EVNT-008: Andrew Lunde: Uncancelable Names: Building Identity on Bitcoin - Atlanta BitDevs
Release Date: 10/30/2025
BRH-007: BitDevs Radio Hour #7 – BIP-3 Deployed, René Pickhardt's Payment Channel Math, Buck Token Drama, and BitChat Saves Uganda
ATL BitLab Podcast
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab on Thursday, January 15th, 2026, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin return from holiday break to cover Bitcoin technical developments. The episode opens with BIP-3's deployment—a major overhaul to the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal editorial process after two years of debate. The hosts then dive deep into René Pickhardt's new mathematical theory of payment channels, exploring how geometric modeling reveals fundamental limits on Lightning Network feasibility and why channel factories become necessary for scaling. The conversation shifts to speculative financial...
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BRH-006: BitDevs Radio Hour #6 – Chaincode's Matthew Zipkin on Boss Challenge, LLM Bots Closing AI PRs, and Taiwan's Frost Breakthrough
ATL BitLab Podcast
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin welcome Matthew Zipkin from Chaincode Labs to discuss the BOSS Challenge, a rigorous program designed to help aspiring developers launch careers in Bitcoin open source software. The conversation explores what it takes to become a Bitcoin protocol developer, the appropriate use of AI in learning and development, and how the program identifies serious contributors through a three-month gauntlet. The episode then shifts to technical updates: the proliferation of "ARK" naming conflicts across Bitcoin projects, Stratum V2's progress...
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BRH-005: BitDevs Radio Hour #5 – Confidential Script, UTX Oracle, CAT Confiscation Draft, and Post-Quantum Signatures
ATL BitLab Podcast
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab, Stephen DeLorme is joined by Josh Doman (filling in for Alex Lewin) for BitDevs Radio Hour #5. This episode covers a wide sweep of Bitcoin technical developments: a North Carolina Bitcoin++ recap, the UTX Oracle project for inferring price signals from UTXO patterns, Josh’s Confidential Script approach to covenant experimentation via trusted execution environments, the controversial “CAT” draft proposing to freeze certain UTXOs, post-quantum signature research (including stateful hash-based schemes), consensus cleanup work, and Great Script Restoration...
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BRH-004: BitDevs Radio Hour #4 – Your 2025 Bitcoin Wrapped is Here
ATL BitLab Podcast
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin close out the year with a festive edition of the BitDevs Radio Hour. This episode covers a grab bag of fresh Bitcoin technical developments: new BIP assignments, a novel approach to private collaborative custody, a consensus discrepancy discovered via differential fuzzing, Lightning protocol optimization ideas, a serious React server components security vulnerability, and the debut of Bitcoin Wrapped 2025. It’s a year-end mix of hard engineering talk, cryptographic concepts, dev-ops war stories, and community reflections. ...
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BRH-003: BitDevs Radio Hour #3 – Zeus Wallet, Graduated Wallets, eCash, and the Future of Bitcoin UX
ATL BitLab Podcast
Live from ATL BitLab, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin sit down with , founder of , one of Bitcoin’s most beloved Lightning wallets. This episode dives deep into the design trade-offs of non-custodial Lightning, the emergence of “graduated wallets,” eCash systems like Cashu and Fedimint, statechain-based systems like Spark, and the future of Bitcoin payments UX. The conversation ranges from practical LSP economics to the viability of Ark, Spark, and other L2 proposals, as well as Evan’s views on privacy, trust models, griefing attacks, covenants, and how wallets should guide users up the...
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BRH-002: BitDevs Radio Hour #2 - Cluster Mempool Merged, Jack Mallers De-banked
ATL BitLab Podcast
It's time for another BitDevs Radio Hour! Alex Lewin and Stephen DeLorme discuss some of the latest technical developments in Bitcoin. This conversation covers topics like the merging of Cluster Mempool into Bitcoin Core, preventing lightning pinning attacks with P2A and v3 transactions, the drama over Jack Maller's getting debanked by Chase, and other topics.
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BRH-001: BitDevs Radio Hour #1 - Bitcoin Kernel Project, Soft Fork Debate, BIPs Process Update
ATL BitLab Podcast
The very first BitDevs Radio Hour! Alex Lewin and Stephen DeLorme discuss some of the latest technical developments in Bitcoin. This conversation covers topics like the Bitcoin Kernel Project, recent soft fork related debates and internet drama, and updates to the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal process with Murch's motion activate BIP3. Bonus: El Salvadaro smash buys the dip and Coinbase brings back ICOs.
