Bitcoin Audible

By Guy Swann

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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 thousands of hours of others' works on Bitcoin, Guy explains everything you need to know.

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Chat_85 - Bitcoin HyperDece...

09.29.2023

In this episode, I talked with Zack ₿omsta, the visionary leader behind Pivotal Pleb. Pivotal Pleb is on a mission to level the playing field for decentralized miners. Zack shares insights into how their technology is driving decentralisation and empowering ...

Bitcoin Audible episodes:

09.29.2023 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 to level the playing field for decentralized miners. Zack shares insights into how their technology is driving decentralisation and empowering ...
09.28.2023 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 public safety, the multiplying plagues from dysfunctional public services, the hollowed-out military that ultimately invited barbarian invasions. But we know ...
09.25.2023 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 on to them. And paying your valued vendors in bitcoin is the opposite of mutually assured destruction–it's mutually assured survival." ...
09.20.2023 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 not what this is, and the problems that need to be solved to enable proof-of-stake as a second layer system ...
09.15.2023 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 history. The high priests of central banking started running with this narrative and people have come to believe that it ...
09.14.2023 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 making Bitcoin accessible and streamlined for everyone, and a vision of how the future may unfold. Don't forget to check ...
09.11.2023 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 of bitcoin using only your full node at any block height Develop genuine DeFi applications without the need for (or without ...
09.07.2023 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 will ever spend it! If no one spends it, then the economy will fall into a depression and it will ...
09.06.2023 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 in controlling your experience, what content you see, and how you see it. This is literally the entire point of ...
09.01.2023 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 the security model that they provide for the historical data in the ledger." — Jameson Lopp Today we have ...
08.29.2023 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 is aligning incentives for every constituent of the network. The longer tail of the economic distribution may choose to run ...
08.25.2023 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 to be thought of as an investment and its price will keep increasing, the price movements will bring more attention ...
08.24.2023 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. A second layer, where end-users can leverage several protocols together and move seamlessly between them, creates a healthier, more resilient ...
08.21.2023 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, is: “if everyone just winds up interacting with sidechains, and not Real Bitcoin, hasn’t the whole thing failed? At every ...
08.18.2023 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 quickly resolve transaction storms. And that will in turn make it hard and expensive for people with small stacks to ...
08.17.2023 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 can be utilised for far more things than payments and store of value. I presented some of the alternative uses ...
08.14.2023 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 their entire lives using only a single product, and know almost nothing about it? Without even a means to compare ...
08.11.2023 Read_755 - Drivechains "A successful blind merge mined sidechain with significant MEV opportunities could offer Bitcoin significant benefits, which could more than offset the disadvantages." - "Blind merge mining works by a third party running the sidechain, building sidechain blocks and receiving the ...
08.08.2023 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. With highlighter for integrated, universal note taking, data vending machines for micro tasks and shared computing, and using Ai to ...
08.04.2023 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 likely than not, they’ll tell you the world’s oldest cryptocurrency is, in fact, ‘not crypto’ at all. The ...
07.27.2023 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 timestamps, so how did this come about? It’s generally due to Proof of Work being combined to a few simple ...
07.26.2023 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 a Schelling point and a symbol. As such, it will become widely recognized as the flag of technology over the ...
07.21.2023 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” of the network. Other networks are “dumb” — they offer only a very basic service and require that the end-user ...
07.18.2023 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 have only known monetary hot potatoes that need to be spent before they devalue have come to view life as ...
07.16.2023 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 do with your time? Are you going to create or consume? And how do the characteristics of money, as the ...
07.13.2023 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 point. By tracing this history, we can understand the motivations behind the movement that spawned bitcoin and share its vision ...
07.11.2023 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 only exception is current Japan, who is frankly in the final stages of circling the drain (e.g., central bank asset ...
07.06.2023 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 other agents & services. But the resources being share will be delivered instantly, and irreversibly in the form of compute ...
07.04.2023 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 a declaration. It was a bold and risky action. Never before had a colonial state defeated its overlord, especially at ...
06.30.2023 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 business owners, accountants, teachers, firefighters and politicians, sit in their chairs, sometimes for hours. It is likely that no one ...
06.29.2023 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 that he made public at BTCPrague. The Spirit of Satoshi. A bitcoin centered, custom built LLM intended to encompass the ...
06.28.2023 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 Network." — Graham Krizek Today we hit a really interesting piece from the founder and CEO of Voltage digging into ...
06.24.2023 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 the early 1990s, or like being able to buy undeveloped land on Manhattan Island at the start of the Industrial ...
06.22.2023 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 lean, simple database defended by the world’s strongest firewall; the bitcoin blockchain. In sum, we recommend to not worry about ...
06.21.2023 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 we dive into the fiat and banking crisis with Austrian economist Peter St. Onge in exploring the insolvencies of ...
06.20.2023 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 turn around and offer “Bitcoin” to its own clients. Of course, it will be an IOU to the ...
06.15.2023 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 world, so Greg Foss is understandably very passionate about it. So passionate in fact, that he dropped 11 f-bombs in ...
06.15.2023 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 to continue in perpetuity. The continuing development of the protocol is where the cutting edge of research into what ...
06.12.2023 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 or creator zaps a ton of notes on the Nostr feed. Blockstream has done this for a couple of days ...
06.09.2023 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 declaring bankruptcy, it is no better time than now to take advantage of the most elegant aspect of Bitcoin, that ...
06.07.2023 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 things are true, but they each miss the more significant elements of what they accomplish." — Guy Swann Yesterday I ...
06.06.2023 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 like two nuclear bombs dropped on the economy and the banking system. The shock wave took one year to make ...
06.02.2023 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 is continually going in the wrong direction since 1971 and has accelerated during the QE period. The bond markets are ...
06.01.2023 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 the past decade is fascinating, and what we should be thinking about is how to make these tools new “bicycles ...
06.01.2023 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 lot of excitement, but I still had a ton of questions, so it felt like time for a chat with ...
05.26.2023 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 about managing your keys with a hardware wallet. What you always need to do, how to not over complicate things, ...
05.25.2023 Read_734 - Introducing Ark [Burak] "Ark is a trustless, distinct layer two protocol with unilateral exit. ASPs cannot steal users’ funds or link senders & receivers. Users retain self-custody and can revert their funds to the base layer if something goes wrong on the second ...
05.23.2023 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 asset minters and transactors to enjoy the permissionless nature of the bitcoin blockchain and scale their businesses without running into ...
05.16.2023 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 empowering the individual, rather than a system of control, and all the tools and perspectives that enlighten that journey. Our ...
05.12.2023 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 permission to transact; transact. Don’t tinker with the system; supersede it." — Roy Sheinfeld Today we dive into a great ...

