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Bitcoin Audible
Bitcoin Audible
Guy Swann

The Best in Bitcoin made Audible. Guy Swann makes the knowledge of Bitcoin, the world's most secure, independent money, accessible to everyone. Exploring... more

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Episodes

Read_736 - Is Your Money Safe during the Banking Crisis, Part 1 [Brad Mills]

"Price inflation is the highest it’s been in decades. Labor participation is the lowest it’s been in decades. Wealth inequality... more

02 Jun 2023 · 56 minutes
Read_735 - When Bitcoin Meets AI [Svetski]

"The idea of a language user interface as the next step from the thumb tapping we’ve become used to over... more

01 Jun 2023 · 1 hour, 1 minute
Chat_80 - Building the Ark with Burak

With the Introduction of Ark, the new 2nd layer payments and privacy protocol introduced with Read_734. I left with a... more

01 Jun 2023 · 1 hour, 26 minutes
Basics_07 - The Basics of Key Management

This episode will be part review, and part just going over some very practical, step by step ways to think... more

26 May 2023 · 44 minutes
Read_734 - Introducing Ark [Burak]

"Ark is a trustless, distinct layer two protocol with unilateral exit. ASPs cannot steal users’ funds or link senders &... more

25 May 2023 · 42 minutes
Read_733 - Mint the Future With Taproot Assets [Ryan Gentry]

"an unbounded number of assets can be minted and/or moved in a single on-chain transaction. This off-chain first design enables... more

23 May 2023 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
FEATURING - AI Unchained_001 - A New Frontier, with Jeff Booth

Welcome to the first episode of AI Unchained, a new show exploring how AI technology can be a means of... more

16 May 2023 · 1 hour, 35 minutes
Read_732 - We Need More Apps With Lightning, Not More Lightning Apps [Roy Sheinfeld]

"Permission can only be denied if it is requested. Direct, peer-to-peer interaction obviates permission and equalizes market power. Don’t request... more

12 May 2023 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
Read_731 - Let's Grow Nostr [Jack Spirko]

"The biggest complaint members of my audience make about Nostr is the sheer dominance of Bitcoin content. This is understandable. Nostr uses... more

11 May 2023 · 24 minutes
Read_730 - High Fees? Bitcoin is Working as Designed [Matt Odell]

"Bitcoin transaction fees limit network abuse by making usage expensive. There is a cost to every transaction, set by a... more

10 May 2023 · 34 minutes
Read_729 - BRICS, USD, and a Multipolar World [James Lavish]

"This very dominance is causing certain countries to seek a way to be less dependent on the USD and the... more

09 May 2023 · 50 minutes
Read_728 - Who Controls Bitcoin Core [Jameson Lopp]

"The question of who controls the ability to merge code changes into Bitcoin Core’s GitHub repository tends to come up on a recurring... more

06 May 2023 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Guy's Take #66 - Pooping in the Park

Bitcoin is a public good. The maintenance and stewardship of the network rests on the conviction and work of 10s... more

03 May 2023 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
Read_727 - The Banking Crisis Stays, & the Treasury is Broke [Nik Bhatia, Joe Consorti]

"The fall of First Republic Bank was the second-largest bank failure by assets in US history, putting us in the... more

03 May 2023 · 39 minutes
Read_726 - The Nostr Privacy Paradox [L0LA L33TZ]

"If Tor is an anonymous remailer, meaning a protocol facilitating the anonymous forwarding and receiving of messages between peers, Nostr... more

02 May 2023 · 1 hour, 8 minutes
Read_725 - Operation Choke Point 2.0 is Underway [Nic Carter]

"Banks are highly regulated public-private partnerships in an environment where new charters are excruciatingly hard to obtain, and as such... more

27 Apr 2023 · 1 hour, 46 minutes
Read_724 - The Virtue of Selfishness - The Objectivist Ethic [Ayn Rand]

"The title of this book may evoke the kind of question that i hear once in a while: "Why do... more

