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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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Chat_147 - Insuring the Uninsurable with Rob Hamilton
"One of the founding tenets of anarcho-capitalism [is] that in a world without a government, you would have insurance contracts as the means for negot...
Read_907 - Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money
In this episode, I read and explore “Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money” by the Human Rights Foundation, written by Alex Gladstein - a powerful look at how...
Chat_146 - Building for Sovereignty with Craig Raw
"When you hold the Bitcoin yourself, you already have the control over it that you don't get with any other custodial financial instrument. And I thin...
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Read_906 - The Censorship Tsunami is Building [FFR 91]
They call it “financial inclusion,” but it’s anything but. Whether's it's Vietnam’s mass bank-account purge, India’s new censorship engine, or Lagarde...
Roundtable_013 - From 1 Zetahash to the Patriot Act
We are back with the roundtable and today we tackle news from the privacy war frontlines, new and old surveillance laws, stablecoins on Bitcoin, a pre...
Read_905 - The Cost of Self Custody
Is layered self-custody really secure in a future of rising Bitcoin fees, or are we all just living in a gray area of trust and compromise? I dive int...
Chat_145 - Trust Scales Where Bitcoin Can't with John Carvalho
"The atomic economy and Synonym's mission is to research, design and ship a working free market society. So not just a free market economy, but a free...
2Sats - Why is Bitcoin Mining Even a Thing?
Bitcoin mining is both one of the coolest and most unique aspects of the Bitcoin system, and it's also one of the most deeply misunderstood parts of i...
Read_904 - The Op_Return Wars of 2014
"All of the above did have an impact, however their impact is often overstated in our view. The most significant factor is culture. Some Bitcoiners an...
Chat_144 - Accelerating into the Dollar Endgame with Peruvian Bull
"It's that old saying, right? It's that meme. It's like, however bad you think it is, it's going to get worse, right? But at the same time, it's also...
Read_903 - Vibe Capital Accumulating
"Technology is always and everywhere a tool, not an autonomous agent.
It requires humans to operate, which they will do in order to satisfy hum...
2Sats - Bitcoin's First 100 Trillion
In this episode, I break down the ticking time bomb of global debt and why it’s unsustainable. The exponential growth of debt, fueled by central banks...
Chat_143 - Rise and Fall of BTC Treasuries and the Stablecoin Dilemma with Allen Farrington
"The whole MNav trade, it has as much implied leverage on the way down as it does on the way up.
I have a lot of sympathy for the idea that actu...
Read_902 - Nostr Unpopular Opinions
What happens when our obsession with building the “perfect protocol” blinds us to the real problems users want solved? It's time to slay some sacred c...
Read_901 - 6 Weeks of Claude Code
"Up until a few months ago, the best developers played the violin. Today, they play the orchestra."
~ Justin Searls
Is AI rewriting what i...
Roundtable_012 - Lightning UX, Miniscript Magic, and the Mempool Mess
The boys are back for another Roundtable, and as usual, it’s part tech talk, part therapy session, and a little bit of news thrown in. Steve rants abo...
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Read_900 - A Flood of Censorship, Inflation & CBDCs, and an Ark [FFR 80-86]
Around the world, Bitcoin is colliding with power. Russia tracks miners, Pakistan builds a digital rupee, and activists quietly test new tools for fre...
Chat_142 - Ai, Bitcoin and 5th Generation Warfare with Jordan and Average Gary
"There have never been more tools available to the individual than there have been today.
And it's like cryptography is like the thing. If crypt...
Read_899 - USDT on Lightning: the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown
"Now that USDT and Bitcoin are natively interoperable on lightning, the circle has gained tangents. With USDT on lightning, each party to a payment, t...
Read_898 - How to Position for the Bitcoin Boom
The institutional era of Bitcoin has begun, and will make this likely one of the most significant and important bull runs in Bitcoin's history. We are...
