Bitcoin Audible
Episodes
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...
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...