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Bitcoin Audible episodes:

Chat_85 - Bitcoin HyperDecentralization with Zack Bomsta

Read_768 - Living Through the Fall of Rome

Read_767 - Pay Me in Bitcoin Theory

Read_766 - Spiderchains, Proof of Stake L2

Read_765 - "Hoarding" is a Keynesian Slur

Chat #84 - Layers, Payments, and Relays with Utxo

Read_764 - UTXOracle, Decentralizing the Oracle Problem

Guy's Take #70 - But Deflation is Bad

Read_763 - Evils of THE ALGORITHM

Read_762 - Bitcoin's Security Model Deep Dive

Read_761 - A Sound Bitcoin Financial System [Alex B]

Read_760 - Drivechain's Place in Bitcoin's Future

Read_759 - Increasing Interoperability in Second Layer Protocols [Chase Smith]

Read_758 - Scaling and Consensus Changes [James O'Beirne⁠]

Read_757 - Putting the B in BTC [Anthony Towns]

Read_756 - Bitcoin, The Trust Anchor in a Sea of Blockchains [Jameson Lopp]

Guys Take #69 - But It's Just Digital Points...

Read_755 - Drivechains

Chat #83 - Decentralizing Global Markets with Nostr, Pablof7z

Read_754 - Bitcoin Is Not Crypto, The SEC Confirms

Read_753 - Bitcoin Timestamp Security [Jameson Lopp]

Read_752 - Bitcoin Becomes the Flag of Technology [Balaji S. Srinivasan]

Read_751 - Decentralization: Why Dumb Networks Are Better [Andreas Antonopolous]

Read_749 - Economics of Bitcoin as a Settlement Network [Saifedean]

Read_750 - Capital in the 21st Century [Allen Farrington]

Read_748 - Bitcoin & the Rise of the Cypherpunks [Lopp]

Read_747 - The Bondholder's Burning Platform [Croesus]

Guy's Take #68 - Lightning & the Ai Economy

Reboot - Bitcoin and The American Idea [Alex Gladstein]

Read_746 - Orange Pilling Your Barber [Hector Alvero]

Chat_82 - The Spirit of Satoshi

Read_745 - Every Company Will Be A Lightning Company [Graham Krizek]

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

Read_743 - How to Position for the Bitcoin Boom, Part 1 [Adamant Research]

Chat_81 - An Austrian View of US Collapse with Peter St. Onge

Read_742 - Trust Me Bro [Allen Farrington]

Read_741 - Much Ado About Ordinals, Inscriptions, and BRC20 [Roy Sheinfeld]

Read_740 - What Are the Key Properties of Bitcoin [Jameson Lopp]

Read_739 - The State of Zapvertising [The Same Cat]

Guy's Take #67 - Withdraw Everything

Read_738 - The Fruit of the Nostr Tree [Guy Swann]

Read_737 - Is Your Money Safe During the Banking Crisis, Part 2 [Brad Mills]

Read_736 - Is Your Money Safe during the Banking Crisis, Part 1 [Brad Mills]

Read_735 - When Bitcoin Meets AI [Svetski]

Chat_80 - Building the Ark with Burak

Basics_07 - The Basics of Key Management

Read_734 - Introducing Ark [Burak]

Read_733 - Mint the Future With Taproot Assets [Ryan Gentry]

FEATURING - AI Unchained_001 - A New Frontier, with Jeff Booth

Read_732 - We Need More Apps With Lightning, Not More Lightning Apps [Roy Sheinfeld]