Stephan Livera Podcast

Robert Warren: Do Mining Pools Actually Threaten Bitcoin? | SLP789

Robert Warren, Head of Comms at Elektron Energy, says Bitcoin mining pools do centralize something, but it is mainly control of block templates, not the power to reorg th

Joe Burnett: Your Wealth Is Melting in the Age of AI | SLP788

Joe Burnett, VP of Bitcoin Strategy at Strive, argues that wealth stored in dollars, gold, houses and even mega-cap stocks is melting: technology can produce more of thos

Why Heat-Reuse Mining Gets Stronger Every Halving | Alex Busarov SLP787

Alex Busarov, founder of Heatbit, argues that water heating, not space heating, makes home Bitcoin mining add up. His new Bitwater element replaces a water heater’s lower

Paolo Ardoino: Stop Tokenizing Apple Shares | SLP786

Tokenizing Apple shares is not innovation. Paolo Ardoino of Bitfinex argues the Bitcoin way to securities is opening capital markets for companies that cannot raise like

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

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. Timestam

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 border

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 hi

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 o

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.

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 standar

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 peopl

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

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

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 independe

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 s

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 BitG

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

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

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 Li