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Bitcoin AudibleGuy's Take_103 - Bitcoin Dead For Sure This TimeWhy is the "world's most valuable money" stagnating while everything falls apart around it? With 401k hardship withdrawals at record highs and mortgage delinquencies surpassing 2008 levels, shouldn't Bitcoin be rocketing higher? Instead we're watching a slow-motion "silent IPO" unfold as institutional liquidity creates the most frustrating crab market in Bitcoin's history.But what if this isn't a bug - what if it's exactly how mountains are built?Time for a Guy's Take episode...
References from the Episode
Read_912 - Bitcoin's Silent IPO (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/yHpYyBb7BPJyGHjSFYdt)
UTXO.live feed (Link: https://u...
2025-11-1537 min
Bitcoin AudibleRoundtable_013 - From 1 Zetahash to the Patriot Act with Guy's RoundtableWe are back with the roundtable and today we tackle news from the privacy war frontlines, new and old surveillance laws, stablecoins on Bitcoin, a precedent for failed CBDCs, is Luke actually planning a fork, Protonmail's battle with Switzerland, biometric banking lockdowns, and so much more. Plus the incredible feat of the bitcoin network's computing power and why 1 Zetahash marks a staggering milestone for humanity. Can Bitcoin remain the escape hatch in a world closing in on digital freedom?
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2025-10-022h 29
Bitcoin AudibleGuy's Roundtable_011 - Treasuries, Politics, Quantum & Why This Cycle is DifferentWhy does this Bitcoin cycle feel… different?
In this Roundtable, I sat down with Simple Steve, Bitcoin Mechanic, and my brother Jeff Swann for a deep dive into what’s really driving the current phase of Bitcoin adoption. We break down the quiet buildup behind this cycle, the politics creeping into the space, and the shifting nature of Bitcoin treasuries — including why some are already failing. We also get into the weeds on quantum breakthroughs, dust limits, and why lightning still isn’t ready for prime time. From barroom stories to technical debates, we ask: Are the normies...
2025-07-312h 21
Bitcoin AudibleRead_888 - The Cypherpunk Banking Stack is ComingThe future of banking and payments will be run on old laptops and built by rebels. But really. As inspiration from Callebtc's announcement of successful multinut payments, Marty gives a short but interesting rip on where ecash is headed, and we get the audio today in my lovely voice followed by an unnecessarily long rant about network lock in and how to prevent it, what the "one step back" period of our evolution might look like, and why pessimists are dumb. Lets go.
Check out the original article: Pay Attention: The Cypherpunk Banking Stack Is Coming (Link: h...
2025-06-271h 01
Bitcoin AudibleRead_887 - A Half Baked Thesis on Stablecoins"As will become clear as the argument progresses, I actually think the outcome to which I am building up is where things have to go. I think the technical and economic incentives at play make this an inevitability rather than a “choice”"~ Allen Farrington
What if the stablecoin boom isn't a threat to Bitcoin, but a stepping stone? In this episode, I dive into Allen Farrington’s "A Half Baked Thesis on Stablecoins" and follow it with a massive guy's take unpacking the implications. Are stablecoins a betrayal of Bitcoin principles, or are they the Trojan horse...
2025-06-242h 02
Bitcoin AudibleChat_135 - Do One Thing and Do it Right with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo"I think there's a very clear distinction between inflation and hyperinflation.One is a rational response to an increase in the money supply. Right? So if the money supply is increasing by 10%, you increase the price of your assets by 10%. That's inflation.Now, hyperinflation is emotional. Hyperinflation is a forced liquidation of your assets and your currency. And you're doing a market sell order not knowing what the price of sale is. You just want out. You will take anything."~ Mauricio Di Bartolomeo
Mauricio Di Bartolomeo’s story starts with the collapse of Venezuela, bu...
2025-06-211h 55
Bitcoin AudibleTake_100 - You Already Own Nothing, Are You Happy?What if everything you think you own in the financial system—your stocks, your retirement, your savings—could be taken away in an instant, not because of your own mistakes, but because the institutions holding them are “too important” to fail? Today we finally unpack the horrifying reality behind asset ownership in today’s fiat-driven world, laid out in the shocking work from David Rogers Webb, The Great Taking. Are we living through the final act of centralization, where the only real escape is opting out entirely?
You already own nothing, are you happy? It's time for a Guy's Tak...
2025-06-181h 36
Bitcoin AudibleRead_886 - Technologies of Freedom and Oppression [FFR75]"In Hunan, an elderly woman in a wheelchair died outside a bank after being forced to appear in person to withdraw her own money for medical care. Too weak to pass mandatory facial recognition scans, she collapsed after repeated failed attempts."~ FFR #75
Technology is moving at an incredible pace, but the question is which direction is it moving? I increasingly believe we are on two divergent paths at the same time and headed for a collision course between two very incompatible worlds. Today we dive into Financial Freedom Report #75, with news from China's monetary expansion, new...
2025-06-111h 05
Bitcoin AudibleChat_134 - Bitcoin Stream Test #162 [Meme Factory™]"A year and a half ago, two years, bitcoin was still a joke. Bitcoin was still something that was very hard for someone legitimate to... you had to have balls to go speak of it like a legitimate thing, like a serious player. And today it is a legitimate safe haven asset. Even though it hasn't been adopted like that, in the sense that every institution is rushing out to buy - the conversation has completely changed. Like night and day." ~ Guy Swann
Catch up with me and the crew on this re-release episode from "Meme Factory™." Gr...
2025-06-1058 min
Bitcoin AudibleRead_885 The Great Taking [P4]"Only the Federal Reserve System was designed to survive and take over all assets and banking activities. Only the Federal Reserve Banks and those selected and controlled by the Federal Reserve were allowed to reopen. The Federal Reserve was also indemnified by the government, i.e. the public, for any losses. And so, large-scale closure of banks and taking of bank deposits is not unprecedented. Holders of cash in banks are unsecured creditors, with no enforceable claim to their money. [...] All deposits and assets will be taken by the "protected class" of secured creditors. This is where it is...
2025-05-291h 16
Bitcoin AudibleRead_884 - The Great Taking [P3]"Inevitably following the “Everything Bubble” will be the “Everything Crash.” Once prices of essentially everything crash and all financial firms rapidly become insolvent, these collateral management systems will automatically sweep all collateral to the Central Clearing Counter- parties (CCPs) and Central Banks.The trap, into which all nations have been herded, is ready and waiting to be sprung."~ David Rogers Webb
Continuing our dive into Part 3 of David Webb's incredible piece not he structure of the beast that has been designed to consume the global financial system through the undermining of all securities and contractual ownershi...
2025-05-2841 min
Bitcoin AudibleRead_883 - The Great Taking [P2]"I am illustrating the horror and simplicity of the lie. You are led to believe that you own something, but someone else secretly controls it as collateral, and they have now established legal certainty that they have absolute power to take it immediately in the event of insolvency, and not your insolvency, but insolvency of the people who secretly gave them your property as collateral. It does not seem possible, but this is exactly what has been done with all tradable financial instruments globally. [...] Essentially, all securities, quote, owned by the public in custodial accounts, pension plans, and investment...
