SLP84 Stepan Snigirev - Quantum Computing Threat to Bitcoin and Next Generation Bitcoin Hardware Wallets

SLP84 Stepan Snigirev - Quantum Computing Threat to Bitcoin and Next Generation Bitcoin Hardware Wallets

Stepan Snigirev, Quantum Physicist and CTO of CryptoAdvance joins me in this episode to talk about the Quantum threat to Bitcoin, and we also talk about Bitcoin Hardware Wallets. This interview was recorded in person in San Francisco just prior to the Bitcoin2019 conference.

Topics covered:

  • What Bitcoin’s security relies on
  • Why the Quantum Computing threat against Bitcoin is overblown
  • How long until it might be a realistic consideration
  • Challenges faced by Bitcoin Hardware wallets today
  • What could be done better in future
  • CoinJoining and Lightning on a Hardware wallet
  • CryptoAdvance

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SLP381 John Dennehy & Gloriana Solano - Bitcoin Diploma in El Salvador

SLP381 John Dennehy & Gloriana Solano - Bitcoin Diploma in El Salvador

John and Gloriana from the “My First Bitcoin” project join me to talk about their journey in running Bitcoin education for Salvadoran high school students. We chat about: How the project got started...

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SLP380 Jeff Deist & Stephan Livera chat Economic Freedom Around the World

SLP380 Jeff Deist & Stephan Livera chat Economic Freedom Around the World

Jeff Deist President of Mises Institute and I had a chat recently for the Human Action Podcast, and we discuss a few ideas about liberty, political freedom & economic freedom around the world: Exiti...

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SLP379 Gigi - Dealing with Linguistic Attacks on Bitcoin

SLP379 Gigi - Dealing with Linguistic Attacks on Bitcoin

Gigi rejoins me on the show to talk about the problems of imprecise language and wording in Bitcoin: ‘Unhosted wallets’ terminology Bitcoin and warfare language Proof of Work and mining Links: ...

17 Touko 20221h 12min

SLP378 Christian Decker - Greenlight & ANYPREVOUT

SLP378 Christian Decker - Greenlight & ANYPREVOUT

Christian Decker of Blockstream rejoins me on the show to talk about Greenlight, a node service by Blockstream. We chat about: Who it’s for Running a node online Backups Channel Management CL...

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SLP377 Jimmy Song - Frequent Flyer Miles: The Original Altcoins & Thoughts on CTV

SLP377 Jimmy Song - Frequent Flyer Miles: The Original Altcoins & Thoughts on CTV

Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, programmer) rejoins me to chat about how Airline Miles are the original altcoins and how there are similarities in the fiat mindsets around chasing miles/points, and altc...

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SLP376 Evan Kaloudis - Zeus: Self Sovereign LN Wallet

SLP376 Evan Kaloudis - Zeus: Self Sovereign LN Wallet

Evan Kaloudis joins me on the show to talk about building Zeus, a self sovereign Lightning Wallet for use with your own lightning node. Evan and I chat about using the LN today, and being a more sover...

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SLP375 Laolu (Roasbeef) - What is Taro? Stablecoins on Lightning, LN Growth & CTV

SLP375 Laolu (Roasbeef) - What is Taro? Stablecoins on Lightning, LN Growth & CTV

Laolu Osuntokun (Roasbeef), CTO of Lightning Labs rejoins me on the show to talk about Taro. Taro is a new protocol and proposal by the Lightning Labs team for creation of stablecoins or other assets ...

9 Touko 20221h 24min

SLP374 Adam O (DenverBitcoin) - Combating the ESG Mafia

SLP374 Adam O (DenverBitcoin) - Combating the ESG Mafia

Adam O (DenverBitcoin) of Upstream Data rejoins me on the show to talk about the Bitcoin advocate community’s response to the ESG Mafia. Are there better ways to respond? We chat: ESG statistics and...

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