What is capital, really? And what happens when Bitcoin forces a repricing of everything we think we know about it? In... more

"Not your keys, not your coins."I posit that the corollary to this principle is:'Your keys, only your coins.' A quantum capable... more

Bitcoin’s strength lies in its core properties—trust minimization, decentralization, censorship resistance, and more. But what exactly defines these principles, and... more

In this episode of Bitcoin Audible, I revisit an important concept that deserves more attention: timeout trees and their potential... more

"The last thing we should want to do is the government to print up a bunch of money, which steals... more

What if your heating system could pay you in Bitcoin? In this episode, I read an article exploring the concept... more

Life has been hectic lately, but I didn’t want to leave you hanging! While I navigate the joys of parenthood,... more

Bitcoiners having babies, P2P protocols, Bitcoin price without third parties, mining problems and solutions, stable coins coming back to Bitcoin,... more

Nicholas Dorier brings us a short piece that is very relevant to many of our challenges today, being clear and... more

Did you know that the value and utility of Bitcoin can be trivially duplicated? At least this is what the... more

Tired of app stores controlling what you download and who gets paid? What if there was a way to directly... more

I joined Knut Svanholm and Luke de Wolf on the Bitcoin Infinity Show to explore the fundamental role of money,... more

It's easy to complain about what hasn't happened yet or what problems are still to be solved. And it's also... more

I've wanted for a long time to understand how a DHT works, and how a P2P network is able to... more

In a past episode, I joined Steve Patterson and the host for what was supposed to be a discussion but... more

We are all addicted to digits. Fiat digits, loyalty points, social media likes, stock prices—everywhere we turn, someone is trying... more

"We've planted our orange flag in the ground. We've made it known this is a space where we will try to... more

"We owe it to ourselves." I truly hope you aren't so stupid as to believe this statement when it is uttered... more

Bitcoin adoption, political shifts, and the future of money - this roundtable gets into it all. How will stablecoins impact... more

What if exploitation and war weren't merely anomalies of human society, but there was something inherent to the incentives of... more

Today, Ross Ulbricht breathes the free air again. What does the story of Ross Ulbricht reveal about justice, freedom, and... more

"The Bitcoin community possesses a unique advantage that will ultimately allow us to prevail: not only do we have skin... more

"That's a really cool aspect of the Bitcoin community and the nostr community as things are right now is most... more

In this episode of Bitcoin Audible, I read James O'Beirne's "Bitcoin Core’s Loss of Focus" and offer my perspective on its critical... more

While impatiently waiting for my Jade Plus I started digging into the Jade docs and found a unique idea for... more

"Our philosophy with building Pubky was, all right, we're not going to say never on a server. We're going to... more

What happens when the Fed's one tool for controlling inflation, stops working? The conditions in the market and in our... more

Roger Ver went on tucker carlson recently to discuss how the government infiltrated Bitcoin development, took over the protocol, and... more

"Bitcoin is anti-fragile it secures $2 trillion worth of value currently and there's a huge monetary incentive to maintain that... more

"Imagine waking up in a world where every piece of information you encounter is carefully filtered by faceless algorithms. Your... more

"Bitcoin is the most potent device ever invented for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient. Be patient." —... more

"This was one of my early objections to Bitcoin is that "Well, everything gets hacked eventually", right? Everything has some... more

December brings with it a return to the glory days of FUD. Blackjack has done the unthinkable, and the 21... more

"Ecash got reintroduced with the two open source projects Fedimint and Cashu. In my opinion, the main reason for this... more

"The payment network has no value if your asset is not desirable. Like this is not, you cannot have this,... more

"There are so many reasons to be interested in peer-to-peer. You can be interested in it for resilience, because there... more

"Ossification is complacency. Yes, we all agree that Bitcoin is great. But _I do not agree_ that Bitcoin has reached its full... more

"Ossification is complacency. Yes, we all agree that Bitcoin is great. But _I do not agree_ that Bitcoin has reached its full... more

"On nostr we have maybe a couple hundred thousand users who are active, but all all those users are holding... more

