The Coin Pod

Join Zack as he discusses the challenges and nuances of on-chain data analytics and also Bitcoin's market cycles and maturation with Willy Woo, a technical analyst, engineer, and hardcore Bitcoiner.

Join Zack as he discusses the idiosyncrasies of Canada’s bitcoin market with Ben Perrin and Francis Pouliot of Bull Bitcoin, Canada’s premier bitcoin exchange, who share their thoughts on principled bitcoin businesses and why Canada is “the Afghanistan of Bitcoin exchanges”.

Join Zack as he discusses previous Bitcoin bear markets, how to handle them, how each one is similar to the others, and why they’re beneficial and even exciting with two long-time Bitcoiners: Dan McArdle and Dan Held.

Join The Coin Pod for a week-long series of interviews with Lightning Network developers building some of the coolest Bitcoin-focused projects around. This bonus episode is with Alex Akselrod, a current consultant and former lead developer at Lightning Labs. Alex answers a bunch of questions about compact block filters for light clients (BIP 158) and Neutrino. Use these links to find out more about Alex, BIP 158, and Lightning Labs. Links:> Alex’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/stile65 >...

Join The Coin Pod for a week-long series of interviews with Lightning Network developers building some of the coolest Bitcoin-focused projects around. This episode is with Yuriy Blockhin of Bitfury’s Lightning Peach team dedicated to Lightning Network R&D. Use these links to find out more about the Lightning Peach’s suit of products and plans for future development. Links:> Yuriy’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/yblokhin> Lightning Peach’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lightning_peach> Website:...

Join The Coin Pod for a week-long series of interviews with Lightning Network developers building some of the coolest Bitcoin-focused projects around. This episode is with Andrey Samokhvalov and Oleg Mikhalsky, two Lightning Network fanatics working to build one of the coolest decentralized exchange services around, namely ZigZag. Decentralized Exchanges (DEX) have massive potential to disrupt the bloated centralized exchange dominating the needs of retail investors and crypto-speculators....

Join The Coin Pod for a week-long series of interviews with Lightning Network developers building some of the coolest Bitcoin-focused projects around. This episode is with two avid Bitcoiners who build and grow a variety of projects. But for today, we’re focusing on one: Moonstuff. If you need bitcoin stuff (and you do), go to https://www.moonstuff.co/. Links: > Kevin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevJamesAde > Ryan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/guccimanlefluer > Moonstuff’s Twitter:...

Join The Coin Pod for a week-long series of interviews with Lightning Network developers building some of the coolest Bitcoin-focused projects around. This episode is with two lead developers of Satoshi’s Games, Carlos and Rocc, who are working to build an open source, micro-payment powered, elevated gaming experience with Lightning. Links: > Carlos’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/whiteyhat > Rocc’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/roquerrt > Satoshi’s Games’ Twitter:...

Join The Coin Pod for a week-long series of interviews with Lightning Network developers building some of the coolest Bitcoin-focused projects around. This episode is with Chris Stewart of SuredBits working to monetize APIs via Lightning. > Chris’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/chris_Stewart_5> SuredBits Twitter: https://twitter.com/SuredBits

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MP3, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/tcp32 > Udi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/udiWertheimer > Lopp’s hard fork tweet: https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1019675622581391361 > Conversation with Udi and Stop and Decrypt: https://twitter.com/udiWertheimer/status/1040862787088670720

MP3, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/tcp31 Listen as Kalle Alm, a Bitcoin Core contributor, explains his latest BIP, controversial feedback on it, and why generic signed message format matters. > BIP 322: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/725 > Twitter: https://twitter.com/kallealm

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MP3, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/tcp28Giulia Fanti, a computer scientist who introduced the Dandelion protocol in early 2017 as an effort to improve the anonymity of Bitcoin transactions joins me to discuss the details her proposal, the importance of anonymous peer-to-peer payments, and her experiences working with Bitcoin Core developers. > Read "Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Network for Anonymity": https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.04439> Read BIP 156:...

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MP3, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/tcp26 Four months ago, Dr. Saifedean Ammous published the most succinct apology for Bitcoin as a viable alternative to state-issued fiat currency in his book “The Bitcoin Standard,” (https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861/) which also serves as a de fact apology for the perennially controversial idea known as Bitcoin Maximalism. Regardless of your opinions on cryptocurrency, Dr. Ammous' thoughts are well...

MP3, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/tcp25 Bitcoin Magazine’s Aaron van Wirdum called the Lightning Network “probably the most highly anticipated technological innovation to be deployed on top of Bitcoin.” As the number of mainnet nodes and active channels continues to grow, his description seems accurate. One of the coolest projects built on Lightning is the Zap wallet, created by Jack Mallers. For this coin pod, Jack joins me to discuss the dynamics of Lightning, his thoughts on software...

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