Bitcoin Audible

Chat_103 - Rethinking Bitcoin Education and Self-Custody Parenting

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"When you have a child, you care more than anyone else about that child. You're caring about their long-term success and happiness and their health. I...

Read_831 - Lightning Alliance to Accelerate Adoption

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Joltz is one company that is actively building the necessary infrastructure to support this interoperability. By developing an SDK that allows wallet...

TPR Read_001 - Pear Updates and P2P Systems

29 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a world where centralized platforms dominate, can peer-to-peer systems make a comeback? Today we explore the details of P2P technology, as well as ...

Ai Read_008 - From AGI to Superintelligence

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Are we on the verge of an intelligence explosion that could redefine the future of AI and humanity? Explore Leopold Ashen Brenner's insights on the le...

Chat_102 - The Ethics of Libertarianism [The Staying Free Podcast]

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This chat episode is a riveting conversation which was originally featured on The Staying Free Podcast with my friend jonnyhodl.I delve deep into libe...

Read_830 - How Bitcoin Thrived Through the China Ban

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"China’s current ways to censor the Internet are to block connections from IP servers serving content and block protocol-level attempts, such as Tor...

Ai Read_007 - SITUATIONAL AWARENESS - The Decade Ahead

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Do not expect the vertiginous pace of progress to abate. The trend lines look innocent, but their implications are intense... Scaling up simple deep ...

Chat_101 - The Bitcoin Civil War is Over! with Guy Swann [Anarchast]

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The most powerful thing that Bitcoin did was establish a monetary foundation, a monetary policy that was not alterable through a shallow, short term...

Read_829 - Seamless and Scalable Bitcoin Payments

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The last point is crucial — users can withdraw their Ark funds at any time, even if their ASP goes offline or ceases to exist. True self-custody." ...

Ai_028 - How Much Do You Trust Apple?

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today Guy Swann dives deep into everything about the "Apple Intelligence" announcement, which aims to integrate powerful AI capabilities directly into...

Guy's Take_087 - Credit, Burning Cash, and Real Growth

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is deflation always a bad thing, or have we misunderstood its true impact on the economy? Join me as I unravel the misconceptions about deflation, exp...

Read_828 - Orange Pilling Has Stopped Working

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Educating the world about bitcoin has succeeded in building a community of knowledgeable, dedicated, enthusiastic people from the fields of tech, eco...

Read_827 - The Conflict of Men's Interests

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"...that the lives and efforts of other men are not his property and are not there to serve his wishes. A rational man never holds a desire or pursues...

Read_826 - The Supreme Court Ruling and Implications for Operation Choke Point

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"In NRA, the Court addressed a critical issue impacting not only traditional advocacy groups but any disfavored, but legal, industry. This ruling draw...

Ai_027 - Is AI Breaking the Web?

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A trend I've noticed with Ai, is that it has shifted itself into the middleman position between everyone and the normal surfing of the web. While it m...

Read_825 - Decentralization and Localized Manufacturing, Bitcoin, Ai, and 3D Printing

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What if the future of decentralization lies not just in Bitcoin, but in the convergence of a multitude of different technologies that bring power back...

Read_824 - Ecash is Self-Custodial

02 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Fedimint is a scalable self-custodial off-chain programmability layer on top of Bitcoin. It allows for use cases that are difficult, time-consuming,...

Ai_026 - The Scam of Open AI

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A very unique dynamic occurs with generative AI. LLM companies are scraping the internet for millions of works belonging to other people, photos, vide...

Guy's Take_086 - Fiat Waste

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

People look around and they see a wasteful world. They see endless, mindless consumption. Increasingly, we see people fearing the future rather than h...

Reboot - Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ideas and ways of thinking are much like paths in the wood. When we explore them often they are well worn and clearly defined. But often we get lost e...

TPR_002 - From Local to Global with Holesail

25 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I believe that hole punch stack can be a really good alternative to static IPs. That way, for example, you want to access your camera from anywhere,...

Read_823 - Scaling Trust

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"This capability ensures that participants can trust the system's integrity without the need for mutual trust among users. It fundamentally alters how...

Read_822 - Denial of Service Attack on Consensus

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"It is like exercising a veto you hold for anything and everything, and yes, vetoes are important in consensus systems. But disrupting conversation is...

Ai_025 - Bullsh.t and Breakthroughs

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we explore the deluge of announcements from both OpenAi and Google. With a plethora of Ai features dropping at Google I/O And Chat GPT-4o landin...

Read_821 - The Most Important Thing You'll Read This Year

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The U.S. Government spends in a budgetary deficit, then issues treasuries to pay for the spending, then, at a bigger rate than anybody else, buys the...

