CD209: MATTHEW VUK - BARK - BITCOIN PAYMENTS ON ARK Matthew Vuk joins to discuss Bark, Second’s Bitcoin-only implementation of the Ark protocol. - @Second

CD208: NOGOOD - BITCOIN ART AND MAKING SOMETHING HEAVY NoGood joins to discuss his journey from childhood drawing and graphic design to developing one of Bitcoin’s most distinctive visual styles. - @NoGood ✌️

CD207: SETH FOR PRIVACY - RADAR - BITCOIN IN SIGNAL Seth For Privacy joins to chat Radar, a new app that adds Bitcoin payments directly into Signal. - @Radar

CD206: ERIC SIRION, JOSCHA, AND HERMANN - FEDIMINT IN THE WILD Bitcoin Ekasi’s live five-of-seven federation, running guardians on Start9, in South Africa. - @Fedimint - @BitcoinEkasi

CD205: JASON - TANDO - SPEND BITCOIN ANYWHERE IN KENYA M-PESA dominates Kenyan payments, how Tando lets Bitcoiners spend sats anywhere M-PESA is accepted, and why pragmatic fiat bridges help bootstrap real Bitcoin circular economies. - @Tando.me

CD204: ANJAN SUNDARAM - INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM - STRINGER FOUNDATION UPDATE Stringer’s inaugural 25 finalists, their Courage Index for evaluating journalists working under threat, New York Times recognition, funding models for frontline reporters, mental health support, and why truthful human-sourced information matters more in the age of AI. - @anjansun

CD203: HERMANN AND CAREL - ATTACK ON BITCOIN IN SOUTH AFRICA Forced key disclosures, vague thresholds, centralized provider mandates, forfeiture risk, and why this matters for bitcoiners everywhere. - @BitcoinEkasi - @MoneyBadger

CD202: EUGENE JARECKI - ASSANGE AND WIKILEAKS Eugene Jarecki joins to discuss his new Julian Assange documentary, The Six Billion Dollar Man, filmed over seven years across 15 countries under high security conditions. - @Eugene Jarecki

CD201: MATT HILL - START9 - FREEDOM COMPUTING Matt Hill joins us to discuss Start9, StartOS 0.4.0, and building a fully MIT FOSS stack for freedom computing. We chat bitcoin as the first killer app for self hosting, why AI agents are accelerating the need, and the privacy trap of “local” AI tools that still send your files to cloud servers. - @Start9

CD200: UTXO - WISP - BETTER NOSTR UTXO joins to discuss his new android nostr client Wisp, wallet integration, and his controversial "Send Money" normie mode. We debate what counts as a user on an open protocol and why half of bitcoin twitter still hates nostr. Then we go deep on AI, his local rig, on device spam filtering, whether Claude is subsidizing us into oblivion, and what happens to big tech jobs when a unicorn only needs three employees. - @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻

CD199: CRAIG RAW - SILENT PAYMENTS AND SPARROW WALLET We discuss silent payments, a new bitcoin address system that eliminates address reuse, removes the gap limit, and aligns privacy with convenience. - @craigraw

CD198: JUSTIN - FEDIMINT UPDATE Justin returns for a six month update. Fedimint is an open protocol providing easy to use, private, programmable, and offline bitcoin payments using bitcoin powered federated chaumian ecash. - @Justin

CD197: MATT AHLBORG - PPQ.AI - AI AGENTS, PRIVACY, AND PAYMENTS Matt Ahlborg, founder of PPQ.ai, rejoins the show for an update on the rapidly evolving AI landscape. PayPerQ is a bitcoin enabled ai platform that enables users to easily use all of the top ai tools without an account. - @PayPerQ

CD196: EVGENY POBEREZKIN - SIMPLEX PRIVATE CHAT Evgeny is the founder of SimpleX Chat, a private and secure comms protocol that has a radically different approach to the concept of user identity. - @SimpleX Chat

CD195: VEXL - NO KYC BITCOIN Lea is the cofounder of Vexl, a mobile app enabling convenient p2p no kyc bitcoin trading. - @vexl 😎

CD194: SIDESWAP - LIQUID PREDICTION MARKETS Scott, cofounder of SideSwap, discusses what his team has been quietly building in the Liquid ecosystem: atomic swap markets, peg-in/peg-out services, and the new Liquid Connect feature. We dig into their first Simplicity based contracts on Swaption, Bitcoin native prediction markets, Liquid's privacy edge over Tron and Ethereum for Tether, the growth of Brazilian stablecoin dePix, and whether Liquid adoption is finally turning a corner.

CD193: FIPS - FIXING THE INTERNET FIPS is an open source mesh networking project that enables devices to connect directly to each other without relying on any central servers or infrastructure. - @Arjen

CD192: ROUTSTR - NOSTR, AI, AND BITCOIN Routstr is an open marketplace for ai compute, powered by nostr and bitcoin. - @routstr - @redshift - @shroominic - @Evan - @Thefux

CD191: JUSTIN MOON - AI AS A TOOL FOR FREEDOM Justin Moon leads the open source ai initiative at the Human Rights Foundation. - @Justin Moon

CD190: GLEASON - OPEN SOURCE AI BOTS Alex Gleason was one of the main architects behind Truth Social. Now he focuses on the intersection of nostr, ai, and bitcoin. We explore personal open source AI assistants, such as OpenClaw, and the wider implications of the tech. - @Alex Gleason