Bitcoin Audible

Guy's Take_107 - Free Rent for the Rich

13 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"It's often discussed that arbitrarily lowering interest rates and the zero interest rate policy era leads to massive recklessness and unethical and i...

Read_944 - Proof of Work in the Real Economy

10 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"If your money isn't sound, it is not reflecting any proof of work. It is not reflecting anything about who should be able to consume, or how much the...

Read_943 - The Fabric of Desires

08 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"It is not markets that made money possible. It is collectibles, which we now call money, that make markets possible." ~ Nick Szabo What if everything...

Roundtable_020 - Anything But Bitcoin

06 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this roundtable, we sit down with Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff, and honestly, we struggle to stay on Bitcoin for half of it. Our catch-up quickly turn...

Read_942 - Stepping Outside the Fiat Frame

03 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"They say the ruler is bent, then use the bent ruler to measure the table. They say the clock is broken, then solemnly read out the hour. They say the...

Guy's Take_106 - When Cheating Is The Law

01 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"When you really dig into the heart of how finance, how our monetary system and how our political system work, and how deeply married they are, you be...

Chat_166 - The Great Distraction: Epstein vs. Quantum in Bitcoin with Rob Wallace on Bitcoin News

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The whole point of libertarianism is that we should recognise that we don't know how to plan the world. We don't know what the solution is going to b...

Read_941 - Number Go Down - Part 2

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The idea that some authority can deduce the correct level of this balance is not merely wrong, it is not even wrong, it is methodologically incoheren...

Read_940 - Number Go Down - Part 1

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The fiat economist universally chooses to set the printing press to brrrrrrrrrr. While the enlightened elite watch their stock portfolios moon and th...

Read_939 - Modern Money Only Works By Cheating - Part 2

19 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“what matters now is not belief, but endurance.bitcoin does not promise comfort. it does not promise justice. it does not promise to save anyone. it...

Chat_165 - Family and Focus with Aleks Svetski

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"I think there will come a point where you get excessive, you swing too far on the individual side of the spectrum, and then it becomes advantageous t...

Read_938 - Modern Money Only Works By Cheating - Part 1

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“This piece is my attempt to finally map the terrain I'd been circling for years: Bitcoin's hardness, its fragility, its human governance, and its u...

Chat_164 - Skating To Where The Puck Will Be with Matt Hill

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"We are trying to make it possible for people to use computers as simple of a statement as this: use computers, without intermediaries and custodians....

Read_937 - When the Withdraws Start [FFR 115]

06 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Residents withdrew over 1.6 trillion rubles, or $19.7 billion in January, desperately turning to cash amid increased state controls." As governments ...

Roundtable_019 - Bitcoin's In-House Stress Test

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the whole crew is back for another Roundtable. I sat down with Mechanic, Steve, and Jeff to talk about the painful reality of Bitcoin minin...

Read_936 - Breez SDK Launches Passkey Login

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“The seed phrase has been a barrier to self-custody since day one. It’s what scares normies away from keeping their own bitcoin, and it’s a legi...

Read_935 - AI Will Eat Application Software

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

[Apologies for the double post everyone. We had to pull a quick swap on this one because of a glitch.] "Yes, AI is a big deal, but the conclusion th...

Guy's Take_105 - Did Epstein Hijack Bitcoin?

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Did Jeffrey Epstein secretly hijack Bitcoin during the block size war? Was is all a covert operation by Jeffrey Epstein and shadowy government actors...

Read_935 - AI Will Eat Application Software

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Yes, AI is a big deal, but the conclusion that AI is going to kill the vertical and functional software business model simply makes no sense. The tr...

Chat_163 - Mining in Real Life with Bitcoin Mechanic & HODLTarantula [Plan-B El Salvador]

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"When it comes to building in the approach, you have to be taking the approach as utilising the fundamental principles that we see in Bitcoin itself. ...

Chat_162 - Plan-B El Salvador with Giacomo Zucco

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"If people are not ready for Bitcoin, just go use USDT as long as you can before dollar hyperinflation. It's like Noah's Ark: it's going to rain, we b...

Roundtable_018 - Everything is Fake and Gay

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I'm joined by Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff for yet another Roundtable episode, and honestly, the digital world is getting weirder by the minute. Are we e...

