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Tales from the Crypt: A Bitcoin Podcast

Jun 29, 2020

Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Antoine Riard to discuss:

- Onboarding millions onto the Lightning Network

- BIP 157

- Full nodes

- Bitcoin Core wallet refactoring

- AltNet

- Time-dilation attacks on the LN

- CoinPool

- Schnorr + Taproot

- much more

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Jun 26, 2020

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

- Waxwing responds to OXTResearch Joinmarket analysis 

- Gladstein and Elliptic Cofounder debate during messari virtual conference 

- Venezuelan government is now using btcpay server for passport applications 

- Glupteba malware uses bitcoin for communication

- Mobile wallet...


Jun 23, 2020

Join Marty as he sits down with Mike Peterson from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador to discuss:

- Why Mike started giving out Bitcoin in El Zonte

- Creating a bitcoin circular economy

- Using Lightning to achieve this goal

- Educating individuals about bitcoin

- Airdrops, do they work?

- Price volatility

-...


Jun 22, 2020

Join Marty as he sits down with Gary Leland, organizer of the BitBlockBoom conference, to discuss:

- Growing up on James Island in South Carolina

- Surfing

- The development of cable TV

- Early days of podcasting

- BitBlockBoom

- much more 

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Jun 18, 2020

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

- Coldcard v3.1.6 firmware 

- Bisq v1.3.5 

- Tallycoin v2 

- Automated BIP39 recovery in Electrum 

- ASIC industry breakdown by bitmexresearch 

- Blockstream Esplora now bundles in a custom version of electrs

- PR to split the bitcoin core GUI 

- bitcoinqna releases explainer on...