Bitcoin Audible

Read_874 - A Heatpunk's Manifesto

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if your heating system could pay you in Bitcoin? In this episode, I read an article exploring the concept of "heat punks"—Bitcoin miners wh...

Reboot - Take #44 - Bitcoin is Not What you Think it is

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Life has been hectic lately, but I didn’t want to leave you hanging! While I navigate the joys of parenthood, I’m bringing back a classic - G...

Roundtable_007 - Bitcoin, Babies, and the Bitcoin Dollar

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoiners having babies, P2P protocols, Bitcoin price without third parties, mining problems and solutions, stable coins coming back to Bitcoin, mass...

Read_872 - Erosion of the Meaning of Custody

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nicholas Dorier brings us a short piece that is very relevant to many of our challenges today, being clear and precise about the definition of the wor...

Read_871 - Hodlers: an apology

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that the value and utility of Bitcoin can be trivially duplicated? At least this is what the increasingly bitter buttcoiners of the world...

Read_870 - Can Nostr fix app distribution?

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tired of app stores controlling what you download and who gets paid? What if there was a way to directly connect with developers, verify the authentic...

Chat_128 - The Voice of Bitcoin [Bitcoin Infinity Show]

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I joined Knut Svanholm and Luke de Wolf on the Bitcoin Infinity Show to explore the fundamental role of money, incentives, and sound economics in shap...

Take_098 - Taking Stock of Our Wins

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's easy to complain about what hasn't happened yet or what problems are still to be solved. And it's also hard to have humility, recognizing that ma...

Read_869 - Mainline DHT — Censorship-Resistance Explained

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I've wanted for a long time to understand how a DHT works, and how a P2P network is able to establish connections in a resilient, scalable, and decent...

Chat_127 - The Hijacking Bitcoin Debate [Liberty Lockdown]

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a past episode, I joined Steve Patterson and the host for what was supposed to be a discussion but quickly turned into one of the most heated debat...

Read_868 - The Digit Addiction Pandemic

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are all addicted to digits. Fiat digits, loyalty points, social media likes, stock prices—everywhere we turn, someone is trying to hook us. B...

Chat_126 - Bitcoin In Real Life with Wyatt O'Rourke

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"We've planted our orange flag in the ground. We've made it known this is a space where we will try to propagate and spread the mission, values and e...

Read_867 - The danger of the collective "we"

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"We owe it to ourselves." I truly hope you aren't so stupid as to believe this statement when it is uttered by the frauds running the financial and po...

Roundtable_006 - Store of Bitcoin, Medium of Credit

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoin adoption, political shifts, and the future of money - this roundtable gets into it all. How will stablecoins impact the global financial syste...

Read_866 - Island Economics: Why Exploitation & Perpetual Wars are Rational Under FIAT

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if exploitation and war weren't merely anomalies of human society, but there was something inherent to the incentives of the fiat system, that ma...

Take_097 - Ross Ulbricht Breathes Free Air Again

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Ross Ulbricht breathes the free air again. What does the story of Ross Ulbricht reveal about justice, freedom, and the early ethos of Bitcoin? ...

Read_865 - The Hard Path

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Bitcoin community possesses a unique advantage that will ultimately allow us to prevail: not only do we have skin in the game, we have soul in th...

Chat_125 - Distributed Hosting in Bloom with Hzrd

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"That's a really cool aspect of the Bitcoin community and the nostr community as things are right now is most of our users are not your typical what y...

Read_864 - Bitcoin Core’s Loss of Focus

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Bitcoin Audible, I read James O'Beirne's "Bitcoin Core’s Loss of Focus" and offer my perspective on its critical arguments.Has ...

Read_863 - How does Blockstream Jade's oracle-enforced PIN protection work?

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While impatiently waiting for my Jade Plus I started digging into the Jade docs and found a unique idea for securing a hardware wallet using a blind o...

