🎧 Latest episode has dropped! I talk with Dash (dash1971@nostrplebs.com), who is part of the Tokyo Citadel. I was able to meet some of the Tokyo Bitcoin crew when I was travelling there recently. We talk about privacy, security, and freedom tech. Check the episode here: https://fountain.fm/episode/X16dUYZoOhC85K6N6MWW
🎧 Latest episode has dropped with Faris Mali, co-host of the Bitcoin Basics Podcast. We talk about his journey growing up in the Middle East and North Africa, working in the academic world in Australia, and his upcoming book 'Bitcoin Begins'.
🎧 Latest episode has dropped with Devon Lazelle. We talk about her Bitcoin story and what is important to her, including the Proof of Work of motherhood, and exploring the best ways to enable children to learn and thrive in this changing world.
🎧 New episode is out. I talk with Niko Laamanen, the founder of Konsensus Network, a company that focuses on localising and distributing important literature about Bitcoin, Austrian economics, and sovereignty.
https://fountain.fm/episode/KWs2gUYaaGnH7urgCRiH
Niko recognised the importance of conveying the Bitcoin message into other languages, starting with the Finnish edition of The Bitcoin Standard which he and a small group of volunteers translated themselves.
Since then the company has published over 60 books in dozens of languages. We talk about the Konsensus Network’s mission, and the way they operate as a decentralised organisation, and at a higher-level explore the idea of how a small group can affect powerful change.
🎧 New podcast episode is out: The New Zealand Power Grid and Bitcoin with Mike Lazelle and Brad Henderson.
🎧🇸🇻 Latest episode is out. I talk with Nicki & James about building a Bitcoin life in El Salvador.
As it stands, I see a lot more promise from the likes of wallet of satoshi / getalby / breez integrating Nostr private messaging etc than I do from a half-baked Telegram "crypto" wallet that I cannot trust at all and that doesn't even work.
There is still a way out of this for Telegram though. I see a clear opportunity to build out Bitcoin and Lightning infrastructure and be a first mover here in messaging + payments. Cut TON out and build some real systems.
1100 sats is high risk? According to who? This is about as loose as it gets. If I cannot deposit Bitcoin to my wallet then how can anyone? There was no ticket number, no support link, just a quick "give us your refund address." Who else has access to my funds?
The real failure though was that though my transaction got confirmed on-chain, it was still listed as "pending" in Telegram. I left it for 12 hours+ and it still had not been added to my balance. I contacted the support bot and this is what they had to say:
Secondly, I made a test transaction and was surprised to see they were using legacy format P2PKH addresses. This is not unique, coinbase
and others still use legacy addresses formats (which means higher fees for the user).
Firstly, they support BTC, but only alongside their own shitcoin token "TON" and USDT. There is no way to disable the display of TON and it always shows up at the top. Telegram is used by hundreds of millions globally and they are using this position to shill a POS shitcoin.
🧵 There has been some big announcements about Telegram supporting Bitcoin in their built-in app wallet recently. I decided to test it out and unfortunately found some major issues that make it a failure and Dead on Arrival.
🎧 New episode is out! I talk with Darcy Ungaro, the host of NZ Everyday Investor Podcast about Bitcoin. https://fountain.fm/episode/14866115360
This is high time preference though. Any way to slow it down and not need to have people’s constant attention?
I am still struggling with following and basic functions in Damus and some basic things. We have gone straight to some high level applications like duplicating twitter while the core infrastructure needs work still.