NIFTYNEI: Doing Magic With Magic Internet Money (Bitcoin Talk on THE Bitcoin Podcast)

"it's literal magic… We're doing magic with magic internet money using free and open protocols that a bunch of weirdo and cypherpunk hackers built because they cared about financial privacy. They cared about being able to do peer-to-peer stuff. It exists, and it's here."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with NiftyNei (aka Lisa). Lisa is a a developer, Bitcoin and lightning protocol expert, and educator through her Base58 Bitcoin engineering school. She also hosts developer conferences around the world called BTC++. They discuss Bitcoin education, scaling Bitcoin, the Lightning network, ecash, fedimints, covenants, the Bitcoin ecosystem vs the fiat banking system, and a whole lot more.
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Chapters

00:00 Introduction and the Role of Conferences in the Bitcoin Space
07:00 Lisa's Development Background
17:00 Starting to work on the Lightning Network
24:28 Lisa's BTC++ Conferences and the Importance of Technical Events
33:37 Understanding the Lightning Network as a Layer 2 Solution
35:51 An Analogy: Lightning Network vs. On-Chain Transactions
40:24 Debt, Settlement, and the American Economy
46:28 Sovereignty and Scalability in Bitcoin and Lightning
01:00:18 The Potential of Covenants in Bitcoin Transactions
01:13:38 Preserving Privacy with eCash in the Bitcoin Ecosystem
01:17:43 Making Bitcoin More Accessible
01:28:22 The Passionate Bitcoin Community
01:35:35 Excitement about eCash and Bitcoin++ Conferences
01:41:49 Building Robust and Sovereign Tools

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