Bitcoin & Co. with Anita Posch (English)

Let me introduce you to two true Bitcoiners: Ketominer and his business partner, who are building bitcoin and lightning full nodes under the brand “nodl” since 2018. In our interview they explain how they got into bitcoin, why it is important to them and how they bootstrap their “un-corporation” from one level to the next. How they got into the Bitcoin spaceChanges in the Bitcoin space in the last yearsHow “nodl” came into lifeThe first nodl boxThe importance of a full nodeHow to receive online payments with BTCPayserver integrationNodl Cloud, Samourai Dojo BoxDifference between Nodl and Casa BoxRegulation of open source software related to crypto assetsHost4CoinsTheir un-corporation and investorsBeing bitcoin only----------More: https://bitcoinundco.com/en/nodl/ ‎----------Special offers for my listeners from my sponsors: Card Wallet - the safest cold storage solution. No software needed. Order now and get 20% off! (time-limited) https://www.cardwallet.com/anita---------- and ---------- The BitBox02 hardware wallet. Swiss made, secure and easy to use. Get free shipping with code "anita" now! https://shiftcrypto.ch/bitbox02/---------- and ----------Salamantex - Seamless pay with cryptocurrencies https://salamantex.com/customers/----------Follow: Subscribe to Anita's mailing list: https://anitaposch.com/newsletter/ | Twitter: https://twitter.com/anitaposch/ | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitaposch/ | YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/AnitaPosch----------Send a voice message to Anita: https://www.speakpipe.com/anitaposch---------- German Podcast: https://bitcoinundco.com/de/----------Donate: Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better.PayPal https://paypal.me/AnitaPosch | BTC https://tallyco.in/AnitaPosch/ | Lightning https://tippin.me/@anitaposch

"Regret is thinking you're late. Gratitude is thinking you're early. It's still early to get Bitcoin.", says Jimmy Song. He is a bitcoin educator, developer, entrepreneur, a lover of cowboy hats and boots and, as you can see on Twitter, a philosopher. He is the author of "Programming Bitcoin" and a co-author of "The Little Bitcoin Book". I sat down to have a chat with him at the Baltic Honeybadger conference in Riga.Topics: Austrian economicsHat and bootsTim FerrissAustin, TexasDifference between his book and "Mastering Bitcoin" by Andreas M. AntonopoulosAltcoins and FIAT moneyDemands on bitcoinMethod of payment or store of valueUSD and BTC competitionEnergy consumption of bitcoinBitcoin brings back a new frontierGoing to MarsSilicon Valley is missing out on bitcoin (see Dan Held https://bitcoinundco.com/en/dan-held/)LibraWhat Bitcoin needsBitcoiners are questioning everythingRegrets and being grateful----------More: https://bitcoinundco.com/en/jimmy-song/ ‎----------Special offers for my listeners from my sponsors: Card Wallet - the safest cold storage solution. No software needed. Order now and get 20% off! (time-limited) https://www.cardwallet.com/anita---------- and ---------- The BitBox02 hardware wallet. Swiss made, secure and easy to use. Get free shipping with code "anita" now! https://shiftcrypto.ch/bitbox02/---------- and ----------Salamantex - Seamless pay with cryptocurrencies https://salamantex.com/customers/----------Follow: Subscribe to Anita's mailing list: https://anitaposch.com/newsletter/ | Twitter: https://twitter.com/anitaposch/ | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitaposch/ | YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/AnitaPosch----------Send a voice message to Anita: https://www.speakpipe.com/anitaposch---------- German Podcast: https://bitcoinundco.com/de/----------Donate: Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better.PayPal https://paypal.me/AnitaPosch | BTC https://tallyco.in/AnitaPosch/ | Lightning https://tippin.me/@anitaposch

