New Zealand Bitcoiners

Recording from Twitter spaces @ block height 772780 (20th January 2023). What does bitcoin mean to you? What do you say to a developer on Solana? Easy Crypto the biggest discount? Buy to spend, not save. (aka spend and replace) El salvador bitcoin adoption Buskers with QR codes for donations Podcasting 2.0 & fountain.fm app James will be riding his bike in convoy with other Bitcoiner bikers from Auckland to Queenstown next week. Bitcoin magazines will be available for loan for a 100 sat deposit. Convoy Dates: Auckland -- 22nd 2pm -- Vondel Tauranga -- 23rd 12pm -- Tauriko pub Whakatane -- 23rd -- iwi Marae Taranaki -- 24th 6pm -- Butlers Reef Palmerston North -- 25th lunch Wellington -- 25th 6pm -- Brewtown Nelson -- 26th -- Sats bar Christchurch -- 27th -- Moon Underwater Queenstown -- 28th 6pm -- World Bar Dunedin -- 31st REQUEST: Can I please pitch a tent in your back yard? Please contact James, thankyou. Follow along as we talk about bitcoin'ing and bitcoin'ers in NZ. Ka kite anō. Join us in our telegram group: https://t.me/NZBitcoinersGroup

Recording from Twitter spaces @ block height 772780 (20th January 2023). What does bitcoin mean to you? What do you say to a developer on Solana? Easy Crypto the biggest discount? Buy to spend, not save. (aka spend and replace) El salvador bitcoin adoption Buskers with QR codes for donations Podcasting 2.0 & fountain.fm app James will be riding his bike in convoy with other Bitcoiner bikers from Auckland to Queenstown next week. Bitcoin magazines will be available for loan for a 100 sat deposit. Convoy Dates: Auckland -- 22nd 2pm -- Vondel Tauranga -- 23rd 12pm -- Tauriko pub Whakatane -- 23rd -- iwi Marae Taranaki -- 24th 6pm -- Butlers Reef Palmerston North -- 25th lunch Wellington -- 25th 6pm -- Brewtown Nelson -- 26th -- Sats bar Christchurch -- 27th -- Moon Underwater Queenstown -- 28th 6pm -- World Bar Dunedin -- 31st REQUEST: Can I please pitch a tent in your back yard? Please contact James, thankyou. Follow along as we talk about bitcoin'ing and bitcoin'ers in NZ. Ka kite anō. Join us in our telegram group: https://t.me/NZBitcoinersGroup

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Recording from Twitter spaces @ block height 772780 (20th January 2023). What does bitcoin mean to you? What do you say to a developer on Solana? Easy Crypto the biggest discount? Buy to spend, not save. (aka spend and replace) El salvador bitcoin adoption Buskers with QR codes for donations Podcasting 2.0 & fountain.fm app James will be riding his bike in convoy with other Bitcoiner bikers from Auckland to Queenstown next week. Bitcoin magazines will be available for loan for a 100 sat deposit. Convoy Dates: Auckland -- 22nd 2pm -- Vondel Tauranga -- 23rd 12pm -- Tauriko pub Whakatane -- 23rd -- iwi Marae Taranaki -- 24th 6pm -- Butlers Reef Palmerston North -- 25th lunch Wellington -- 25th 6pm -- Brewtown Nelson -- 26th -- Sats bar Christchurch -- 27th -- Moon Underwater Queenstown -- 28th 6pm -- World Bar Dunedin -- 31st REQUEST: Can I please pitch a tent in your back yard? Please contact James, thankyou. Follow along as we talk about bitcoin'ing and bitcoin'ers in NZ. Ka kite anō. Join us in our telegram group: https://t.me/NZBitcoinersGroup

"To wit, we have raised the debt limit 22 times from 1997 to 2022. Yep, we’ve raised the limit 22 times in 25 years. Let that sink in for a moment. OK, so now that we’re all on the same you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me-with-the-endless-and-reckless-spending-of-the-US-Government page, let’s dig into the mechanics a bit." – James Lavish We've hit the awful, shocking, totally unexpected debt ceiling again! OH MY! What ever will we do this time? Wait... I've got a brilliant plan. The Treasury can mint a Trillion Dollar Coin! And our problems will go away. Is this utter genius... or is this an embarrassing joke? I'll let James Lavish take it from here in a very entertaining read from his substack, The Informationist. Check out the original and the excellent substack over at James Lavish's "The Informationist": https://jameslavish.substack.com/p/the-trillion-dollar-coin-genius-or Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off everything in your cart! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 20,000 FREE SATS! at (https://guyswann.com/fold) • The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy) -------------------------------------- "As it turns out we don't all have to pay our debts. Only some of us do." – David Graeber, Debt the First 5000 Years Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

