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In-depth Bitcoin interviews and education. Stephan Livera talks with the builders, developers, founders and thinkers shaping Bitcoin, covering self-custody, Lightning, payments, mining, markets and where Bitcoin goes next. Clear, practical conversations to help you understand Bitcoin and use it well.
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Morgen Rochard: Holding Bitcoin Is Not a Financial Plan | SLP785
Holding Bitcoin is not a financial plan. That is the starting point of Morgen Rochard's new book, Bitcoin Personal Finance, and of her return to the show. Bitcoin can fix the money, but it does not fix under-saving, spending habits or the m
Debt, Oil, AI and Bitcoin: A Gradual Print Until It Isn't | James Lavish SLP784
James Lavish explains why he expects a gradual print to turn into a big one, what weak Treasury auctions signal, and what he got wrong about Bitcoin this cycle. Timestamps 00:00 — Intro 00:48 — Markets: Warsh, Oil and a Narrow Rally 04:22 —
Plan Your Second Passport Before You Need It | Alex Recouso SLP783
Official Podcast Episode: https://stephanlivera.com/783 Alex Recouso argues that Bitcoin solved capital mobility but not human mobility: you can move money across borders without permission, yet you still need permission to move yourself. H
Debanking and Bitcoin Business Accounts in the EU | Prashanth Chandrashekar SLP782
Prashanth Chandrashekar argues that much of Europe's debanking comes down to how banks score transfers. Money arriving from a crypto exchange's account is treated as a higher-risk third-party payment, while a transfer between two accounts i
Seed Phrases vs Key Sharding: Multisig's UX Trade-offs | Setzeus SLP781
Setzeus argues that 90% of people will never properly use seed phrases and hardware wallets, and that services like Privy and Turnkey, which split a key behind an email or phone login, are a good-enough floor for self-custody. Stephan pushe
Smarter Web's Capital Structure and MORE Preferred | Andrew Webley SLP780
Andrew Webley walks through Smarter Web's capital structure—ordinary shares as growth equity, a repaid short convert, Coinbase credit, and MORE as the income preferred. Webley is CEO of The Smarter Web Company (LSE: SWC), the UK's largest p
Lightning in x402 and Agent Payments | Ben Carman SLP779
Bitcoiners built L402 for a Lightning-native web. Crypto built x402 for agents — and early volume is mostly stables. Ben Carman helped get Lightning into the x402 standard, and argues the pragmatic move is to meet that stack in the middle r
Why Bitkey Ditched Seed Phrases | Clay Garrett SLP778
Bitkey ditched seed phrases for a recovery-focused 2-of-3 design: an app key, hardware key, and Block server key that use phones, hardware, and cloud access to help people retain control of their funds. Clay Garrett, Bitkey lead at Block, j
Bitcoin Savings vs Casino Exchanges | Julian Liniger SLP777
Most crypto exchanges are built like casinos: they chase the next hot token, prediction market, or trading product. Relai is building a different category—a savings brand for people who want to accumulate Bitcoin, hold it in self-custody, a
Bitcoin PIPEs v2 | Misha Komarov SLP776
Bitcoin soft-fork debates around CTV, CSFS, OP_CAT, and OP_VAULT keep stalling — and Misha Komarov of Allocinit argues you can emulate much of that covenant behavior with cryptography instead of changing consensus. Misha joins Stephan to un
rbitcoin: Bitcoin Full Node With Zero Human Code | reardencode SLP775
Almost every public Bitcoin node still runs Bitcoin Core. Brandon Black argues that client monoculture is a systemic risk — and that automation plus AI now make independent consensus implementations more realistic than skeptics assume. Bran
Bitcoin Accelerator on Mirissa Beach | James of Ârc SLP774
Most Asian markets still make buying and saving Bitcoin painfully hard. James of Ârc argues the fix is not another protocol breakthrough — it is local founders shipping simple DCA and savings products market by market. James joins me from M
Institutional Custody, Multisig & the War on Cash | Mike Belshe SLP773
Mike Belshe, co-founder and CEO of BitGo, walks through how institutional Bitcoin custody actually works in 2026: qualified custody, self-custody co-signing, and why BitGo still centers a 2-of-3 model after pioneering P2SH multisig in 2013.