26 Apr 2023 · 1 hour, 52 minutes
Read_723 - Alchemy - Everything Divided By 21 Million [Knut Svanholm]

"Central Banking is successful alchemy in this sense. The money- issuing institutions of the world have found a way to... more

24 Apr 2023 · 34 minutes
Read_722 - Purple Text, Orange Highlights [Dergigi]

"I believe that in the open /attention/ information economy we find ourselves in, value will mostly derive from effective curation,... more

19 Apr 2023 · 1 hour, 6 minutes
Read_721 - IMF Unveils New Global Currency "Universal Monetary Unit" [Tyler Durden]

"Can you imagine a world in which you are restricted from buying meat for a while because you have already... more

18 Apr 2023 · 52 minutes
Basics_06 - The Lightning Network

The Lightning Network finally strikes in this Bitcoin Basics episode! Now that we understand the fundamentals of keys, wallets, transactions,... more

14 Apr 2023 · 1 hour, 24 minutes
Read_720 - A History of Bitcoin Maximalism [Jameson Lopp]

"This was how more mainstream Bitcoin culture degraded from intellectual expressions of ideas (2017-era debates) to tribal recreations of the... more

13 Apr 2023 · 2 hours, 20 minutes
Read_719 - All You Can Hold for Five Bucks [Joseph Mitchell]

"“In the old days they didn’t even use tables and chairs. They sat on beer crates and ate off the... more

11 Apr 2023 · 43 minutes
Read_718 - Bitcoin Does Not Waste Electricity [Beautyon_}

"Of all the objections to Bitcoin, the objection that it “wastes” electricity is the most absurd. This thinking betrays a... more

06 Apr 2023 · 50 minutes
Read_717 - How To Wreck a Big Old GSIB [DeepThroatIPO]

"Generally, what we’re talking about here is unregulated (or lightly regulated), uninsured investors, LLCs, Funds and privately controlled “Shadow Banking”... more

06 Apr 2023 · 1 hour, 39 minutes
Guy's Take #65 - Banks, Digital Money, and a Cat

Prices are relative, Bitcoin is infinitely scalable, stability for the sake of stability is undesirable, maximal instability in prices maximizes... more

04 Apr 2023 · 1 hour, 52 minutes
Read_716 - How to Fix Banking & Money - PBDC vs CBDC [El Gato]

"and the uniparty is in strong agreement here. both know that losing control of the money and the banks is... more

01 Apr 2023 · 44 minutes
Read_715 - Clear and Present Danger [Joel Bowman]

"Thus was the dubious “clear and present danger” standard born. Holmes himself sought to redefine the standard later that same... more

31 Mar 2023 · 40 minutes
Basics_05 - The Node

Bitcoin is ultimately just a piece of software, the network – the global, censorship resistant, immutable system – is ultimately... more

30 Mar 2023 · 1 hour, 24 minutes
Read_714 - Bitcoin's Meme Wars [DerGigi]

"The question that the fiat system answers is the following: who is allowed to counterfeit currency, and how much? Further,... more

27 Mar 2023 · 1 hour, 16 minutes
Read_713 - How the Fed "Went Broke" [Lyn Alden]

"The financial system in the United States, and for most of the rest of the world for that matter, can... more

23 Mar 2023 · 46 minutes
Chat_79 - The Spirit of Bitcoin with John Vallis

I joined John today for an over 2 hour rip on the nature of Bitcoin, numerous technical developments, the trade... more

22 Mar 2023 · 2 hours, 29 minutes
Guy's Take #64 - No Way Back, Only a Way Out

There is no magic wand. There is no such thing as a free lunch. When we bail out an institution,... more

20 Mar 2023 · 1 hour, 11 minutes
Read_712 - Lightning Prisms [DerGigi]

"One aspect that is still massively under-utilized is the programmability of Bitcoin. While simple things like scheduled payments and automated... more

17 Mar 2023 · 58 minutes
Read_711 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 2 [Matthew Pines]

"One immediate lesson many drew from this event was a reconsideration of the risk of fiat liabilities in an environment... more

