Citadel Dispatch

Fran is the creator and lead maintainer of Zap Store, an open permissionless app store for android and desktop. Zap Store uses nostr and verifiable social reputations to provide users and developers a secure, easy to use, alternative to the walled garden app stores operated by Apple and Google. Fran on Nostr:…

Miljan is the Founder and CEO of Primal, one of the most popular nostr and bitcoin apps in the world. His team recently launched Primal 2.0, bringing users more functionality than ever before. Bitcoin is an open protocol for money, nostr is an open protocol for speech, Primal brings the power of both into an easy to use interface for…

Calle is the creator and lead maintainer of the cashu open source protocol, a bitcoin powered chaumian ecash implementation. The cashu ecosystem of wallets and backends provides users the ability to easily, cheaply, and privately use bitcoin, including the ability to make offline peer to peer payments. Sorry for the technical difficulties at the…

Steve runs Spiral, Block's open source bitcoin initiative. Lyn is founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy and partner at Ego Death Capital. Steve and Lyn join the show to discuss their recent research paper on bitcoin consensus changes, the process which the network implements potential improvements, and the various stakeholders…

Adam Back is cofounder and CEO of Blockstream, a company focused on building out bitcoin technology. We discuss his recent appearance in HBO documentary 'Money Electric,' the blossoming Swiss bitcoin city of Lugano, the early days of bitcoin, and his thoughts on ecash and nostr. Adam on Nostr:…

MADEX is an incredibly talented bitcoin artist and a good friend based in Canada. We discuss his long journey producing freedom focused high quality physical artwork while trying to make a sustainable living. We also discuss his work leading branding for Canadian bitcoin services provider Bull Bitcoin and his concerns with modern corporate social…

Ocean Mining is a new and innovative bitcoin mining pool focused on transparency and freedom for the individual miners who choose to use them. With their new DATUM release miners who use Ocean will be able to construct and broadcast blocks themselves removing a key trust component from the process and reducing censorship risk. We had the pleasure…

Phil Geiger is a good friend and VP of Marketing at Unchained. We discussed the current bitcoin landscape, the importance of self custody and their self custody IRA product, the tradeoffs of KYC, their new Donor Advised Fund product, and Nostr. Phil on Nostr:…

Finale conversation at the Baltic Honey Badger Conference in Riga, Latvia. The longest running bitcoin only conference in the world. Video: https://primal.net/e/note1ysx6vqm9h4mlyq0yel3kxplm4xcuhwtwjgzwuhy3ne4thehsntwschsdzw ODELL on Nostr: https://primal.net/odell Jack Dorsey on Nostr: https://primal.net/jack Jack Mallers on Nostr:…

Discussion on the power of key reputation systems and webs of trust using nostr in front of a live audience at Nostriga in Riga. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE731vXoUOU ODELL on Nostr: https://primal.net/odell Pablo on Nostr: https://primal.net/pablof7z Stuart Bowman on Nostr:…