Bitcoin Audible
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Bitcoin Audible
The Best in Bitcoin made Audible. Guy Swann makes the knowledge of Bitcoin, the world's most secure, independent money, accessible to everyone. Exploring Bitcoin from an investment perspective, economic analysis, its philosophical foundations, & technological primitives. Reading and distilling thous...
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Chat_153 - Welcome to Subscription Hell with Matt Ahlborg
In this Chat, I speak with Matt from PPQ.ai about the broken world of AI subscriptions, the power of micropayments, and why Lightning-enabled pay-per-...
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Read_920 - Criminalized Self-Custody [FFR 92]
“If you think they'll have restraint, I think you're making a grave error.”
Can your wallet, your node, or even your hardware become “unlicensed...
Read_919 - Frédéric Bastiat: The Unseen Role of Intermediaries
"What role do intermediaries—such as merchants, distributors, and traders—play in the market? Far from being mere profiteers, these intermediaries pla...
Roundtable_015 - Conspiracies, Culture rot, Replay Attacks and the Future of Bitcoin
What if the future of Bitcoin is decided in the mempool? I sit down with Simple Steve, Bitcoin Mechanic and Jeff Swann for a chaotic, curious roundtab...
Read_918 - Bitcoin is a Lie
"Bitcoin will fail.
Because it is a lie... Because it claims truths that cannot be. That trust is defect. That property is virtue. That law, sha...
2Sats - What Does $6 Trillion Mean
In this 2Sats refresh, I revisit one of my most-shared videos - What Does $6 Trillion Mean?
It’s a quick but powerful look at what happens when...
Chat_152 - Forging Satoshi with Mark Hunter & Arthur Van Pelt
"If you can get a court to say you're Satoshi, and you are of this mindset, you can then go ahead and you can sue Bitcoin developers, Bitcoin exchange...
Read_917 - The Ultimate Collateral
"The best, simplest, ultimate form of collateral is something that can instantly be claimed and sold at any time when the debtor fails to make their p...
Read_916 - The Thermodynamic Monetary Transition
"This analysis has demonstrated through 30 universal laws, empirically validated across
16 years and $1.83 trillion in market capitalization, t...
Chat_151 - Bitcoin Technically, Ideologically, and Actually with Murch
"I think that all of the people that I know that are working on Bitcoin Core and other Bitcoin projects are only
interested in the monetary use...
Read_915 - Thank You For Being Annoying
I dive into Adam Mastroianni’s piece “Thank You for Being Annoying” and use it as a launchpad to rant about work, love, and why being constantly irrit...
Guy's Take_103 - Bitcoin Dead For Sure This Time
Why is the "world's most valuable money" stagnating while everything falls apart around it? With 401k hardship withdrawals at record highs and mortgag...
2Sats - A Bit About Time & Regret
Have you ever wished you could pause time - just stop the clock long enough to catch up on all the things you’ve been meaning to do? In this 2SATS, I...
Chat_150 - Why We Argue with Chris Guida
"Bitcoiners have a spirit. I think the spirit is an ancient spirit. It goes back to the American Revolution. It goes back to the Magna Carta. It goes...
Read_914 - Ark and the train analogy
Is ARK the missing piece that lets Bitcoin scale without sacrificing sovereignty? Or is it just a confusing mess that you can't make sense of? Hopeful...
Read_913 - The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin
I dive into the Human Rights Foundation’s look at Bitcoin’s quantum vulnerability - what’s real, what’s hype, and what would it take to truly secure t...
Roundtable_014 - Soft Forks and Censorship
Grab your drink and pull up a chair - it’s another Bitcoin Roundtable with Simple Steve, Bitcoin Mechanic, and my brother Jeff Swann.
This time...
Read_912 - Bitcoin's Silent IPO
"They’re passing the torch. And the torch is being received by entities who care less about ideology and more about returns. BlackRock doesn’t care ab...
Chat_149 - We're Not the Main Characters with Aleks Svetski
"The necessity for guys to be around other good guys and girls to be around other good girls... we had that really well structured all throughout hist...
Read_911 - Bitcoin TreasuryCos: Lessons From The 1929 Crash (Speculative Attack! Part III)
“Live by the mNAV, Die by the mNAV”.
What happens when financial alchemy meets the hardest money in history? In this episode, we explore how Bit...
Read_910 - Bitcoin TreasuryCos & The Roaring 20s: Speculative Attack! Part II
"In 1929, one of its largest holdings was the Shenandoah Corporation. Another closed-end fund, organized by Goldman Sachs... that became a lar...
Read_909 - Bitcoin Treasury Companies: Speculative Attack! Part I
"What distinguishes this speculative attack from its Weimar predecessor is that now - thanks to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Treasuries, Money Printer Go Brrr mem...
Chat_148 - It Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test with Jimmy Song
"If you have this disconnect between Core devs that value one thing and the users that value something else, something's got to give at some point, ri...
Read_908 - The Utility of Bitcoin
"Payments are the camcorders of our age, the next technology whose time has passed. The new age that is just beginning will feel qualitatively differe...
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...