2025-05-2746 min
Bitcoin AudibleRead_882 - The Great Taking [P1]"It is important to note that what is exposed here is not conjecture. It is found in authentic primary source documents, in which the planners themselves lay out their plans. ... You are about to be confronted with quite shocking, depressing material. You don’t want to know about this. I don’t even want to know about it." ~ David Rogers Webb
What if "The Great Reset" is exactly what it seems? A deliberate plan to subvert the sovereignty of every nation on earth by a system of total monetary and technological control? Would there be any reason to be...
2025-05-221h 22
Bitcoin AudibleChat_133 - Bitcoin Development & Controversy with Antoine Poinsot"People can use inscriptions today and they do use them.If on the one hand you believe that marginally raising the costs to unwanted usage of the chain is going to succeed in discouraging them, which, fair, we can discuss it. I disagree but we can discuss it. On the other hand, you cannot say that, oh well, making it four times four times more expensive is going to incentivize them to do more of it. They are not compatible arguments.So the OP_RETURN is not an invitation. It's not a signal to VCs or crypto...
2025-05-211h 47
Bitcoin AudibleChat_132 - How to Stack More Bitcoin [THE Bitcoin Podcast]"You must not work hard for something that somebody else can make an infinite amount of for free at no cost and no contribution. If you are working hard for something, do it for something that is hard to make. That is the point of money.
That is the point of society. It is an antithetical to cooperation and basic common sense to work for something. It just means you're working for them.
If they can print trillions of it for free, you're just working for them. Stop working for them and use a money...
2025-05-151h 06
Bitcoin AudibleTake_099 - OP_RETURN The Signal and the NoiseIn this episode, I break down one of the most contentious mempool debates in Bitcoin’s recent history — the proposed removal of OP_RETURN limits. I explore what the change actually means, why it’s causing such a stir, and what both sides are getting wrong. Is this a technical clean-up or a social signal with dangerous implications? Could it quietly invite back the crypto spam Bitcoin has fought to shed? I do my best to separate the signal from the noise, stealman the arguments, and offer my own perspective on why this fight matters more than it seems — and mayb...
2025-05-0959 min
Bitcoin AudibleRoundtable_009 - If It’s Not Broken, Core Will Fix ThatBitcoin Core is in the spotlight again — and not in a good way. In this roundtable, Jeff Swann, Simple Steve, Bitcoin Mechanic, and I dig into the growing divide over mempool policies, the latest controversial pull request, and what it means for node sovereignty. Why is Core removing user configurability? Are we witnessing a philosophical shift away from Bitcoin's foundations? And more importantly — who's really in control of your node? This conversation is raw, fiery, and filled with high-level critique, speculation, and serious concerns about Bitcoin's future. If you’ve been hearing about “spam,” “filters,” and “dickbutts” on Bitcoin Twitter and want t...
2025-05-021h 50
Bitcoin AudibleChat_131 - DEBATE: The US vs China/Guy Swann vs Alex Svetski [Liberty Lockdown]"For me, the most important war, the thing that we are fighting for in the world today more than anything else for me is the spirit of the West. The spirit of the West has been under attack by globalists, by fucking adversaries, the trader parasite money changer class. That class, whoever the fuck that is, has been looking to destroy the productive spirit and soul of the West in any way that it can. Weaponizing everything from Chinese to fucking Indians to central banks to everything. And if that war can be fought without dropping fucking bombs and fou...
2025-04-241h 43
Bitcoin AudibleChat_130 - Bitcoin Will Replace Fiat [Rajat Soni]"All fiat dies because it's a trusted token that governments can arbitrarily change. Every fiat with every single powerful military behind it fell when the entity decided that they were just going to change the rules. And the military didn't protect them, the military protected them abusing the rules from the population.Argentina's military did not protect the Argentine population from hyperinflation. It protected the government from a revolution. The Venezuelan, the Zimbabwean, the huge list of fiat hyperinflations, the military was not your friend. It did not back the currency. It protected the government of their ability to...
2025-04-161h 55
Bitcoin AudibleRead_876 - Plunging Currencies, CBDCs, and New Bitcoin Freedom Tools [FFR67]What does financial repression look like in real time — and how are people fighting back with Bitcoin?
In this episode, I read the Human Rights Foundation’s Financial Freedom Report #67, a roundup of the latest developments in monetary control, state surveillance, and Bitcoin tools empowering those under authoritarian regimes. From currency collapses in Turkey to smart contract-enforced CBDCs in Russia, we explore the chilling precision of financial control systems being deployed around the world. But it’s not all bleak — this report also highlights powerful tools like Stratum V2 mining pools, Cashew’s tap-to-pay e-cash, and HRF-supported grassroots...
2025-04-1554 min
Bitcoin AudibleRoundtable_008 - Just a Little MisinformationIf you are looking for real bitcoiners giving their take on all the major news that happened in bitcoin for the past month, you found the right place. This is Guy's Roundtable with collectively more than 50 years of Bitcoin experience.
We hit updates on the bitaxe phenomenon, the strategic bitcoin reserve is here, is el salvador throwing in the towel, the IMF is fighting bitcoin, new developments on CBDCs around the world, bitcoin investment from many new institutions, and only a little bit of misinformation in todays episode... maybe 5%... could be 10.
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2025-04-032h 17
Bitcoin AudibleRead_875 - Against Allowing Quantum Recovery of Bitcoin
"Not your keys, not your coins."I posit that the corollary to this principle is:'Your keys, only your coins.'
A quantum capable entity breaks the corollary of this foundational principle. We secure our bitcoin with the mathematical probabilities related to extremely large random numbers. Your funds are only secure because truly random large numbers should not be guessable or discoverable by anyone else in the world.
It seems almost inevitable, that at some point quantum computing could reach the capacity to break current cryptographic standards, so the question is, what do we...
2025-03-261h 35
Bitcoin AudibleReboot - Read_740 - What Are the Key Properties of Bitcoin [Jameson Lopp]
Bitcoin’s strength lies in its core properties—trust minimization, decentralization, censorship resistance, and more. But what exactly defines these principles, and why do they matter? In this episode, I revisit Jameson Lopp’s What Are the Key Properties of Bitcoin?, a piece that breaks down the fundamental attributes that make Bitcoin what it is. Along the way, I share updated thoughts on how these ideas hold up today, especially in the face of ongoing protocol debates and potential future threats like quantum computing. Understanding Bitcoin’s foundations isn’t just theory—it’s essential for knowing where we stand and wher...
2025-03-241h 14
Bitcoin AudibleReboot - Read_773 - A Solution to Scaling Lightning
In this episode of Bitcoin Audible, I revisit an important concept that deserves more attention: timeout trees and their potential to revolutionize scaling for the Lightning Network.
Based on Shinobi's article, "A Solution to Scaling Lightning," we explore how this innovative proposal leverages CheckTemplateVerify (CTV) to create a simple yet powerful scaling primitive. Could timeout trees be the key to unlocking the next order of magnitude in Lightning's efficiency?
