Pirate Radio with SF | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 61

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth.

This week we're joined by SF, aka Pleb Royale, a designer and Noderunner from the Netherlands behind a pile of free Bitcoin art and Noderunners Radio, a listener-funded internet radio station where song requests are paid for in sats. SF talks us through his design background (BTCPay Server skins, the Bitcoin Focus magazine, logo work for Alex Gladstein and Andreas Antonopoulos, and the Noderunners logo that's spread right across the community) and how a group of friends running nodes in the Netherlands turned into one of Bitcoin's most dedicated grassroots scenes, including this year's Noderunners Conference held in Arnhem's old prison.

We get into how the station's jukebox evolved: built first by HeroVK as a Telegram bot controlling SF's Spotify, then rebuilt from the ground up with AI once he picked up a Claude subscription, and now running on self-hosted LNbits with its own seven-and-a-half-terabyte music library. Library tracks cost 21 sats as an anti-spam measure, Wavlake tracks run through a value-for-value lane where most of the 210 sats goes straight to the artist, and live DJ and band sets (streamed over RTMP) pool donations that only get split out once the set ends. Everything moved to self-custodial wallets to stay clear of EU rules around holding value, which is also why the old bot's leftover user balances are only now being unwound for withdrawal.

SF also sets out the station's manifesto, a push toward a real FM/AM broadcast that could carry the state of the Bitcoin network over the airwaves if the internet ever goes down, and the idea of musicians timestamping their work to the chain as proof of creation. He clears up a tweet aimed at Breez after Misty Breez broke in September (his post, Roy's reply): it wasn't the radio's backend failing, just bad timing trying out Liquid swaps right as the hack hit. Links: Noderunners Radio manifesto, Noderunners Conference, Pleb Royale, Pleb Projects, SF's GitHub, Bitcoin Fortune Cookie.

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