Bitcoin Audible

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...

Read_673 - Crypto is Peak Silicon Valley [Allen Farrington]

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"My learned opinion is that although your average toxic Bitcoin maximalist might be able to sniff out this bullshit a mile away, Silicon Valley cannot...

Read_672 - No, Let's Not: Perpetrators of Pandemic Authoritarianism Cannot Be Forgiven [Allen Farrington]

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“It must become embarrassing to admit one ever supported uninformed and nonconsensual participation in a medical experiment or mass house arrest and...

Chat_74 - Synonymous with Sovereignty, with John Carvalho

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today we bring John Carvalho back on to talk about Bitkit and the release of Synonym's first major product in the BitKit wallet and Slashtags. Re-Dece...

Read_671 - Greenpeace Attacks Only Galvanize Bitcoiners [Daniel Batten]

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"They will come to understand that Bitcoin is hope for non-violent revolutionaries in the environmental movement who seek to end the petrodollar, ushe...

Read_670 - Capital Misallocation, Bitcoin Fixes this - Part 2 [Steven Lubka]

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"The creation of new money by insiders debases the savings ability of the existing money. It is critically important for money to maintain value, as i...

Read_669 - Capital Misallocation, Bitcoin Fixes this - Part 1 [Steven Lubka]

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Money facilities a system — the economy — that is too complex, too unpredictable and too uncertain to be modeled or reduced to neat quantifiable ...

Read_668 - Why Proof of Stake Wont be Used for Intergalactic First Contact [Buck Perley]

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"A universal law can be understood to be an objective, observable, and eternal description of some facet of the universe. As such, they can be indepen...

Read_667 - The Final Bubble is Bursting [Myrmikan Research]

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"One might ask: if much of the U.K. pension money was about to vanish, where was it going? Partly to the bankers, of course, but mostly, as with any b...

Reboot - Wittgenstein's Money [Allen Farrington]

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Imagine if all respectable business knowledge had been derived from studying large, established companies because there had never been a start-up in ...

Read_666 - Debunking the ESG Attacks on Bitcoin [Spencer Nichols]

21 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"While Bitcoin does not litigate the ethics of hydrocarbon production, it is not controversial to point out that the dollar, in that it is sustained b...

Read_665 - The Nature of Man, Proclaim Your Bitcoin Part 1 [Simply Bitcoin]

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"to survive and prosper in this world, man can either make the things he needs and wants, or he can take them. This was true thousands of years ago an...

Read_664 - Bitcoin Astronomy, The Third Law - Part 2 [Dhruv Bansal]

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"But if technological civilizations are more common, then we must resolve the Fermi Paradox in a different way. We know that any “solution” is re...

Read_663 - Bitcoin Astronomy, The Third Law - Part 1 [Dhruv Bansal]

15 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Astrobiologists increasingly believe that conditions are frequently right for life. Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and the life-sustaining molecules they ...

Guy's Take #60 - Digital Money

14 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today we explore a highly earned Guy's Take for Dergigi's "Bitcoin is Digital Scarcity" as well as using a core part of his framing to make sense of a...

Read_662 - Wrestling With the Truth [Allen Farrington & Sacha Meyers]

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"The power of prices is the process of dynamic discovery that underpins their emergence, not the fleeting consensus of a specific moment in time. The...

Read_661 - Five Examples of Bitcoin's Real World Utility [Trent Dudenhoeffer]

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Today, it’s a trucker protest. What if it’s a women’s rights protest next? A protest against abuses by a country you’re allied with? Who deci...

Chat_73 - WTF is Happening in 2022? With Greg Foss, Clint Russell, & Guy Swann

07 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We dive into the chaotic world of 2022 with the insanity of the financial markets, the bond markets cracking apart, the political sphere going nuclear...

Read_660 - Bitcoin is Digital Scarcity [Dergigi]

05 Oct 2022

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...

Read_659 - Adoption & Digital Freedom Will Happen Through Lightning [Paolo Ardoino]

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Lighting Network adoption is scaling Bitcoin around the world. And it will be key to protecting our freedoms in the digital age as well." - Paolo Ard...

Read_658 - Bitcoin Will Replace SWIFT Before VISA [Shinobi]

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Bitcoin is ripe for a massive disruption of systems like SWIFT, and at the rate the world is becoming both politically and economically unstable, I t...

Read_657 - Price Deflation & The Horrors of Falling TV Prices [Kyle Ward]

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Given two competing views of the world, the state will always promote the one that increases its power to extract wealth from its citizens. The choic...

Read_656 - No, We Are Not Going to "Tokenize Everything" [Niko Jilch]

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"The whole tokenize-everything-thing so far is one fast hype train. It is exciting not for the technical efficiencies it may provide but for the exact...

Read_655 - The Legendary Treasure of Satoshi Nakamoto [Tomer Strolight]

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Everyone loves a good origin story. Some are true, some made-up, and some a mix of the two. The true origin story of Bitcoin’s appearance in the wo...

Guy's Take #59 - We're Not Going Anywhere

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Bitcoin is not merely a network, it's a foundation for an anti-authoritarian political movement in an increasingly authoritarian world. If you're loo...

Read_654 - A Bitcoiner's Guide to Proof of Stake [Scott Sullivan]

16 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"This brings us to our fourth principle behind PoS, which is that **PoS relies on subjective truth**. There is simply no objective way to pick between...

Read_653 - Finding Signal in a Noisy World [Jeff Booth]

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"That misinformation in the form of money wouldn’t just create polarization. Because money connects value between people and nations, it would drive...