I break down the mechanics of timeout trees, their implications for channel factories, and how they address Lightning's long-term scaling limitations. Along the way, I share...
2025-03-2149 min
Bitcoin AudibleChat_129 - Building the UX Last Mile with UTXO"The last thing we should want to do is the government to print up a bunch of money, which steals from the poor, so that they can buy Bitcoin to enrich us. Or fill up the SBR by seizing coins, which is basically what it is now.
The real adoption comes from people actually using it, from individuals and businesses creating circular economies, trading goods and services, increasing the velocity. This is what real Bitcoin adoption is all about."
~ UTXO
The irony of posting on Twitter, how Nostr isn't decentralized enough, is not...
2025-03-201h 26
Bitcoin AudibleRead_874 - A Heatpunk's Manifesto
What if your heating system could pay you in Bitcoin? In this episode, I read an article exploring the concept of "heat punks"—Bitcoin miners who use their rigs not just to earn sats, but to heat their homes. The article breaks down the economics of mining-as-heating, from upfront costs to the surprising efficiencies that make it viable. Along the way, I add my own thoughts on the practicality of this approach, the trade-offs involved, and what it could mean for the future of energy use. Could mining rewards turn heat into a byproduct rather than an expense? Let’s di...
2025-03-1826 min
Bitcoin AudibleReboot - Take #44 - Bitcoin is Not What you Think it is
Life has been hectic lately, but I didn’t want to leave you hanging! While I navigate the joys of parenthood, I’m bringing back a classic - Guy's Take #44 - Bitcoin is Not What you Think it is.
What if your understanding of Bitcoin is only scratching the surface? In this episode, I dive into the deeper realities of money itself—how great societies are built on sound money, why money is more foundational than language, and how prices convey critical information rather than being arbitrary. We also explore the nature of time, the role of proof...
2025-03-131h 09
Bitcoin AudibleRoundtable_007 - Bitcoin, Babies, and the Bitcoin DollarBitcoiners having babies, P2P protocols, Bitcoin price without third parties, mining problems and solutions, stable coins coming back to Bitcoin, massive hacks, shitcoin quacks, and a partridge in a pear tree. Wrapping up February and all the major news with some Bitcoin OGs.Guest Links
Steve Simple Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3s6a8yn8)
Steve Simple on X (Link: https://x.com/stevesimple)
Bitcoin Mechanic Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2tm827ut)
Bitcoin Mechanic on X (Link: https://x.com/GrassFedBitcoin)
Jeff Swann Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3sjc3bcp)
Jeff Swann on X (Lin...
2025-03-052h 00
Bitcoin AudibleRead_872 - Erosion of the Meaning of CustodyNicholas Dorier brings us a short piece that is very relevant to many of our challenges today, being clear and precise about the definition of the word custody. As we have seen for decades, the political sphere is almost designed to destroy and confuse the definition of words for the explicit purpose of broadening power, and creating enemies and criminals of anyone who gets in their way. But an even greater dilution of the term has come from within, as new "layer 2" systems compete to be seen as the next major leap forward. Are they really, or are we...
2025-03-0330 min
Bitcoin AudibleRead_871 - Hodlers: an apologyDid you know that the value and utility of Bitcoin can be trivially duplicated? At least this is what the increasingly bitter buttcoiners of the world seem to espouse, even when proven wrong over and over again, and seeing a million copy cats fail at this very challenge. At least the capitulation is fun to watch. A short one from FT with a Guy's Take to follow. An "apology" to bitcoiners.
Check out the original article Hodlers: an apology by Financial Times (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3byu5hnd)
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Guy on Nostr...
2025-02-2833 min
Bitcoin AudibleRead_870 - Can Nostr fix app distribution?Tired of app stores controlling what you download and who gets paid? What if there was a way to directly connect with developers, verify the authenticity of their apps, and support them directly using Bitcoin? Could Nostr, the decentralized social network, be the key to unlocking a new era of app distribution, giving users more control and fostering a more trustworthy ecosystem?
Check out the original article Can Nostr fix app distribution? by Franzap. (Link: https://tinyurl.com/yc3cvx8x)
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Guy on Nostr (Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xc96ney)
Guy on X...
2025-02-2455 min
Bitcoin AudibleChat_128 - The Voice of Bitcoin [Bitcoin Infinity Show]I joined Knut Svanholm and Luke de Wolf on the Bitcoin Infinity Show to explore the fundamental role of money, incentives, and sound economics in shaping society. We dug into the "Give-a-Shit Matrix", a powerful framework for understanding how people allocate resources—and how broken incentives lead to systemic waste.
We also unpacked why Bitcoin is the apex of financial responsibility, how fiat incentivizes inefficiency, and why Ethereum’s staking model is fundamentally flawed. Along the way, we explored miner incentives, the real problem with ordinals, and the deeper economic distortions caused by inflation.
Why does...
2025-02-211h 41
Bitcoin AudibleTake_098 - Taking Stock of Our WinsIt's easy to complain about what hasn't happened yet or what problems are still to be solved. And it's also hard to have humility, recognizing that maybe how and when we imagined a problem would be solved, may not be how reality plays out.
Without getting complacent, it is prudent to also have perspective and compare where we are to its alternatives, rather than an assumed perfect solution that doesn't yet exist. So today we take a break from the technical dives, and the challenges ahead, and take stock of our massive wins, to see just how...
2025-02-191h 23
Bitcoin AudibleRead_869 - Mainline DHT — Censorship-Resistance ExplainedI've wanted for a long time to understand how a DHT works, and how a P2P network is able to establish connections in a resilient, scalable, and decentralized way. So diving into it on the show and having to explain it, seemed the easy way to force me to figure it out. With the help of a fantastic article from the Pubky team, let's make sense of the censorship resistance of P2P networks.
Check out the original article Mainline DHT — Censorship-Resistance Explained by Severin Alexander Bühler. (Link: https://tinyurl.com/bdht6zs9)
Host...
2025-02-1452 min
Bitcoin AudibleChat_127 - The Hijacking Bitcoin Debate [Liberty Lockdown]In a past episode, I joined Steve Patterson and the host for what was supposed to be a discussion but quickly turned into one of the most heated debates I've had on the show. Along with Steve, who co-authored Hijacking Bitcoin with Roger Ver, we dove into a fiery debate about Michael Saylor—his influence, his ideas, and whether Bitcoin has been hijacked.
While we all agreed it wouldn’t be a debate, the conversation sparked intense back-and-forths about Bitcoin’s direction and the potential dangers it faces. It’s a passionate exchange that touches on crucial issues w...
2025-02-132h 40
Bitcoin AudibleRead_868 - The Digit Addiction Pandemic
We are all addicted to digits. Fiat digits, loyalty points, social media likes, stock prices—everywhere we turn, someone is trying to hook us. But what if the biggest addiction of all is the illusion of control over numbers that don’t belong to us? In this episode, I dive into a thought-provoking article that exposes how fiat, real estate, gold, stocks, and even Bitcoin itself have become part of a global digit addiction. Who are the digit lords keeping us hooked? How do they manipulate our perception of value? And most importantly—can Bitcoin be both the ultimate fix an...
