Why are we here? what’s the point of encrypting all the things?This speech, should answer your question. Video version here: Juan Galt. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juangalt.substack.comBy Juan Galt

Start a meetup. Do it every month for atleast a year, but ideally forever. Make it noob friendly and Bitcoin only.Then do a second meetup in between, but full nerd mode for the developers. A year later, sprinkle some magic and boom! Bitcoin community happens.Helps to have an amazing hacker garage to hang at, and work from. Cheers to Lightning devel…

Most interesting to me anyway. How about you? There’s a lot of going on in the world, but no other person alive seems to be able to handle so many impossible jobs at the same time as Elon Musk. Despite controversies and political positions he has taken recently. You have to admit, what ever his secret is to execution, it is one worth figuring out.H…

I’ve decided to join Top Builder. If you are an entrepreneur or builder, you should join as well!topbuilder.devJuan Galt. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juangalt.substack.comBy Juan Galt

Start with a Bitcoin meetup. Convince some OGs to come hang out.Get sponsors to throw money into a hackathon pot. (Do a bunch of hard work nobody sees)And vuala! An awesome hackathon happens. Cheers!Juan Galt. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juangalt.substack.…

Max, a prolific Bitcoin open source contributor and tecnologist joins us to try and convince us to join him and the deepest bitcoin nerds on nostr! This conversation joins a series of discussions with Nostr entrepreneurs discussing the potential and friction points of Bitcoin’s native social network layer. If you like Nostr, follow me there! Juan G…

For the forseable future anyway, the cryptographic transformation of the dollar is not just inevitable but economically very attractive to the global south. Americans don’t get it, the Dollar is their water but the rest of the world is drowning in much worse fiat.Meanwhile Bitcoin is still in it’s distribution stage barely cracking 1% global adopti…

On this call we dove deep into the mechanics of Ark as a scaling technology, it’s differences with Lightning, the challenges to scaling and how Covenants would massively improved Bitcoin scaling technologies. Special thanks to Tiero and Ark Labs for the hard work on scaling Bitcoin self custody to the world. This is a public episode. If you would l…

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juangalt.substack.comBy Juan Galt

Had a cool chat with Zachary Pardey CEO of Bold Bitcoin a new kind of Bitcoin bank, about the future of Bitcoin exchanges, what’s wrong with their security and service model, and where the industry is likely to go, given the cypher security realities of today’s age, the wide range of data hacks, the prevalence of identity theft and how these forces…

Hello everybody! Sorry for the lol in podcasts there this month. I've been traveling and fell down an AI rabbit hole that I'm temporarily emerging from right now. This conversation with the OCEAN guys was I thought very productive and informative. I asked some of the finer questions related to their approach to the Ordinals boom and the game theory…

Mandrik, one of my favorite Bitcoiners joins us to reflect on the challanges of holding Bitcoin long term, navigating the industry as proffesional, the early days of Blockchain.info, and the era of Bitcoin US politics and Mainstream adoption.Juan Galt. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access …

Get10101 joins us for a quick overview and deep dive into the technology that won them a hackathon award and is quickly becoming a Bitcoin futures platform without a custodian. Juan Galt This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juangalt.substack.com…

I could not attend this show, but it came out great as Alp and Brad Mill discuss the various perspectives available to understand Bitcoin and how it’s consensus changes have played out. Juan Galt. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juangalt.substack.com…

Shinobi, Rearden and Matt Blue sit down on a spontaneous spaces to discuss Bitcoin Covenant soft forks, their trade offs, advantages, and debate the finer points.This conversation was not hosted by BitcoinNews or Juan Galt, but I like to save important spaces like this one and put it out on a feed so that they are not lost to time. Expect more of t…

Stealth Addresses, a new kind of reusable address quickly being adopted by wallets like Cake Wallet, has hit the market. Josi Bake, Bitcoin core contirbutor joins us to discuss the relevan BIP, and the adoption plan for this application layer update to Bitcoin privacy. As we live in the shadow of the Samurai Wallet develper arrests, new privacy sol…

Scott Dedels, author of The Dao Of Bitcoin, join us to discuss and process out reaction to the arrest of the Samurai Wallet devs. Juan Galt This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juangalt.substack.comBy Juan Galt

Moonsettler, who recently decided to take a break from Bitcoin twitter, left us a fantastic interview, describing the inner workings of Bitcoin’s Chaumian ecash, what is being built, the trade offs and the potential. Juan Galt This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit j…

Jeff Swan, Bitcoin OG joins us to discuss the many challenges facing Bitcoin in this new stage of mainstream adoption, the many white pills to be found despite the negative news the past few weeks and how things should or should not evolve, for Bitcoin to adapt. Juan Galt This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscr…