"Imagine a sports game where different players are motivated by distinct incentives, defenders aiming to pull the ball outside the... more

Guy's Roundtable gets together for another awesome breakdown. Covering all the happenings this month: Trump wins the election, new bitcoin... more

"This is also an interesting case study in how Bitcoin resists duplication. You can create something which looks cosmetically similar... more

"Panic is rising. Bitcoin, the way out of their giant Ponzi scheme, does not want to die, but the survival... more

"Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing."— Ron Swanson Focus. Easily spoken, hard to live by. There are many lessons that... more

"There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and in the grand tradition of... more

"Once you understand the economic situation of the United States and how they're in a debt spiral, there's only one... more

"How could any financial system avoid being captured by those who already hold the most power and wealth? Won’t it just... more

In this previous episode of Final Settlement, I joined the show to tackle custodial threat vectors and the security challenges... more

"The server owns your data, owns your account, and owns the cryptographic keys used to secure it. That last bit is... more

How will governments respond to the growing threat of decentralized money, and what are the implications for individual freedom and... more

Was a recent break-in at a luxurious hotel just a coincidence, or a targeted attack on a Bitcoiner? We should... more

"The market of bitcoin holders will ultimately expand to be larger than the size of any single country, and direct... more

In a episode of TFTC, I sat down with Marty Bent to break down the reality behind the hurricanes devastating... more

"A victory in revolution doesn’t come free or easy. For Bitcoin to really do what many of us hope it... more

You've likely been fed the narrative that inflation stimulates spending, benefits the economy, and that government expenditures have a profound... more

In this episode originally on THE Bitcoin Podcast, I had an intense and unfiltered conversation with Walker, where we dove... more

"These findings are notable because they demonstrate that even though the strength of the correlation may vary based on the... more

Today we dive back into the Pear universe and catch up on the many recent changes, updates to apps we've... more

It's here! We are back for the second Roundtable!! What do Coinbase and the Blackrock debacle, paper Bitcoin, the difference... more

"Everybody's acting as nothing happened. And in Germany, it was so brutal. We had two lockdowns. Each was 6 and... more

"Stablecoins are acting in a way where they're bottoms up becoming a country. Countries are trying to reason with it,... more

"Sadly, there has been very little in the way of a clear definition of MEV in the context of Bitcoin.... more

"I’m not asking you to fight the Beast of Big Politics, Big Tech and Big Media. Honestly I don’t know how... more

"Sometimes your gut feelings lead you astray—particularly in mathematics, in which one constantly comes across results that seem impossible... There... more

"If we leave Bitcoin as it is, it’s a new money for the 1%. The 1% can absolutely hold their... more

"Using the COLDCARD Mk4 is pretty straightforward. Yet, what goes on under the hood is far from obvious. Technical documentation,... more

Sometimes life will make you feel stuck, it will wear you down and gaslight you into believing you have made... more

"Dark merchants would never use Lightning, right? Because well, you need a node ID, an entity... Versus Ark, you're not... more

"An argument for doing a consensus cleanup soft-fork first, prior to enabling any new opcodes or other features for new... more

"Lightning achieved a many-to-one mapping of transactions to transactions... But creating even a single UTXO per user is, arguably, not good enough.... more

It's Here! Today I am thrilled to introduce the first episode of Guy's Roundtable. I've assembled a group of OG... more

Is the Bitcoin-Dollar theory a path to salvation or destruction for the US currency? Stablecoin issuers have become major buyers... more

"It’s been amazingly freeing because I don’t worry about my investments, mostly because I don’t have very many. I’m on... more

"The end result was a historical wealth transfer from regular Americans to a handful of billionaires. This wealth transfer, which... more

"The government is more than half of the economy. They control everything.What this new battleground is showing is that in... more

"The Fed, knowingly or not, is basically in charge of the global financial system. They may shout, “We raise rates... more

"The government and the corporate environment so desperately want us to centralize so they can they can have total surveillance... more

"In fact, this is the key feature that re-energized me toward Nostr a second time after my initial experience with... more

"It would be wrong to think of Cypherpunks as a formal group. It's more a gathering of those who share... more

