EP10: Learning (and Earning) with Lightning w/ Nate, Education and Support - Voltage

Builders In Bitcoin EP10: Learning (and Earning) with Lightning w/ Nate, Education and Support - Voltage, Co-Organizer - North Houston Bitcoin Club

I’m grateful to have had the chance to chat with Nate, North Houston Bitcoin Club co-organizer and man of many hats at Voltage. Following your passion and leveraging your skill set like Nate has to help Bitcoin grow is definitely an example worth following.

In this episode, we discuss and dig into:
- Nate’s journey into Bitcoin and his role at Voltage
- tips for maximizing the impact of your Lightning node
- why Nate started a second Houston-based meetup
- and a lot more…

0:00 Intro
3:18 Joining a Bitcoin-focused company
9:08 Proof of work
10:51 Finding Voltage
13:11 What is Voltage?
14:37 Nate’s role at Voltage
17:19 How Voltage makes money
23:00 Yield on Lightning
30:35 How much can a good node earn?
32:07 Zero-fee routing
33:54 Spinning up a world-class Lightning node
39:09 Lightning/Bitcoin tooling
40:51 North Houston Bitcoin Club
44:46 Where to find Nate
46:46 Outro

Resources:
Voltage: https://voltage.cloud
Amboss: https://amboss.space/
North Houston Bitcoin Club: https://www.meetup.com/north-houston-bitcoin-meetup/

Nate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/beeforbacon1
Rod on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitkite
Builders In Bitcoin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/buildersinbtc

To learn more about Bitcoin Park, please visit and join: https://bitcoinpark.co and/or join our Discord where we are most active: https://discord.gg/YZ8x7mfFKj

And a massive thank you to:
- Producer - Tom Maxwell https://twitter.com/tomjmaxwell
- Theme Composer - Max Wellington https://twitter.com/immaxwellington