Hey, thanks! Hope you like the magazine, right now I’m working on a new one for this year’s conferences 🤩
SBF is in your DMs asking for $60k to make it all back in one trade. What do you do?
Oh, you went straight for the controversial one 😅
Thanks, mr. Blue Laser Eyes Al Pacino! Which episodes did you check out?
If you do take a look, please send feedback 🫡
Have you seen what a Wasabi 2.0 CoinJoin looks like?
They do the most research and development in Bitcoin privacy, it’s all open source for anyone else to fork and use. Trezor is adding a Wasabi integration, BTCPay is working on it too, some centralized exchanges that hate surveilling their users will most likely follow.
It’s good tech which does huge CoinJoins without occupying too much block space. In the future, we can have entire Bitcoin blocks that contain 1-2 large CoinJoins.
Here’s an example of what Wasabi 2.0 already does on a regular basis: https://mempool.space/tx/084e9f1cff337425c3e66ddb85705f374afc922e9263e5af9099f24316c1f9c0
Check it out sometime, you’ll certainly find a guest/topic that you like.
As for tipping, your habit is admirable but based on my experience in the last 4 years it’s very much the exception to the rule. Bitcoiners like to HODL, it’s not easy to convince them to use their coins 😅
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Yeah, I gotta think about something so there’s little overlap. Maybe stories about my bitcoin journey 😅
Well, if you ever find the time there are nearly 150 episodes that I’ve recorded in the last 4 years. It’s more of an intermediate show for people who already know the basics and want to learn more about stuff that’s being built to drive up Bitcoin adoption.
I don’t give investment advice, but the guests usually work on projects/companies that can use some funding and may become profitable in a few years 🤷🏻♂️
No politics, no drama, just nerds building the future of social networking 🤷🏻♂️
The reason why I’m hesitant to add zapping to my profile is that I seek sponsorship for my articles & interviews so that the content can remain free and I don’t need to ask the audience for money.
I appreciate donations, but I’m feeling morally challenged by the idea of receiving money from my podcast listeners when I have 4 minutes of ads in every episode.
You also help the Bitcoin ecosystem at large if you check out the sponsors – because I pick them myself and they provide unique products/services with the Bitcoin ethos in mind.
So you also help a lot if you:
💚 download & use Wasabi wallet
😎 buy a Cryptosteel Capsule (10% off using code BTCTKVR) to store your Nostr private key, passphrase, or BIP39 seed
📱tell your favorite content creator on Patreon/OnlyFans to switch to Bumbee and get paid in bitcoin
🛒 do your shopping on ShopInBit instead of Amazon (5 euro discount with code BTCTKVR, 3% discount if you pay in BTC)
Mastodon is not censorship resistant and can actually become more restrictive than Twitter if the guy who runs the server discovers his dictator complex. Sure, everyone can run their own server but that’s not a great experience.
Nostr really is really something else.
Nostr is now the Bitcoin Twitter to which I signed up in 2017.
It’s not easy to admit that I sunk too many hours into a dying platform, but I’m happy this little pet project I first found out about from Ben Arc in the summer of 2021 has grown so much.
Just a month ago, it was unusable and it was hard to find good relays. Now people are making instant payments to each other and submitting proposals for marketplaces and other cool ideas.
My only concern is that the project will eventually run out of funding and require to make money somehow. Hope we’ll figure out a way to support it in such a way that it doesn’t need to get bloated with ads (though it would be cool if mainstream companies paid for ads on Nostr, that’s extra acknowledgment).
But if you turn out to be a 35 year-old bearded guy who plays World of Warcraft, I’ll still get you that drink 😂