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Stephen Pollock is the SVP of Development at the Bitcoin Policy Institute. BPI is the leading bitcoin focused think tank in the United States. We discuss the current regulatory environment, status of the Samourai Wallet case, and the strong success so far shaping bitcoin policy in America.

Disclosure: I am a founding board member of BPI.

Stephen on X: https://x.com/spollockbtc
Bitcoin Policy Institute: https://btcpolicy.org
BPI Summit: https://btcpolicysummit.org
P2P Rights Fund: https://p2prights.org

EPISODE: 158
BLOCK: 895392
PRICE: 1061 sats per dollar<...

NVK is the cofounder of Coinkite, the leading bitcoin only hardware provider in the industry. Coinkite's Coldcards are the easiest way to secure bitcoin and provide users a variety of features depending on their personal situation. We discuss his product philosophy, the state of self custody bitcoin adoption, and future outlooks.

Disclosure: Ten31 is the exclusive investor in Coinkite.

NVK on Nostr: https://primal.net/nvk
Coinkite: https://coinkite.com
Ten31: https://ten31.xyz
OpenSats: https://opensats.org

EPISODE: 157
BLOCK: 894522
PRICE: 1050 sats per dollar

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Evan is the founder of Zeus. An open source lightning wallet available for iOS and Android. In addition to their best-in-class self custody tools they recently launched cashu support in their beta release.

Evan on Nostr: https://primal.net/evan
Zeus: https://zeusln.com/

EPISODE: 156
BLOCK: 893560
PRICE: 1096 sats per dollar

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Rob is the cofounder of AnchorWatch, a company focused on providing secure bitcoin storage and insurance using native bitcoin miniscript functionality. Customers are able to maintain custody of their bitcoin while having best in class Lloyds of London coverage against loss and theft.

Rob on Nostr: https://primal.net/rob
AnchorWatch: https://www.anchorwatch.com/

EPISODE: 155
BLOCK: 892714
PRICE: 1193 sats per dollar

Video: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqspsdvmmmarccnacl4msaq7kq8zxdthkau43gtcrrq0tt7vllc6lngq7j3j6

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Dan is the maintainer of Payjoin Dev Kit. Payjoins are a type of collaborative bitcoin transaction that can reduce fees and improve privacy. We discuss the potential for broad industry adoption among bitcoin wallets and companies.

Dan on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqszvkpk9scn064gq8awgp97xmlusrsk5cwy82y35wsyd0kykuhynzspqmlwl
Dan's Website: https://bitgould.com/  
Payjoin Dev Kit: https://payjoindevkit.org/   

EPISODE: 154
BLOCK: 891950
PRICE: 1210 sats per dollar

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I had the pleasure of presenting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during their annual Bitcoin Expo on April 6th 2025. Thought you all may find it interesting. Video link below if you want to reference my slides. It is a 15 minute presentation with 15 minutes of Q&A.

Video: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsvs6n8z5m2fu5q5y5tqdd8xwjv053znufhfh80mytmlngrd44axdg3uyvuy

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Lisa is the founder of Base58 and Bitcoin++ bitcoin developer education initiatives and a board member of OpenSats. We discuss her conference series and the current state of bitcoin development.

Lisa on Nostr:  https://primal.net/niftynei
Bitcoin++: https://btcplusplus.dev/
Base58: https://base58.school/
OpenSats:  https://opensats.org/

EPISODE: 153
BLOCK: 890602
PRICE: 1157 sats per dollar

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Governor Lee is a seventh generation Tennessean and the 50th Governor of Tennessee. This chat was in front of a live audience at Bitcoin Park during our annual Nashville Energy and Mining Summit in January.

Video Version: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsf42mh0qnxe9xvztn84w99xsy7wxhdprtxy940mdz9hp6rp4wazvgkeg8cd

Gov Lee on X:  https://x.com/GovBillLee

EPISODE: 152
BLOCK: 881423
PRICE: 1000 sats per dollar

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Steve Lee is lead at Spiral, Block's open source initiative, and has recently helped launch Presidio Bitcoin, a bitcoin community space in San Francisco. Craig Raw is the creator and maintainer of Sparrow Wallet, one of the best bitcoin desktop wallets available. We discuss the tradeoffs of Block's new Bitkey hardware wallet and potential improvements. Then we briefly jump into discussion on soft fork proposals for bitcoin vault functionality.

Steve on Nostr:  https://primal.net/moneyball
Craig on Nostr:  https://primal.net/craigraw 

EPISODE: 151
BLOCK: 888348
PRICE: 1222 sats per dollar

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Jack Dorsey is founder of both Twitter, now X, and Square, now Block. We discuss his strong focus on bitcoin and nostr, lessons learned across his many years of experience, censorship on twitter, and the promise that open source freedom tech holds for humanity.

We also celebrate the pardon of Ross Ulbricht after 12 years in jail for the nonviolent crime of running SIlk Road. The news broke while we were live.