16 Mar 2023 · 1 hour, 21 minutes
Read_710 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 1 [Matthew Pines]

"The 20th century was the first where technology enabled forms of violent state competition, as well as peaceful globalization, across... more

14 Mar 2023 · 53 minutes
Read_709 - The Breez Open LSP Model

"Lightning is the way to make bitcoin the universal mainstream currency it was designed to be. This is how we’re... more

10 Mar 2023 · 46 minutes
Read_708 - Implications of Open Monetary & Information Networks, Part 2 [Lyn Alden]

"Over the long run, I view the outcome, one way or the other, more as a matter of technology than politics. From the top-down side, there... more

08 Mar 2023 · 43 minutes
Read_707 - Implications of Open Monetary and Information Networks, Part 1 [Lyn Alden]

"For proponents of privacy and open networks to win becomes a matter of making the technology easy to use, too costly to stamp out, and well-understood... more

07 Mar 2023 · 41 minutes
Read_706 - The Depression You've Never Heard of, 1920-21 [Robert P Murphy]

"This context highlights the importance of the 1920–1921 depression. Here the government and Fed did the exact opposite of what... more

04 Mar 2023 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
Read_705 - Bitcoin's Full Potential Valuation [Croesus]

"But for me, when I think about what Bitcoin’s properties are as a store-of-value asset and then compare those properties... more

02 Mar 2023 · 1 hour, 21 minutes
Read_704 - The Three Generations Theory [Aleks Svetski]

"People are very quick to project technology adoption curves onto Bitcoin. But the problem is that Bitcoin is not just a technology.... more

01 Mar 2023 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
Chat_78 - To Nostropolis & Beyond! with BitKarrot

I recently had an awesome two-hour marathon chat about P2P social media with BitKarrot from the Nostrovia podcast. We chatted... more

27 Feb 2023 · 1 hour, 54 minutes
Basics_04 - Wallets & Transactions

Hot wallets, cold wallets, hardware wallets, custodial wallets, lightning wallets, holy crap! What does all of this mean and how... more

24 Feb 2023 · 1 hour, 6 minutes
Chat_77 - NVK on Stone Cold Storage in a Fiat World

Nostr, OP_VAULT, decentralized media, privacy, the incredible progress of the past few years, the challenges of making Bitcoin hardware, why... more

21 Feb 2023 · 2 hours, 2 minutes
Read_703 - The Banks Are So F**ked – [Callebtc]

"Here is a little story of how I built a #Bitcoin Lightning payments app used by more than 10,000 users... more

21 Feb 2023 · 1 hour, 1 minute
Basics_03 - Keys, Everything You Need to Know

Not your keys, not your coins. What does this mean? Your Bitcoin keys are literally the keys to the kingdom. They... more

18 Feb 2023 · 46 minutes
Read_702 - FediPools as a Solution to Centralization Risk [Marty Bent]

"If Fedipools prove to be viable we could find ourselves in a world where bitcoin mining pool centralization risk is... more

17 Feb 2023 · 40 minutes
Read_701 - Lightning for Everyone in Every App [Roy Sheinfeld]

"This is the end of Lightning as a niche technology and the beginning of Lightning as a (ubiquitous) Service. In a... more

15 Feb 2023 · 1 hour, 6 minutes
Read_700 - The Race to Avoid the War [Cory Klippsten]

"Furthermore, when Bitcoiners develop privacy and scaling technology for Bitcoin, we make it substantially more challenging for anti-coiners to make... more

13 Feb 2023 · 57 minutes
Read_699 - What is Nostr? How Does it Work? And Why Does it Matter? [BTCtimes}

One thing to make abundantly clear: Nostr is a protocol. It’s a set of rules that servers and clients use to communicate... more

11 Feb 2023 · 46 minutes
Basics_02 - Hashes & Proofs of Work

In order to truly understand why Bitcoin works, we must understand a fundamental tool that operates at basically every level... more

