Advancing Bitcoin: Recent Episodes
Conor Okus
The Advancing Bitcoin podcast brings you conversations with bitcoin developers and designers to help educate everyday people about this game-changing technology.
In our final episode, we explore ways to bring open-source bitcoin developers and designers together to build experiences that will sow the seeds for mass adoption.
General thoughts on bridging the gap - 6.00
How do we prevent builders working in silos? - 14.30
How important is communication in an open-source environment? - 22.00
UX designers and protocol developers understanding each others perspective - 25.55
Importance of technical designers in Bitcoin - 33.08
Designers proposing BIPS - 35.00
Getting more designers working on open-source Bitcoin - 36.33
Designing with privacy in mind - 42.15
Final thoughts - 51.10
TwitterDaniel Nordh - @danielnordh
Bosch - @_Bosch_
Github
Yuval Kogman - https://github.com/nothingmuch
Bitcoin Design Communityhttps://bitcoin.design/
In episode 4, we speak to another Square Crypto grantee, Johns Beharry. Johns focus is on researching Bitcoin payments and documenting good UX patterns for on and off-chain payments.
Johns Background - 1:45
Why Johns thinks Bitcoin is important - 3:12
Transferring money around the Caribbean - 5:10
Why is financial privacy important? - 16:45
How is Bitcoin focusing on privacy? - 22:10
How can we make privacy-enhancing features more accessible? - 26:45
Bridging the gap for designers and developers focused on privacy - 33:15
The Bitcoin Design Guide - 37:36
Expressing Bitcoin through Illustration - 41:50
The importance of a Bitcoin focused design community - 45:00
Twitter - @johnsBeharry
Website - https://johnsbeharry.com/
Bitcoin Design Community - https://bitcoin.design/
In episode 3, Patrícia Estevão helps us to understand the importance of user research in Bitcoin. We discuss how user research can help us answer some fundamental questions such as:
Who are we building for?
Why are we building for them?
What problems are we trying to solve?
Projects Patricia has focused been involved in - 03:43
Do we have enough open-source user research? - 12:30
Challenges with being out of the banking system - 16:45
Onboarding new users - 20:55
Are most Bitcoin users being technically savvy? - 27:15
What user problems do we need to solve? - 31:30
Patricia’s research proposal - 34:55
Twitter - @patestevao
Website - https://patestevao.com/
Research proposal - https://github.com/patestevao/Bitcoin-UX-research-proposal
Bitcoin Design Community - https://bitcoin.design/
In episode 2 we speak to Alex Aker about the Imagine Bitcoin 2140 challenge. The challenge encourages Bitcoiners to envisage what Bitcoin will look like in the year 2140 and express their ideas through art.
Can we all be creatives and artists? 05:35
Alexa’s Genesis story - 07:40
Understanding economics and technology as a designer - 12:15
The role of art and music in the Bitcoin revolution - 15:40
What is Imagine Bitcoin 2140? - 19:18
The significance of 2140 - 25:58
Creating time to think about Bitcoin 100 years from now - 27:40
Contributing to Imagine Bitcoin 2140 - 30:53
Final thoughts - 37:37
Twitter - @AlexAker
Website - https://alexaaker.com/
Bitcoin Design - https://bitcoin.design
In episode 1 we speak to Christoph Ono about The Bitcoin Design Guide, a project being spearheaded by the open-source Bitcoin design community.
Christoph’s first experiences with Cryptocurrency - 03:16
Transitioning from Monero to Bitcoin - 06:45
Crypto UX handbook - 09:15
Why is Bitcoin game-changing? 12:12
Introduction to the Bitcoin Design Guide - 16:40
Contributing to the Bitcoin Design Guide - 20:10
The private key management section - 24:55
Thoughts on the current state of wallets - 26:50
The open-source Bitcoin design community - 32:05
Developer/Designer grants - 35:30
Bitcoin Design Guide - https://bitcoin.design/
Christoph's Twitter - @GBKS