CD142: BITCOIN AND SATOSHI WITH ADAM BACK
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Adam Back is cofounder and CEO of Blockstream, a company focused on building out bitcoin technology. We discuss his recent appearance in HBO documentary 'Money Electric,' the blossoming Swiss bitcoin city of Lugano, the early days of bitcoin, and his thoughts on ecash and nostr. Adam on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1qg8j6gdwpxlntlxlkew7eu283wzx7hmj32esch42hntdpqdgrslqv024kw   EPISODE: 142 BLOCK: 867036 PRICE: 1534 sats per dollar support dispatch: https://citadeldispatch.com/donate nostr live chat: https://citadeldispatch.com/stream nostr account: https://primal.net/odell youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CitadelDispatch podcast: https://serve.podhome.fm/CitadelDispatch stream sats to the show: https://www.fountain.fm/ join the chat: https://citadeldispatch.com/chat Outro Music by TIP NZ: https://primal.net/p/npub1hrctsg2qwu5gsp65gvj29968z460g0th755jq92c8uaz620lewmq6qk525 (00:00:01) Bitcoin and Inflation: Insights from Paul Tudor Jones (00:06:02) Introduction to the Show (00:06:55) Bitcoin in Lugano: A Growing Economy (00:10:19) Bitcoin Documentary: Money Electric (00:21:00) The Mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto (00:31:05) Bitcoin's Early Days and Adoption Challenges (00:38:00) Scaling Bitcoin: Liquid and Lightning (00:50:02) Future of Bitcoin: Simplicity and Smart Contracts (01:00:19) eCash Protocols: Cashu and Fedimint (01:09:10) Nostr and Decentralized Social Media
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