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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_859 - Ecash on Bitcoin

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

20 Dec 2024 · 55 minutes
Chat_121 - Surviving Bitcoin Adoption with Jack Spirko

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

18 Dec 2024 · 3 hours, 11 minutes
Chat_120 - How P2P is changing the Internet [Pears]

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

17 Dec 2024 · 2 hours, 7 minutes
Take_095 - When Should I Sell Bitcoin?

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

12 Dec 2024 · 49 minutes
Read_858 - On Ossification by Jameson Lopp

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

09 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 28 minutes
Chat_119 - Why Nostr Will Win with Miljan

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

04 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 34 minutes
Read_857 - Instant Settlement: The Construction Industry

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

02 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 21 minutes
Roundtable_004 - Nov 2024 - Trump, Hash Collisions, Court Rulings, Covenants, All Time Highs, and What We Don't Know

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

29 Nov 2024 · 2 hours, 14 minutes
Read_856 - It's the Settlement Assurances Stupid

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

27 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 31 minutes
Read_855 - The Great Capitulation

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

25 Nov 2024 · 46 minutes
Take_094 - Focus

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

20 Nov 2024 · 45 minutes
Read_854 - Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

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

19 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 12 minutes
Chat_118 - Reviving Resiliency, Autonomy, and Masculinity with the Bitcoin Vets

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

15 Nov 2024 · 2 hours, 12 minutes
Read_853 - Bitcoin Appeals to the Old System's Deepest Flaw

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

13 Nov 2024 · 50 minutes
Chat_117 - Bitcoin Threat Vectors on Final Settlement

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

08 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 22 minutes
Read_852 - Nature's Many Attempts to Evolve a Nostr

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

05 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 1 minute
Roundtable_003 - Oct 2024 - Elections, Faketoshi Sues Again, Taxess, and ECB Concerned about FaiRNeSs

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

01 Nov 2024 · 2 hours, 49 minutes
Guy's Take_093 - The Guy Who Broke into Our Room in Lugano

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

30 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 35 minutes
Read_851 - Bitcoin's Exchange Theory of Value

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

21 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 45 minutes
Chat_116 - Bitcoin Is Money For Heroes [TFTC]

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

18 Oct 2024 · 2 hours,
Read_850 - Three Doors, Which Will Bitcoin Choose?

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

16 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 33 minutes
Guy's Take_092 - Inflation Does One Thing

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

15 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 1 minute
Chat_115 - FEMA, Fiat, & The Cancer of Government - RANDOM RANT [THE Bitcoin Podcast]

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

11 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 10 minutes
Read_849 - A Global Liquidity Barometer

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

09 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 19 minutes
TPR_005 - Updates from the Pear World

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

07 Oct 2024 · 33 minutes
Guy's Roundtable_002 - Conbase, Control, The Nature of Privacy, and Decentralized Mining

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

04 Oct 2024 · 2 hours, 27 minutes
Chat_114 - Breaking Out of the Fiat Mind with Tanja Bächle

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

02 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 20 minutes
Chat_113 - China's Surveillance State, CBDC's, Shifting Paradigms, and the Bitcoin Wildcard with Roger Huang

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

25 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 58 minutes
Read_848 - Stop Calling it MEV

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

24 Sep 2024 · 46 minutes
Read_847 - This is the Great Ravine

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

22 Sep 2024 · 53 minutes
Read_846 - Three Strangest Paradoxes of Mathematics

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

16 Sep 2024 · 56 minutes
Chat_112 - Consensus Problems with ReardenCode

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

13 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 46 minutes
Read_845 - Understanding The COLDCARD Mk4 Security Model

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

11 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 16 minutes
Guy's Take_091 - The Path of Greatest Pain

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

10 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
Chat_111 - Brollups, Ark 2.0, and 1000 tps with Burak

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

08 Sep 2024 · 2 hours, 3 minutes
Read_844 - Soft Fork, Covenant Review - Part 2

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

04 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 51 minutes
Read_843 - Soft Fork, Covenant Review - Part 1

"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

04 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 44 minutes
Guy's Roundtable_001 - 85% Bitcoin Tax, Bitaxe, Big Banks, and a Shitcoin Trojan Horse

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

30 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 54 minutes
Guy's Take_090 - What if Bitcoin Saves the Dollar?