Chat_124 - The Next Web with John Carvalho

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Our philosophy with building Pubky was, all right, we're not going to say never on a server. We're going to say, use a server if you want. Don't use ...

Read_862 - Full Steam Ahead: All Aboard Fiscal Dominance

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when the Fed's one tool for controlling inflation, stops working? The conditions in the market and in our political institutions is such ...

Take_096 - Hijacking Bitcoin

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Roger Ver went on tucker carlson recently to discuss how the government infiltrated Bitcoin development, took over the protocol, and killed its potent...

Chat_123 - Aliens, Demons, and Quantum Cryptography with Hunter Beast

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Bitcoin is anti-fragile it secures $2 trillion worth of value currently and there's a huge monetary incentive to maintain that security and there's a...

Read_861 - Pubky: The Next Web

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Imagine waking up in a world where every piece of information you encounter is carefully filtered by faceless algorithms. Your online interactions ar...

Read_860 - Stone Ridge 2024 Investor Letter

04 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Bitcoin is the most potent device ever invented for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient. Be patient." — Ross StevensRoss Stevens ...

Chat_122 - A Cypherpunk World for Everyone with Future Paul

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"This was one of my early objections to Bitcoin is that "Well, everything gets hacked eventually", right? Everything has some security flaw,  so we'r...

Roundtable_005 - 21 MIL NOT GUARANTEED!, Blackrock, Saylor, El Salvador, SBR, and more

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

December brings with it a return to the glory days of FUD. Blackjack has done the unthinkable, and the 21 million limit to Bitcoin is in grave danger....

Read_859 - Ecash on Bitcoin

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Ecash got reintroduced with the two open source projects Fedimint and Cashu. In my opinion, the main reason for this revival is the following fact: U...

Chat_121 - Surviving Bitcoin Adoption with Jack Spirko

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The payment network has no value if your asset is not desirable. Like this is not, you cannot have this, like I'm just gonna build all of this stuff ...

Chat_120 - How P2P is changing the Internet [Pears]

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"There are so many reasons to be interested in peer-to-peer. You can be interested in it for resilience, because there are no middlemen, so it's going...

Take_095 - When Should I Sell Bitcoin?

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Ossification is complacency. Yes, we all agree that Bitcoin is great. But _I do not agree_ that Bitcoin has reached its full potential. I think com...

Read_858 - On Ossification by Jameson Lopp

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Ossification is complacency. Yes, we all agree that Bitcoin is great. But _I do not agree_ that Bitcoin has reached its full potential. I think com...

Chat_119 - Why Nostr Will Win with Miljan

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"On nostr we have maybe a couple hundred thousand users who are active, but all all those users are holding their keys. We're actually bootstrapping t...

Read_857 - Instant Settlement: The Construction Industry

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Imagine a sports game where different players are motivated by distinct incentives, defenders aiming to pull the ball outside the field, midfielders ...

Roundtable_004 - Nov 2024 - Trump, Hash Collisions, Court Rulings, Covenants, All Time Highs, and What We Don't Know

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Guy's Roundtable gets together for another awesome breakdown. Covering all the happenings this month: Trump wins the election, new bitcoin innovations...

Read_856 - It's the Settlement Assurances Stupid

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"This is also an interesting case study in how Bitcoin resists duplication. You can create something which looks cosmetically similar to Bitcoin, but ...

Ai Take_037 - Focus

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing."— Ron Swanson Focus. Easily spoken, hard to live by. There are many lessons that Bitcoin teaches, a...

Read_855 - The Great Capitulation

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Panic is rising. Bitcoin, the way out of their giant Ponzi scheme, does not want to die, but the survival of the fiat system depends on the lack of a...

Take_094 - Focus

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing."— Ron Swanson Focus. Easily spoken, hard to live by. There are many lessons that Bitcoin teaches, a...

Read_854 - Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and in the grand tradition of civil disobedience declare our oppositi...

