Changing the Tide

<p>Kgothatso Ngako is the lead catalyst at Machankura, a service on the Bitcoin and Lightning Networks that enables people in Ghana, Namibia, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Malawi, South Africa, and Zambia (so far!) to send and receive Bitcoin over cellular network protocols (GSM and USSD) using Lightning addresses.</p><p><br></p><p>He is not only Changing the Tide with this service but also through Exonumia Africa, his open-source initiative to translate leading Bitcoin content into native African languages.</p><p><br></p><p>Imagine millions of people across the continent of Africa understanding and using Bitcoin. Not on smartphones. But on feature phones that act like "hardware wallets."</p><p><br></p><p>This is the future Machankura is creating. And it's happening now.</p><p><br></p><p>Links:</p><p><br></p><p>Kgothatso's Twitter handle: @440UrPp</p><p>Machankura's Twitter handle: @Machankura8333</p><p>Exonumia Africa's Twitter handle: @ExonumiaAfrica</p><p>Machankura's website: <a href="https://machankura.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://machankura.com/</a></p><p><br></p><p>Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.</p><p><br></p><p>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei</p><p>Graphics: Kal Kassa</p><p>Host: Jon Crabtree</p><p>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Bryan Nonni is a software engineer at one of the world's largest payment companies and co-founded the Terminus Electric Money Lab in Atlanta in June 2022. The goal of Terminus is to be the bridge between "Transaction Alley" in Georgia and the Lightning Network via shared work and hackerspace, as well as hosted events.<br><br>They are Changing the Tide by educating some of the largest payments companies in the United States (and the world) about Bitcoin and Lightning–from the grassroots all the way to the c-suite levels.<br><br>Links: ​<br>Bryan's Twitter handle: @nonni_io<br>Terminus's Twitter handle: @terminusbtc<br>Terminus's website: <a href="https://terminus.money/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://terminus.money/</a><br><br>Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Michael Bumann (Bumi) is co-founder of Alby, an open-source project with two products: a browser extension and an API for web monetization via the Lightning Network.<br><br>Creators and consumers can connect their node or existing wallet to their Alby extension and quickly begin transferring or receiving value on the web. Even on sites that aren't Lightning native (think YouTube).<br><br>And now, with the API, mobile and other applications can be added to the mix.<br><br>Alby is Changing the Tide. One Chrome extension at a time.<br><br>Links: ​<br>Bumi's Twitter handle: @Bumi<br>Alby's Twitter handle: @getAlby<br>Alby's website: <a href="https://getalby.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://getalby.com/</a><br><br>Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Doug is the founder of BitRamp, a service built on top of Azteco to onramp businesses and individuals to the Bitcoin network.<br><br>Business owners and individuals can quickly set up a terminal and Azteco account to sell Bitcoin vouchers. Voucher buyers can then scan the QR code on the voucher with a Bitcoin Lightning wallet of choice to easily redeem and start using!<br><br>No week-long wait times while an entity gathers and stores sensitive personally identifiable information from the person trying to obtain Bitcoin in a honeypot, in order to finally "approve" their ability to obtain an entry in the Bitcoin database. <br><br>No account-based service preventing someone from storing the exact Bitcoin amount they want or sending and receiving exactly what the individual deems necessary at the moment.<br><br>Ethical Bitcoin on-ramps through BitRamp and Azteco are Changing the Tide. And quickly.<br><br>Links: ​<br>BitRamp's Twitter handle: @bit_ramp<br>BitRamp's website: <a href="https://bitramp.co/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bitramp.co/</a><br><br>Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Texas Slim is the driving force behind the Beef Initiative.<br><br>Its mission is "to improve the health and security of our local communities through the expansion of market access to quality animal protein by building decentralized networks of values-aligned ranchers, processors, distributors, butchers, grocers, restaurants, and consumers and providing access to the tools necessary, including bitcoin, to form more secure localized food supply chains."<br><br>He is Changing the Tide by introducing ranchers and farmers to better money, in the form of Bitcoin on Lightning, than they currently receive from their incentives paid out by governments and corporations.<br><br>Links: ​<br>Slim's Twitter handle: @modernTman<br>Slim's newsletter: <a href="https://inititive.substack.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://inititive.substack.com/</a><br>Beef Initiative's Twitter handle: @beefinitiative<br>Beef Initiative's website: <a href="https://beefinitiative.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://beefinitiative.com/</a><br><br>Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Roy Sheinfeld is CEO and Co-founder of Breez. He calls Breez "the interface of the peer-to-peer Lightning economy."