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. Thanks to the Human Rights Foundation (https://hrf.org), LEDN...

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. He needs the funds for a Raspberry Pi and a computer, please send some bitcoin, directly into his wallet, at https://bffbtc.org/nodedonation Thanks to the...

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. If you want to donate...

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. Thanks to the Human Rights Foundation (https://hrf.org), LEDN (https://ledn.io) and okcoin (https://okcoin.com) for enabling Bitcoin for Fairness...

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. Thanks to the Human Rights Foundation (https://hrf.org), LEDN (https://ledn.io) and okcoin (https://okcoin.com) for enabling Bitcoin for Fairness https://bffbtc.org. ----------- ...

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. Thanks to the Human Rights Foundation (https://hrf.org), LEDN (https://ledn.io) and okcoin (https://okcoin.com) for enabling...

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. Thanks to the Human Rights Foundation (https://hrf.org), LEDN (https://ledn.io) and okcoin...

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. Thanks to the Human Rights Foundation...

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. Thanks to the Human Rights Foundation (https://hrf.org) and LEDN (https://ledn.io) for enabling the "Bitcoin for Fairness" series. presented by SOVRYN DeFi for Bitcoin...

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 and recommendations for Spanish and English learning material. presented by SOVRYN DeFi for Bitcoin https://live.sovryn.app ----------- Live on Crypto with Bitrefill https://bitrefill.com ---------- and...

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...

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

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

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

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. presented by SOVRYN DeFi for Bitcoin https://live.sovryn.app ----------- Buy, sell and earn bitcoin on Paxful https://paxful.com ----------- Live on...

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. presented by SOVRYN DeFi for Bitcoin https://live.sovryn.app ----------- Buy, sell...

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

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 -...

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...

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. ----------- Buy, sell and earn bitcoin on Paxful https://paxful.com ----------- Live on Crypto with Bitrefill https://bitrefill.com ---------- and ---------- (L)earn Bitcoin - Become Financially Sovryn A beginners guide to self-sovereignty...

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

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...

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...

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

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