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The Trolls of Wall Street | Nathaniel Popper | BM10

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A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food | Will Harris | BM9

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A Bright Future | Joshua Goldstein | BM8

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Where Is My Flying Car? | J. Storrs Hall | BM7

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Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism | Bhu Srinivasan | BM6

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Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation | Bill Fischel | BM5

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The Rise and Fall of American Growth | Robert J. Gordon | BM4

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Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, & Death in Organisms, Cities, & Companies | Geoffrey West | BM3

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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made The World | Virginia Postrel | BM2

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TLS126: Moritz Kaminski on Alby, Lightning & Nostr Adoption, and Bitcoin Connect

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SS11: How CrowdHealth is Stacking Sats with the Breez SDK

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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger | Marc Levinson | BM1

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TLS125: Christian Decker on Blockstream Greenlight, Custody on Lightning, and More

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TLS124: Christopher Calicott on Trammell Venture Partners & Building a Bitcoin-Native VC Fund

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TLS123: Sam Wouters on the State of the Lightning Network in 2023

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TLS122: Fanis Michalakis on LN Markets, DLCs, Lightning, and More

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SS10: How the Satoshi Coffee Company Stacked Millions of Sats with BTCPayServer

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TLS121: Jesse Shrader on Amboss Magma & Hydro, Lightning Network Metrics & Adoption, and More

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TLS120: Artur Brugeman on Building Nostr Band, The Growth of Nostr, and Spring's New Nostr Browser

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TLS119: Alex Leishman on the Future of Lightning Payments, Taproot Assets, and River's Lightning Node

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SS9: How Margie Ramos Stacked Over 1 Million Sats with Muun Wallet and Shopify

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TLS118: Ken Sedgwick on Building VLS, Improving Lightning Custody, & Multi-Party Signing on Lightning

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TLS117: Henrik Skogstrom on Torq V1, Lightning Network Metrics, Why LSPs Need a Spec, and More

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TLS116: Ian Major on Building Joltz Rewards, Lightning Rails for Loyalty Programs, and Taproot Assets

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SS8: How Siggy47 Stacked Over 500,000 Sats on Stacker News

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TLS115: Tony Giorgio on Building Mutiny Wallet, Browsers over App Stores, and Lightning Everywhere

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TLS114: Matt Black on Building Atomic Finance, DLCs on Bitcoin and Lightning, and Self-Custody

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TLS113: Super Testnet on Inventing New Bitcoin, Lightning, and Nostr Products

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SS7: How Brianna Honkawa-D'Estries Stacked Over 1,000,000 Sats on Nostr with ZBD, Damus, and Primal

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TLS112: Kody Low on Building Fedi, AI, L402s, and Enabling AI for All with Lightning Payments

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TLS111: Graham Krizek on Building Voltage, Surge, and Why All Companies Will Be Lightning Companies

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TLS110: Paul West on Fumb Games, Creating New Bitcoiners, and Adding LN Payments to Bitcoin Miner

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SS6: How The Bitcoin Hotel Stacked 100,000,000+ Sats with OpenNode & LNBits

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TLS109: Burak on Building Ark, Scaling Bitcoin, and Improving Privacy

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TLS108: Maxim Orlovsky on Building RGB, Standards for BTC & LN, and Smart Contracts on Bitcoin

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TLS107: Shehzan Maredia on Building Lava, Bitcoin-Native Borrowing, and Improving Self-Custody UX

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SS5: How Jesse Berger Stacked 100,000+ Sats with Mash

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TLS106: Konstantin on Building Kollider, Lightning Derivatives, Synthetic Fiat, and Running a Nostr Relay

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SS4: How SHAmory Stacked 10,000,000+ Sats with OpenNode, BTCPay Server, Oshi, and Joltz

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TLS105: Lisa Neigut on the State of Bitcoin's Second Layer, L2 Interoperability, and More

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SS3: How Ben Justman Stacked 10,000,000+ Sats with Oshi and IBEX Pay

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SS2: How Arnold Hubach Stacked 3,000,000+ Sats with Alby's Wordpress Plugin

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TLS103: Pablo F7Z on Building Nostr Projects, Why Open Networks Win, and The Economics of Nostr

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SS1: How Joe Martin Stacked 800,000+ Sats on Fountain, Wavlake, Voltage, BTCPayServer, and Alby

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TLS102: Nick Slaney on Building c= and Block’s Focus on Growing Bitcoin’s Lightning Network

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TLS101: Andrew Begin on Building Galoy, Bitcoin Communities, and Enterprise Lightning Adoption

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TLS100: Oscar Merry on Fountain's Evolution, Nostr, Value 4 Value, and Creator Monetization

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TLS99: Desiree Dickerson on Building THNDR Games, Competitive Leagues, and Cross-App Identiy on Nostr

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TLS98: Vitor Pamplona on Building Amethyst & Nostr Adoption, Development, Competition, and Funding

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TLS97: David King on Google & Nostr’s Early Days, The Role of Lightning on Nostr, and Angel Investing

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TLS96: Dhruv Bansal on The Bitcoin Stack, Distributed Markets, Scaling in Layers, Nostr, Tor, and More

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TLS95: Nicholas Gregory on Statechains, Mercury Wallet, Scaling Bitcoin, and the Lightning Network

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TLS94: Morgen Rochard on Building Origin, Bitcoin Financial Planning, and Payment Regulations

