Really great episode. I kindly request more like this, where the topic is about how one might help convince my skeptical church leadership to save on Bitcoin. This is particularly relevant to me as I've been saving my tithe in Bitcoin on their behalf for a few years now. (With their blessing.) But I don't want to give it to them yet because their policy is to immediately turn it into USD. So any advice or discussion on how to get them to change their mind/policy is very much appreciated.

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Thank God for Bitcoin • TGFB Pod Episode 68 - Pastor Ben Hailey • Listen on Fountain

Pastor Ben Hailey shares his journey of faith, his experiences with Bitcoin, and the intersection of faith and financial stewardship. He discusses ...

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Back to the grind. Stacking continues.

I'm overwhelmed by how often people want to solve the pedestal problem before the monkey problem.

Meant to say filtering. Dyac.

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This Week in Bitcoin • 72: The Spam War • Listen on Fountain

Fiat markets are cracking, and Bitcoin is tearing itself apart in a spam war. Both point to an impending reckoning. Affiliate Links 🇺🇸 Buy S...

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I don't think keeping transactions with op_return > 80 bytes is censorship. In exactly the same way that I don't think letting minors create more than 21 million Bitcoin is censorship. Calling both of those censorship is demagoguery.

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This Week in Bitcoin • 72: The Spam War • Listen on Fountain

Fiat markets are cracking, and Bitcoin is tearing itself apart in a spam war. Both point to an impending reckoning. Affiliate Links 🇺🇸 Buy S...

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I think you misunderstood the fire movement. They're not trying to get a 25x return. They're trying to reduce their spending so that having a nest egg that is 25x their annual spending is easier. And then live a lifestyle that allows them to withdraw 1/25th (4%) every year. The growth they need to sustain that is to merely match inflation. They don't need 25x to do that.

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This Week in Bitcoin • 67: The Treasury Vacuum • Listen on Fountain

Reserve tricks, revaluation games, and a brewing liquidity storm. While quietly, the groundwork for a national Bitcoin reserve is laid. Episode Lin...

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Also, "Bitcoin is already an index of human incentive" is the most insightful thing I've heard in a while. I'm shamelessly stealing that.

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This Week in Bitcoin • 67: The Treasury Vacuum • Listen on Fountain

Reserve tricks, revaluation games, and a brewing liquidity storm. While quietly, the groundwork for a national Bitcoin reserve is laid. Episode Lin...

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As a PNRI, not all of us are stuck in the fiat mindset. I personally am as all in on Bitcoin as I can be until I actually retire. It's my long term savings. It's my checking. My paycheck goes directly into Bitcoin. We are not beholden to our generational ideas. And it is each of our responsibility to question our assumptions. Which has fed my orange pill.

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This Week in Bitcoin • 67: The Treasury Vacuum • Listen on Fountain

Reserve tricks, revaluation games, and a brewing liquidity storm. While quietly, the groundwork for a national Bitcoin reserve is laid. Episode Lin...

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This Week in Bitcoin • 63: Grift Drains Bitcoin Gains • Listen on Fountain

The money printer's humming, making smart investing a must. Don't get caught by the banks' new, regulation-backed grifts and affinity scams, design...

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BTC Sessions • Bitcoin About To Be FORCED Way Higher — HUGE Short Squeeze INCOMING • Listen on Fountain

Bitcoin is about to be forced way higher as a massive short squeeze brews beneath the surface. Traders are about to get wrecked—and smart Bitcoin...

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This Week in Bitcoin • 63: Grift Drains Bitcoin Gains • Listen on Fountain

The money printer's humming, making smart investing a must. Don't get caught by the banks' new, regulation-backed grifts and affinity scams, design...

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Your episodes keep getting better and better. This is a topic that I wrestle with as a Christ follower and a Bitcoin maxi. You took it much deeper than my personal wrestling had gone. Thank you!

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Thank God for Bitcoin • To The Unknown Pod Episode 12 - Bitcoin and the Decline of the American Middle Class • Listen on Fountain

03:11 Bitcoin and Its Role in Christian Stewardship 05:57 The Importance of Opportunity Cost in Bitcoin 08:57 The Death of the American Middle Clas...

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Personally I'm focused on decentralization of nodes. Anything that diminishes node sovereignty is a departure from Bitcoin. This seems to me what core is doing.

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This Week in Bitcoin • Merged and Divided • Listen on Fountain

Bitcoin Core merges bold and contentious updates; I get into their reasons why. Plus, Inflation eases for now, but the trend is clear. Why we can e...

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When it comes to the importance of Bitcoin becoming a medium of exchange, I generally agree. But I'm skeptical about it's urgency. I think the path to that is first becoming a universally recognized store of value. I don't think we can get to medium of exchange without the majority of people wanting Bitcoin. But I think it's going to happen on it's own. If enough people want bitcoin, they will naturally be willing to trade for it. The only question is if they'll be able to. If the infrastructure that Bitcoin has will support being able to earn and spend Bitcoin. But necessity is the mother of invention. When we get to the point where people universally want it, that will create incentive for a lot more brains to work on that problem than we have now. I guess I'm not worried. I think it's required. And I think it's going to happen. I'm sure there's a gap in my thinking. Would love to hear what it is.

"Fractional reserve is just banking" this seems like it translates to: If you need someone else to hold your Bitcoin for you, you risk rehypothication. Doesn't bitcoins qualities allow me to not need an external bank?

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What Bitcoin Did • Is the Fed Losing Control? W/ Matthew Mezinskis • Listen on Fountain

Matthew Mezinskis is a macroeconomic researcher, host of the Crypto Voices podcast and creator of Porkopolis Economics. In this episode, we discuss...

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What I wish @Marty Bent had asked in TFTC #620: "Isn't slower block propagation a feature when there are transactions that contain OP_RETURN > 80 bytes?" "Doesn't that create a higher cost for including spam in the chain?"

Bitcoin is not crypto. That word was only after there was more than one thing that needed description and people wanted to lump what they thought of as similar things into a category. When Bitcoin was the only, no one called it crypto. They called it Bitcoin. So when you say crypto, you're really saying "all the Bitcoin wannabes" Conclusion: Bitcoin is not crypto.

I'm watching Arcane. And it ranges between compelling and stupid. I'm in a stupid stretch and I don't know if I can put up with it to get to the end.

GM Nostr! I'm trying to get my son started in Bitcoin. Suggestions for good "bitcoin for beginners" books or resources? Specifically looking for resources that do not include shitcoinery I'm looking more for "how to" resources. Like: - how to pick and use a software wallet - how to pick and use a hardware wallet - what are seed phrases and how to store them - what is multisig and how and when to use it NOTE: I already know all this stuff. I'm looking for reference materials for my adult son that could help him learn in addition to information from me. @BTC Sessions is already on the list of resources I've given him. Are there any "bitcoin for beginners" books that he could read?