The Kevin Rooke Show

20 Jun 2024

The Trolls of Wall Street: [https://geni.us/mC1aK](https://geni.us/mC1aK) Bookmarked: [https://www.bookmarked.club/](https://www.bookmarked.club/)

7 May 2024

A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: [https://www.bookmarked.club/books/a-bold-return-to-giving-a-damn](https://www.bookmarked.club/books/a-bold-return-to-giving-a-damn) Bookmarked:

10 Mar 2024

A Bright Future: [https://www.bookmarked.club/books/a-bright-future](https://www.bookmarked.club/books/a-bright-future) Stakwork: [https://stakwork.com/](https://stakwork.com/)

26 Feb 2024

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18 Feb 2024

→ Americana: https://www.bookmarked.club/books/americana → Sponsored by Stakwork: ⁠https://stacksats.how/stakwork⁠

1 Feb 2024

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20 Jan 2024

→ The Rise and Fall of American Growth: [⁠https://www.bookmarked.club/books/the-rise-and-fall-of-american-growth](⁠https://www.bookmarked.club/books/the-rise-and-fall-of-american-growth)

15 Jan 2024

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7 Jan 2024

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1 Jan 2024

Moritz Kaminski is the co-founder of Alby, which is a browser extension that acts as a Bitcoin and Nostr companion for the web. → Alby: [https://getalby.com/](https://getalby.com/) Sponsors →

13 Dec 2023

Today’s episode features Andy Schoonover at CrowdHealth which is stacks sats by giving Americans a community-powered, and Bitcoin-powered alternative to health insurance. → CrowdHealth:

5 Dec 2023

→ The Box: ⁠https://www.bookmarked.club/books/the-box⁠ Sponsors → Stakwork: ⁠https://stacksats.how/stakwork⁠ → CrowdHealth: ⁠https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/⁠ Summary On this

26 Nov 2023

Christian Decker is an engineer at Blockstream. We spoke in October about how their recently released Blockstream Greenlight works, custody trade-offs on the Lightning Network, and much more. →

18 Nov 2023

Christopher Calicott is the Managing Director at Trammell Venture Partners, the first Bitcoin-native VC fund. We spoke in September about TVP’s business, the investing frameworks they use, why

5 Nov 2023

Sam Wouters is a Bitcoin Research Analyst at River, and helped write one of the most comprehensive reports on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network to date. In our conversation we explored River's latest

21 Oct 2023

Fanis Michalakis is a developer at LN Markets, a Bitcoin derivatives exchange built on the Lightning Network. In our conversation, we covered the value of Lightning-powered trading, DLCs and the

14 Oct 2023

The Satoshi Coffee Co. is a merchant who has stacked millions of sats for their line of fresh-roasted coffee. → Satoshi Coffee Co: [https://sats.coffee/](https://sats.coffee/) Sponsors →

15 Sep 2023

Jesse Shrader is the CEO of Amboss, a data analytics platform built for the Lightning Network that also offers a marketplace for buying and selling Lightning channels. In our conversation, we

8 Sep 2023

Artur Brugeman is the founder of Nostr Band, a collection of Nostr search services for exploring the Nostr ecosystem. In our discussion, we explored the state of Nostr adoption so far, the catalysts

1 Sep 2023

Alex Leishman is the CEO of River, a US-based Bitcoin exchange that also offers Bitcoin mining and Lightning Network services. In our discussion, we explored the challenges with Lightning today and

25 Aug 2023

Margie Ramos is a Shopify merchant who has stacked over 1,000,000 sats for her line of Tallow-based skincare products in just a few weeks. → Tallowed and Free:

18 Aug 2023

Ken Sedgwick is a Software Engineer at the Validating Lightning Signer project, which is focused on improving Lightning custody by separating keys from nodes in a discrete signing device. In our

15 Aug 2023

Henrik Skogstrøm is the CEO of LN Capital, which is soon re-branding to Torq, the name of their Lightning node management software. In our conversation we discussed the state of Lightning Network

10 Aug 2023

Ian Major is the co-founder of Joltz Rewards, a Lightning-powered loyalty platform offering Bitcoin rewards as a service. In our conversation we discussed how Joltz works, why the loyalty rewards

4 Aug 2023

Siggy47 is a retired lawyer and one of the most prolific earners on Stacker News, who has stacked over 500,000 sats for the content he has created on the platform. → Siggy47’s SN Profile:

27 Jul 2023

Tony Giorgio is the co-founder and CEO of Mutiny Wallet, a self-custodial Lightning wallet that runs in your web browser. In our conversation, we discussed why Tony first set out to build Mutiny,

19 Jul 2023

Matt Black is the co-founder & CTO of Atomic Finance, a Bitcoin company that uses DLCs to make it possible for people to earn a self-custodial yield on Bitcoin. In our conversation we discussed

