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Feb 9, 2026 2 hr

SNL #210: Make Something Bots Want with John Carvalho

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Car, Keyan and friends recap the front page of Bitcoin at Stacker.News every week. ZAP! This week we have special guest John Carvalho, CEO of Synonym. TimeStamps: Top 3 this week on SN: Wumbo’s Picks: Car’s Picks: Keyan’s Picks: AI Bitcoin: Meta: PlebPoet Picks: Most Popular Segment in Bitcoin: Yes we are on ⁠⁠X⁠⁠ now. https://x.com/stackernewslive Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SNL⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ everywhere. https://linktr.ee/stackernewslive Catch us live on ⁠YouTube every week⁠ & hit Subscribe. https://www.youtube.com/@stackernews?sub_confirmation=1 Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SNL⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ everywhere. https://linktr.ee/stackernewslive You can support the podcast by Zapping us on ⁠Fountain⁠. https://fountain.fm/show/Mg1AWuvkeZSFhsJZ3BW2 Or ⁠by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts.⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stacker-news-live/id1607607566 Follow Wumbo on SN. https://stacker.news/Wumbo Follow PlebPoet on SN. https://stacker.news/plebpoet Learn more about PlebPoet and what she does every week at her website. https://www.plebpoet.com Follow Car on X. https://x.com/ThrillerX\_ Follow Car on SN. https://stacker.news/Car Find Car on Nostr. https://primal.net/Car Learn more about Car and what he does every week at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PlebLab⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. https://pleblab.dev Follow Keyan on X. https://twitter.com/k00bideh Follow Keyan on SN. https://stacker.news/k00b Follow Keyan on Nostr. https://primal.net/k00b Learn more about Keyan and what he does every week at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Stacker News.⁠ https://stacker.news

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  1. 0:41 John Carvalho's Week in El Salvador
  2. 2:36 Nostr vs. PubKey: John Carvalho Explains the Basics
  3. 6:03 The Atomic Economy and User-First Markets
  4. 10:37 Scaling Digital Trust: A Lightning Breakup Moment
  5. 14:51 BitKit and Marketplaces with PubKey
  6. 16:15 Introducing Ingentic Engineering
  7. 37:10 Meet Orange Dev Trader: Bitcoin Repo Deep Dive
  8. 40:34 Bitcoin Core Evolution: Past, Present, and Future
  9. 51:16 Top Story: Money Is a Language
  10. 57:53 Value Is Subjective: Reframing Monetary Theory
  11. 1:00:05 Is Bitcoin Losing Value? A Look at BlackRock
  12. 1:06:35 Competition Across Implementations in Bitcoin
  13. 1:13:58 Scaling Bitcoin with a Peer-to-Peer Credit System
  14. 1:31:51 Peter Steinberger: I Ship Code, I Don't Read

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