Name: Living on a Bitcoin Standard in 2026
Uploaded: 2025-11-22T15:01:00+00:00
Duration: 1 h 14 min
Description: Marty and Steve Lee dive into Bitcoin's future as everyday money and why daily usage strengthens the network. Steve breaks down Lightning infrastructure development at Spiral, explaining how spending

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Marty and Steve Lee dive into Bitcoin's future as everyday money and why daily usage strengthens the network. Steve breaks down Lightning infrastructure development at Spiral, explaining how spending Bitcoin while holding long-term isn't contradictory. They explore merchant adoption, payment rails, the Lightning Development Kit, and why millions of small businesses using Bitcoin creates a powerful voting block. The conversation covers on-chain privacy through PayJoin technology, breaking chain surveillance heuristics, living on a Bitcoin standard, and how price discovery improves with distributed transaction touchpoints. Steve makes the case for why even hardcore hodlers should care about Bitcoin payments and how Block's recent products enable seamless Bitcoin-to-dollar conversions for both merchants and consumers.

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0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Why spend bitcoin
8:07 - Building payments tech at Spiral
11:34 - Addressing haters
18:14 - SLNT & Unchained
20:03 - Distribution/privacy of LN
24:09 - “Bitcoin is here” narrative
31:03 - CrowdHealth & SOTE
33:14 - Presidio Bitcoin
35:06 - Consumer conversion
46:45 - V4V
49:53 - Vibe coding
53:08 - AI agentic payments
58:38 - BSA
1:05:41 - Payjoin Dev Kit