Bitcoin Audible
Episodes
Read_652 - Setting the Record Straight [Nic Carter]
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"I’m going to clear things up here because most of the people piling on were deeply confused about me, my firm, and what I do. And yes, I’m includ...
Read_651 - The Path to a Bitcoin Standard in Africa [Charlene Fadirepo]
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"I believe Africa represents the most elegant use case for a Bitcoin standard in existence. In the paragraphs that follow I will explain why." - Charl...
Read_650 - How to Be a Bitcoin Maximalist [Pete Rizzo]
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Cryptocurrency market-isms are built on claims about the economic and computer science advances Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have achieved, and thus ...
Read_649 - The Continual Power of Intermittent Mining [Zack Voell]
03 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Many aspects of the Bitcoin mining industry are poorly understood and often misrepresented. But one practice in this sector stands apart for the mis...
Read_648 - Bitcoin is the Hills [Captain Sidd]
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"A study of the hill tribes of Southeast Asia titled “The Art Of Not Being Governed” provided a fresh take. The author, James C. Scott, posits tha...
Shitcoin Insider #008 - Maximum Maximalism with the Shitcoin Insider
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We have got a great episode of Shitcoin Insider today, we bring the Insider himself back to the show today to discuss what Bitcoin maximalism even mea...
Read_647 - Understanding Decentralization in Bitcoin [Arman the Parman]
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"The answer that matters depends on the context. The context you need to have is that cryptocurrency, i.e. Bitcoin, was invented/discovered initially ...
A Look at the Lightning Network [Lyn Alden]
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"I think too many people in those early years interpreted “e-cash” to mean quick-and-easy payments for everyday goods using the base layer, when a...
Chat_72 - The UnCommunist Manifesto, The Swann Brothers chatting with Mark Moss and Aleks Svetski
27 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tearing down the fallacies of the collective, and digging through the principles of liberty and personal responsibility with the one and only Aleks Sv...
Read_646 - A Look at the Lightning Network - Part 3 [Lyn Alden]
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Back when the iPhone was introduced in 2007, few people thought, “wow this could really disrupt the taxi industry a decade from now.” A few ...
Read_645 - A Look at the Lightning Network - Part 2 [Lyn Alden]
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"But more broadly, one must ask, “at what point would someone want to permanently exchange their self-custodial scarce money (bitcoin) that has a 1....
Read_644 - A Look at the Lightning Network - Part 1 [Lyn Alden]
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Simple “bubbles” don’t survive through several 70%+ drawdowns over a period lasting thirteen years and counting; it looks more like Metcalfe’...
Read_643 - Bitcoin and the True Meaning of Inflation [Steven Lubka]
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Today, people use inflation to refer to two separate things, and whenever you hear someone saying inflation it’s not always clear which definition ...
Shitcoin Insider #007 - How Many Degrees Celsius is a Lunatic? with Cory Klippsten
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
WE ARE BACK! Were you wondering about everything that happened in the collapse of TerraUSD, the algorithmic stablecoin that got algonniahilated? And h...
Guy's Take #58 - "Rent-Seeking Savers!" Misconceptions in Noahpinion's Crypto Misconceptions
13 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"I think there are some important economic errors in the stories I see people telling about crypto, on Twitter and elsewhere — errors that have impo...
Read_642 - Losing Your Keys Without Losing Your Coins [Block]
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"These two jobs are almost always in tension. Any added protection to keep a bad actor out adds a risk that it may also trip up the owner, and any new...
Chat_71 - Redesigning the Internet for Fun & for the Revolution, with Mathias Buus and Paolo Ardoino
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Following up on the release of Keet.io and a simple to use, responsive, encrypted, & scalable P2P data sharing protocol in Holepunch, its network ...
Read_641 - Bitcoiners Are Not Utopians [Aleks Svetski]
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"It’s not and never was about equality or perfection. It’s about fairness and consequence. Bitcoin is “Responsibility go Up” technology." - Al...
Chat_70 - Mashing it with Magic Internet Money, Jesse Berger & Jared Nusinoff
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Orange pilling the everyday user with Mash. Combining simple, fast onboarding into the Lightning ecosystem and enabling a unique monetizing experience...
