74: Using Bitcoin as Money
By Chris Fisher
Aired Sep 16, 2025 · 1h 0m · Last boosted Sep 19, 2025
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From casual to committed, Oscar Merry reveals how his Bitcoin journey led to Fountain.fm and the tools that bring Bitcoin into daily use. Plus, his vision for an open alternative to platforms like YouTube and Spotify. Affiliate Links 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform ⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling Show Notes Oscar Merry - Nostr...
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Episode Boosts
Every boost sent to this episode, as published to Nostr, newest first.
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I was told you can't buy coffee with Bitcoin... 🤔😜
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Oscar 🫡
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So helpful a discussion, and excellent to break down such a challenging issue with clarity
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Loved this episode! Thanks for the explanation of keysend vs bolt11+nostr! (The zap protocol? I think I’ll relisten shortly) This episode made me hyped for a more open web, built on more open protocols! I need to noodle around with some nostr code now!
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Great episode. I’m a huge fan of fountain and great to hear from the founder
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Bullish on podcast 2.0 & nostr! Thanks everyone who builds.
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Im brand new to nostr, but it feels like freedom!
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Love the mission of Fountain app. Supporting the economic development around BTC. Great show and keep it coming
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Thank you gentlemen
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Changing your lnaddress in a RSS feed is just as hard/easy as changing your keysend address is now. Using Primal and want to switch to Strike? Still need to change it in the feed. No difference and no one is going to selfhost a lnaddress look up so they can change it on the backend and only time.
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Shit posting aside I see what Oscar is trying to do and see the vision but I'm all here for the other devs so we just need some time for everyone to hash this all out. The current system works and is solid if you've been playing along this whole but it is limited. It's also not going to be an easy change however we do it.
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My app post to Nostr unless I break it. 🤪 zaps.podtards.com
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This episode has a keysend address lol
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Last December we were still in the middle of the Alby changes so this metadata issue got set aside.
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We've had Helipad this whole time for reading Boosts!!! It is second to none. https://irc.podtards.com/uploads/4f8cf0531dd06a56/image.jpeg
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Where's the Nostr podcasting apps at if it's so easy?
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If lnaddress is so easy to add where's the other podcasting apps being built on lightning then? The spec supports lnaddress now. Podcast app devs aren't lightning experts so we need some help from the Bitcoin community as well. None of this is a new problem and it's an open spec after all...
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