SLP355 Julie Landrum - Payments Infrastructure for the Bitcoin Standard
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Julie Landrum of OpenNode joins me to talk about what they’re building to help people onboard to Bitcoin & the lightning network as a payment standard. OpenNode first got its name as a merchant payment processor but we chat about how the company has grown and evolved over the years. We chat:
- Bitcoin infrastructure services for merchants, bitcoin companies
- Dealing with the cyclical nature of Bitcoin
- Spend, HODL, earn?
- Chargeback risk
- Dealing with regulatory requirements
- El Salvador adoption
- International adoption
Links:
- Twitter: @OpenNode
- Twitter: @juliecity
- Site: OpenNode.com
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- Hodl Hodl Lend
- Compass Mining
- Braiins.com
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- CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
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