Chat_100 - Privacy is a Crime with Travis West

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we dive into an amazing chat around the complexities and shifts in law enforcement in a world with Bitcoin, as well as breaking down the nuances...

TPR_001 - Return of the P2P Web

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our inaugural episode of The Pear Report, it only felt right to bring Mafintosh and dmc onto the show to explore the transformative potential of th...

Ai_024 - CASCDR

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"We're basically at a fork in the road. I think that there's a good chance we go the wrong way and you end up with a situation like China. We need to ...

Chat_099 - Failure, Hope and the Purpose of Bitcoin with Bitcoin Mechanic

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"We have the fork wars, we have a culture that understands the importance of nodes and widespread enforcement of a protocol and its rules. Unlike shit...

Read_820 - The Bitcoin Stack

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"This is a fancy way of saying that you need money to make markets, and you need decentralized, open, digital money to make decentralized, open, digit...

Read_819 - Bitcoin Drain in the USA

04 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I think Americans are used to seeing people arrested for bullshit technicalities and thrown in jail for long periods of time. But in the rest of the ...

Ai_023 - The Promise of Personal AI

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How close are we to realizing the dream of personal AI? Dive into the potential of small, efficient AI models that enhance our self-awareness and impr...

Guy's Take_085 - They Are Coming

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The Samurai wallet developers have been arrested. The government has responded with their opposition to the motion of dismissal in the tornado cash c...

Ai_022 - Applying Ai

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can AI be harnessed to manage and enhance personal and professional digital interactions more effectively? In this episode of "AI Unchained," expl...

Read_818 - Reviewing Reviews

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The internet assumed NOTHING and it won because it had the basic, robust, open building blocks upon which all the innovation actually occurred. The s...

Read_817 - The Bitcoin Renaissance: How Lightning Will Connect Everything

27 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"As we discussed in Entering the Bitcoin Renaissance, our last edition, Lightning Labs CEO and Co-Founder Elizabeth Stark told The Block, “a majo...

Chat_098 - Replacing Gold with Tuur Demeester

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"What are we actually about? It's to an extent an open question. It's not like the Cypherpunks knew at all. It's part of our job to continue to try an...

Read_816 - Why I'm Still Not Buying Bitcoin

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I'm a Bitcoin skeptic. I'm not buying Bitcoin in 2024, even if it goes back to its recent all-time highs, or higher. Here's why." ~ Ben Gran Ben bre...

Read_815 - What are Mises’s Six Lessons

20 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"If you care about your...country, read Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian economic school." ~ Renato Moicano With a surge in inter...

Guy's Take_084 - Fiat Finance

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many people make the serious miscalculation, that if the CPI isn't too high, then printing money isn't a problem and doesn't really cost them anything...

Ai_021 - Ai Hardware & the Next Wave

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode of AI Unchained we dive into a plethora of new developments in Ai tailored hardware, the scope of what leaps in performance and cap...

Read_814 - Dogma Kills Brain Cells

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"That dogma was necessary — without it the people who have built this ecosystem into what it is today wouldn’t have had the motivation to do so. W...

Read_813 - Mises's Regression Theorem, Bitcoin, and Subjective Value

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"On the face of it, Bitcoin’s existence seems to violate Mises’s theorem, unless a preceding non-monetary use can be demonstrated. That is, Bitcoi...

Chat_097 - Lightning Offline with Super Testnet

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Hedgehog uses relative time locks. So that if they don't have to worry about closing that channel with a relative time lock, it's whenever you do clo...

Guy's Take_083 - It's Going Up Forever, Laura

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"It's going up forever, Laura." ~ Michael Saylor I know to many people that sounds crazy, and I can still see in my mind why it sounds crazy. Today, ...

Chat_096 - Surviving the Shift to a Bitcoin World with Jack Spirko

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"People that are in the Western world and specifically in the United States, what they're realizing, whether they can say it this way or not, is you'r...

Ai Read_006 - How (Actually) Open AI Wins

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"As I see it, humanity is at a turning point where we must either embrace a small handful of totalitarian super intelligences or move AI to the edge, ...

Read_812 - Congress is Criminalizing Privacy

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"We know the law is unconstitutional. FinCEN knows the law is unconstitutional. FinCEN knows we know the law is unconstitutional. And yet we're sup...

Read_811 - Speaking Freely

30 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"You have to decide how to move forward. You have to decide what game you want to play; how much responsibility you are willing to shoulder. Do you ...

Ai_20 - Instability Ai & Commoditized Intelligence

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we delve into the leadership upheaval at Stability AI, Apple finally putting their cards on the table, the breadth of tools available for image ...

