RGB, Ordinals, and Bitcoin Development with Hunter Beast | Value Stack 38

Hunter Beast is a freedom-lover and Rust developer focused on building with Bitcoin layers. He's also Director of Engineering at DIBA, where they're building a marketplace for digital art on Bitcoin and Bitcoin only, but using the RGB Contracts Layer and BDK instead of Ordinals. He is also architecting a decentralized storage system called Carbonado to store content for DIBA's Unique Digital Assets that's trustless, paid in Lightning, and encrypts all data using Nostr keys. In this episode, we talk about developing on bitcoin, why code and free speech are important, I, NFTS, and so many other topics. This is a bit more of a technical discussion than most episodes, so enjoy the banter and subscribe so you don't miss an episode! ____________________________________ Follow Hunter on Twitter Check out BitMask Wallet Support the show here, or by listening to the podcast directly on Fountain app! ____________________________________ Chapters 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:00 Bitcoin origin story 00:05:10 Selling vs spending bitcoin 00:07:10 DDOS attacks 00:07:50 Political views on career & money 00:09:10 Risk taking vs risk aversion 00:10:15 Information asymmetry in programming 00:14:23 The best way to learn anything 00:17:00 On AI replacing traditional education; hands-on learning vs memorization 00:18:47 Extracurricular activity 00:23:00 Why free speech matters 00:28:50 Why Rust programming language? 00:30:27 Evils of inefficient web technologies 00:32:00 Ordinals (Index) vs RGB 00:39:00 Bitmask wallet 00:48:10 RGB vs Ordinals from end-user standpoint 00:54:00 Don't shitcoin - it's bad for you 01:00:04 Human species' trajectory 01:03:40 Economics of energy 01:08:00 Bitcoin includes everything 01:19:18 Carbonado 01:28:53 Saifedean Ammous will get you fired 01:35:27 Bitcoin is good for your health 01:40:45 Outro