Read_640 - Keet, P2P Encrypted Communications To Integrate Lightning [Namcios]
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Holepunch makes Hypercore more accessible by abstracting away low-level technical details of the protocol. It takes Hypercore one step further by sim...
What is Money, Anyway? [Lyn Alden]
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"If a money (the most salable good) is easy to create more of, then any rational economic actor would just go out and create more money for herself, d...
Read_639 - How Fedimint Scales Bitcoin Custody [Namcios]
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Fedi and Fedimint will help put monetary power back into the hands of everyone, everywhere,” said Fedi Inc. co-founder and CEO, Obi Nwosu, in a s...
Read_638 - What is Money Anyway? Part 3 [Lyn Alden]
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Like any powerful technology, bitcoin can be used for good or ill. As proponents of the technology like to say, bitcoin is “money for enemies” be...
Read_637 - What is Money Anyway? Part 2 [Lyn Alden]
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"To put it into perspective, this international monetary system based around centrally-managed fiat currency is only 16 years older than me. My father...
Read_636 - What is Money Anyway? Part 1 [Lyn Alden]
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"If a money (the most salable good) is easy to create more of, then any rational economic actor would just go out and create more money for herself, d...
Read_635 - 21 Million is Non-Negotiable [Zach_of_Earth]
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Imposing limitations on monetary goods has always required tremendous amounts of time and energy, and trust. And yet, with all our efforts, we still ...
Read_634 - The Words we Use in Bitcoin [DerGigi]
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"In a world awash in euphemisms and blatant lies, calling something by its proper name is rebellious in itself. Bitcoin is about freedom and self-sove...
Read_633 - The Utility of Saving [Pierre Rochard]
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"People hold money to hedge against future uncertainty. This is why it is so crucial for a monetary system to optimize for minimizing its own uncertai...
Guy's Take #57 - Bitcoin Domino Theory
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if, sitting in the middle of a chaotic monetary environment, increasing capital controls, balkanizing political regimes, a failing petrodollar he...
Guy's Take #56 - The Cascading Dominoes - Part 1
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I promised, and it's finally here. It's time to get a little perspective, with the price at all time lows, exchanges and lending platforms imploding, ...
Read_632 - Can Governments Stop Bitcoin? [Alex Gladstein]
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Coding, mining, infrastructure, and markets are all independent, happening in competing jurisdictions and geopolitical rivals, often done by anonymou...
Read_631 - The ECB is Trapped, Here's Why [Lyn Alden]
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Base money is a liability of the central bank, and it’s used as a reserve asset by commercial banks. Broad money is the liability of commercial ban...
Reboot - Everyone's A Scammer [Michael Goldstein]
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the markets in chaos, with services halting withdraws, & Everyone's a Scammer" by Michael Goldstein, is one of those works. Another piece th...
Read_630 - Cry Harder [Francis Pouliot]
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Bitcoin is a lifeboat on the sinking fiat ship. Lifeboats on a sinking ship don’t need a marketing department." - Francis P. As New York puts a ba...
Read_629 - On Impossible Things Before Breakfast [NYDIG]
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"The reverse of that process – a so-called “death spiral” – was inevitable. Any time the immeasurably over-levered global fiat monetary system...
Chat_69 - An Energy Revolution with Nathaniel Harmon
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is partly a follow up from Read_628 on reviving a promising renewable energy technology. Partly a discussion of the incredible economic s...
Read_628 - How Bitcoin Can Unlock the Energy of the Ocean [Level39]
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"A typical Bitcoin mining operation will spend considerable amounts of time, energy and money cooling their ASIC miners with air conditioning or liqui...
Read_627 - Why and How to Get a Bitcoin Job [Stephan Livera]
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Coming off the Bitcoin 2022 conference, you might feel a little down from the high of meeting and spending time with Bitcoiners. I've also found th...
Reboot - Why the Yuppie Elite Dismiss Bitcoin [Croesus]
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"When I thought about what is the defining difference between the Bitcoin maximalists and my yuppie elite friends, the surface level distinctions that...
Read_626 - Digital Alchemy, A Post-Mortem of the Crypto Crash [Lyn Alden]
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Several exchanges in the industry fuel bubbles for a quick buck as well. If something starts to get momentum, including meme coins like DOGE or SHIB ...