2025-02-111h 00
Bitcoin AudibleRead_867 - The danger of the collective "we""We owe it to ourselves."
I truly hope you aren't so stupid as to believe this statement when it is uttered by the frauds running the financial and political establishment. But if you never had the time to breakdown why the notion was so stupid, or never thought to question it, don't worry, Marty Bent and I have it taken care of for you. Enjoy.
Check out the original article Issue #754: The danger of the collective "we" by Marty Bent. (Link: https://tinyurl.com/y59whawa)
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Guy on No...
2025-02-0322 min
Bitcoin AudibleRoundtable_006 - Store of Bitcoin, Medium of CreditBitcoin adoption, political shifts, and the future of money - this roundtable gets into it all. How will stablecoins impact the global financial system? Can Bitcoin truly function as a medium of exchange, or is it destined to remain a store of value? What happens when governments and banks start stockpiling BTC? And, in a world where the rules of money are shifting, is the U.S. setting up a strategic Bitcoin reserve? Join me, Bitcoin Mechanic, Steve, and Jeff as we break it all down - no filters, no fluff, just raw discussion. Guest Links
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2025-01-312h 20
Bitcoin AudibleRead_866 - Island Economics: Why Exploitation & Perpetual Wars are Rational Under FIATWhat if exploitation and war weren't merely anomalies of human society, but there was something inherent to the incentives of the fiat system, that made them inevitable?
In today's Read we dive into Petter Englund's, "Island Economics: Why Perpetual War is Rational Under Fiat", and expand on its core ideas. Is a world free from the zero-sum game of fiat possible? Can Bitcoin get us there?Check out the original article Island Economics: Why Exploitation & Perpetual Wars are Rational Under FIATby Petter Englund. (Link: https://tinyurl.com/musnh9zk)
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2025-01-2958 min
Bitcoin AudibleTake_097 - Ross Ulbricht Breathes Free Air AgainToday, Ross Ulbricht breathes the free air again. What does the story of Ross Ulbricht reveal about justice, freedom, and the early ethos of Bitcoin? I thought I would take a little time to delve into the inconsistencies and controversies surrounding the trial, the principles of voluntary trade, and the deeper values of the Bitcoin revolution. Was justice truly served, or did systemic corruption shape the narrative? It's time for a Guy's Take episode.
Links mentioned:
Donald Trump Did the Right Thing by Freeing Ross Ulbricht by Bitcoin Magazine (Link: https://tinyurl.com/yem2m...
2025-01-2745 min
Bitcoin AudibleRead_865 - The Hard Path"The Bitcoin community possesses a unique advantage that will ultimately allow us to prevail: not only do we have skin in the game, we have soul in the game.Our tribe of a few thousand cypherpunk Bitcoin maximalist fanatics stand against an empire of fiat clones, millions of faceless cogs in a soulless machine. I like our odds." — Francis, Bull Bitcoin
In this episode I dive into Francis Pouliot's thought-provoking article, "The Hard Path", exploring the philosophy and challenges of building sustainable Bitcoin solutions. From the critical importance of self-custody to the ethics of taking the har...
2025-01-2452 min
Bitcoin AudibleRoundtable_005 - 21 MIL NOT GUARANTEED!, Blackrock, Saylor, El Salvador, SBR, and moreDecember brings with it a return to the glory days of FUD. Blackjack has done the unthinkable, and the 21 million limit to Bitcoin is in grave danger. Saylor is running his own personal Ponzi that's absolutely killing it. The Blocksize War is back again and Roger Ver is suddenly relevant thanks to the feds who control Bitcoin being very mad at him for writing a book. All this and a partridge in a pear tree with Mechanic, Steve, Jeff, and myself, for Guy's Roundtable to wrap up the month of December and close out the year. Don't miss it!
2024-12-241h 53
Bitcoin AudibleChat_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, like I'm just gonna build all of this stuff on top of it. And if none of the assurances of the underlying, those things don't matter because its value is in the quote unquote utility of payments.
Money is its own utility. Money is its own utility because where on earth do you hold value in something that can hold enormous amounts of value that has no counterparty risk, that has nobody in charge, that has nobody...
2024-12-183h 11
Bitcoin AudibleChat_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 are no middlemen, so it's going to work if any of your devices are online. You can also just be interested in it from this angle, the idea that if you have full control of your data, and the code that you're using, that you're running on that data, then anybody can fork it, modify it, tweak it, and create a whole... That's where the Cambrian explosion comes in, this whole proliferation of apps that give users very different...
2024-12-172h 07
Bitcoin AudibleTake_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 potential. I think complacency is one of the greatest threats to Bitcoin - we must not rest upon our laurels." — Lopp
Bitcoin crosses a hundred thousand dollars. Your Bitcoin investment has exploded. You're looking at it and all you can see is how much it's worth in dollars. And so you send your buddy guy a message and you say, "When should I sell my Bitcoin?" And from the average person's perspective, I think what is t...
2024-12-1249 min
Bitcoin AudibleRoundtable_004 - Nov 2024 - Trump, Hash Collisions, Court Rulings, Covenants, All Time Highs, and What We Don't KnowGuy's Roundtable gets together for another awesome breakdown. Covering all the happenings this month: Trump wins the election, new bitcoin innovations, court rulings on privacy and free speech, bitcoin surges through the all time high, and trying to know what it is we know about the things we don't know. Mechanic, Jeff, Steve and Guy assemble to get some OG wisdom and ranting for the month in Bitcoin.
Thanks to the guests for joining:
Steve Simple Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3s6a8yn8)
Steve Simple on X (Link: https://x.com/stevesimple)
Bitcoin Mec...
2024-11-292h 14
Bitcoin AudibleAi Take_037 - Focus"Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing."— Ron Swanson
Focus. Easily spoken, hard to live by. There are many lessons that Bitcoin teaches, and one that is more clearly true the older I get, is that every single thing in a trade off. And not just solutions, or tools, or networks, but the very thing that you spend your time thinking about, at the expense of all other things. What dreams you spend your time building, at the expense of all other dreams. What new ideas you begin, at the expense of what you've already started, an...
2024-11-2645 min
Bitcoin AudibleAi Take_036 - Does AI Even Have a Product?Is the pursuit of artificial general intelligence a pipe dream? Are the economics of building massive AI models unsustainable? And what if the future of AI isn't about creating a single, all-powerful intelligence, but rather a multitude of small, specialized tools? In this episode, we explore the latest developments in AI and challenge the conventional wisdom about where the field is headed.
Links to check out
The Subprime AI Crisis Article (Link: https://tinyurl.com/39m3x2ws)
Andrew McCarthy's photos of the rocket launch and catch SpaceX (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2s47nz5h)
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2024-11-1150 min
Bitcoin AudibleChat_117 - Assessing Custodial Threat Vectors [Onramp]In this previous episode of Final Settlement, I joined the show to tackle custodial threat vectors and the security challenges unique to Bitcoin. We discussed Bitcoin as apolitical money and its role as a digital bearer instrument, which brings with it the complex issue of secure custody. I shared insights from a recent personal security incident when my room was broken into at a Bitcoin conference in Lugano, underscoring the very real risks we face.