"My thinking is always resilience. How did I make Proton resilient? And the conclusion I came to after thinking about... more

"Lightning has already achieved a critical mass. It’s already obvious how a Cashu subnetwork and Fedimint subnetworks will communicate with... more

"Historically, what do nations do when they're on a gold standard and they need to fight a war? They just... more

Is Trump's speech at Bitcoin 2024 a sign of genuine support or just typical political pandering? Today we explore the... more

"Something else has to go down in order for something to go up. That's why it is specifically a relative... more

It's time to accept some hard truths. Today we are going to challenge some common assumptions about Bitcoin's scalability, privacy,... more

"I really wanted to screen share stuff with people and make it as easy as possible and I got fed... more

"Only the giant corporations are gonna have this and anybody less than a billion dollars, these won't exist. And that... more

"The former Speaker predicts "The dollar will suffer a major confidence shock” and as a result asks, “What can be... more

"Much like the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders program has facilitated the placement of its trained, ideological allies in... more

"You eliminate 99% of the attack surface to a single moment in time, which is the beginning. And when you... more

"Submarine Swaps employ hash time-locked contracts (HTLCs), which in layperson’s terms, enable two transactions (both sides of the swap) to... more

"Whatever your setup is for storing the majority of your bitcoin - be it hot or cold, online or offline,... more

"When you have a child, you care more than anyone else about that child. You're caring about their long-term success... more

"Joltz is one company that is actively building the necessary infrastructure to support this interoperability. By developing an SDK that... more

In a world where centralized platforms dominate, can peer-to-peer systems make a comeback? Today we explore the details of P2P... more

This chat episode is a riveting conversation which was originally featured on The Staying Free Podcast with my friend jonnyhodl.I... more

"China’s current ways to censor the Internet are to block connections from IP servers serving content and block protocol-level attempts,... more

"The most powerful thing that Bitcoin did was establish a monetary foundation, a monetary policy that was not alterable through a... more

"The last point is crucial — users can withdraw their Ark funds at any time, even if their ASP goes... more

Is deflation always a bad thing, or have we misunderstood its true impact on the economy? Join me as I... more

"Educating the world about bitcoin has succeeded in building a community of knowledgeable, dedicated, enthusiastic people from the fields of... more

"...that the lives and efforts of other men are not his property and are not there to serve his wishes.... more

"In NRA, the Court addressed a critical issue impacting not only traditional advocacy groups but any disfavored, but legal, industry.... more

What if the future of decentralization lies not just in Bitcoin, but in the convergence of a multitude of different... more

"Fedimint is a scalable self-custodial off-chain programmability layer on top of Bitcoin. It allows for use cases that are difficult, time-consuming,... more

People look around and they see a wasteful world. They see endless, mindless consumption. Increasingly, we see people fearing the... more

Ideas and ways of thinking are much like paths in the wood. When we explore them often they are well... more

"I believe that hole punch stack can be a really good alternative to static IPs. That way, for example, you want... more

"This capability ensures that participants can trust the system's integrity without the need for mutual trust among users. It fundamentally... more

"It is like exercising a veto you hold for anything and everything, and yes, vetoes are important in consensus systems.... more

"The U.S. Government spends in a budgetary deficit, then issues treasuries to pay for the spending, then, at a bigger... more

Today we dive into an amazing chat around the complexities and shifts in law enforcement in a world with Bitcoin,... more

In our inaugural episode of The Pear Report, it only felt right to bring Mafintosh and dmc onto the show... more

"We have the fork wars, we have a culture that understands the importance of nodes and widespread enforcement of a... more

"This is a fancy way of saying that you need money to make markets, and you need decentralized, open, digital... more

"I think Americans are used to seeing people arrested for bullshit technicalities and thrown in jail for long periods of... more

How close are we to realizing the dream of personal AI? Dive into the potential of small, efficient AI models... more

"The Samurai wallet developers have been arrested. The government has responded with their opposition to the motion of dismissal in... more

How can AI be harnessed to manage and enhance personal and professional digital interactions more effectively? In this episode of... more

