Bitcoin Audible

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...

Chat_138 - Bitcoin Needs More Civil Wars with Super Testnet

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"You can delete your Lightning transactions.So unlike a blockchain, a blockchain's an append-only database and every transaction that gets stored in a...

Read_893 - Building a Local Network with your Neighbors

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Privacy is not a bunker. It’s not cutting every wire, ghosting every friend, and hoping the grid forgets you exist. That’s fantasy. Romanticized ...

Chat_137 - The Natural State of Fiat is Dictatorship with Daniel Batten

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Either you don't have a fiat currency or you don't have a democracy. But the two things together, and this has been proven, cannot coexist happily wi...

Read_892 - Not ECDSA. Not Schnorr. Meet DahLIAS.

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Human innovation knows no limits, and our first assumptions regarding what is possible with the tools at our disposal, are almost invariably found to ...

Read_891 - The Rise of Bitcoin Stocks and Bonds

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"In order for something to be used as ubiquitous money, the spender has to already have it, and the recipient has to want to hold it. Notably, people ...

Chat_136 – The Most Bullish Man in Bitcoin with Christian Keroles

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If Bitcoin is a paradigm shift, it gets to that stage, like it will be an even bigger product than AI, than chat GPT. And like, okay, now imagine the ...

Take_101 - FOLLOW UP

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes a story isn't what it seems... and that's exactly what happened in Take_100. In this follow-up, I revisit the mysterious movement of 80,000 ...

Take_101 - The 80,000 Bitcoin Mystery

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Almost $9 Billion in Bitcoin just moved for the first time in 14 years, and it seems like the person who moved them, are not the original owners. Did ...

Read_890 - Executed For a Twitter Post... [FFR77]

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Everyday the world is becoming more connected, but there are consequences to this at every level of society, and its been made perfectly clear, that t...

Read_889 - Bitcoin for Engineers - Solving Real, Not Theoretical Problems

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today we dive into a piece by Brunswick that makes it crystal clear why characteristics even claimed to be major defects or Bitcoin's design - from it...

Roundtable_010 - Generational Rug Pulls and The End of Bitcoin

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are BACK with the roundtable, after 2 long and crazy months and more to cover than the judge examining Craig Wright's forgeries. We dive into chain...

Read_888 - The Cypherpunk Banking Stack is Coming

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The future of banking and payments will be run on old laptops and built by rebels. But really. As inspiration from Callebtc's announcement of successf...

Read_887 - A Half Baked Thesis on Stablecoins

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"As will become clear as the argument progresses, I actually think the outcome to which I am building up is where things have to go. I think the techn...

Chat_135 - Do One Thing and Do it Right with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I think there's a very clear distinction between inflation and hyperinflation.One is a rational response to an increase in the money supply. Right? S...

Take_100 - You Already Own Nothing, Are You Happy?

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if everything you think you own in the financial system—your stocks, your retirement, your savings—could be taken away in an instant, not bec...

Read_886 - Technologies of Freedom and Oppression [FFR75]

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"In Hunan, an elderly woman in a wheelchair died outside a bank after being forced to appear in person to withdraw her own money for medical care. Too...

Chat_134 - Bitcoin Stream Test #162 [Meme Factory™]

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"A year and a half ago, two years, bitcoin was still a joke. Bitcoin was still something that was very hard for someone legitimate to... you had to ha...

Read_885 The Great Taking [P4]

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Only the Federal Reserve System was designed to survive and take over all assets and banking activities. Only the Federal Reserve Banks and those sel...

Read_884 - The Great Taking [P3]

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Inevitably following the “Everything Bubble” will be the “Everything Crash.” Once prices of essentially everything crash and all financial fi...

Read_883 - The Great Taking [P2]

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I am illustrating the horror and simplicity of the lie. You are led to believe that you own something, but someone else secretly controls it as colla...

Read_882 - The Great Taking [P1]

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"It is important to note that what is exposed here is not conjecture. It is found in authentic primary source documents, in which the planners themsel...

