NOBODY LIKES ONIONS: Recent Episodes
The Coin Pod
A series of conversations about Bitcoin with people who build, study, and use it, hosted weekly by Zack Voell.
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 Lightning Labs’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lightning BIP 158: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12254
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: https://lightningpeach.com/
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. Use these links to find out more about the ZigZag DEX on Lightning.
Links:
Andrey’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewshvv Oleg’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/olegmikh1 ZigZag: https://zigzag.io/ ZigZag’s Medium blog: https://medium.com/bitlum
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: https://twitter.com/buymoonstuff
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: https://twitter.com/SatoshisGames Satoshi’s Games: https://studio.satoshis.games/
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
MP3, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/tcp33
Casa is building the best persona key system on the planet, and Casa's co-founder, Jeremy Welch, joins the show to explain how and why.
Jeremy's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremyrwelch Casa's Twitter: https://twitter.com/CasaHODL
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
MP3, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/tcp28
Giulia 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: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/c947050ed87b18be580f540951704d35809f92c9/bip-dandelion.mediawiki
Follow Giulia: https://twitter.com/giuliacfanti Follow The Coin Pod: https://twitter.com/thecoinpod
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 development, and the motivations behind creating Zap. We packed a lot of great content into a short episode, so enjoy.
After listening, follow Jack on Twitter (https://twitter.com/JackMallers) and his project Zap, too (https://twitter.com/ln_zap). You can find The Coin pod on Twitter (https://twitter.com/thecoinpod) and Mastodon (https://bitcoinhackers.org/@thecoinpod) as well. Visit thecoinpod.com (https://www.thecoinpod.com) to catch up on any and all previous episodes.
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 development, and the motivations behind creating Zap. We packed a lot of great content into a short episode, so enjoy.
After listening, follow Jack on Twitter (https://twitter.com/JackMallers) and his project Zap, too (https://twitter.com/ln_zap). You can find The Coin pod on Twitter (https://twitter.com/thecoinpod) and Mastodon (https://bitcoinhackers.org/@thecoinpod) as well. Visit thecoinpod.com (https://www.thecoinpod.com) to catch up on any and all previous episodes.