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EVNT-008: Andrew Lunde: Uncancelable Names: Building Identity on Bitcoin - Atlanta BitDevs
ATL BitLab Podcast
Can Bitcoin replace DNS? Andrew Lunde presents Spaces Protocol, a permissionless naming system anchored on the Bitcoin blockchain. Learn how auctions determine ownership of top-level names like "@bitcoin," the technical challenges of browser integration, and the trade-offs between decentralization and scalability. Discover how $120,000 in Bitcoin has already been burned through the auction process, the role of DHT nodes in storing metadata, and why this approach may recreate the centralization problems it aims to solve. Show Notes: 00:00 Opening Quote: Uncancelable Identity ...
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SOV-022: Matt Hill from Start9 - The Sovereign Computing Show
ATL BitLab Podcast
Start9 CEO Matt Hill joins Jordan Bravo to discuss the evolution of sovereign computing and the upcoming StartOS 0.4.0 release. Learn about Start9's mission to democratize server administration, their revolutionary new networking capabilities, plans for an open-source router, and innovative community programs for scaling support and development. Plus: why dignity matters as much as privacy and security in computing. Show Notes: 00:00 Opening Quote: Sovereign Computing Definition 00:33 Introduction and Show Sponsorship 01:51 Welcome and Sovereign Computing Origins 03:21...
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SOV-021: Google Kills Android Sideloading: The iOS-ification Begins - The Sovereign Computing Show
ATL BitLab Podcast
Google is making Android more like iOS by blocking "sideloading" of unverified apps starting next year. Jordan Bravo breaks down why "sideloading" is a psyop term designed to make normal software installation seem dangerous, how Google's new developer KYC requirements will kill freedom tech, and why this gradual "boiling of the frog" approach threatens projects like GrapheneOS. Plus a chilling reminder from former NSA/CIA director Michael Hayden: "We kill people based on metadata." Show Notes: 00:00 Opening Quote: Satoshi KYC Example 00:41 Introduction and Show Sponsorship...
info_outlineCan Bitcoin replace DNS? Andrew Lunde presents Spaces Protocol, a permissionless naming system anchored on the Bitcoin blockchain. Learn how auctions determine ownership of top-level names like "@bitcoin," the technical challenges of browser integration, and the trade-offs between decentralization and scalability. Discover how $120,000 in Bitcoin has already been burned through the auction process, the role of DHT nodes in storing metadata, and why this approach may recreate the centralization problems it aims to solve.
Show Notes:
00:00 Opening Quote: Uncancelable Identity
00:30 Event Recording and Podcast Information
01:02 Sponsor Message: ATL BitLab
02:05 Introduction to Spaces Protocol and Permissionless Systems
04:14 What is Spaces Protocol? Sovereign Bitcoin Identity
05:39 Andrew Lunde's Background and Decentralized Systems
07:19 History of Decentralized Naming Attempts
09:20 Why Previous Projects Failed
11:57 The Centralization Problem with DNS
15:25 Censorship Examples: Malaysia and Catalonia
18:49 Certificate Authority Vulnerabilities
19:34 China's Internet Controls and Nostr
21:55 The Case for "Uncancelable" Names
26:46 Spaces Protocol Technical Overview
29:30 Auction Process and Community Identifiers
33:33 Hierarchy vs Flat Namespace Debate
35:11 Subspace Creation and On-Chain Registration
38:35 Why Top-Level Name Ownership is Required
42:39 Fabric DHT and Distributed Storage
45:19 Auction Mechanics: 10-Day Process
49:27 Bitcoin Burning and No Pre-mine Policy
51:23 Bid Refunding and Transaction Structure
54:55 Registration and Permanent Burning
57:30 Name Expiration and Escheat Process
01:00:36 Transaction Fees and Sustainability Concerns
01:04:00 Explorer Demo: $120,000 Bitcoin Burned
01:13:34 High-Value Auctions: Bitcoin, AI, Single Letters
01:16:03 Strategy Auction Case Study
01:21:09 Start9 Integration and Future Plans
01:23:08 Browser Integration Challenges
01:25:03 DNS Resolution Workarounds
01:26:37 Multiple Records and Subspace Management