Episodes

Jan. 22, 2025

CD150: JACK DORSEY

Jack Dorsey is founder of both Twitter, now X, and Square, now Block. We discuss his strong focus on bitcoin and nostr, lessons learned across his many years of experience, censorship on twitter, and the promise that open sou...

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Jan. 16, 2025

CD149: BITCOIN POLICY AND P2P RIGHTS WITH ZACK SHAPIRO

Zack Shapiro is Head of Policy at the Bitcoin Policy Institute and Executive Director of the P2P Rights Fund. We discuss the current regulatory landscape and how it may evolve under the upcoming Trump Administration. Bitcoin ...

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Jan. 1, 2025

CD148: OPEN SOURCE AND UNCHAINED WITH BUCK PERLEY

Buck Perley is one of the co-hosts of Austin BitDevs and an engineer at Unchained. We discuss his work improving Unchained's open source sovereign multi sig app Caravan. Buck on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub15gaw9fpcwrleq3...

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Dec. 31, 2024

CD147: TAX PLANNING AND NEW IRS RULE WITH SATOSHI PACIOLI

Satoshi Pacioli is a leading bitcoin focused accounting firm based at Bitcoin Park in Nashville. They discuss the recent IRS rule changes and their best interpretation of how to proceed going forward. Satoshi Pacioli on Nostr...

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Dec. 18, 2024

CD146: ZAP STORE WITH FRAN

Fran is the creator and lead maintainer of Zap Store, an open permissionless app store for android and desktop. Zap Store uses nostr and verifiable social reputations to provide users and developers a secure, easy to use, alt...

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Nov. 26, 2024

CD145: PRIMAL WITH MILJAN

Miljan is the Founder and CEO of Primal, one of the most popular nostr and bitcoin apps in the world. His team recently launched Primal 2.0, bringing users more functionality than ever before. Bitcoin is an open protocol for ...

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Nov. 18, 2024

CD144: CASHU WITH CALLE

Calle is the creator and lead maintainer of the cashu open source protocol, a bitcoin powered chaumian ecash implementation. The cashu ecosystem of wallets and backends provides users the ability to easily, cheaply, and priva...

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Nov. 11, 2024

CD143: BITCOIN CONSENSUS ANALYSIS WITH STEVE LEE AND LYN ALDEN

Steve runs Spiral, Block's open source bitcoin initiative. Lyn is founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy and partner at Ego Death Capital. Steve and Lyn join the show to discuss their recent research paper on bitcoin consen...

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Oct. 23, 2024

CD142: BITCOIN AND SATOSHI WITH ADAM BACK

Adam Back is cofounder and CEO of Blockstream, a company focused on building out bitcoin technology. We discuss his recent appearance in HBO documentary 'Money Electric,' the blossoming Swiss bitcoin city of Lugano, the early...

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Oct. 16, 2024

CD141: BITCOIN ART AND CULTURE WITH MADEX

MADEX is an incredibly talented bitcoin artist and a good friend based in Canada. We discuss his long journey producing freedom focused high quality physical artwork while trying to make a sustainable living. We also discuss ...

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Oct. 8, 2024

CD140: OCEAN MINING WITH LUKE, MARK, JASON, AND MECHANIC

Ocean Mining is a new and innovative bitcoin mining pool focused on transparency and freedom for the individual miners who choose to use them. With their new DATUM release miners who use Ocean will be able to construct and br...

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Sept. 17, 2024

CD139: UNCHAINED WITH PHIL GEIGER

Phil Geiger is a good friend and VP of Marketing at Unchained. We discussed the current bitcoin landscape, the importance of self custody and their self custody IRA product, the tradeoffs of KYC, their new Donor Advised Fund ...

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Sept. 3, 2024

BITCOIN WITH DORSEY, MALLERS, GILLIAM, KEIDUN, AND ODELL

Finale conversation at the Baltic Honey Badger Conference in Riga, Latvia. The longest running bitcoin only conference in the world. Video: https://primal.net/e/note1ysx6vqm9h4mlyq0yel3kxplm4xcuhwtwjgzwuhy3ne4thehsntwschsdzw ...

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Sept. 3, 2024

NOSTRIGA: VERIFIABLE REPUTATION - WEBS OF TRUST

Discussion on the power of key reputation systems and webs of trust using nostr in front of a live audience at Nostriga in Riga. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE731vXoUOU ODELL on Nostr: https://primal.net/odell Pabl...

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Aug. 30, 2024

NOSTRIGA: FUNDING NOSTR - BENT, LI, PYSH, ODELL

Panel discussion moderated by Marty Bent discussing funding the nostr ecosystem in front of a live audience at Nostriga in Riga. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD-Y0fq5KiA ODELL on Nostr: https://primal.net/odell Mart...

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Aug. 29, 2024

CD138: HONORING HAL WITH FRAN FINNEY

Hal Finney is believed to have been the second bitcoiner after Satoshi and received the first bitcoin transaction. Today marks the tenth anniversary of his death on August 28th, 2014. We celebrate his life with his wife Fran ...

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Aug. 28, 2024

NOSTRIGA: PABLO X ODELL

Fireside chat with prolific nostr and bitcoin dev Pablo in front of live audience at Nostriga in Riga. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn_WE1-bHdo Pablo on Nostr: https://primal.net/pablof7z ODELL on Nostr: https://pri...

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Aug. 26, 2024

NOSTRIGA: JACK DORSEY X ODELL

Fireside chat with Jack Dorsey in front of live audience at Nostriga in Riga. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUwXRDrfJU0 Jack on Nostr: https://primal.net/jack ODELL on Nostr: https://primal.net/odell website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

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Aug. 15, 2024

CD137: BITCOIN IN AMERICA WITH GENERAL SKRMETTI

Jonathan Skrmetti is the Attorney General of Tennessee. Matt Odell is Managing Partner at Ten31 and CoFounder of OpenSats and Bitcoin Park. EPISODE: 137 BLOCK: 856800 PRICE: 1689 sats per dollar Recorded Live at Bitcoin Park ...

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Aug. 13, 2024

LEGAL ENVIRONMENT FOR OPEN SOURCE DEVS IN THE US WITH TENNESSEE ATTOR…

The Attorney General will be joining us for a live Dispatch tomorrow at 2100 UTC. Jonathan Skrmetti is the Attorney General of Tennessee. Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. Zack Shapi...

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Aug. 7, 2024

MICHAEL SAYLOR X ODELL BITCOIN PARK FIRESIDE

Michael Saylor is Executive Chairman and CoFounder of MicroStrategy. Matt Odell is CoFounder of OpenSats and Bitcoin Park, and Managing Partner at Ten31. Recorded Live at Bitcoin Park in Nashville: https://bitcoinpark.com web...

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Aug. 3, 2024

CD136: RUST BITCOIN SUMMIT WITH POELSTRA, HARDING, MYERS, AND MORE

support dispatch: https://citadeldispatch.com/donate ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ EPISODE: 136 BLOCK: 855113 PRICE: 1582 sats per dollar TOPICS: roundtable discussion following the Rust Bitcoin Summit at Bitcoin Park new to nostr? che...

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July 30, 2024

CD135: MEMPOOL WITH WIZ AND SOFTSIMON

support dispatch: https://citadeldispatch.com/donate ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ EPISODE: 135 BLOCK: 854559 PRICE: 1485 sats per dollar TOPICS: conference recap, mempool space transaction accelerator, live audience questions project ...

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June 7, 2024

HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION OSLO FREEDOM FORUM 2024 RECAP

RECAP WITH JACK MALLERS AT OSLO FREEDOM FORUM 2024. https://primal.net/JACKMALLERS

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