Read_934 - The Code Liberation

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The cypherpunk principle that 'cypherpunks write code' takes on revolutionary meaning when writing code no longer requires programming knowledge. Eri...

Guy's Take_104 - The User Doesn't Care About Your Mission

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The biggest mistake Bitcoin and sovereignty-focused developers keep making is trying to sell people on why they care instead of building something peo...

Read_933 - The Secret to Vibe Coding

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The people who figure that out first won't just ship faster - they'll build things that others can't even spec, because the spec emerges last from a ...

Chat_161 - Bitcoin is Tangible with Cade Peterson

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"That's the main reason I like doing this Bitcoin stuff so much, because it's connected to the real world. It's proof of work. Like, I can't sit on my...

Read_932 - The World Order Has Broken Down

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, 'The world order as it has stood for decades no longer exists', and that we are in a period of 'great power po...

Roundtable_017 - Did Epstein Hijack Bitcoin?

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Roundtable is back, and we are kicking off 2026 with some stories that I definitely didn't have on my bingo card. After catching up on Jeff's fros...

Read_931 - When The Internet Shuts Off [FFR 104]

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Bitcoin is a lifeline. It is a money that cannot be shut down. Native money for the internet. But what happens when the internet gets shut off?" Iran...

Read_930 - Stablecoins: Evolution, Not A Revolution

07 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"You can’t open your own private mint moving that kind of liquidity and hope to stay under the regulatory radar." ~ Roy Sheinfeld Stablecoins are b...

Chat_160 - A Quiet Global Resistance with Max Hillebrand

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"It's a dangerous business to help people out of slavery. But so what? We have to do this. This is a moral obligation, an ethical obligation, as a tec...

Chat_159 - Talking Pears with the Ungovernable Misfits on FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 25

28 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"PearDrive is like, how could you make stuff seamless across devices and how can you leverage that device that has a lot of storage to get the most ou...

Read_929 - Bitcoin, Stoicism, and Our Relationship With Time

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Imagine the Stanford marshmallow experiment in reverse. Instead of getting a second marshmallow for waiting, the children are told that every fifteen...

Chat_158 - Is The Bitcoin Mission Fading? with Stephan Livera

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Of course, central banking, fiat money is bad, but nevertheless, maybe AI and robotics and this productivity is going to be really beneficial to the ...

Read_928 - Urban Bugmen and AI Model Collapse: A Unified Theory

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The end of mankind wouldn't even be biological in such an instance. It would be neurological." ~ Copernican What if AI's biggest flaw - training on i...

Read_927 - Poe's Law Comes Into Full Flower

18 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"To describe what’s coming as “impossibly borked” is charitable. This is going to be an unholy mess of indiscernible media, messaging, photograp...

Read_926 - CBDC's Will Be "Free" For Users [FFR 93]

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"If you are not paying for it, you are the product. And if it is a political system, the product that they are buying is control over you." What if a ...

Chat_157 - It's Time to Walk the Walk with Roy Sheinfeld

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Bitcoin needs to be exciting because it provides a utility that no other technology provides. The value transfer technology needs to be embedded in e...

Chat_156 - Simplifying Sovereignty with Praveen

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"My problem with the core side has been what we talked about with the people that are technical and don't have the empathy or understand what it was l...

Read_925 - Stone Ridge 2025 Investor Letter

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Today's the day." ~ Mel Fisher Why does a reinsurance company's annual letter get me this fired up? Ross Stevens weaves together treasure hunting, Ba...

Roundtable_016 - From Keonne to Quantum and Building the Sly Roundabout Way

02 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I’m joined by Simple Steve, Bitcoin Mechanic, and Jeff Swann for a year-end roundtable that starts with the Samourai Wallet case, s...

Read_924 - American Bitcoin Suicide

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if prosecuting innovative Bitcoin developers like Rodriguez and Burroughs signals the death of American entrepreneurship? In this episode, I read...

Chat_155 - Where We Are, Where We've Been, & Where We're Going with Ben Kaufman

28 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I sit down with Ben Kaufman to catch up and take stock of where Bitcoin actually is right now. We dig into the four-year cycle, whether it still matte...

