Bitrefill's To the Moon Podcast

Bitrefill's To the Moon Podcast

Welcome to Bitrefill's To The Moon Podcast. To The Moon is Bitrefill's new weekly podcast to discuss Bitcoin, altcoins, adoption, news & current events, and all things crypto. Join host Lawrence Ray, along with Jerry Okai, and Ricardo Martinez, for a light-hearted and humorous weekly discussion about the latest developments in the crypto economy. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ToTheMoonPod Browse Bitrefill's catalog of gift cards and mobile refills: https://www.bitrefill.com/ Sign up for a Bitrefill account: https://www.bitrefill.com/signup Download the Bitrefill app: iOS - htt

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January 13, 2023 56 mins

This is our Living on Crypto interview with Bitcoin Gamers and Professionals Mary Victoria Imasuen & Koty Auditore. In this podcast, Mary and Koty talk about how they live on bitcoin, sort their finances, earn bitcoin and how bitcoin is changing and has the potential to further change the gaming world.

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This is our Living on Crypto interview with Bitcoin Miner, Gerson Martinez. In this interview, Gerson explains his journey from working in traditional finance, to working as a Bitcoin Minder, the revolutionary importance of Bitcoin Mining for helping to create new infrastructure and utilizing excess electricity; preventing waste, his tools he utilises for living on Bitcoin and much more.

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This is our complete interview with Renato Salazar of New Story Charity, a nonprofit which creates housing for the poorest families in El Salvador and allows them to pay for their housing with Bitcoin. New Story also accepts Bitcoin donations, and works to further Bitcoin education among poverty stricken families in El Salvador.


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In part 3, Renato discusses the impact Bitcoin has had in El Salvador, and the wave of Bitcoin-related nonprofit organizations and social aid causes, he also discusses the importance of transparency, dedication, and professionalism for charity groups, as well as New Story's efforts to pioneer fully 3d printed housing communities. 


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In part 2, Renato discusses the ongoing educational efforts surrounding Bitcoin in El Salvador, the crisis of inadequate housing impacting the poorest families in El Salvador and the challenges this presents, as well as a crazy story of an interaction with a Bitcoiner visiting El Zonte's Bitcoin Beach.


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In part 1 of our interview with Renato Salazar of New Story Charity, Renato describes his experience as a community activist for Bitcoin Beach, and learning about Bitcoin, then witnessing the growth of the movement to inspire El Salvador's Bitcoin law, making the move to Strike as a customer ambassador and business development, and finally transitioning to New Story to help creat adequate housing for El Salvador's poorest families,...

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This our complete interview with Jack Everitt & Desiree Dickerson o0f THNDR Games, a mobile gaming studio which makes video games which integrate Bitcoin's Lightning Network in order to allow gamers to win Satoshis by playing.


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In part 3, Jack and Desiree discuss the logistics of managing a Lightning Network node and channel liquidity, the advances in the Lightning Network since 2019, the prospect of releasing a new game, and creating new player experiences for Bitcoin gamers.


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In part 2 with Desiree and Jack from THNDR, we discuss THNDR's vision as a Bitcoin adoption company which uses games as an avenue for Orange pilling the masses, designing games with Bitcoin, navigating the app stores, and the high percentage of female mobile gamers.


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This is part 1 of our interview with Desiree Dickerson, CEO of THNDR Games, and Jack Everitt, Founder of THNDR Games. We discuss Desiree's experiences in Bitcoin adoption for charity, the challenge of creating engaging Bitcoin play to win mobile games, and how exactly Lightning Network integrates with THNDR's games, via their own self-hosted Lightning Network node.


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This is the complete interview with Bitcoin Ekasi founder Hermann Vivier. Bitcoin Ekasi is a Bitcoin-based community project heavily inspired by El Salvador's Bitcoin Beach. Hermann works to teach the residents of S. Africa's Mossel Bay township how to use Bitcoin and Lightning Network in an effort to creat a circular Bitcoin economy.


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In part 3 Hermann talks about the crypto scams which are all too common in South Africa, which many associate with Bitcoin, he also enlightens us to what the word Ekasi means and its significance for the people of South Africa, and how Bitcoin is often the first experience with electronic payments technology for many South Africans.


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In part 2, Herman explains that despite South Africa's long history of having a stable banking system, why many South Africans still distrust the banks, he also talks about the efforts to pay in Bitcoin and create a circular economy by onboarding shops, the wallets being used on the ground in Mossel Bay, and the dream of having a Bitcoin Ekasi fork of the Bitcoin Beach wallet, and what it would take, as well as the ongoing communit...

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This is part 1 of our interview with Bitcoin Ekasi's Hermann Vivier, the founder of Unravel Surf, the Surfer Kids, and the Bitcoin Ekasi project in South Africa's Mossel Bay Township. Bitcoin Ekasi is a Bitcoin-based community projects which teaches youth surfing and how to use Bitcoin. Bitcoin Ekasi was heavily inspired by El Salvador's Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte. For many in Mossel Bay, this is their first experience with digital ...

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This is the complete interview with Steven Nelkovski and Patrick O'Sullivan of the Perth Heat Baseball team based in Perth, Western Australia. Perth Heat is the first and only sporting organization in the world, currently operating completely on a Bitcoin Standard. They pay all players, coaches, staff, suppliers and vendors in Bitcoin, as well as accept Bitcoin for payment, in exchange for tickets, merchandise, memorabilia, food, d...

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In part 3, Steven and Patrick discuss how Bitcoin makes the access to finance easier for non-Australian players who come to play for Perth Heat, by bypassing the banking bureaucracy, the prospect that players will begin to demand their pay in Bitcoin and what this means for sports organizations, the advances in Bitcoin and how much easier and user-friendly it has become to onboard businesses and individuals, and the Bitcoin Jersey ...

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In part 2, Steven & Patrick from Perth Heat discuss the reactions they have had from present and former Perth players in regards to having their salary paid in Bitcoin, Steven also discusses how Perth players have gone on to play in the MLB and other US pro teams, and Patrick chimes in on the challenges involved in moving the organization over to a Bitcoin Standard.

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This is part 1 of our interview with Steven Nelkovski & Patrick O'Sullivan of the Perth Heat Baseball team based in Perth, Australia. Perth Heat is the first professional sports team to operate completely on a Bitcoin standard, paying all staff, players, and vendors in Bitcoin and selling tickets, food & drinks, merchandise, jersey's and memorabilia in Bitcoin. Steven and Patrick discuss why Perth Heat has pioneered Bitcoin...

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This is our complete interview with Patrick Melder of Bitcoin Lake, a Bitcoin community project based in Panajachel, a village on the shores of Guatemala's Lake Atitlán. Patrick discusses the challenges of bootstrapping the project, onboarding the local business owners and community members, as well as future plans for mining bitcoin to provide UBI, and incentivize cleaning up pollution around the lake.


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In part 3, Patrick discusses the plan to use biodigesters to generate energy from organic waste as a way to provide an influx of Satoshis into the Bitcoin Lake community, provide a Bitcoin based Universal Basic Income, and incentivize the community to clean up the pollution that has been having a negative impact on the Lake's ecosystem.


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