Nicolas Dorier is founder and maintainer of BTCPay Server as well as NBitcoin Library.
We talk about the BTCPay Server roadmap for the coming year, including Bitcoin Service Provider functions, and the bigger vision for the platform.
We also discuss Nicolas's experience going through the Blocksize War and how it prompted the development of BTCPay Server, his approach to assessing proposed changes to Bitcoin, and how he gets his technical information.
We also talk about the impact of transaction fees and Layer 2 solutions.
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BTCPay server - https://btcpayserver.org/
BTCPay Server Foundation - https://foundation.btcpayserver.org/
Nicolas on X - https://x.com/NicolasDorier
NBitcoin Library - https://github.com/MetacoSA/NBitcoin
The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57429394-the-blocksize-war
Bitsaga stripe deplatform - https://twitter.com/bitsaga_org/status/1747903745856348541
DG Lab - https://www.dglab.com/
mempool.space - https://mempool.space/
Bitkiwi Dan is one of the co-founders of the BitKiwi meetup events in New Zealand. We canvas a range of topics from government decision-making and how political neutrality works in the public sector to what it might take to form a new Bitcoin political party in New Zealand. Dan is also a Chartered Accountant and we discuss the opportunity around businesses wanting to hold Bitcoin on their balance sheet, integrating with legacy banks, and how the bitcoin circular economy could develop.
A special mid-winter Matariki episode. I catchup up with some of the Wellington Bitcoin crew here at the studio: Bitkiwi Paul and Konrad Hurren, and Troy joins us at the end.
I talk with Kevin Whitmore from Callaghan Innovation. We discuss payment innovations with the Lightning network, Bitcoin, Nostr, and more. I am encouraged to see an interest in Bitcoin technology from the New Zealand Government. I welcome Callaghan’s approach of objectively looking at everything that comes their way and making judgements based on first principles. Ultimately having a vehicle like Kevin’s work at Callaghan Innovation could be one of the ways New Zealand becomes a first mover in adopting Bitcoin. I am quietly encouraged to see the label "Web3" reclaimed by genuinely decentralised tech such as Nostr, Lightning Zaps, and Fedi.
Niko Laamanen is the founder of Konsensus Network, a company that focuses on localising and distributing important literature about bitcoin, Austrian economics, and sovereignty. Niko recognised the importance of being able to convey the Bitcoin message into other languages.