"The internet assumed NOTHING and it won because it had the basic, robust, open building blocks upon which all the... more

"As we discussed in Entering the Bitcoin Renaissance, our last edition, Lightning Labs CEO and Co-Founder Elizabeth Stark told The Block, “a major... more

"What are we actually about? It's to an extent an open question. It's not like the Cypherpunks knew at all.... more

"I'm a Bitcoin skeptic. I'm not buying Bitcoin in 2024, even if it goes back to its recent all-time highs,... more

"If you care about your...country, read Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian economic school." ~ Renato Moicano With... more

Many people make the serious miscalculation, that if the CPI isn't too high, then printing money isn't a problem and... more

In today's episode of AI Unchained we dive into a plethora of new developments in Ai tailored hardware, the scope... more

"That dogma was necessary — without it the people who have built this ecosystem into what it is today wouldn’t... more

"On the face of it, Bitcoin’s existence seems to violate Mises’s theorem, unless a preceding non-monetary use can be demonstrated.... more

"Hedgehog uses relative time locks. So that if they don't have to worry about closing that channel with a relative... more

"It's going up forever, Laura." ~ Michael Saylor I know to many people that sounds crazy, and I can still see in... more

"People that are in the Western world and specifically in the United States, what they're realizing, whether they can say... more

"As I see it, humanity is at a turning point where we must either embrace a small handful of totalitarian... more

"We know the law is unconstitutional. FinCEN knows the law is unconstitutional. FinCEN knows we know the law is unconstitutional.... more

"You have to decide how to move forward. You have to decide what game you want to play; how much responsibility you... more

Today we delve into the leadership upheaval at Stability AI, Apple finally putting their cards on the table, the breadth... more

Guy Swann and Preston Pysh explore the dramatic shifts in global finance and the pivotal role of Bitcoin amidst rising... more

Fiat money has a collection of malincentives and consequences for the degrading and rotting of society. As we covered in... more

"The mechanisms enforcing this modern censorship are not confined to private sectors or individual platforms but are significantly directed and... more

"All around the nation there are toddlers plunked down in front of iPads being subjected to synthetic runoff, deprived of... more

"As far as I'm concerned, there's no obvious increased danger from the CCP having control over our access or our... more

"In a system that depends on irresponsible government spending (especially for perpetual war) and fiat printing to cover that irresponsibility,... more

"Bitcoin will probably crash again but it is neither a Ponzi scheme nor a bubble – it’s something far worse:... more

With the announcement of Devin, the "First AI Software Engineer" by Cognition Labs, some are calling it a breakthrough, while... more

"Of all measurement instruments, the clock is the most valuable because so many of the things we sacrifice to create... more

"From an engineering perspective the mechanical clock with its novelty, the escapement, was by far the more important invention. In... more

Advanced AI meets sustainable agriculture, opening a revolutionary pathway to food security. This episode brings Stephen Reisner from Potent Ponics... more

I'm sure you have heard the claim that without inflation and the good people running the counterfeit machine, people would... more

"Whether you're a rekt crypto bro or a friend of fiat, there is one thing that is especially difficult to... more

The only way to protect yourself from closed, surveilled AI tools, is to use the open and private alternatives. When... more

"It might feel as if the promised future is perpetually out of reach, but building Lightning is a lot like... more

"Izzy said there could be inflation in a hyperbitcoinized world. And she's right. Calm down, maxis, calm down! Explaining why... more

"I'm super confident that lightning is not just the present but also the future of lightning. It is the interoperability... more

"By the end of 2024, everyone will have tools easily available to them that will allow them to create any... more

"The foregoing considerations are by no means an exhaustive account of the cultural and spiritual legacy of fiat inflation. But... more

"During the peak transaction fee times over the past month, our example transaction would be dust even for .001 BTC.... more

We had an awesome chat on Twitter Spaces where we discuss the launch of Pear Runtime, bringing Paolo Arduino, Mathias... more

"For too long, the world has had to endure the fallout of subpar academic research on bitcoin mining’s energy use... more

"NWC is useful for far more than simply integrating Lightning into Nostr applications as well. The entire design philosophy of... more

