About this episode
0:00 Happy Halloween! (Sorry for the audio issue!)
3:02 Fixed the mics! Only two people responded to Satoshi in the first 24 hours!
6:32 Facts from the 2008 Bitcoin White Paper launch. Same date as Martin Luther in 1517. Planned?
9:11 Numerology in the white paper? The beauty in the mystery of Satoshi.
14:30 Steak n Shake announced a strategic Bitcoin reserve in the "Square style" via payments and funding to Bitcoin.
20:24 Paying in Bitcoin in real life at merchants like Pink Owl Coffee and driving merchant adoption.
30:33 Revisiting the creation of a Bitcoin Merchant Association.
40:57 Making apps for everyday users and thinking through the complexity of options for payments.
53:35 Remaking traditional savings vehicles, like paper-based US Savings Bonds, using Bitcoin.
58:31 Strategy's STRC product is Tax-Free?
1:08:57 Unpacking the BIP 444 fork proposal and the history of how prior folks played out.
1:23:03 Running a node is not a vote, spending is.
1:26:12 Details on Max's Halloween costume.
1:29:28 Rapid Fire: Polymarket accepts Bitcoin. Predyx smooth UX. Brian reading the prediction market words on Coinbase earnings. Coreweave and Core deal fell apart. SimpleX messaging. Bitchat adoption in Jamaica during the hurricane.
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