ATL BitLab Podcast
by ATL BitLab
Recorded in Atlanta's freedom-tech hackerspace, the ATL BitLab podcast covers the world of freedom technology, including bitcoin, privacy tech, nostr, sovereign computing, and more. Some episodes are geared towards the absolute beginner and some go deep into the weeds with how the technology works. There's something here for everyone.
Episodes
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BRH-013: BitDevs Radio Hour #13 - Great Script Restoration BIPs, Arc $5.2M Raise, AJ Towns' Claude Code Quiz Trick
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab on Friday, March 13th, 2026, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin cover Matt Corallo's 24-bit nonce space BIP moving to draft PR (fast-tracking good ideas), Dahlia's cross-input signature aggregation accepted at Eurocrypt (holy grail cryptography), and BDK 3.0 release...
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BRH-012: BitDevs Radio Hour #12 - Transaction Introspection for $50, Exploits Hackathon, and Unhuman.store Agent Launch
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab on Friday, March 6th, 2026, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin cover Robin Linus's latest cracked-out discovery (BINOHASH: transaction introspection without soft forks using OPCHECKMU LTSIG quirks for $50 in cloud GPU grinding), post-quantum proposals for P2PKH…
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BRH-011: BitDevs Radio Hour #11 – Wuille's Quantum Paradox, Bitcoin Core GUI Must Die, SIGBASH Covenant Emulation, Agents Buying Compute
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab on Friday, February 13th, 2026, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin celebrate Valentine's Day on air with a packed episode covering Bitcoin Inquisition's consensus cleanup activation, BIP-110's ongoing controversy with new concerns from Liana Wallet about vault users...
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BRH-010: BitDevs Radio Hour #10 – AI Agents Get KYC Bank Accounts, BIP-110 Vault Problems, $1M Lightning Payment Goes Live
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab on Friday, February 13th, 2026, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin celebrate Valentine's Day on air with a packed episode covering Bitcoin Inquisition's consensus cleanup activation, BIP-110's ongoing controversy with new concerns from Liana Wallet about vault users...
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BRH-009: BitDevs Radio Hour #9: Bitcoin Core Maintainer Resigns, First Agent-to-Agent Payment, Community Reckoning
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab on Friday, February 6th, 2026, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin return for their "second post-singularity" episode, sponsored by Harp Lager and Smithwick's Red Ale. The show covers Hornet Node's parallelized UTXO database claiming 8x faster validation than Bitcoin...
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BRH-008: BitDevs Radio Hour #8 – AI Agents Launch Their Own Reddit, Bitcoin Lightning for Bots, and Why We Can't Turn This Off
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab on Friday, January 30th, 2026, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin return to their regular Friday schedule with a packed episode covering Bitcoin Core wallet improvements, Lightning updates including LDK's dummy hop support and mixed-mode splicing, mutation testing...
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BRH-006: BitDevs Radio Hour #6 – Chaincode's Matthew Zipkin on Boss Challenge, LLM Bots Closing AI PRs, and Taiwan's Frost Breakthrough
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin welcome Matthew Zipkin from Chaincode Labs to discuss the BOSS Challenge, a rigorous program designed to help aspiring developers launch careers in Bitcoin open source software. The conversation explores what it takes to become a...
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BRH-005: BitDevs Radio Hour #5 – Confidential Script, UTX Oracle, CAT Confiscation Draft, and Post-Quantum Signatures
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab, Stephen DeLorme is joined by Josh Doman (filling in for Alex Lewin) for BitDevs Radio Hour #5. This episode covers a wide sweep of Bitcoin technical developments: a North Carolina Bitcoin++ recap, the UTX Oracle project for inferring price signals from UTXO...
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BRH-004: BitDevs Radio Hour #4 – Your 2025 Bitcoin Wrapped is Here
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin close out the year with a festive edition of the BitDevs Radio Hour. This episode covers a grab bag of fresh Bitcoin technical developments: new BIP assignments, a novel approach to private collaborative custody, a consensus...
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BRH-003: BitDevs Radio Hour #3 – Zeus Wallet, Graduated Wallets, eCash, and the Future of Bitcoin UX
Live from ATL BitLab, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin sit down with Evan Kaloudis, founder of Zeus, one of Bitcoin's most beloved Lightning wallets. This episode dives deep into the design trade-offs of non-custodial Lightning, the emergence of "graduated wallets," eCash systems like Cashu and...
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BRH-002: BitDevs Radio Hour #2 - Cluster Mempool Merged, Jack Mallers De-banked
It's time for another BitDevs Radio Hour! Alex Lewin and Stephen DeLorme discuss some of the latest technical developments in Bitcoin. This conversation covers topics like the merging of Cluster Mempool into Bitcoin Core, preventing lightning pinning attacks with P2A and v3 transactions, the…
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BRH-001: BitDevs Radio Hour #1 - Bitcoin Kernel Project, Soft Fork Debate, BIPs Process Update
The very first BitDevs Radio Hour! Alex Lewin and Stephen DeLorme discuss some of the latest technical developments in Bitcoin. This conversation covers topics like the Bitcoin Kernel Project, recent soft fork related debates and internet drama, and updates to the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal...
