In this Bitcoin Weekly Kickback. Jake, Charlie, Donny, and Bob are joined by Matt Luongo to delve into: - The role of nodes versus miners in controlling Bitcoin. - The importance of fee revenue and NgU for different network users.- Designing Layer 2 incentives that align with Layer 1 priorities. - The Game Theory of UNCOMMON GOODS (The first Rune)F…

Ordinals have been huge on Bitcoin since launching in early 2023. There is $100's of millions in value locked in these digital artifacts. Liquidium allows users to borrow BTC using their Ordinal as collateral and lenders can earn a BTC yield lending to borrowers. Robin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Liquidium. Follow Robin on Twitter: @robin_liquidiu…

Another weekly chat of the latest in Bitcoin land. We have two special guests drop in this week. Philip from Arkadiko and Ian from Joltz Rewards, as well as the usual suspects Bob and Jacob.We Discuss:- Marathon Pools latest fee revenue coming way above average- Lighting + Coinbase- Custodial Lightning- Is DeFi a worthwhile goal?- Is BitVM safe?Fol…

Fungible tokens and digital collectibles are hot topics on Bitcoin. This year we saw BRC20's and Ordinals take off. Now in 2024, there are two new standards being launched that aim to replace many of the shortcomings of these previous attempts. Linden Stark breaks down Taproot Assets and compares the similarities and differences between this protoc…

In this chat we discuss:- The growing problem of mempool sniping and what to do.- MEV on Bitcoin- Private Mempools- Game of BlocksA relaxed and wide ranging chat with Charlie Spears, Bob Bodily, Donny and Jacob Brown.저자 Jacob Brown

The halving is right around the corner. Miners have to adapt to the revenue reduction and stay profitable. That's what were talking about today with a new initiative Marathon, a large public Bitcoin miner, is starting called Anduro. Creating an ecosystem of sidechains with Bitcoin at the center. Follow Jullian on Twitter: @jullian0701 Check out MAR…

Latest Bitcoin Kickback chat with the gang!We discuss:- Charlie Spears joins Blockspace Media- OPI Indexer Upgrades- BRC20 "2.0" vs Runes- How Runes Transfers Work- Long-Term Viability of Fungible Tokens on L1저자 Jacob Brown

Rootstock is an OG of the Bitcoin L2 space. They were the earliest in the market to focus on merge mining, EVM compatibility, and Bitcoin DeFi. In this interview, Daniel talks about the growth and what is happening within the Rootstock ecosystem as we go into this 2024-2025 cycle. Curious where Bitcoin L2s are going? You'll want to listen to this o…

Scaling Bitcoin is hard. Statechains are one potential way to scale it in a cheap and private way with minimal people to trust. Nicholas and his team at Mercury Layer are at the bleeding edge of developing Statechains. Follow Nicholas on Twitter: @gregory_nico Learn more about Mercury: https://mercurylayer.com/ -------------------------------------…

The usual suspects of Charlie, Donny, Bob and I discuss latest Bitcoin topics:- Merlin Chain. New Bitcoin L2.- Latest Runes Alpha- The Universal Bitcoin/Sats Symbol- EVMs as Bitcoin sidechains - Rootstock as the best EVM sidechainFollow Charlie: https://twitter.com/cbspearsFollow Donny: https://twitter.com/itsdonnyokFollow Bob: https://twitter.com/…

Moving from chain to chain is a pain in the ass. Layer on custodian risk and this area is ripe for better solutions. That was Boltz is working on with their non-custodial cross-chain/multi-layer swaps from different Bitcoin focued chains. Kilian is the co-founder of Boltz. We discuss: - How he got into Bitcoin? - The benefits of building things non…

Orkun is the co-founder of Citrea. A new Bitcoin L2 leveraging the latest ZK Rollup tech and BitVM to connect to the Bitcoin L1. How best to scale Bitcoin is a hotly debated topic. One promising option is rollups, but to do them properly we need an a new OP_CODE. That is until BitVM entered the picture with a middle path with potential for bridges …

In this open-format chat. Charlie Spears, Donny, Bob Bodily, and myself discuss a few interesting topics including:- How close ZKrollups are to coming to Bitcoin- Building better bridges for L2s with BitVM- The Taproot Wizards BIPLand- Finding consensus for upgrades in 2024You will definitely learn something in this one.…

In 2023, managing your crypto wallet is still a big pain in the butt. Seed phrases are a single point of failure no normal person wants to use. Enter the Ryder One. They have rethought the experience of what a hardware wallet could be from first principles and created a completely new experience for securely managing your digital assets. Louise Iva…

What is RGB? That is the question we are answering today. RGB is an off-chain solution that brings smart contracts to Bitcoin. It's a radically different approach to the global-state blockchains we're used to. Hunteris the Director of Engineering at DIBA. They are building a bleeding-edge wallet and platform to operationalize the RGB protocol. Tune…

Mike Jarmuz is the Managing Partner at Lightning Ventures. A Bitcoin-focused venture capital firm supporting early-stage founders. He has invested in over 1,500 startups to-date. We discuss: - Biggest mistakes he sees founders make when pitching - Anti-VC sentiment in Bitcoin - Biggest Opportunities - How to find good VC partners + much more Follow…

$500 billion in BTC is sitting mostly dormant. Proof-of-Stake chains need large amounts of capital to secure the network. David Tse is working to solve these two problems by allowing you to stake Bitcoin and secure a myriad of other blockchains. This new project is called Babylon. Check out the recently released litepaper here. https://docs.babylon…

