Bitcoin Acceptance on Square, Unpacking the Lava Drama, CashApp & Lightning Dollars
0:00 It's good to be back to our regularly scheduled programming for the biggest week in Bitcoin. 3:16 Onboarding the 4 million Square merchants to Bitcoin. 8:01 Why Bitcoin payments could actually take off this time & integrating with BTC Map. 14:51 Why did Silicon Valley get Bitcoin wrong, and is it changing? A few barriers persist. 22:00 How do we sustain this momentum and continue to raise awareness among non-Bitcoiners? Fees are a huge driver of adoption. 32:20 CashApp users with dollar…
Signal Messenger using Bitcoin, Funding developers, Perspectives of Jack, Saylor & Elon
0:00 Hiking, biking, and growing food in the blue skies of SF 4:52 Signal messaging adopting Bitcoin? History, Considerations, & Paths Forward. 14:55 How Signals journey shows the difference between open & closed networks. 22:32 Concerns with various implementation architectures. Mints, KYC, MSB Regulations, etc. 27:21 Unpacking Cashu as an option for Signal. 35:47 Can an AI agent run the mint? 38:13 Resurfacing the Artificial Life conferences from the 90s and adding Bitcoin. 42:28 The new…
Square's big release, Insatiable energy demand, Update from Berlin Conference
0:00 Orange phones, orange signs. 1:30 Updates from Berlin Conference, experiences around Berlin, experiencing history. 8:19 Steve's presentation on Spark at BTC++ 10:35 Differences and interplay between Ark & Spark & Lightning. 14:36 How these technologies can bring more people into Bitcoin and how the tech is advancing. 22:57 TLDR: A compelling solution is being developed, and hats off to the Second.Tech team. 24:56 What is the takeaway on the state of Lightning and adoption? 33:28 Square just…
Core v30's change, Miner centralization, Managing attention algorithms
CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS: 0:00 Why we changed the time this week, Open Source & Corporations, wearing suits. 7:40 OP_Return, V30, and what is top of mind for the business-oriented community. 10:00 Unpacking the mechanics of the claim that Bitcoin will die due to illicit content. 20:35 Why make these changes? Revisiting the mining centralization concern and offerings like Slipstream from Mara & Mempool Accelerator. 31:17 Is this whole thing just a distraction or even an attack? The importance of the ease…
Comparing L2 tradeoffs, Incentive structures in payments, Stablecoins on Spark
0:00 DK is back in the studio next week! Swimming in cold water and using a wetsuit. 3:40 Breaking News: Spark announces Stablecoins on Bitcoin and unpacking who will win in the stablecoin landscape. 10:28 Unpacking Spark, how it works, and its three structures. 18:57 How Spark uses state chains to get scaling. 27:40 Differences with Spark and other blockchains, like the new GCUL from Google. 32:56 How payments across services would work using payment trees. 42:42 What is the happy path using…
Bitchat's growing adoption, Future of stablecoins, Bitcoin lending
0:00 Welcome to the Presidio Bitcoin Jam. 1:55 Bitchat, Bitechat, and submitting to the App Store. 8:38 Publishing free and open source applications. 15:15 Does this get us back to the Delete IP debate? 22:17 What will the future look like, bringing together a Chatbot, GitHub, App Stores, and Nostr? 28:39 How to use Bitchat and why we think it's so cool. 33:25 How is this different from Google Buzz or Clubhouse? Will the initial spark fade? 37:16 Bitchat stealthily became the most used Nostr app.…
Unpacking Bitchat, MSTR Earnings, In-kind bitcoin ETF approval
0:00 PBJ is just an extension of conversations around Presidio Bitcoin, which makes this show so fun for us every week. Updates on pull ups, bowling, and DK walking 25K steps a day. 7:35 Max's request for a simple meme generator with Zaps. 9:48 How Bitchat works, the latest vibe-coded app from Jack Dorsey, and how we're using it. 15:40 Use-cases and applications of Bitchat, and how to make the user experience better. 21:19 Discussing how the mesh network of Bitchat works and the history of proximity…