Read_625 - The Cascading of Interconnected Risk [Marty Bent]
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"This created a ticking time bomb with a very short timer. That money was going to "work" in completely artificial markets that were being driven by p...
Guy's Take #55 - On the Economics of CTV Batching, & Where I was Wrong
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So what exactly did I get wrong in Guy's Take #54, and why? Let's dig back into the economic of CTV and transaction commitments, to clear up what I wa...
Read_624 - Riding the Lightning Network [Sam Callahan]
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Despite all of these constraints, the free market finally provided the competition these incumbent banks so desperately needed. Bitcoin and the L...
PSA - Price Be Crashin 2022!
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Bitcoin! For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most ...
Guy's Take #54 - CTV, Blockspace Debt, & TX Grenades
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
[Caveat - A critical piece of the puzzle I lay out in this episode was something I incorrectly understood, which makes this entire thought experiment ...
Read_623 - Response to the Huffman Letter to the EPA [Bitcoin Mining Council]
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"It is imperative that elected officials in the United States recognize that bitcoin, and the innovation of Proof of Work, is the most important finan...
Guy's Take_53 - Let's Talk CTV
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody take a deep breath! Right now all the drama on Twitter and the Bitcoin community is all about CTV. What is it? Is this an attack on Bitcoin?...
Read_622 - Silent Payments & Secret Blinding Keys [Shinobi]
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"One issue with Bitcoin’s privacy, the ability to receive funds without giving up valuable information, is addressed with 'silent payments.'" - Shin...
Read_621 - I Finance the Current Thing [Allen Farrington]
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Even if you knew this was complete and utter bullshit, and that being an agent and not a principal ethically and legally precludes you from pretendin...
Read_620 - Reading of the Transcription of the Recording of the HODL vs DeaterBob "Debate" [Stephen Chow]
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"You’re a thirsty bitch. You like to gargle Peter’s balls." - DeaterBob This is happening and there is nothing I can do about it at this point. E...
Read_619 - Bitcoin Mining & The Gird, Part 1 - Generators [Blake King]
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Bitcoin miners are unique because of how fast, transparent, and flexible their response can be to pricing fluctuations. Riot’s Whinstone mining f...
Read_618 - Expanding Functionality in Lightning Implementations [Shinobi]
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"There are still many extensions to build out in the protocol and areas with unsolved scaling issues. In general, the Lightning protocol itself still ...
Read_617 - Announcing Taro, Multi-Asset Bitcoin & Lightning [Ryan Gentry]
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Taro enables bitcoin to serve as a protocol of value by allowing app developers to integrate assets alongside BTC in apps both on-chain and over Ligh...
Chat_68 - Keysend Maximalism & LNpay with Bootstrap Bandit
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
LNpay, LNURL, LNauth, streaming sats, Bolt12, the past and future of Lightning. We dig into tons of great stuff around Lightning and discuss Keysend M...
Read_616 - Current State of Lightning Privacy [Tony]
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Besides the advantage of near-instant payments, there can be privacy improvements to Lightning as well. Unfortunately, there are scenarios where Ligh...
Guy's Take #52 - Follow up to Read 615 - The State vs Bitcoin
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is because the previous read by Steve Barbour deserved a Guy's Take. Before we change topics to privacy in the episode coming later this ...
Read_615 - The State vs Bitcoin [Steve Barbour]
26 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"As with freedom and oppression, Bitcoin and State money may exist in a perpetual tug of war between ideals. Where State money relies on compulsory pa...
Read_614 - ...and Then They Fight You [SovrynMindset]
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Much more to say. This is just a starting point, but I'm interested in Bitcoin for its potential to reorient civilization to an existence rooted in t...
Read_613 - Against the Inevitability of Bitcoin [Ariel Deschapell]
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"...This purpose flounders, however, if their own evangelists and the community at large fails to lay the groundwork and impetus to push ever deeper. ...
Read_612 - Energy Cancelled [Arthur Hayes]
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"On a medium-term basis, it is time to back up the John Deere excavator and scoop up as much gold and Bitcoin as you can afford. This is it, the start...
