You Can’t Outsource Sovereignty - With John Carvalho

About this episode

John Carvalho discusses the importance of sovereignty in Bitcoin and the implications of self-custody and third-party intermediaries.

In this conversation, Bitcoin veteran John Carvalho explains why Bitcoin was invented to remove the need for third-party intermediaries.A conversation about ETFs, self-custody, BIP-177, Lightning, and what the future of Bitcoin might look like.

People in this episode

Host: Bull Bitcoin

Guest: John Carvalho

Topics covered

• Bitcoin
• self-custody
• third-party intermediaries
• ETFs
• BIP-177
• Lightning
• future of Bitcoin

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• sovereignty
• self-custody
• ETFs
• BIP-177
• Lightning
• intermediaries

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bitcoin, ETFs, BIP-177, Lightning

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