This conversation was recorded at the inaugural Nashville Energy & Mining Summit, a two-day event at Bitcoin Park in Nashville, TN that brought investors, policymakers, energy producers, and full spectrum Bitcoin mining operators and service providers together to discuss the current state of bitcoin mining and forge a path forward. Recorded: January 13, 2023 Home Mining: Sustainable or Expensive Hobby? with: John Stefanopoulos, Founder - FutureBit Econoalchemist, Writer, Home Miner, Co-Host - POD256 Neil - RoninMiner Matt Odell, Bitcoiner, Co-Founder - Bitcoin Park Bitcoin Park is a community supported campus in Nashville, TN focused on grassroots bitcoin adoption and a home for bitcoiners to work, learn, collaborate, and build. Our aim is to produce and publish conversations from future events, so please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app to stay up to date. To learn more, please visit and join: https://bitcoinpark.co and/or join our Discord where we are most active: https://discord.gg/YZ8x7mfFKj Follow us on Twitter: Bitcoin Park: https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_ Matt Odell: https://twitter.com/ODELL Rod @bitkite: https://twitter.com/bitkite

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Join Marty as he sits down with Viktor from IVPN to discuss online privacy and the surveillance traps set by online companies, including most VPNs. Follow Viktor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vonthedock Check out IVPN: https://www.ivpn.net/ 6:10 - VPN convention 10:42 - VPNs explained 16:23 - VPN traps 19:23 - TOR 23:10 - Running your own VPN 26:30 - Vetting VPN services 35:23 - Wireguard 39:28 - Paying for a VPN privately 42:09 - LN privacy and Monero 45:33 - Fedimint 53:14 - Viktor's story, don't be a coomer 1:05:55 - Attacks on IVPN 1:07:59 - How the current internet makes VPNs necessary 1:12:22 - Expanding IVPN 1:17:34 - State attack vectors on VPNs 1:22:50 - Final thoughts 1:26:02 - Plugs Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital River TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

Own, control and understand bitcoin with sparrow wallet.   In todays episode I spoke to Craig Raw the sole developer and maintainer of Sparrow wallet.Sparrow is a Bitcoin wallet for those who value financial self sovereignty. Sparrow’s emphasis is on security, privacy and usability. Sparrow does not hide information from you - on the contrary it attempts to provide as much detail as possible about your transactions and UTXOs, but in a way that is manageable and usable. Craigs hope is that sparrow is as much a tool for education as it is a tool for interacting with the bitcoin network. Ive found this wallet really usable while still having all of the features you would expect from a modern Bitcoin wallet.    Full support for single sig and multisig wallets on common script types A range of connection options: Public servers, Bitcoin Core and private Electrum servers Standards based including full PSBT support Support for all common hardware wallets in USB and airgapped modes Full coin and fee control with comprehensive coin selection Labeling of all transactions, inputs and outputs Lightweight and multi platform Send and receive to PayNyms, both directly (BIP47) and collaboratively Built in Tor Testnet, regtest and signet support   Sparrow is unique in that it contains a fully featured transaction editor that also functions as a blockchain explorer. This feature not only allows editing of all of a transaction’s fields, also easy inspection of the transaction bytes before broadcasting.   I asked Craig about some of the features in the new release v1.7.2 and we went into detail on unique visual fingerprints for a wallets now being displayed in the Settings tab and passphrase entry dialog. This makes it easy for more visual people like myself to quickly recognise colours and shapes rather than a string of letters and numbers. We also discussed BIP329 which defines a standard for importing and exporting wallet labels. I was happy to see Craig pushing this forward as its an issue I'm currently experiencing myself and I don’t think I'm alone. As other wallets implement this standard, it will become easier to migrate between different wallet implementations using seeds, output descriptors and label exports. It was a pleasure speaking to Craig and I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed recording. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out and ask me. Craig contact details. twitter - @SparrowWallet twitter - @craigraw Website - https://sparrowwallet.com/   Contact me.  twitter - @MaxBitbuybit twitter - @bitbuybitpod Website - https://ungovernablemisfits.com   As always please feel free to reach out and ask me any questions. Today you can exchange $1 for 4572 Sats (Sale ends soon.)   Thank you Foundation Devices for sponsoring the show. Use code BITBUYBIT at check out for $10 off your purchase Website - https://foundationdevices.com/