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

29 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 48 minutes
Read_842 - BTC investing vs BTC Standard

"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

27 Aug 2024 · 41 minutes
Read_841 - Trump Embraces the “Bitcoin-Dollar”

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

24 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 9 minutes
Chat_110 - The Global Monetary Rebellion [Swan Signal]

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

21 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 16 minutes
Read_840 - Godzilla Returns

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

20 Aug 2024 · 58 minutes
Chat_109 - Bitcoin, Privacy, Sovereignty and the Future with Daniel Prince [Once Bitten!]

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

16 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 33 minutes
Read_839 - The Power of Nostr

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

14 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 48 minutes
Read_838 - Crypto Rebels

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

12 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 24 minutes
Chat_108 - Private Email & Unstoppable Money with Andy from Protonmail

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

07 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 12 minutes
Read_836 - Lightning is the Common Language of Bitcoin

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

06 Aug 2024 · 40 minutes
Chat_107 - Government Out of Control w/ Dave Smith, Luke Gromen & Mark Moss [BTC24]

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

01 Aug 2024 · 41 minutes
Guy's Take_089 - Trump Speaks at Bitcoin2024

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

29 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 34 minutes
Chat_106 - Bitcoin Stream Test #133 [Meme Factory™]

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

24 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 15 minutes
Guy's Take_088 - The Hard Truth

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

22 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 31 minutes
TPR_004 - Monetizing Freedom - Ostriches, Pears, and Open Source Challenges with BitKarrot

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

19 Jul 2024 · 2 hours, 31 minutes
Chat_105 - Bitcoin and AI [The Investor's Podcast Network]

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

17 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 51 minutes
Read_835 - Chain of Custody Part 2 - X Marks the Spot

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

16 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 31 minutes
Read_834 - Chain of Custody - The Mafia Holding the Elite's Bitcoin

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

12 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 22 minutes
Chat_104 - Immutable Democracy with Carlino

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

10 Jul 2024 · 2 hours, 28 minutes
Read_833 - Between Bitcoin Layers - Boltz Builds Trustless Transfers

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

08 Jul 2024 · 48 minutes
Read_832 - Protect Your Bitcoin From $5 Wrench Attacks

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

06 Jul 2024 · 44 minutes
Chat_103 - Rethinking Bitcoin Education and Self-Custody Parenting

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

04 Jul 2024 · 2 hours, 46 minutes
Read_831 - Lightning Alliance to Accelerate Adoption

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

02 Jul 2024 · 49 minutes
TPR Read_001 - Pear Updates and P2P Systems

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

29 Jun 2024 · 1 hour, 38 minutes
Chat_102 - The Ethics of Libertarianism [The Staying Free Podcast]

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

26 Jun 2024 · 2 hours, 29 minutes
Read_830 - How Bitcoin Thrived Through the China Ban

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

25 Jun 2024 · 56 minutes
Chat_101 - The Bitcoin Civil War is Over! with Guy Swann [Anarchast]

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

19 Jun 2024 · 3 hours, 14 minutes
Read_829 - Seamless and Scalable Bitcoin Payments

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

17 Jun 2024 · 41 minutes
Guy's Take_087 - Credit, Burning Cash, and Real Growth

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

13 Jun 2024 · 58 minutes
Read_828 - Orange Pilling Has Stopped Working

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

10 Jun 2024 · 52 minutes
Read_827 - The Conflict of Men's Interests

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

09 Jun 2024 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
Read_826 - The Supreme Court Ruling and Implications for Operation Choke Point