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TLS93: Paul Sztorc on Drivechain (BIP 300/301), Bitcoin Sidechains, and Building Layer Two Labs

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TLS92: John Carvalho on Synonym, Blocktank, Bitkit, Pear Credit, Slashtags, and Hyper-Bitcoinization

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TLS91: Calle on Open Source Software, Lightning Development, LNBits, Cashu, & More

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TLS90: Evan Kaloudis on Building Zeus, Lightning Self Custody, Open Source Funding, Tor, and Taro

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TLS89: Ben Carman on Lightning Network Privacy, Building Mutiny, and Browser-Based Lightning Wallets

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TLS88: Will Reeves on Building Fold, Bitcoin Entrepreneurs, and the Lightning Network's Evolution

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TLS87: Caitlin Long on Custodia and How Banks Will Interact with Bitcoin, Stablecoins, and Lightning

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TLS86: Ben Price on Building The Bitcoin Company, OpenSats, and Improving Payments with Lightning

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TLS85: Albert Buu on Building NeutronPay, Payments in Vietnam, and Instant Lightning Remittances

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TLS84: Alex Busarov on Building Heatbit and How Home Heaters Could Distribute Bitcoin Mining Hashrate

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TLS83: Azz on Building Valera and Combining Lightning Software & Hardware To Bring Billions To Bitcoin

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TLS82: Alex Adelman on Building Lolli, Accelerating Bitcoin Adoption, and the Lightning Network

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TLS81: Bastien Teinturier on ACINQ, Collaborating with LN Implementations, and Lightning Adoption

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TLS80: Austin Mitchell on Building Synota & How Lightning Payments Can Disrupt the Energy Industry

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TLS79: Julian Fahrer on Building Apollo, The Price of Information, and the Lightning Network

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TLS78: Marco Argentieri on Building Fuji Money Using the Lightning Network & Liquid Sidechain

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TLS77: Sam Wouters on Insights from River's Lightning Nodes, RLS, and the Future of LN Payments

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TLS76: Chase Perkins on the Impervious Browser, Decentralized Identifiers, and Digital Self-Sovereignty

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TLS75: John Light on Validity Rollups on Bitcoin, ZK-proofs, and the Lightning Network

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TLS74: Johns Beharry on Bitcoin Design, Bolt.Fun, and Accelerating Global Bitcoin Adoption

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TLS73: James Andrew on Lightning Bridge, Using Lightning as a Payment Rail, Web3, and Taro

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TLS72: Vijay Boyapati on The Evolution of Money, Bitcoin's Role as Money, and the Lightning Network

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TLS71: Ry Sterling on IBEX Mercado, New Lightning Use Cases, and Helping El Salvador Adopt Bitcoin

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TLS70: Ray Marceau on Building Purse, Integrating Lightning, and Focusing on Bitcoin

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TLS68: Lyle Pratt on Building Vida, Communicating on Lightning, and Helping Anyone Earn For Their Time

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TLS67: Egge on Lightning Network Advertising and the Creator Economy on a Bitcoin Standard

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TLS66: Danny Diekroeger on Cash App, LDK, and Operating the Deezy LN Node

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TLS65: Fiatjaf on LNURL, Nostr, LNTXBot, Pancho, P2P Apps, Value 4 Value, and More

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TLS64: Joe Consorti on the Time Value of the Lightning Network, Lightning Banks, and Taro

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TLS63: Christopher David on Arcade City, Decentralized Ride Sharing, and Building on Lightning

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TLS62: John on Building Zaprite, Getting Paid in Bitcoin, and Accounting on a Bitcoin Standard

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TLS61: Nicolas Burtey on Stablesats, Galoy, Bitcoin Banks, and El Salvador's Bitcoin Adoption

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TLS60: Randy Naar on the Liquid Sidechain, Blockstream, Issuing Assets & More

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TLS59: Paolo Ardoino & Mathias Buus on Holepunch, Keet, Building P2P Apps, and Lightning Adoption

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TLS58: Alan Plus on Building LN+, Getting Liquidity, and Lightning Network Adoption

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TLS57: Christian Decker on Blockstream, Greenlight, Lightning Scalability, and More

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TLS56: Gigi on Internet Business Models, Value 4 Value, and Freedom in an Information Age

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TLS55: Udi Wertheimer on Bitcoin, The Lightning Network, Stablecoins, and More

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TLS54: William Casarin on Lightning as a Communications Layer for Bitcoin, LNLink, Nostr, and Damus

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TLS53: Max Webster on Hivemind Ventures, Exponential Curves, and Lightning Network Opportunities

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TLS52: Jared Nusinoff on Building Mash and Helping Creators Earn More on the Lightning Network

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TLS51: Roy Sheinfeld on Building Breez, Streaming Sats, & LN Adoption

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TLS50: Alex Leishman on Building River, Taro Use Cases, and Earning Yield on the Lightning Network

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TLS49: Paul Itoi on Stakwork, Sphinx Chat, Earning Bitcoin, and AI vs. Humans

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TLS48: Michael Levin on Lightning Labs, Bitcoin & Lightning Adoption, and Taro

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TLS47: Henrik Skogstrøm on LN Capital and Operating a Successful Lightning Network Routing Node

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TLS46: Rene Pickhardt on Multi-Part Payments, Zero Base Fee, and Lightning Network Limitations