Chat_141 - Protocols Over Platforms with Oscar Merry
"Obviously we're trying to make fountain the best possible listening experience and the best possible app for discovering great audio content.
B...
Read_897 - The Great Vanishing of Information
"In my eyes, one of the most common playbooks used by the ruling class is to identify a life-essential resource everyone is using, introduce a new and...
Chat_140 - Time, Family, and The Bullish Case for Pickleball with Vijay
"Consumerism is something that kind of hollows out society. It takes away from the real meaning of why we're here. Why we're here on earth and what ou...
Take_102 - An Unfair Game
"If you control the money, you control the purchasing power. Which, in turn, allows you to control most other things. [...] In short: you can decide w...
Read_896 - Inalienable Property Rights
"Thanks to Bitcoin anyone can use the asymmetric defenses of cryptography to their economic advantage. A symmetry is at the heart of Bitcoin security....
Chat_139 - TheGuySwann On the porch [RobbieTheFire]
In this re-release episode from "Run Your Mouth" with RobbieTheFire, we delve into the intricate world of economics, exploring the challenges posed by...
Read_895 - And Then They Fight You [FFR82]
When authoritarian regimes double down on financial surveillance and criminalize basic crypto activity, can new freedom tech offer a lifeline—or is th...
Guy's Roundtable_011 - Treasuries, Politics, Quantum & Why This Cycle is Different
Why does this Bitcoin cycle feel… different?
In this Roundtable, I sat down with Simple Steve, Bitcoin Mechanic, and my brother Jeff Swann for a...
Read_894 - The parental dead end of consent morality
"A myopic focus on personal freedom — the nights out, the "me time", the money saved — is a spiritual mirage: You think you want the paradise of nothi...
Chat_138 - Bitcoin Needs More Civil Wars with Super Testnet
"You can delete your Lightning transactions.
So unlike a blockchain, a blockchain's an append-only database and every transaction that gets stor...
Read_893 - Building a Local Network with your Neighbors
"Privacy is not a bunker. It’s not cutting every wire, ghosting every friend, and hoping the grid forgets you exist. That’s fantasy. Romanticized exil...
Chat_137 - The Natural State of Fiat is Dictatorship with Daniel Batten
"Either you don't have a fiat currency or you don't have a democracy. But the two things together, and this has been proven, cannot coexist happily wi...
Read_892 - Not ECDSA. Not Schnorr. Meet DahLIAS.
Human innovation knows no limits, and our first assumptions regarding what is possible with the tools at our disposal, are almost invariably found to...
Read_891 - The Rise of Bitcoin Stocks and Bonds
"In order for something to be used as ubiquitous money, the spender has to already have it, and the recipient has to want to hold it. Notably, people...
Chat_136 – The Most Bullish Man in Bitcoin with Christian Keroles
If Bitcoin is a paradigm shift, it gets to that stage, like it will be an even bigger product than AI, than chat GPT. And like, okay, now imagine the...
Take_101 - FOLLOW UP
Sometimes a story isn't what it seems... and that's exactly what happened in Take_100.
In this follow-up, I revisit the mysterious movement of 8...
Take_101 - The 80,000 Bitcoin Mystery
Almost $9 Billion in Bitcoin just moved for the first time in 14 years, and it seems like the person who moved them, are not the original owners. Did...
Read_890 - Executed For a Twitter Post... [FFR77]
Everyday the world is becoming more connected, but there are consequences to this at every level of society, and its been made perfectly clear, that t...
Read_889 - Bitcoin for Engineers - Solving Real, Not Theoretical Problems
Today we dive into a piece by Brunswick that makes it crystal clear why characteristics even claimed to be major defects or Bitcoin's design - from it...
Roundtable_010 - Generational Rug Pulls and The End of Bitcoin
We are BACK with the roundtable, after 2 long and crazy months and more to cover than the judge examining Craig Wright's forgeries. We dive into chain...