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Episode #160: Smart Contracts on Bitcoin with Alisia Painter of Botanix
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- Brazil Crypto Report
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- Aug 9, 2025
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🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! For today’s episode I’m joined by Alisia Painter, who is co-founder and COO of Botanix Labs — which has built a new bitcoin-based blockchain focused on powering the bitcoin economy. The Botanix mainnet launched on July 1 with the goal of bringing financial products to bitcoin via EVM-compatibility and smart contract programmability. Alisia’s journey into bitcoin began in Brazil in 2015 when she was working for a Brazilian company in Sao Paulo. She was receiving salary in BRL and discovered bitcoin as a way to protect herself against the depreciating currency while easily remitting funds back to her home country of Canada. That experience, and later time spent in Asia and Africa, shaped her bitcoin worldview and motivated her to pursue bringing financial use cases and products to bitcoin. Key Themes from Our Conversation: * Real-world bitcoin use cases : Unlike theoretical discussions, Alicia's perspective comes from seeing actual monetary instability and the urgent need for sound money in developing economies * The Spiderchain innovation : Botanix's unique proof-of-stake blockchain, built on top of Bitcoin's proof-of-work consensus, creates a decentralized network of multi-sigs that enables programmability while maintaining bitcoin's core principles * Cultural shift in bitcoin : The ETF approval has fundamentally changed who bitcoiners are - from hardcore HODLers to mainstream investors buying on Robinhood who want to put their bitcoin to work * EVM equivalence on bitcoin : Developers can copy-paste battle-tested smart contracts from Ethereum directly onto Botanix, bringing DeFi's entire ec…