46:07

Ep. 38 Dec 26, 2019

Jan Čapek and Pavel Moravec: Bitcoiners by Heart Lead Us Behind the Scenes of Pool Mining

We will take a non-technical look into bitcoin mining in this episode. My guests are Jan Čapek and Pavel Moravec, the CEOs and Founders of Braiins, the company that is operating Slush pool, which is the world’s first bitcoin mining pool with more than 1 000 000 BTC mined since 2010. Jan and Pavels company is located in the Czech Republic in Prague. They are bitcoiners by heart and explain how pool mining works, what the challenges for miners are to be profitable, share their thoughts about the electricity consumption of proof-of-work and what they believe bitcoin will be in the future. “Bitcoin is a big social change in the world.” – Jan Čapek “Bitcoin forces you to think differently.” – Pavel Moravec History of Slush Pool Why they like Bitcoin? Explaining Mining for Newbies Electricity needs of Bitcoin Mining profitability Price of electricity and value of bitcoin How pool mining works Can individuals participate in mining? Mining centralization Slush pools business model Braiins OS Improving the mining protocol Competition in mining Antbleed backdoor in Antminer S9 Open Source mindset in Asia Miners ability to censor transactions Stratum V2 Future of bitcoin Altcoins as testbeds Confidential transactions Sponsors Get 5% off with code "anita" Order a Card Wallet here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Jan Čapek and Pavel Moravec: Bitcoiners by Heart Lead Us Behind the Scenes of Pool Mining erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

59:24

Ep. 37 Dec 19, 2019

Austin E. Alexander: Bitcoin Is a Complete, Total Game Changer. It’s an Opt-Out.

Austin E. Alexander is working for the office of the CEO at Kraken. He joined Kraken at the end of 2013. Back then, Kraken had only 20 to 30 employees. Today it is one of the biggest and most respected crypto exchanges in the world. I met Austin at several bitcoin conferences and at the Baltic Honeybadger in Riga in October, we finally sat down to chat about his career and the developments in the bitcoin space since 2011. In 2013 he was co-founding the Bitcoin Center New York with Nick Spanos. He talks about how enthusiastically they have built the center and about the problems they ran into in the dawn of the Bit License. We also discuss his learnings in 2019 while visiting Uganda, Somalia, South Africa and Zimbabwe and much more. “In retrospect we’ll see that bitcoin has grown exponentially.” – Austin E. Alexander “I would have never imagined that bitcoin is this big this quickly.” – Austin E. Alexander “Bitcoin is going to change how we consume.” – Austin E. Alexander How he found out about Bitcoin Questioning the fiat and nation state system Security Token Offerings Co-founding the Bitcoin Center of New York with Nick Spanos Effects of the Bit License His million dollar bicycle Not getting a bank account Future of Exchanges in countries like Uganda, Guatemala, Somalia, South Africa, Zimbabwe His visit in Zimbabwe Time preference Krakens compliance with regulations Libra, an attack on bitcoin Sponsors Get 5% off with code "anita" Order a Card Wallet here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Austin E. Alexander: Bitcoin Is a Complete, Total Game Changer. It’s an Opt-Out. erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

1:21:42

Ep. 36 Dec 11, 2019

Smuggler: A Cryptoanarchists View on Bitcoin, Democracy, Dark Nets and Privacy

The Bitcoin & Co. podcast is a bitcoin-only show that’s focusing on the why of Bitcoin. Why is it important for humanity, what are the implications from a privacy perspective, how are we able to grow this space together, what are the visions of the people who drive the Bitcoin space. I want to look behind the scenes and take you with me on this journey. Sometimes my guests are rather critical about bitcoin, which I think, is a good thing. Bitcoiners tend to be full of hopium and forget to look for possible downsides. But only with critical thinking, things can be improved. Todays guest is Smuggler, a cryptoanarchist I met at the Hackers Congress in Prague. We had a wide ranging conversation about cryptoanarchy, privacy, technology and democracy and he shares some – at least in the Bitcoin space – unpopular opinions about Bitcoin. He also shares some methods to escape mass surveillance on your phone and computer. I think it is a great conversation, which is why it is longer than usual. “Cryptography is better for honest people, than for dishonest people.” – Smuggler “Decisions should be made where the highest effect is to be felt.” – Smuggler We talk about: Nation States, corporations, politicians and power Cryptography and dangers of technology His vision of the future Alternatives to the state and the market Bitcoin governance Where Bitcoin sucks Scrit Cash Privacy and mass surveillance Pseudonomous societies Dark nets and the dark web Anonymity and civility How to be not mass surveillanced IP intelligence Thanks to Paralelni Polis for the picture of Smuggler. Sponsors Order here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Smuggler: A Cryptoanarchists View on Bitcoin, Democracy, Dark Nets and Privacy erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

45:13

Ep. 35 Dec 5, 2019

Jameson Lopp: Bitcoin Will Never Die, It’s a Pure Form of Economic Interaction

Jameson Lopp is very well known in the Bitcoin space for his wide expertise on security, technology and privacy. He is maintaining and curating a Bitcoin resources page with links to valuable information on Bitcoin and since his house was swatted by police in 2017 after an unknown attacker reported a false hostage situation, he is a cypherpunk at heart. Jameson is the CTO at Casa, a company devoted to providing products for personal sovereignty. “Bitcoin can’t be dead, until we all agree that it is dead and it is so widely distributed now.” – Jameson Lopp Money is language Byzantine generals problem Security of Bitcoin Why full nodes are important Trust and reputation When should I sell? Is Bitcoin dying because ____? On Bitcoin being built by the NSA, FBI On becoming a cypherpunk Privacy and fungibility Tainted coins Facebook and Libra A bitcoin miner in every household The Casa node, the keymaster app and the seedless setup Personal sovereignty His vision for Bitcoin “The game of just speculating is a waste of time and it’s not adding a lot of value to the system.” – Jameson Lopp “We need to have a very solid user friendly foundation of security, if we want average people, who don’t live, eat and breathe Bitcoin all day long to be able to do this. They need to be as confident with their bitcoin wallet as they are with the money in their bank, so we still have a long way to go for that.” – Jameson Lopp Welcome to Bitcoin, newcomers! Here's your FAQ: Q: Who should I trust?A: Nobody. Q: When should I sell?A: Never. Q: Is Bitcoin dying because ____?A: No. Q: What have I gotten myself into?A: Nobody knows. Q: How do I learn more?A: https://t.co/POqNimM4uy — Jameson Lopp (@lopp) November 19, 2017 Sponsors Buy or Sell Bitcoin LocalBitcoins.com Order the Card Wallet now and get 20% off! Get 5% off for a BitBox02 with code: anita Get 3 months for free now! More about Salamantex Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Jameson Lopp: Bitcoin Will Never Die, It’s a Pure Form of Economic Interaction erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

