{"id":15619,"date":"2021-07-16T20:25:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T20:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02884950f0002483"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:40:09","slug":"bitcoin-beach-special-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/technical\/bitcoin-beach-special-podcast","title":{"rendered":"The Bitcoin Beach Wallet Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"O_TmbV-sdkA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Bitcoin Beach Wallet - The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado - Bitcoin Magazine\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O_TmbV-sdkA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/O_TmbV-sdkA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Watch This Episode On YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listen To This Episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-van-wirdum-sjorsnado-the-technical-side-of-bitcoin\/id1532957243?i=1000529113603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/1xqwMVIIXBJG7OfnUJL6FG?si=Euy4remBTAyuP4oMb5cQrw&amp;dl_branch=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cDovL25hZG9idGMuYnRjLmxpYnN5bnByby5jb20vcnNz\/episode\/YWM5ZTc1ZDAtMmQ1Ni00ZTg4LTgwZjQtYzE0MDU2N2NmZWRj?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjAp4vYqejxAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Libsyn<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/+jXsQg5Gls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this episode of \u201cThe Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,\u201d host Aaron van Wirdum speaks with Bitcoin Beach Wallet developer Nicolas Burtey \u2014 without cohost Sjors Provoost this time. Van Wirdum and Burtey met up in El Zonte, El Salvador \u2014 which has been dubbed Bitcoin Beach \u2014 to discuss the Bitcoin Beach Wallet, a Bitcoin and Lightning wallet specifically designed for use in the small Central American coastal town frequented by surfers and, now, bitcoiners.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wirdum and Burtey discussed the pros and cons of custodial and non-custodial Lightning wallets, and Burtey explains why he opted to make the Bitcoin Beach Wallet a shared-custodial wallet, and what that means exactly.<\/p>\n<p>They go one to discuss some of the design decisions and tradeoffs that the Bitcoin Beach Wallet has made, which include ledger-based payments between Bitcoin Beach Wallet users as well as the webpage-based zero invoice payments to facilitate payments from other Lightning wallets. while Nicolas speculates about a potential cross-wallet user account system to further improve the Lightning user experience over time.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wirdum and Burtey also discuss some of the subtle incompatibilities between different Lightning wallets that use different techniques for routing payments, privacy considerations versus user experience in a community like El Zonte\u2019s and more.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of \u201cThe Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,\u201d host Aaron van Wirdum speaks with Bitcoin Beach Wallet developer Nicolas Burtey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":15620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[691,1367,543],"class_list":{"0":"post-15619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technical","8":"tag-bitcoin-beach","9":"tag-van-wirdum-sjorsnado","10":"tag-video"},"author_data":{"id":2520,"name":"Bitcoin Magazine","nicename":"bitcoin-magazine","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bitcoin-magazine-logo.jpeg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/van-wirdum-sjorsnado.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}