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In-depth Bitcoin interviews and education. Stephan Livera talks with the builders, developers, founders and thinkers shaping Bitcoin, covering self-custody, Lightning, payments, mining, markets and where Bitcoin goes next. Clear, practical conversations to help you understand Bitcoin and use it well.
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- Robert Warren: Do Mining Pools Actually Threaten Bitcoin? | SLP789 · 46 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 789Robert Warren, Head of Comms at Elektron Energy, says Bitcoin mining pools do centralize something, but it is mainly control of block templates, not the power to reorg the chain…
- Joe Burnett: Your Wealth Is Melting in the Age of AI | SLP788 · 54 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 788Joe Burnett, VP of Bitcoin Strategy at Strive, argues that wealth stored in dollars, gold, houses and even mega-cap stocks is melting: technology can produce more of those…
- Why Heat-Reuse Mining Gets Stronger Every Halving | Alex Busarov SLP787 · 36 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 782Alex Busarov, founder of Heatbit, argues that water heating, not space heating, makes home Bitcoin mining add up. His new Bitwater element replaces a water heater’s lower heating…
- Paolo Ardoino: Stop Tokenizing Apple Shares | SLP786 · 39 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 786Tokenizing Apple shares is not innovation. Paolo Ardoino of Bitfinex argues the Bitcoin way to securities is opening capital markets for companies that cannot raise like a…
- Morgen Rochard: Holding Bitcoin Is Not a Financial Plan | SLP785 · 39 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 785Holding Bitcoin is not a financial plan. That is the starting point of Morgen Rochard's new book, Bitcoin Personal Finance, and of her return to the show. Bitcoin can fix the…
- Debt, Oil, AI and Bitcoin: A Gradual Print Until It Isn't | James Lavish SLP784 · 46 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 784James Lavish explains why he expects a gradual print to turn into a big one, what weak Treasury auctions signal, and what he got wrong about Bitcoin this cycle. Timestamps 00:00…
- Plan Your Second Passport Before You Need It | Alex Recouso SLP783 · 52 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 783Official Podcast Episode: https://stephanlivera.com/783 Alex Recouso argues that Bitcoin solved capital mobility but not human mobility: you can move money across borders without…
- Debanking and Bitcoin Business Accounts in the EU | Prashanth Chandrashekar SLP782 · 38 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 782Prashanth Chandrashekar argues that much of Europe's debanking comes down to how banks score transfers. Money arriving from a crypto exchange's account is treated as a…
- Seed Phrases vs Key Sharding: Multisig's UX Trade-offs | Setzeus SLP781 · 43 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 781Setzeus argues that 90% of people will never properly use seed phrases and hardware wallets, and that services like Privy and Turnkey, which split a key behind an email or phone…
- Smarter Web's Capital Structure and MORE Preferred | Andrew Webley SLP780 · 45 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 780Andrew Webley walks through Smarter Web's capital structure—ordinary shares as growth equity, a repaid short convert, Coinbase credit, and MORE as the income preferred. Webley is…
- Lightning in x402 and Agent Payments | Ben Carman SLP779 · 45 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 779Bitcoiners built L402 for a Lightning-native web. Crypto built x402 for agents — and early volume is mostly stables. Ben Carman helped get Lightning into the x402 standard, and…
- Why Bitkey Ditched Seed Phrases | Clay Garrett SLP778 · 60 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 778Bitkey ditched seed phrases for a recovery-focused 2-of-3 design: an app key, hardware key, and Block server key that use phones, hardware, and cloud access to help people retain…
- Bitcoin Savings vs Casino Exchanges | Julian Liniger SLP777 · 51 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 777Most crypto exchanges are built like casinos: they chase the next hot token, prediction market, or trading product. Relai is building a different category—a savings brand for…
- Bitcoin PIPEs v2 | Misha Komarov SLP776 · 43 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 776Bitcoin soft-fork debates around CTV, CSFS, OP_CAT, and OP_VAULT keep stalling — and Misha Komarov of Allocinit argues you can emulate much of that covenant behavior with…
- rbitcoin: Bitcoin Full Node With Zero Human Code | reardencode SLP775 · 45 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 775Almost every public Bitcoin node still runs Bitcoin Core. Brandon Black argues that client monoculture is a systemic risk — and that automation plus AI now make independent…
- Bitcoin Accelerator on Mirissa Beach | James of Ârc SLP774 · 36 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 774Most Asian markets still make buying and saving Bitcoin painfully hard. James of Ârc argues the fix is not another protocol breakthrough — it is local founders shipping simple…