The Lightning Network is heralded as the future of payments. However, several aspects of the network still require refinement. Amboss is one company doing that work. Jesse and his team are creating tools to make it more efficient to run a Lightning node and have access to the best data to make informed decisions. Follow Jesse on X: https://twitter.…

Lisa Neigut wears many hats. Lightning Protocol Engineer, Bitcoin Educator, and developer conference organizer just to name a few. She is the co-founder of Base58, an education platform focused on teaching beginner-to-advanced courses on different parts of Bitcoin. As well as organizing multiple conferences per year focused on the Bitcoin developer…

Matthew Black is building non-custodial Bitcoin financial tools. He started on the otherside side of crypto before getting disenchanted with how things were being built and making the jump to Bitcoin. Since then, him and his team have been hard at work on Atomic Finance and recently launched their first product using Discreet Log Contracts to safel…

Edan Yago is a core contributor to Sovryn. A DeFi protocol building financial tools for Bitcoin on the Rootstock sidechain. In this episode, we discuss: - The role of money - Practical ways to onboard new Bitcoiners - Satoshi's Hierarchy of Needs - Bitcoin-Only mindset and its flaws - Bitcoin-backed stablecoins and the Sovryn $DLLR and other gems. …

Its been just over a year since I switched careers entirely and got into the VC space with an analyst position a the Bitcoin Frontier Fund. Here are 5 things I learned that I was completely unaware of before I started. Building something amazing on Bitcoin? Connect with us at the Bitcoin Frontier Fund. We invest and assist the best early-stage foun…

Fedi is building community-empowering tech powered by Fedimint. An open-source protocol to custody and transact Bitcoin within a community (federation). This is a wide-ranging conversation with Kody Low who is the head of developer & product support at Fedi. We touch on his experience as a new Bitcoin developer and best places to learn today, the d…

A tsunami of innovation has crashed over Bitcoin in the past few months thanks to Ordinals. It's hard to keep up with the latest. Bob Bodily breaks down ordinals, inscriptions, BRC20s, rollups, and more. He and his team are also building Bioniq, which they say will be the fastest Ordinals marketplace in the world running on Internet Computer. Follo…

Muneeb Ali needs no introduction. He is an OG in the Bitcoin space and has been building for over a decade. He co-created the Stacks blockchain with Ryan Shea and currently is the CEO of Trust Machines which is building the largest ecosystem of applications focused on making Bitcoin more useful. Follow Muneeb on Twitter: https://twitter.com/muneeb …

Philip De Smedt is the co-founder and core contributor to Arkadiko. Arkadiko is a stablecoin protocol and lending platform built on Stacks, working to create better and more transparent finance tools for everyone. We discuss: - Why stablecoins aren't so stable? - Why build on Stacks? - The current landscape of DeFi + much more. Try out Arkadiko at …

Alexei Zamyatin is a Bitcoin enthusiast, researcher & software developer. He co-founded Interlay to solve the problem of getting Bitcoin to be used in as many places as possible in a safe, secure way. That lead them to build the V1 of their decentralized Bitcoin bridge. V2 has been released this week and brings a whole new suite of tools including …

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The potential for a truly user-owned internet is becoming closer than ever with new protocols like Nostr and decentralized identity systems like BNS. Larry has been at the forefront working in this area for years. His latest project is solving the problem of identity and search for users on Nostr. Catch Larry online: Twitter - @larrysalibra Website…

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Hiro Systems is a developer tooling company building software that makes Bitcoin developers lives easier. Max Efremov is developer evangelist at Hiro. Follow Max on Twitter: @maxefremov Follow Hiro Systems on Twitter: @hirosystems Learn more about Hiro developer tools: https://www.hiro.so/ ---------------------------------------------------------- …

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Zest Protocol is the first on-chain Bitcoin capital market. Offering undercollateralized Bitcoin loans for institutional borrowers and Bitcoin yield for liquidity providers. Utilizing the unique connection to Bitcoin and smart contracts that Stacks offers. Tycho and his team are working to truly unlock DeFi on Bitcoin. Follow Tycho on Twitter: @Tyc…

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Zach Herbert is the CEO of Foundation Devices. Foundation has a mission of making Bitcoin and decentralized technologies accessible to each and every individual in order to build a new era of sovereignty, ownership, and privacy. They aim to build a different kind of hardware company with an emphasis on open source and local manufacturing. Follow Za…

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Podcasting 2.0 is the next evolution of the RSS feed that brings new features for listeners and creators to listen to, enjoy, and get paid for listening to podcasts. Oscar Merry and the team at Fountain are leading the way with a fantastic new podcast app that solves two huge problems for listeners and podcast hosts. Download Fountain at https://fo…

All the latest happenings in Bitcoin land for the week of September 21st, 2022. Some big Bitcoin news and lots of good Lightning updates. Get the TL:DR on innovation happening in the Bitcoin ecosystem. http://subscribe.builtonbitcoin.xyz/ Big thank you to our sponsor, The Stacks Foundation. If you want to get started building on Stacks and push the…

Caleb (Phosphorus online) is the Host of The Airdrop Show. Airdorp is an NFT show for the everyday person. New tech can be complicated, Caleb and team bring on creators of all types to talk about how they are using NFTs, and the new tools Web3 brings to create better art, connect with their audiences, and thrive as a creator. Follow Caleb on Twitte…

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Brittany Laughlin is the Executive Director of the Stacks Open Internet Foundation. A crypto foundation that supports builders who create inside the Stacks ecosystem. Brittany has been a believer in crypto and Bitcoin since her early days at Union Square Ventures. Follow Brittany on Twitter: @br_ttany Learn more about the Stacks Foundation: https:/…