Bitcoin Audible
Episodes
Reboot - Isaiahs Job
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"There is a Remnant there that you know nothing about. They are obscure, unorganized, inarticulate, each one rubbing along as best he can. They need t...
Chat_88 - Broken Money, Broken World with Lyn Alden
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"You got to go from proto banking to full service banking and then to central banking and you know interconnected central bank. So now a lot of that i...
Ai_011 - The Fears of Ai
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ai is a powerful tool, and thus, necessarily comes with incredible risk. It could obsolete millions of workers, taking jobs and productive capacity aw...
Read_785 - Everyone Needs an Uncle Jim
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Regulators will continue coming down on those custodians, making more demands for information, more demands on restrictions for what users can do wit...
Guy's Take_077 - Dear Government...
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I dive into the ongoing shift from closed systems to open, permissionless digital realms, drawing parallels to the internet revolution...
Ai_010 - Tools for Running Local LLMs
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we dive into a few of my favorite tools for running LLMs locally on your machine, even the average consumer machine. With a huge variety of mode...
Read_784 - How FinCEN May Be Violating your Rights
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"I’ve done an overall analysis of the proposal by addressing seven different sections of where FinCEN is attempting to infringe on your rights. From...
Read_783 - Ordinals Are Fiat, Inscriptions Aren't Rare
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Nothing in the ordinal logic requires inscriptions to be linked to the “first” sat. So why is it the first sat of the first output? Why not the s...
Read_782 - The Ethics of Emergencies
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The principle that one should help men in an emergency cannot be extended to regard all human suffering as an emergency and to turn the misfortune of ...
Ai Read_002 - A Coder Considers The Waning Days of the Craft
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it." ~ James Somers Today we ...
Read_781 - The Censorship Industrial Complex, CTIL Files 01
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Many people insist that governments aren't involved in censorship, but they are. And now, a whistleblower has come forward with an explosive new trov...
Read_780 - Lightning is Doomed!
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"A reality check on the limitations of Lightning Network, and what that means in terms of its long term viability. No, it's not doomed, but it probabl...
Guy's Take_076 - Fiat Money's Dark Secret
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The free market works because economic decisions are made by people who have skin in the game. When you spend $100 you have earned, you understand the...
PSA - Farewell Nodeless
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nodeless is dead. Long live Nodeless. Unfortunately the Nodeless payment service has had to shut down, but for anyone who needs to get in touch for an...
Read_779 - A Network of Keys
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Clients applying this reasoning should remember that, in bitcoin, no one is too big to fail. There is no government or money printer capable of resto...
Ai_009 - 5 Ways You Should be Using Ai
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you are looking to maximize your productivity, to use the Ai tools available in a way that genuinely gives you that 5x improvement of your capabili...
Read_778 - Durabit, Incentivizing Torrent Seeders
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"A recent anonymous proposal specifies a system using timelocked Bitcoin transactions and chaumian ecash mints to create an economic incentive for Bit...
Reboot - Bitcoin is Digital Scarcity
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The difference between the Linden Dollar, World of Warcraft Gold, Fortnite V-Bucks, the Euro, and the U.S. dollar is in scale, not in nature. While V...
Guy's Take_075 - A Global Monetary Rebellion
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The election of Javier Milei is unlikely the be the next El Salvador, but I don't think it needs to be in order to be significant. There is something ...
Read_777 - The Inevitable Bust
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The recurring cycle of economic booms followed by inevitable busts has remained a puzzle for generations of observers. While mainstream Keynesian and...
Ai Read_001 - A Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Our first instinct when interacting with a Large Language Model should not be “wow these things must be really smart or really creative or really u...
Chat_87 - Coinos & Merchant Onboarding with Adam & Cole
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Ultimately, my goal with Coinos is to make Bitcoin a super simple user interface for "normies" to be able to come on and not have to understand how t...
Guy's Take_074 - Banks Without Bankers
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is Bitcoin destined to become another fiat system? Where we end up in a world where the dominant instrument isn't Bitcoin at all, but just more IOUs? ...
Read_776 - Banks Without Bankers
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Unique to the emergent Bitcoin financial system is the application of cryptography to fundamental financial functions. Novel technologies exist, are ...
Guy's Take_073 - Lightning is Dead, Long Live Lightning!
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LIGHTNING IS DEAD! Did you hear about the new exploit discovered that may be the "nail in the coffin" of the broken and defeated Lightning network? I ...
Read_775 - The Fed Threatens to Sue Bitcoin Magazine
04 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"We have no interest in causing confusion, mistakes, or deception. That sounds more like a job for those responsible for telling the market they would...
Chat_86 - Everything on Bitcoin with Robin Linus & Super Testnet
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's often said that Bitcoin is too limited, that you can't build anything interesting on top of the Bitcoin chain... what if that was not only true, ...