Rearden Former Casa and Bitgo engineer, joins us to discuss the latest effort in building consensus towards upgrading Bitcoin’s tooling. Initially proposed by Rusty Rustles out of the recent Bitcoin++ conference in Austin Texas. Rearden explains to us what restoring and fixing Bitcoin script means in general, what risks are being considered and how…

I had an amazing conversation with Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether and CTO of Bitfinex, one of the most influential people in the Bitcoin and crypto industry which not man know much about. His experience, approach and outlook were refreshingly real and the technologies he is investing into to further the cypherpunk vision, were fascinating to discuss.…

Bitrefill.com has been one of the most useful companies to Bitcoiners in recent years, letting many live on the Bitcoin standard through the use of their gift card marker, where over 10,000 gift cards can be purchased directly for Bitcoin.They sponsor this show, which we are very grateful and have a special discount for you, if you are interested. …

I got to sit down with a couple of members of Blockstream.com who are working on adoption of the Liquid Network in Latino America. It was a very interesting discussion and overview with a couple of hot moments via a surprise guest.We talk about some of the barriers to Liquid adoption, how it can help scale Bitcoin and how it differs from other ‘lay…

Hello everyone, I’ve been traveling a lot this year and so have fallen behind a bit on publishing these podcasts. The good news is, I have a new editor! helping me get through them, so you can expect them to keep coming steadily going forward.On this show we dive into the use of the Lightning Network at the enterprise level and from a B2B perspecti…

Justin Hodl made a twit a few weeks ago that blew my mind. If asics are basically at peak performance, and going from 3 to 2 nanometer chips is only a marginal improvement in mining power, then are we upon the commoditization of Bitcoin asics?Maybe mass production of good enough asic chips is upon us? Skot9000, founder of the Bitaxe project, which …

We had an amazing conversation moments after the new Bitcoin all time high was reached this Tuesday. Tone Vays, Dr. Jeff Ross, Simon Dixon and Joe Carlasare joined in to share their thoughts on where we are in the market, where we are going in 2024 and what’s driving Bitcoin price today.We also discussed Gold and the US Dollar macro environment, th…

Top entrepreneurs from the Bitcoin industry join us to discuss the challenges and benefits of running a Bitcoin company. Original spaces with links to all the guests here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juangalt.substack.com…

This is one of the most popular conversations we have had so far. A debate between a legacy economist, Fred Kruger who is also a Bitcoiner, and a self custody maximalist and cyber security expert Tony Yazbeck of TheBitcoinWay.com. The debate explored questions around the Bitcoin ETF vs Self Custody and whether Bitcoiners are Troyan horsing Wallstre…

Today we explore the world of Nostr, from the various reservations I have about the project, to the incredible applications being built on it that are not related to social media! Nostr as a protocol is the machine to machine communication protocol of Bitcoin and might have a big role uniting the liquidity of P2P markets in the future, as well as e…

From one of the oldest mining pools in the game, Kristian held ground on the many concerns and general FUD about Bitcoin mining centralization. Sure, you could argue that as a mining pool they have an incentive to not worry too much, but I really threw pretty much every piece of FUD I hear at Kristian and other miners who joined this show and well,…

The couple of gentlemen that joined us for this conversation are next level brilliant, true wizards of the Bitcoin arts. And I made sure to squeeze every drop of knowledge and wisdom from them I could. We did a full tour of the lightning network, one of Bitcoin’s most popular scaling solutions. From the very basics of it’s structure and use cases, …

Hey everyone! Happy new year! I’ve been traveling all month and it is good to be back home now, ready to get back to work! I’ve been a bit late on publishing the shows but expect them to come out steady every week going forward. This is one of may amazing conversations we’ve had over the past few weeks and guess what! you can now listen to them on …

On this conversation we navigated a variety of self custody related topics with quite a panel of experts, including Tony from TheBitcoinWay and the creator for Coldcard himself, Mr. NVK!We specifically navigated points I made about self custody on my speech about self custody at Adopting Bitcoin including the controversial dilemas I brought up abou…

As Colombia’s furthest left president in my life time, Petro’s interest in Bitcoin was not only surprising, but unorthodox. The problems he was looking to solve with Bitcoin are not what people usually associate with the distributed network, yet I agree, are very powerful posibilities.Primarily, the public auditability of critical government money …

Alex Jones got back on twitter, which resulted in a pretty epic X spaces with quite a crew. I’ll edit it later and clean it up. If you want to listen to it on better app than X right now, here you go.Also, did you know you can listen to this show AND earn sats?? I know. It’s wild. Check out my podcast at https://fountain.fm/ and earn some sats!All …