Chat_118 - Reviving Resiliency, Autonomy, and Masculinity with the Bitcoin Vets

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Once you understand the economic situation of the United States and how they're in a debt spiral, there's only one way out of it and it's to turn the...

Read_853 - Bitcoin Appeals to the Old System's Deepest Flaw

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"How could any financial system avoid being captured by those who already hold the most power and wealth? Won’t it just lead to the same unequal sy...

Ai Take_036 - Does AI Even Have a Product?

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is the pursuit of artificial general intelligence a pipe dream? Are the economics of building massive AI models unsustainable? And what if the future ...

Chat_117 - Assessing Custodial Threat Vectors [Onramp]

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this previous episode of Final Settlement, I joined the show to tackle custodial threat vectors and the security challenges unique to Bitcoin. We d...

Read_852 - Nature's Many Attempts to Evolve a Nostr

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The server owns your data, owns your account, and owns the cryptographic keys used to secure it. That last bit is obscure, but important. Cryptograph...

Roundtable_003 - Oct 2024 - Elections, Faketoshi Sues Again, Taxess, and ECB Concerned about FaiRNeSs

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How will governments respond to the growing threat of decentralized money, and what are the implications for individual freedom and sovereignty? And c...

Guy's Take_093 - The Guy Who Broke into Our Room in Lugano

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Was a recent break-in at a luxurious hotel just a coincidence, or a targeted attack on a Bitcoiner? We should expect that bitcoiners will be targeted....

Read_851 - Bitcoin's Exchange Theory of Value

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The market of bitcoin holders will ultimately expand to be larger than the size of any single country, and direct exchange will be possible by and be...

Chat_116 - Bitcoin Is Money For Heroes [TFTC]

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a episode of TFTC, I sat down with Marty Bent to break down the reality behind the hurricanes devastating America and the government's inept or eve...

Read_850 - Three Doors, Which Will Bitcoin Choose?

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"A victory in revolution doesn’t come free or easy. For Bitcoin to really do what many of us hope it can, it’s really necessary at the end of the ...

Guy's Take_092 - Inflation Does One Thing

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You've likely been fed the narrative that inflation stimulates spending, benefits the economy, and that government expenditures have a profound 'multi...

Chat_115 - FEMA, Fiat, & The Cancer of Government - RANDOM RANT [THE Bitcoin Podcast]

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode originally on THE Bitcoin Podcast, I had an intense and unfiltered conversation with Walker, where we dove into some hard truths about...

Ai Read_012 - The Subprime AI Crisis

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What do numerous over-hyped product launches, massively subsidized compute, over extended investment, lack of customer adoption, unwillingness to pay ...

Read_849 - A Global Liquidity Barometer

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"These findings are notable because they demonstrate that even though the strength of the correlation may vary based on the time frame, Bitcoin’s pr...

TPR_005 - Updates from the Pear World

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we dive back into the Pear universe and catch up on the many recent changes, updates to apps we've discussed, and explore new ways we are using ...

Guy's Roundtable_002 - Conbase, Control, The Nature of Privacy, and Decentralized Mining

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's here! We are back for the second Roundtable!! What do Coinbase and the Blackrock debacle, paper Bitcoin, the difference between privacy and anony...

Chat_114 - Breaking Out of the Fiat Mind with Tanja Bächle

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Everybody's acting as nothing happened. And in Germany, it was so brutal. We had two lockdowns. Each was 6 and 8 months. Like there was a curfew. Thi...

Ai_035 - My Favorite Ai Tool

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we dive into my favorite Ai app, combining dozens of open source tools unlocking a new era of creativity and productivity? How can you harness t...

Chat_113 - China's Surveillance State, CBDC's, Shifting Paradigms, and the Bitcoin Wildcard with Roger Huang

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Stablecoins are acting in a way where they're bottoms up becoming a country. Countries are trying to reason with it, and the one thing the US is star...

