This was a really good episode, very enjoyable chat. I’ve been listening to the show for a few months and wondering what the hell the Meshtadel was that you keep talking about, it always sounds amazing. I was thinking ‘maybe these guys are doing something really cool with meshtastic nodes or some real, resilient off grid comms kind of stuff?’ But the wonderful irony of Max saying that the Meshtadel is in fact ‘just a Telegram group’ about 2 minutes after calling most bitcoiners LARPers, was too good not to pass comment on.

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Yesterday I heard @The Ben Gunn on @Ungovernable Misfits. It was a very interesting episode, so I went back and listened to the first two that I hadn’t heard either - all really great chats. I want to buy some of that timber! Also, can you CNC and is that a service you’ll offer? I’m keen to make a guitar this year and would really like to see it cut all the way from being a plank of wood this time.

Happy New Year all. Here’s to 2025 and to regular people rediscovering their own agency and taking control of their lives.

Merry Christmas all. A Christmas wish - no more AI shite music. If Bitcoin is going to be at the root of a renaissance, I hope it helps support a revival of the music studio, with pools of talented people being paid for working with bands to make truly great records again. Music for the future generations of humanity.

Nearly Halloween and the timeline is full of spooks being spooky.

@Joe Martin hi Joe, it was me that wrote the V4V pdf you were sent. Sorry I’ve been quiet for a while. If we can get this Liverpool music festival to fly next summer, you are definitely invited, all the best!

I’m really enjoying this book - still a chunk to read yet though. Should I be worried by the 666 in the ISBN code @Lyn Alden?

Why are people excited that Google are opening a site in El Salvador? What bit of building decentralised systems for self-sovereign individuals is that going to be good for?

Breathing Space was played as the bonus track in episode #29 of Lightning Thrashes and I’m very pleased. Thanks @Sir Libre

Lightning Thrashes Episode 29 - All Things Sir Libre

@Peter McCormack I think you should only use lightning as you want to if that helps maintain your perspective as an interviewer. But I think the missed opportunity is that lightning is in many ways a social network that relies on interactions with known trusted parties to succeed and that is where your involvement would greatly benefit the network. Most businesses have dedicated IT staff, the CEO is too busy and not down in the technical weeds - how is this different? What I mean is, you sell merchandise to lots of bitcoiners. If your trusted brand had lightning node(s) that allowed people to open channels with you and make purchases, that might open up a lot more routing options and inbound liquidity for others with lightning nodes or whatever. I suppose what I’m saying is, your presence is too large in the space to just be a neutral bystander and you seem to sincerely want lightning to be better.

I'm using Iris for Nostr now, and self-hosting a relay too.

Can anyone recommend a good open source document management software? One with a good security model that would allow the document to be kept along with its metadata and also, ideally with different versions of the document, for example an original and a public facing, redacted copy?

I’ve released Cell Division on Wavlake. Hope you enjoy listening to it.

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Cell Division • Ian Vaughan

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Value for value paid music use in podcasts has arrived and it’s awesome.

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The Boostagram Ball

The First Podcast with Value4Value Music hosted by Adam Curry

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I made some bread this morning and it turned out well. Might try my hand at rebranding and ruining a social network next..

Fantastic visit today to Beeston Castle in the sunshine, with a view for 40 miles all around. Thousands of years of human history at that site. It’s always been adversarial. Builders always have and always will build.

Taking a break from repetitive, overlong and dull Bitcoin podcasts and listening to a Dostoyevsky audio book instead. What a welcome upgrade in density and quality it’s bringing me.