58:23

Ep. 34 Nov 28, 2019

John Carvalho: Bitcoin Is Not About Getting Rich, It Is Meant to Be Freedom Money

Wether you are a newbie or a Bitcoin enthusiast, this interview with John Carvalho, one of the rare people with strong views and rhetorical talent at the same time, will bring you joy and new insights. John is the CCO of Bitrefill, a swedish company that sells giftcards and phone refills for cryptocurrencies and offers “Thor” a lightning network services provider. He says, his higher boss is Bitcoin and he is working for bitcoin since it’s price was 10 USD. John Carvalho has seen a lot of things happening in the bitcoin space, let him inspire you. “Bitcoin is the best store of value.” – John Carvalho This episode was recorded at the Lightning Conference in Berlin in October 2019. Being powerless and taking back power From a meme on Twitter to Bitrefill Bitcoins development in the last years Growth of Bitcoin and the Lightning Network Changing into saving mode Being paid in bitcoin Why bitcoiners like ETFs Libra, Central Bank Money Price manipulation and trading Evaluating altcoins Privacy at the base layer Bcash dances, Roger Ver and Craig Wright On ignorant money Founding of Bitrefill Buying gift cards cross border Thor: a lightning network service provider Blockchain in supply chains How to educate yourself about Bitcoin “Do not trade, unless it’s your career.” – John Carvalho “The job of every altcoin is creating a narrative aganist bitcoin and whoever has the best narrative against bitcoin gets the most ignorant money.” – John Carvalho “Bitcoin means, that I can be actually free and be a sovereign individual doing what I want, as long as it does not hurt somebody else.” – John Carvalho “I just don’t think Bitcoin dies.” – John Carvalho Sponsors Get 5% off with code "anita" Order a Card Wallet here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag John Carvalho: Bitcoin Is Not About Getting Rich, It Is Meant to Be Freedom Money erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

34:11

Ep. 33 Nov 21, 2019

Jonathan Leong: Building an Exchange for Easy Access to Bitcoin

Jonathan Leong is a coder as well as the Co-founder and CEO of BTSE a multi-currency digital assets exchange and derivatives platform. His goal for BTSE is to make bitcoin affordable for anyone by reducing the volatility of bitcoin through the allocation of liquidity. I also asked him about their criteria for altcoins to be listed on the exchange and how they managed to get through the bear market successfully. From mining farms to trading How to mine successfully through the bear market What a futures contract is Liquidity management at exchanges Regulations in the Arab Emirates Bitmex, Deribit as competitors Futures 2.0 Non-custodial order placement with the Liquid network Bad actors and the security of an exchange platform Libra, Telegram token Criteria to list an asset Workweek of the CEO of an exchange BTSE roadmap Financing the project “I wanna make bitcoin affordable for anyone.”, says Jonathan Leong, CEO of BTSE Sponsors Buy or Sell Bitcoin LocalBitcoins.com Order the Card Wallet now and get 20% off! Get 5% off for a BitBox02 with code: anita Get 3 months for free now! More about Salamantex Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Jonathan Leong: Building an Exchange for Easy Access to Bitcoin erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

46:17

Ep. 32 Nov 14, 2019

The Nodl Team: Behind the Scenes of Building Bitcoin Nodes

Let me introduce you to two true Bitcoiners: Ketominer and his business partner, who are building bitcoin and lightning full nodes under the brand “nodl” since 2018. In our interview they explain how they got into bitcoin, why it is important to them and how they bootstrap their “un-corporation” from one level to the next. How they got into the Bitcoin space Changes in the Bitcoin space in the last years How “nodl” came into life The first nodl box The importance of a full node How to receive online payments with BTCPayserver integration Nodl Cloud, Samourai Dojo Box Difference between Nodl and Casa Box Regulation of open source software related to crypto assets Host4Coins Their un-corporation and investors Being bitcoin only “Open source always wins.” – Ketominer Sponsors Buy or Sell Bitcoin LocalBitcoins.com Order the Card Wallet now and get 20% off! Get 5% off for a BitBox02 with code: anita Get 3 months for free now! More about Salamantex Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag The Nodl Team: Behind the Scenes of Building Bitcoin Nodes erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

34:53

Ep. 31 Nov 7, 2019

Jimmy Song: Bitcoin Makes Human Civilization Grow Again

“Regret is thinking you’re late. Gratitude is thinking you’re early. It’s still early to get Bitcoin.”, says Jimmy Song. He is a bitcoin educator, developer, entrepreneur, a lover of cowboy hats and boots and, as you can see on Twitter, a philosopher. He is the author of “Programming Bitcoin” and a co-author of “The Little Bitcoin Book“. I sat down to have a chat with him at the Baltic Honeybadger conference in Riga. Austrian economics Hat and boots Tim Ferriss, Austin, Texas Difference between his book and “Mastering Bitcoin” by Andreas M. Antonopoulos Altcoins and FIAT money Demands on bitcoin Method of payment or store of value USD and BTC competition Energy consumption of bitcoin Bitcoin brings back a new frontier Going to Mars Silicon Valley is missing out on bitcoin (see Dan Held) Libra, Central Bank Digital Currency What Bitcoin needs Bitcoiners are questioning everything Regrets and being grateful “Regret is thinking you’re late. Gratitude is thinking you’re early. It’s still early to get Bitcoin.” – Jimmy Song Sponsors Buy or Sell Bitcoin LocalBitcoins.com Order the Card Wallet now and get 20% off! Get 5% off for a BitBox02 with code: anita Get 3 months for free now! More about Salamantex Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Jimmy Song: Bitcoin Makes Human Civilization Grow Again erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

