Podcast: Bitcoin Audible

Chat_78 – To Nostropolis & Beyond! with BitKarrot

I recently had an awesome two-hour marathon chat about P2P social media with BitKarrot from the Nostrovia podcast. We chatted about the challenges and future of decentralized social media, touched on other developments in the space, and sprinkling in some extra chaos and uncertainty on the future of AI. This was a crazy ride through…

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Chat_78 – To Nostropolis & Beyond! with BitKarrot

I recently had an awesome two-hour marathon chat about P2P social media with BitKarrot from the Nostrovia podcast. We chatted about the challenges and future of decentralized social media, touched on other developments in the space, and sprinkling in some extra chaos and uncertainty on the future of AI. This was a crazy ride through today’s tech and the future its taking us to. Don’t miss this one.

Check out the Nostrovia Podcast to take a deep dive into all things Nostr!
https://fountain.fm/show/EHr7oroKVhkIAWNTGGRn

Follow BitKarrot on Nostr: npub18pudjhdhhp2v8gxnkttt00um729nv93tuepjda2jrwn3eua5tf5s80a699
Guy’s Nostr Pubkey: npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev

Don’t forget to check out our amazing sponsors:
• Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, with the NEW Coldcard Q1! A company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard)
• Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 20,000 FREE SATS! at (https://guyswann.com/fold)
• The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner – Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy)

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Basics_04 – Wallets & Transactions

Hot wallets, cold wallets, hardware wallets, custodial wallets, lightning wallets, holy crap! What does all of this mean and how do they relate to your keys and your bitcoin? That is what we are covering in today’s episode, Bitcoin Basics episode 4, all about wallets and transactions. Here is a reference to all of the…

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Basics_04 – Wallets & Transactions

Hot wallets, cold wallets, hardware wallets, custodial wallets, lightning wallets, holy crap! What does all of this mean and how do they relate to your keys and your bitcoin? That is what we are covering in today’s episode, Bitcoin Basics episode 4, all about wallets and transactions.

Here is a reference to all of the wallets I use most often and for you to explore when setting up your own. I will also have this available on bitcoinaudible.com so it is easy to find down the road.

Wallets Guy uses…
Mobile On-Chain Wallets:
Green Wallet
Blue Wallet
Nunchuk
Bitkit (careful, still in beta but one I’m excited about)
Keeper

Desktop Wallets:
Green Wallet
Lily Wallet
Sparrow (can be more advanced, but a good wallet)
Specter (need a node, we will cover this later in the Basics)
Electrum (old school, but trusted)

Hardware Wallets:
Coldcard (long running, trusted, & versatile)
Blockstream Jade
Tapsigner (simple, card sized hardware wallet)
Bitbox (clean, easy to use bitcoin wallet)
Seedsigner (cool DIY hardware wallet, low cost)
Keystone
Trezor

A great, essential piece for first getting into the space, Bitcoin First:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2bbmhdkHH1vcM31uo5Mimd?si=515dc45d1ca544ec

Don’t forget to check out our amazing sponsors:
• Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, with the NEW Coldcard Q1! A company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard)
• Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 20,000 FREE SATS! at (https://guyswann.com/fold)
• The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner – Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy)

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Chat_77 – NVK on Stone Cold Storage in a Fiat World

Nostr, OP_VAULT, decentralized media, privacy, the incredible progress of the past few years, the challenges of making Bitcoin hardware, why bear markets are the best time in Bitcoin, and of course, the new Coldcard Q1. NVK and I catch up on everything happening in the Bitcoin space and what has us excited to build to…

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Read_703 – The Banks Are So F**ked – [Callebtc]

“Here is a little story of how I built a #Bitcoin Lightning payments app used by more than 10,000 users at the time running on two Raspberry Pi’s from my bedroom… My conclusion: The banks are so f**kd” – CalleBTC Check out the original thread for more projects Callebtc is involved in, and follow Calle…

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Basics_03 – Keys, Everything You Need to Know

Not your keys, not your coins. What does this mean? Your Bitcoin keys are literally the keys to the kingdom. They are everything, they are the sole arbiter of ownership of the bitcoins behind them if you have your keys, and they are the impenetrable fortress for the bitcoins behind keys you do not have. They…

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Read_702 – FediPools as a Solution to Centralization Risk [Marty Bent]

“If Fedipools prove to be viable we could find ourselves in a world where bitcoin mining pool centralization risk is significantly reduced and the worries that many have today cease to exist. By creating a federation of different miners who act as guardians of a mint dedicated to producing blocks and distributing rewards you create…

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Read_701 – Lightning for Everyone in Every App [Roy Sheinfeld]

“This is the end of Lightning as a niche technology and the beginning of Lightning as a (ubiquitous) Service. In a few years, Lightning functionality will be so universal that nobody will even notice it any more, and it will be so useful that nobody will want to live without it. Like phones. Like shoes. Like…

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Read_700 – The Race to Avoid the War [Cory Klippsten]

“Furthermore, when Bitcoiners develop privacy and scaling technology for Bitcoin, we make it substantially more challenging for anti-coiners to make the case that a war on Bitcoin is winnable. When more of us demonstrate the unmatched power of Lightning Network payments in small nations, influential legislators and bankers in the U.S. take note and are…

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