The Roundtable is back! Mechanic has stepped down from the Roundtable, so it is just Jeff, Steve, and me looking at the wreckage of the recent soft fork attempt. Is block-template centralization the true existential risk right now? We definitely didn't see eye to eye on how the latest moves impacted the ecosystem... so grab a coffee and listen to us argue this out! Listen to Roundtable_024 - The Aftermath with @Jeff Swann and Simple Steve on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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The roundtable is back, but we're missing a familiar face. Mechanic has officially stepped down from Ocean, so it’s just Jeff, Steve and I diggin...

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This is the worst hit to self custody in Bitcoin's history. All we can do is act as quickly as possible. If you have a Coldcard in your setup, you need to move to safe keys or cycle your multisig. Don't wait, don't assume you have time, sit down and get it done. Do it carefully and don't skip steps. Here are a few of the quickest paths to safety and how to think about this going forward. To everyone who got hit by this, I cannot be more sorry. As always, this @Guy Swann ‘s Take is available on all major platforms.

Central Bank Digital Currencies are a desperate grasp for control, falsely sold to us as "innovation". Every time a country tries a voluntary rollout, it flops. And yet, the push for CBDCs continues because the end goal is total surveillance. In this Guy's Take I chart the trend of CBDCs and where I think it's all going. And here's the white pill - could the financial grid these bureaucrats are building accidentally teach us how to use the true sovereign technologies which can offer an escape valve from their control grid? Listen to The TRUTH about Iran's "Bitcoin" seizure @Guy Swann Take, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/5MMbGGW5cbzQUnhqlsKJ 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7d7do2-cbdcs-are-coming-and-the-bitcoin-exit-awaits.html

The way we manage Bitcoin development is at a crossroads. In my latest chat, Hunter Beast argues we need to drop the obsession with new features and focus entirely on provable safety. We also had a fascinating conversation about AI’s role in securing the future of Bitcoin, and even delved into faith and natural law. Listen to Chat_174 - Preparing Bitcoin for an Unknown Future with @npub1qqqq...lxwk on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7chqly-the-basement-theory-of-bear-markets-clip.html

What is the most important project in bitcoin right now? One that obsoletes Slipstream and non-standard transaction concerns, that forces the spam and BIP-110 discussion to resolve organically in a decentralised way, and that prevent the single largest attack vector in the entire ecosystem. In this Guy's Take, I give a breakdown on DATUM and Stratum V2, the indispensable protocols which are radicalising the way mining works. Listen to @Guy Swann Take - The Most Important Project in Bitcoin, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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What is the most important project in Bitcoin? It isn't BIP 110 or some shiny new payment protocol. We actually have a massive security vulnerabili...

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We’ve spent years trying to get Bitcoin privacy right: TumbleBit, early mixing, all of it. Why haven't these tools seen any real adoption? Dan Gould and I debate what went wrong and how the new Payjoin protocol finally makes privacy approachable. Listen to The Time Has Come for Privacy on Bitcoin with @Dan Gould on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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***"I think I got kind of orange-pilled and privacy-pilled in this way when Snowden exposed all this surveillance that was happening by default thr...

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The big auto players are burning billions just to hold your car’s features hostage behind monthly paywalls. Harald Schäfer and the team at comma are proving you don't need to accept that. We talked about how they built a self-driving system that lets you retrofit your own car without taking a dime from VCs. We discussed the wild decade of building this project and keeping control of the hardware at all cost. Listen to Chat_172 - Sovereign Devices in a Subscription World with Harald Schäfer & @Guy Swann on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"comma develops open source ADAS software. You can call it self-driving software, but currently what we ship is something where the user is suppose...

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They claim to follow logic and science, but that’s just a mask. Once you look at the patterns in their behavior, a different reality appears. I’ve identified the "holy trinity" the woke left actually worships, and it has nothing to do with facts. Check out my latest Take below. Listen to What does the woke left TRULY worship? @Guy Swann Take, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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The extreme left often claims to follow logic and "the science". But I've noticed a glaring pattern that contradicts this. And once you see it, you...

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The market looks like total trash right now. We're seeing red candles everywhere and the mood is low. So in this Roundtable we tackle the ultimate question: what if Bitcoin actually dies? We stop sugarcoating the leverage, the paper Bitcoin obsession, and the dev drama. This was a great riff with some excellent rants. Don’t miss it! Listen to Roundtable_022 - What if Bitcoin Dies? with @npub1pldg...5nc9 , @Bitcoin Mechanic , @Jeff Swann and @Guy Swann on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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The sentiment lately has been total garbage. We’re deep in a bear market, the red candles are stacking up, and people are getting nervous. So, I ...

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What happens when brilliant developers try to predict complex human behavior? Usually, they get it wrong. I read Jimmy Song’s essay "On Overconfidence" today, and it prompted some heavy reflection. It’s easy to get caught up in our own projections, but history shows that complex systems rarely behave the way we expect. I break down my perspective on the episode. Listen to Read_947 - On Overconfidence by @jimmysong on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"In this X post, I said I don't know the consequences of BIP-110. Plenty of people called that incompetent, cowardly, or both. Others praised it as...

