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February 12, 2024

Building Bitcoin-Native Banking Infrastructure at Galoy with Andrew Begin

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Show Notes

Andrew Begin is Director of Marketing at Galoy, a company building Bitcoin-native banking infrastructure for organisations.We talk about Galoy’s Bitcoin projects including the open-source Blink Wallet, made popular through Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador. I learn about the vision for the product as well as its Stablesats functionality and how this work.We discuss the power of communities taking ownership of their financial infrastructure, and the opportunities for grassroots Bitcoin adoption in Africa and Latin America. Finally we talk briefly about permaculture and regenerative farming and the connections with Bitcoin thinking.

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Andrew Begin on X - ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/agbegin
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Galoy - ⁠https://galoy.io/
Blink Wallet (Apple) - ⁠https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blink-bitcoin-beach-wallet/id1531383905⁠
Blink Wallet (Android) - ⁠https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.galoyapp&pli=1⁠
Stablesats - ⁠https://stablesats.com/⁠
The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka - ⁠https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Permaculture/The_One_Straw_Revolution.pdf
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual by Bill Mollison - ⁠https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381988⁠
Bitcoin Lake on X - ⁠https://twitter.com/bitcoinlake
Bitcoin Ekasi on X - ⁠https://twitter.com/BitcoinEkasi⁠
Bitcoin Beach on X - ⁠https://twitter.com/Bitcoinbeach
Joe Nakamoto on X - ⁠https://twitter.com/JoeNakamoto⁠

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