1:00:07

Ep. 30 Oct 26, 2019

Juraj Bednar: Using Bitcoin Is like a Filter for People with an Open Mind

Juraj Bednar is an entrepreneur, hacker and co-founder of Paralelná Polis Bratislava and Prague’s Paralelní Polis. It hosts a hackerspace called Institute of Cryptoanarchy and a cafeteria with best coffee in Prague and accepting only cryptocurrencies. His favourite cryptocurrency is bitcoin, he also uses monero as a medium of exchange. In his talk “Financial surveillance and crypto utopias” at the #HCPP19 Hackers Congress Juraj presented his research on how banks are enforcing KYC, anti-money laundering regulations while at the same time do not care about it, if they want you as a customer. He also shows us hacks to regain financial privacy with cryptocurrency. We talk about: Opposing totalitarian regime and communism Concept of Paraleni Polis How to survive in a society that is not free and the development of parallel society KYC, anti-money laundering, tax evasion Banks are over-regulating, but they do not need to, if they want you as a customer Need to have a bank account Security theatre Hacks for better financial privacy Why bitcoin is his favourite cryptocurrency “Don’t feed the beast with your data.” – Juraj Bednar Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Juraj Bednar: Using Bitcoin Is like a Filter for People with an Open Mind erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

35:47

Ep. 29 Oct 22, 2019

BUC Live: Lightning Hardware and Nodes Panel from The Lightning Conference Berlin

This is a Bitcoin & Co. live recording from the worlds first lightning conference that has been taking place this weekend in Berlin. For the first time around 500 lightning and bitcoin engineers, researches, developers, businesses, hardware builders and enthusiasts gathered to discuss and work on new projects. Two days packed with interesting talks, workshops and panels. You can find the live streams of most talks on YouTube in the conference channel. I had the honour to moderate the “Lightning Hardware and Nodes” Panel on day 2. Due to technical problems, it could not be live streamed, but here is the audio. Thanks to Christian Rotzoll for recording. And kudos to Jonathan Cross, Justin Moon, Dario Duran and Viktor Bunin for reviewing my questions. Now listen to four panelists who represented four devices: Ketominer – nodl Box, Stacie Waleyko – Casa Node, Christian Rotzoll – RaspiBlitz and Sebastian Küng – BitBoxBase. 01:52 Introduce yourself very shortly and tell us which device you are presenting and: Which functionalities does your device offer? Is it a bitcoin full node, has it integrated Lightning, too – can it also be used as a hardware wallet? 04:09 What are the core design principles behind the development of your device? Who is your target customer? 07:06 Is your device able to verify bitcoin transactions? 08:38 What are other reasons for people to run their own nodes at home? 11:42 How open are your devices regarding software use. Which Software / Wallet do you offer for your device? Do you have your custom wallet? 14:41 Is it possible to connect to your node when you’re out and about with the smartphone and if so how? 17:21 Is the watchtower functionality in your setup included or is it not necessary? 19:01 How would a user verify that the node software is correct and that the node itself is healthy? Do you have any procedures or incentives for the hardware users that they run upgrades of the software / firmware regularly. 24:38 With Lightning there is no seed. What happens if your HW device is destroyed or it is stolen. How can you backup the state of your channels? 28:46 A lightning node should be online 24/7, how does your device handle the fact that it is offline sometimes? 32:01 What are your future plans for your products? Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag BUC Live: Lightning Hardware and Nodes Panel from The Lightning Conference Berlin erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

1:09:08

Ep. 28 Oct 17, 2019

Janine Roemer: Censorship Resistant Journalism Needs Censorship Resistant Money

Janine Roemer is an independent journalist, who went from technophobe to cypherpunk. She heard about Bitcoin in 2012 and is working in the Bitcoin space since 2014. We talk about her concept of a revision controlled journalism that could lead to more objectiveness in the media landscape and replace churnalism and fake news through an independent funding model with bitcoin and lightning payments, research and quoting sources. We discuss: Definition of Cypherpunks Identity vs. anonymity Mass surveillance Revenge porn, deep fakes Definition of “criminal” Fake news, Ad surveillance model Lightning payments as a funding model for journalism Steem.it platform for blogging and social media Civil uses Ethereum, is a spoke of Consensus Censorship resistance of “blockchain” platforms Open Timestamps and services Revision controlled journalism Open Source Intelligence Confusion about tax regulation LibrePatron Self hosting as a security measure WordPress, Lightning publishing plugin with BTCpayserver Adoption of self-hosted journalism How to be more private and secure in todays world Surveillance capitalism Linking social media profiles to identities US Border control, Being detained at the airport Sponsors Buy or Sell Bitcoin LocalBitcoins.com Order the Card Wallet now and get 20% off! Get 5% off for a BitBox02 with code: anita Get 3 months for free now! More about Salamantex Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Janine Roemer: Censorship Resistant Journalism Needs Censorship Resistant Money erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

35:18

Ep. 27 Oct 10, 2019

Dan Held: Silicon Valley Fundamentally Doesn't Understand Bitcoin

Dan Held is the Director of Business Development for all products of Kraken. Kraken is one of the worlds biggest and well known cryptocurrency exchanges. Before that he co-founded and developed products like ZeroBlock and Interchange, that were aquired later on. In between he served in the rider growth team at Uber. He lives and works in Silicon Valley. We met at the Baltic Honeybadger Conference in Riga and discussed topics like the bitcoin distribution, what he finds surprising about Satoshi Nakamotos ideas, a possible bitcoin supercycle that’s in the making and much more. We discuss: Interchange, a tool for Crypto hedge funds ZeroBlock App His learnings at Uber HODLing vs. Spending Half a billion or a billion users is needed for stabilizing bitcoins price (est. 20 – 40 Million users now) The halvening Onboarding a billion users Libra might help differentiate bitcoins value proposition Governments can try to forbid bitcoin Why the bitcoin distribution is fair #RunForHalfin @VitusZe @RusselOkung What surprised him about Satoshis writings “I was born to hodl with a name like Held.” – Dan Held “I think there might be a bitcoin supercycle coming up.” – Dan Held “People come for the trading and stay for the sound money.” – Dan Held “Silicon Valley fundamentally doesn’t understand bitcoin.” – Dan Held Sponsors Buy or Sell Bitcoin LocalBitcoins.com Order the Card Wallet now and get 20% off! Get 5% off for a BitBox02 with code: anita Get 3 months for free now! More about Salamantex Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Dan Held: Silicon Valley Fundamentally Doesn’t Understand Bitcoin erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

50:05

Ep. 26 Oct 3, 2019

Hass McCook: Bitcoin Is the Monetization of Energy. If It Does Not Succeed, Humanity Is in for a Bad Time.