Juraj Bednar is an entrepreneur, hacker and co-founder of Paralelná Polis Bratislava and Prague’s Paralelní Polis. It hosts a hackerspace called Institute of Cryptoanarchy and a cafeteria with best coffee in Prague and accepting only cryptocurrencies. His favourite cryptocurrency is bitcoin, he also uses monero as a medium of exchange. In his talk "Financial surveillance and crypto utopias" at the #HCPP19 Hackers Congress Juraj presented his research on how banks are enforcing KYC, anti-money laundering regulations while at the same time do not care about it, if they want you as a customer. He also shows us hacks to regain financial privacy with cryptocurrency.We talk about:Opposing totalitarian regime and communismConcept of Paraleni PolisHow to survive in a society that is not free and the development of parallel societyKYC, anti-money laundering, tax evasionBanks are over-regulating, but they do not need to, if they want you as a customerNeed to have a bank accountSecurity theatreHacks for better financial privacyWhy bitcoin is his favourite cryptocurrency----------More infos, all links and recommendations: https://bitcoinundco.com/en/juraj-bednar/Follow: Subscribe to Anita's mailing list: https://anitaposch.com/newsletter/ | Twitter: https://twitter.com/anitaposch/ | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitaposch/ | YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/AnitaPosch----------Send a voice message to Anita: https://www.speakpipe.com/anitaposch---------- German Podcast: https://bitcoinundco.com/de/----------Donate: Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better.PayPal https://paypal.me/AnitaPosch | BTC https://tallyco.in/AnitaPosch/ | Lightning https://tippin.me/@anitaposch

"Lightning Hardware and Nodes" panel live from The Lightning Conference in Berlin. Four panelists representing four devices: Ketominer - nodl Box, Stacie Waleyko - Casa Node, Christian Rotzoll - RaspiBlitz and Sebastian Küng - BitBoxBase.01:52Introduce yourself very shortly and tell us which device you are presenting and: Which functionalities does your device offer? Is it a bitcoin full node, has it integrated Lightning, too - can it also be used as a hardware wallet?04:09What are the core design principles behind the development of your device? Who is your target customer? 07:06Is your device able to verify bitcoin transactions?08:38What are other reasons for people to run their own nodes at home?11:42How open are your devices regarding software use. Which Software / Wallet do you offer for your device? Do you have your custom wallet?14:41Is it possible to connect to your node when you're out and about with the smartphone and if so how?17:21Is the watchtower functionality in your setup included or is it not necessary? 19:01How would a user verify that the node software is correct and that the node itself is healthy? Do you have any procedures or incentives for the hardware users that they run upgrades of the software / firmware regularly.24:38With Lightning there is no seed. What happens if your HW device is destroyed or it is stolen. How can you backup the state of your channels?28:46A lightning node should be online 24/7, how does your device handle the fact that it is offline sometimes?32:01What are your future plans for your products?----------More episodes: https://bitcoinundco.com/en/Follow: Subscribe to Anita's mailing list: https://anitaposch.com/newsletter/ | Twitter: https://twitter.com/anitaposch/ | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitaposch/ | YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/AnitaPosch----------Send a voice message to Anita: https://www.speakpipe.com/anitaposch---------- German Podcast: https://bitcoinundco.com/de/----------Donate: Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better.PayPal https://paypal.me/AnitaPosch | BTC https://tallyco.in/AnitaPosch/ | Lightning https://tippin.me/@anitaposch

Janine Roemer is an independent journalist, who went from technophobe to cypherpunk. She found Bitcoin in 2012 and is working in the Bitcoin space since 2014. We talk about her concept for a “revision controlled journalism” that could bring more quality into the media landscape and replace churnalism and fake news through an independent funding model with bitcoin and lightning payments, research and quoting sources.We discuss:Definition of CypherpunksIdentity vs. anonymityMass surveillanceRevenge porn, deep fakesDefinition of “criminal”Fake news, Ad surveillance modelLightning payments as a funding model for journalismSteem.it platform for blogging and social mediaCivil uses Ethereum, is a spoke of ConsensusCensorship resistance of “blockchain” platformsOpen Timestamps and servicesRevision controlled journalismOpen Source IntelligenceConfusion about tax regulationLibrePatronSelf hosting as a security measureWordPress, Lightning publishing plugin with BTCpayserverAdoption of self-hosted journalismHow to be more private and secure in todays worldSurveillance capitalismLinking social media profiles to identitiesUS Border control, Being detained at the airport----------More: https://bitcoinundco.com/en/janine-roemer/ ‎----------Special offers for my listeners from my sponsors: Card Wallet - the safest cold storage solution. No software needed. Order now and get 20% off! (time-limited) https://www.cardwallet.com/anita---------- and ---------- The BitBox02 hardware wallet. Swiss made, secure and easy to use. Get free shipping with code "anita" now! https://shiftcrypto.ch/bitbox02/---------- and ----------Salamantex - Seamless pay with cryptocurrencies https://salamantex.com/customers/----------Follow: Subscribe to Anita's mailing list: https://anitaposch.com/newsletter/ | Twitter: https://twitter.com/anitaposch/ | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitaposch/ | YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/AnitaPosch----------Send a voice message to Anita: https://www.speakpipe.com/anitaposch---------- German Podcast: https://bitcoinundco.com/de/----------Donate: Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better.PayPal https://paypal.me/AnitaPosch | BTC https://tallyco.in/AnitaPosch/ | Lightning https://tippin.me/@anitaposch

