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Stephan Livera Podcast

Stephan Livera

Join Stephan as he interviews the sharpest economic and technical minds in Bitcoin & Austrian Economics to help you understand how money is changing and evolving. This is one of the leading...

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Morgen Rochard: Holding Bitcoin Is Not a Financial Plan | SLP785

Holding Bitcoin is not a financial plan. That is the starting point of Morgen Rochard's new book, Bitcoin Personal Finance, and of her retur...

00:39:17Oct 27, 2026

Debt, Oil, AI and Bitcoin: A Gradual Print Until It Isn't | James Lavish SLP784

James Lavish explains why he expects a gradual print to turn into a big one, what weak Treasury auctions signal, and what he got wrong about...

00:46:15Oct 26, 2026

Plan Your Second Passport Before You Need It | Alex Recouso SLP783

Official Podcast Episode: https://stephanlivera.com/783 Alex Recouso argues that Bitcoin solved capital mobility but not human mobility: you...

00:52:22Oct 21, 2026

Debanking and Bitcoin Business Accounts in the EU | Prashanth Chandrashekar SLP782

Prashanth Chandrashekar argues that much of Europe's debanking comes down to how banks score transfers. Money arriving from a crypto exchang...

00:37:39Oct 19, 2026

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...

00:43:19Oct 8, 2026

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 M...

00:44:39Oct 5, 2026

Lightning in x402 and Agent Payments | Ben Carman SLP779

Bitcoiners built L402 for a Lightning-native web. Crypto built x402 for agents — and early volume is mostly stables. Ben Carman helped get L...

00:45:28Oct 3, 2026

Why Bitkey Ditched Seed Phrases | Clay Garrett SLP778

Bitkey ditched seed phrases for a recovery-focused 2-of-3 design: an app key, hardware key, and Block server key that use phones, hardware,...

00:59:48Oct 1, 2026

Bitcoin Savings vs Casino Exchanges | Julian Liniger SLP777

Most crypto exchanges are built like casinos: they chase the next hot token, prediction market, or trading product. Relai is building a diff...

00:51:13Sep 29, 2026

Bitcoin PIPEs v2 | Misha Komarov SLP776

Bitcoin soft-fork debates around CTV, CSFS, OP_CAT, and OP_VAULT keep stalling — and Misha Komarov of Allocinit argues you can emulate much...

00:42:47Sep 24, 2026

rbitcoin: Bitcoin Full Node With Zero Human Code | reardencode SLP775

Almost every public Bitcoin node still runs Bitcoin Core. Brandon Black argues that client monoculture is a systemic risk — and that automat...

00:45:25Sep 24, 2026

Bitcoin Accelerator on Mirissa Beach | James of Ârc SLP774

Most Asian markets still make buying and saving Bitcoin painfully hard. James of Ârc argues the fix is not another protocol breakthrough — i...

00:36:12Sep 22, 2026

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-cu...

01:07:00Sep 16, 2026

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 en...

00:37:31Sep 15, 2026

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-...

00:49:10Sep 10, 2026

Interviews at Origin Seoul 2026 | SLP770

00:00 - Interview with Gabriele Vernetti of Stratum V2 @gitgab19 15:38 - Interview with Jimmy Kostro @jimmykostro 29:30 - Interview with Jam...

00:41:30Sep 3, 2026

Bitcoin Asia (HK) 2026 Day 2 Interviews | SLP769

Interviews at Bitcoin Asia 2026 Day 2 00:00 - Piriya Sambandaraksa 05:14 - Alexander Mann 11:04 - Shone Anstey of LQWD 17:03 -Liam Eagen fro...

00:27:05Aug 31, 2026

Bitcoin Asia (HK) 2026 Day 1 Interviews | SLP768

In this episode, I interviewed several people at Bitcoin Asia 2026. Timestamps: 00:00 - Interview with Adam Poulton 06:28 Interview with Gio...

00:40:16Aug 29, 2026

Wallet Playground for learning Bitcoin self custody with Piers Macrae | SLP767

In this episode, Piers Macrae demonstrates Wallet Playground and explains why hardware wallets are signing devices, not wallets. Timestamps:...

00:29:31Aug 25, 2026

Dice Rolls, Entropy, and SeedSigner | Keith Mukai SLP766

In this episode, Keith Mukai of SeedSigner joins to explain why 1.4 percent variance in cheap dice still delivers full 128-bit entropy and h...

00:52:08Aug 22, 2026