Todays guest is Hass McCook, he is a civil engineer working on economic infrastructure like building roads and tunnels and has a lot of experience in mining. He did his MBA in Oxford and conducted his first research about the Sustainability of Bitcoin in 2014, he updated and expanded this work in 2018 with the paper “The Cost and Sustainability of Bitcoin” and was presenting his insights into the “Environmental & Social Impacts of Gold & Bitcoin” at the Baltic Honeybadger Conference in Riga in 2019. Bitcoin is hard money Consumerism Energy consumption of Bitcoin Environmental impact of mining Gold, of FIAT printed money, coins and of banks Energy consumption vs. CO2 emissions Efficiency improvements Digiconomist uses same methodology in research, but conclusions are intellectual inhonest Cost to mine a bitcoin is about 6.500 USD today More hashpower will be put into the system as long as there is some money to make Price drop at the beginning of 2019 was also because of a miners war Market driven per Antminer S9 Australia has powerful coal lobbies, small solar-energy industry Australian Bitcoin scene Gold is useful in tech, a good way to store money, but unethical Gold is useless, unethical Learning about Bitcoin Volatility Full Nodes Sponsors Buy or Sell Bitcoin LocalBitcoins.com Order the Card Wallet now and get 20% off! Get 5% off for a BitBox02 with code: anita Get 3 months for free now! More about Salamantex Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Hass McCook: Bitcoin Is the Monetization of Energy. If It Does Not Succeed, Humanity Is in for a Bad Time. erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

37:45

Ep. 25 Sep 26, 2019

Rodolfo Novak Bitcoin Goes to Zero or It Goes to the Moon

Rodolfo Novak is an entrepreneur and a long time bitcoiner. He is building products like the OpenDime, the Coldcard Wallet, the BlockClock and is experimenting with a lot of other stuff connected to bitcoin. We talk about security, privacy and the future of Bitcoin as well as why he started to build hardware wallets. We discuss: His journey into Bitcoin Coinkite payment terminals in 2013 How he realized that bitcoin is a store of value The inherent right of privacy If governments can forbid bitcoin Sending bitcoin over radio How OpenDime came into existence Coldcard Wallet Lightning vending machine Blockclock Future of Bitcoin “You can’t force adoption, it’s a need thing. There was a need for bitcoin.” – Rodolfo Novak “Security is always a set of tradeoffs.” – Rodolfo Novak “Bitcoin gives you a hard lesson on what money is.” – Rodolfo Novak Sponsors Buy or Sell Bitcoin LocalBitcoins.com Order the Card Wallet now and get 20% off! Get 5% off for a BitBox02 with code: anita Get 3 months for free now! More about Salamantex Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Rodolfo Novak Bitcoin Goes to Zero or It Goes to the Moon erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

40:08

Ep. 24 Sep 12, 2019

The Petro Is a Scam and Bitcoin Is the Only Way to Send Money to Venezuela

Meet Aníbal Santaella Sánchez and Paola Rodriguez-Giustiniani from Venezuela. The couple left the country three years ago and live in Scotland now. Anibal started mining bitcoin back in Venezuela, but when the national forces started prosecuting miners, he stopped. Bitcoin is the only way for Aníbal to send money to his father in Venezuela. Listen to the podcast episode to find out how this works, how the exchange ban and the regime have ruined the country that ended in todays humanitarian crisis and why the Petro is a scam. Aníbal and Paola are also runners and will run the Berlin Marathon as a part of Team Satoshi on the 29th of September. Side story: Andreas M. Antonopoulos was the one who connected Vitus Zeller, the initiator of Team Satoshi, with Aníbal & Paola. We talk about: How they got to know about Bitcoin Prosecution of miners in Venezuela Paying bribes to the national forces, that kidnapped the mining equipement The Petro does not exist Internet is the main way to communicate in Venezuela, but people have to be careful Chances of Libra in Venezuela Bitcoin is their only way to send money to his father Sponsors Get 5% off with code "anita" Order a Card Wallet here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag The Petro Is a Scam and Bitcoin Is the Only Way to Send Money to Venezuela erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 23 Sep 4, 2019

Max Hillebrand Is Busting FUD About the Lightning Network

Max Hillebrand is an economist who started reading Keynes when he was 9 and got into Bitcoin at the age of 16. He says “Bitcoin is for everyone”, even his grandmother runs a Lightning node. First we discuss Bitcoin and then Max is debunking misconceptions about the Lightning Network. We discuss: Cantillon effect Gold, silver and bitcoin how to reduce bitcoins volatility Satoshi never mentioned Blockchain only Timechain Censorship resistant time Lightning Network Malicious actors Punishment transactions Watchtower services Eltoo Static channel backups Autopilot feature Atomic multipath payments Digital scarcity Lightning Network FUD Max addresses the following criticism about the Lightning Network The Lightning Network is built for small payments, therefore I can never send bigger payments and I have to change to the root layer and do it with a Bitcoin transaction. Lightning network is too complex for the non technical people to use – for instance you have to open a channel manually and fill the channel before you can use it, then you might have to open a second one for a bigger payment. If one of the nodes that route the payments turns off its service, I loose my funds. Lightning funds cannot be backupped, there is no seed to recover funds. Lightning Network is a centralized solution – there will be nodes that are big and route payments, they can control and censor payments like a bank, which is completely against the fundamentals of Bitcoin. The Bitcoin Network will not be feasible anymore. If all payments are in channels, there will be opening and closing transactions on the base layer only. Miners will stop mining because the transaction fees they earn will be not enough to pay the costs of mining. Bitcoin will fall apart. If I open a channel today and close it in 5 years, the fees might be higher than today and then I might not have enough funds to pay for closing the channel. Funds in my channel will shrink, if fees become higher. How to get inbound liquidity. Will node providers be regulated? You have to be online all the time to send and receive payments. I need to have Bitcoin before I can use Lightning, how should the people in poorer countries be able to participate? The Lightning Network will be too slow and complex to grow and it does not scale. Lightning Network is an Altcoin. Sponsors Get 5% off with code "anita" Order a Card Wallet here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Max Hillebrand Is Busting FUD About the Lightning Network erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 22 Aug 28, 2019

Federico Spitaleri the Lightning Network Enables Innovation in Gaming and Pricing