<br><br>Roy is Changing the Tide in so many ways. From a mobile app that serves as a fully-featured Bitcoin and Lightning node, to innovating the Lightning Service Provider concept, to forthcoming single-purpose apps, Breez allows individuals to send and receive on-chain and Lightning payments to and from anywhere worldwide, anytime, cheaply, and without permission.<br><br>Download it today on iOS or Android.<br><br>Links: ​<br>Roy's Twitter handle: @therealkingonly<br>Roy's Medium page: <a href="https://medium.com/@kingonly" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@kingonly</a><br>Breez's Twitter handle: @Breez_Tech<br>Breez's website: https://breez.technology/<br>Breez's Medium article "Lightning is a Liquidity Network": <a href="https://medium.com/breez-technology/lightning-is-a-liquidity-network-550896ca27ea" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://medium.com/breez-technology/lightning-is-a-liquidity-network-550896ca27ea</a><br><br>Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Michael Rhee is Founder of Wavlake. Wavlake allows artists to upload their music to its platform and connect their Lightning node to Wavlake's Lightning node. Listeners can then tip the artist or group with direct payment to their node.<br><br>Michael is Changing the Tide with a platform that creates a more artist-friendly model of streaming. The goal? By cutting out middlemen and allowing listeners to make direct micropayments to their favorite musicians, these artists can benefit from the distribution model of the Internet (8 billion potential listeners) to hopefully earn significantly more from streaming than current dominant streaming platforms.<br><br>If you're an interested musician, join the Telegram conversation at <a href="https://t.me/wavlake" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://t.me/wavlake</a> or email <a href="http://[email protected]" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>.<br><br>Links: ​<br>Michael's Twitter handle: @rheedio<br>Michael's Medium page: <a href="https://medium.com/@rheedio" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@rheedio</a><br>Wavlake's Twitter handle: @wavlake<br>Wavlake's website: <a href="https://wavlake.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://wavlake.com/</a><br><br>Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>C Funk is Business Development Manager at Coinkite. Coinkite produces cutting-edge Bitcoin hardware, including OPENDIME, COLDCARD, BLOCKCLOCK, and more recently SATSCARD, TAPSIGNER, and now SATSCHIP.<br><br>C Funk and Coinkite are Changing the Tide by producing and distributing products and documentation that help educate individuals worldwide on securing their Bitcoin. <br><br>They are currently looking to help scale on-chain transactions worldwide with SATSCARD and TAPSIGNER, and are driving towards partnering with developers at Bitcoin businesses to implement NFC integration into their wallets. If interested, reach out to <a href="http://[email protected]" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>.<br><br>Links: ​<br>C Funk's Twitter handle: @cypher_funk<br>Coinkite's Twitter handle: @Coinkite<br>Coinkite's website: <a href="https://coinkite.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://coinkite.com/</a><br>SATSCARD Twitter handle: @SATSCARD<br>SATSCARD website: <a href="https://getsatscard.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://getsatscard.com/</a><br>TAPSIGNER Twitter handle: @TAPSIGNER<br>TAPSIGNER website: <a href="https://tapsigner.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://tapsigner.com/</a><br>Master Guantai's Twitter handle: @MasterGuantai<br><br>Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Jesse Shrader is co-founder of Amboss. Amboss is a set of Lightning Network tools, including an explorer and marketplace for selling Lightning channels, called Magma.<br><br>Jesse and Amboss are Changing the Tide by providing services to lightning node operators to ensure a smoother payment experience across the network. Worldwide.<br><br>Links: ​<br>Jesse's Twitter handle: @Jestopher_BTC<br>Amboss's Twitter handle: @ambosstech<br>Amboss's website: <a href="https://amboss.space/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://amboss.space/</a><br><br>Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>John Carvalho is CEO of Synonym. Synonym is building a model and tools to facilitate and accelerate the hyberbitcoinized future, which they call the "Atomic Economy."<br><br>John and Synonym are working on Changing the Tide with some unique products. Slashtags will change how metadata on the Web is built and shared. Slashpay will incorporate Slashtags and standardize payments between two people who may hold Bitcoin on differing address types or use different Lightning invoice formats. And Blocktank is a new Lightning Service Provider service that will automate and monetize lightning node services.<br><br>On top of this, they are making the code for these standards and products open source.