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

06 Jun 2024 · 51 minutes
Read_825 - Decentralization and Localized Manufacturing, Bitcoin, Ai, and 3D Printing

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

04 Jun 2024 · 48 minutes
Read_824 - Ecash is Self-Custodial

"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

02 Jun 2024 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
Guy's Take_086 - Fiat Waste

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

30 May 2024 · 58 minutes
Reboot - Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply

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

28 May 2024 · 35 minutes
TPR_002 - From Local to Global with Holesail

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

25 May 2024 · 1 hour, 26 minutes
Read_823 - Scaling Trust

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

23 May 2024 · 1 hour, 11 minutes
Read_822 - Denial of Service Attack on Consensus

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

21 May 2024 · 47 minutes
Read_821 - The Most Important Thing You'll Read This Year

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

17 May 2024 · 58 minutes
Chat_100 - Privacy is a Crime with Travis West

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

16 May 2024 · 1 hour, 59 minutes
TPR_001 - Return of the P2P Web

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

14 May 2024 · 1 hour, 46 minutes
Chat_099 - Failure, Hope and the Purpose of Bitcoin with Bitcoin Mechanic

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

08 May 2024 · 2 hours, 34 minutes
Read_820 - The Bitcoin Stack

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

06 May 2024 · 1 hour, 35 minutes
Read_819 - Bitcoin Drain in the USA

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

04 May 2024 · 1 hour, 42 minutes
Guy's Take_085 - They Are Coming

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

01 May 2024 · 1 hour, 23 minutes
Read_818 - Reviewing Reviews

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

29 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 7 minutes
Read_817 - The Bitcoin Renaissance: How Lightning Will Connect Everything

"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

27 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Chat_098 - Replacing Gold with Tuur Demeester

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

24 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 23 minutes
Read_816 - Why I'm Still Not Buying Bitcoin

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

23 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 30 minutes
Read_815 - What are Mises’s Six Lessons

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

20 Apr 2024 · 46 minutes
Guy's Take_084 - Fiat Finance

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

18 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 14 minutes
Read_814 - Dogma Kills Brain Cells

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

16 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
Read_813 - Mises's Regression Theorem, Bitcoin, and Subjective Value

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

15 Apr 2024 · 59 minutes
Chat_097 - Lightning Offline with Super Testnet

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

10 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 27 minutes
Guy's Take_083 - It's Going Up Forever, Laura

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

09 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 11 minutes
Chat_096 - Surviving the Shift to a Bitcoin World with Jack Spirko

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

09 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 30 minutes
Read_812 - Congress is Criminalizing Privacy

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

01 Apr 2024 · 53 minutes
Read_811 - Speaking Freely

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

30 Mar 2024 · 49 minutes
Chat_095 - The Fall of the Fiat Empires with Preston Pysh

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

27 Mar 2024 · 1 hour, 26 minutes
Guy's Take_082 - Fiat Replacement Theory

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

25 Mar 2024 · 57 minutes
Read_810 - Censorship in America

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

22 Mar 2024 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Chat_094 - Pessimism, Optimism, & Rationally Passionate Ranting with Clint Russell