Read_611 - The Freedom of Value [Dergig]
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Thus, given enough time and popularity, every movie, every song, and every document will be available to the general public for free. The nature of i...
Read_610 - The Invisible Cost of War - Part 2 [Alex Gladstein]
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"In sum, the U.S. government has shown that — through the GFC, repo spike crisis in 2019 and pandemic crisis in 2020 — it is willing to do anythin...
Read_609 - The Invisible Cost of War - Part 1 [Alex Gladstein]
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"As detailed in Saifedean Ammous’s “The Fiat Standard,” in November 1914 the British government “issued the first war bond, aiming to raise 35...
Read_608 - Want to Stick it to the Elites? Use Bitcoin [Avik Roy]
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Aspiring Republican politicians and conservative opinionators love talking in darkened tones about the malevolence of elites. And yet, for all the fi...
Read_607 - Implications of Outlawing Bitcoin [Dergigi]
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"If having 12 words in your head is illegal, something is terribly wrong with the law. If the police storm your building because you are finding or cr...
Read_606 - Lightning is a Liquidity Network [Roy Sheinfeld]
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Only liquid, flowing capital generates a return. Unlike a bank account, capital on Lightning is productive when it is mobile, not at rest. That’s w...
Read_605 - Bitcoin Behind the Veil [Craig Warmke]
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"People tend to favor proposals that would benefit themselves and reject proposals that, at their own expense, would benefit others. If you were wealt...
Read_604 - I Was Wrong, We Need Crypto [David Hansson]
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Now what's that saying again. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you. It's starting to smell like that. Just because Bitcoin...
Read_603 - If Russia Invites Bitcoin Adoption, The Global Arms Race Begins [Mike Hobart]
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"The U.S. and its allies are now effectively backed into a series of corners. Can the U.S. attempt to ban Bitcoin and its transactions? It can try, bu...
Read_602 - Bitcoin's Peaceful Revolution, A New Hope for Humanity [Peter St Onge]
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"By taking away their printing presses, Bitcoin stops the creeping totalitarianism that weaponizes our own blood, sweat and tears against us. It stops...
Read_601 - Bitcoin First [Fidelity]
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Bitcoin as a superior monetary good is more valuable than a better payment network . This leads us to another point as to why we believe bitcoin s...
Read_600 - The Separation of Money and State [Allen Farrington]
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"That is not to say that Bitcoin will lead us to a pacifist utopia in which any attempt at violence suffers metaphysical intervention by the spirit of...
Chat #67 - Pioneer Species with Brandon Quittem
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we have an incredible chat as a followup to the recent piece Read_596 - Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species. We have author Brandon Quittem joining us ...
Read_599 - Why Every Fixed Income Investor Should Consider Bitcoin - Part 3 & 4 [Greg Foss]
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“And finally, given its asymmetric return distribution I believe It is more risky to have zero exposure to bitcoin than it is to have a 5% portfolio...
Read_598 - Why Every Fixed Income Investor Should Consider Bitcoin - Part 1 & 2 [Greg Foss]
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“General Motors, Ford, AT&T and GE have cumulative debt that is larger than the entire HY market. Downgrades of any one of these names likely im...
Guy's Take #51 - AOPP & the Travel Rule
30 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With Twitter up in arms about a potentially invasive privacy measure and compliance for an invasive regulatory requirement, it's time to break down ex...
Read_597 - The 7th Property Ch1 - The Dimensions of Money [Eric Yakes]
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"What is money? Why is it used? Which type of money is best? And why?" - Eric Yakes Today we are diving into the foundational chapter of Eric Yakes' ...
Read_596 - Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species [Brandon Quittem]
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“This makes Bitcoin miners uniquely symbiotic with energy grids serving as “demand response” partners. If energy is ever in short supply, people...
Read_595 - Money Messiah: Part 2 [John Vallis]
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Money, in the ideal (which we’ll likely always only ever strive for, and not achieve), turns a portion of ‘our work, here and now’, into a port...
Read_594 - Money Messiah: Part 1 [John Vallis]
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Sacrifice is thus a critical component of value, as it is the use of one’s own limited resources, as that against which all action is measured an...