Chat_133 - Bitcoin Development & Controversy with Antoine Poinsot

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"People can use inscriptions today and they do use them.If on the one hand you believe that marginally raising the costs to unwanted usage of the chai...

Chat_132 - How to Stack More Bitcoin [THE Bitcoin Podcast]

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"You must not work hard for something that somebody else can make an infinite amount of for free at no cost and no contribution. If you are working ha...

Read_881 - The Problem is Deeper Than Spam

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if the real issue is actually much deeper than how to deal with spam? Everyone is arguing about mempool settings, who gets to decide the policy, ...

Take_099 - OP_RETURN The Signal and the Noise

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I break down one of the most contentious mempool debates in Bitcoin’s recent history — the proposed removal of OP_RETURN limits. ...

Read_880 - 12 Years in Crypto...

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever been tempted by the glittering world of crypto, with promises of easy money and astronomical gains? This week, I'm diving into a thread ...

Roundtable_009 - If It’s Not Broken, Core Will Fix That

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoin Core is in the spotlight again — and not in a good way. In this roundtable, Jeff Swann, Simple Steve, Bitcoin Mechanic, and I dig into the g...

Read_879 - The Mental Accounting Barrier to Micropayments

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if the true barrier to a world of seamless micropayments isn’t technological, but psychological? In this episode of Bitcoin Audible, we revisit...

Chat_131 - DEBATE: The US vs China/Guy Swann vs Alex Svetski [Liberty Lockdown]

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"For me, the most important war, the thing that we are fighting for in the world today more than anything else for me is the spirit of the West. The ...

Read_878 - Forest Walker: Bitcoin mining and Forest Management

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

New technologies demand a better imagination. Old models will break, and new, unexpected, and wild ideas will replace them. In this episode, I dive in...

Read_877 - Once in a Species

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"This over-developed brain wiring supercharged our interest in scarce assets and our drive to obtain them. Behaviorally, this may have amounted to mak...

Chat_130 - Bitcoin Will Replace Fiat [Rajat Soni]

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"All fiat dies because it's a trusted token that governments can arbitrarily change. Every fiat with every single powerful military behind it fell wh...

Read_876 - Plunging Currencies, CBDCs, and New Bitcoin Freedom Tools [FFR67]

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What does financial repression look like in real time — and how are people fighting back with Bitcoin? In this episode, I read the Human Rights Foun...

Reboot - Read_258 - 21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole - Chapter 3 (Technology)

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever felt lost in the rabbit hole of Bitcoin? In this episode, I revisit Gigi's "21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole," diving deep into Cha...

Reboot - Read_257 - 21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole - Chapter 2 (Economics)

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I revisit Chapter 2 of Gigi's "21 Lessons from the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole," taking another look at the core principles of economics thro...

Reboot - Read_256 - 21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole - Chapter 1 (Philosophy)

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Returning to a classic! I revisit Gigi's "21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole," starting with Chapter 1: Philosophy. What does Bitcoin have to teach...

Roundtable_008 - Just a Little Misinformation

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you are looking for real bitcoiners giving their take on all the major news that happened in bitcoin for the past month, you found the right place....

Reboot - Read_750 - Capital in the 21st Century

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is capital, really? And what happens when Bitcoin forces a repricing of everything we think we know about it? In this reboot episode we'r...

Read_875 - Against Allowing Quantum Recovery of Bitcoin

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Not your keys, not your coins."I posit that the corollary to this principle is:'Your keys, only your coins.' A quantum capable entity breaks ...

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

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoin’s strength lies in its core properties—trust minimization, decentralization, censorship resistance, and more. But what exactly defines...

Reboot - Read_773 - A Solution to Scaling Lightning

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Bitcoin Audible, I revisit an important concept that deserves more attention: timeout trees and their potential to revolutioniz...

Chat_129 - Building the UX Last Mile with UTXO

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The last thing we should want to do is the government to print up a bunch of money, which steals from the poor, so that they can buy Bitcoin to enric...

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 ...