Federico Spitaleri is the Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Satoshi’s Games. A gaming web platform on top of the Lightning Network, which features Lightning games and tournaments, where players can earn money in form of satoshis. At the time of our interview in June 2019 Satoshi’s Games had 6.000 unique users and enabled other developers to run their games over the platform, too. Our Topics: their games: a Supermario style game, Lightning Agar obstacles at building a platform on top of Lightning stage of their development and funding why the Lightning Network fits into gaming Lightning allows new ways of pricing services on a micro-level Sponsors Order a Card Wallet here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Federico Spitaleri the Lightning Network Enables Innovation in Gaming and Pricing erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 21 Aug 19, 2019

Satoshi Freeathlon a Sports Event to Raise Awareness for Bitcoin

A group of sport- and Bitcoin enthusiasts got together to challenge themselves in a 4 day race with 14 km of swimming, 280 km of biking and 63 km of running to raise positive awareness for Bitcoin. The race is named Satoshi Freeathlon (freeathlon = Freestyle + Triathlon) and is organized by team satoshi. The idea behind team satoshi is to bring forward bitcoin and the decentralization of power and money as well as the ideals of Bitcoin, which come from the Cypherpunk Manifesto (human rights, freedom of information, freedom of expression, transaction freedom, right to privacy). The team is named after Satoshi Nakamoto the unknown inventor of Bitcoin. Seven participants from three nations will be swimming, biking and running from Zug to Munich. In total that will be 357 kilometers. Start is on August 24th 2019 in Zug, four days later the team will be welcomed at the Bitcoin MeetUp event at Bikini Mitte in Munich. In this episode all seven participants of the Satoshi Freeathlon talk about the idea and motivation for them to participate and what Bitcoin means to them. Participants: All 4 days – the “Core team”: Vitus Zeller, Moritz Biersack, Thomas Bette Single day participants: Jeremias Kangas, founder of localbitcoins – Day 1 Anita Posch, host of the Bitcoin & Co. Podcast – Day 1 (swimming, cycling), Day 3 Veronika Kütt of the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center – Day 4 Andreas Zeller – Day 1 (running) Donations BTC Adresse: 173SRmGLwHW7QZDsFW9RLpggn3iBboL7Ns via Lightning: https://tippin.me/@Vitus_Ze Sponsors Order a Card Wallet here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Satoshi Freeathlon a Sports Event to Raise Awareness for Bitcoin erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 20 Aug 1, 2019

BUC Live: The Fight Against Money Laundering with Cryptocurrencies

Starting 10 January 2020, virtual currency service providers in Austria will be subject to the same know-your-customer and anti-money laundering obligations as credit and financial institutions. What does this mean for companies in the Cryptocurrency space and how does it affect you and me? I was invited to moderate this panel discussion by Stadler Völkel Attorneys at Law in Vienna. — Sorry, for the sometimes bad audio quality due to the live recording outdoors! — Panel guests include: Bryan Hollmann, counsel at Stadler Völkel Attorneys at Law. Bryans areas of practice are Capital Markets, US Securities Law, Corporate and Company law and FinTech-Companies and Cryptocurrencies. Uwe Trummer, key account manager at Youniqx Identity AG, a subsidiary of the Austrian State Printing House. Youniqx builds systems that allow to establish people’s identity based on video identification – and to secure digital identities, which enables authorities to prevent abuse. Oleksiy Feshchenko, anti-money laundering advisor in the Global Program against Money Laundering at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna. Since 2016 Oleksiy leads a project on cryptocurrencies. This project builds capacities of Financial Inelligence Units, law enforcement and supervisors to investigate cryptocurrencies and reduce risks of money laundering and terrorism financing. Axel Schuster, advisor at the Family Office and Wealth management department of the Capital Bank in Graz. The Capital Bank offers personal advisory to clients about professional asset allocation, return and risk optimized portfolio management as well as a wide-range of expertise in tax-efficient investments. Topics: What is the current state of KYC/AML regulation for virtual currency companies in Austria? What is a virtual currency provider? How can virtual currency companies ensure that they are fulfilling their KYC/AML obligations? What challenges do banks face when working with virtual currency companies? Do banks feel pressure from governments, regulators to not deal with cryptocurrency companies? What is the actual vs. perceived risk of using virtual currencies to conduct money laundering worldwide, in the EU and in Austria? Which Cryptocurrencies are used by criminals and what for? How are illegal activities traced by the authorities at the moment? How criminals track down cryptocurrency holders Use of mixxers How long and when should we blacklist cryptocurrencies that maybe have been used for money-laundering years before, when we don’t do this with cash? Is the demand for bank accounts of virtual currency companies rising? Sponsors Order a Card Wallet here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag BUC Live: The Fight Against Money Laundering with Cryptocurrencies erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 19 Jul 25, 2019

Matt Corallo on the Social Good of Bitcoin and the Mindset of a Bitcoin Developer

Early Bitcoin Core developer Matt Corallo started working on Bitcoin in 2011. At that time he still attended high school and lived in Germany near Frankfurt am Main. He was a cofounder of Blockstream before he started working on open source projects for Bitcoin at Chaincode Labs in New York. We discuss many different topics, ranging from his interest in Bitcoin at the beginning, to current issues like miner centralization, projects he is working on – Fibre, BetterHash and Rust lightning to the music he likes. Topics: how he got into Bitcoin at the age of 18 who the first developers were why he speaks german – he went to kindergarden in Germany and lived near Frankfurt around 2011 non-remote working at Chaincode Labs his first major patch for Bitcoin core how Bitcoin developers got funded and Blockstream started Bitcoins growth outside the western world Mining in China the energy consumption of Bitcoin is not a problem in the long run how stranded energy is used to mine bitcoin relationship between mining and the price of bitcoin – hashrate follows the price privacy has to be default GlobalCoin or FacebookCoin (this was recorded before the Libra Whitepaper was released) cannot compete with bitcoin and its core features like uncensorability how the Blockstream satellites and miners utilize the Fibre (Fast Internet Bitcoin Relay Engine) protocol Matt worked on the great firewall of China his Rust Lightning library BetterHash a mining protocol to decentralize mining within a pool open questions like Mining centralization, Lightning and scalability of any blockchain system on how to become a Bitcoin developer the mindset of Bitcoin developers “I still consider Bitcoin largely an experiment to see wether or not we can build a decentralized currency, because right now, it’s not.” – Matt Corallo “It takes a long time to develop robust markets across the entire globe.” – Matt Corallo “Bitcoin is a system where you don’t need to trust someone.” – Matt Corallo Sponsors Order a Card Wallet here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Matt Corallo on the Social Good of Bitcoin and the Mindset of a Bitcoin Developer erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 18 Jul 4, 2019

