Pierre Rochard (co-founder Nakamoto Institute, co-host Noded podcast) and I talk through Bitcoin's Decentralised Governance. This is the process by which Bitcoin's rules are decided, implemented, and enforced without having a central authority.
Some topics covered:
The different parties involved
Network Governance
Bitcoin has no central autho ... Show More
Yesterday
Institutional Custody, Multisig & the War on Cash | Mike Belshe SLP773
Mike Belshe, co-founder and CEO of BitGo, walks through how institutional Bitcoin custody actually works in 2026: qualified custody, self-custody co-signing, and why BitGo still centers a 2-of-3 model after pioneering P2SH multisig in 2013.BitGo now operates as a US-regulated qua ... Show More
1h 7m
Sep 15
Trustless Swaps Across Bitcoin Layers | Walter Maffione SLP772
Walter Maffione, CEO and co-founder of KaleidoSwap, join me to explain how the project grew from an RGB Lightning DEX into a broader swap engine and LSP stack — Lightning as rails between Liquid, Arkade, Taproot Assets, Spark, and RGB — plus KaleidoSDK, desktop app, and browser E ... Show More
37m 31s
Sep 10
Bitcoiners Must Remove Single Points of Failure | Dhruv Bansal SLP771
Recent attacks exposed how even large, educated Bitcoin holders remained exposed through single-vendor setups. The core lesson is that self-custody alone does not remove single points of failure; deliberate design is required.Dhruv Bansal, co-founder and CISO of Unchained, joins ... Show More
49m 10s
Jun 2025
BTC238: Bitcoin 101 w/ Michael Schmid (Bitcoin Podcast)
Michael and Preston explore Bitcoin's foundational principles, covering digital scarcity, mining incentives, node infrastructure, and the importance of self-custody versus third-party management. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro 12:13 - How Bitcoin prevents government- ... Show More
1h 5m
Feb 2021
#498 Edan Yago on Decentralized Infrastructure for Bitcoin
Today’s episode is with Sovryn community founder Edan Yago. This podcast is a a recordeding from a Youtube Livestream on 2-15-21.
In this conversation, we discuss decentralized infrastructure, synthetic assets, Bitcoin, Ethereum, oracles, permissionless innovation, wrapped Bitcoi ... Show More
1h 4m
Mar 2023
Bitcoin Energy Systems, & the State w/ Lyn Alden & Natalie Smolenski
In this podcast, Lyn Alden, Natalie Smolenski, and other experts from the Bitcoin space explore the relationship between Bitcoin, energy systems, and the state. They discuss the concerns around Bitcoin's energy consumption and its potential to undermine state control. Overall, th ... Show More
2h 8m
