Kgothatso Ngako is the lead catalyst at Machankura, a service on the Bitcoin and Lightning Networks that enables people in Ghana, Namibia, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Malawi, South Africa, and Zambia (so far!) to send and receive Bitcoin over cellular network protocols (GSM and USSD) using Lightning addresses.He is not only Changing the Tide with this service but also through Exonumia Africa, his open-source initiative to translate leading Bitcoin content into native African languages.Imagine millions of people across the continent of Africa understanding and using Bitcoin. Not on smartphones. But on feature phones that act like "hardware wallets."This is the future Machankura is creating. And it's happening now.Links:Kgothatso's Twitter handle: @440UrPpMachankura's Twitter handle: @Machankura8333Exonumia Africa's Twitter handle: @ExonumiaAfricaMachankura's website: https://machankura.com/Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

Bryan Nonni is a software engineer at one of the world's largest payment companies and co-founded the Terminus Electric Money Lab in Atlanta in June 2022. The goal of Terminus is to be the bridge between "Transaction Alley" in Georgia and the Lightning Network via shared work and hackerspace, as well as hosted events.They are Changing the Tide by educating some of the largest payments companies in the United States (and the world) about Bitcoin and Lightning–from the grassroots all the way to the c-suite levels.Links: ​Bryan's Twitter handle: @nonni_ioTerminus's Twitter handle: @terminusbtcTerminus's website: https://terminus.money/Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

Michael Bumann (Bumi) is co-founder of Alby, an open-source project with two products: a browser extension and an API for web monetization via the Lightning Network.Creators and consumers can connect their node or existing wallet to their Alby extension and quickly begin transferring or receiving value on the web. Even on sites that aren't Lightning native (think YouTube).And now, with the API, mobile and other applications can be added to the mix.Alby is Changing the Tide. One Chrome extension at a time.Links: ​Bumi's Twitter handle: @BumiAlby's Twitter handle: @getAlbyAlby's website: https://getalby.com/Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

Doug is the founder of BitRamp, a service built on top of Azteco to onramp businesses and individuals to the Bitcoin network.Business owners and individuals can quickly set up a terminal and Azteco account to sell Bitcoin vouchers. Voucher buyers can then scan the QR code on the voucher with a Bitcoin Lightning wallet of choice to easily redeem and start using!No week-long wait times while an entity gathers and stores sensitive personally identifiable information from the person trying to obtain Bitcoin in a honeypot, in order to finally "approve" their ability to obtain an entry in the Bitcoin database. No account-based service preventing someone from storing the exact Bitcoin amount they want or sending and receiving exactly what the individual deems necessary at the moment.Ethical Bitcoin on-ramps through BitRamp and Azteco are Changing the Tide. And quickly.Links: ​BitRamp's Twitter handle: @bit_rampBitRamp's website: https://bitramp.co/Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

Texas Slim is the driving force behind the Beef Initiative.Its mission is "to improve the health and security of our local communities through the expansion of market access to quality animal protein by building decentralized networks of values-aligned ranchers, processors, distributors, butchers, grocers, restaurants, and consumers and providing access to the tools necessary, including bitcoin, to form more secure localized food supply chains."He is Changing the Tide by introducing ranchers and farmers to better money, in the form of Bitcoin on Lightning, than they currently receive from their incentives paid out by governments and corporations.Links: ​Slim's Twitter handle: @modernTmanSlim's newsletter: https://inititive.substack.com/Beef Initiative's Twitter handle: @beefinitiativeBeef Initiative's website: https://beefinitiative.com/Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

Roy Sheinfeld is CEO and Co-founder of Breez. He calls Breez "the interface of the peer-to-peer Lightning economy."Roy is Changing the Tide in so many ways. From a mobile app that serves as a fully-featured Bitcoin and Lightning node, to innovating the Lightning Service Provider concept, to forthcoming single-purpose apps, Breez allows individuals to send and receive on-chain and Lightning payments to and from anywhere worldwide, anytime, cheaply, and without permission.Download it today on iOS or Android.Links: ​Roy's Twitter handle: @therealkingonlyRoy's Medium page: https://medium.com/@kingonlyBreez's Twitter handle: @Breez_TechBreez's website: https://breez.technology/Breez's Medium article "Lightning is a Liquidity Network": https://medium.com/breez-technology/lightning-is-a-liquidity-network-550896ca27eaNote: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

Michael Rhee is Founder of Wavlake. Wavlake allows artists to upload their music to its platform and connect their Lightning node to Wavlake's Lightning node. Listeners can then tip the artist or group with direct payment to their node.Michael is Changing the Tide with a platform that creates a more artist-friendly model of streaming. The goal? By cutting out middlemen and allowing listeners to make direct micropayments to their favorite musicians, these artists can benefit from the distribution model of the Internet (8 billion potential listeners) to hopefully earn significantly more from streaming than current dominant streaming platforms.If you're an interested musician, join the Telegram conversation at https://t.me/wavlake or email contact@wavlake.com.Links: ​Michael's Twitter handle: @rheedioMichael's Medium page: https://medium.com/@rheedioWavlake's Twitter handle: @wavlakeWavlake's website: https://wavlake.com/Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

