BITCOIN SEASON 2: Tricking Solana Degens into Stacking Sats

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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How “Janusz” is meeting solana degens where they’re at and getting them to stack more sats (and increase Bitcoin’s privacy?) You're listening to Bitcoin Season 2. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 7,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Janusz is meeting Solana degens where they’re at by building a product that helps them stack bitcoin during their regular Solana use. “Lemon Drop” is the first product release in Janusz’s recent Bitcoin pivot and builds towards his bigger goal: increasing Bitcoin privacy through increasing Bitcoin’s anonymity set. Also: activating a Bitcoin soft fork? Notes: • How Lemon Drop works • Privacy on Bitcoin • Open Source vs Product focused development • A soft fork activation? Check out our Bitcoin scaling conference! Visit opnext.dev to learn more. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 01:02 Anon payments 03:17 Pivot on Layers project 05:39 Lemondrop 10:13 Inspiration 12:45 Arch Network 13:17 Building the team 16:52 Wrapped BTC 20:36 Bitcoin Layers project 25:51 Soft fork activation client 32:26 Advocating for specific covenants 37:11 Privacy projects 42:43 Privacy adoption - 👉 Brought to you by Arch Network! Arch brings the speed of Solana & the best of crypto UX to Bitcoin. Tap into the rich app ecosystem on Arch & try out the testnet while you’re still early! Visit arch.network to learn more. - 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is produced Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This Bitcoin privacy advocate is leveraging Solana Digen traders to increase Bitcoin's anonymity set.
0:07.0	Yes, you heard that right.
0:09.0	I've got Janus of Lemon Drop joining me for Bitcoin Season 2 today on an episode we recorded a couple weeks ago at ETH Denver.
0:16.0	Bitcoin Season 2 is brought to you by Arch Network, the platform for building bridgeless apps on Bitcoin.
0:23.3	More on Arch later on in the show.
0:25.1	Let's kick it off.
0:32.3	Okay, I'm here with Janice in Denver, Colorado at the space.
0:38.3	Yeah.
0:39.3	Yonis is funny because I think my first introduction to you was as a small random account on Twitter.
0:44.3	Okay.
0:45.3	Because I was trying to wrap my head around the world of like Bitcoin L2s during the L2
0:51.3	explosion of like a year or two ago, and you were the only coherent people.
0:56.1	Why in the world were you, one of the few people talking about this early on?
1:01.7	Okay, so like, I really care about anonymous payments, and I think blockchains in general
1:08.2	are only really useful for that, like censorship resistant payments.
1:13.9	And that includes things like,
1:15.6	for example, like ordinals, right?
1:16.8	Like you have the ability to like do these transactions.
1:18.9	Everyone runs this like software that they all like socially agree on.
1:21.7	And like that's like,
1:22.6	and you have the censorship resistance of the L1 to be able to do that.
1:25.8	And people can't stop you.
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