Read_774 - Bitcoin Won't Fix the Federal Reserve
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Will Bitcoin adoption improve the monetary policy behaviors of the Federal Reserve? I submit that it won’t. I do not see the incentive for the Fede...
Read_773 - A Solution to Scaling Lightning
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Timeout Trees is a very concrete and specific proposal for a channel factory design that actually attempts to address the real issues of use and impl...
Basics_008 - How to Buy Bitcoin
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are diving back into the Bitcoin basics series today! Now that we understand how bitcoin works, what is important, how to stay safe, and how to use...
Read_772 - Easier Way to Bootstrap the UTXO Set
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"After four years of work, James O'Beirne's assumeutxo option to allow instant UTXO set bootstrapping for your Bitcoin node is merged into Bitcoin Cor...
Read_771 - Beating Fiat with the Breez SDK
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"There used to be tradeoffs between Lightning and fiat: UX vs. sovereignty; UX vs. speed; UX vs. cost; off-the-shelf fiat payment widgets vs. coding ...
Read_770 - The Big Deal with BitVM
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"It requires no consensus changes to Bitcoin at all. The trick is lifting all of that logic off-chain and being able to challenge a few steps of the c...
Guy's Take_071 - But Bitcoin Doesn't Innovate
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I hope you listened to the recent read by Beautyon, Bitcoin and Software Reliability, because today we continue our FUD Relief series. I suspect you h...
Ai_008 - Ecash and Ai with Obi Nwosu
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get 50,000 free sats, plus sats back on everything you buy by signing up with Fold and the Spin+ Debit Card. bitcoinaudible.com/fold...
FEATURING AI Unchained #008 - Ecash and Ai with Obi Nwosu
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Obi Nwosu, co-founder and CEO of Fedi, joins us today to talk about the new innovations and challenges in decentralising the web and how both Bitcoin ...
Reboot - Bitcoin & Software Reliability
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"With Bitcoin, lives and money are at stake. Interruption of its service can cause a cascade of losses and unintended consequences for potentially mil...
Read_769 - Orange is the New Green
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Our existing financial system is a mirage of wealth and liquidity, sustained by an ever-expanding money supply. Bitcoin emerges as the ultimate shiel...
Ai_007 - Global Markets for GPU Power with Christopher David
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What if we could mitigate the enormous centralizing effects of the massive server farms and huge corporate entities, by pooling the GPU power of the m...
Chat_85 - Bitcoin HyperDecentralization with Zack Bomsta
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talked with Zack ₿omsta, the visionary leader behind Pivotal Pleb. Pivotal Pleb is on a mission to level the playing field for de...
Read_768 - Living Through the Fall of Rome
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Today historians focus on the symptoms of Rome’s fall, the consequences: The moral decay, the economic decline, the fall in public safety, the mult...
Read_767 - Pay Me in Bitcoin Theory
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"If the merchant wants the bitcoin and you pay in fiat_, that is you shifting the burden of fiat friction on to them. And paying your valued vendors i...
Read_766 - Spiderchains, Proof of Stake L2
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Take the idea of proof-of-stake as a base layer consensus mechanism, and throw the idea away for right now. That's not what this is, and the problems...
Read_765 - "Hoarding" is a Keynesian Slur
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"This has been one of the most effective psychological operations that has ever been conducted on the public in human history. The high priests of cen...
Chat_84 - Layers, Payments, and Relays with Utxo
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we sit down with Utxo, founder of Nodeless, on understanding the design space for Bitcoin services, the challenges of making Bitcoin accessible ...
Read_764 - UTXOracle, Decentralizing the Oracle Problem
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"It means that, given an open-source model, this could help bring about the ability to: Independently calculate the price of bitcoin using only you...
Guy's Take #70 - But Deflation is Bad
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A deflationary money is going to destroy the economy! If the value of money keeps going up, then no one will ever spend it! If no one spends it, then ...
Read_763 - Evils of THE ALGORITHM
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Everything about the concept of a social network and the incredible potential and beauty of #nostr as a protocol is in controlling your experience, w...
Read_762 - Bitcoin's Security Model Deep Dive
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"When discussing consensus mechanisms for different cryptocurrencies, one issue that often causes arguments is a lack of understanding (and definitio...
Read_761 - A Sound Bitcoin Financial System [Alex B]
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"I believe it’s important to go back to what this sovereignty is made of. Bitcoin works because an economic majority is aligning incentives for ever...
Read_760 - Drivechain's Place in Bitcoin's Future
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"To not die, Bitcoin must become more used. The current thesis accepted by most “maximalists” is that Bitcoin will continue to be thought of as an...
Read_759 - Increasing Interoperability in Second Layer Protocols [Chase Smith]
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Often overlooked is the importance of interoperability between not only the second-layer protocol and Bitcoin but the layer-2 protocols themselves. A...
