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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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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
Read_744 - How To Position for the Bitcoin Boom, Part 2 [Adamant Research]

"Investing in bitcoin, we believe, is like having the ability to buy shares of a general “Internet ETF” back in... more

24 Jun 2023 · 1 hour, 21 minutes
Read_743 - How to Position for the Bitcoin Boom, Part 1 [Adamant Research]

"bitcoin is a protocol stack which we can expect to be expanding for many decades, and its foundation is that... more

22 Jun 2023 · 1 hour, 14 minutes
Chat_81 - An Austrian View of US Collapse with Peter St. Onge

"...At some point the entire financial system becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of the Federal Reserve" — Peter St. Onge Today... more

21 Jun 2023 · 1 hour, 24 minutes
Read_742 - Trust Me Bro [Allen Farrington]

"Expect BlackRock to turn around and shill this to banks, and in particular big banks, such that JPMorgan, for example, can itself... more

20 Jun 2023 · 1 hour, 16 minutes
Read_741 - Much Ado About Ordinals, Inscriptions, and BRC20 [Roy Sheinfeld]

"The more wonderful something is, the more passion it will arouse. Bitcoin is among the greatest wonders of the late-modern... more

15 Jun 2023 · 31 minutes
Read_740 - What Are the Key Properties of Bitcoin [Jameson Lopp]

"What is Bitcoin? Many have attempted to answer this question, but I believe that our quest to do so is doomed... more

15 Jun 2023 · 1 hour, 11 minutes
Read_739 - The State of Zapvertising [The Same Cat]

"Zapvertising has two forms, and I believe there is a crucial difference between the two. In one version, a company... more

12 Jun 2023 · 49 minutes
Guy's Take #67 - Withdraw Everything

With the banking crisis just getting started, with the SEC going after Binance and Coinbase, with rumors of Prime Trust... more

09 Jun 2023 · 1 hour, 21 minutes
Read_738 - The Fruit of the Nostr Tree [Guy Swann]

"Nostr isn't just a social network, in a similar way that Bitcoin isn't just a transaction network. Both of these... more

07 Jun 2023 · 1 hour, 7 minutes
Read_737 - Is Your Money Safe During the Banking Crisis, Part 2 [Brad Mills]

"Much like how two nuclear bombs ended World War II, capital-crushing central bank policy rate hikes and Russian sanctions were... more

06 Jun 2023 · 53 minutes
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
Structural Adjustment: How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries [Alex Gladstein]

This is the full, unabridged reading of Alex Gladstein's work, "STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: HOW THE IMF AND WORLD BANK REPRESS POOR... more

31 Dec 2022 · 2 hours, 54 minutes
Read_687 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 5 [Alex Gladstein]

"Research from Mexico — a typical country in terms of consistent involvement historically from the Bank and Fund — shows... more

30 Dec 2022 · 1 hour, 9 minutes
Read_686 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 4 [Alex Gladstein]

"The “generosity” of the West enabled unaccountable leaders to plunge their nations into debt deeper than ever before. The system... more

28 Dec 2022 · 1 hour, 11 minutes
Read_685 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 3 [Alex Gladstein]

"Far from playing the role of good samaritan, the Fund does not even follow the timeless human tradition, established more... more

20 Dec 2022 · 38 minutes
Read_684 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 2 [Alex Gladstein]

"To give an example of what this might look like in a given year, in 2012 developing countries received $1.3... more

15 Dec 2022 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
Read_683 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 1 [Alex Gladstein]

"A 2014 analysis showed that the IMF had attached, on average, 20 conditions to each loan it gave out in... more

13 Dec 2022 · 59 minutes
Guy's Take #61 - Blockchains, A Square Peg for Round Holes

There are about a million claims out there as to what blockchains are going to fix, and how NFTs are... more

09 Dec 2022 · 2 hours, 21 minutes
Read_682 - Data Shows That Lightning Solves Scaling [Kozlovski]

"A data-driven exploration proving that Lightning scales bitcoin payments beyond Visa and that second-layer innovation is the way." - Stanislov... more

07 Dec 2022 · 57 minutes
Read_681 - The Twitter Files - Part 1 [Matt Taibbi]

“They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few... more

06 Dec 2022 · 1 hour, 17 minutes
Read_680 - Green Eggs and Ham, Part 2 [Farrington & Big Al]

"We believe the core of the cultural fissure between crypto and bitcoin comes down to financialization. While the ethos of... more

03 Dec 2022 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
Read_679 - Green Eggs and Ham, Part 1 [Farrington & Larson]

"One counterargument might be that the de facto state capture of Ethereum in gradually becoming more and more OFAC compliant... more

01 Dec 2022 · 1 hour, 21 minutes
Read_678 - Toward a Node World Order [Micheal Goldstein]

"A bitcoin full node is a certainty machine. When a user runs a full node, they are granted a level... more

29 Nov 2022 · 1 hour, 34 minutes
Chat_75 - Opting Out with Matt Hill

On the nature of sovereignty, the challenges of the world we live in, the fog of war that has descended... more

26 Nov 2022 · 2 hours, 2 minutes
Read_677 - Maturation of Lightning, Growing Up By Going Vertical [Roy Sheinfeld]

"As the Web became much more complex, we now engage with multiple companies for each of those functions. Including all... more

24 Nov 2022 · 54 minutes
Read_676 - The State of Man - Proclaim Your Bitcoin, Part 2 [Simply Bitcoin]

"The primary work undertaken by thieves to maintain their systems of thievery is manipulation. Deceit and lies are the tools... more

23 Nov 2022 · 1 hour, 10 minutes
Read_675 - Stop Drinking the Elite's Kool-aid [Nayib Bukele]

"They used to own everything, and in a way they still do; the media, the banks, the NGOs, the international... more

18 Nov 2022 · 51 minutes
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"A bitcoin full node is a certainty machine. When a user runs a full node, they are granted a level of certainty... more