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

20 Mar 2024 · 2 hours, 1 minute
Read_809 - Bitter Opposition to Bitcoin

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

19 Mar 2024 · 43 minutes
Read_808 - Bitcoin is Worse than a Ponzi, It's An Insurrection

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

15 Mar 2024 · 49 minutes
Read_807 - A Measure of Sacrifice, Part 2

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

13 Mar 2024 · 59 minutes
Read_806 - A Measure of Sacrifice, Part 1

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

11 Mar 2024 · 1 hour, 10 minutes
Guy's Take_081 - Fiat Materialism

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

06 Mar 2024 · 58 minutes
Read_805 - Dear Crypto & Fiat Bros

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

04 Mar 2024 · 57 minutes
Read_804 - The Past, Present, & Future of Offline Payments

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

28 Feb 2024 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
Read_803 - Inflation in a HyperBitcoinized World

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

27 Feb 2024 · 41 minutes
Chat_093 - P2P Payments for the World with Roy Sheinfeld

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

23 Feb 2024 · 1 hour, 42 minutes
Read_802 - How Inflation Destroys Civilization

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

21 Feb 2024 · 58 minutes
Read_801 - To Dust You Shall Return

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

19 Feb 2024 · 44 minutes
Chat_092 - Second Coming of the P2P Web

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

16 Feb 2024 · 2 hours, 13 minutes
Read_800 - Mining Misinformation - How the UN Misrepresents Bitcoin Mining

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

14 Feb 2024 · 1 hour, 15 minutes
Read_799 - Nostr Wallet Connect - Bitcoin App Collaboration

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

12 Feb 2024 · 57 minutes
Read_798 - Quantum Computing's Reality Check

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

09 Feb 2024 · 42 minutes
Read_797 - The Next Big Thing Will Look Like a Toy

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

08 Feb 2024 · 40 minutes
Guy's Take_080 - But Bitcoin Wastes Energy

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

05 Feb 2024 · 1 hour, 39 minutes
Read_796 - Stranded - How Bitcoin is Saving Wasted Energy

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

02 Feb 2024 · 1 hour, 42 minutes
Read_795 - Bitcoin is Dead (Long Live IBIT)

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

31 Jan 2024 · 1 hour, 10 minutes
Chat_091 - Economic Myths & The Dollar's Destiny with Dr. Robert Murphy

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

30 Jan 2024 · 1 hour, 15 minutes
Read_794 - Open Letter To Prospective ETF Buyers

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

26 Jan 2024 · 33 minutes
Read_793 - How DigiCash Blew Everything

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

24 Jan 2024 · 51 minutes
Chat_090 - The Danger of Being Right Too Early with Devon Eriksen

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

23 Jan 2024 · 1 hour, 44 minutes
Guy's Take_079 - BITCOIN IS NOT MONEY

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

20 Jan 2024 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
Read_792 - How CTV Helps Scale Bitcoin

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

17 Jan 2024 · 49 minutes
Chat_089 - Lightning's Next Era with Sam Wouters

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

15 Jan 2024 · 1 hour, 32 minutes
Guy's Take_078 - Are the ETFs the End of the Bitcoin Dream?

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

13 Jan 2024 · 59 minutes
Read_791 - Rethinking Lightning

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

09 Jan 2024 · 50 minutes
Read_790 - The African Village Mining Bitcoin

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

08 Jan 2024 · 41 minutes
Read_789 - Can Appreciating Bitcoin Be a Good Money?

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

06 Jan 2024 · 1 hour,
Read_788 - Stone Ridge 2023 Investor Letter

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

03 Jan 2024 · 1 hour, 31 minutes
Read_787 - Usury, Your Bank, and You

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

01 Jan 2024 · 1 hour,
Reboot - Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species

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

30 Dec 2023 · 1 hour, 57 minutes
Read_786 - The Difficult Adjustment

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

27 Dec 2023 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Reboot - The HODL vs DeaterBob Debate

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

26 Dec 2023 · 48 minutes
Reboot - Isaiahs Job

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

24 Dec 2023 · 1 hour, 6 minutes
Chat_88 - Broken Money, Broken World with Lyn Alden

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

22 Dec 2023 · 1 hour, 37 minutes
Read_785 - Everyone Needs an Uncle Jim

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

20 Dec 2023 · 42 minutes
Guy's Take_077 - Dear Government...

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

18 Dec 2023 · 55 minutes
Read_784 - How FinCEN May Be Violating your Rights

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

13 Dec 2023 · 2 hours, 36 minutes
Read_783 - Ordinals Are Fiat, Inscriptions Aren't Rare

"Nothing in the ordinal logic requires inscriptions to be linked to the “first” sat. So why is it the first... more