Trustless Swaps Across Bitcoin Layers | Walter Maffione SLP772
Walter Maffione, CEO and co-founder of KaleidoSwap, join me to explain how the project grew from an RGB Lightning DEX into a broader swap engine and LSP stack — Lightning as rails between Liquid, Arkade, Taproot Assets, Spark, and RGB — plu
Bitcoiners Must Remove Single Points of Failure | Dhruv Bansal SLP771
Recent attacks exposed how even large, educated Bitcoin holders remained exposed through single-vendor setups. The core lesson is that self-custody alone does not remove single points of failure; deliberate design is required. Dhruv Bansal,
Interviews at Origin Seoul 2026 | SLP770
00:00 - Interview with Gabriele Vernetti of Stratum V2 @gitgab19 15:38 - Interview with Jimmy Kostro @jimmykostro 29:30 - Interview with James Check of checkonchain Links: https://x.com/gitgab19 https://x.com/jimmykostro https://x.com/_chec
Bitcoin Asia (HK) 2026 Day 2 Interviews | SLP769
Interviews at Bitcoin Asia 2026 Day 2 00:00 - Piriya Sambandaraksa 05:14 - Alexander Mann 11:04 - Shone Anstey of LQWD 17:03 -Liam Eagen from Ideal Group Links: • https://x.com/piriya • https://x.com/idealgroup • https://x.com/liameagen • h
Bitcoin Asia (HK) 2026 Day 1 Interviews | SLP768
In this episode, I interviewed several people at Bitcoin Asia 2026. Timestamps: 00:00 - Interview with Adam Poulton 06:28 Interview with Giovanni Santostasi 15:18 Interview Jeff Walton of Strive 34:11 Interview with Alex B from ArkLabs Link
Wallet Playground for learning Bitcoin self custody with Piers Macrae | SLP767
In this episode, Piers Macrae demonstrates Wallet Playground and explains why hardware wallets are signing devices, not wallets. Timestamps: 01:10 — Teach Me vs Do It For Me 03:23 — Test Any Wallet Free in Browser 09:09 — Coldcard Drama For
Dice Rolls, Entropy, and SeedSigner | Keith Mukai SLP766
In this episode, Keith Mukai of SeedSigner joins to explain why 1.4 percent variance in cheap dice still delivers full 128-bit entropy and how to verify rolls across devices. Timestamps: 03:10 — Cheap Dice Only 1.4% Unfair? 06:29 — Shake Mu
Jade for Single-Sig or Multisig | Rich SLP765
In this episode, Rich from the team at Blockstream explains Jade, offline dice entropy, blind oracle protection, multisig descriptor recovery and the new Blockstream Swaps beta. Timestamps: 00:45 — AI Scans & Audits Secure Jade 03:21 — Jade
Wavelength Delivers Ark-Based Lightning Without Node Overhead | Roasbeef & Michael Levin SLP764
Lightning Labs built Wavelength to deliver self-custodial Lightning payments without forcing users to run nodes, manage channels, or handle liquidity. Olaoluwa Osuntokun, CTO and co-founder of Lightning Labs, and Michael Levin, VP of Produc
Bitcoin Custody Rules Have Changed | Michael Tanguma SLP763
Old self-custody approaches collapse once Bitcoin reaches six figures, physical threats rise, and AI tools proliferate. Single hardware wallets and mattress myths no longer match the scale or risks that large holders now face. Michael Tangu
Breez Ships Glow — A Super Simple Bitcoin Wallet | Roy Sheinfeld SLP762
Roy Sheinfeld of Breez returns to walk through Glow, the team's new reference wallet built using Spark. It’s designed so non-custodial Bitcoin feels simple: send, receive, and go. Glow uses passkey onboarding (no seed phrase to write down),
Bitcoin Multi Sig vs Secure Single Sig with Nick Neuman | SLP761
In this episode, Nick Neuman of Casa argues that it’s not the end of self-custody. Instead, it highlights why multisig with multiple vendors provides stronger protection without the hidden complexity of passphrases or dice rolling for singl
Kruw on Wasabi 2.8 and Upcoming Forks | SLP760
Kruw (@kruwed) runs one of the highest-volume WabiSabi coordinators, giving him direct insight into how the protocol handles liquidity, Sybil resistance, and real-world usage. Timestamps: 00:42 — Wasabi 2.8 Privacy Features 02:45 — Taproot
Bitcoin Security Consortium with Mike Schmidt | SLP759
In this episode, Mike Schmidt executive director of Brink, and volunteer coordinator for the consortium, explains how the group formed, autonomy over funding, and how it plans to avoid repeating earlier centralized roadmap fights. Timestamp
Daniel Buchner: Why BIP 110 Cannot Stop Bitcoin Spam | SLP758
Buchner, known for his work on decentralized identity at Proof, brings a technical and game-theoretic lens to the debate over Bitcoin's monetary focus versus attempts to restrict arbitrary data. The conversation covers narrative shifts driv
Lyn Alden: BIP 110 Could Trigger August Bitcoin Chain Split | SLP757
Lyn Alden warns that BIP 110 is unlikely to curb spam and instead mostly rearranges non-monetary data, raising the risk of a minority fork attempt that could split the Bitcoin chain. Lyn Alden is a leading macro analyst and Bitcoiner who ex
Bitcoin Desire Hits 8-Year Low | Michael Sullivan SLP756
Bitcoin desire sentiment has fallen to an eight-year low, a contrarian signal that historically aligns with market bottoms rather than tops. Michael Sullivan, an engineer and author, applies machine learning to individual X accounts to trac