Jack on Nostr: https://primal.net/jack

EPISODE: 150
BLOCK: 880265
PRICE: 939 sats per dollar

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Zack Shapiro is Head of Policy at the Bitcoin Policy Institute and Executive Director of the P2P Rights Fund. We discuss the current regulatory landscape and how it may evolve under the upcoming Trump Administration.

Bitcoin Policy Institute: https://www.btcpolicy.org/
P2P Rights Fund: https://p2prights.org/

EPISODE: 149
BLOCK: 879414
PRICE: 1006 sats per dollar

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Buck Perley is one of the co-hosts of Austin BitDevs and an engineer at Unchained. We discuss his work improving Unchained's open source sovereign multi sig app Caravan.

Buck on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub15gaw9fpcwrleq332pl95xndencvwgwdtfee6ejlngp7waeh0e35sg8r670
Blog Post: https://unchained.com/blog/unchained-2024-open-source/
Caravan Repo: https://github.com/caravan-bitcoin/caravan
Caravan Website: https://www.caravanmultisig.com/
Unchained Website: https://unchained.com/

EPISODE: 148
BLOCK: 877362
PRICE: 1062 sats per dollar

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Satoshi Pacioli is a leading bitcoin focused accounting firm based at Bitcoin Park in Nashville. They discuss the recent IRS rule changes and their best interpretation of how to proceed going forward.

Satoshi Pacioli on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1drlw0wmu9tq37usx4qt3u6u4zj44mrf3zsfa6xhcdyrh3n4wpmgqr4rfg0
Website: https://satoshipacioli.com/

EPISODE: 147
BLOCK: 877102
PRICE: 1060 sats per dollar

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Fran is the creator and lead maintainer of Zap Store, an open permissionless app store for android and desktop. Zap Store uses nostr and verifiable social reputations to provide users and developers a secure, easy to use, alternative to the walled garden app stores operated by Apple and Google.

Fran on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1wf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgs43dgh9
Download Zap Store: https://zapstore.dev/

EPISODE: 146
BLOCK: 875198
PRICE: 936 sats per dollar

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Miljan is the Founder and CEO of Primal, one of the most popular nostr and bitcoin apps in the world. His team recently launched Primal 2.0, bringing users more functionality than ever before. Bitcoin is an open protocol for money, nostr is an open protocol for speech, Primal brings the power of both into an easy to use interface for everyone.

Search Primal in your favorite app store!

Miljan on Nostr: https://primal.net/miljan

EPISODE: 145
BLOCK: 872088
PRICE: 1071 sats per dollar

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Calle is the creator and lead maintainer of the cashu open source protocol, a bitcoin powered chaumian ecash implementation. The cashu ecosystem of wallets and backends provides users the ability to easily, cheaply, and privately use bitcoin, including the ability to make offline peer to peer payments.

Sorry for the technical difficulties at the beginning of this rip. We clear everything up around the 10 minute mark.

Cashu Resources: https://cashu.space/

Calle's Cashu Wallet: https://cashu.me

Calle on Nostr: https://primal.net/calle

EPISODE: 144
BLOCK: 870884
PRICE: 1086...

Steve runs Spiral, Block's open source bitcoin initiative. Lyn is founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy and partner at Ego Death Capital. Steve and Lyn join the show to discuss their recent research paper on bitcoin consensus changes, the process which the network implements potential improvements, and the various stakeholders involved.

Research Paper: https://github.com/bitcoin-cap/bcap

Steve on Nostr:
https://primal.net/moneyball

Lyn on Nostr:
https://primal.net/lyn

EPISODE: 143
BLOCK: 869880
PRICE: 1180 sats per dollar

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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

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MADEX is an incredibly talented bitcoin artist and a good friend based in Canada. We discuss his long journey producing freedom focused high quality physical artwork while trying to make a sustainable living. We also discuss his work leading branding for Canadian bitcoin services provider Bull Bitcoin and his concerns with modern corporate social platforms.

MADEX on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1ndketdm2qyv35nrhsxzks8kh7w7w6tll4rjp29hv0qjqkgfjsh6snmgk2v

Explore his art: https://madex.art/

EPISODE: 141
BLOCK: 865812
PRICE: 1501 sats per dollar

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Ocean Mining is a new and innovative bitcoin mining pool focused on transparency and freedom for the individual miners who choose to use them. With their new DATUM release miners who use Ocean will be able to construct and broadcast blocks themselves removing a key trust component from the process and reducing censorship risk. We had the pleasure of having multiple key members of their team join us for this conversation.

OCEAN on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze

Luke on Nostr: https://primal...

Phil Geiger is a good friend and VP of Marketing at Unchained. We discussed the current bitcoin landscape, the importance of self custody and their self custody IRA product, the tradeoffs of KYC, their new Donor Advised Fund product, and Nostr.

Phil on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1jvzgkrej3gpplqut2xfncg25qr7wmt3jlmyk3u7nxtcp4qj50tgsh96c2w

Learn more about Unchained: https://unchained.com/

EPISODE: 139
BLOCK: 861729
PRICE: 1638 sats per dollar

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