#239: Sphinx Chat, encrypted chat over LN, banking the unbanked, and rearchitecting the Internet with Paul Itoi

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Paul Itoi, co-founder of Stakwork and Sphinx Chat, to discuss:

- Sphinx chat

- Content monetization without ads

- Encrypted chat over the Lightning Network

- Paying anons around the world

- Banking the unbanked

- Rearchitecting the Internet using BTC/LN

- How BTC/LN can help parents unschool their kids

- Bringing back grazing cattle via Sphinx

- Training personal AIs

- much more

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What is up, freaks?
0:00.9	It's your boy.
0:01.2	I've already been here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crip.
0:03.8	Second Rip of the Day.
0:05.9	I'm posting this right away.
0:07.0	I just recorded with Paula Toy, one of the co-founders of Sphinx Chat.
0:11.4	I'm sure if you've been listening to this podcast, you've been hearing me talk about Sphinx Chat.
0:15.9	A lot is, again, one of my favorite apps that's natively built on bitcoin particularly the lightning
0:21.9	network allows you to send messages over the lightning network fully end-to-end encrypted stored
0:27.2	and sent from hardware that you control on top of that it's helping us monetize tfTC with the
0:32.4	value for value model i hope you like the episode with a Epstein that we dropped earlier today, and I never
0:40.1	like to do two episodes in one day, but I mean, the conversation that we just had is just
0:44.6	it's too fucking bullish. It's too mind melting. I need to get into the hands of the freaks as
0:50.8	soon as possible. Really funny that I'm going to do some ad reeds in front of this episode.
0:56.4	But I think what Paul is building will help us get away.
1:00.7	I'm actually pretty certain it's going to help us get away from ad raids.
1:03.6	I wouldn't be surprised if 2022 is the year that TFTC goes completely ad-free across the board thanks to people like Paul
1:13.7	thanks to Paul specifically in the team it's fangs for for what they're building I'm finally pronouncing
1:18.5	it right this episode is brought to you by good friends the motherfucking cash app cash app's helping you stack
1:23.2	sets send sets receive sets sell sats we're saying SATs, Sats, Sats because Sats are the standard.
1:28.3	There's 100 million Sats in one Bitcoin.
1:30.3	You don't have to buy a whole Bitcoin.
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