We explored the evolution of Bitcoin custody, the importance of multisig setups, and the approach of Onramp’s Multi-Institution Custody in mitigating cu...
2024-11-081h 22
Bitcoin AudibleRoundtable_003 - Oct 2024 - Elections, Faketoshi Sues Again, Taxess, and ECB Concerned about FaiRNeSsHow will governments respond to the growing threat of decentralized money, and what are the implications for individual freedom and sovereignty? And can bitcoiners navigate the complexities of scaling and decentralization, or will the allure of convenience and ease of use lead to compromises on core principles?
Join the roundtable discussion as we delve into these questions and more, exploring the latest developments in the world of bitcoin and beyond.
Thanks to the guests for joining:
Steve Simple Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3s6a8yn8)
Steve Simple on X (Link: https://x...
2024-11-012h 49
Bitcoin AudibleGuy's Take_093 - The Guy Who Broke into Our Room in LuganoWas a recent break-in at a luxurious hotel just a coincidence, or a targeted attack on a Bitcoiner? We should expect that bitcoiners will be targeted. If not by governments, then simply by thieves, scammers, and opportunists. This is something that my brother and I learned very acutely with our trip to Lugano and the Plan B conference, where a man broke into our hotel room presumably to get access to our devices or steal any valuables we may have been traveling with, and we caught him in the act. This episode is a lesson in preparedness, complacency, and...
2024-10-311h 35
Bitcoin AudibleRead_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 exchange will be possible by and between more people than ever before. That itself might be the single largest driving force that will expand the scope of trade and direct exchange–more people holding and being willing to accept bitcoin will create more trade channels than could possibly exist in the fiat world."— Parker Lewis
Is it paradoxical that bitcoin's value could increase as it becomes easier to spend? In this episode, we explore the idea...
2024-10-211h 45
Bitcoin AudibleGuy's Take_092 - Inflation Does One ThingYou've likely been fed the narrative that inflation stimulates spending, benefits the economy, and that government expenditures have a profound 'multiplier effect.' This is often accompanied by an oversimplified explanation of how a money printer somehow magically boosts economic activity. These claims are just a few of the many justifications tied to the inevitable consequences of counterfeiting by government. However, the truth is that inflation has a singular, fundamental effect that's surprisingly straightforward to grasp. Beneath the surface, all the touted benefits of inflation crumble, revealing a far more insidious reality. It's time to cut through the noise...
2024-10-151h 01
Bitcoin AudibleAi Read_012 - The Subprime AI CrisisWhat do numerous over-hyped product launches, massively subsidized compute, over extended investment, lack of customer adoption, unwillingness to pay extra, enormous and increasing costs, and total dependence on a few massive players have in common?
The big tech Ai industry!
Today we dive into a fantastic breakdown of the state of the ai market, and the potentially dismal financial forecast for the poster child of Ai success, OpenAi. Is there really a massive market here that supports 100 billion dollar investments ongoing? Or is it all smoke and mirrors with a very uncertain future.
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2024-10-101h 01
Bitcoin AudibleAi_035 - My Favorite Ai ToolToday we dive into my favorite Ai app, combining dozens of open source tools unlocking a new era of creativity and productivity? How can you harness the power of AI to simplify workflows and organize our digital lives? Join me as I explore the possibilities and implications of AI-powered tools and share my own experiences with Pinokio and other innovative applications.
Links to check out to explore more:
Pinokio.computer (Link: Pinokio.computer)
Comfy UI (Link: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI)
Whisper C++ (Link: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp)
Flux (Link: https://github.com/l...
2024-09-2738 min
Bitcoin AudibleAi_034 - Small Models Reign SupremeWill the increasing shift towards smaller, more efficient AI models revolutionize the way we interact with AI? Can open-source models and fine-tunes like Hermes 3 and Grok 2 challenge the dominance of proprietary models? And what does the future hold for AI development as the hype and investment surrounding AI begin to wane? Join me as I explore these questions and more on this episode of Ai Unchained.Links to check out to explore more:
Jimmy Song: AI vs Bitcoin (Link: https://primal.net/e/note1rwa45e9flhmtyw85gwprfsqr0vs4fldhv5sc8ejqzqwurefjz7xqmrs92n)
fabric: extract...
2024-09-131h 38
Bitcoin AudibleGuy's Take_091 - The Path of Greatest PainSometimes life will make you feel stuck, it will wear you down and gaslight you into believing you have made no progress. Small, persistent progress is hard to see, and its only when you take a big step back that it becomes clear. Today I explore the parallels between life's ups and downs and Bitcoin's market volatility and where we are today. I'll share why Bitcoin's limited supply and steady upward push make it a powerful reminder of the importance of seemingly tiny, but unceasing improvements, and why it's essential to endure through the tough times to still be...
2024-09-111h 02
Bitcoin AudibleChat_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 a node or entity. All you are is entropy. You're just a public key with silent payment style tweaking. That means no address reuse. By default, coins gets mixed in each round. In a scalable and convenient way. And so it's all private. You can't tell who pays what and when and what amount really. It is great and appealing for privacy people, and I can see Ark dominating Dark web."
- Burak
In this episode, Guy Swann hosts B...
2024-09-082h 03
Bitcoin AudibleRead_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 types of L2’s, is that we’d learn more about how willing the wider community is to implement what should be a relatively uncontroversial soft-fork that arguably benefits everyone." — Peter Todd
In this deep dive into Bitcoin's Layer 2 solutions, we explore Peter Todd's comprehensive analysis of soft fork and covenant proposals. What are the trade-offs between different scaling solutions like CTV, OP_CAT, and SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT? How might these changes impact Bitcoin's future, and wh...
2024-09-041h 51
Bitcoin AudibleRead_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. So there are many proposals out there to achieve even greater scaling by allowing multiple users to share a single UTXO in a self-sovereign way. Again, collapsing another “space” dimension of scaling users into one UTXO."— Peter Todd
Today we dive into Peter Todd's recent review of the various Layer 2 covenant proposals and the soft forks associated with them to analyze the core concepts, the costs, and benefits of each. For moving into the...
2024-09-041h 44
Bitcoin AudibleGuy's Roundtable_001 - 85% Bitcoin Tax, Bitaxe, Big Banks, and a Shitcoin Trojan HorseIt's Here! Today I am thrilled to introduce the first episode of Guy's Roundtable. I've assembled a group of OG bitcoiners for a new monthly series where we dissect the latest developments in the bitcoin world. In this inaugural episode, we set the stage for what promises to be an enlightening journey through the ever-evolving Bitcoin landscape. Our mission? To keep you informed, spark thoughtful discussions, insult the right people, apologize to no one, and gain insight from the lunatics who've seen more bear markets and crazy storms in the bitcoin world than anyone else you know.
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2024-08-301h 54
Bitcoin AudibleGuy'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 of US bonds, and political figures have flipped the script to embrace Bitcoin. What does this mean for the future of money, and will Bitocin reinforce dollar dominance or pave the way for a new monetary standard? It's time for a Guy's Take episode.