Read_758 - Scaling and Consensus Changes [James O'Beirne]
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"When reading a draft of this post, my wife got kind of depressed right around here. Her macabre question, basically, is: “if everyone just winds up...
Read_757 - Putting the B in BTC [Anthony Towns]
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The headroom there isn’t unlimited — expect it to show up as fee pressure and backlogs and less ability to quickly resolve transaction storms. An...
Read_756 - Bitcoin, The Trust Anchor in a Sea of Blockchains [Jameson Lopp]
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"While bitcoin is still mainly seen as digital currency, it’s essentially a timestamped log with special properties. As such, it can be utilised for...
Guys Take #69 - But It's Just Digital Points...
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With so many common misconceptions about money, how can we possibly make sense of Bitcoin for customers who have spent their entire lives using only a...
Read_755 - Drivechains
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"A successful blind merge mined sidechain with significant MEV opportunities could offer Bitcoin significant benefits, which could more than offset th...
Chat_83 - Decentralizing Global Markets with Nostr, Pablof7z
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have an incredible chat today with Pablof7z who is on a mission to make Nostr the global, decentralized marketplace. With highlighter for integrate...
Ai_006 - Evil, Intelligence & Value with Dhruv Bansal
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we delve into a captivating topic, as we explore the potential relationship between AI and evil. My guest Dhruv Bansal brings his profound insig...
Read_754 - Bitcoin Is Not Crypto, The SEC Confirms
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Talk to a bitcoin maximalist – someone who believes that bitcoin is the only digital asset with innate value – and, more likely than not, they’...
Read_753 - Bitcoin Timestamp Security [Jameson Lopp]
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Bitcoin is often referred to as a secure timestamping service. We never had a global record of truth with trustworthy timestamps, so how did this com...
Read_752 - Bitcoin Becomes the Flag of Technology [Balaji S. Srinivasan]
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Bitcoin represents the explicit encoding of previously implicit values of the tech community. It's not just software — it is a Schelling point and ...
Read_751 - Decentralization: Why Dumb Networks Are Better [Andreas Antonopolous]
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Some networks are “smart.” They offer sophisticated services that can be delivered to very simple end-user devices on the “edge” of the netwo...
Read_749 - Economics of Bitcoin as a Settlement Network [Saifedean]
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The obsession with consumer payments in the Bitcoin community is an unfortunate relic of the fiat money era. Generations that have only known monetar...
Read_750 - Capital in the 21st Century [Allen Farrington]
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"To do our best to minimize the economics jargon once again, we might simply ask: what are you going to do with your time? Are you going to create or ...
Read_748 - Bitcoin & the Rise of the Cypherpunks [Lopp]
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"While many of the innovations in the space are new, they’re built on decades of work that led to this point. By tracing this history, we can unders...
Read_747 - The Bondholder's Burning Platform [Croesus]
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Since 1800, in 51 out of 52 cases where a country’s debt-to-GDP ratio reached 130%, the country eventually defaulted. The only exception is current...
Guy's Take #68 - Lightning & the Ai Economy
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ai agents are going to be able to seek out, delegate, and pay for micro services from an ecosystem of other agents & services. But the resources b...
Reboot - Bitcoin and The American Idea [Alex Gladstein]
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Today Americans celebrate 246 years of independence from the British Empire. On this day in 1776 the Founding Fathers made a declaration. It was a bo...
Ai_005 - Ai, Fiat Incompatible with Kody Low
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"So we had built this for a while, but because API calls are basically free, there really wasn't a good match for it. There were some good matches for...
Read_746 - Orange Pilling Your Barber [Hector Alvero]
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Your barber or stylist likely has the broadest network of anyone you know. People from every walk of life, including business owners, accountants, te...
Chat_82 - The Spirit of Satoshi
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We recently had Aleks Svetski back on at Ai Unchained to discuss the project we hinted at in episode 2 that he made public at BTCPrague. The Spirit of...
Read_745 - Every Company Will Be A Lightning Company [Graham Krizek]
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Neither a startup nor a bank will ever be able to cost-effectively compete on a global scale with the Lightning Network." — Graham Krizek Today we...
Read_744 - How To Position for the Bitcoin Boom, Part 2 [Adamant Research]
24 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Investing in bitcoin, we believe, is like having the ability to buy shares of a general “Internet ETF” back in the early 1990s, or like being abl...
Read_743 - How to Position for the Bitcoin Boom, Part 1 [Adamant Research]
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"bitcoin is a protocol stack which we can expect to be expanding for many decades, and its foundation is that lean, simple database defended by the wo...
Chat_81 - An Austrian View of US Collapse with Peter St. Onge
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"...At some point the entire financial system becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of the Federal Reserve" — Peter St. Onge Today we dive into the fia...
