Bitcoin Audible

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...

Read_726 - The Nostr Privacy Paradox [L0LA L33TZ]

02 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"If Tor is an anonymous remailer, meaning a protocol facilitating the anonymous forwarding and receiving of messages between peers, Nostr can function...

Read_725 - Operation Choke Point 2.0 is Underway [Nic Carter]

27 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Banks are highly regulated public-private partnerships in an environment where new charters are excruciatingly hard to obtain, and as such remain de ...

Read_724 - The Virtue of Selfishness - The Objectivist Ethic [Ayn Rand]

26 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"The title of this book may evoke the kind of question that i hear once in a while: "Why do you use the word 'selfishness' to denote virtuous qualitie...

Read_723 - Alchemy - Everything Divided By 21 Million [Knut Svanholm]

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Central Banking is successful alchemy in this sense. The money- issuing institutions of the world have found a way to create new money with no cost. ...

Read_722 - Purple Text, Orange Highlights [Dergigi]

19 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"I believe that in the open /attention/ information economy we find ourselves in, value will mostly derive from effective curation, dissemination, and...

Read_721 - IMF Unveils New Global Currency "Universal Monetary Unit" [Tyler Durden]

18 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Can you imagine a world in which you are restricted from buying meat for a while because you have already used your “carbon credits” for the mont...

Basics_06 - The Lightning Network

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Lightning Network finally strikes in this Bitcoin Basics episode! Now that we understand the fundamentals of keys, wallets, transactions, and the ...

Read_720 - A History of Bitcoin Maximalism [Jameson Lopp]

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"This was how more mainstream Bitcoin culture degraded from intellectual expressions of ideas (2017-era debates) to tribal recreations of the past. Th...

Read_719 - All You Can Hold for Five Bucks [Joseph Mitchell]

11 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"“In the old days they didn’t even use tables and chairs. They sat on beer crates and ate off the tops of beer barrels. You’d be surprised how m...

Read_718 - Bitcoin Does Not Waste Electricity [Beautyon_}

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Of all the objections to Bitcoin, the objection that it “wastes” electricity is the most absurd. This thinking betrays a fundamental misunderstan...

Read_717 - How To Wreck a Big Old GSIB [DeepThroatIPO]

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Generally, what we’re talking about here is unregulated (or lightly regulated), uninsured investors, LLCs, Funds and privately controlled “Shadow...

Guy's Take #65 - Banks, Digital Money, and a Cat

04 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Prices are relative, Bitcoin is infinitely scalable, stability for the sake of stability is undesirable, maximal instability in prices maximizes resil...

Read_716 - How to Fix Banking & Money - PBDC vs CBDC [El Gato]

01 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"and the uniparty is in strong agreement here. both know that losing control of the money and the banks is an existential threat to their aristocratic...

Read_715 - Clear and Present Danger [Joel Bowman]

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Thus was the dubious “clear and present danger” standard born. Holmes himself sought to redefine the standard later that same year when he dissen...

Basics_05 - The Node

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoin is ultimately just a piece of software, the network – the global, censorship resistant, immutable system – is ultimately just a collection...

Read_714 - Bitcoin's Meme Wars [DerGigi]

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"The question that the fiat system answers is the following: who is allowed to counterfeit currency, and how much? Further, who is allowed to have acc...

Read_713 - How the Fed "Went Broke" [Lyn Alden]

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"The financial system in the United States, and for most of the rest of the world for that matter, can basically be thought of as an Excel spreadsheet...

Chat_79 - The Spirit of Bitcoin with John Vallis

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I joined John today for an over 2 hour rip on the nature of Bitcoin, numerous technical developments, the trade offs of those in the past, the consequ...

Guy's Take #64 - No Way Back, Only a Way Out

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There is no magic wand. There is no such thing as a free lunch. When we bail out an institution, a bank, or "depositors" for billions of dollars, some...

Read_712 - Lightning Prisms [DerGigi]

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"One aspect that is still massively under-utilized is the programmability of Bitcoin. While simple things like scheduled payments and automated paymen...

Read_711 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 2 [Matthew Pines]

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"One immediate lesson many drew from this event was a reconsideration of the risk of fiat liabilities in an environment where trust is lacking (includ...

Read_710 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 1 [Matthew Pines]

14 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"The 20th century was the first where technology enabled forms of violent state competition, as well as peaceful globalization, across the full scale ...

Read_709 - The Breez Open LSP Model

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Lightning is the way to make bitcoin the universal mainstream currency it was designed to be. This is how we’re going to bring open financial servi...

Read_708 - Implications of Open Monetary & Information Networks, Part 2 [Lyn Alden]

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Over the long run, I view the outcome, one way or the other, more as a matter of technology than politics. From the top-down side, there is th...

Read_707 - Implications of Open Monetary and Information Networks, Part 1 [Lyn Alden]

07 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"For proponents of privacy and open networks to win becomes a matter of making the technology easy to use, too costly to stamp out, and well-und...