Links to check out
Whitney Webb & Mark Goodwin's research on the Bitcoin Dollar theory
The Bitcoin Reformation by Tuur Demeester
Lyn Alden's work on banking crises and global financial systems
Preston Pysh's...
2024-08-291h 48
AI UnchainedAi_033 - Fear to Freedom: The Optimistic Case for AI [The Staying Free Podcast]"When you introduce 2 million, 10 million "developers" that were never developers into an ecosystem that's used to having closed platforms and silos and stuff, what do those 10 million motivated people build? They're more likely to build the solution that they always wanted and that they build something that gets around these silos.One of the most important things that's going on right now is the shift from closed platforms to open protocols. The more that all of that stuff is open, the more the walls, the potential barriers that appear to lock people into these platforms will just kind...
2024-08-232h 00
Bitcoin AudibleAi_033 - Fear to Freedom: The Optimistic Case for AI [The Staying Free Podcast]"When you introduce 2 million, 10 million "developers" that were never developers into an ecosystem that's used to having closed platforms and silos and stuff, what do those 10 million motivated people build? They're more likely to build the solution that they always wanted and that they build something that gets around these silos.One of the most important things that's going on right now is the shift from closed platforms to open protocols. The more that all of that stuff is open, the more the walls, the potential barriers that appear to lock people into these platforms will just kind...
2024-08-232h 00
Bitcoin AudibleChat_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 the Bitcoin world, within the Bitcoin environment, they're going to have to Samourai Wallet every one of us to get that money, which means it's not going to work. There's either going to be a revolution or society goes from a quiet fraud of 60% of our wealth to guns and whips stealing 60% of our wealth. That second one is not sustainable."- Guy Swann
In this episode of the B...
2024-08-211h 16
Bitcoin AudibleChat_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 and they can have backdoors into everybody's stuff.They're abusive and everything, but not everything's imploded yet. And that continues on. But we continue in this trajectory until at some point, the some little thing breaks or somebody actually makes a concerted effort to land an attack. And just because it's so clear that we are so vulnerable, and we realize that we have committed suicide.We have set up all of the tools and all of...
2024-08-161h 33
Bitcoin AudibleAi_032 - Open Source Ai is Catching UpOpen source Ai is catching up. In this episode of AI Unchained, we explore the implications of the dominant open source models actually competing with proprietary models. We challenge assumptions about AI development trajectories, drawing parallels with other technological evolutions. Could the next AI revolution be horizontal rather than vertical, and what might this mean for accessibility and innovation in the field?
Links to check out
Llama 3.1 and the 405B parameter model (Link: https://tinyurl.com/watcb3nx)
Mark Zuckerberg's article about Llama 3.1 (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2cc5jkb2)
Claude AI (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2...
2024-08-161h 06
Bitcoin AudibleAI_031 - How I use AIIs AI really all hype and oversold gimmicks, or is it going to change the world and replace everyone with software workers? Or are both of these views a distraction from what's right in front of us? How is AI useful today for very real tasks? In this episode, we'll dive into some major new open-source models and releases, along with exploring the very practical applications of LLMs with the help of Nicholas Carlini's fantastic article on where he finds value today. I also want to challenge the pessimistic views about AI's impact on jobs and share how we...
2024-08-091h 20AI UnchainedAi_030 - Preparing for the Intelligence ExplosionHow might open-source AI development shape the future of artificial intelligence and global competition? Guy Swan examines Leopold Aschenbrenner's "Situational Awareness" piece and Mark Zuckerberg's recent article on open-source AI, exploring the potential for an intelligence explosion, the risks of centralized AI development, and the advantages of a decentralized approach. Could open innovation be the key to maintaining technological leadership and ensuring a positive AI future?
Links to check out
Leopold Aschenbrenner - situational-awareness (Link: https://tinyurl.com/jmbkurp6)
Open Source AI Is the Path Forward | Meta (Link: https://tinyurl.com/sczp8fnj)
Llama 3 and...
2024-08-041h 56
Bitcoin AudibleAi_030 - Preparing for the Intelligence ExplosionHow might open-source AI development shape the future of artificial intelligence and global competition? Guy Swan examines Leopold Aschenbrenner's "Situational Awareness" piece and Mark Zuckerberg's recent article on open-source AI, exploring the potential for an intelligence explosion, the risks of centralized AI development, and the advantages of a decentralized approach. Could open innovation be the key to maintaining technological leadership and ensuring a positive AI future?
Links to check out
Leopold Aschenbrenner - situational-awareness (Link: https://tinyurl.com/jmbkurp6)
Open Source AI Is the Path Forward | Meta (Link: https://tinyurl.com/sczp8fnj)
Llama 3 and Llama 3.1 mo...
2024-08-041h 56
Bitcoin AudibleGuy's Take_089 - Trump Speaks at Bitcoin2024Is Trump's speech at Bitcoin 2024 a sign of genuine support or just typical political pandering? Today we explore the implications of politicians courting the Bitcoin community, questions the motives behind their promises, and explores the potential for Bitcoin to reshape the geopolitical landscape. Will the next election cycle mark a turning point for Bitcoin's role in politics, or is this just the newest form of political grifting?
Links to check out
The Chain of Custody: The “Mafia” Holding The Elite’s Bitcoin by Mark Goodwin and Whitney Webb (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2hkzykrv)
The Bitcoin-Dollar: An Econo...
2024-07-291h 34
Bitcoin AudibleAi Read_011 - The AGI Manhattan Project"Do we need an AGI Manhattan Project? Slowly at first, then all at once, it will become clear: this is happening, things are going to get wild, this is the most important challenge for the national security of the United States since the invention of the atomic bomb. In one form or another, the national security state will get very heavily involved. The Project will be the necessary, indeed the only plausible, response." ~ Leopold
Will the race for AGI lead to a Manhattan Project-like initiative, and how might this reshape the global order? Today we diver into...
2024-07-2549 min
Bitcoin AudibleChat_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 weight between all of these things... You can't just charge $100,000 dollars for something if nobody has that money, and then think that you're gonna sell it. You'll never can't sell it for that. You can't sell something for an amount of money that doesn't exist. Just look at the stock market. You're just looking at money printing going into the financial system before going into everything else. That's all it is."~ Guy SwannOriginal episode on...
2024-07-241h 15
Bitcoin AudibleGuy's Take_088 - The Hard TruthIt's time to accept some hard truths. Today we are going to challenge some common assumptions about Bitcoin's scalability, privacy, and transaction fees. Is Bitcoin really even global peer-to-peer cash for everyone? Is privacy even still in the cards for Bitcoin? Is there anything left in crypto at all? And what will be the future nature of fees when Bitcoin is a global dominant store of value, and is there an analogous market can we explore today for insight into what this market may look like in the coming decades? It's time for a Guy's take episode...
2024-07-231h 31
Bitcoin AudibleChat_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 was scary, I was like, this can undo what Bitcoin is doing unless we get ahead of this. Luckily I actually now think that despite the fact that there will elements of centralizing forces in AI, this will contribute more to the diseconomies of scale of the giant corporate setup and the government institutions in the sense that the bigger you are, the less it helps you."~ Guy Swann
I had the pleasure of...