<br><br>Links: ​<br>John's Twitter handle: @BitcoinErrorLog<br>Synonym's Twitter handle: @Synonym_to<br>Synonym's website: <a href="https://synonym.to/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://synonym.to/</a><br><br>Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin programmer, educator, author, and entrepreneur. He and I met at the one-day Thank God for Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami the day before Bitcoin 2022 kicked off.<br><br>He has written Programming Bitcoin and The Little Bitcoin Book, as well as co-authored the more recent Thank God for Bitcoin and Bitcoin and the American Dream. The latter is focused on educating American politicians on the benefits of adopting a Bitcoin standard.<br><br>Jimmy is Changing the Tide by training more Bitcoin developers through his programming education efforts, like a forthcoming course in El Salvador that Stacy Herbert encouraged him to put on. He has also contributed to Bitcoin Core and other open-source Bitcoin projects. An outspoken Christian, he is a leader in educating Christians on the benefits of Bitcoin.<br><br>Links: ​<br>Jimmy's Twitter handle: @jimmysong<br>Jimmy's website: <a href="https://programmingbitcoin.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://programmingbitcoin.com/</a><br><br>Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Tim is Founder and CEO of LNPay. LNPay offers tools to help you integrate Lightning Network into your business. Many of the earliest Podcasting 2.0 apps are LNPay clients, including Podcast Index and Fountain.<br><br>Tim is Changing the Tide by offering ways for businesses to get started with Lightning. This includes Podcasting 2.0 features, as well as LAPPs such as paywalls, faucets, gifts, and the Satmailer. His primary interest in Lightning was micropayments, which unlock an entire band of small payments worldwide.<br><br>Links: ​<br>LNPay's Twitter handle: @LNPAYco<br>LNPay's website: <a href="https://lnpay.co/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://lnpay.co/</a><br>Tim's Twitter handle: @BootstrapBandit<br><br>Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Graham Krizek is Founder and CEO of Voltage. Voltage is a cloud platform for hosted Bitcoin and Lightning nodes, BTCPay Server instances, and liquidity. It is being used by several prominent Lightning startups and movements.<br><br>Graham and the Voltage team are Changing the Tide by offering a KYC-free experience that allows you to quickly and easily spin up nodes, BTCPay Server instances, and Lightning channels. Your accounts are encrypted to a password you choose that they do not control. As such, they have no insight into your nodes and channels.<br><br>Ultimately, they desire to make Lightning scalable as easy at the Enterprise level as at the individual level. That includes the Value4Value model in podcasting and content publishing, as well as social media, gaming, payments, and more.<br><br>Links: ​<br>Voltage's Twitter handle: @voltage_cloud<br>Voltage website: <a href="https://voltage.cloud/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://voltage.cloud/</a><br>Graham's Twitter handle: @gkrizek<br><br>Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>BecomingPhill is the pseudonymous founder of Landifa Bitcoin. It's an online marketplace for Namibians and South Africans to purchase and sell Bitcoin.<br><br>BecomingPhill is Changing the Tide by offering a KYC-free experience that emphasizes "Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins." He wants everyone who uses his site to take control of their own Bitcoin and their own wealth.<br><br>He has integrated Lightning to make the experience even faster and cheaper. He also worked with Namibian authorities to clarify that they do not need KYC, thus offering one more step towards a future in which those in the vendor economy in Namibia and the rest of Africa can move seamlessly into the Bitcoin network.<br><br>Links: ​<br>BecomingPhill's Twitter handle: @BecomingPhill<br>Landifa Bitcoin's Twitter handle: @LandifaBitcoin<br>Landifa Bitcoin's website: <a href="https://landifa.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://landifa.com/</a><br><br>Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Keyan Kousha is the founder of Stacker News. It's like Hacker News, but they pay you in Bitcoin.<br><br>Keyan is Changing the Tide by valuing the users of his social network. Users must pay a sat to post or reply to others' posts, but they can also "upvote" posts by sending as many sats as they want to the poster. Users can take the sats they've earned with them by withdrawing to their own wallets.<br><br>By using a web of trust model, Stacker News is also helping people see content (rather than ads) from people they trust most.<br><br>Links: ​<br>Keyan's Twitter handle: @k00bideh<br>Stacker News website: <a href="https://stacker.news/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://stacker.news/</a><br>Keyan's Stacker News handle: @k00b<br>Stacker News Twitter handle: @stacker_news<br><br>Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>John Cantrell is a software engineer and entrepreneur who has been studying Bitcoin for close to a decade. His technology lab L2 recently announced "Sensei." Built on the Bitcoin and Lightning Development Kits, it is a "lightning node implementation focused on making Bitcoin accessible to the entire world."