C Funk is Business Development Manager at Coinkite. Coinkite produces cutting-edge Bitcoin hardware, including OPENDIME, COLDCARD, BLOCKCLOCK, and more recently SATSCARD, TAPSIGNER, and now SATSCHIP.C Funk and Coinkite are Changing the Tide by producing and distributing products and documentation that help educate individuals worldwide on securing their Bitcoin. They are currently looking to help scale on-chain transactions worldwide with SATSCARD and TAPSIGNER, and are driving towards partnering with developers at Bitcoin businesses to implement NFC integration into their wallets. If interested, reach out to cfunk@coinkite.com.Links: ​C Funk's Twitter handle: @cypher_funkCoinkite's Twitter handle: @CoinkiteCoinkite's website: https://coinkite.com/SATSCARD Twitter handle: @SATSCARDSATSCARD website: https://getsatscard.com/TAPSIGNER Twitter handle: @TAPSIGNERTAPSIGNER website: https://tapsigner.com/Master Guantai's Twitter handle: @MasterGuantaiNote: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

Jesse Shrader is co-founder of Amboss. Amboss is a set of Lightning Network tools, including an explorer and marketplace for selling Lightning channels, called Magma.Jesse and Amboss are Changing the Tide by providing services to lightning node operators to ensure a smoother payment experience across the network. Worldwide.Links: ​Jesse's Twitter handle: @Jestopher_BTCAmboss's Twitter handle: @ambosstechAmboss's website: https://amboss.space/Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

John Carvalho is CEO of Synonym. Synonym is building a model and tools to facilitate and accelerate the hyberbitcoinized future, which they call the "Atomic Economy."John and Synonym are working on Changing the Tide with some unique products. Slashtags will change how metadata on the Web is built and shared. Slashpay will incorporate Slashtags and standardize payments between two people who may hold Bitcoin on differing address types or use different Lightning invoice formats. And Blocktank is a new Lightning Service Provider service that will automate and monetize lightning node services.On top of this, they are making the code for these standards and products open source.Links: ​John's Twitter handle: @BitcoinErrorLogSynonym's Twitter handle: @Synonym_toSynonym's website: https://synonym.to/Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin programmer, educator, author, and entrepreneur. He and I met at the one-day Thank God for Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami the day before Bitcoin 2022 kicked off.He has written Programming Bitcoin and The Little Bitcoin Book, as well as co-authored the more recent Thank God for Bitcoin and Bitcoin and the American Dream. The latter is focused on educating American politicians on the benefits of adopting a Bitcoin standard.Jimmy is Changing the Tide by training more Bitcoin developers through his programming education efforts, like a forthcoming course in El Salvador that Stacy Herbert encouraged him to put on. He has also contributed to Bitcoin Core and other open-source Bitcoin projects. An outspoken Christian, he is a leader in educating Christians on the benefits of Bitcoin.Links: ​Jimmy's Twitter handle: @jimmysongJimmy's website: https://programmingbitcoin.com/Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

Tim is Founder and CEO of LNPay. LNPay offers tools to help you integrate Lightning Network into your business. Many of the earliest Podcasting 2.0 apps are LNPay clients, including Podcast Index and Fountain.Tim is Changing the Tide by offering ways for businesses to get started with Lightning. This includes Podcasting 2.0 features, as well as LAPPs such as paywalls, faucets, gifts, and the Satmailer. His primary interest in Lightning was micropayments, which unlock an entire band of small payments worldwide.Links: ​LNPay's Twitter handle: @LNPAYcoLNPay's website: https://lnpay.co/Tim's Twitter handle: @BootstrapBanditNote: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

Graham Krizek is Founder and CEO of Voltage. Voltage is a cloud platform for hosted Bitcoin and Lightning nodes, BTCPay Server instances, and liquidity. It is being used by several prominent Lightning startups and movements.Graham and the Voltage team are Changing the Tide by offering a KYC-free experience that allows you to quickly and easily spin up nodes, BTCPay Server instances, and Lightning channels. Your accounts are encrypted to a password you choose that they do not control. As such, they have no insight into your nodes and channels.Ultimately, they desire to make Lightning scalable as easy at the Enterprise level as at the individual level. That includes the Value4Value model in podcasting and content publishing, as well as social media, gaming, payments, and more.Links: ​Voltage's Twitter handle: @voltage_cloudVoltage website: https://voltage.cloud/Graham's Twitter handle: @gkrizekNote: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

BecomingPhill is the pseudonymous founder of Landifa Bitcoin. It's an online marketplace for Namibians and South Africans to purchase and sell Bitcoin.BecomingPhill is Changing the Tide by offering a KYC-free experience that emphasizes "Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins." He wants everyone who uses his site to take control of their own Bitcoin and their own wealth.He has integrated Lightning to make the experience even faster and cheaper. He also worked with Namibian authorities to clarify that they do not need KYC, thus offering one more step towards a future in which those in the vendor economy in Namibia and the rest of Africa can move seamlessly into the Bitcoin network.Links: ​BecomingPhill's Twitter handle: @BecomingPhillLandifa Bitcoin's Twitter handle: @LandifaBitcoinLandifa Bitcoin's website: https://landifa.com/Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