Ian Major from Joltz Rewards joins us to discuss Taproot assets, a new technology layer on top of Bitcoin that will allow the dollar to be Bitcoinized. No longer will you need to buy a random poop coin like Tron or Ethereum for that matter to move Dollars around and hedge volatility the inflation of your local peso. That’s what is being worked on a…

Smart contracts on Bitcoin without a soft fork? Robin Linus and Supertestnet join us to discuss Bitvm, a new Bitcoin technology with incredible potential to help scale Bitcoin and extend it’s programmability. SHOWNOTES: Did you know you can listen to this show AND earn sats?? I know. It’s wild. Check out my podcast at https://fountain.fm/ and earn …

This conversation covered the Bitcoin entrepreneur. A very special species of entrepreneur, which I expect we will see a whole lot more in the coming years.The most important question discussed on this show? Probably the fact that Bitcoin startups are actually very investable, EVEN when compared to the opportunity cost of just buying BTC. SHOWNOTES…

Hello everybody! This conversation is the best deep dive into the Craig Wright saga that I am aware of. Arthur Van Pelt is an encyclopedia of knowledge about fake Satoshi, and we go through the whole story from Genesis to today, where Craig's fate seems to have peaked, and the end of fake Satoshi is near. Let me know what you think!All the best, Ju…

Katie The Russian joins us for a light chat about the rebirth of the American dream, and the Bitcoiner family life style.Enjoy!Sponsored by: beaverbitcoin.com, the easiest way to buy Bitcoin in Canada! DCA and automatically withdraw straight to your cold storage. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or …

n this conversation with Svetski, entrepreneur and author, we discuss the current state of Artificial intelligence. Svetski is the founder of Spirit of Satoshi, an AI model being trained on a select set of works, designed to echo the voice of Satoshi Nakamoto and be an orange pilling chat bot. Svetski, despite his deep and personal experience with …

Writer and technologist Peter Rizzo joins us to discuss Bitcoin culture. Has Bitcoin Toxic Maximalism begun to interfere with the network’s ability to expand? Can Maximalism become a dominant cultural force, or is it doomed to be a defensive ideology of the most technical and dedicated Bitcoiners?Will Silicon Valley VC’s stop launching pump and dum…

Tomer Strolight, film maker and Editor-in-chief at Swan.com joins us today to discuss the future under a sound money standard, a Bitcoin future. Without imagination it is hard to know what is possible, and Tomer does a great job at paying a picture, in particular with his short Bitcoin inspired films. Here’s one of them, feel free to binge watch hi…

From economic facts about Argentina’s economic woes, to the unavoidable hyperinflation of their Peso. In this episode of the Juan Galt podcast, we do a full tour of the presidential campaign that is posed to change latino America, and which will be getting settled in only a few weeks! The campaign of the self described Anarcho Capitalist, Javier Mi…

Had the pleasure of discussing Javier Milei with non other than David Puell, investment analyst at ARK Invest. As well as Adam Dub, investment analyst at Ichi Fibonacci. All while tumbling down the rabbit hole of the anarcho capitalist presidential front runner in Argentina.We discussed the good, the bad and the ugly of Mr. Milei, including what mo…

Hello everyone! I had the pleasure of talking to Tuur Demeester recently, market analyst and philosopher, who I have been following for nearly a decade now.We had a great conversation on the ethics of fraud under a libertarian mindset, the systemic risks of the US markets and how they are much worse than 2008, and why Tuur is soo freaking bullish o…

Hello everyone! In today’s episode we talk to Tone Vays and Joe Carlasare. We go deep into the XRP vs SEC lawsuit. Discussed the various takes on the Blackrock ETF, the depeg of USDT/USD pair on Binance a few weeks ago, poker as the best game, and the essentials of financial literacy. Tone also convinced us to go to Unconfiscatable this December, w…

Hello everybody! Got a new episode of the podcast for you all. This one is with Professor Peter St. Onge, a libertarian academic who is well versed in the world of Bitcoin. The conversation covered a variety of important macro topics including: -El Salvador and it’s Bitcoin adoption challenges -Bricks and the gold standard rising in the east. -The …

This episode of The Juan Galt Show with Jameson Lopp now stands firmly in the legendary box, in my totally unbiased opinion. :)But seriously, check it out for your self. We walk through every question of self custody that I’ve had to deal with in my consulting, from why take self custody at all, to the cutting edges of Cashu and Fedi style collabor…

Hello everyone, this is the first episode of a series of Twitter spaces conversations I’ll be doing with the BitcoinNews.com team, where we focus on the top news of the week and try to go deep into the most pressing issue at hand.In this episode we cover a lot of topics, all surrounding what seems to be the “then they attack you” stage of Bitcoin’s…