin timechain. As life becomes increasingly digital and concerns around privacy and control of personal data become increasingly important, we thought it would be interesting to speak with Daniel to see how he and the team at ION are leveraging bitcoin's unique attributes to build solutions that put control of data...
#03 - Harry Sudock: Bitcoin Mining at GRIID, the Evolution of Energy Production, and Human Flourishing
8/9/2021 • 1hr 32m
Today's guest is Harry Sudock, VP of Strategy at GRIID, a company that procures low-cost, renewable energy to build, manage, and operate a growing portfolio of vertically-integrated bitcoin mining facilities. Harry is incredibly passionate and knowledgeable about the bitcoin mining industry and extremely dedicated to the cause of Bitcoin generally. John and Harry discuss the mining ecosystem, the impact he believes it will have on energy companies and markets, and what the implications may be for humanity more broadly. We would like to invite you to listen to this episode on one of...
#02 - Paul Itoi: Stakwork, Sphinx Chat, and the Bitcoin Lightning Economy
7/20/2021 • 1hr 20m
Paul Itoi is the founder and CEO of Stakwork and has been a tech entrepreneur since the mid-nineties. In his spare time, Paul is also one of the driving forces behind the open-source, lightning-powered chat-app, called Sphinx. As Paul puts it, Stakwork pays the bills, but Sphinx just needed to exist, so they built it. Unlike most people, Paul's entry into bitcoin was not out of an interest in the investment case or really anything to do with the 'base layer.' Instead, Paul was drawn in by his interest in the Lightning Network, a 2nd layer...
#01 - Gigi: Introduction to Closing the Loop
7/4/2021 • 1hr 20m
For the inaugural episode of Closing the Loop, it is a genuine honor to introduce you to a highly respected bitcoiner and dear friend of mine, who goes by the name of Gigi. Gigi is a father, educator, meme artist, author, philosopher, and someone who is fully committed to serving the bitcoin project and seeing it succeed. He curates the website bitcoin-resources.com, where much of the top bitcoin content can be found for anyone seeking to get up to speed. His first book, 21 Lessons, is a fascinating and rich exploration of the...
@commonsense
2,000 sats
15 Feb
#36 - Francis Pouliot: Bitcoin is a Life Raft
Bitcoin is The Peaceful Revolution. BullBitcoin, Alberta Canada…drop a pin. Great podcast guys.
@gestalt
333 sats
11 Feb
#35 - Ray Youssef: Bitcoin is on the Right Side of History
Great show 🤙
@frankamerica
111 sats
10 Feb
#07 - Dhruv Bansal: Bitcoin-Native Financial Services w/ Unchained Capital
Ty
@frankamerica
111 sats
9 Feb
#11 - Steve Barbour: The Solution Is to Plug in More ASICs
TY
@michaelmatulef
500 sats
6 Feb
#36 - Francis Pouliot: Bitcoin is a Life Raft
🐂
@frankamerica
111 sats
5 Feb
#20 - Bob Burnett: 'Wild Mining' & Bringing the Market to the Molecule
Wonderful episode. Wild mining ftw. 30%
@bartholomeus
100 sats
3 Feb
#36 - Francis Pouliot: Bitcoin is a Life Raft
Very inspiring episode as usual @johnkvallis! @francispouliot_ 🧡💪huge thanks for not retiring yet! The world needs you 👍🙏.
@markoola
250 sats
3 Feb
#36 - Francis Pouliot: Bitcoin is a Life Raft
good rip
@dtuk10
100 sats
1 Feb
#15 - Oscar Merry: Building the Value4Value Infrastructure
We are watching the world change in real time! The new internet is data streamed in one direction and sats streamed in the other!💪🏼
@gestalt
333 sats
28 Jan
#36 - Francis Pouliot: Bitcoin is a Life Raft
glad that Francis resisted semi-retirement mode. I wish him successful making Bull Bitcoin the standard.
@riaan
250 sats
28 Jan
#36 - Francis Pouliot: Bitcoin is a Life Raft
Bullish! Hope South Africa is on that list.
@bubba
10,000 sats
27 Jan
#36 - Francis Pouliot: Bitcoin is a Life Raft
god love francis. im sn old sss boomer i spprecoate his old school way in a new world. self custody is easy anyone that says its hard is either lazy or stupid.
@2fargone87
5,000 sats
26 Jan
#36 - Francis Pouliot: Bitcoin is a Life Raft
so much love for Francis's attitude
@johnkvallis
7 Feb
💯
@sebhodliday
1,000 sats
26 Jan
#36 - Francis Pouliot: Bitcoin is a Life Raft
can’t wait to use Bull in Costa Rica to buy a property! excellent work
@tiredfornow
100 sats
26 Jan
#36 - Francis Pouliot: Bitcoin is a Life Raft
awesome pod.
