Value Stack #38

RGB, Ordinals, and Bitcoin Development with Hunter Beast

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!

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