2024-07-181h 51
Bitcoin AudibleChat_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 shallow, short term social consensus. That the protocol determines the rules, and then everyone is only able to fight within those rules, and any changes that are made can only occur within those rules, and anybody who tries to break those rules are necessarily forking off. And if they do not get overwhelming support to do that, the change simply doesn't succeed." ~ Guy Swann
Today, I'm excited to bring you a special episode featuring a m...
2024-06-193h 14
AI UnchainedAi_028 - How Much Do You Trust Apple?Today Guy Swann dives deep into everything about the "Apple Intelligence" announcement, which aims to integrate powerful AI capabilities directly into the company's operating systems. He raises thought-provoking questions about the implications of such a system, particularly regarding privacy and trust in a tech giant like Apple. The episode promises to explore the potential benefits and drawbacks of this groundbreaking AI implementation.
Links to check out:
Ai_023 - The Promise of personal Ai (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/zyaRbKCfCIPtUgzzmr6d)
Does Apple Have a Recording of You Having Sex (Link: https://tinyurl.com/ydhbcbar)
WWDC 2024 (Link...
2024-06-161h 24
Bitcoin AudibleAi_028 - How Much Do You Trust Apple?Today Guy Swann dives deep into everything about the "Apple Intelligence" announcement, which aims to integrate powerful AI capabilities directly into the company's operating systems. He raises thought-provoking questions about the implications of such a system, particularly regarding privacy and trust in a tech giant like Apple. The episode promises to explore the potential benefits and drawbacks of this groundbreaking AI implementation.
Links to check out:
Ai_023 - The Promise of personal Ai (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/zyaRbKCfCIPtUgzzmr6d)
Does Apple Have a Recording of You Having Sex (Link: https://tinyurl.com/ydhbcbar)
WWDC 2024 (Link...
2024-06-161h 24
Bitcoin AudibleGuy's Take_087 - Credit, Burning Cash, and Real GrowthIs deflation always a bad thing, or have we misunderstood its true impact on the economy? Join me as I unravel the misconceptions about deflation, explore the different types, and explain why modern economics gets it wrong. Discover how Bitcoin fits into this picture and what it means for real economic growth.
Links to check out
2 Sats Video on Deflation (Link: https://youtu.be/vknNY3oTABc)
Guy's Take - Fiat Waste (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/1gcvdjEf8b3FB1D48jjX)
Guy's Take - Fiat Finance (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/0mPe87a9FOWQoHIPFytU)
Host...
2024-06-1458 min
Bitcoin AudibleGuy's Take_086 - Fiat WastePeople look around and they see a wasteful world. They see endless, mindless consumption. Increasingly, we see people fearing the future rather than hoping for it.
I'm going to make the case today that in order to realign this, money must be the most valuable good in society. And necessarily, it must be the hardest thing to produce and that we actually can know this because of where the value of money comes from and what the money is in relation to the society that uses it. I want you to come away from the end of...
2024-05-3058 min
Bitcoin AudibleReboot - Invalid Blocks Need Not ApplyIdeas and ways of thinking are much like paths in the wood. When we explore them often they are well worn and clearly defined. But often we get lost exploring other ideas or focused on something we hope to see in the future, and even the paths we know well get ignored, and the brush starts to creep back in. The noise of the world begins to obscure what was once an obvious truth. This is why its good to refresh important ideas from time to time. To walk those paths again, to remind ourselves of the perspectives that...
2024-05-2835 min
Bitcoin AudibleTPR_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 to access your camera from anywhere, you don't really need a static IP. You don't need to pay for that. You don't need to take all those security risks. All you need to do is boot up Holesail or a similar service built on Holepunch to connect peer to peer directly to your computer only to that specific port. That's it. You are connected to it. There are no middle men. And nothing is exposed to the public."
2024-05-251h 26
Bitcoin AudibleRead_823 - Scaling Trust"This capability ensures that participants can trust the system's integrity without the need for mutual trust among users. It fundamentally alters how trust is brokered globally, extending the reach of reliable transactions beyond traditional, geographic, and institutional boundaries."~ Adolfo Contreras
In this episode of Bitcoin Audible, Guy Swann delves into an insightful article from Blockstream titled "Scaling Trust: Bitcoin's Role in Bridging the Global Digital Divide" by Adolfo Contreras. How does Bitcoin redefine trust in a globalized digital world, and what potential does it hold for transforming financial systems, especially in developing countries? Join Guy a...
2024-05-231h 11
Bitcoin AudibleRead_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. But disrupting conversation is not the veto, the actions of actual transacting economic actors deciding what software to run or not run is the veto. This denial of service on dialogue is not some noble or righteous crusade to save Bitcoin, it is an active attack on those economic actors and their ability to gain a better understanding to make an informed decision on whether to veto something or not."~ Shinobi
Today we dive into...
2024-05-2147 min
Bitcoin AudibleAi_025 - Bullsh.t and BreakthroughsToday we explore the deluge of announcements from both OpenAi and Google. With a plethora of Ai features dropping at Google I/O And Chat GPT-4o landing with an ai that can be spoken to like a human, how do we determine the difference between groundbreaking AI tools and mere gimmicks. How do we discern practical applications from overhyped features? Join Guy as he navigates the latest AI developments, asking the critical question: What truly enhances our digital lives and what falls short?
Links to check out:
Rabbit R1 (Link: https://www.rabbit.te...
2024-05-201h 25
Bitcoin AudibleTPR_001 - Return of the P2P WebIn our inaugural episode of The Pear Report, it only felt right to bring Mafintosh and dmc onto the show to explore the transformative potential of the Pear Stack and how it can reshape our digital interactions and the foundational layers of the internet! Delve into discussions on the role of the Pear Stack in enabling more decentralized, secure, and user-empowered digital environments. Do not sleep on what is happening, find out why in our first episode, "The Second Coming of the P2P Web."
Links to check out
Pears.com (Link: pears.com)
Th...
2024-05-141h 46
Bitcoin AudibleAi_022 - Applying AiHow can AI be harnessed to manage and enhance personal and professional digital interactions more effectively? In this episode of "AI Unchained," explore the essential tools and concepts needed to apply AI in self-hosted environments, navigate the intricacies of vector embeddings, and integrate AI seamlessly into your digital workspace. What modular approaches and AI skills are essential as coding becomes more automated? Dive into these questions and more with host Guy Swann.
Links to check out
Devs Who Can't Code #1 - Build a To Do App (Link: https://tinyurl.com/29taj247)
Devs Who Can't Code...
2024-04-301h 10
Bitcoin AudibleAi_019 - What if You Had a Personal Software DeveloperWith the announcement of Devin, the "First AI Software Engineer" by Cognition Labs, some are calling it a breakthrough, while others aren't so impressed and believe other models can do largely the same thing. What is the unique difference that Devin brings to the table and does it have implications for the accessibility of coding and could it even suggest a change in direction for the future of software itself? Don't miss this fascinating topic in today's episode of Ai Unchained.
Check out Cognition Labs Blog and the details of this wild new project. (Link: https://www...
