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This is the 31st episode of the Lightning Junkies podcast. In this episode we have Ben Arc! Ben is known for working on hardware projects such as a Bitcoin ATM and Lightning Network Point of Sale devices. With a background in tech, he has been working to educate people on the benefits of using your own hardware as well as how to do it.

We talk about:

• Ben’s Background
  
• Ad Blockers
  
• The Education System
  
• Hardware Projects
  
  • There are different ways to integrate hardware into the bitcoin ecosystem. One thing that Ben has worked on is a small candy machine that will dispense the candy once you have paid a lighting invoice.
    
• M5Stack Projects
  
• Bitcoin ATM
  
• Casa, Mynode, Open Node
  
• Raspberry Pi Used as Nodes
  
• Contributing to Bitcoin
  

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