Max Keidun About the Possibilities of Non-Custodial Solutions and Memenomics in Bitcoin

Max Keidun is the CEO of the non-custodial, peer to-peer Bitcoin exchange hodlhodl. He was born in the former USSR and started his career as a journalist before he worked in the banking industry for 10 years. 2015 he quit his job in the finance industry and since then he is building products in the Bitcoin space. He is also a founder of the Baltic Honeybadger Conference in Riga. Our topics why he is fascinated by Bitcoin use cases for Bitcoin what it needs for mass adoption hodlhodl, his non-custodial peer-to-peer exchange KYC and non-custody solutions Lightning powered Bitcoin trades OTC trading and prediction market on hodlhodl use cases for multi-sig the bear market honeybadger and cypherpunks “The Bitcoin community is too focused on the tech, we need to be more focused on educating masses. I think that’s a part of mass adoption.” – Max Keidun “I get fascinated about thousands of people in the world working on making bitcoin better at the same time.” – Max Keidun Sponsors Order a Card Wallet here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Max Keidun About the Possibilities of Non-Custodial Solutions and Memenomics in Bitcoin erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 17 Jun 20, 2019

Andreas M. Antonopoulos Busting Arguments Against Bitcoin and Revealing Real Risks

In this podcast episode common misconceptions and FUD about Bitcoin like high volatility, energy consumption, inequalities in the distribution of wealth and the risk of possible failure are addressed by Andreas M. Antonopoulos. Andreas is one of the most influential and well-respected voices in the Bitcoin and Blockchain space. With four books, over 300 videos on YouTube and almost half a million followers on Twitter he is educating millions about this groundbreaking technology. I was lucky to get him for a second interview after this about privacy, human rights and the future of Bitcoin in 2018. In this episode we discuss: his pirate radio experience developments in Bitcoin between 2018-2019 communities that use Bitcoin most store of value, medium of exchange and uncensorability censorship of ideas and loud voices in the marketplace the resistance against Bitcoin in the first ten years hard forks have relieved pressure over the arguments real magic and uniqueness of Bitcoin energy consumption of Bitcoin inequal distribution of Bitcoin high volatility of Bitcoin a niche Bitcoin risk of failure for Bitcoin “Most of the emphasis has so far been on scaling and I think that more important emphasis needs to be placed on privacy and fungibility on the base layer.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos “When Bitcoin succeeded in the first ten years it did so in the face of incredible censorship, incredible disbelief, incredible cyncism and yet the power of the technology itself proved it’s worth no matter what people said.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos “Blockchain is one component, in fact its not even the most interesting component of Bitcoin.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos “Bitcoin merged as synthesis, all of its parts existed before. Original was the particular synthesis of all of this parts into this receipe that created Bitcoin.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos “Ultimately Bitcoin is a game-theoretical security system. The magic is the decentralization of consensus.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos “Bitcoin stimulates the development of alternative energy in a way that no other system does.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos “Our current system of money finances war on a massive scale and that is the most environmentally destructive human activity we have. Inflation is a hidden tax and it’s very destructive.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos “I don’t want to give people the idea that this should be treated as an investment. Can you participate in this economy and make it part of your life, can you learn from the education. Do something sensible with it.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos “A niche Bitcoin isn’t failure. More dangerous is the possibility of creating a niche culture and that culture being radical or toxic towards the rest of mainstream.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos Sponsors Order a Card Wallet here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Andreas M. Antonopoulos Busting Arguments Against Bitcoin and Revealing Real Risks erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 16 Jun 13, 2019

Richard Myers About Bitcoin Without Internet and the Importance of Financial Freedom

Richard Myers is the product engineer for txTenna, a project that extends the range for sending and receiving bitcoin transactions over the Blockstream bitcoin satellites and a mesh network. This basically enables using Bitcoin without internet connection. He presented the project together with Adam Back at the Magical Crypto Conference in May 2019. In the podcast interview we go deeper into the ideas and philosophy behind his interest in Bitcoin and how the mesh network allows for more privacy in financial transactions with Bitcoin. “Having privacy in your financial transactions is a human right and Bitcoin gives you the ability to enforce that right in a peaceful way.” – Richard Myers “They deputized the banking system as a law enforcement organisation.” – Richard Myers “Everything the cypherpunks worried about has come to pass.” – Richard Myers “Not you keys, not your coins, but its also not your privacy either.” – Richard Myers Building a decentralized multiplayer game in 2004 Getting into Bitcoin His early use case for Bitcoin Organizing a Bitcoin MeetUp in Sweden How he was inspired by Nick Szabo on Twitter Alex Gladstein talk at the MCC2019 How Bitcoin could be attacked from the communication layer Beaming the Bitcoin blockchain Adding robustness to the system What a mesh network is Lightning Network and incentives for mesh relays Tracking smartphones Military, firefighters use mesh networks How Blockstream satellites and txTenna work Off-grid and privacy component How to send transactions with GoTenna Integrating goTenna into a cellphone txTenna is open source and 3rd party reviews Marketing perspective, user groups Bitcoins effect on society Money laundering Democatizing freedom Cypherpunk movement and financial privacy Sponsors Order a Card Wallet here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Richard Myers About Bitcoin Without Internet and the Importance of Financial Freedom erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 15 Jun 6, 2019

Thomas Voegtlin About Creating the Electrum Wallet, Best Practices to Secure Your Funds and His Design Principles

Thomas Voegtlin was a researcher in computer science, specialized on machine learning and neural networks before he discovered Bitcoin at the end of 2010. He created the first versions of the Electrum wallet while experimenting with Bitcoin, because there were no secure and easy to use wallets in 2011. Electrum is one of the most popular bitcoin wallets today. Thomas Voegtlin announced and presented the implementation of Lightning payments into the wallet at the Lightning Hackdays in Munich in June 2019. “Having a money system that is independent of credit, would stabilize the economy.” – Thomas Voegtlin “It’s morally wrong to create a wallet software, that is not open source.” – Thomas Voegtlin “I didn’t want to be famous, I just wanted to write a better wallet.” – Thomas Voegtlin We discuss… Bitcoin in 2011 why he is interested in Bitcoin why he created the Electrum wallet mybitcoin.com crash the positive feedback loop of the traditional financial system Open source, anonymity and trust Creating the Electrum company and it’s business modell Multisig wallet 2FA with Trusted Coin Phishing and DDoS Attack on Electrum How to choose and secure a wallet Differences between desktop and smartphone Electrum wallet Android without Google Designing principles Using Electrum as a payment service Implementing Lightning in Electrum Why people contribute bad reviews on Google Play Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Thomas Voegtlin About Creating the Electrum Wallet, Best Practices to Secure Your Funds and His Design Principles erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 14 May 23, 2019