Dan Held is the Director of Business Development for all products of Kraken. Kraken is one of the worlds biggest and well known cryptocurrency exchanges. Before that he co-founded and developed products like ZeroBlock and Interchange, that were aquired later on. In between he served in the rider growth team at Uber. He lives and works in Silicon Valley. We met at the Baltic Honeybadger Conference in Riga and discussed topics like the bitcoin distribution, what he finds surprising about Satoshi Nakamotos ideas, a possible bitcoin supercycle that’s in the making and much more.We discuss: Interchange, a tool for Crypto hedge funds ZeroBlock App His learnings at Uber HODLing vs. Spending Half a billion or a billion users is needed for stabilizing bitcoins price (est. 20 – 40 Million users now) The halvening Onboarding a billion users Libra might help differentiate bitcoins value proposition Governments can try to forbid bitcoin Why the bitcoin distribution is fair #RunForHalfin @VitusZe @RusselOkung What surprised him about Satoshis writings----------More: https://bitcoinundco.com/en/dan-held/ ‎----------Special offers for my listeners from my sponsors: Card Wallet - the safest cold storage solution. No software needed. Order now and get 20% off! (time-limited) https://www.cardwallet.com/anita---------- and ---------- The BitBox02 hardware wallet. Swiss made, secure and easy to use. Get free shipping with code "anita" now! https://shiftcrypto.ch/bitbox02/---------- and ----------Salamantex - Seamless pay with cryptocurrencies https://salamantex.com/customers/----------Follow: Subscribe to Anita's mailing list: https://anitaposch.com/newsletter/ | Twitter: https://twitter.com/anitaposch/ | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitaposch/ | YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/AnitaPosch----------Send a voice message to Anita: https://www.speakpipe.com/anitaposch---------- German Podcast: https://bitcoinundco.com/de/----------Donate: Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better.PayPal https://paypal.me/AnitaPosch | BTC https://tallyco.in/AnitaPosch/ | Lightning https://tippin.me/@anitaposch

Todays guest is Hass McCook, he is a civil engineer working on economic infrastructure like building roads and tunnels and has a lot of experience in mining. He did his MBA in Oxford and conducted his first research about the Sustainability of Bitcoin in 2014, he updated and expanded this work in 2018 with the paper “The Cost and Sustainability of Bitcoin” and was presenting his insights into the Environmental & Social Impacts of Gold & Bitcoin at the Baltic Honeybadger Conference in Riga in 2019.Our Topics:Bitcoin is hard moneyConsumerism Energy consumption of BitcoinEnvironmental impact of mining Gold, of FIAT printed money, coins and of banksEnergy consumption vs. CO2 emissionsEfficiency improvementsDigiconomist uses same methodology in research, but conclusions are intellectual inhonestCost to mine a bitcoin is about 6.500 USD todayMore hashpower will be put into the system as long as there is some money to makePrice drop at the beginning of 2019 was also because of a miners warMarket driven per Antminer S9Australia has powerful coal lobbies, small solar-energy industryAustralian Bitcoin sceneGold is useful in tech, a good way to store money, but unethical Gold is useless, unethical Learning about BitcoinVolatilityFull Nodes----------More: https://bitcoinundco.com/en/hass-mccook/ ‎----------Special offers for my listeners from my sponsors: Card Wallet - the safest cold storage solution. No software needed. Order now and get 20% off! (time-limited) https://www.cardwallet.com/anita---------- and ---------- The BitBox02 hardware wallet. Swiss made, secure and easy to use. Get free shipping with code "anita" now! https://shiftcrypto.ch/bitbox02/---------- and ----------Salamantex - Seamless pay with cryptocurrencies https://salamantex.com/customers/----------Follow: Subscribe to Anita's mailing list: https://anitaposch.com/newsletter/ | Twitter: https://twitter.com/anitaposch/ | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitaposch/ | YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/AnitaPosch----------Send a voice message to Anita: https://www.speakpipe.com/anitaposch---------- German Podcast: https://bitcoinundco.com/de/----------Donate: Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better.PayPal https://paypal.me/AnitaPosch | BTC https://tallyco.in/AnitaPosch/ | Lightning https://tippin.me/@anitaposch