11 Dec 2023 · 1 hour, 14 minutes
Read_782 - The Ethics of Emergencies

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

08 Dec 2023 · 1 hour, 15 minutes
Read_781 - The Censorship Industrial Complex, CTIL Files 01

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

06 Dec 2023 · 1 hour, 17 minutes
Read_780 - Lightning is Doomed!

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

05 Dec 2023 · 48 minutes
Guy's Take_076 - Fiat Money's Dark Secret

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

04 Dec 2023 · 1 hour, 18 minutes
PSA - Farewell Nodeless

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

30 Nov 2023 · 3 minutes
Read_779 - A Network of Keys

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

29 Nov 2023 · 1 hour, 34 minutes
Read_778 - Durabit, Incentivizing Torrent Seeders

"A recent anonymous proposal specifies a system using timelocked Bitcoin transactions and chaumian ecash mints to create an economic incentive... more

27 Nov 2023 · 57 minutes
Reboot - Bitcoin is Digital Scarcity

"The difference between the Linden Dollar, World of Warcraft Gold, Fortnite V-Bucks, the Euro, and the U.S. dollar is in... more

24 Nov 2023 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
Guy's Take_075 - A Global Monetary Rebellion

The election of Javier Milei is unlikely the be the next El Salvador, but I don't think it needs to... more

22 Nov 2023 · 1 hour, 10 minutes
Read_777 - The Inevitable Bust

"The recurring cycle of economic booms followed by inevitable busts has remained a puzzle for generations of observers. While mainstream... more

20 Nov 2023 · 54 minutes
Chat_87 - Coinos & Merchant Onboarding with Adam & Cole

"Ultimately, my goal with Coinos is to make Bitcoin a super simple user interface for "normies" to be able to... more

16 Nov 2023 · 1 hour, 33 minutes
Guy's Take_074 - Banks Without Bankers

Is Bitcoin destined to become another fiat system? Where we end up in a world where the dominant instrument isn't... more

15 Nov 2023 · 1 hour, 50 minutes
Read_776 - Banks Without Bankers

"Unique to the emergent Bitcoin financial system is the application of cryptography to fundamental financial functions. Novel technologies exist, are... more

09 Nov 2023 · 1 hour, 24 minutes
Guy's Take_073 - Lightning is Dead, Long Live Lightning!

LIGHTNING IS DEAD! Did you hear about the new exploit discovered that may be the "nail in the coffin" of... more

07 Nov 2023 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
Read_775 - The Fed Threatens to Sue Bitcoin Magazine

"We have no interest in causing confusion, mistakes, or deception. That sounds more like a job for those responsible for... more

04 Nov 2023 · 39 minutes
Chat_86 - Everything on Bitcoin with Robin Linus & Super Testnet

It's often said that Bitcoin is too limited, that you can't build anything interesting on top of the Bitcoin chain...... more

01 Nov 2023 · 1 hour, 17 minutes
Read_774 - Bitcoin Won't Fix the Federal Reserve

"Will Bitcoin adoption improve the monetary policy behaviors of the Federal Reserve? I submit that it won’t. I do not... more

26 Oct 2023 · 37 minutes
Read_773 - A Solution to Scaling Lightning

"Timeout Trees is a very concrete and specific proposal for a channel factory design that actually attempts to address the... more

24 Oct 2023 · 49 minutes
Basics_008 - How to Buy Bitcoin

We are diving back into the Bitcoin basics series today! Now that we understand how bitcoin works, what is important,... more

18 Oct 2023 · 40 minutes
Read_772 - Easier Way to Bootstrap the UTXO Set

"After four years of work, James O'Beirne's assumeutxo option to allow instant UTXO set bootstrapping for your Bitcoin node is... more

17 Oct 2023 · 36 minutes
Read_771 - Beating Fiat with the Breez SDK

"There used to be tradeoffs between Lightning and fiat: UX vs. sovereignty; UX vs. speed; UX vs. cost; off-the-shelf fiat payment... more

13 Oct 2023 · 43 minutes
Read_770 - The Big Deal with BitVM

"It requires no consensus changes to Bitcoin at all. The trick is lifting all of that logic off-chain and being... more

11 Oct 2023 · 53 minutes
Guy's Take_071 - But Bitcoin Doesn't Innovate

I hope you listened to the recent read by Beautyon, Bitcoin and Software Reliability, because today we continue our FUD... more