<br><br>John is Changing the Tide by focusing on software and services that will accelerate the adoption of Bitcoin worldwide. Sensei does this by allowing a "parent node" to spin up "child nodes" that can eventually become "Senseis" themselves. This should reduce frictions that might arise when starting a node, like liquidity issues and high bandwidth requirements for on-chain monitoring and network graph maintenance.<br><br>Links: ​<br>John's Twitter handle: @JohnCantrell97<br>John's Thread of Threads on Bitcoin + Lightning: <a href="http://twitter.com/JohnCantrell97/status/1488218859521949703?s=20&t=kKsQiX9F20Ay_qWCg3WmCQ" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">twitter.com/JohnCantrell97/status/1488218859521949703?s=20&t=kKsQiX9F20Ay_qWCg3WmCQ</a><br>L2's website: l2.technology<br><br>*Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.**<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Tone Vays is a professional trader and Bitcoin educator. He has been active in the Bitcoin space for close to 7 years.<br><br>Tone has been Changing the Tide by continuously advocating for people to take full possession of their Bitcoin's private keys, leading to its "unconfiscatable" property. The events in Canada the week of this recording made it very clear how important that property really is. As well as what kind of state-level attack you leave yourself open to if you leave your Bitcoin in the custody of state-regulated financial institutions.<br><br>The Unconfiscatable conference begins the night of Thursday, March 3 with a poker tournament. The conference itself takes place on Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5. For the chance to win a free ticket, follow this show's Twitter handle (@changingtidepod) and the conference's (@unconfiscatable), like the tweet about this episode, and reply with why you want to go!<br><br>Links: ​<br>Unconfiscatable website: <a href="https://unconfiscatable.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://unconfiscatable.com/</a><br>Unconfiscatable's Twitter handle: @unconfiscatable<br>Tone's Twitter handle: @ToneVays<br><br>*Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.**<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Andy Schroder is an engineer and entrepreneur who has created the Bitcoin Fluid Dispenser and Distributed Charge. <br><br>These projects are Changing the Tide by providing a smooth path that vendors can use to dispense commodities and energy for Bitcoin in a trustless or near-trustless way. Both the seller and the buyer(s) can rely on their Bitcoin and Lightning full nodes to transact, bolstering their financial privacy and sovereignty.<br><br>Distributed Charge's proprietary Board A0 is "The First Building Block of a Bitcoin Lightning Network Enabled Energy Grid." The goal is to create a truly distributed network of charging stations for electric cars.<br><br>Links: ​<br>Andy's website: <a href="http://andyschroder.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://andyschroder.com/</a><br>Andy's Twitter handle: @_andy_schroder_<br>Bitcoin Fluid Dispenser overview: <a href="http://andyschroder.com/BitcoinFluidDispenser/TheOriginal/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://andyschroder.com/BitcoinFluidDispenser/TheOriginal/</a><br>Distributed Charge overview:<br><a href="http://andyschroder.com/DistributedCharge/alpha/InitialDemonstration/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://andyschroder.com/DistributedCharge/alpha/InitialDemonstration/</a><br>Board A0 overview:<br><a href="http://andyschroder.com/DistributedCharge/BoardA0/Overview/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://andyschroder.com/DistributedCharge/BoardA0/Overview/</a><br><br>*Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.**<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree<br><br>Correction: At approximately 3:20, I mention that "90.29% of <a href="http://Bitcoin...has" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Bitcoin...has</a> been issued by miners." In reality, "90.29% of <a href="http://Bitcoin...has" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Bitcoin...has</a> been issued TO miners."</p>

<p>8₿it is building <a href="http://BTC.email" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BTC.email</a>. This concept reaches all the way back to a very famous email exchange on the Cryptography Mailing List dated January 16, 2009.<br><br>8₿it is Changing the Tide. This product will allow people to have their time bought by those wanting to get their attention. So it lets them store the time they've spent in and on their email persona in Bitcoin and take it with them. And thus give them greater freedom over another huge aspect of their lives: digital communications.<br><br>As a fun side benefit, he is also documenting this journey.<br><br>Links: ​<br>8₿it's Twitter handle: @8BIT<br><a href="http://BTC.email" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BTC.email</a>'s Twitter handle: @BTCemail<br>Email Exchange URL: <a href="https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/17/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/17/</a><br><br>*Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.**<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Desiree Dickerson is CEO and Co-Founder of THNDR Games, a company onboarding new Bitcoiners through engaging mobile video games.