Merry Christmas! - Bitcoin The Ultimate Collateral

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Merry Christmas! Working with the amazing crew at Braiins, we are happy to share the full audiobook of Bitcoin: The Ultimate Collateral free for all. ...

Read_922 - 20 Years of Digital Life Gone in an Instant

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"We have entered a space where we literally own nothing." ~ Guy What happens when 25 years of digital identity vanishes overnight because of a $500 gi...

Chat_154 - Unpacking "The Cat" with the Shitcoin Insider

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this Chat episode with JC, we dive straight into the wild world of AI tooling, vibe coding, Bitcoin protocol design, and the new CAT proposal that ...

Read_921 - Arkade, Crypto, and Only The Strong Surviving

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The broad point is that only the strong survive was correct. We are entering the endgame of crypto having any reason to exist. My thesis as to why it...

Chat_153 - Welcome to Subscription Hell with Matt Ahlborg

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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-...

Read_920 - Criminalized Self-Custody [FFR]

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“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

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"What role do intermediaries—such as merchants, distributors, and traders—play in the market? Far from being mere profiteers, these intermediaries...

Roundtable_015 - Conspiracies, Culture rot, Replay Attacks and the Future of Bitcoin

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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, shared mea...

2Sats - What Does $6 Trillion Mean

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 we ...

Chat_152 - Forging Satoshi with Mark Hunter & Arthur Van Pelt

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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

23 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"This analysis has demonstrated through 30 universal laws, empirically validated across 16 years and $1.83 trillion in market capitalization, that Bit...

Chat_151 - Bitcoin Technically, Ideologically, and Actually with Murch

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I think that all of the people that I know that are working on Bitcoin Core and other Bitcoin projects are onlyinterested in the monetary use case. B...

Read_915 - Thank You For Being Annoying

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Guy's Take_103 - Bitcoin Dead For Sure This Time

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

Chat_150 - Why We Argue with Chris Guida

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 [FFR]

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Roundtable_014 - Soft Forks and Censorship

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 we’...

Read_912 - Bitcoin's Silent IPO

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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 car...

Chat_149 - We're Not the Main Characters with Aleks Svetski

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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)

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“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 Bitco...

Read_910 - Bitcoin TreasuryCos & The Roaring 20s (Speculative Attack! Part II)

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

  "In 1929, one of its largest holdings was the Shenandoah Corporation. Another closed-end fund, organized by Goldman Sachs... that became a large in...

Read_909 - Bitcoin Treasury Companies (Speculative Attack! Part I)

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"What distinguishes this speculative attack from its Weimar predecessor is that now - thanks to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Treasuries, Money Printer Go Brrr me...

Chat_148 - It Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test with Jimmy Song

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Chat_146 - Building for Sovereignty with Craig Raw

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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...

Read_906 - The Censorship Tsunami is Building [FFR 91]

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

Roundtable_013 - From 1 Zetahash to the Patriot Act

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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?

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Technology is always and everywhere a tool, not an autonomous agent. It requires humans to operate, which they will do in order to satisfy human desi...

2Sats - Bitcoin's First 100 Trillion

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ban...

Chat_143 - Rise and Fall of BTC Treasuries and the Stablecoin Dilemma with Allen Farrington

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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 actually th...

Read_902 - Nostr Unpopular Opinions

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 sacr...

Read_901 - 6 Weeks of Claude Code

06 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Up until a few months ago, the best developers played the violin. Today, they play the orchestra."~ Justin Searls Is AI rewriting what it means to c...

Roundtable_012 - Lightning UX, Miniscript Magic, and the Mempool Mess

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...

Read_900 - A Flood of Censorship, Inflation & CBDCs, and an Ark [FFR 80-86]

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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 cryptography...

Read_899 - USDT on Lightning: the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Obviously we're trying to make fountain the best possible listening experience and the best possible app for discovering great audio content.But more...

Read_897 - The Great Vanishing of Information

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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]

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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]

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When authoritarian regimes double down on financial surveillance and criminalize basic crypto activity, can new freedom tech offer a lifeline—or is ...

Guy's Roundtable_011 - Treasuries, Politics, Quantum & Why This Cycle is Different

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 dee...

Read_894 - The parental dead end of consent morality

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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 n...