@chris_tavrou
2,100 sats
25 Jan
#35 - Ray Youssef: Bitcoin is on the Right Side of History
Loved the episode. I feel like Ray knows some stuff that would blow people's minds
@gestalt
19 Feb
Didn’t expect him to be so based. 👀
@str8shooter
250 sats
25 Jan
#36 - Francis Pouliot: Bitcoin is a Life Raft
I love this conversation!!
@tiredfornow
100 sats
22 Jan
#35 - Ray Youssef: Bitcoin is on the Right Side of History
amazing episode. ray’s the best. keep up the good fight.
@maximus
2,100 sats
20 Jan
#35 - Ray Youssef: Bitcoin is on the Right Side of History
Ray is focused on what matters. This was a incredibly inspiring conversation. We need more people like Ray with his integrity and foresight. Pleasure to listen, so here are some sats. ⚡️🙏
@johnkvallis
21 Jan
🙏
@frankamerica
111 sats
19 Jan
#34 - Patrick O'Sullivan: 'Bitcoin Makes Baseball Better' w/ The World's First Chief Bitcoin Officer
yeet
@michaelmatulef
500 sats
17 Jan
#35 - Ray Youssef: Bitcoin is on the Right Side of History
🙏
@cliffbjanger
100 sats
16 Jan
#35 - Ray Youssef: Bitcoin is on the Right Side of History
Great episode!
@dtuk10
10,000 sats
11 Jan
#35 - Ray Youssef: Bitcoin is on the Right Side of History
That’s the best podcast I’ve listened to. Ray is so focused. Never talks price. Just all Bitcoin Network signal! Great work John!
@johnkvallis
16 Jan
🙏🍻
@treebeard
21,212 sats
10 Jan
#35 - Ray Youssef: Bitcoin is on the Right Side of History
so stoked to be on the same team as Ray. Godspeed brother and keep up the good work! we’re going to win🤙🏻🖖🏻
@johnkvallis
16 Jan
💯🙏
@hansa1
500 sats
9 Jan
#35 - Ray Youssef: Bitcoin is on the Right Side of History
A superbly interesting episode!
@hansa1
500 sats
9 Jan
#35 - Ray Youssef: Bitcoin is on the Right Side of History
A sick world indeed
@joemartinmusic
1,000 sats
9 Jan
#33 - Matt Hill: The Era of 'Sovereign Computing' is Here
so cool, blows my mind that you could soon host, publish and monetise your own content, all from one device!
@vanwenze
300 sats
5 Jan
#33 - Matt Hill: The Era of 'Sovereign Computing' is Here
@nicolas_b58
3,000 sats
4 Jan
#30 - Prince Filip of Serbia: The Merits of Monarchy, The Liberating Power of Bitcoin, and The History of the House of Karađorđević
if you see this, you are probably wondering why i boosting all those episodes. I’ve listened to them on spotify and want to get some value back on this way! thanks again and keep the show up! greetings Nicolas ⚡️
@johnkvallis
5 Jan
Thank Nicolas, appreciate it!🍻🙏
@nicolas_b58
3,000 sats
4 Jan
#29 - Abubakar Nur Khalil: Building, Investing, and Training the Next Generation of Bitcoin Developers in Africa
nice episode greetings Nicolas ⚡️
@johnkvallis
5 Jan
🙏🍻
@nicolas_b58
3,000 sats
4 Jan
#28 - Brent Whitehead: The Giga Energy Story and Bitcoin as the Ultimate Incentive for Revolutionizing the Energy Industry
nice talk greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭and Nicolas ⚡️
@nicolas_b58
3,000 sats
4 Jan
#27 - Jean Amiouny: Bringing Canadians into the 'Bitcoin Golden Age'
greeting Nicolas ⚡️
@michaelmatulef
500 sats
4 Jan
#34 - Patrick O'Sullivan: 'Bitcoin Makes Baseball Better' w/ The World's First Chief Bitcoin Officer
🔥⚾
@nicolas_b58
3,000 sats
3 Jan
#26 - Lyn Alden: Bitcoin is the Technological Solution We Need
another great episode! greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭 Nicolas ⚡️
@johnkvallis
5 Jan
🍻
@nicolas_b58
3,000 sats
3 Jan
#25 - Gigi: Bitcoin Offers Deep Stability
thanks for bringing value for all the listeners! keep the great work up, we love it! greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭 Nicolas⚡️
@pippellia
210 sats
28 Dec
#04 - Daniel Buchner: Decentralized Identity on Bitcoin w/ Microsoft's ION
Thank you for this episode! Identity is the missing piece that we need for the Web.