10 Oct 2023 · 57 minutes
FEATURING AI Unchained #008 - Ecash and Ai with Obi Nwosu

Obi Nwosu, co-founder and CEO of Fedi, joins us today to talk about the new innovations and challenges in decentralising... more

09 Oct 2023 · 1 hour, 20 minutes
Reboot - Bitcoin & Software Reliability

"With Bitcoin, lives and money are at stake. Interruption of its service can cause a cascade of losses and unintended... more

05 Oct 2023 · 40 minutes
Read_769 - Orange is the New Green

"Our existing financial system is a mirage of wealth and liquidity, sustained by an ever-expanding money supply. Bitcoin emerges as... more

03 Oct 2023 · 1 hour, 10 minutes
Chat_85 - Bitcoin HyperDecentralization with Zack Bomsta

In this episode, I talked with Zack ₿omsta, the visionary leader behind Pivotal Pleb. Pivotal Pleb is on a mission... more

29 Sep 2023 · 1 hour, 53 minutes
Read_768 - Living Through the Fall of Rome

"Today historians focus on the symptoms of Rome’s fall, the consequences: The moral decay, the economic decline, the fall in... more

28 Sep 2023 · 36 minutes
Read_767 - Pay Me in Bitcoin Theory

"If the merchant wants the bitcoin and you pay in fiat_, that is you shifting the burden of fiat friction... more

25 Sep 2023 · 58 minutes
Read_766 - Spiderchains, Proof of Stake L2

"Take the idea of proof-of-stake as a base layer consensus mechanism, and throw the idea away for right now. That's... more

20 Sep 2023 · 1 hour, 8 minutes
Read_765 - "Hoarding" is a Keynesian Slur

"This has been one of the most effective psychological operations that has ever been conducted on the public in human... more

15 Sep 2023 · 33 minutes
Chat_84 - Layers, Payments, and Relays with Utxo

Today we sit down with Utxo, founder of Nodeless, on understanding the design space for Bitcoin services, the challenges of... more

14 Sep 2023 · 1 hour, 31 minutes
Read_764 - UTXOracle, Decentralizing the Oracle Problem

"It means that, given an open-source model, this could help bring about the ability to: Independently calculate the price... more

11 Sep 2023 · 57 minutes
Guy's Take #70 - But Deflation is Bad

A deflationary money is going to destroy the economy! If the value of money keeps going up, then no one... more

07 Sep 2023 · 1 hour, 8 minutes
Read_763 - Evils of THE ALGORITHM

"Everything about the concept of a social network and the incredible potential and beauty of #nostr as a protocol is... more

06 Sep 2023 · 25 minutes
Read_762 - Bitcoin's Security Model Deep Dive

"When discussing consensus mechanisms for different cryptocurrencies, one issue that often causes arguments is a lack of understanding (and definition) of... more

01 Sep 2023 · 51 minutes
Read_761 - A Sound Bitcoin Financial System [Alex B]

"I believe it’s important to go back to what this sovereignty is made of. Bitcoin works because an economic majority... more

29 Aug 2023 · 42 minutes
Read_760 - Drivechain's Place in Bitcoin's Future

"To not die, Bitcoin must become more used. The current thesis accepted by most “maximalists” is that Bitcoin will continue... more

25 Aug 2023 · 51 minutes
Read_759 - Increasing Interoperability in Second Layer Protocols [Chase Smith]

"Often overlooked is the importance of interoperability between not only the second-layer protocol and Bitcoin but the layer-2 protocols themselves.... more

24 Aug 2023 · 37 minutes
Read_758 - Scaling and Consensus Changes [James O'Beirne⁠]

"When reading a draft of this post, my wife got kind of depressed right around here. Her macabre question, basically,... more

21 Aug 2023 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
Read_757 - Putting the B in BTC [Anthony Towns]

"The headroom there isn’t unlimited — expect it to show up as fee pressure and backlogs and less ability to... more