14 Jul 2023

Super Testnet is an independent Bitcoin, Lightning, and Nostr developer, and the chairman of FOSS at Pleb Lab In our conversation, we discussed how Super is able to innovate at such a high pace, and

13 Jul 2023

Brianna Honkawa-D’Estries is the organizer of TabConf and BitDevs LA, has previously been Chief of Staff at Lightning Labs and Noah, and is a Nostr creator who has stacked over 1,000,000 sats for

2 Jul 2023

Kody Low is the Head of Developer & Product Support at Fedi, and the organizer of the AI For All Hackathon happening throughout July. In our conversation, we explored the impact of AI on

22 Jun 2023

Graham Krizek is the founder and CEO of Voltage, a full service Lightning infrastructure provider. In our conversation, we discussed Voltage’s latest product Surge, why Graham believes every

15 Jun 2023

Paul West is the founder of Fumb Games, a mobile gaming studio that has earned over 10,000,000 downloads across all their games, including the 1 million downloads for their Lightning-enabled game

9 Jun 2023

The Bitcoin Hotel is a family-run hotel near Stuttgart, Germany. They not only accept bookings in Bitcoin, but they also host Bitcoin events, and offer Bitcoin experiences and services throughout

4 Jun 2023

Burak is the creator of Ark, a second-layer solution designed for scaling Bitcoin.  In ways it is inspired by elements of Bitcoin’s base blockchain, Lightning, e-cash, and coinjoins, and we got

22 May 2023

Maxim Orlovsky is the founder of the LNP/BP Standards Association and the creator of the RGB smart contracts protocol. In our conversation, we explored the importance of standards for Bitcoin and

18 May 2023

Shehzan Maredia is the co-founder of Lava, a Bitcoin project that aims to make sovereign finance simple. In our discussion we explored the full scope of Lava’s vision, we talked about how Lava’s

17 May 2023

Jesse Berger is the author of Magic Internet Money, a book that takes readers on a journey about the fundamental principles of money and Bitcoin.  In addition to selling his book on Amazon, Jesse

14 May 2023

Konstantin is the co-founder of Kollider, a Lightning-powered Bitcoin derivatives platform that also offers a browser extension wallet, synthetic fiat stablecoins, and a paid Nostr relay. In our

11 May 2023

Scott and Mallory are a California couple building a Bitcoin education company called SHAmory, where they’ve stacked over 10,000,000 sats for selling games, books, and toys that help people learn

21 Apr 2023

Lisa Neigut is the founder of Base58, a Bitcoin protocol academy that helps teach developers the fundamentals of Bitcoin. In our conversation, we did a deep-dive on Bitcoin’s layer two ecosystem,

20 Apr 2023

Ben Justman is a Colorado winemaker who has stacked over 10,000,000 sats for selling bottles of his all-natural Peony Lane Wine using Oshi and IBEX Pay. → Peony Lane Wine:

8 Apr 2023

Arnold Hubach is a Bitcoin writer who has stacked over 3,000,000 sats with Alby’s Wordpress plugin installed on his website, Bitcoin Focus. → Bitcoin Focus:

30 Mar 2023

Pablo F7z is the head of R&D at Swan, an advisor to Ego Death Capital, and a builder of too many Nostr apps to name. In our conversation, we covered Pablo’s fascination with Bitcoin,

27 Mar 2023

Joe Martin is a country singer who has stacked over 800,000 sats for his music using Fountain, Wavlake, Voltage, BTCPayServer, and Alby. → Joe Martin:

17 Mar 2023

Nick Slaney is the Lead at c=, which is the name of Block’s new Lightning Service Provider subsidiary. In our conversation, we explored the reason Block is setting out to build an LSP, Block’s

15 Mar 2023

Andrew Begin is the Director of Marketing at Galoy, an open source Bitcoin banking platform. In our conversation, we covered the task of building and sustaining Bitcoin communities such as Bitcoin

13 Mar 2023

Oscar Merry is the co-founder and CEO of Fountain, and was actually the very first guest on this podcast back when it started in late 2021. In our conversation, we covered Fountain’s evolution in

9 Mar 2023

Desiree Dickerson is the CEO of THNDR Games, a Lightning-powered gaming platform that lets you earn Bitcoin for playing games. In our discussion, we covered the challenge of building and testing new

28 Feb 2023

Vitor Pamplona is the lead developer at Amethyst, the most popular Nostr client for Android with over 50,000 downloads in its first month. In our conversation we explored Vitor’s path to building

23 Feb 2023

David King has been an early Google product manager, an angel investor for more than a decade, and is a creator exploring the convergence of Nostr, Bitcoin, and startups. In our conversation, we