Chat_095 - The Fall of the Fiat Empires with Preston Pysh

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Guy Swann and Preston Pysh explore the dramatic shifts in global finance and the pivotal role of Bitcoin amidst rising inflation and the banking secto...

Guy's Take_082 - Fiat Replacement Theory

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fiat money has a collection of malincentives and consequences for the degrading and rotting of society. As we covered in the first part of this series...

Read_810 - Censorship in America

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The mechanisms enforcing this modern censorship are not confined to private sectors or individual platforms but are significantly directed and influe...

Ai Read_005 - Here Lies the Internet, Murdered By Generative Ai

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"All around the nation there are toddlers plunked down in front of iPads being subjected to synthetic runoff, deprived of human contact _even in the ...

Chat_094 - Pessimism, Optimism, & Rationally Passionate Ranting with Clint Russell

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"As far as I'm concerned, there's no obvious increased danger from the CCP having control over our access or our information or even modifying the alg...

Read_809 - Bitter Opposition to Bitcoin

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"In a system that depends on irresponsible government spending (especially for perpetual war) and fiat printing to cover that irresponsibility, alarm ...

Read_808 - Bitcoin is Worse than a Ponzi, It's An Insurrection

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Bitcoin will probably crash again but it is neither a Ponzi scheme nor a bubble – it’s something far worse: It is an inherently secure, tightly-c...

Ai_019 - What if You Had a Personal Software Developer

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With the announcement of Devin, the "First AI Software Engineer" by Cognition Labs, some are calling it a breakthrough, while others aren't so impress...

Read_807 - A Measure of Sacrifice, Part 2

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Of all measurement instruments, the clock is the most valuable because so many of the things we sacrifice to create are not fungible. The massive clo...

Read_806 - A Measure of Sacrifice, Part 1

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"From an engineering perspective the mechanical clock with its novelty, the escapement, was by far the more important invention. In terms of its impac...

Ai_018 - Unlocking the world with AI

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Advanced AI meets sustainable agriculture, opening a revolutionary pathway to food security. This episode brings Stephen Reisner from Potent Ponics in...

Guy's Take_081 - Fiat Materialism

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I'm sure you have heard the claim that without inflation and the good people running the counterfeit machine, people would never spend money and it wo...

Read_805 - Dear Crypto & Fiat Bros

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Whether you're a rekt crypto bro or a friend of fiat, there is one thing that is especially difficult to accept. The one thing that sets Bitcoin apar...

Ai_017 - From Closed AI to Open Source with NVK

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The only way to protect yourself from closed, surveilled AI tools, is to use the open and private alternatives. When NVK couldn't find them, he decide...

Read_804 - The Past, Present, & Future of Offline Payments

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"It might feel as if the promised future is perpetually out of reach, but building Lightning is a lot like climbing a mountain. Climbers never really ...

Read_803 - Inflation in a HyperBitcoinized World

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Izzy said there could be inflation in a hyperbitcoinized world. And she's right. Calm down, maxis, calm down! Explaining why this is true sheds light...

Chat_093 - P2P Payments for the World with Roy Sheinfeld

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I'm super confident that lightning is not just the present but also the future of lightning. It is the interoperability layer between all things Bitc...

Ai_016 - Video AI Breakthroughs Already in 2024

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"By the end of 2024, everyone will have tools easily available to them that will allow them to create any video they want by simply typing in a descri...

Read_802 - How Inflation Destroys Civilization

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The foregoing considerations are by no means an exhaustive account of the cultural and spiritual legacy of fiat inflation. But they should suffice to...

Read_801 - To Dust You Shall Return

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"During the peak transaction fee times over the past month, our example transaction would be dust even for .001 BTC. That’s a little less than $50 a...

Chat_092 - Second Coming of the P2P Web

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We had an awesome chat on Twitter Spaces where we discuss the launch of Pear Runtime, bringing Paolo Arduino, Mathias Buus, David Markclem, Samson Mow...

Read_800 - Mining Misinformation - How the UN Misrepresents Bitcoin Mining

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"For too long, the world has had to endure the fallout of subpar academic research on bitcoin mining’s energy use and environmental impact. The outc...

Read_799 - Nostr Wallet Connect - Bitcoin App Collaboration

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"NWC is useful for far more than simply integrating Lightning into Nostr applications as well. The entire design philosophy of Nostr itself as a proto...

Ai_015 - Integration, Not Agents with Luke from ParsePrompt

10 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are diving into a discussion today with the creator of ParsePrompt on a perspective of where Ai can be leveraged for the highest multiplier. How to...

Read_798 - Quantum Computing's Reality Check

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The main promise of quantum computing is the ability to solve problems far faster than classical computers, but exactly how much faster varies. There ...

