I’d like to hear more about places to use Bitcoin as money. Especially any online services you use or are aware of. I know there are VPNs, Email services and AI aggregators who accept sats. Any more? I’ve always thought using sats to support Open Source projects and developers should be an easy win. Thanks

Fountain: Podcasts & Music

This Week in Bitcoin • 119: Debt Always Wins • Watch on Fountain

Washington reaches for Hamiltonian economics, the bond market pushes back, and Bitcoin rips for exactly the reasons Bitcoiners warned about. Episod...

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My question last week was more about generating the seed phrase and checksum in an offline way. I rolled the dice so can get the entropy offline, but wonder how to generate and verify the actual seed words and checksum. It seems like that part is harder to do in a truely offline way. Do you have any tips on that? Thanks.

Fountain: Podcasts & Music

This Week in Bitcoin • 119: Debt Always Wins • Watch on Fountain

Washington reaches for Hamiltonian economics, the bond market pushes back, and Bitcoin rips for exactly the reasons Bitcoiners warned about. Episod...

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Now that we’re all entropy enthusiasts, can you share some tips on how to create a seed 100% offline. The best method I found was to roll dice and then create the seed phrase offline on Tails, which is then wiped after shutdown. But I still wonder how “offline” that could be? I saw another boost here talking about using a NixOS offline to do it. Do you have any tips or shared experience in this area? Thanks

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This Week in Bitcoin • Why BIP-110 Failed • Watch on Fountain

Why BIP 110 failed, what its three block fork revealed about Bitcoin consensus, and the push for a proof of work change, plus weakening jobs and NV...

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In 2020 I was trying to buy a house, and when the global economy shut down and everyone went into lockdown I thought house prices must fall. But they didn’t, they went higher than I could ever imagine and I couldn’t understand why. So I took it upon myself to find out why, I learnt about how money really works and what quantitative easing and money printing were. A couple of friends told me about Bitcoin so I decided to find out for myself what it is and how it works. It took me down the rabbit hole, I’m still here I am and I’m not going back.

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This Week in Bitcoin • 109: Market Forced Peace • Watch on Fountain

Everyone expected energy markets to explode. Instead, the Iran deal exposed a deeper signal: oil, debt, inflation, and the Fed now define the limit...

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I think you did have a technical problem last week, I could see more sats in the fountain stream alone than the total you read out on the show. So here’s a double for this week. Stick to the signal and leave the $1 million dollar price talk for the other B grade podcasters. https://fountain.fm/episode/CCC7pOaR8FBrhmKgW0wB View quoted note →

I need to open some new Lightning channels to connect me to regular merchants I use. What would you suggest to find the right nodes to open channels to? Is there a tool I could use to input my payments history and help me find the right channel partners? After a long stable run I’m suddenly experiencing lots of failed payments to merchants I’ve been paying for years, including Fountain for your boosts! Got any tips or tools that could help? Thanks. https://fountain.fm/episode/N650UmEc6Llco3tlQX8A View quoted note →

How does Nebula compare to Tailscale for the purpose of isolating a server running OpenClaw (or Hermes) in a network? Ive built a plan to isolate a small server inside my LAN so that I can experiment with agents, one item on the plan was creating a Tailnet with only the devices I want the agent to connect to. Can I do that with Nebula? How would that differ from using Tailscale? Thanks!

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LINUX Unplugged • 668: --yolo • Watch on Fountain

Brent's been hacking smart speakers, Wes has a surprise, and Chris gives up on OpenClaw.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your supp...

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Boost for the road! I’d like to hear your opinion on Open Source LLMs. If an LLM is Open Source, how much can we know about the security and telemetry of that model? If the source code is visible and we can audit it, can we be reassured of what’s being logged or used for training, or is it still a black box? I’m having a debate with a friend at the moment, he says that LLMs are black boxes, even if they are Open Source. What say you? https://fountain.fm/episode/YHmbWUNnBcQv7PmlM3pS View quoted note →