<br><br>Des has been Changing the Tide for years. As part of both Lightning Labs and MintGox, she was pivotal in driving Lightning adoption through video games. Now at THNDR Games, she is ready to help scale THNDR's impact across the world.<br><br>Links: ​<br>Des's Twitter handle: @dickerson_des<br>THNDR Games Twitter handle: @THNDRGAMES<br>THNDR's website: <a href="https://www.thndr.gg/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.thndr.gg/</a><br>THNDR's games in app stores:<br>*Turbo '84<br>*Bitcoin Bounce<br>*THNDR Bay<br><br>*Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.**<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Cory Klippsten is CEO and Founder of Swan Bitcoin, a service that allows you to purchase Bitcoin with your bank account. He is also Founder of Bitcoiner Ventures and Bitcoiner Jobs.<br><br>Cory and Swan are Changing the Tide by offering educational services that teach people foundational Bitcoiner concepts, from a user interface and experience that encourages buys only and withdrawal to self-custody, all the way to video and audio content via YouTube, Twitter Spaces, and Clubhouse. <br><br>He is also connecting like-minded investors through Bitcoiner Ventures and like-minded people to work in the industry via Bitcoiner Jobs.<br><br>Links: ​<br>Cory's Twitter handle: @coryklippsten<br>Cory's email: <a href="http://[email protected]" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">[email protected]</a><br>Swan's Twitter handle: @SwanBitcoin<br>Swan's website: <a href="https://www.swan.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.swan.com</a><br>Swan Private's website: <a href="https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/</a><br>Jon's Swan Force link: <br><a href="https://www.swanbitcoin.com/joncrabtree" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.swanbitcoin.com/joncrabtree</a><br><br>*Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.**<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Oscar Merry is a co-founder of Fountain, an app that allows you to create clips of your favorite podcasts and view clips from those you follow.<br><br>Oscar and Fountain are Changing the Tide by taking advantage of Podcasting 2.0's value block standard. This allows podcast listeners to stream sats by the minute to their favorite podcasters, or send a one-time sats boost with a message. Check out <a href="http://podcastindex.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">podcastindex.org</a> for more on Podcasting 2.0.<br><br>Thanks to Oscar, Changing the Tide is now available in Fountain, Breez, and other podcasting apps that support value for value!<br><br>Links:<br>Oscar's Twitter handle: @MerryOscar<br>Fountain's Twitter handle: @fountain_app<br>Fountain's website: <a href="https://fountain.fm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://fountain.fm</a><br><br>**Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, medical or other decisions based on what you hear.**<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Alejandro de la Torre has an extensive background in Bitcoin mining. He co-founded the mining pool <a href="http://BTC.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BTC.com</a>, which was later acquired by Bitmain, the maker of the Antminer. For the past 2+ years, he was VP at Poolin, a large Bitcoin mining pool.<br><br>Alejandro is Changing the Tide with <a href="http://Proofofwork.energy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Proofofwork.energy</a>. He founded this new business just two weeks ago and is committed to decentralizing Bitcoin mining by making it happen in places where it has not yet proliferated. As the remaining supply of Bitcoin to be mined continues to decrease, this is going to help bring greater freedom and prosperity to those areas. It will also help better secure the network by combatting moves by governments that could significantly decrease hashrate, like the recent ban in the summer of 2021 by the People's Republic of China (PRC).<br><br>We talk about:<br>*the mission of <a href="http://Proofofwork.energy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Proofofwork.energy</a><br>*stories from his time in the PRC at <a href="http://BTC.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BTC.com</a>, Bitmain, and Poolin<br>*Alejandro's work coordinating communication with mining pools and Bitcoin Core developers in the lead up to Taproot activation, and how this stemmed from "PTSD" caused by the 2017 blocksize wars<br>*the benefits of Proof of Work (PoW) versus Proof of Stake (PoS)<br>*how the PRC came to dominate Bitcoin mining, and how he assisted the "great miner migration" after the mining ban there earlier this year<br><br>Links:<br>Alejandro's Twitter handle: @bitentrepreneur<br><a href="http://Proofofwork.energy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Proofofwork.energy</a> Twitter handle: @proofofwork_e<br><a href="http://Proofofwork.energy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Proofofwork.energy</a> website: <a href="https://proofofwork.energy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://proofofwork.energy/</a><br><br>**Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, medical or other decisions based on what you hear.