Blockchain YouTube Channels
Stephan Livera Podcast
Long-form Bitcoin-only interviews with an Austrian-economics tilt and unusually strong technical guests.
Livera is an Australian Bitcoin podcaster, formerly a finance professional, who has been running one of the most consistently substantive Bitcoin interview shows since 2018. The YouTube channel hosts the video versions and a backlog of clips. Two things distinguish it from the broader Bitcoin-podcast field: an explicit Austrian-economics editorial frame, and an unusual willingness to book genuinely technical guests and let them talk in detail.
Who it's for
Intermediate-to-advanced Bitcoiners who want long conversations with the people actually building the protocol, the wallet ecosystem, and the Lightning Network — and who don't mind that the host's economic frame is unapologetically Austrian. Particularly useful if you've already read Mastering Bitcoin or Mastering the Lightning Network and want to hear the authors and their collaborators talk through the same material.
What it does well
The technical guest list is the standout feature. Adam Back, Andrew Poelstra, Bryan Bishop, Pieter Wuille, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, Lisa Neigut, Christian Decker, and most of the Bitcoin Core and Lightning developer community have done long episodes on the show. Livera is technically competent enough to ask real questions and patient enough to let the guest answer, which is rarer than it should be.
The economics episodes are also good in their own register. The lineage from Mises and Hayek through to Bitcoin-as-sound-money is something Livera articulates carefully, and the episodes with Saifedean Ammous, Bob Murphy, Jeff Booth, and similar guests are some of the cleanest available versions of that argument.
Where it falls short
The editorial frame is narrow. If you don't share the Austrian-economics priors, parts of the show will feel like preaching to a tightly defined choir, and Livera generally doesn't book guests who would push back on those foundations.
The video production is also minimal — this is a podcast on YouTube, not a YouTube show. If you want visually engaging content, look elsewhere. But for substantive, technically literate, ideologically coherent Bitcoin interviews at length, it's one of the best feeds you can subscribe to.