A down-to-earth and impromptu catchup with HG, a local Bitcoiner from Christchurch who flew up to be at the Bitkiwi meetup in Wellington recently. We discuss Bitcoin in NZ, local initiatives, and who we think is the one kiwi we would like to see get orange pilled! Links: HG on twitter: https://twitter.com/hgw393939

These conversations do not fall into a specific category, rather falls into a varied number of topics. To put it simply, conversations that go with the flow. Personally, I'm interested in psychology, science, health and fitness, bitcoin, nature, travel, business, technology, society, religion, politics, music and art. These conversations are with people who not only share similar interests but also their own unique interests, in the process introducing me to ideas, beliefs and teachings that I am oblivious of. Making them a learning experience for me and hopefully you.

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with Sam Callahan, lead Analyst at Swan Bitcoin and new host of the Swan Signal podcast, about central banks, CBDCs, Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment, NFTs on Bitcoin, the rise of macro analysts and much more.Sam's Twitter: @samcallahSwan Signal's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoB1eZWSVHVbOwGibtxs8sqdsAm-dTj9SSwan Signal's Fountain App: https://www.fountain.fm/show/DMjHcD0oOrFVDM8uaHWyWe hope you enjoy this episode!Dan Twitter: @hrtlndbitcoinMike Twitter: @rundancebitcoinHigh Hash Rate Twitter: @HighHashRate

Why are only Bitcoiners on Nostr?Looks like the Nostr protocol is has found its groove as the new Twitter for Bitcoiners. Mandana, officially a Nostr OG, wonders what it’ll take for non-Bitcoiners to “get it” and join. Photo sharing? Make it the new TikTok? Ian says it’s bigger than that. Also, last week Mandana did her first Key Check. Do you know how to do yours? And finally, the Bukelle administration is paying off debt that was taken on by previous corrupt administrations… unlike any administration in the US in the last 20 years. Ain’t that interesting!Mentioned In EpisodeNostr - https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostrToolsSatoshi Savings CalculatorFollow UsWebsite | Twitter | Instagram | Ian's Twitter |Ian’s Pubkey: npub1pmhevxtlt3478pvmdqt7dftnv6zc2mzpdc569yjm6ks4k2jhezcs53uksrMandana’s PubKey: npub1yz8n8jf7zye7ew6yftqr4hes6s3zlamaygr8amzkw05lwnqwjz5svspxp7RecommendationsStrikeSwan BitcoinUnchained CapitalFountain PodcastsStacker NewsStatsFlirting With ₿itcoin is 57713 Blocks OldIts been 999 Blocks Since Last Episode66265 Blocks Until Next Halving4346 Satoshis for $1 Get full access to Flirting With Bitcoin at www.flirtingwithbitcoin.com/subscribe

I talk with Hanoz Bilia, the founder of The Altruist, a new Bitcoin education and community space based in the Auckland CBD. The Altruist is NZ's first dedicated Bitcoin space and is a great project helping connect Bitcoiners and people interested about Bitcoin in real life! We discuss Hanoz's motivation to start the space, the importance of providing resources for people to learn and independently verify what Bitcoin is, and the future of Bitcoin in New Zealand. The Altruist is open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10am - 5pm & Saturday 10am - 3pm, drop in at 74 Albert St, Auckland Central, or reach out to Hanoz directly at info@thealtruistschool.com Links: The Altruist on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thealtruistschool/ The Transformation of Value Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TTOVpodcast

Join Marty as he sits down with Aleks Svetski to discuss vol. 5 of The Bitcoin Times, as well as the impact modernity has had on male bonds, the values Bitcoiners should instill in the future, and narrowing focus as one gets older. Follow Svetski on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SvetskiWrites Check out The Bitcoin Times: https://bitcointimes.io/ Pod 5:22 - The time for wandering is over 8:08 - Defining friendship 12:06 - The bonds of warrior cultures 15:29 - Bushido of Bitcoin 17:58 - The impact of schooling 23:11 - Quality over quantity, the value of restraint 30:13 - Moral corruption 40:35 - The Bitcoin Times vol. 5: The Austrian Edition 48:47 - Next edition: Energy 54:40 - Climate LARPing and "sustainable" energy 1:05:53 - Order and entropy 1:08:24 - The Twitter hazard 1:10:51 - Narrowing focus 1:16:33 - How to sell running a node 1:23:52 - Plugs Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital River TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