We are diving into a discussion today with the creator of ParsePrompt on a perspective of where Ai can be... more

The main promise of quantum computing is the ability to solve problems far faster than classical computers, but exactly how... more

"One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet properties today looks... more

"Bitcoin wastes energy. You've heard it a million times. But what if its the exact opposite of the truth in... more

"One night during my visit to Bondo, Carl asked me to pause as the sunset was fading, to look at... more

"I think AI can make a lot of things better, and if you put them together, if you are aware... more

"To put it simply, there are now corporations with billions of dollars of investment in not just the asset, but... more

In today's chat we dive into destroying economic myths and unraveling the political divides of our time toward what future... more

"Bitcoin enables perhaps the most powerful mode of ownership ever devised; it would be akin to gold inside a safe... more

"It’s important to step outside of the hype and critically-analyze what is and is not useful. It’s very easy to... more

"Retrospectively, a lot of ex-DigiCash employees understand why Chaum was so paranoid.  As a cryptographer you have to assume the... more

Sometimes in life and the course of history, there are moments where simply stating the truth, in a clear and... more

"I hope Bitcoin sticks around and grows more popular, but in its current form to most in #TradFi it is... more

There are so many myths and misconceptions around AI models. What they can do, how they are trained, even the... more

"Part of the problem of Lightning’s shortcoming regarding scalability of Bitcoin ownership is that in order to open a channel,... more

There are a lot of speculation, claims, predictions, and accusations around the successes and faults of the Lightning Network. But... more

The legacy financial system has arrived. One January 10th, numerous Bitcoin ETFs were approved. But is this even a good... more

Today we explore the tools for voice changing ai and text-to-speech. What is Guy using, and what are the impacts... more

" Channel liquidity and offline receives, in my opinion, are the two most obvious reasons why self-custodial lightning is not... more

"The computers used to create valuable new Bitcoin tokens and validate transactions consume around the same amount of energy as... more

"Bitcoin appears to be a decentralized Ponzi scheme not a decentralized currency. People don't spend it because they want it... more

The models, the tools, the implementations, everything is moving incredibly fast. But a very interesting trend that I've been seeing, is... more

"Since 2017, bitcoin has been Stone Ridge’s treasury reserve asset because of my extreme aversion to risk. We run net... more

"This decision, which is legally sound, has the effect of declaring all private mortgages on real and personal property, and... more

“This makes Bitcoin miners uniquely symbiotic with energy grids serving as “demand response” partners. If energy is ever in short... more

"We’re less than a year from another halving, awaiting systemic implications from federal regulation and institutional adoption, standing at the... more

"You’re a thirsty bitch. You like to gargle Peter’s balls." ~ DeaterBob Merry Christmas! In this reboot episode, we revisit the... more

"There is a Remnant there that you know nothing about. They are obscure, unorganized, inarticulate, each one rubbing along as... more

"You got to go from proto banking to full service banking and then to central banking and you know interconnected... more

Ai is a powerful tool, and thus, necessarily comes with incredible risk. It could obsolete millions of workers, taking jobs... more

"Regulators will continue coming down on those custodians, making more demands for information, more demands on restrictions for what users... more

In this episode I dive into the ongoing shift from closed systems to open, permissionless digital realms, drawing parallels to... more

Today we dive into a few of my favorite tools for running LLMs locally on your machine, even the average... more

"I’ve done an overall analysis of the proposal by addressing seven different sections of where FinCEN is attempting to infringe... more

The principle that one should help men in an emergency cannot be extended to regard all human suffering as an... more

"Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write... more

"Many people insist that governments aren't involved in censorship, but they are. And now, a whistleblower has come forward with... more

"A reality check on the limitations of Lightning Network, and what that means in terms of its long term viability.... more

The free market works because economic decisions are made by people who have skin in the game. When you spend... more

Nodeless is dead. Long live Nodeless. Unfortunately the Nodeless payment service has had to shut down, but for anyone who... more

"Clients applying this reasoning should remember that, in bitcoin, no one is too big to fail. There is no government... more