The Conor Chepenik Podcast

Bitcoiner doing his part to get the world on a global reserve currency backed by open source software and math instead of violence.

The Conor Chepenik Podcast is a technology podcast hosted by Conor Chepenik, with 81 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Conor Chepenik hosts The Conor Chepenik Podcast, a technology show with 81 episodes published.

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  GMONEY: Bitcoin, Soft War, Nostr, AI, and Digital 1776

  May 12, 20261h 17mS0

  <p>GMONEY joins The Conor Chepenik Podcast for a wide-ranging conversation on Bitcoin, soft war, self-custody, Nostr, AI, memes, tokenization, and why he believes humanity is living through a global Digital 1776.We discuss GMONEY’s path from Ron Paul, gold, and questioning the Federal Reserve into Bitcoin, his experience at the Las Vegas shooting, why he views Bitcoin as a peaceful power projection technology, and how self-custody gives individuals a new kind of authority in cyberspace. From there, we get into fiat incentives, the spiritual and moral dimensions of money, the role of memes in information warfare, Nostr and zaps as...

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  Putting a Paywall on Your Inbox with Rythm.xyz

  Apr 20, 20261h 18mS0

  <p>Sean is my boy from Boston and a great fellow Bitcoiner. He's building Rythm.xyz, a last line of defense for Gmail and Outlook that whitelists known senders and lets strangers pay a Lightning micro-payment to land in your inbox marked as paid. No custody, no money transmitter risk, just LNURL and Cashu tokens doing God's work to bring sound money to the masses.We spend real time on the two filters missing from the internet: identity and cost. Without them, you get an infinite cat-and-mouse game with spammers, AI slop, and eventually a government ID attached to every...

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  Alex B on Ark, Arkade, Bitcoin Credit Markets, and Layer 2s

  Apr 11, 20261h 9mS0

  <p>Conor sits down with Alex B, Head of Ecosystem at Ark Labs, to talk about how Ark and Arkade are rethinking Bitcoin's off-chain architecture, why the term "layer two" is going to fade from the conversation, and where Bitcoin credit markets are headed.They get into the technical weeds on how Arkade uses a client-server model with co-signed spending conditions to move Bitcoin off chain without the liquidity and routing headaches that Lightning deals with. Alex explains how Arkade's scripting environment goes beyond simple payment channels, opening up more complex contracts, lending products, and multi-asset swaps, all while keeping...

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  Jan3 CTO Alex Bragin: Bitcoin, AI Agents & The End of Jobs?

  Apr 3, 20261h 4mS0

  <p>Alex Bragin, CTO of Jan3, joins The Conor Chepenik Podcast to break down the evolution of Bitcoin from its earliest days to today’s AI-driven future.Alex shares what it was like discovering Bitcoin in 2011, building early infrastructure and creating Bitcoin futures, as well as watching it grow from $1 to a global asset. The conversation explores how Bitcoin UX improved over time, why most people still misunderstand it, and how AI is reshaping development, companies, and even the concept of work itself.They also dive into real-world implications of AI agents transacting value, security risks with wallets and bots, qu...

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  Bobby Shell (Voltage): Lightning, Stablecoins on Bitcoin, & Raising Kids in the age of AI

  Mar 19, 202647 minS0

  <p>In this episode of the Conor Chepenik podcast, Bobby Shell, VP of Marketing at Voltage, joins Conor to break down where the Lightning Network actually stands in 2026, enterprise adoption, Cash App's quiet dominance, stablecoins coming to Lightning, and why the next 24 months will define Bitcoin's institutional story.They get into the real trade-offs of self-custody Lightning vs. outsourcing it, how Nostr needs go-to-market people more than engineers, and why Bobby thinks sales is the single most important skill anyone can build heading into an AI-automated economy.Plus: homeschooling, screen time, recess, and what it actually means to raise kids...

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