18 Aug 2023 · 1 hour, 14 minutes
Read_756 - Bitcoin, The Trust Anchor in a Sea of Blockchains [Jameson Lopp]

"While bitcoin is still mainly seen as digital currency, it’s essentially a timestamped log with special properties. As such, it... more

17 Aug 2023 · 49 minutes
Guys Take #69 - But It's Just Digital Points...

With so many common misconceptions about money, how can we possibly make sense of Bitcoin for customers who have spent... more

14 Aug 2023 · 52 minutes
Read_755 - Drivechains

"A successful blind merge mined sidechain with significant MEV opportunities could offer Bitcoin significant benefits, which could more than offset... more

11 Aug 2023 · 1 hour, 18 minutes
Chat_83 - Decentralizing Global Markets with Nostr, Pablof7z

We have an incredible chat today with Pablof7z who is on a mission to make Nostr the global, decentralized marketplace.... more

08 Aug 2023 · 2 hours, 42 minutes
Read_754 - Bitcoin Is Not Crypto, The SEC Confirms

"Talk to a bitcoin maximalist – someone who believes that bitcoin is the only digital asset with innate value – and, more... more

04 Aug 2023 · 49 minutes
Read_753 - Bitcoin Timestamp Security [Jameson Lopp]

"Bitcoin is often referred to as a secure timestamping service. We never had a global record of truth with trustworthy... more

27 Jul 2023 · 32 minutes
Read_752 - Bitcoin Becomes the Flag of Technology [Balaji S. Srinivasan]

"Bitcoin represents the explicit encoding of previously implicit values of the tech community. It's not just software — it is... more

26 Jul 2023 · 1 hour, 17 minutes
Read_751 - Decentralization: Why Dumb Networks Are Better [Andreas Antonopolous]

"Some networks are “smart.” They offer sophisticated services that can be delivered to very simple end-user devices on the “edge”... more

21 Jul 2023 · 46 minutes
Read_749 - Economics of Bitcoin as a Settlement Network [Saifedean]

"The obsession with consumer payments in the Bitcoin community is an unfortunate relic of the fiat money era. Generations that... more

18 Jul 2023 · 44 minutes
Read_750 - Capital in the 21st Century [Allen Farrington]

"To do our best to minimize the economics jargon once again, we might simply ask: what are you going to... more

16 Jul 2023 · 1 hour, 7 minutes
Read_748 - Bitcoin & the Rise of the Cypherpunks [Lopp]

"While many of the innovations in the space are new, they’re built on decades of work that led to this... more

13 Jul 2023 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
Read_747 - The Bondholder's Burning Platform [Croesus]

"Since 1800, in 51 out of 52 cases where a country’s debt-to-GDP ratio reached 130%, the country eventually defaulted. The... more

11 Jul 2023 · 54 minutes
Guy's Take #68 - Lightning & the Ai Economy

Ai agents are going to be able to seek out, delegate, and pay for micro services from an ecosystem of... more

06 Jul 2023 · 1 hour, 38 minutes
Reboot - Bitcoin and The American Idea [Alex Gladstein]

"Today Americans celebrate 246 years of independence from the British Empire. On this day in 1776 the Founding Fathers made... more

04 Jul 2023 · 47 minutes
Read_746 - Orange Pilling Your Barber [Hector Alvero]

"Your barber or stylist likely has the broadest network of anyone you know. People from every walk of life, including... more

30 Jun 2023 · 34 minutes
Chat_82 - The Spirit of Satoshi

We recently had Aleks Svetski back on at Ai Unchained to discuss the project we hinted at in episode 2... more

29 Jun 2023 · 1 hour, 18 minutes
Read_745 - Every Company Will Be A Lightning Company [Graham Krizek]

"Neither a startup nor a bank will ever be able to cost-effectively compete on a global scale with the Lightning... more

28 Jun 2023 · 43 minutes
Bitcoin Audible
Read_750 - Capital in the 21st Century [Allen Farrington]
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