Episodes

March 16, 2022

CD59: the viral nature of information and the power of open source so…

EPISODE: 59 BLOCK: 727490 PRICE: 2529 sats per dollar TOPICS: privacy, open source software, information velocity, signal through the noise, wasabi blacklisting, nyms, social media, tradeoffs, personal responsibility, support...

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March 9, 2022

CD58: ronindojo, privacy, and freedom tech with @GuerraMoneta, @Broth…

EPISODE: 58 BLOCK: 726473 PRICE: 2594 sats per dollar TOPICS: ronindojo, privacy, freedom tech, crossing borders, adversarial environments, KYC risks to individuals and the network, bitcoin culture https://citadeldispatch.com...

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Feb. 23, 2022

CD57: bitcoin crowdfunding and donations with @coinjoiner, @pavlenex,…

EPISODE: 57 BLOCK: 724509 PRICE: 2643 sats per dollar TOPICS: donations, crowdfunding, btcpayserver, satsale, address reuse, bip47, circular economy, best practices for using funds after receipt, reducing friction, hosting do...

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Feb. 15, 2022

CD56: specter wallet, using your own bitcoin node, and kyc tradeoffs …

EPISODE: 56 BLOCK: 723494 PRICE: 2272 sats per dollar TOPICS: specter wallet, using your own node, kyc tradeoffs, liquid network, open source monetization, specter shield, el salvador, burdensome ineffective regulations @MWie...

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Feb. 10, 2022

CD55: signing devices and open source with @seedsigner and tony

EPISODE: 55 BLOCK: 722645 PRICE: 2217 sats per dollar TOPICS: build your own hardware wallet, signing devices, open source software, off the shelf hardware, funding options, ux challenges, tradeoffs, risks and mitigations @se...

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Feb. 9, 2022

CD54: pruned nodes, utreexo, and validation with @seardsalmon, @mario…

EPISODE: 54 BLOCK: 722401 PRICE: 2269 sats per dollar TOPICS: pruned nodes, utreexo, validation, full nodes, tradeoffs, liquid, soft forks, utxo set @mario_gibney: https://twitter.com/mario_gibney @kcalvinalvinn: https://twi...

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Feb. 2, 2022

CD53: threats to bitcoin and the state of the network with @benthecar…

EPISODE: 53 BLOCK: 721418 PRICE: 2576 sats per dollar TOPICS: threats to bitcoin, aopp, kyc services, taproot, open source licenses, lightning privacy @benthecarman: https://twitter.com/benthecarman @_justinmoon_: https://twi...

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Jan. 26, 2022

CD52: venezuela, latin america, and bitcoin with @elsultanbitcoin and…

EPISODE: 52 BLOCK: 720384 PRICE: 2710 sats per dollar TOPICS: venezuela, latin america, hyperinflation, mining, p2p markets, stablecoins, el salvador, sanctions @elsultanbitcoin: https://twitter.com/elsultanbitcoin @cryptonom...

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Jan. 19, 2022

CD51: bitcoin companies keeping lists of bitcoiners and our transacti…

EPISODE: 51 BLOCK: 719340 PRICE: 2358 sats per dollar TOPICS: tradeoffs of kyc bitcoin, bitcoin companies keeping lists of bitcoiners and our transaction history, acquiring bitcoin without providing intimate personal informat...

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Jan. 12, 2022

CD50: bitcoin nodes and the @raspibolt project with @openoms and @sta…

EPISODE: 50 BLOCK: 718215 PRICE: 2338 sats per dollar TOPICS: bitcoin nodes, raspibolt, hardware tradeoffs, lightning tradeoffs, migrating nodes, transaction fees, raspibolt.org @openoms: https://twitter.com/openoms @stadicus...

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Jan. 5, 2022

CD49: digital privacy tools and strategies with @techloreistaken

EPISODE: 49 BLOCK: 717203 PRICE: 2165 sats per dollar TOPICS: digital privacy tools and strategies, vpns, browsers, operating systems, password managers, 2fa, emails, burner phone numbers @techloreistaken: https://twitter.com...

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Dec. 14, 2021

CD48: bitcoin initiatives by @blocks and @spiralbtc with @moneyball

EPISODE: 48 BLOCK: 714168 PRICE: 2134 sats per dollar TOPICS: bitcoin initiatives by Block and Spiral, LDK, BDK, bitcoin design community, spiral grants, BTrust, open source bitcoin mining, open source low cost hardware walle...