Read_797 - The Next Big Thing Will Look Like a Toy

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet properties today looks from the list ten years ago.  ...

Guy's Take_080 - But Bitcoin Wastes Energy

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Bitcoin wastes energy. You've heard it a million times. But what if its the exact opposite of the truth in every way? What if its actually our energy...

Read_796 - Stranded - How Bitcoin is Saving Wasted Energy

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"One night during my visit to Bondo, Carl asked me to pause as the sunset was fading, to look at the hills around us: the lights were all turning on, ...

Ai_014 - A Million New Devs with Hope TS

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I think AI can make a lot of things better, and if you put them together, if you are aware of the resources at your disposal, I think the average per...

Read_795 - Bitcoin is Dead (Long Live IBIT)

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"To put it simply, there are now corporations with billions of dollars of investment in not just the asset, but the ecosystem. Mining is a huge econom...

Chat_091 - Economic Myths & The Dollar's Destiny with Dr. Robert Murphy

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In today's chat we dive into destroying economic myths and unraveling the political divides of our time toward what future they may be leading us to. ...

Read_794 - Open Letter To Prospective ETF Buyers

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Bitcoin enables perhaps the most powerful mode of ownership ever devised; it would be akin to gold inside a safe that can’t be penetrated with all ...

Ai Read_004 - Building a Language Model (Part 2)

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

  "It’s important to step outside of the hype and critically-analyze what is and is not useful. It’s very easy to get caught up in “potential”...

Read_793 - How DigiCash Blew Everything

24 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Retrospectively, a lot of ex-DigiCash employees understand why Chaum was so paranoid.  As a cryptographer you have to assume the whole world is tryi...

Chat_090 - The Danger of Being Right Too Early with Devon Eriksen

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes in life and the course of history, there are moments where simply stating the truth, in a clear and understandable way, can stir a fire in t...

Guy's Take_079 - BITCOIN IS NOT MONEY

20 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I hope Bitcoin sticks around and grows more popular, but in its current form to most in #TradFi it is the opposite of SOUND MONEY, especially if it t...

Ai Read_003 - The Nexus of Bitcoin and AI (Part 1)

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are so many myths and misconceptions around AI models. What they can do, how they are trained, even the fundamentals of how the data for them is...

Read_792 - How CTV Helps Scale Bitcoin

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Part of the problem of Lightning’s shortcoming regarding scalability of Bitcoin ownership is that in order to open a channel, or control a UTXO, yo...

Chat_089 - Lightning's Next Era with Sam Wouters

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are a lot of speculation, claims, predictions, and accusations around the successes and faults of the Lightning Network. But where do this thing...

Guy's Take_078 - Are the ETFs the End of the Bitcoin Dream?

13 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The legacy financial system has arrived. One January 10th, numerous Bitcoin ETFs were approved. But is this even a good thing? What does this signal f...

Ai_013 - Become Anyone With Ai

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we explore the tools for voice changing ai and text-to-speech. What is Guy using, and what are the impacts of instant and easy voice copying be ...

Read_791 - Rethinking Lightning

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

" Channel liquidity and offline receives, in my opinion, are the two most obvious reasons why self-custodial lightning is not popular. When most users...

Read_790 - The African Village Mining Bitcoin

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The computers used to create valuable new Bitcoin tokens and validate transactions consume around the same amount of energy as a medium-sized country...

Read_789 - Can Appreciating Bitcoin Be a Good Money?

06 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Bitcoin appears to be a decentralized Ponzi scheme not a decentralized currency. People don't spend it because they want it to go up. The dollar work...

Ai_012 - A Big Leap Forward for Local LLMs

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The models, the tools, the implementations, everything is moving incredibly fast. But a very interesting trend that I've been seeing, is that the open...

Read_788 - Stone Ridge 2023 Investor Letter

03 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Since 2017, bitcoin has been Stone Ridge’s treasury reserve asset because of my extreme aversion to risk. We run net short USD – which is fancy w...

Read_787 - Usury, Your Bank, and You

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"This decision, which is legally sound, has the effect of declaring all private mortgages on real and personal property, and all U.S. and State bonds ...

Reboot - Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species

30 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“This makes Bitcoin miners uniquely symbiotic with energy grids serving as “demand response” partners. If energy is ever in short supply, people...

Read_786 - The Difficult Adjustment

27 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"We’re less than a year from another halving, awaiting systemic implications from federal regulation and institutional adoption, standing at the pre...

Reboot - The HODL vs DeaterBob Debate

26 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"You’re a thirsty bitch. You like to gargle Peter’s balls." ~ DeaterBob Merry Christmas! In this reboot episode, we revisit the infamous debate ...