2024-03-1448 min
Bitcoin AudibleAi_016 - Video AI Breakthroughs Already in 2024"By the end of 2024, everyone will have tools easily available to them that will allow them to create any video they want by simply typing in a description and hitting generate."
~ Guy Swann
Are we on the brink of a revolution where anyone can create blockbuster-quality videos from their bedroom? Discover how the latest AI breakthroughs in 2024 are dismantling the barriers to professional filmmaking and what this might mean for truth, politics, and storytelling. What will the world look like when reality itself can be engineered with a few clicks?
Links to explore th...
2024-02-2258 min
Bitcoin AudibleAi_013 - Become Anyone With AiToday we explore the tools for voice changing ai and text-to-speech. What is Guy using, and what are the impacts of instant and easy voice copying be on content creation, copyright, the meme lords, fraud, and personal identity.
Referenced in the show
ElevenLabs.io (Link: https://elevenlabs.io/)
Altered.ai (Link: https://www.altered.ai/)
Episode #011 - The Fears of Ai (Link: http://tinyurl.com/4v9rj98r)
Could Ai Go Nuclear? - Ai Unchained #003 - The Dark Side of Ai with Alex Lewin (Link: http://tinyurl.com/2pxkv5n3)
Host Links
Guy on No...
2024-01-1152 min
Bitcoin AudibleAi Read_000 - Google "We Have No Moat...""These contributions were pivotal in the image generation space, setting Stable Diffusion on a different path from Dall-E. Having an open model led to product integrations, marketplaces, user interfaces, and innovations that didn’t happen for Dall-E. The effect was palpable: rapid domination in terms of cultural impact vs the OpenAI solution, which became increasingly irrelevant. Whether the same thing will happen for LLMs remains to be seen, but the broad structural elements are the same." ~ Anonymous Google Employee
While I wasn't sure whether I would bring the "read" format to this podcast, there was just too much great material to cover a...
2023-06-141h 17
AI UnchainedAi_003 - The Dark Side of Ai with Alex LewinAi may be able to make us vastly more productive, far more creative, and orders of magnitude more dangerous. As Ai moves into the realm of creating hierarchies of tasks to accomplish larger goals, combined with the unparalleled scalability of its execution, a broad, self-spreading and malicious Ai becomes frighteningly more possible by the day. Like a wildfire burning out of control, what could be the consequences, how bad could a hypothetical scenario get, and what, if anything, can we do about it?
Don't miss this incredible conversation with Alex Lewin, bringing a software development and cyber...
2023-06-091h 34
Bitcoin AudibleRead_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 things are true, but they each miss the more significant elements of what they accomplish." — Guy Swann
Yesterday I was consumed with a mental thread that I couldn't get out of my head, and so decided to set everything else aside and get this idea out. Today we read my short article posted on blogstack.io, and follow it with a Guy's Take on the possible nuance, where I might be wrong, and where I...
2023-06-081h 07
Bitcoin AudibleChat_73 - WTF is Happening in 2022? With Greg Foss, Clint Russell, & Guy SwannWe dive into the chaotic world of 2022 with the insanity of the financial markets, the bond markets cracking apart, the political sphere going nuclear, & the steady tick tock next block of Bitcoin as a totem of reliability & sanity in an insane world. Greg Foss and I joined Clint Russell on his excellent podcast Liberty Lockdown to dive into it all in a 2 hour rampage on the sate of the world today. Don't miss this one!
Check out Clint and his podcast, Liberty Lockdown if you haven't. Its an excellent show that has been blowing up in the liberty space:
https...
2022-10-072h 51
Bitcoin AudibleGuy's Take #59 - We're Not Going Anywhere"Bitcoin is not merely a network, it's a foundation for an anti-authoritarian political movement in an increasingly authoritarian world. If you're looking for why so many people are deeply passionate about Bitcoin & nothing else, start there." - Guy Swann
Today I decide to rant about what Bitcoin maximalism means to me, why I am totally and completely focused on Bitcoin and nothing else, and why I think "crypto" has lost the plot. Crypto is interested in building a bunch of toys to be accepted by the establishment, Bitcoin is a declaration of independence from it.
The other episodes mentioned for...
2022-09-201h 21
Bitcoin AudibleGuy's Take #49 - Backed by Truth"Bitcoin is a network, a money, a language, a system of rules, & a clock. Bitcoin is backed by Truth"
- Guy Swann
Links to other works mentioned in the show today for further digging and study of these concepts in detail. Plus a really funny clip on the ridiculousness of the English language:
Dergigi's "Bitcoin is Time"
https://bitcoinaudible.com/bitcoin-is-time/
Gallagher on the English Language:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfz3kFNVopk
Shelling Out: The Origins of Money:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/shelling-out-the-origins-of-money/
Money, Blockchains & Social Scalability:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/money-blockchains-and-social-scalability/
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2021-08-061h 03
Bitcoin AudibleChat #57 - Bitcoin History with Peter Todd, Brady Swenson, & Guy Swann on Swan Signal Live"Peter Todd, a Bitcoin developer who has been around from the very beginning and even well before Bitcoin was released and Guy Swann who bought his first Bitcoin on Mt. Gox in early 2011, join us to dive into Bitcoin's fascinating history."
Today we get into a recent fun episode on Swan Signal where we take a little walk through Bitcoin's history. For those new to Bitcoin this is a great discussion to get an idea of how we got to where we are, and the reason behind it.
Connect with Peter Todd:
https://twitter...
2021-02-241h 36
Bitcoin AudibleShitcoin Insider #004 - The Ripple EffectJust after the announcement of the SEC lawsuit, a filing that is just full of scammy goodness, the ongoing delistings of XRP, & a massive crash in the price... what better time is there to dedicate a full episode of Shitcoin Insider to the glorious XRP?
Is Ripple a security? Is it a scam? Can it do anything it claims to do? Does anyone even use their product? Find out all this and more with Guy and his co-host, THE Shitcoin Insider returning for our conversation. The duo are joined today with yet another Insider, this one working...
2020-12-291h 51
Bitcoin AudibleGuy's Take #38 - An Unstoppable Force"It's not that a government has the ability to ban Bitcoin from their country, I think it's closer to the opposite: A country only has the ability to ban itself from Bitcoin." - Guy Swann
Today we've got my speech from BitBlockBoom to close out the week. One I've been meaning to share for some time, and I think you guys will really enjoy it. If you prefer the video version, you can check it out at the link below.
Don't forget to check out our sponsors who make Bitcoin Audible possible:
Hexa Wallet...
2020-12-1138 min
Bitcoin AudibleChat_42 - Pseu, Guy, & the Future of Bitcoin"Guy Swann returns to the show to discuss Bitcoin scaling, privacy, lightning, state chains, institutional solutions, owning your keys, and much more."
Pseu and I go down the rabbit hole of Bitcoin's future and what the road there may look like in this episode of his show, "A Boy Named Pseu." If you haven't checked out his podcast yet, it's a great one to explore on the principles of liberty and deep dives into all sort of conversations around Bitcoin. It's definitely one not to miss!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-boy-named-pseu/id1477843916
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2020-06-261h 38