Caitlin Long About Financial Freedom and Why Bitcoin Matters

Been in Bitcoin since 2012 and a blockchain evangelist since 2014, Caitlin is the Co-founder of the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition and gubernatorial appointee. She served on Morgan Stanley’s internal blockchain working group and has 22 years of corporate finance experience on Wall Street. Caitlin is a writer on Forbes and a graduate of Harvard Law School, the Kennedy School of Government and the University of Wyoming. “The traditional finance system is not solvent”, Caitlin Long We talk about How she got into Bitcoin Austrian National Economics Wall Streets ledgers and the Dole Food case Proof of Keys Systemic Thinking and Diversity Women in STEM Origins of the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition Her vision for Bitcoin Facebook Coin, Square, Fidelity, JP Morgan Coin Sponsors Order a Card Wallet here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Caitlin Long About Financial Freedom and Why Bitcoin Matters erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 13 Apr 25, 2019

Leah Wald on Possibilities for Women in the Bitcoin Space and Why We Still Are in a Bear Market

Leah Wald is a development economist, financial analyst and Partner & Executive Vice President at Lucid Investment Strategies. Together with Tyler Jenks she is the host of their Hyperwave Channel on YouTube. Leah began her career at 19 working at the World Bank in the Africa Region and has applied social entrepreneurship to help goat herders in Mongolia, local entrepreneurs in Washington, D.C. as well as to first-time businesswomen in India. In this Bitcoin & Co. episode we discuss these topics: Women in sports, knee injuries and Soccer (yes, really) Female investors in Bitcoin and the presence of women in other male dominated spaces Bitcoin usecases for women in developing countries like India M-Pesa and microfinance banking Collaboration in the bitcoin space Altcoins as issues for confusion and the necessity for regulation Asset management, ETFs and Bitcoin Reasons for the Bitcoin bear market Investing techniques Scams and bitcoin(dot)com Image of Leah Wald and Anita Posch by Daisy Komen Photography Sponsors Order here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Leah Wald on Possibilities for Women in the Bitcoin Space and Why We Still Are in a Bear Market erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 12 Apr 11, 2019

Adam Back on the Magic of Cryptography and Why Bitcoin Matters

Adam Back is the inventor of Hashcash, a method to prevent spam emails, that was used with minor changes as the proof-of-work method in Bitcoin. His work is cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper as well as in the Tor Browser whitepaper. He 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. The topics of our interview: his interests in school, growing up in England the evolution of his work up to Bitcoin learnings from DigiCash his idea for Hashcash Cypherpunks and their interest in privacy Bitcoin analogies to the early internet monopolies vs peer-to-peer privacy and fungibility in Bitcoin Dandelion protocol, lightning network, wallet fingerprinting, tap-root, Schnorr signatures, confidential transactions the Understanding Bitcoin conference what people need to know about Bitcoin Bitcoin satellites the properties of Bitcoin open collaboration and shipping of products “The properties I like about bitcoin are, that it’s censorship resistant and permissionless and you don’t need to establish a bank account to use it and that’s great for people in emerging markets that can’t participate in expensive things.” – Adam Back “Anybody who is interested in the properties of bitcoins should to be able to get access to it. So we do need some technologies with more global reach and the satellite coverage is almost global.” – Adam Back “Somebody with a satellite dish, a generator, a solar panel and a Raspberry Pi could operate a whole business in the desert with no infrastructure.” – Adam Back “It’s very interesting, different people find bitcoin interesting for different reasons.” – Adam Back “The government does not own the individual, the individuals employ the governments.” – Adam Back “With this kind of technology individuals can directly take more control of their lives and have more self-determination.” – Adam Back “Bitcoins fungibility is not perfect, but it’s improving slowly.” – Adam Back Picture Adam Back and Anita Posch by Daisy Komen Photography Sponsors Order here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Adam Back on the Magic of Cryptography and Why Bitcoin Matters erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

50:05

Ep. 11 Mar 28, 2019

Demelza Hays the Way to the Highest-Quality Money, the Next Bitcoin Bull Market and Advice for Small Investors

Demelza Hays is a crypto researcher, asset manager, entrepreneur and is teaching at the University of Liechtenstein courses on blockchain technology. She installed the first Bitcoin ATM in Liechtenstein and is currently conducting a research on the correlation between hashrate and the price of Bitcoin. She is the Co-Author of the quarterly Cryptoresearch Report and asset manager at Incrementum AG. We had a fascinating discussion about a variety of topics around money, wealth, digital assets and cryptocurrencies. And by the way: she thinks that the next Bitcoin bull market as begun. How cryptocurrencies could support women in India Obstacles for the lightning network as a micropayment method Relationship of hashrate and Bitcoins price Robust optimization for cryptocurrencies Decentralized stablecoin backed by Bitcoin Maybe the next bull market has started Large investors are not ready yet Electricity providers getting into mining and investing Security of Bitcoin Facebook-Coin Personal advice for small investors The problem with utility tokens “As a money we want stability.” – Demelza Hays “I want to see competition in money. I think that is how we are going to produce the highest-quality money that humans have ever seen.” – Demelza Hays “I am not interested in a money that has a single point of failure.” – Demelza Hays Sponsors Order here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Demelza Hays the Way to the Highest-Quality Money, the Next Bitcoin Bull Market and Advice for Small Investors erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 10 Mar 14, 2019