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Dec. 7, 2021

CD47: the future of bitcoin nodes and the nodlito with @ketominer and…

EPISODE: 47 BLOCK: 713088 PRICE: 1959 sats per dollar TOPICS: the future of bitcoin nodes, nodlito, cloud services, tradeoffs, el salvador, custodial wallets, hardware failures, mesh nets, onboarding merchants in the developi...

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Dec. 1, 2021

CD46: improving your home bitcoin mining setup with @BigCohoo, @dfrum…

EPISODE: 46 BLOCK: 711998 PRICE: 1738 sats per dollar TOPICS: securing the cheapest power, braiins os, negotiating with your power company, utilizing solar subsidies, asic resale value, efficiency, slush pool, mining pool cen...

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Nov. 23, 2021

CD45: the future of mobile lightning wallets with @ericsirion, @akuma…

EPISODE: 45 BLOCK: 711009 PRICE: 1752 sats per dollar TOPICS: the future of mobile lightning wallets, federated chaumian ecash, el salvador experience, hosted channels, IMMORTAN, simple bitcoin wallet, lightning liquidity, pr...

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Nov. 17, 2021

CD44: using secure random number generators to generate bitcoin keys …

EPISODE: 44 BLOCK: 710040 PRICE: 1647 sats per dollar TOPICS: random number generators and why they are important when securing bitcoin, history of backdoors, compromises, and poor implementations, multisig tradeoffs, hardwar...

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Nov. 9, 2021

CD43: bitcoin for beginners with @BitcoinQ_A

support dispatch: https://citadeldispatch.com/contribute EPISODE: 43 BLOCK: 708970 PRICE: 1501 sats per dollar TOPICS: bitcoin for beginners, acquiring bitcoin, tradeoffs, dangers of KYC, holding your own keys, using your own...

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Nov. 3, 2021

CD42: security focused bitcoin nodes with @nixbitcoinorg, @n1ckler, a…

EPISODE: 42 BLOCK: 707898 PRICE: 1577 sats per dollar TOPICS: security focused bitcoin nodes @nixbitcoinorg: https://twitter.com/nixbitcoinorg @n1ckler: https://twitter.com/n1ckler @seardsalmon: https://twitter.com/seardsalmo...

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Oct. 12, 2021

CD41: bitcoin privacy discussion with @stephanlivera at the nashville…

Discussion at the Nashville Bitcoin Meetup. https://www.meetup.com/nashville-bitcoin/ EPISODE: 41 BLOCK: 704718 PRICE: 1794 sats per dollar TOPICS: bitcoin privacy discussion, KYC/AML, coinjoin, lightning, fee market, mining,...

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Oct. 8, 2021

CD40: using bitcoin privately at Human Rights Foundation Oslo Freedom…

Presentation at the Human Rights Foundation Oslo Freedom Forum. https://oslofreedomforum.com https://oslofreedomforum.com/bitcoin-academy-off2021 @ J9Roem : https://twitter.com/J9Roem @ evankaloudis : https://twitter.com/evan...

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Sept. 22, 2021

CD39: running a lightning routing node and plebnet with @phjlljp, @ra…

EPISODE: 39 BLOCK: 701600 PRICE: 2406 sats per dollar TOPICS: running your own lightning routing node, plebnet, optimizing for routing fees, onchain fee market, reputation systems @phjlljp: https://twitter.com/phjlljp @rajwin...

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Sept. 15, 2021

CD38: improving your bitcoin mining setup with @bigcohoo, @janbraiins…

EPISODE: 38 BLOCK: 700568 PRICE: 2150 sats per dollar TOPICS: improving your bitcoin mining setup, using custom firmware, immersion mining, stratum v2, hosted mining, coinbase rewards, upstreamdata black box @bigcohoo: https:...

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Sept. 7, 2021

CD37: building software from source code with @achow101 and @craigraw

EPISODE: 0.3.7 BLOCK: 699517 PRICE: 2170 sats per dollar TOPICS: building software from source code, reproducible builds, reducing trust, coin selection, coin control, coinjoin @achow101: https://twitter.com/achow101 @craigra...

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Aug. 25, 2021

CD36: privacy focused open source routers with @jamesob and @_k3tan

EPISODE: 0.3.6 BLOCK: 697424 PRICE: 2067 sats per dollar TOPICS: simple tips for securing your home network, privacy focused open source routers, pfsense, freshtomato, pc engines apu, hosted vs self hosted vpns @jamesob: http...

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