Rodolfo Novak is an entrepreneur and a long time bitcoiner . He is building products like the OpenDime, the Coldcard Wallet, the BlockClock and is experimenting with a lot of other stuff connected to bitcoin. We talk about security, privacy and the future of Bitcoin as well as why he started to build hardware wallets. We discuss:His journey into Bitcoin, Coinkite payment terminals in 2013, How he realized that bitcoin is a store of value, The inherent right of privacy, If governments can forbid bitcoin, Sending bitcoin over radio, How OpenDime came into existence, Coldcard Wallet, Lightning vending machine, Blockclock, Future of Bitcoin.----------More: https://bitcoinundco.com/en/rodolfo-novak/ ‎----------Special offers for my listeners from my sponsors: Card Wallet - the safest cold storage solution. No software needed. Order now and get 20% off! (time-limited) https://www.cardwallet.com/anita---------- and ---------- The BitBox02 hardware wallet. Swiss made, secure and easy to use. Get free shipping with code "anita" now! https://shiftcrypto.ch/bitbox02/---------- and ----------Salamantex - Seamless pay with cryptocurrencies https://salamantex.com/customers/----------Follow: Subscribe to Anita's mailing list: https://anitaposch.com/newsletter/ | Twitter: https://twitter.com/anitaposch/ | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitaposch/ | YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/AnitaPosch----------Send a voice message to Anita: https://www.speakpipe.com/anitaposch---------- German Podcast: https://bitcoinundco.com/de/----------Donate: Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better.PayPal https://paypal.me/AnitaPosch | BTC https://tallyco.in/AnitaPosch/ | Lightning https://tippin.me/@anitaposch

Meet Aníbal Santaella Sánchez and Paola Rodriguez-Giustiniani from Venezuela. The couple left the country three years ago and live in Scotland now. Anibal started mining bitcoin back in Venezuela, but when the national forces started prosecuting miners, he stopped. Bitcoin is the only way for Anibal to send money to his father in Venezuela. Listen to the podcast episode to find out how this works, how the exchange ban and the regime have ruined the country that ended in todays humanitarian crisis and why the Petro is a scam.Anibal and Paola are also runners and will run the Berlin Marathon as a part of Team Satoshi on the 29th of September. Side story: Andreas M. Antonopoulos was the one who connected Vitus Zeller, the initiator of Team Satoshi, with Anibal & Paola.---------- more: https://bitcoinundco.com/en/petro-scam-bitcoin-venezuela/----------Special offers for my listeners from my sponsors: Card Wallet - the safest cold storage solution. No software needed. Order now and get 20% off! (time-limited) https://www.cardwallet.com/anita---------- and ---------- The BitBox02 hardware wallet. Swiss made, secure and easy to use. Get free shipping with code "anita" now! https://shiftcrypto.ch/bitbox02/---------- Follow: Subscribe to Anita's mailing list: https://anitaposch.com/newsletter/ | Twitter: https://twitter.com/anitaposch/ | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitaposch/ | YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/AnitaPosch----------Send a voice message to Anita: https://www.speakpipe.com/anitaposch---------- German Podcast: https://bitcoinundco.com/de/----------Donate: Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better.PayPal https://paypal.me/AnitaPosch | BTC https://tallyco.in/AnitaPosch/ | Lightning https://tippin.me/@anitaposch

Max Hillebrand is an economist who started reading Keynes when he was 9 and got into Bitcoin at the age of 16. He says "Bitcoin is for everyone", even his grandmother runs a Lightning node. First we discuss Bitcoin and then Max is debunking misconceptions about the Lightning Network.---------- more: https://bitcoinundco.com/en/max-hillebrand-busting-fud-lightning-network/----------Special offers for my listeners from my sponsors: Card Wallet - the safest cold storage solution. No software needed. Order now and get 20% off! (time-limited) https://www.cardwallet.com/anita---------- and ---------- The BitBox02 hardware wallet. Swiss made, secure and easy to use. Get free shipping with code "anita" now! https://shiftcrypto.ch/bitbox02/---------- Follow: Subscribe to Anita's mailing list: https://anitaposch.com/newsletter/ | Twitter: https://twitter.com/anitaposch/ | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitaposch/ | YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/AnitaPosch----------Send a voice message to Anita: https://www.speakpipe.com/anitaposch---------- German Podcast: https://bitcoinundco.com/de/----------Donate: Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better.PayPal https://paypal.me/AnitaPosch | BTC https://tallyco.in/AnitaPosch/ | Lightning https://tippin.me/@anitaposch