Read_593 - Bitcoin Heading to $30k? [Nik Bhatia]
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"This confluence of Fed hikes and investor naivety “presents the setup for a severe washout” as the “pernicious effects of rising interest rates...
Read_592 - First Impressions of Web3 [Moxie Marlinspike]
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“The people at the end of the line who are flipping NFTs do not fundamentally care about distributed trust models or payment mechanics, but they car...
Chat #66 - Will the Real Web3 Please Stand Up, with John Carvalho
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Our goal is basically to realize this concept we have created called the atomic economy. This is just my way to create a narrative and mental model t...
Guy's Take #50 - Lightning and the Web
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a follow up to the State of Lightning Report from Arcane Research and OpenNode, we dive into the possibilities for how Lightning will change the gl...
Read_591 - The State of Lightning - Part 2
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"What the Internet has done for information, Bitcoin and the Lightning Network will do for money. " - Elizabeth Stark Finishing the amazing report f...
Read_590 - The State of Lightning - Part 1
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The Lightning Network, and the possibility to perform micropayments instantaneously, will most likely change how we pay for certain services. We al...
Read_589 - Proof of Stake & Stablecoins - Part 2 [Lyn Alden]
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Crypto exchanges with numerous coins have an incentive to get you excited about new coins, because they make money from trading volumes. Even if it...
Read_588 - Proof of Stake & Stablecoins - Part 1: A Centralization Dilemma [Lyn Alden]
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"If Bitcoin were built on a proof-of-stake model, where the more coins you have the more votes you have on how the network functions, the large exchan...
Read_587 - Bitcoin & The American West [Croesus]
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"These pioneers are akin to the Bitcoiners who showed up post-Mt. Gox, through to the Class of 2020. These are the individuals who saw the promise an...
Read_586 - Bitcoin & Tesla's Peaceful Energy Vision [Level39]
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"If Bitcoin had existed in Tesla’s time, it would have removed the need for a corrupted monetary arrangement. Bitcoin mining is a permissionless and...
Read_585 - Your Money AND Your Life [Edward Snowden]
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Neither is a Central Bank Digital Currency a State-level embrace of cryptocurrency—at least not of cryptocurrency as pretty much everyone in the wo...
Chat #65 - To Airgap, Or Not to Airgap? ...& Other Hardware Challenges with Lixin Liu & Douglas Bakkum
11 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you missed the awesome Twitter spaces we had with Lixin Liu from Keystone and Douglas Bakkum from Shift Crypto, you can't stop crying because we ha...
Read_584 - Yes, Bitcoin is a Smart Contract Platform [Shinobi]
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“'Smart contracts' as a term was coined by Nick Szabo back in 1996 before the idea of a blockchain was even a twinkling in Satoshi’s eye. They had...
Read_583 - Libertarianism & the Bitcoin Strategy [Stephan Livera]
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Even if we could somehow convince the world or the U.S. government to adopt a gold standard, there’s not really anything stopping them from claimin...
Read_582 - The World Bitcoin Will Build [Cory Klippsten]
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Money appreciates in value over time so that individuals can plan their future knowing their wealth will be protected. This leads to market partici...
Read_581 - The Vaccine Moment, Part 1 [Paul Kingsnorth]
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Often, in an argument, what people think they are arguing about is not the real subject of disagreement, which is deeper and often unspoken, if it ...
Read_580 - Bitcoin and Crypto Aren't the Same [Nik Bhatia]
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“If price is truth, then a market capitalization of over $1 billion for over 100 different cryptocurrencies tells a story: we live in a multicoin wo...
Read_579 - Our Best Shot at Liberty [Dr. Wolf Von Laer]
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The Bitcoin network itself and the personal owning of bitcoin is an act of peaceful rebellion against the fiat money system." - Dr. Wolf Von Laer Th...
Read_578 - The Irrelevance of Experts [Willem Van Den Bergh]
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“as the internet has slowly but surely eroded the obstacle of restricted information access in the past decades, the limiting factor for an individu...
Read_577 - The End of Super Imperialism [Alex Gladstein]
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Hudson’s thesis was that America had forced other countries to pay for its wars regardless of whether they wanted to or not. Like a tribute system,...