Tibor Fischer’s My Bags Are Big – a legit, award-winning novelist (Under the Frog, one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists) who just dropped a sharp, funniest, most atmospheric Bitcoin novel.

It reads like the screenplay to a Guy Ritchie movie. Quirky characters, weaving and odd stories, and a sometimes-cynical yet ultimately optimistic philosophical bend.

And underneath is what you'd expecting from one of the most accomplished authors of a generation - a bunch of great lines.

Read it. Do something other than pontifiate on price. Life is passing you by.

We unpack Bitcoin as true resistance money — the tool that cuts out managers, mediators, and makers (banks, payment rails, central banks) who surveil, control, and manipulate. No more outsourcing your life to third parties whose incentives aren’t yours.

We go deep on the cypherpunk vision. The veil of ignorance (and why Grant pushes back hard), sour grapes bias, what Bitcoin actually is as a social good, and why even the powerful might secretly want this unseizable money in the long run.

Plus steelman rebuttals to “not backed,” “unfair distribution,” and “extremist” attacks.This book is elite.

Watch the doc. Then watch this pod.

You’ll come away less obsessed with “who” Satoshi was… and far more inspired to become the kind of person who could have been.“Revolutionaries don’t get to stick around and enjoy the fruits.

Sometimes the revolution needs them gone.” New here? Subscribe for more unfiltered Bitcoin philosophy, documentary breakdowns, and wayfaring-man energy. The lodges are open — come tinker with us.

If you’re tired of surface-level Bitcoin talk and ready for the red-pill layers most people never reach, hit play. Nick Land’s first pass is better than most people’s final draft — and this conversation might just be your gateway drug to acceleration, teleological thinking, and first-tier Bitcoin optimism.

New here? Subscribe for more unfiltered explorations of Bitcoin as civilizational software. Follow Grant and Lucas as they chase the edge.

Lucas & Grant rip through A Lodging of Wayfaring Men by Paul Rosenberg — the forgotten 2002 banger that reads like a blueprint for Satoshi, Silk Road, network states, and the entire freedom tech revolution.

A ragtag crew of scientists, hackers, and rebels builds Gamma: an encrypted peer-to-peer marketplace + digital money that the state can’t control. They launch “Breakers” to flush fear from your brain. They create the Free Souls House — a nomadic micro-nation of doers. And they walk away once it’s truly decentralized… sound familiar?

It’s prophecy. Taxation as theft, trust to build trustless systems, biohacking before it was cool, and the raw tension of bootstrapping freedom while the feds close in.If you want to understand why Bitcoin actually happened — and what’s coming next — check this out.

Mauricio Carvalho recently published "Beyond Money, Hedge, and Energy: Evaluating Bitcoin as Power Projection Technology" as an evaluation of the claims made by Jason Lowery's Softwar thesis.

Where do we stand? This paper is an empirical evaluation of nine falsifiable predictions. In just three years, five have been confirmed and one partially realized.

The future is Softwar.

Bitcoin is political philosophy. Freedom, manifest in code.

Erik Cason's sharp observations plunge the sword of sovereignty deep in the heart of the monster.

Without the ability to control money, the state cannot control the people.

We should all rejoice.

Aren't we all people?

Is not control both a burden on the oppressed and the oppressor?

The virtuous cycle has begun. We are no longer on opposite sides, competing for fleeting rewards soon lost to the scourge of inflation.

We have entered a new age of collaboration.

Citizen need no longer compete to ascend the hierarchy of domination within the state.

The states will now compete to draw the most productive and useful citizens.

Bitcoin is political philosophy in unbreakable code.

Manifested freedom.

A severing of that bind tying citizen to state.

If you can't control the money…you can't control the people.

And why should this bother anyone?

We are all people.

@Erikcason's CRYPTOSOVEREIGNTY puts front and center this observation.

What we have lost, we have now gained back.

@thewholeframe leads this discussion, and we both agree - what Cason writes is worthy of your time. Grab a copy and join.

The Question Concerning Technology

(ep #067)

This is not a "number go up" conversation.

It's about how technology shapes your soul.

@Erikcason gets it. And he kindly offers you the same path he took.

In prepping for our conversation on Cason's "Cryptosovereignty", we found he'd left a homework assignment: read Martin Heidegger's "The Question Concerning Technology" for context.

Dutifully, we obliged. And what came of it?

Heidegger's contribution is impactful. He offers…perspective…on our perspective.

Grant squares it:

• Enframing 🧠

• Tech as revealing (not neutral)

• Ancient techne vs modern extraction

• Whether Bitcoin breaks the spell or deepens it

Lucas knods and rubs his chin.

Deep thoughts…deep thoughts.

share with friends, and consider us yours.

we're all in this together!

The Silk Road never died. It evolved into the Milk Road 🥛 Decentralized markets, uncensorable payments, food freedom. This convo with Calvadev is thoughtful, hopeful, technical and philosophical. Few people building have the moral grounding, technical chops, genuine love for life, and kind soul that Calvadev brings to the table. You can see it come out in this conversation. Listen to a builder who builds useful things.