Read_706 - The Depression You've Never Heard of, 1920-21 [Robert P Murphy]

04 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"This context highlights the importance of the 1920–1921 depression. Here the government and Fed did the exact opposite of what the experts now reco...

Read_705 - Bitcoin's Full Potential Valuation [Croesus]

02 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"But for me, when I think about what Bitcoin’s properties are as a store-of-value asset and then compare those properties to the existing store-of-v...

Read_704 - The Three Generations Theory [Aleks Svetski]

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"People are very quick to project technology adoption curves onto Bitcoin. But the problem is that Bitcoin is not just a technology. It’s not just...

Chat_78 - To Nostropolis & Beyond! with BitKarrot

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I recently had an awesome two-hour marathon chat about P2P social media with BitKarrot from the Nostrovia podcast. We chatted about the challenges and...

Basics_04 - Wallets & Transactions

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hot wallets, cold wallets, hardware wallets, custodial wallets, lightning wallets, holy crap! What does all of this mean and how do they relate to you...

Chat_77 - NVK on Stone Cold Storage in a Fiat World

21 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nostr, OP_VAULT, decentralized media, privacy, the incredible progress of the past few years, the challenges of making Bitcoin hardware, why bear mark...

Read_703 - The Banks Are So F**ked – [Callebtc]

21 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Here is a little story of how I built a #Bitcoin Lightning payments app used by more than 10,000 users at the time running on two Raspberry Pi's from...

Basics_03 - Keys, Everything You Need to Know

18 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Not your keys, not your coins. What does this mean? Your Bitcoin keys are literally the keys to the kingdom. They are everything, they are the sole a...

Read_702 - FediPools as a Solution to Centralization Risk [Marty Bent]

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"If Fedipools prove to be viable we could find ourselves in a world where bitcoin mining pool centralization risk is significantly reduced and the wor...

Read_701 - Lightning for Everyone in Every App [Roy Sheinfeld]

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"This is the end of Lightning as a niche technology and the beginning of Lightning as a (ubiquitous) Service. In a few years, Lightning functionality...

Read_700 - The Race to Avoid the War [Cory Klippsten]

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Furthermore, when Bitcoiners develop privacy and scaling technology for Bitcoin, we make it substantially more challenging for anti-coiners to make t...

Read_699 - What is Nostr? How Does it Work? And Why Does it Matter? [BTCtimes}

11 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One thing to make abundantly clear: Nostr is a protocol. It’s a set of rules that servers and clients use to communicate (just like Bitcoin, email...

Basics_02 - Hashes & Proofs of Work

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In order to truly understand why Bitcoin works, we must understand a fundamental tool that operates at basically every level of the system. The hash f...

Read_698 - An Orange Pill for Bitcoiners [Austin Herbert]

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"But, I keep coming to the same conclusion: We are here for this movement. We are here to build a parallel economy that will eventually take over the ...

Read_697 - The Trillion Dollar Coin, Genius or a Joke? [James Lavish]

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"To wit, we have raised the debt limit 22 times from 1997 to 2022. Yep, we’ve raised the limit 22 times in 25 years. Let that sink in for a moment....

Keet AMA - Twitter Spaces on January 30th

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mathias and Paolo join us for a Twitter Spaces AMA to answer all of your questions about this cutting-edge technology. Plus, don't forget to check out...

Chat_76 - Keet, The Next Level

31 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

WEN MOBILE!? No more do we have to ask because Keet mobile has finally arrived! Download from the App Store or Google Play to check it out and join us...

Read_696 - Currencies Today are "IOU Nothings" [John Exter]

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Today no money in the world fully performs all three services. National currencies are being used as means-of-payment and standard-of-value money, b ...

Basics_01 - Bitcoin... What is it?

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sure, everyone tells me that bitcoin is a new technology. That it's magic money for the internet and tokens you can buy and stick in an app that will ...

Read_695 - Central Banks are Inflation Creators, Not Inflation Fighters [Josh Hendrikson]

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"All of this is important because there has been a resurrection of Burns-type positions in the current debate about the cause of higher inflation rate...

Read_694 - Locked Out of My Digital Life [edent]

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Last night, lightning struck our house and burned it down. I escaped wearing only my nightclothes. In an instant, everything was vaporised. Laptop? C...

Read_693 - Lightning & The Airport Analogy [Danny Scott]

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"But as with all new technology, it can be incredibly hard to explain what’s actually happening, without getting too complex. This got me thinking a...

Guy's Take #63 - Anatomy of a Scam, The IMF and World Bank Empire

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we break into the racket that is the IMF and World Bank monetary imperialism. Piggy backing off Gladstein's remarkable piece detailing the horri...

Shitcoin Insider #009 - Craig Wrong

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bad forgeries, fake signatures, backdated emails, more money than your country, & a lawsuit for everyone! This is the story of Faketoshi, explored...

