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Bitcoin Audible
The Best in Bitcoin made Audible. Guy Swann makes the knowledge of Bitcoin, the world's most secure, independent money, accessible to everyone. Exploring Bitcoin from an investment perspective, economic analysis, its philosophical foundations, & technological primitives. Reading and distilling thous...
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Read_947 - On Overconfidence
"In this X post, I said I don't know the consequences of BIP-110. Plenty of people called that incompetent, cowardly, or both. Others praised it as hu...
Chat_172 - Sovereign Devices in a Subscription World with Harald Schäfer
"comma develops open source ADAS software. You can call it self-driving software, but currently what we ship is something where the user is supposed t...
10.5 Million Bitcoin Underwater: Is This THE Bottom?
Over 10.5 million Bitcoin are currently underwater. Everyone is panicking about a grueling bear market, but I see things differently. In today's Take,...
Why Elon's Trillion = Carnegie's Millions (The Fiat Illusion Exposed)
Elon Musk is officially a trillionaire. Naturally, people are calling it yet another failure of capitalism, and I'm calling BS.
I compared hi...
Chat_171 - Building Instant Fiat-to-Bitcoin Bridges with Gustavo Flores
***"We're entering the Bitcoin golden era with all the new technologies we're discovering because for the first decade Bitcoin was still very, at leas...
The TRUTH about Iran's "Bitcoin" seizure
I break down the Treasury’s claim that it seized $1B of Iran’s "crypto" and explain why this was actually Tether, not Bitcoin – and why that distincti...
Chat_170 - Can Anything be Secured in the Digital Age? with Luke de Wolf
**"Keeping Bitcoin running is the primary concern here. Making sure that Bitcoin is available to be used as money by everyday people, any actor who wa...
Roundtable_021 - The Fight is Never Over
The whole crew is back for another roundtable, and things get wild right out of the gate. I sat down with Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff to talk through th...
Chat_169 - Bitcoin Proving its Case with Walker America
"Bitcoin is being embraced by the U.S. and the U.S. financial system and it is it being embraced by Iran and the Iranian regime at the exact same time...
Read_946 - When the Experimenter Fails the Marshmallow Test
"Generation X and the millennials both tried to do everything right, according to what the boomers told them was the path forward: save money, study h...
Read_945 - Milei's Austrian Scam by the Numbers
"The peso scam is around a thousand times larger than the Libra scam, and its victims are the poorest, about 95% of Argentines."
~ Saifedean Amm...
Chat_168 - Hashing for Heat with Tyler Stevens
**"Our little home controller, building controller, it knows our electric rate, it knows the way that electric rate changes based on the time of day....
Chat_167 - Why Your Keys Matter with Seed
"If you think of River or Gemini or Coinbase or whatever, think of all of those as silos and how people custody Bitcoin. If some sort of compromise we...
Guy's Take_107 - Free Rent for the Rich
"It's often discussed that arbitrarily lowering interest rates and the zero interest rate policy era leads to massive recklessness and unethical and i...
Read_944 - Proof of Work in the Real Economy
"If your money isn't sound, it is not reflecting any proof of work. It is not reflecting anything about who should be able to consume, or how much the...
Read_943 - The Fabric of Desires
"It is not markets that made money possible. It is collectibles, which we now call money, that make markets possible."
~ Nick Szabo
What i...
Roundtable_020 - Anything But Bitcoin
In this roundtable, we sit down with Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff, and honestly, we struggle to stay on Bitcoin for half of it. Our catch-up quickly turn...
Read_942 - Stepping Outside the Fiat Frame
"They say the ruler is bent, then use the bent ruler to measure the table.
They say the clock is broken, then solemnly read out the hour.
...
Guy's Take_106 - When Cheating Is The Law
"When you really dig into the heart of how finance, how our monetary system and how our political system work, and how deeply married they are, you be...