10 Feb 2023 · 58 minutes
Read_698 - An Orange Pill for Bitcoiners [Austin Herbert]

"But, I keep coming to the same conclusion: We are here for this movement. We are here to build a... more

07 Feb 2023 · 1 hour, 6 minutes
Read_697 - The Trillion Dollar Coin, Genius or a Joke? [James Lavish]

"To wit, we have raised the debt limit 22 times from 1997 to 2022. Yep, we’ve raised the limit 22 times... more

06 Feb 2023 · 1 hour, 10 minutes
Keet AMA - Twitter Spaces on January 30th

Mathias and Paolo join us for a Twitter Spaces AMA to answer all of your questions about this cutting-edge technology.... more

02 Feb 2023 · 2 hours,
Chat_76 - Keet, The Next Level

WEN MOBILE!? No more do we have to ask because Keet mobile has finally arrived! Download from the App Store... more

31 Jan 2023 · 1 hour, 36 minutes
Read_696 - Currencies Today are "IOU Nothings" [John Exter]

"Today no money in the world fully performs all three services. National currencies are being used as means-of-payment and standard-of-value... more

27 Jan 2023 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
Basics_01 - Bitcoin... What is it?

Sure, everyone tells me that bitcoin is a new technology. That it's magic money for the internet and tokens you... more

26 Jan 2023 · 1 hour, 1 minute
Read_695 - Central Banks are Inflation Creators, Not Inflation Fighters [Josh Hendrikson]

"All of this is important because there has been a resurrection of Burns-type positions in the current debate about the... more

24 Jan 2023 · 58 minutes
Read_694 - Locked Out of My Digital Life [edent]

"Last night, lightning struck our house and burned it down. I escaped wearing only my nightclothes. In an instant, everything... more

24 Jan 2023 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Read_693 - Lightning & The Airport Analogy [Danny Scott]

"But as with all new technology, it can be incredibly hard to explain what’s actually happening, without getting too complex.... more

19 Jan 2023 · 30 minutes
Guy's Take #63 - Anatomy of a Scam, The IMF and World Bank Empire

Today we break into the racket that is the IMF and World Bank monetary imperialism. Piggy backing off Gladstein's remarkable... more

19 Jan 2023 · 1 hour, 15 minutes
Read_692 - A Quick & Dirty Explanation [DerGigi]

"Bitcoin is paradoxical. It is simple yet complicated, ever-changing yet unchangeable. A novel machine without any novel parts; a technological... more

17 Jan 2023 · 29 minutes
Read_691 - A Native Protocol for Social Media [Jack Dorsey]

The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimately puts... more

13 Jan 2023 · 1 hour, 15 minutes
Reboot - The Use of Knowledge in Society [F.A. Hayek]

Bringing back one of my favorites today that I mention often but we haven't covered in a very long time.... more

11 Jan 2023 · 44 minutes
Guy's Take #62 - Dear Peter Zeihan...

How much economic ignorance can you fit into 1 minute and 54 seconds? Well apparently its quite a lot. Peter... more

10 Jan 2023 · 1 hour, 24 minutes
Read_690 - Bitcoin is Not a Hedge [Parker Lewis]

"Bitcoin is not a hedge against inflation; it is the permanent solution to inflation, and those are two very different... more

07 Jan 2023 · 1 hour, 55 minutes
Read_689 - The Rediscovery of Money [dergigi]

"If your money requires permission to be spent, it is not your money. If your money has counterparty risk, it... more

05 Jan 2023 · 32 minutes
Read_688 - The Chaffening [Aristophanes]

"So they fire out digital chaff frantically in every direction, they play whack-a-mole with high-engagement nodes that are or could... more

04 Jan 2023 · 1 hour, 22 minutes
Green Eggs and Ham - Decentralized Finance, the Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

"This is the root of our cultural concern for crypto DeFi. The cultural, and arguably even structural, commitment to financialization... more

03 Jan 2023 · 1 hour, 57 minutes
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Read_689 - The Rediscovery of Money [dergigi]
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"If your money requires permission to be spent, it is not your money. If your money has counterparty risk, it is not... more