@drjonesklaus
100 sats
26 Dec
#25 - Gigi: Bitcoin Offers Deep Stability
🧡 Gigi
@pippellia
100 sats
26 Dec
#34 - Patrick O'Sullivan: 'Bitcoin Makes Baseball Better' w/ The World's First Chief Bitcoin Officer
Powerful, clear, focused. Thank you, Patrick. Thank you to John.
@jc21
100 sats
20 Dec
#32 - Jeff Booth: Bitcoin is the Answer to a Broken System
🔥🔥❤️
@michaelmatulef
500 sats
19 Dec
#33 - Matt Hill: The Era of 'Sovereign Computing' is Here
@louieo
100 sats
12 Dec
#33 - Matt Hill: The Era of 'Sovereign Computing' is Here
fantastic and unexpected episode!
@drjonesklaus
100 sats
9 Dec
#33 - Matt Hill: The Era of 'Sovereign Computing' is Here
@mat
11,111 sats
9 Dec
#32 - Jeff Booth: Bitcoin is the Answer to a Broken System
🤯 My favourite conversation of 2022.
@chaka
300 sats
9 Dec
#33 - Matt Hill: The Era of 'Sovereign Computing' is Here
@whitecoathodl
1,000 sats
6 Dec
#33 - Matt Hill: The Era of 'Sovereign Computing' is Here
Great episode Matt and john!
@treebeard
12,345 sats
5 Dec
#33 - Matt Hill: The Era of 'Sovereign Computing' is Here
cheers to a more self sovereign future
@bitcoin_kook
100 sats
3 Dec
#33 - Matt Hill: The Era of 'Sovereign Computing' is Here
@mcintosh
100 sats
2 Dec
#32 - Jeff Booth: Bitcoin is the Answer to a Broken System
great episode! love Jeff booth
@treebeard
2,121 sats
30 Nov
#32 - Jeff Booth: Bitcoin is the Answer to a Broken System
thanks for what you do. keep spreading the word
@boshko
200 sats
30 Nov
#32 - Jeff Booth: Bitcoin is the Answer to a Broken System
@conanthelibrarian
100 sats
22 Nov
@user7108301037102928
200 sats
21 Nov
#32 - Jeff Booth: Bitcoin is the Answer to a Broken System
@joemartinmusic
5,000 sats
21 Nov
#32 - Jeff Booth: Bitcoin is the Answer to a Broken System
phenominal pod John, one of your best yet! Jeff is such a clear thinker and is great at breaking down very complex ideas and makes them easy to understand. Got a lot from this one!
@johnkvallis
25 Nov
Thanks brother, glad you enjoyed it!
@dellamorte
100 sats
18 Nov
#32 - Jeff Booth: Bitcoin is the Answer to a Broken System
@thatlonggirl
250 sats
18 Nov
#32 - Jeff Booth: Bitcoin is the Answer to a Broken System
Jeff Booth you have been a bright light in my darkest times.Haha and that's a tall order considering I live in Africa. Our power is off for about 8 hours out of the day at this point - so a lot darkness in my life right now 😂
@tee21m
2,100 sats
17 Nov
#32 - Jeff Booth: Bitcoin is the Answer to a Broken System
🧡
@user433246546808990
100 sats
17 Nov
#32 - Jeff Booth: Bitcoin is the Answer to a Broken System
let the other system break, we can migrate the good parts of it on top of the new system
@hansa1
500 sats
16 Nov
#32 - Jeff Booth: Bitcoin is the Answer to a Broken System
@hansa1
500 sats
16 Nov
#32 - Jeff Booth: Bitcoin is the Answer to a Broken System
@mississippi_hodl
100 sats
16 Nov
#32 - Jeff Booth: Bitcoin is the Answer to a Broken System
@michaelmatulef
500 sats
8 Nov
#31 - Jason Les: Surviving and Thriving as a Publicly Traded Bitcoin Mining Company
@commonsense
700 sats
30 Oct
#14 - Rodolfo Novak: A Decade of Bitcoin Entrepreneurship
I’m emptying my wallet on this episode. So important to be reminded that the only thing scarcer than bitcoin is my time. Bitcoin changes you.
@commonsense
1,000 sats
28 Oct
#16 - Keyan Kousha: Using Bitcoin to Foster 'Natural Communities' Online w/ Stacker News
You had me at my wife is a clown.
@commonsense
1,000 sats
28 Oct
Amazing content John. I look forward daily to the wellspring of knowledge you and your guests bring to the space. Thank you.
@commonsense
1,000 sats
27 Oct
#18 - Grant Gilliam: Venture Investing in the Bitcoin-Native Ecosystem w/ Ten31
Chuckled at the mention of the young being so lucky to find this magic money so early. For the ancients among us, and I include myself in this group, BTC is inarguably the most profound influence on decision-making I have ever known. Everything is done with the will to live long and well. Truly it is the fountain of youth.
