You go to a conference like Riga and like payments, you just expect it to work and it just works magically.
NIFTYNEI: Doing Magic With Magic Internet Money (Bitcoin Talk on THE Bitcoin Podcast)
"it's literal magic… We're doing magic with magic internet money using free and open protocols that a bunch of weirdo and cypherpunk hackers built because they cared about financial privacy. They cared about being able to do peer-to-peer stuff. It exists, and it's here."
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1 You go to a conference like Riga and like payments, you just expect it to work and it just works magically.
Like we're doing magic with magic internet money using free and open protocols.
4 And a bunch of weirdo and cyberpunk like hackers built because they cared about financial privacy.
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And you like, you know, it's a fraction of payment. It's Bitcoin sent instantly.
Like it's literal magic. Like we're doing magic with magic internet money using free and open protocols.
And a bunch of weirdo and cyberpunk like hackers built because they cared about financial privacy.
They cared about being able to do peer to peer stuff.
Like it exists and it's here, but like this is like what we're competing with.
We're competing with like this credit system and this like the only way you get wealthy is if you own debt.
Like owning debt is good because the government's going to inflate you out anyway, right?
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"it's literal magic… We're doing magic with magic internet money using free and open protocols that a bunch of weirdo and cypherpunk hackers built because they cared about financial privacy. They cared about being able to do peer-to-peer stuff. It exists, and it's here."
On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with NiftyNei (aka Lisa). Lisa is a a developer, Bitcoin and lightning protocol expert, and educator through her Base58 Bitcoin engineering school. She also hosts developer conferences around the world called BTC++. They discuss Bitcoin education, scaling Bitcoin, the Lightning network, ecash, fedimints, covenants, the Bitcoin ecosystem vs the fiat banking system, and a whole lot more.
NIFTY'S LINKS:
Nostr: https://primal.net/niftynei
X: https://x.com/niftynei
btc++: https://btcpp.dev/
base58: https://base58.school/
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