TIBP#2 - Fountain App, Streaming Sats, and Podcasting 2.0 w/ Fountain App Co-Founder Oscar Merry

Hello and welcome to another episode of the This Is Bitcoin Podcast where we talk to Bitcoiners about Bitcoin privacy, technology, self-sovereignty, and building Bitcoin businesses. I am your host Bitcoin Gandalf BIO My guest today is Josef Tetek, a man who wears many Bitcoin hats. By day, he is a brand ambassador for Trezor and Satoshi Labs. By night, he is a writer and podcaster. Josef has written two books published in his native Czech language, they are “Enemies of the State, Friends of Freedom” and  “Bitcoin: Separation of Money from the State” only in Czech. He is a contributor to the BTC Times and Bitcoin Magazine. His podcast, also in Czech, is called “Stackuj.cz”. He has a background in Austrian Economics having studied the subject at University in the Czech Republic. In this episode we talk about: Josef’s education in Austrian economics Josef summarises what Austrian economics is all about, perfect if you’re not familiar with it. Josef's journey from crypto to bitcoin. How the Lightning Network destroyed shitcoin narratives. Do Bitcoiners leave any room for them to be wrong? Potential risks facing Bitcoin. How Josef gets so much done (podcast, writing, Trezor ambassador Etc.) Follow our guest on Twitter and check out his website and podcast:  https://www.twitter.com/satsjoseph https://www.stackuj.cz Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thisisbitcoin https://www.twitter.com/BTCGandalf

What is up everybody. Welcome to the This Is Bitcoin Podcast, the show where we talk to bitcoiners about privacy, technology,  self-sovereignty, and building bitcoin businesses. I am your humble host, Bitcoin Gandalf.    On today's show we talk to Mario Gibney who is the Head of Community at LEDN. Mario and I originally connected on Twitter but have since also met in real life when we both attended Bitcoin Week in El Salvador.  Some of the things we cover in this episode include how Mario got into bitcoin, the Seoul Bitcoin Meetup, how he went from working as an English teacher in Seoul, to working for Blockstream and then LEDN and we talk about LEDN suite of services, amongst other things.  I'm grateful to Mario for taking the time to chat with me and you, the audience, for listening.   Follow Mario on Twitter and check out LEDN at the links below:  www.twitter.com/mario_gibney www.ledn.io   This Is Bitcoin Podcast: Host: www.twitter.com/BTCGandalf  Twitter: www.twitter.com/thisisbitcoin  anchor.fm/thisisbitcoin and available on most podcasting platforms.

Today I have the honour and pleasure of speaking with Bitcoin Q&A. Bitcoin Q&A is a bitcoin privacy and FOSS advocate. He is also the creator of  the amazing bitcoin resources website: bitcoiner.guide where you can find information on all sorts of cool bitcoin stuff like wallets, nodes, privacy guides + a lot more. In This Episide We Discussed: His journey to bitcoin Building Bitcoiner.Guide How to give back and help FOSS bitcoin projects. Privacy Wallets UTXO management CoinJoins Nodes As a thank you to Bitcoin Q&A for all the work he has done in Bitcoin Education and advocating for FOSS bitcoin projects, This Is Bitcoin Podcast will match every sat streamed on this episode via Podcasting 2.0 enabled apps up to 200,000 sats and donate them to the RoninDojo project (ronindojo.io), a project to which Bitcoin Q&A is a contributor and which is close to his heart.  Follow our guest on Twitter at: @BitcoinQ_A Check out Bitcoin Q&A's fantastic bitcoin resources website at bitcoiner.guide  Follow us on Twitter: @thisisbitcoin @BTCGandalf

Hello everyone and welcome to the this is bitcoin podcast where I, bitcoin gandalf, speak to bitcoiners about privacy, technology, security, self-sovereignty, and building in bitcoin. Today I am speaking with Oscar Merry, creator of Fountain. Fountain is a social podcasting app that enables podcast discoverability via clip sharing, and which embraces the podcasting 2.0 philosophy of value for value by enabling streaming of sats from listeners to creators via the lightning network. Oscar and I connected after he contacted me about getting the this is bitcoin podcast on Fountain App. I was interested in learning more about him and fountain so he very kindly agreed to speak with me on the show so that we could share this with all of you. I am a big fan and want to support the podcasting 2.0 movement so if you haven't tried any apps that support streaming of sats, please consider checking out Fountain or any of the other podcasting apps such as Sphinx Chat or Breeze and consider streaming us some sats if you enjoyed this conversation. Fountain App is available in both the iOS app store and the Google Play Store for Android or check them out their website at fountain.fm. And now Please enjoy my conversation with Fountain app co-founder Oscar Merry.

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