Join Marty as he sits down with Aleks Svetski to discuss vol. 5 of The Bitcoin Times, as well as the impact modernity has had on male bonds, the values Bitcoiners should instill in the future, and narrowing focus as one gets older. Follow Svetski on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SvetskiWrites Check out The Bitcoin Times: https://bitcointimes.io/ Pod 5:22 - The time for wandering is over 8:08 - Defining friendship 12:06 - The bonds of warrior cultures 15:29 - Bushido of Bitcoin 17:58 - The impact of schooling 23:11 - Quality over quantity, the value of restraint 30:13 - Moral corruption 40:35 - The Bitcoin Times vol. 5: The Austrian Edition 48:47 - Next edition: Energy 54:40 - Climate LARPing and "sustainable" energy 1:05:53 - Order and entropy 1:08:24 - The Twitter hazard 1:10:51 - Narrowing focus 1:16:33 - How to sell running a node 1:23:52 - Plugs Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital River TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

Join Marty as he sits down with Aleks Svetski to discuss vol. 5 of The Bitcoin Times, as well as the impact modernity has had on male bonds, the values Bitcoiners should instill in the future, and narrowing focus as one gets older. Follow Svetski on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SvetskiWrites Check out The Bitcoin Times: https://bitcointimes.io/ Pod 5:22 - The time for wandering is over 8:08 - Defining friendship 12:06 - The bonds of warrior cultures 15:29 - Bushido of Bitcoin 17:58 - The impact of schooling 23:11 - Quality over quantity, the value of restraint 30:13 - Moral corruption 40:35 - The Bitcoin Times vol. 5: The Austrian Edition 48:47 - Next edition: Energy 54:40 - Climate LARPing and "sustainable" energy 1:05:53 - Order and entropy 1:08:24 - The Twitter hazard 1:10:51 - Narrowing focus 1:16:33 - How to sell running a node 1:23:52 - Plugs Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital River TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

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This week Marty and Matt discuss: - 196 Members of Congress Took FTX Money https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/01/17/congress-ftx-problem-1-in-3-members-got-cash-from-crypto-exchanges-bosses/ - Congo National Park Relies on Hydro Powered Bitcoin Mine https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/13/1066820/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-mining-congo-virunga-national-park/ - BIP 329 Merged: Standard for Wallet Label Exports and Imports Between Wallets https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0329.mediawiki - Blixt Wallet v0.6.2 https://github.com/hsjoberg/blixt-wallet/releases/tag/v0.6.2 - Understanding The COLDCARD Mk4 Security Model and Secure Element Use https://blog.coinkite.com/understanding-mk4-security-model/ - US Law Enforcement Agencies Surveil Over 150M Financial Transactions of Americans Without a Warrant https://www.wsj.com/articles/little-known-surveillance-program-captures-money-transfers-between-u-s-and-more-than-20-countries-11674019904 - Lightning Summit at Bitcoin Park https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/291052525/ 5:55 - Safari Matt 11:18 - Mining Summit recap 35:34 - FAA theories 39:42 - Dashboard 42:25 - Lightning Summit and Bitcoin Takeover 44:40 - FTX money went to 1/3 of Congress 46:26 - GTX 52:59 - Congo hydroelectric mining 59:19 - Breaking Cashapp LN news 1:02:08 - Bitzlato 1:07:21 - Marty leaks security details 1:08:10 - BIP 329 1:14:40 - Shoutouts and Boostagrams 1:20:58 - Blixt 0.6.2 1:22:06 - Understanding Coldcard security 1:29:49 - US financial surveillance 1:35:29 - Mandibles Section: Bank of Japan rushes in 1:38:56 - We're already in a recession 1:47:22 - Tech layoffs 1:51:21 - Saudi fading petrodollar Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital https://unchained.com/concierge/ IVPN https://www.ivpn.net/ Coinkite https://coinkite.com/ TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now https://merch.tftc.io/ Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TFTC21/videos Clips YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQcW3jxfQfEUS8kqR5pJtQ Website https://tftc.io/ Twitter https://twitter.com/tftc21 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tftc.io/ Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://tftc.io/podcasts/ Follow Odell: Twitter https://twitter.com/ODELL Newsletter https://tftc.io/the-sat-standard/ Podcast https://citadeldispatch.com/