@commonsense
500 sats
23 Oct
#26 - Lyn Alden: Bitcoin is the Technological Solution We Need
Troubling to have to acknowledge that there remains widespread belief that one doesn’t need privacy if they’re a good person. This was a great discussion about many things. Thnx
@xentagz
100 sats
23 Oct
#30 - Prince Filip of Serbia: The Merits of Monarchy, The Liberating Power of Bitcoin, and The History of the House of Karađorđević
@cwilbzz
100 sats
21 Oct
#30 - Prince Filip of Serbia: The Merits of Monarchy, The Liberating Power of Bitcoin, and The History of the House of Karađorđević
@michaelmatulef
500 sats
21 Oct
#30 - Prince Filip of Serbia: The Merits of Monarchy, The Liberating Power of Bitcoin, and The History of the House of Karađorđević
✌️
@chaka
300 sats
16 Oct
#29 - Abubakar Nur Khalil: Building, Investing, and Training the Next Generation of Bitcoin Developers in Africa
@commonsense
500 sats
13 Oct
#23 - Bernard Parah: All-In on the Mission to Bring More Freedom to Africa w/ Bitcoin
Every story of one’s arrival to BTC is unique and the reasons we decide on its adoption are distinct. This makes BTC personal and explains why we are so ardent in our defence of it. Bernard, your account of growing up Nigerian is both frightening and inspiring. The Ark that BTC represents to the world is for all alike.
@commonsense
500 sats
8 Oct
#09 - Adam Curry: Can't Stop the Signal
This podcast should at the very least blow the lock off the hatch over the rabbit hole and move the Bitcoin sceptics in my life a Bit closer to the glow of the orange oracle below. Thanks for the fun. Enjoyed the ride.
@mf_hodl
420 sats
7 Oct
#29 - Abubakar Nur Khalil: Building, Investing, and Training the Next Generation of Bitcoin Developers in Africa
@mf_hodl
69 sats
7 Oct
#29 - Abubakar Nur Khalil: Building, Investing, and Training the Next Generation of Bitcoin Developers in Africa
@cornpleb
210 sats
6 Oct
#29 - Abubakar Nur Khalil: Building, Investing, and Training the Next Generation of Bitcoin Developers in Africa
great episode
@johnkvallis
11 Oct
🙏🍻
@michaelmatulef
500 sats
5 Oct
#29 - Abubakar Nur Khalil: Building, Investing, and Training the Next Generation of Bitcoin Developers in Africa
Thanks for another great episode!
@johnkvallis
11 Oct
🍻
@poppz69
50 sats
28 Sep
#28 - Brent Whitehead: The Giga Energy Story and Bitcoin as the Ultimate Incentive for Revolutionizing the Energy Industry
really good! thank you!
@jc21
10 sats
26 Sep
#26 - Lyn Alden: Bitcoin is the Technological Solution We Need
@jc21
100 sats
26 Sep
#26 - Lyn Alden: Bitcoin is the Technological Solution We Need
@cwilbzz
50 sats
26 Sep
#28 - Brent Whitehead: The Giga Energy Story and Bitcoin as the Ultimate Incentive for Revolutionizing the Energy Industry
@blessallah786
100 sats
26 Sep
#28 - Brent Whitehead: The Giga Energy Story and Bitcoin as the Ultimate Incentive for Revolutionizing the Energy Industry
@mf_hodl
690 sats
25 Sep
#28 - Brent Whitehead: The Giga Energy Story and Bitcoin as the Ultimate Incentive for Revolutionizing the Energy Industry
@roirraw
3,000 sats
24 Sep
#09 - Adam Curry: Can't Stop the Signal
@michaelmatulef
1,000 sats
23 Sep
#28 - Brent Whitehead: The Giga Energy Story and Bitcoin as the Ultimate Incentive for Revolutionizing the Energy Industry
Another amazing episode. Closing the loop is 🔥 as always!
@normanremnant
69 sats
19 Sep
#27 - Jean Amiouny: Bringing Canadians into the 'Bitcoin Golden Age'
I Love Shakepay
@normanremnant
69 sats
19 Sep
#27 - Jean Amiouny: Bringing Canadians into the 'Bitcoin Golden Age'
LFG Shakepay is the best
@soaljack
27 sats
18 Sep
#27 - Jean Amiouny: Bringing Canadians into the 'Bitcoin Golden Age'
The marketing genius of the shake streak is very powerful! great interview
@citizenbtc
100 sats
16 Sep
#26 - Lyn Alden: Bitcoin is the Technological Solution We Need
Keep up the good work
@boshko
500 sats
15 Sep
#26 - Lyn Alden: Bitcoin is the Technological Solution We Need