Chat_166 - The Great Distraction: Epstein vs. Quantum in Bitcoin with Rob Wallace on Bitcoin News
"The whole point of libertarianism is that we should recognise that we don't know how to plan the world. We don't know what the solution is going to b...
Read_941 - Number Go Down - Part 2
"The idea that some authority can deduce the correct level of this balance is not merely wrong, it is not even wrong, it is methodologically incoheren...
Read_940 - Number Go Down - Part 1
"The fiat economist universally chooses to set the printing press to brrrrrrrrrr. While the enlightened elite watch their stock portfolios moon and th...
Read_939 - Modern Money Only Works By Cheating - Part 2
_“what matters now is not belief, but endurance.
__bitcoin does not promise comfort. it does not promise justice. it does not promise to save...
Chat_165 - Family and Focus with Aleks Svetski
"I think there will come a point where you get excessive, you swing too far on the individual side of the spectrum, and then it becomes advantageous t...
Read_938 - Modern Money Only Works By Cheating - Part 1
“This piece is my attempt to finally map the terrain I'd been circling for years: Bitcoin's hardness, its fragility, its human governance, and its une...
Chat_164 - Skating To Where The Puck Will Be with Matt Hill
"We are trying to make it possible for people to use computers as simple of a statement as this: use computers, without intermediaries and custodians....
Read_937 - When the Withdraws Start [FFR 115]
"Residents withdrew over 1.6 trillion rubles, or $19.7 billion in January, desperately turning to cash amid increased state controls."
As govern...
Roundtable_019 - Bitcoin's In-House Stress Test
This week, the whole crew is back for another Roundtable. I sat down with Mechanic, Steve, and Jeff to talk about the painful reality of Bitcoin minin...
Read_936 - Breez SDK Launches Passkey Login
“The seed phrase has been a barrier to self-custody since day one. It’s what scares normies away from keeping their own bitcoin, and it’s a legitimate...
Read_935 - AI Will Eat Application Software
"Yes, AI is a big deal, but the conclusion that AI is going to kill the vertical and functional
software business model simply makes no sense. T...
Guy's Take_105 - Did Epstein Hijack Bitcoin?
Did Jeffrey Epstein secretly hijack Bitcoin during the block size war? Was is all a covert operation by Jeffrey Epstein and shadowy government actors...
Chat_163 - Mining in Real Life with Bitcoin Mechanic & HODLTarantula [Plan-B El Salvador]
"When it comes to building in the approach, you have to be taking the approach as utilising the fundamental principles that we see in Bitcoin itself....
Chat_162 - Plan-B El Salvador with Giacomo Zucco
"If people are not ready for Bitcoin, just go use USDT as long as you can before dollar hyperinflation. It's like Noah's Ark: it's going to rain, we b...
Roundtable_018 - Everything is Fake and Gay
I'm joined by Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff for yet another Roundtable episode, and honestly, the digital world is getting weirder by the minute. Are we e...
Read_934 - The Code Liberation
"The cypherpunk principle that 'cypherpunks write code' takes on revolutionary meaning when writing code no longer requires programming knowledge. Eri...
Guy's Take_104 - The User Doesn't Care About Your Mission
The biggest mistake Bitcoin and sovereignty-focused developers keep making is trying to sell people on why they care instead of building something peo...
Read_933 - The Secret to Vibe Coding
"The people who figure that out first won't just ship faster - they'll build things that others can't even spec, because the spec emerges last from a...
Chat_161 - Bitcoin is Tangible with Cade Peterson
"That's the main reason I like doing this Bitcoin stuff so much, because it's connected to the real world. It's proof of work. Like, I can't sit on my...
Read_932 - The World Order Has Broken Down
"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, 'The world order as it has stood for decades no longer exists', and that we are in a period of 'great power po...
Roundtable_017 - Did Epstein Hijack Bitcoin?
The Roundtable is back, and we are kicking off 2026 with some stories that I definitely didn't have on my bingo card.
After catching up on Jeff'...