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Mar 18, 2025 1 hr 38 min

CD151: STEVE LEE AND CRAIG RAW

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Steve Lee is lead at Spiral, Block's open source initiative, and has recently helped launch Presidio Bitcoin, a bitcoin community space in San Francisco. Craig Raw is the creator and maintainer of Sparrow Wallet, one of the best bitcoin desktop wallets available. We discuss the tradeoffs of Block's new Bitkey hardware wallet and potential improvements. Then we briefly jump into discussion on soft fork proposals for bitcoin vault functionality. Steve on Nostr: https://primal.net/moneyball Craig on Nostr: https://primal.net/craigraw EPISODE: 151 BLOCK: 888348 PRICE: 1222 sats per dollar support dispatch: https://citadeldispatch.com/donate nostr live chat: https://citadeldispatch.com/stream odell nostr account: https://primal.net/odell dispatch nostr account: https://primal.net/citadel youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CitadelDispatch podcast: https://serve.podhome.fm/CitadelDispatch stream sats to the show: https://www.fountain.fm/ join the chat: https://citadeldispatch.com/chat learn more about me: https://odell.xyz (00:02:55) Introduction (00:04:32) Presidio Bitcoin Launch and Community Spaces (00:08:16) Challenges and Opportunities in South Africa (00:14:31) Bitkey: Making Bitcoin Self Custody Easier (00:33:08) Threat Modeling and Security Concerns (00:42:00) Future Scenarios for Bitkey and Sparrow Integration (00:54:02) Recovery Scenarios and User Experience (01:17:02) The Potential of Bitcoin Vaults (01:30:25) Final Thoughts and Future of Bitcoin Security Friend of the show Orange Surf wrote up some notes on Craig's proposed FROST improvement to Bitkey here: https://orange.surf/bitkey-notes/

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  1. 2:55 Introduction
  2. 4:32 Presidio Bitcoin Launch and Community Spaces
  3. 8:16 Challenges and Opportunities in South Africa
  4. 14:31 Bitkey: Making Bitcoin Self Custody Easier
  5. 33:08 Threat Modeling and Security Concerns
  6. 42:00 Future Scenarios for Bitkey and Sparrow Integration
  7. 54:02 Recovery Scenarios and User Experience
  8. 1:17:02 The Potential of Bitcoin Vaults
  9. 1:30:25 Final Thoughts and Future of Bitcoin Security

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