2024 saw some phenomenal interviews about CoinGeek Weekly Live Stream. Valuable guests from across the BSV ecosystem joined Kurt Wuckert Jr. to share insights, answer questions and update us on their projects and businesses. In the first episode of 2025, we look back at some of the best bits from the 2024 episodes.
Gavin Mehl on the blockchain to vote
At the beginning of this clip, Wuckert talks about the billions per day spent in the sub-dollar economy and how people in Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America can benefit from a electronic cash register system can micropayments. However, Bitcoin is so much more than that; it can also help keep accurate records, prove identity and more.
Mehl agrees and talks about how that can help, too election integrity. He used to work with a US congressman, so he knows something about this. Wuckert says the technology is up to the task, but getting wallets into everyone’s hands is the challenge.
Siggi Óskarsson on Teranode and scaling
Óskarsson mentions how Theranode the team is finishing up and fixing some bugs and issues. At the time of the interview they had three nodes listening to the mainnet (since then TAAL has mined the first block).
Óskarsson acknowledges the importance of their work in the base layer, but he says developers need to think about building more applications. We need to think bigger, he says, reminding us of blockchain’s amazing potential to disrupt almost everything. He encourages developers to reach out to The BSV association and each other, create contacts and build.
Ryan Wold on how Bitcoin encourages self-responsibility
Wold is a software developer based in California. In his livestream appearance, he hammered home how Bitcoin encourages the self-responsibility that we have lost to some extent. Not everyone likes this, he admits, but it’s important, and Bitcoin can revive it.
When it comes to change the world with Bitcoinhe encourages a grassroots approach. Individuals can affect their families, which can affect societies and communities. The best way to convert people to Bitcoin’s potential is to get them to use it; that’s how it clicked for him.
Stephen February on real peer-to-peer transactions
Like so many other guests, February recalls how he first came across Bitcoin in the early days but largely ignored it. After receiving some from a friend while traveling, he began exploring how to use it as a developer. He realized that much of the programmability had been removed, so he lost interest. But in 2017 he started paying attention again and was with when the split happened.
February is most excited about Bitcoin’s ability to create true peer-to-peer transactions. This is back to the old notion of how the internet should work – free from intermediaries and back to direct exchange of value. To do that, of course, it has to scale, which is why he gets involved with BSV.
Brendan Lee about how BTC is a doomed chain
Lee talks about tokenization and potential use cases a lot, but during his livestream interview he noted how others are waking up to the fact that BTC is practically worthless for anything that involves utility. He even got people to confide that they lock BTC into smart contracts, and all related activity happens on other chains.
Ultimately, he believes it will all come crashing down, and when IoT smart devices start using tokens, among others, scalable large block Bitcoin will have its moment in the sun.
Reggie Middleton about the gatekeepers and the war over Bitcoin
Middleton is an entrepreneur with a financial background and a respectable intellectual property portfolio. He first became interested in Bitcoin because it could help with circumvention the gatekeepersbut now they control it almost completely. BlackRock (NASDAQ: BLK), Microstrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), and others are the biggest buyers and have the loudest megaphones to set the story.
While the price of BTC has grown rapidly, the technology is developing and being adopted much faster, Middleton told Wuckert. He knows firsthand how the big players are aware of its power; most of them have sued him over his IP portfolio. He warns that they will fight back and tend to do so through force and lobbying rather than through competition.
Pieter Den Dooven on immutable records and compliance
The Dooven is the developer at mint blue. He says brands used to be about storytelling, but that doesn’t work anymore. Instead, his company is trying to convince them to use the blockchain to “prove stories.”
What does he mean by this? Using the blockchain’s immutable record to prove provenance, chain of traceability and compliance with rules and ideals such as fair trade or sustainability. He points to the European Union’s digital product passports as an opportunity to help companies prove compliance in a relatively simple, straightforward way that doesn’t involve building their systems from scratch. Everyone in the supply chain can update records, meaning everything is provable.
In a later clip, Tokenovate CEO Richard Baker expresses similar sentiments: he believes blockchain’s best use cases are provable records. He doesn’t see it as a payload destination, but immutable on-chain records can be linked to data stored elsewhere in specialized databases.
These are just a few clips from the Best of the CoinGeek Weekly Livestream 2024. Hear more from Eli Afram, Rafa Jiménez, Dmitry Fabrikant and others by watching live stream episode here
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