**<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Fellow Class of 2017 Bitcoiner Conor Okus is part of the founding team that is building out Hello Bitcoin, a series dedicated to being "Your friendly place to learn about Bitcoin." He is also host of Advancing Bitcoin, a podcast related to the 2-day Advancing Bitcoin event in London, featuring developers and designers who are making it easier to onboard new Bitcoiners. His day job is Product Manager at Square Crypto, where he and his team focus specifically on improving the developer experience in Bitcoin via the Lightning Development Kit.<br><br>Conor is Changing the Tide by helping guide the building out of ways for developers to choose Lightning features they want to integrate into their Bitcoin wallets. His team is also funding BTCPayServer, Bitcoin Core developers, designers working in the Bitcoin Design Community, and Lightning infrastructure projects. Outside of his 9-5, he is working tirelessly with others to build out educational material (like "Hello Bitcoin") to onboard new people, as well as help decentralize the funding of Bitcoin's and Lightning's open-source development.<br><br>We talk about:<br>*what drew him into Bitcoin<br>*the ethos of Square Crypto, and Jack Dorsey's desire to build "the native digital currency of the Internet"<br>*the first three episodes of "Hello Bitcoin," as well as what is coming in the next two<br>*what he's most excited about over the next couple of years<br>*how to onboard others to Bitcoin in a way that helps them "get it"<br><br>Links:<br>Conor's Twitter handle: @ConorOkus<br>Hello Bitcoin Twitter handle: @hello_bitcoin<br>Hello Bitcoin website: <a href="https://hellobitco.in/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://hellobitco.in/</a><br>Advancing Bitcoin podcast website: <a href="https://podcast.advancingbitcoin.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://podcast.advancingbitcoin.com/</a><br>Advancing Bitcoin Twitter handle: @advbitcoin<br>Square Crypto Twitter handle: @sqcrypto<br>Adopting Bitcoin website: <a href="https://adoptingbitcoin.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://adoptingbitcoin.org/</a><br><br>**Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, medical or other decisions based on what you hear.**<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Natalie Brunell (Twitter: @natbrunell) is a former news reporter and anchor, and now the host of Coin Stories Podcast <a href="http://(www.youtube.com/channel/UCru3nlhzHrbgK21x0MdB_eg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">(www.youtube.com/channel/UCru3nlhzHrbgK21x0MdB_eg</a>). Launched just this year, she has interviewed many of the leading voices in Bitcoin. Most of these interviews are regularly seeing tens of thousands of views via YouTube, and good engagement on the podcast platforms. She also launched a course this month with Anthony Pompliano called Bitcoin for Women <a href="http://(btcforwomen.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">(btcforwomen.com</a>).<br><br>Natalie is Changing the Tide by capturing the origin stories of some of the most influential thinkers and builders in Bitcoin. And spreading the word about Bitcoin with her Emmy-award-winning energy and work ethic, from network news interviews to her very own virtual classroom.<br><br>We talk about:<br>*her recent appearances on local Los Angeles news shows to talk about inflation and money printing, and why that foundational understanding is so important for people to understand Bitcoin<br>*how she landed interviews with Michael Saylor and Saifedean Ammous as a result of Bitcoin 2021<br>*her course with Pomp, Bitcoin for Women, and how that came about<br>*some of the most interesting stories she's learned from her interviews<br>*and more<br><br>**Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial or legal advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax and legal professionals before making financial or other decisions based on what you hear.**<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>NVK (Twitter: @nvk) is CEO and Co-Founder of Coinkite (website: <a href="http://www.coinkite.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.coinkite.com</a>). The company created COLDCARD Wallet (website: <a href="http://www.coldcard.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.coldcard.com</a>), an air-gapped hardware wallet to securely store Bitcoin. It also created OPENDIME (website: <a href="http://www.opendime.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.opendime.com</a>), the first physical bearer instrument to allow you to hold and transfer Bitcoin. Coinkite released the original limited-edition BLOCKCLOCK for Bitcoin's 10-year anniversary, and now offers BLOCKCLOCK mini <a href="http://(www.blockclockmini.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">(www.blockclockmini.com</a>) for sale.<br><br>NVK is Changing the Tide by building secure storage and transactional devices for users worldwide. And doing so in the spirit of Bitcoin: transparently, in the open, and making the process of learning about Bitcoin into fun games.