- Institutional Custody, Multisig & the War on Cash | Mike Belshe SLP773 · 1 h 7 minMike Belshe, co-founder and CEO of BitGo, walks through how institutional Bitcoin custody actually works in 2026: qualified custody, self-custody co-signing, and why BitGo still…
- Trustless Swaps Across Bitcoin Layers | Walter Maffione SLP772 · 38 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 772Walter Maffione, CEO and co-founder of KaleidoSwap, join me to explain how the project grew from an RGB Lightning DEX into a broader swap engine and LSP stack — Lightning as…
- Bitcoiners Must Remove Single Points of Failure | Dhruv Bansal SLP771 · 49 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 771Recent attacks exposed how even large, educated Bitcoin holders remained exposed through single-vendor setups. The core lesson is that self-custody alone does not remove single…
- Interviews at Origin Seoul 2026 | SLP770 · 42 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 77000:00 - Interview with Gabriele Vernetti of Stratum V2 @gitgab19 15:38 - Interview with Jimmy Kostro @jimmykostro 29:30 - Interview with James Check of checkonchain Links…
- Bitcoin Asia (HK) 2026 Day 2 Interviews | SLP769 · 27 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 769Interviews at Bitcoin Asia 2026 Day 2 00:00 - Piriya Sambandaraksa 05:14 - Alexander Mann 11:04 - Shone Anstey of LQWD 17:03 -Liam Eagen from Ideal Group Links: •…
- Bitcoin Asia (HK) 2026 Day 1 Interviews | SLP768 · 40 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 768In this episode, I interviewed several people at Bitcoin Asia 2026. Timestamps: 00:00 - Interview with Adam Poulton 06:28 Interview with Giovanni Santostasi 15:18 Interview Jeff…
- Wallet Playground for learning Bitcoin self custody with Piers Macrae | SLP767 · 30 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 767In this episode, Piers Macrae demonstrates Wallet Playground and explains why hardware wallets are signing devices, not wallets. Timestamps: 01:10 — Teach Me vs Do It For Me…
- Dice Rolls, Entropy, and SeedSigner | Keith Mukai SLP766 · 52 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 766In this episode, Keith Mukai of SeedSigner joins to explain why 1.4 percent variance in cheap dice still delivers full 128-bit entropy and how to verify rolls across devices…
- Jade for Single-Sig or Multisig | Rich SLP765 · 28 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 765In this episode, Rich from the team at Blockstream explains Jade, offline dice entropy, blind oracle protection, multisig descriptor recovery and the new Blockstream Swaps beta…
- Wavelength Delivers Ark-Based Lightning Without Node Overhead | Roasbeef & Michael Levin SLP764 · 50 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 764Lightning Labs built Wavelength to deliver self-custodial Lightning payments without forcing users to run nodes, manage channels, or handle liquidity. Olaoluwa Osuntokun, CTO and…
- Bitcoin Custody Rules Have Changed | Michael Tanguma SLP763 · 45 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 763Old self-custody approaches collapse once Bitcoin reaches six figures, physical threats rise, and AI tools proliferate. Single hardware wallets and mattress myths no longer match…
- Breez Ships Glow — A Super Simple Bitcoin Wallet | Roy Sheinfeld SLP762 · 34 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 762Roy Sheinfeld of Breez returns to walk through Glow, the team's new reference wallet built using Spark. It’s designed so non-custodial Bitcoin feels simple: send, receive, and…
- Bitcoin Multi Sig vs Secure Single Sig with Nick Neuman | SLP761 · 36 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 761In this episode, Nick Neuman of Casa argues that it’s not the end of self-custody. Instead, it highlights why multisig with multiple vendors provides stronger protection without…
- Kruw on Wasabi 2.8 and Upcoming Forks | SLP760 · 28 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 760Kruw (@kruwed) runs one of the highest-volume WabiSabi coordinators, giving him direct insight into how the protocol handles liquidity, Sybil resistance, and real-world usage…
- Bitcoin Security Consortium with Mike Schmidt | SLP759 · 46 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 759In this episode, Mike Schmidt executive director of Brink, and volunteer coordinator for the consortium, explains how the group formed, autonomy over funding, and how it plans to…
- Daniel Buchner: Why BIP 110 Cannot Stop Bitcoin Spam | SLP758 · 57 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 758Buchner, known for his work on decentralized identity at Proof, brings a technical and game-theoretic lens to the debate over Bitcoin's monetary focus versus attempts to restrict…
- Lyn Alden: BIP 110 Could Trigger August Bitcoin Chain Split | SLP757 · 1 h 1 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 757Lyn Alden warns that BIP 110 is unlikely to curb spam and instead mostly rearranges non-monetary data, raising the risk of a minority fork attempt that could split the Bitcoin…