Read_692 - A Quick & Dirty Explanation [DerGigi]

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Bitcoin is paradoxical. It is simple yet complicated, ever-changing yet unchangeable. A novel machine without any novel parts; a technological innova...

Read_691 - A Native Protocol for Social Media [Jack Dorsey]

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimately puts one person in charge of what’s...

Reboot - The Use of Knowledge in Society [F.A. Hayek]

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bringing back one of my favorites today that I mention often but we haven't covered in a very long time. This is an essential piece diving into the co...

Guy's Take #62 - Dear Peter Zeihan...

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How much economic ignorance can you fit into 1 minute and 54 seconds? Well apparently its quite a lot. Peter Zeihan confidently embarrassed himself on...

Read_690 - Bitcoin is Not a Hedge [Parker Lewis]

07 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Bitcoin is not a hedge against inflation; it is the permanent solution to inflation, and those are two very different things." - Parker Lewis Parker...

Read_689 - The Rediscovery of Money [dergigi]

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"If your money requires permission to be spent, it is not your money. If your money has counterparty risk, it is not money—but credit. If your money...

Read_688 - The Chaffening [Aristophanes]

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"So they fire out digital chaff frantically in every direction, they play whack-a-mole with high-engagement nodes that are or could be threats. The en...

Green Eggs and Ham - Decentralized Finance, the Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"This is the root of our cultural concern for crypto DeFi. The cultural, and arguably even structural, commitment to financialization is extremely dif...

Structural Adjustment: How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries [Alex Gladstein]

31 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is the full, unabridged reading of Alex Gladstein's work, "STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: HOW THE IMF AND WORLD BANK REPRESS POOR COUNTRIES AND FUNNEL TH...

Read_687 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 5 [Alex Gladstein]

30 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Research from Mexico — a typical country in terms of consistent involvement historically from the Bank and Fund — shows that for every 2% decreas...

Read_686 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 4 [Alex Gladstein]

28 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"The “generosity” of the West enabled unaccountable leaders to plunge their nations into debt deeper than ever before. The system was, as Payer wr...

Read_685 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 3 [Alex Gladstein]

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Far from playing the role of good samaritan, the Fund does not even follow the timeless human tradition, established more than 4,000 years ago by Ham...

Read_684 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 2 [Alex Gladstein]

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"To give an example of what this might look like in a given year, in 2012 developing countries received $1.3 trillion, including all income, aid and i...

Read_683 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 1 [Alex Gladstein]

13 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"A 2014 analysis showed that the IMF had attached, on average, 20 conditions to each loan it gave out in the previous two years, a historic increase. ...

Guy's Take #61 - Blockchains, A Square Peg for Round Holes

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There are about a million claims out there as to what blockchains are going to fix, and how NFTs are going to be used to unlock your house, and how DA...

Read_682 - Data Shows That Lightning Solves Scaling [Kozlovski]

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"A data-driven exploration proving that Lightning scales bitcoin payments beyond Visa and that second-layer innovation is the way." - Stanislov Kozlov...

Read_681 - The Twitter Files - Part 1 [Matt Taibbi]

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much e...

Read_680 - Green Eggs and Ham, Part 2 [Farrington & Big Al]

03 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"We believe the core of the cultural fissure between crypto and bitcoin comes down to financialization. While the ethos of bitcoin is to definancializ...

Read_679 - Green Eggs and Ham, Part 1 [Farrington & Larson]

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"One counterargument might be that the de facto state capture of Ethereum in gradually becoming more and more OFAC compliant could, at the same time, ...

Read_678 - Toward a Node World Order [Micheal Goldstein]

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"A bitcoin full node is a certainty machine. When a user runs a full node, they are granted a level of certainty about a monetary network that no huma...

Chat_75 - Opting Out with Matt Hill

26 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On the nature of sovereignty, the challenges of the world we live in, the fog of war that has descended upon our lives, and on the tools and systems w...

Read_677 - Maturation of Lightning, Growing Up By Going Vertical [Roy Sheinfeld]

24 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"As the Web became much more complex, we now engage with multiple companies for each of those functions. Including all the writing, editing, commentin...

Read_676 - The State of Man - Proclaim Your Bitcoin, Part 2 [Simply Bitcoin]

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"The primary work undertaken by thieves to maintain their systems of thievery is manipulation. Deceit and lies are the tools of the trade for the thie...

Read_675 - Stop Drinking the Elite's Kool-aid [Nayib Bukele]

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"They used to own everything, and in a way they still do; the media, the banks, the NGOs, the international organizations, and almost all the governme...

Read_674 - FTX & Alameda, Through the Looking Glass [NYDIG]

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"I will start with the conclusion: my piece failed. Nothing has changed. DeFi-driven blowups have continued. Therefore, in the strongest possible term...