<br><br>We talk about:<br>*his early days learning about Bitcoin<br>*starting Coinkite, including a block explorer and an early version of a Bitcoin bank<br>*the murky early days: "am I legally allowed to build on this technology?"<br>*why Mark Cuban and other Cantillionaires don't get it<br>*Coinkite's design aesthetic and principles, including for OPENDIME and COLDCARD<br>*launching products into the market as the perfect testing environment<br>*NVK's sauna maximalism<br><br>**Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, medical or other decisions based on what you hear.**<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Mike Jarmuz (Twitter: @MikeJarmuz) is a co-founder of Lightning Ventures (website: https://ltng.ventures/). Its aim is to invest in Bitcoin companies with an emphasis on Lightning Network technology. There is both a fund (website: <a href="https://angel.co/i/ArCtj" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://angel.co/i/ArCtj</a>) and a syndicate (website: <a href="https://angel.co/s/lightningventures/ld5f4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://angel.co/s/lightningventures/ld5f4</a>) that accredited investors can join. <br><br>Along with Tone Vays, he also also helps run Unconfiscatable, an annual "bitcoin not blockchain" conference in Las Vegas.<br><br>Mike is Changing the Tide by supporting entrepreneurs building Bitcoin companies on the rails of the Lightning Network. He is stoked on being a champion of Bitcoin companies bringing freedom and prosperity across the world.<br><br>You won't want to miss this show. We talk about:<br>*Mike's start in the music industry and how it got him interested in investing in private companies<br>*Mike's big break with two exits in the healthcare industry, and getting into BTC at the same time<br>*Who were his BTC influences?<br>*How angel investing can change your life<br>*How investing in BTC companies whose business models are decoupled from price movement can complement your HODL<br>*How to get started in angel investing, and with Lightning Ventures<br>*and more<br><br>**Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial or legal advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax and legal professionals before making financial or other decisions based on what you hear.**<br><br>Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei<br>Graphics: Kal Kassa<br>Host: Jon Crabtree<br>Producer: Jon Crabtree</p>

<p>Ian Gaines (Twitter @NatureofG) is Media Director at Black Bitcoin Billionaires (Twitter: @BlkBTCBillions). He runs an interview series called Nature of Sovereignty on BBB's YouTube Channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF8ghwxt1DJsh-Z3Opp4InQ" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF8ghwxt1DJsh-Z3Opp4InQ</a>. <br><br>Some guests he has hosted include:<br>*Olaoluwa Osuntokun of Lightning Labs<br>*Former FRB regulator turned Bitcoin educator Charlene Fadirepo<br>*Paxful CEO Ray Youssef<br>*Togolese Human Rights Activist Farida Nabourema<br>*Chief Visionary Officer of Crypto Blockchain Plug Najah Roberts, and<br>*Robert Breedlove<br><br>Ian is Changing the Tide when it comes to highlighting Bitcoin's most innovative game-changers from the Black community. He also wrote a powerful essay called "The Black Case for Bitcoin," which you can read here: <a href="https://natureofg.medium.com/the-black-case-for-bitcoin-9e3d75646f4c" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://natureofg.medium.com/the-black-case-for-bitcoin-9e3d75646f4c</a><br><br>We also talked about:<br>*the recent Black Blockchain Summit in DC, and Najah Roberts's 30-city digital financial revolution tour<br>*his discovery of Bitcoin as a tool to liberate billions from centralized control<br>*his compelling thesis on how Black American culture influences world culture, and how mass adoption within the Black community will lead to truly mass adoption worldwide<br>*the CFA Franc system in West Africa<br>*where he sees BBB in 2-5 years<br>*how he would pitch Congresspeople on the fence about Bitcoin<br><br>**Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial or legal advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax and legal professionals before making financial or other decisions based on what you hear.**</p>

<p>Kal Kassa (Twitter @KalKassa) runs <a href="http://BitcoinBirr.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BitcoinBirr.org</a>, an open-source Bitcoin educational initiative for Ethiopia. He also runs DIDIBold <a href="http://(DIDIBold.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">(DIDIBold.com</a>), a branding/tech/marketing company. To strengthen the Bitcoin circular economy, I collaborated with Kal and DIDIBold for this podcast's logo and branding assets.<br><br>Kal is Changing the Tide when it comes to onboarding Ethiopians to Bitcoin. He has a goal to onboard 10,000 Ethiopians to a Lightning wallet by September 2022 and is currently at 12% of the goal. He is set to speak on "Bitcoin in the Developing World" at the upcoming Oslo Freedom Forum. Next year, he will also host a Bitcoin conference in Addis Ababa next year.<br><br>We also talked about:<br>*his family's migration to California, moving back to Ethiopia after college, and landing in Austin<br>*what laid the groundwork for him to become a Bitcoiner<br>*inflation as Ethiopia's biggest burden, and what Ethiopians are doing to beat it<br>*Bitcoin as the answer to the inflation problem in Ethiopia<br>*what people like Neel Kashkari of the Minneapolis Fed misunderstand about how Bitcoin can create new opportunities in places like Ethiopia<br>*meeting Lightning developers at PlebFi and BitDevs in Austin, including a cool realization about how much sense it makes for @roasbeef to be working on the network<br>*my Bitcoin journey, which Kal was kind enough to ask about<br><br>**Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial or legal advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax and legal professionals before making financial or other decisions based on what you hear.**</p>