- Bitcoin Desire Hits 8-Year Low | Michael Sullivan SLP756 · 44 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 756Bitcoin desire sentiment has fallen to an eight-year low, a contrarian signal that historically aligns with market bottoms rather than tops. Michael Sullivan, an engineer and…
- James Check: Spot Buyers Saving Bitcoin Amid Time Pain | SLP755 · 55 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 755Even as ETFs and MicroStrategy sell into weakness, natural spot demand has kept Bitcoin from collapsing in what may be the shallowest bear market on record. The real test now is…
- Bitcoin in Your Signal Chat – Radar’s Bold Move with Seth for Privacy | SLP754 · 27 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 754Radar integrates self-custodial Bitcoin payments directly into Signal's messaging network, eliminating the need for separate apps or custodians when sending value to contacts…
- Dan Gould: Payjoin DevKit Ships and Breaks Common Input Ownership | SLP753 · 18 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 753Payjoin delivers transaction batching driven by real economic activity rather than waiting for pool participants, while also cutting fees through direct net settlement between…
- Fedimint in South Africa: Zero Fees & Community Custody | SLP752 · 37 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 752A South African circular economy is already running real payments on Fedimint with seven guardians on Start9 boxes. Users send eCash with zero fees inside the federation and feel…
- Quarterly Self-Custody Update - Q2 2026 with NVK | SLP751 · 50 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 751In this episode, NVK rejoins me to discuss the latest developments in Bitcoin self-custody, hardware wallets, and privacy solutions, providing valuable insights for enthusiasts…
- The First Stratum V2 Block: What It Means for Bitcoin Mining | SLP750 · 16 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 750In this episode, Alejandro De La Torre, CEO of @DMND_Sv2, joins me to discuss the mining of Bitcoin block 955,318 — the first known Stratum V2 block on mainnet. We break down…
- Bitcoin Treasury Stocks: Sentiment or Structure? Deep Dive with Adrian Morris | SLP749 · 1 h 6 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 749In this episode, Adrian Morris joins the show to discuss Bitcoin Treasury Companies. We explore whether MSTR and STRC are over, sustainable mNAV premiums, the impact of leverage…
- Silent Payments as the next step forward | SLP748 · 1 h 16 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 748In this episode, Craig Raw returns to discuss Sparrow’s Silent Payments and Frigate integration, where multisig UX stands in 2026, his thoughts on building Bitcoin wallet…
- RailsX: Yield for LPs & Seamless BTC-Stable Swaps | SLP747 · 17 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 747In this episode, Jesse Schrader (Jestopher), CEO of Amboss, joins us to break down RailsX — their new Lightning-native DEX. We discuss: 🔸How traders and liquidity providers use…
- The Fight to Protect Bitcoin Self-Custody in South Africa with Ricki Allardice | SLP746 · 16 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 746In this urgent 15-minute conversation, Stephan speaks with Ricki Allardice, one of the leaders of the Property Rights Defense Group, about South Africa’s Draft Capital Flow…
- Using Bitcoin to Change the World: UHNW Philanthropy, Stewardship & Generational Legacy w/ Matt McClintock & Alla Futterman (Bespoke Group) SLP745 · 43 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 745Matt McClintock (Founder & CEO of Bespoke Group) returns to the show alongside Alla Futterman (Associate Client Relationship Manager & Head of Philanthropy Operations) fresh off…
- Bitcoin Passports: How to Rank Countries for Bitcoiners | SLP744 · 17 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 744In this episode, we sit down with Adam Juchniewicz of Bitcoin Passport Index and Bitcitizen to discuss Bitcoin sovereignty, jurisdictional arbitrage, and how Bitcoiners should…
- Bark Goes Mainnet with Steven Roose | SLPfast 743 · 16 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 743Steven Roose (CEO of Second) rejoins me to explain Bark going live on Bitcoin’s main net. Timestamps: (00:00) - Bark mainnet launched on June 9th (02:01) - Bark and Lightning…
- The Evolution of Bitcoin Mining with NG Zhang SLP742 · 49 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 742In this episode, NG Zhang, founder and CEO of Canaan Inc., shares his journey in Bitcoin mining technology, from early ASIC development to modern innovations like heat reuse and…
- Will Cole, Chris Seedor, Nathan Day, Philipp, Skot9000, Alex Bragin at BTCPrague 2026 | SLP741 · 56 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 741In this episode, I caught up with Will Cole from Zaprite, Alex Bragin (Jan3), Nathan Day from BTCMap, Philipp (Satora), and Skot 9000 (BitAxe/SHA256) while at BTC Prague 2026…
- Freedom Tech Summit + BCD 2026 | SLP740 · 50 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 740In this episode, industry experts discuss the latest developments in Bitcoin treasury strategies, Lightning Network innovations, and market outlooks amid macroeconomic…