Keyan Kousha is the founder of Stacker News. It's like Hacker News, but they pay you in Bitcoin.Keyan is Changing the Tide by valuing the users of his social network. Users must pay a sat to post or reply to others' posts, but they can also "upvote" posts by sending as many sats as they want to the poster. Users can take the sats they've earned with them by withdrawing to their own wallets.By using a web of trust model, Stacker News is also helping people see content (rather than ads) from people they trust most.Links: ​Keyan's Twitter handle: @k00bidehStacker News website: https://stacker.news/Keyan's Stacker News handle: @k00bStacker News Twitter handle: @stacker_newsNote: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

John Cantrell is a software engineer and entrepreneur who has been studying Bitcoin for close to a decade. His technology lab L2 recently announced "Sensei." Built on the Bitcoin and Lightning Development Kits, it is a "lightning node implementation focused on making Bitcoin accessible to the entire world."John is Changing the Tide by focusing on software and services that will accelerate the adoption of Bitcoin worldwide. Sensei does this by allowing a "parent node" to spin up "child nodes" that can eventually become "Senseis" themselves. This should reduce frictions that might arise when starting a node, like liquidity issues and high bandwidth requirements for on-chain monitoring and network graph maintenance.Links: ​John's Twitter handle: @JohnCantrell97John's Thread of Threads on Bitcoin + Lightning: twitter.com/JohnCantrell97/status/1488218859521949703?s=20&t=kKsQiX9F20Ay_qWCg3WmCQL2's website: l2.technology*Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.**Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

Tone Vays is a professional trader and Bitcoin educator. He has been active in the Bitcoin space for close to 7 years.Tone has been Changing the Tide by continuously advocating for people to take full possession of their Bitcoin's private keys, leading to its "unconfiscatable" property. The events in Canada the week of this recording made it very clear how important that property really is. As well as what kind of state-level attack you leave yourself open to if you leave your Bitcoin in the custody of state-regulated financial institutions.The Unconfiscatable conference begins the night of Thursday, March 3 with a poker tournament. The conference itself takes place on Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5. For the chance to win a free ticket, follow this show's Twitter handle (@changingtidepod) and the conference's (@unconfiscatable), like the tweet about this episode, and reply with why you want to go!Links: ​Unconfiscatable website: https://unconfiscatable.com/Unconfiscatable's Twitter handle: @unconfiscatableTone's Twitter handle: @ToneVays*Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.**Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

Andy Schroder is an engineer and entrepreneur who has created the Bitcoin Fluid Dispenser and Distributed Charge. These projects are Changing the Tide by providing a smooth path that vendors can use to dispense commodities and energy for Bitcoin in a trustless or near-trustless way. Both the seller and the buyer(s) can rely on their Bitcoin and Lightning full nodes to transact, bolstering their financial privacy and sovereignty.Distributed Charge's proprietary Board A0 is "The First Building Block of a Bitcoin Lightning Network Enabled Energy Grid." The goal is to create a truly distributed network of charging stations for electric cars.Links: ​Andy's website: http://andyschroder.com/Andy's Twitter handle: @_andy_schroder_Bitcoin Fluid Dispenser overview: http://andyschroder.com/BitcoinFluidDispenser/TheOriginal/Distributed Charge overview:http://andyschroder.com/DistributedCharge/alpha/InitialDemonstration/Board A0 overview:http://andyschroder.com/DistributedCharge/BoardA0/Overview/*Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.**Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon CrabtreeCorrection: At approximately 3:20, I mention that "90.29% of Bitcoin...has been issued by miners." In reality, "90.29% of Bitcoin...has been issued TO miners."

8₿it is building BTC.email. This concept reaches all the way back to a very famous email exchange on the Cryptography Mailing List dated January 16, 2009.8₿it is Changing the Tide. This product will allow people to have their time bought by those wanting to get their attention. So it lets them store the time they've spent in and on their email persona in Bitcoin and take it with them. And thus give them greater freedom over another huge aspect of their lives: digital communications.As a fun side benefit, he is also documenting this journey.Links: ​8₿it's Twitter handle: @8BITBTC.email's Twitter handle: @BTCemailEmail Exchange URL: https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/17/*Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.**Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree

Desiree Dickerson is CEO and Co-Founder of THNDR Games, a company onboarding new Bitcoiners through engaging mobile video games.Des has been Changing the Tide for years. As part of both Lightning Labs and MintGox, she was pivotal in driving Lightning adoption through video games. Now at THNDR Games, she is ready to help scale THNDR's impact across the world.Links: ​Des's Twitter handle: @dickerson_desTHNDR Games Twitter handle: @THNDRGAMESTHNDR's website: https://www.thndr.gg/THNDR's games in app stores:*Turbo '84*Bitcoin Bounce*THNDR Bay*Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.**Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo RenthleiGraphics: Kal KassaHost: Jon CrabtreeProducer: Jon Crabtree