Read_742 - Trust Me Bro [Allen Farrington]
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Expect BlackRock to turn around and shill this to banks, and in particular big banks, such that JPMorgan, for example, can itself turn around and o...
Read_741 - Much Ado About Ordinals, Inscriptions, and BRC20 [Roy Sheinfeld]
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The more wonderful something is, the more passion it will arouse. Bitcoin is among the greatest wonders of the late-modern world, so Greg Foss is und...
Read_740 - What Are the Key Properties of Bitcoin [Jameson Lopp]
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"What is Bitcoin? Many have attempted to answer this question, but I believe that our quest to do so is doomed to continue in perpetuity. The continu...
Ai Read_000 - Google "We Have No Moat..."
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"These contributions were pivotal in the image generation space, setting Stable Diffusion on a different path from Dall-E. Having an open model led to...
Read_739 - The State of Zapvertising [The Same Cat]
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Zapvertising has two forms, and I believe there is a crucial difference between the two. In one version, a company or creator zaps a ton of notes on ...
Guy's Take #67 - Withdraw Everything
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the banking crisis just getting started, with the SEC going after Binance and Coinbase, with rumors of Prime Trust declaring bankruptcy, it is no...
Read_738 - The Fruit of the Nostr Tree [Guy Swann]
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Nostr isn't just a social network, in a similar way that Bitcoin isn't just a transaction network. Both of these things are true, but they each miss ...
Read_737 - Is Your Money Safe During the Banking Crisis, Part 2 [Brad Mills]
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Much like how two nuclear bombs ended World War II, capital-crushing central bank policy rate hikes and Russian sanctions were like two nuclear bombs...
Read_736 - Is Your Money Safe during the Banking Crisis, Part 1 [Brad Mills]
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Price inflation is the highest it’s been in decades. Labor participation is the lowest it’s been in decades. Wealth inequality is continually goi...
Read_735 - When Bitcoin Meets AI [Svetski]
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The idea of a language user interface as the next step from the thumb tapping we’ve become used to over the past decade is fascinating, and what we...
Chat_80 - Building the Ark with Burak
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the Introduction of Ark, the new 2nd layer payments and privacy protocol introduced with Read_734. I left with a lot of excitement, but I still h...
Ai_002 - Bias & Truth in AI with Aleks Svetski
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"This is the first time we've interacted with anything other than a parrot that can string together a coherent sentence. And it sounds stupid, but it'...
Basics_07 - The Basics of Key Management
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode will be part review, and part just going over some very practical, step by step ways to think about managing your keys with a hardware wa...
Read_734 - Introducing Ark [Burak]
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Ark is a trustless, distinct layer two protocol with unilateral exit. ASPs cannot steal users’ funds or link senders & receivers. Users retain ...
Read_733 - Mint the Future With Taproot Assets [Ryan Gentry]
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"an unbounded number of assets can be minted and/or moved in a single on-chain transaction. This off-chain first design enables asset minters and tran...
FEATURING - AI Unchained_001 - A New Frontier, with Jeff Booth
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode of AI Unchained, a new show exploring how AI technology can be a means of empowering the individual, rather than a system...
Ai_001 - A New Frontier, with Jeff Booth
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode of AI Unchained, a new show exploring how AI technology can be a means of empowering the individual, rather than a system...
Read_732 - We Need More Apps With Lightning, Not More Lightning Apps [Roy Sheinfeld]
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Permission can only be denied if it is requested. Direct, peer-to-peer interaction obviates permission and equalizes market power. Don’t request pe...
Read_731 - Let's Grow Nostr [Jack Spirko]
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The biggest complaint members of my audience make about Nostr is the sheer dominance of Bitcoin content. This is understandable. Nostr uses a means...
Read_730 - High Fees? Bitcoin is Working as Designed [Matt Odell]
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Bitcoin transaction fees limit network abuse by making usage expensive. There is a cost to every transaction, set by a dynamic free market based on d...
Read_729 - BRICS, USD, and a Multipolar World [James Lavish]
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"This very dominance is causing certain countries to seek a way to be less dependent on the USD and the UST. To extract themselves from the whims and ...
Read_728 - Who Controls Bitcoin Core [Jameson Lopp]
06 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The question of who controls the ability to merge code changes into Bitcoin Core’s GitHub repository tends to come up on a recurring basis. This...
Guy's Take #66 - Pooping in the Park
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bitcoin is a public good. The maintenance and stewardship of the network rests on the conviction and work of 10s or 100s of thousands of node operator...
Read_727 - The Banking Crisis Stays, & the Treasury is Broke [Nik Bhatia, Joe Consorti]
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The fall of First Republic Bank was the second-largest bank failure by assets in US history, putting us in the 2008 conversation. Times are different...