Shermin Voshmgir about Bitcoin as a Governance Revolution

Shermin Voshmgir is the director of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and the founder of BlockchainHub in Berlin. She is also a regular speaker at conferences and is consulting on the topic of blockchains – especially in the context of sustainability and social impact of future technologies. In spring 2017 I attended The Gamechanger Festival in Vienna and listened to Shermins talk about Blockchains & Smart Contracts. There I realized how disruptive this technology beyond Bitcoin will be. Shermin states, that it is more than an rapidly evolving technology, it will shift the economy completely and it needs research and application of new governance models. She sees Bitcoin as the beginning of an amazing governance revolution and envisions Tokens and Smart Contracts as the killer application of Blockchains. Shermins book “Token Economy” will be published in spring/summer 2019. Our Topics are: Importance of public infrastructure nodes Bitcoin, the beginning of a governance revolution Energy consumption of Bitcoin Mining (Min. 36:36) Blockchain and Sustainability Definition of terms “Token” and “Cryptocurrency” Facebook-Coin and Blockchain Token Design “It is very important that universities and institutions run public infrastructure nodes.” – Shermin Voshmgir “Bitcoin was the beginning of an amazing governance revolution.” – Shermin Voshmgir “I think Tokens and Smart Contracts are the killer application of blockchains. Whether that’s a good or bad thing, I am not sure yet.” – Shermin Voshmgir “Facebook has to start adopting these new technologies otherwise they will be gone.” – Shermin Voshmgir Sponsors Order here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Shermin Voshmgir about Bitcoin as a Governance Revolution erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 09 Feb 28, 2019

Robby Schwertner About Blockchain Use Cases with Return on Society and Asian Markets

Robby Schwertner, aka CryptoRobby is an advisor, speaker and analyst in the blockchain space. His mission can be summarized with the hashtag #ReturnOnSociety. He is supporting blockchain use cases with an added value to society for instance in green energy, real estate and mobility solutions. As Robby has lived and worked in Asia, we also discuss the differences between the european and asian cryptospace. “Lambos were necessary to reach the 99% of people.”Robert Schwertner [CryptoRobby] Sponsors Order here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Robby Schwertner About Blockchain Use Cases with Return on Society and Asian Markets erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 08 Feb 14, 2019

Aaron van Wirdum “It’s Bitcoin or Bust.”

Aaron van Wirdum is a technical editor for the Bitcoin Magazine. He started writing articles debunking Bitcoin myths in his personal blog in 2013. We are talking about the value propositions of Bitcoin, why he believes it is Bitcoin or bust, the privacy improvements in Bitcoin and Lightning and which effects “Cryptocurrencies” issued by central banks or “Facebook coins” could have. Recorded at the Israel Bitcoin Summit in January 2019. “The whole blockchain narrative, the whole cryptocurrency sphere is leading on Bitcoin.” – Aaron van Wirdum “Bitcoin is the most interesting and important thing going on in this industry. If Bitcoin would fail, it would remove all trust in the industry.” – Aaron van Wirdum Every year that passes by and Bitcoin does not die is a year of added trust that it won’t die.”– Aaron van Wirdum “It’s Bitcoin or bust. Either Bitcoin succeeds or we all fail.”– Aaron van Wirdum Sponsors Order here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Aaron van Wirdum “It’s Bitcoin or Bust.” erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 07 Jan 31, 2019

Alena Vranova on the Importance of User Experience in Bitcoin

I met Alena Vranova at the Israel Bitcoin Summit in Tel Aviv in January 2019. We talked about how she got into Bitcoin, why user experience is the most important factor for user adoption, why she wants her Mom to use Bitcoin, about her hopes that the Lightning Network – as a global financial network – is about to explode in 2019. We discuss how TREZOR, the hardware wallet manufacturer she co-founded, and CASA, where she is the Head of Business Development and Strategy, support the security of sovereign hodlers. I am a huge bitcoiner. But we as a Bitcoin community are very impatient and we want to enforce our worldviews on what they call the nocoiners. I don’t like the name, but you get me. We are pushing towards using satoshis or bits instead of Bitcoin, while the world has no idea about Bitcoin yet. There is certain impatience like …… we have the holy grail, why don’t you see that, your stupid if you don’t. So that is kind of the feeling I sometimes have, when I look at the developments in crypto, that are not user focused. – Alena Vranova You are either completely left on your own, when you have a hardware wallet and you need to protect your keys or you go to a Bitcoin bank such as Coinbase and there is nothing in between and we need to bridge that. – Alena Vranova Sometimes I think marketing is almost a swear word for some Bitcoiners. But Marketing is not a bad thing. Bitcoin is a product of collective effort and it deserves a better name and it deserves a nicer interface. So my Mom could eventually say ‘Of course I use Bitcoin’. – Alena Vranova Sponsors Order here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Alena Vranova on the Importance of User Experience in Bitcoin erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.

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Ep. 06 Jan 17, 2019

The Lightning Network Explained with René Pickhardt

“Lightning is Bitcoin”, says René Pickhardt a mathematician, data scientist and contributor to the Lightning Network. We talk about the evolution, goals and possible roadblocks of the Lightning Network and how it will bring massive utility to the Bitcoin Blockchain. René Pickhardt is also the author of the German Wikipedia article about the Lightning Network. René is creating an educational book about Lightning. This book targets developers who want to make use of the Lightning Network. However he will make this book useful for anybody who is interested in the Lightning Network and Bitcoin in general. You can support his fundraiser here. “Bitcoin cannot scale without having Lightning on top of it.” – René Pickhardt “Lightning is a very regulated way of using Bitcoin. Thats why I say Lightning is Bitcoin.” – René Pickhardt 14:40 the main technical concepts of the Lightning Network “The Bitcoin Blockchain becomes the judge. Its a shift in role. In the beginning the blockchain was this huge ledger where all the transactions where stored. Everybody could look at everybodies transaction. Now in the Lightning Network a payment is very private.” – René Pickhardt “One interesting thing about Lightning is that now you are able to earn bitcoin by having bitcoin. Running a Lightning node is relatively cheap. In order to be a good node, you have to put some liquidity inside of it. So you can basically earn interest on your bitcoin.” – René Pickhardt 29:12 On scaling Lightning and privacy “The Lightning Network has this huge potential to really add utility to Bitcoin.” – René Pickhardt 38:00 Renés’ discovery of an attack vector in Lightning and how the Lightning developers work together 42:31 the timeframe of Lightning: when will it be up and running? “You can use the Lightning Network now, but you have to be #reckless. At this point in time a lot of things can go wrong. We need at least another one or two years until its really usable.” – René Pickhardt “I am very optimistic, this is an amazing technology, it is very smart, I think it has very strong properties and I think all the problems we currently have, are fixable problems. They are not problems in the sense of, oh this is an open question and somebody has to come up with a smart solution. Its more like a social problem on how are we going to decide on certain things. ” – René Pickhardt Sponsors Order a Card Wallet here and get 20% off! (time-limited) Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag The Lightning Network Explained with René Pickhardt erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.