S17 E48: Robin Linus in the 1000 BTC Car, Driving to BitDevs Atlanta

Read the article: Robin Linus, Art & the 1,000 BTC Prius: A Ride to the TABConf 8 BitDevs Barbecue

This episode was recorded while driving to BitDevs in Atlanta. The car belongs to Art (at least 1/3 of it) and is the first vehicle ever bought for bitcoin in 2013: a 2011 Toyota Prius, for which the Mycelium wallet founder paid 1000 BTC.

We talk about cars, Bitcoin development, why the medium of exchange side of BTC matters, and how we can achieve privacy and scalability. Other people join too towards the end: Ekrem Bal from Citrea, Christian from Alpen Labs, Paul Sztorc from LayerTwo Labs, and Rob Hamilton from Anchor Watch.

Time Stamps:
0:45 Riding to the BitDevs barbecue in the 1,000 BTC Prius
2:05 The first car ever bought with bitcoin
11:29 Robin's 1,000 BTC dream car: a VW Beetle?
16:01 BitPay, KYC and why BTCPay Server exists
29:50 Would you pay 1,000 BTC? Shielded CSV vs Visa
32:54 Roger Ver and the block size war revisited
38:01 TABConf highlights: Peter Todd, Paul Sztorc and a 2029 cleanup
45:27 LayerTwo Labs, BIP300 and drivechains
49:31 Cake Wallet, Wasabi and the Spark custody problem
57:30 Arriving at BitDevs: the Taproot annex PR
1:01:09 Ekrem of Citrea and the Bitcoin privacy wars
1:06:24 Bitcoin Spaces and one name for every address
1:10:15 Alpen vs Citrea, then Paul Sztorc joins
1:16:10 BitNames and the Truthcoin relaunch

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Keywords from the feed: Robin Linus, Toyota Prius, Bitcoin Car, First Car Bought with Bitcoin, Mycelium, Atlanta, BitDevs, Rob Hamilton, Ekrem Bal, Paul Sztorc, Christian, Shielded CSV, Shielded Bitcoin, Citrea

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