<p>Jack Everitt (Twitter: @jackeveritt) founded and heads up THNDR Games (Twitter: @THNDRGAMES), a mobile gaming company. Currently, they have two different games in the app stores that allow people in jurisdictions where Bitcoin is legal to play for free, win Bitcoin, and withdraw to a Lightning wallet.<br><br>Jack and his company are Changing the Tide when it comes to onboarding people to Bitcoin. Like a Bitcoin faucet, you can win Bitcoin for "free" through his games. And the only investment you make is the time you spend within them. Unlike a Bitcoin faucet, the games are a fun challenge. And they cleverly incorporate current events to educate players on the latest happenings in the space.<br><br>We also talked about:<br>*the two current THNDR Games in the app stores, and the differences between Apple and Google Play in terms of what you can win<br>*his early start in mobile games + how he got into Bitcoin/Lightning Network<br>*his focus on branding and why it is important<br>*being an entrepreneur in the Bitcoin industry, and working with others on Lightning (like the ZEBEDEE crew)<br>*the growth he's seen in the number of players downloading his games, and where growth has been hottest<br>*THNDR's upcoming merch drop in the Lightning Store<br>*what's coming next for THNDR Games<br><br>**Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial or legal advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax and legal professionals before making financial or other decisions based on what you hear.**</p>

<p>Mike Peterson runs the Twitter handle @Bitcoinbeach and helped start that initiative in El Zonte, El Salvador. Many point to this community-led movement as instrumental in offering a playbook that made possible the adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador on June 8, 2021. That law goes into effect today (September 7, 2021).<br><br>As Bitcoin Beach has been Changing the Tide in terms of Lightning Network adoption in El Salvador, it is coinciding with some rather interesting positive side effects. People who generally could not think in terms of savings have begun to do so. The virtuous cycle of growth on Lightning Network leading to growth in cellular service, leading back to growth on Lightning. And more.<br><br>We also talked about:<br>*Why he's hoping for a slow rollout of the Bitcoin Law<br>*Most of Mike's life being preparation for understanding Bitcoin<br>*Bitcoin Beach's origin as a community-led initiative<br>*What most in financially privileged positions miss about the importance of Bitcoin and Lightning Network in areas locked out of the G7 financial system<br>*How Galoy is miles ahead because of their help developing Bitcoin Beach's Wallet<br>*Why lack of Internet access is a misguided critique of the new Bitcoin Law due to high levels of smartphone penetration and improvements in smartphone tech<br>*The power of Lightning Network, how it's bringing benefits to people in places like El Salvador, and how this wave may make it back to the shores of traditional centers of power<br><br>**Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial or legal advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax and legal professionals before making financial or other decisions based on what you hear.**</p>

<p>Brian Harrington (Twitter: @BrainHarrington) is a Product Marketing Manager at Choice by KT (Twitter: @choicebyKT). Choice allows United States citizens to track all their retirement assets in one account, including alternative and digital assets such as Bitcoin.<br><br>In the final weeks of July 2021, Choice announced a way they are Changing the Tide when it comes to retirement. We talk about Brian's role in the go-to-market messaging for the announcement that Choice account holders can use IRA funds to purchase mining equipment through Compass Mining. He is also helping the Choice team "get in the comments" with users as they build their iOS app for customer accounts in public.<br><br>We also talked about:<br>*how we met through Bitcoin Twitter and the Orange County Bitcoin Meetup<br>*his Bitcoin origin story, which started in student government<br>*his thoughts on recent government debates over the industry, how to interact with politicians regarding Bitcoin, and building during this moment<br>*using a variety of analogies to make Bitcoin accessible<br><br>**Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial or legal advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax and legal professionals before making financial or other decisions based on what you hear.**</p>