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Smarter Web's Capital Structure and MORE Preferred | Andrew Webley SLP780
October 5, 2026 · 45 minAndrew Webley walks through Smarter Web's capital structure—ordinary shares as growth equity, a repaid short convert, Coinbase credit, and MORE as the income preferred. Webley is CEO of The Smarter Web Company (LSE: SWC), the UK's largest…
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Lightning in x402 and Agent Payments | Ben Carman SLP779
October 3, 2026 · 45 minBitcoiners built L402 for a Lightning-native web. Crypto built x402 for agents — and early volume is mostly stables. Ben Carman helped get Lightning into the x402 standard, and argues the pragmatic move is to meet that stack in the middle…
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Why Bitkey Ditched Seed Phrases | Clay Garrett SLP778
October 1, 2026 · 60 minBitkey ditched seed phrases for a recovery-focused 2-of-3 design: an app key, hardware key, and Block server key that use phones, hardware, and cloud access to help people retain control of their funds. Clay Garrett, Bitkey lead at Block…
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Bitcoin Savings vs Casino Exchanges | Julian Liniger SLP777
September 29, 2026 · 51 minMost crypto exchanges are built like casinos: they chase the next hot token, prediction market, or trading product. Relai is building a different category—a savings brand for people who want to accumulate Bitcoin, hold it in self-custody…
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Bitcoin PIPEs v2 | Misha Komarov SLP776
September 24, 2026 · 43 minBitcoin soft-fork debates around CTV, CSFS, OP_CAT, and OP_VAULT keep stalling — and Misha Komarov of Allocinit argues you can emulate much of that covenant behavior with cryptography instead of changing consensus. Misha joins Stephan to…
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rbitcoin: Bitcoin Full Node With Zero Human Code | reardencode SLP775
September 24, 2026 · 45 minAlmost every public Bitcoin node still runs Bitcoin Core. Brandon Black argues that client monoculture is a systemic risk — and that automation plus AI now make independent consensus implementations more realistic than skeptics…
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Bitcoin Accelerator on Mirissa Beach | James of Ârc SLP774
September 22, 2026 · 36 minMost Asian markets still make buying and saving Bitcoin painfully hard. James of Ârc argues the fix is not another protocol breakthrough — it is local founders shipping simple DCA and savings products market by market. James joins me from…
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Institutional Custody, Multisig & the War on Cash | Mike Belshe SLP773
September 16, 2026 · 1 hr 7 minMike Belshe, co-founder and CEO of BitGo, walks through how institutional Bitcoin custody actually works in 2026: qualified custody, self-custody co-signing, and why BitGo still centers a 2-of-3 model after pioneering P2SH multisig in…