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EVNT-008: Andrew Lunde: Uncancelable Names: Building Identity on Bitcoin - Atlanta BitDevs
Can Bitcoin replace DNS? Andrew Lunde presents Spaces Protocol, a permissionless naming system anchored on the Bitcoin blockchain. Learn how auctions determine ownership of top-level names like "@bitcoin," the technical challenges of browser integration, and the trade-offs between…
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EVNT-007: Stephen DeLorme: How Does Bitcoin Consensus Work? Part 2 - Atlanta BitDevs
Bitcoin is difficult to change. How do we reach consensus to change it?. Stephen DeLorme covers Part 2 of the Bitcoin Consensus Analysis Project, highlighting both technical and social layers of reaching consensus. Learn about the roles of various stakeholders in the Bitcoin ecosystem including...
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EVNT-006: Andrew Lunde: The Technology Boom - Atlanta BitPlebs
Dive into an insightful event recording discussing the technological paradigm shifts as presented in Jeff Booth's 'Price of Tomorrow,' focusing on chapters three and four. From the evolution of computational power, exemplified by Moore's Law, to the implications of self-driving cars and 3D...
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EVNT-005: Nitesh ₿: How Does Bitcoin Consensus Work? Part 1 - Atlanta BitDevs
Bitcoin is difficult to change. How do we reach consensus to change it? Nitesh walks us through the first half of the Bitcoin Consensus Analysis Project paper, providing an in-depth analysis of Bitcoin's consensus mechanism and the complexities surrounding protocol upgrades. He discusses the...
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EVNT-004: Rich Lassiter: First Currency Wars, Then Trade Wars, Then Real Wars - Atlanta BitPlebs
In this episode, Rich Lassiter explores the economic insights from Jeff Booth's book, *The Price of Tomorrow.* Rich delves into the 2007-2008 financial meltdown and how experts' misjudgments led to rapid unraveling. He explains the dynamics of trust-based financial systems and the Ponzi-like…
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EVNT-003: HODLBarbarian: The Unstoppable Force of Technological Deflation - Atlanta BitPlebs
Deflation is an unstoppable force driven by rapid technological advances, according to Jeff Booth. In this episode, HODLBarbarian helps you explore the concept of deflation and its impacts on the economy through Booth's lens. We discuss why technology is rendering efforts to create inflation...
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EVNT-002: Michael Tidwell: Bitcoin Secrets Revealed - The Taptree of Horror - Atlanta BitDevs - Event 002
Michael Tidwell reveals the secrets of the TABConf 6 Capture the Bitcoin challenge. In this one scavenger hunt breakdown, he demonstrates the flexibility and power of Bitcoin's taproot upgrade and how it can be used to build far more interesting things than just simple sending and receiving of...
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BTB-003: Light & Jose Storopoli: Strata - Privacy and Programmability with ZK Rollups - Behind the Build
In this episode, we spoke with John Light and Jose Storopoli from Alpen Labs about their project Strata. Strata is a work-in-progress EVM-compatible validity rollup on bitcoin, with the goal of enabling greater privacy and programmability. We go over how a validity rollup like Strata works, the...
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BTB-002: Randy Naar: Building Cloud Lightning with Blockstream Greenlight - Behind the Build
In this episode, we spoke with Randy Naar from Blockstream about Greenlight. We go into the weeds with how Greenlight works: proxy hsmd (remote signing), optimizing when nodes are online/offline, watchtowers, webhooks, pairing runes, and BOSS collaboration with Core Lightning. Links Randy Naar...
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BTB-001: Farscapian: Bitcoin Payment Splits with BOLT 12 Prism - Behind the Build
httpIn this episode, we spoke with Farscapian about BOLT 12 Prism. This is a plugin he has been working on for Core Lightning with Gudnuf which enables you to create payment splits. Prisms are a fascinating topic and I think you'll enjoy hearing about what he is working on! Note: apologies for…
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EVNT-001: Michael Saylor & the Infinite Money Glitch - Elwood the HODL Barbarian - Atlanta BitPlebs
Atlanta BitPlebs November 13, 2024 - This meeting will be a deep dive in the corporate financial wizardy employed by Michael Saylor's MSTR to generate better returns than Bitcoin itself or any stock in the S&P500 (including NVDA). We will present the Bull case and the Bear case for MicroStrategy...
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Recorded in Atlanta's freedom-tech hackerspace, the ATL BitLab podcast covers the world of freedom technology, including bitcoin, privacy tech, nostr, sovereign computing, and more. Some episodes are geared towards the absolute beginner and some go deep into the weeds with how the technology works. There's something here for everyone.
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