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Mar 2021
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#239: Sphinx Chat, encrypted chat over L...

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
About this episode

Join Marty as he sits down with Paul Itoi, co-founder of Stakwork and Sphinx Chat, to discuss:

- Sphinx chat

- Content monetization without ads

- Encrypted chat over the Lightning Network

- Paying anons around the world

- Banking the unbanked

- Rearchitecting the Internet using BTC/LN

- How BTC/LN can help parents unschool their kids

- Bringing back grazing cattle via Sphinx

- Training personal AIs

- much more

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Check out Sphinx Chat

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