Technical Bitcoin interviews with monetary consequences.
Stephan Livera Podcast treats Bitcoin as both software and monetary system. Recent conversations move from mempool policy and UTXO spam to FIRE planning, tap-to-pay terminals, stablecoins, conferences, and long-range power-law analysis.
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Stephan Livera Podcast is a long-form Bitcoin interview show with a strong technical and monetary bent. It is not casual crypto chatter. The conversations usually begin with a practical question, then work backward into incentives, protocol limits, user experience, custody, and adoption. Recent episodes show that range clearly. Pieter Wuille discusses Cluster Mempool as a response to problems in the current mempool design. Martin Habovstiak argues through UTXOs, spam, BIP 110, inscription methods, and claims about legal exposure. Calle explains NumoPay as an open source Bitcoin payment terminal meant to bring tap-to-pay behavior to Android phones and point-of-sale devices. Gareth Grobler frames Layers Wallet around a simpler user path across Bitcoin layers, stablecoins, yield options, and everyday familiarity with local currency. The show also keeps one foot in markets. James Van Straten talks through bear-market memory, TradFi pressure, crypto fraud, contagion, fear, and the possibility of Bitcoin climbing through broad skepticism. Giovanni Santastasi brings a different kind of market framework, using Bitcoin power-law analysis to discuss long-term structure across price, adoption, and hash rate. Trey Sellers shifts the money conversation into financial independence, portfolio drawdowns, tax efficiency, and the limits of the never-sell meme. BTC Prague coverage adds a community and conference layer, with Matyas Kuchar describing scale, speakers, and European Bitcoin energy. The pattern is consistent. Guests are allowed to build an argument slowly. The interviewer frequently resets the frame so Bitcoin-native listeners can track what the detail means. That makes the show best when the topic is dense, contested, or easy to misstate. It is especially strong on how Bitcoin should work in practice, not just why it matters in theory. Some episodes require patience with acronyms, protocol mechanics, and monetary assumptions. The reward is a feed of conversations that treats Bitcoin as infrastructure, savings technology, culture, and unfinished software at the same time.
Made for: For Bitcoin-native listeners, builders, analysts, and serious savers who want protocol mechanics, market structure, and adoption tradeoffs explained without oversimplifying them.
What sets it apart: The show gives technical guests room to reason in public, then keeps translating the detail back into Bitcoin incentives, usability, sovereignty, and long-term adoption.
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. Leading names in the world of Bitcoin join the show to share their insights, whether they are developers, CEOs, economists, authors, analysts and more.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Technical interviews connect Bitcoin's monetary claims to payments, custody, retirement planning and the contested work of building usable financial infrastructure.
Stephan keeps returning to the practical question beneath Bitcoin's monetary case: what can people build and do with it? His interviews move between payment terminals, wallets, Lightning activity, protocol disputes and financial independence, with enough room for guests to…
Bitcoin stops being a slogan here, and you have to inspect the plumbing.
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A Bitcoin payments pitch focused on tap-to-pay UX, merchant reality, and the race against fiat convenience.
NumoPay makes a plain case for making Bitcoin payments feel as ordinary as tapping a phone at checkout. Kale's open source payment terminal, built to run on an Android phone or typical POS hardware, is framed as a practical way for a brick-and-mortar store to take Bitcoin more…
Bitcoin retirement, minus the slogans.
Trey Sellers keeps Bitcoin and FIRE anchored in drawdown, taxes, and retirement spending. Introduced as VP of sales at Unchained and the author of firebtc.io, he presents financial independence as a spectrum rather than an all-or-nothing choice, which gives the idea a more…
Gareth Grobler argues that familiar dollar balances can help newcomers ease into Bitcoin.
Gareth Grobler frames stablecoins as a practical bridge into Bitcoin adoption, arguing that familiar dollar balances can feel easier for newcomers than stable sats or stable channels.
A numbers-first look at Lightning adoption and River's view of the network's trajectory.
Stefan Livera uses the discussion with Sam Wouters of River to test a basic question: how much of Lightning's scaling problem still matters, and how much is a misleading frame.
A measured Bitcoin consensus dispute that approaches spam through everyday on-chain demand.
Bitcoin's long-running spam fight gets a focused airing through BIP-110, filters, ordinals, and the question of whether ordinary transactions can price out activity many users see as spam.
A grounded episode on BTC Prague, self-custody, institutional Bitcoin, and community division.
BTC Prague gives the episode a practical frame for questions about Bitcoin, business, custody, and personal control. The conversation with Matthias Kuchar, co-founder and lead organizer of the conference, moves from the event's June 11 to 13 dates and 8,500-person scale in…
A grounded technical review of Bitcoin lending, custody, and infrastructure for app builders.
The episode treats Bitcoin less as a slogan than as a working system: digital cash, lending collateral, custody problem, UTXO record, and a base layer for Lightning-enabled apps.
Stephen Dubner tests bourbon economics, Alzheimer's research, and money advice against hard data.
Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.
Galloway rotates Office Hours Q&A, Raging Moderates politics, and China Decode geopolitics weekly.
Joel and Matt answer listener money questions weekly in the show's Ask HTM segments.
Brené Brown's long-form conversations linking grief, caregiving, politics, and nonviolence to her vulnerability research.
Stephan Livera hosts a special Plan B Lugano podcast with three guests.
Stephan Livera interviews Matyas Kuchar, co-founder of BTC Prague, about the upcoming 2026 conference expected to host up to 10,000 attendees.
This episode features an interview with Praveen Perera, founder of Cove Wallet, discussing his motivations for creating a Bitcoin self-custody app and its development for iPhone and Android.
This episode features an interview with Hunter Beast about his work on quantum-resistant Bitcoin solutions, including BIP 360 and Enduro, exploring how to prepare Bitcoin for potential quantum computing threats.
This episode features an interview with Matthias Kuchar, co-founder of BTC Prague, discussing the upcoming Bitcoin conference in June 2024, its growth to 10,000 attendees, and notable speakers like Michael Saylor.
Stefan Levera interviews Giovanni Santastasi about his Bitcoin power law analysis and his upcoming book, exploring Bitcoin's long-term price trajectory and adoption framework.
James Van Straten, a senior analyst at Coindesk, discusses his perspective on the current Bitcoin bear market, comparing it to previous cycles and exploring market dynamics.
This episode features an interview with Bitcoin developer Pieter Wuille discussing the Cluster Mempool project, its motivations, and its integration into Bitcoin Core V31 to address issues in transaction handling and mining incentives.
This episode features an interview with Bitcoin developer Martin Habovstiak discussing UTXOs, spam prevention, and the integrity of Bitcoin, including technical aspects like BIP 110 and alternative inscription methods.
Bitcoin tap-to-pay is the target.
Bitcoin FIRE starts as a spectrum, not a light switch.
Stephan Livera talks with Layers Wallet co-founder Gareth Grobler about a wallet that groups Bitcoin, Lightning, Liquid, Spark, Arc, and stablecoin rails into one interface.
Stefan Levera opens by pushing back on the idea that Lightning scalability has to be solved right away for the whole planet.
Charlie Spears joins the show to walk through the Bitcoin spam debate.
Jack Mallers discusses Strike's evolution from a lightning network payments company to a global Bitcoin financial services firm, focusing on lending and meeting Bitcoiners' demand for reliable financial tools.
This episode explores Bitcoin's core value proposition as a digital cash system for peer-to-peer value transfer, highlighting use cases like lending and mining in Africa.
This episode features an interview with Jungli about his work on P2Pool V2 and Hydrapool to decentralize Bitcoin mining, exploring the challenges of centralized mining and potential solutions.