Read_848 - Stop Calling it MEV

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Sadly, there has been very little in the way of a clear definition of MEV in the context of Bitcoin. And the standard definition of the term is so br...

Read_847 - This is the Great Ravine

22 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I’m not asking you to fight the Beast of Big Politics, Big Tech and Big Media. Honestly I don’t know how you would. This is the end of an age, th...

Read_846 - Three Strangest Paradoxes of Mathematics

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Sometimes your gut feelings lead you astray—particularly in mathematics, in which one constantly comes across results that seem impossible... There...

Chat_112 - Consensus Problems with ReardenCode

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"If we leave Bitcoin as it is, it’s a new money for the 1%. The 1% can absolutely hold their own coins in a way that they really couldn’t with gol...

Ai_034 - Small Models Reign Supreme

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Will the increasing shift towards smaller, more efficient AI models revolutionize the way we interact with AI? Can open-source models and fine-tunes l...

Read_845 - Understanding The COLDCARD Mk4 Security Model

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Using the COLDCARD Mk4 is pretty straightforward. Yet, what goes on under the hood is far from obvious. Technical documentation, the hardware specifi...

Guy's Take_091 - The Path of Greatest Pain

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes life will make you feel stuck, it will wear you down and gaslight you into believing you have made no progress. Small, persistent progress i...

Chat_111 - Brollups, Ark 2.0, and 1000 tps with Burak

08 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Dark merchants would never use Lightning, right? Because well, you need a node ID, an entity... Versus Ark, you're not a node or entity. All you are...

Read_844 - Soft Fork, Covenant Review - Part 2

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"An argument for doing a consensus cleanup soft-fork first, prior to enabling any new opcodes or other features for new types of L2’s, is that we’...

Read_843 - Soft Fork, Covenant Review - Part 1

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Lightning achieved a many-to-one mapping of transactions to transactions... But creating even a single UTXO per user is, arguably, not good enough....

Guy's Roundtable_001 - 85% Bitcoin Tax, Bitaxe, Big Banks, and a Shitcoin Trojan Horse

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's Here! Today I am thrilled to introduce the first episode of Guy's Roundtable. I've assembled a group of OG bitcoiners for a new monthly series wh...

Guy's Take_090 - What if Bitcoin Saves the Dollar?

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is the Bitcoin-Dollar theory a path to salvation or destruction for the US currency? Stablecoin issuers have become major buyers of US bonds, and poli...

Read_842 - BTC investing vs BTC Standard

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"It’s been amazingly freeing because I don’t worry about my investments, mostly because I don’t have very many. I’m on a Bitcoin standard and ...

Read_841 - Trump Embraces the “Bitcoin-Dollar”

24 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The end result was a historical wealth transfer from regular Americans to a handful of billionaires. This wealth transfer, which was heavily premedit...

Ai_033 - Fear to Freedom: The Optimistic Case for AI [The Staying Free Podcast]

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"When you introduce 2 million, 10 million "developers" that were never developers into an ecosystem that's used to having closed platforms and silos a...

Chat_110 - The Global Monetary Rebellion [Swan Signal]

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The government is more than half of the economy. They control everything.What this new battleground is showing is that in the Bitcoin world, within t...

Read_840 - Godzilla Returns

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The Fed, knowingly or not, is basically in charge of the global financial system. They may shout, “We raise rates in the US to fight inflation, glo...

Chat_109 - Bitcoin, Privacy, Sovereignty and the Future with Daniel Prince [Once Bitten!]

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The government and the corporate environment so desperately want us to centralize so they can they can have total surveillance and they can have back...

Ai_032 - Open Source Ai is Catching Up

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Open source Ai is catching up. In this episode of AI Unchained, we explore the implications of the dominant open source models actually competing with...

Read_839 - The Power of Nostr

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"In fact, this is the key feature that re-energized me toward Nostr a second time after my initial experience with it. Bitcoin and Nostr combined toge...

