Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
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Adam Soltys & Cole on Coinos & Lightning Network
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00:00 Intro: Coinos as custodial newbie Lightning wallet; Adam Soltys and Cole
01:33 Guest intros: Adam (engineer, Raretoshi/Liquid), Cole (business); Coinos spelling
03:08 Product vision: web wallet, no app store, Lightning + Liquid, fiat display, silent swaps
04:44 Lightning addresses, username transfers, profile URLs, beginner UX
06:19 Merchant features: tips, fiat-at-sale history, taxes, coinos.io/map
07:54 Circular economy pitch; Vlad fails to register as Vlad; dice usernames
09:29 Avatars from Raretoshi artist Alex; Wasabi mega CoinJoin sponsor read
11:02 Live signup as mule60; Romania RON default; tip sats arrive
12:36 Nostr pubkey per account; Alby import plans; ledger and price display
14:12 Taxes CSV / Excel export; threat model and business model questions
15:46 Vs Wallet of Satoshi; PWA install; Liquid and POS focus; open source self-host
17:24 Adam as custodian risk; Bitcoin since 2011; Canadian MSB license; spending wallet
19:01 Auto-withdraw to cold storage / external Lightning or Liquid
20:37 Shopify Bitcoin checkout; their Coinos merch Shopify demo store
22:11 US regulation; Wallet of Satoshi exit; wait-for-a-letter strategy
23:44 Open sourcing as insurance; do not want to custody huge balances
25:19 Past hot-wallet bug drains; organic growth; who is Coinos for?
26:55 “For everyone”; Satochip sponsor; LNBits comparison
28:29 Cole on merchants: Vancouver, Miami rentals, 400 worldwide, 0.1% fee
30:03 Free marketing, meetups, no setup fees vs Visa/Clover costs
31:40 Two-headed company tension; live Phoenix withdrawal verification
33:16 Routing hiccup, then success; verify non-custodial receive
34:52 Joke ban on other wallets; how Coinos makes money (not yet)
36:27 Labor of love; possible future cosmetics monetization; Lightning node ops
38:04 Three nodes (2 CLN, 1 LND); channels to big peers; PeerSwap intro
39:39 Daily liquidity babysitting across on-chain, Lightning, Liquid
41:17 Automation hopes; Blockstream vs Lightning Labs neutrality joke
42:50 Public node verification; ~0.88 BTC node; clearnet via VPS proxy
44:23 ln.coinos.io ~8.9 BTC CLN capacity; PeerSwap communities
45:57 Cryptosteel sponsor; Cole on large Lightning payments and motorcycle/car rentals
49:03 On-chain / Liquid fallbacks; Liquid waves, Raretoshi, Adam Back NFT FUD
50:37 Liquid as middle ground; federation redundancy vs single custodian
52:12 Elements as Bitcoin sandbox; SegWit rehearsal history
53:46 What Liquid needs for constant usage; bull-market fees; cold-store L-BTC
55:24 How Coinos swaps work; own Liquid liquidity; lost peg key confession
56:57 Sideswap, Boltz, and Liquid DEX / AMM hopes
58:30 Map tour begins: Vancouver pins and OpenStreetMap tagging
1:00:03 Minnesota, Detroit area, Tampa, El Salvador, Brazil; thin Argentina
1:01:37 Mexico pins; BTC Map as the wider merchant atlas
1:03:13 Vancouver community spend culture vs pure HODL
1:04:46 Circular economy vs card processors; IVPN sponsor
1:06:28 Pet rock critique; Michael Saylor never-spend culture
1:08:03 Adam on utility, merchant savings, Bitcoin standard virtuous cycle
1:09:36 Soft close: adopt Bitcoin even if not Coinos; merchant UX focus
1:11:11 Coinos receipt printers as staff-friendly POS
1:12:46 Cole’s final pitch: 400 businesses, fees, auto-withdraw, 30-second signup
1:14:20 Where to find them: coinos.io link tree, Telegram, adam@coinos.io
1:15:53 Outro: pride in merchant adoption; maybe revisit at 5,000 shops
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