Dev Wars, Vaults & Nostr Royalties Exposed | The Bitcoin Business Lounge

Bitcoin devs are not okay—and it shows. Walton returns from Bitcoin Beach with Core contributor Stu to break down the rawest tensions in Bitcoin: node wars, censorship, scaling, and the tech no one wants to touch.

Also: Giacomo Zucco’s macro meltdown vision, Coinbase collapse rumors, and a no-filter breakdown of vaults, Nostr, and what happens when the wrong people lead the right upgrades.

00:00 – 🎙️ Meet Stu, the newest Bitcoin Core contributor
01:30 – 🧙 Beard growth = more cryptography power?
03:00 – 📡 Nostr + Fanfares: Royalties for sharing content
05:00 – 🧠 Bitcoin doesn’t fix everything, but it helps
06:45 – ⚔️ Core vs Knots: the great node debate
09:10 – 👑 Running any node is better than none
11:30 – 🤑 Ocean Pool payouts and filtered transactions
13:50 – 🔥 Giacomo Zucco's collapse & rebirth thesis
15:40 – 🧨 Coinbase insolvency & the next Mt. Gox
18:00 – 🧾 How many people really run Knots nodes?
20:45 – 🛠️ Rust, C++, and the risks of multi-implementations
24:10 – 🔐 Vaults, timeouts & reactive security with covenants
29:00 – ⚡ Channel factories: Lightning’s hidden scaling weapon
33:00 – 🧰 Covenants vs pre-signed transactions
36:45 – 🪙 What wrapped BTC and Liquid really are

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