Read_838 - Crypto Rebels

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"It would be wrong to think of Cypherpunks as a formal group. It's more a gathering of those who share a predilection for codes, a passion for privacy...

AI_031 - How I use AI

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is AI really all hype and oversold gimmicks, or is it going to change the world and replace everyone with software workers? Or are both of these views...

Chat_108 - Private Email & Unstoppable Money with Andy from Protonmail

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"My thinking is always resilience. How did I make Proton resilient? And the conclusion I came to after thinking about it for a long time is actually t...

Read_836 - Lightning is the Common Language of Bitcoin

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Lightning has already achieved a critical mass. It’s already obvious how a Cashu subnetwork and Fedimint subnetworks will communicate with each oth...

Ai_030 - Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion

04 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How might open-source AI development shape the future of artificial intelligence and global competition? Guy Swan examines Leopold Aschenbrenner's "Si...

Chat_107 - Government Out of Control w/ Dave Smith, Luke Gromen & Mark Moss [BTC24]

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Historically, what do nations do when they're on a gold standard and they need to fight a war? They just suspend the gold standard. The difference is...

Guy's Take_089 - Trump Speaks at Bitcoin2024

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is Trump's speech at Bitcoin 2024 a sign of genuine support or just typical political pandering? Today we explore the implications of politicians cour...

Ai Read_011 - The AGI Manhattan Project

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Do we need an AGI Manhattan Project? Slowly at first, then all at once, it will become clear: this is happening, things are going to get wild, this i...

Chat_106 - Bitcoin Stream Test #133 [Meme Factory™]

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Something else has to go down in order for something to go up. That's why it is specifically a relative weight between all of these things... You can...

Guy's Take_088 - The Hard Truth

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's time to accept some hard truths. Today we are going to challenge some common assumptions about Bitcoin's scalability, privacy, and transaction fe...

TPR_004 - Monetizing Freedom - Ostriches, Pears, and Open Source Challenges with BitKarrot

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I really wanted to screen share stuff with people and make it as easy as possible and I got fed up. So I was just like, okay, you know, let's throw t...

Ai Read_010 - SuperAlignment

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Reliably controlling AI systems much smarter than we are is an unsolved technical problem. And while it is a solvable problem, things could very easi...

Chat_105 - Bitcoin and AI [The Investor's Podcast Network]

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Only the giant corporations are gonna have this and anybody less than a billion dollars, these won't exist. And that was scary, I was like, this can ...

Read_835 - Chain of Custody Part 2 - X Marks the Spot

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The former Speaker predicts "The dollar will suffer a major confidence shock” and as a result asks, “What can be done?” His immediate answer is...

Read_834 - Chain of Custody - The Mafia Holding the Elite's Bitcoin

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Much like the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders program has facilitated the placement of its trained, ideological allies in positions of ...

Ai Read_009 - The Challenges of the Intelligence Explosion

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What if the race to AGI isn't just about code, but a massive industrial mobilization? As AI capabilities grow exponentially, will we see trillion-doll...

Chat_104 - Immutable Democracy with Carlino

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"You eliminate 99% of the attack surface to a single moment in time, which is the beginning. And when you do that, would-be attackers are forced to ta...

Read_833 - Between Bitcoin Layers - Boltz Builds Trustless Transfers

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Submarine Swaps employ hash time-locked contracts (HTLCs), which in layperson’s terms, enable two transactions (both sides of the swap) to happen s...

Read_832 - Protect Your Bitcoin From $5 Wrench Attacks

06 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Whatever your setup is for storing the majority of your bitcoin - be it hot or cold, online or offline, software or hardware - if you can access and ...

Ai_029 - New Tools and Major Moves in AI

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Open AI signals that they are the surveillance leviathon we suspected they always were. Anthropic's Claude 3.5 may be even better than ChatGPT. I expl...