Sergej Kotliar, CEO of Bitrefill joins me to discuss taking bitcoin and lightning payments as an online merchant. We talked about the challenges and benefits of doing this, particularly in how lightning network simplifies the user experience and reduces errors. In the second part of the episode, we talk about 'earner adoption' - the idea that bitcoin's ecosy ... Show More
Oct 8
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 or phone login, are a good-enough floor for self-custody. Stephan pushes back on what that gives up: verifiabil ... Show More
43m 19s
Oct 5
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.Webley is CEO of The Smarter Web Company (LSE: SWC), the UK's largest publicly traded Bitcoin treasury. He trace ... Show More
44m 39s
Jul 2025
The Real Bitcoin Payments with Lightning and Stablecoins - Graham Krizek
Episode Topic: Graham Krizek, Founder of Voltage, joins PayPod to discuss how the Lightning Network is transforming Bitcoin from a slow and expensive currency into a scalable, real-time payment solution. He explains how Voltage helps businesses adopt Lightning infrastructure easi ... Show More
24m 2s
Feb 2024
2798: Bridging Traditional Finance with Blockchain Innovation
<p>I'm delighted to welcome Petr Kozyakov, CEO and co-founder of Mercuryo, a global payments infrastructure platform, to share his invaluable insights on this transformative journey.</p> <p>Petr Kozyakov is a visionary leader with a deep understanding of the financial market, and ... Show More
29m 58s
Sep 2024
Bitcoin, Blockchain and AI
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong style= "mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chandra Duggirala</strong> discusses bitcoin, blockchain and AI, and how the confluence of these technologies can empower of financial self-sovereignty and super intelligence to every investor. Chandra is the CEO ... Show More
23m 24s
Jan 2023
152. Bitwage with Jonathan Chester
<p>We are joined by Jonathan Chester, the founder and CEO of Bitwage, a bitcoin payroll company which allows you to get paid in bitcoin no matter who is paying you, and allows companies to set up bitcoin payrolls for their workers. We discuss the genesis of the company in 2014, h ... Show More
1h 20m