Sats are on sale again! In case you missed my @Guy Swann ‘s Take last week on where we are and where (I think) we're going, you can check the episode out here, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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Over 10.5 million Bitcoin are currently underwater. Everyone is panicking about a grueling bear market, but I see things differently. In today's Ta...

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People are losing their minds over Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire, with many calling it a “failure of capitalism”. So I ran the math. Comparing his wealth to a great businessman of the past. And when you adjust for the real money supply of their eras, the narrative isn’t quite what it seems… Are we really witnessing a historic wealth imparable due to late-stage capitalism, or simply measuring success with a broken tape measure? Listen to my full breakdown. Listen to Why Elon's Trillion = Carnegie's Millions (The Fiat Illusion Exposed) by @Guy Swann on Bitcoin Audible (and don't forget to subscribe to the new Guy's Takes YouTube channel!) 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/PfOccIT60kUWZhZjSpHa 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7bs3a8-why-elons-trillion-carnegies-millions-the-fiat-illusion-exposed.html

Imagine sending local fiat directly to a self-custodial Lightning wallet without ever touching a custodian. Gustavo Flores actually built this out for Mexico. I talked to him about the intense technical hurdles required to make that happen in a low-trust environment. If you assume the best days of Bitcoin development are behind us, this conversation is going to shatter that assumption. Listen to Chat_171 - Building Instant Fiat-to-Bitcoin Bridges with Gustavo Flores on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/DmDU1FdBMLhRzK9igKbl 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7bnrd6-chat-171-building-instant-fiat-to-bitcoin-bridges-with-gustavo-flores.html

The writing is on the wall for centralized finance. I’ve watched this play out too many times, and the U.S. Treasury's latest $1B "crypto" seizure from Iran is the loudest warning sign yet. The media calls it a Bitcoin seizure. I call it a lesson in why Tether and ETFs are just banking 2.0 with the exact same confiscation risks. True self-custody works very differently. I broke down the details of this seizure and the future of global reserves. Be sure to subscribe to the new Guy's Takes YouTube channel with yours truly @Guy Swann for my weekly breakdown on the biggest stories in Bitcoin & beyond ✊ 🔗

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Luke de Wolf spent years securing oil pipelines and power grids. Now he is applying that hardcore cybersecurity mindset to Bitcoin. We debated the very real security risks facing the network right now, and why treating it as critical infrastructure is fundamentally non-negotiable. The decisions we make today will decide if this system survives long-term. Listen to Chat_170 - Can Anything be Secured in the Digital Age? with @Luke de Wolf & @Guy Swann on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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**"Keeping Bitcoin running is the primary concern here. Making sure that Bitcoin is available to be used as money by everyday people, any actor who...

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I sat down with Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff because someone needed to cut through the noise on Taproot, chain bloat, and real censorship vs. spam. Steve brought fresh data on network users right now. And Mechanic made the wildest case: the healthiest miners might be the ones willing to operate at a technical loss. We also tore apart the ETF flow obsession and looked at a wallet cracked by AI after eleven years. Listen to Roundtable_021 - The Fight is Never Over with @npub1pldg...5nc9 , @Bitcoin Mechanic, @Jeff Swann & @Guy Swann on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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The whole crew is back for another roundtable, and things get wild right out of the gate. I sat down with Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff to talk through...

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“Try to get a package into Iran. Can't do it. Try to get dollars into Iran. Not a chance in hell. Get Bitcoin into Iran? You don't do anything different. It's not even a thing that you have to do. It just works. And there's nothing Iran can do about it. Which is probably why they're being very serious about it from the Strait of Hormuz. Their position is: well, if we can't do anything about it, the U.S. government can't do anything about it. You know, what do you do? I really think that's the path to a Bitcoin standard. It's not that we've got super devotees, and we've explained Austrian economics to people, and someone has to be convinced that sound money is better than fiat money. Nah, it's just going to be the thing that kept working when everything else stopped.” Listen to Chat_169 - Bitcoin Proving its Case with @walker on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"Bitcoin is being embraced by the U.S. and the U.S. financial system and it is it being embraced by Iran and the Iranian regime at the exact same t...

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“All of monetary history actually explains all the wars. It explains all the conflicts. It explains why one country won and beat another country. But what do you hear about? The kings, the great battles. But, you know, the real mover was gold. The real story was that a currency couldn't sustain its level of inflation, or its level of fraud from its kingdom, as well as a competing kingdom could. The real stories are gunpowder. The real stories are technological as to what shaped the world. While the political and dramatic stories that we tell about the people and the events are brilliant and fun because they're human stories, largely, they are the consequential outcomes of built pressures from technological and monetary shifts.” Listen to Chat_169 - Bitcoin Proving its Case with @walker on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"Bitcoin is being embraced by the U.S. and the U.S. financial system and it is it being embraced by Iran and the Iranian regime at the exact same t...

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Bitcoin is being embraced by the U.S. financial system and the Iranian regime at the exact same time. Both sides know they can use it without the other one threatening it. That puts it in an insanely unique place in a world where there are no other monies that work like that anymore. Listen to Chat_169 - Bitcoin Proving its Case with @walker on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"Bitcoin is being embraced by the U.S. and the U.S. financial system and it is it being embraced by Iran and the Iranian regime at the exact same t...

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We spent decades telling an entire generation that if they just wait and work hard, they'll get the payout. Well, the payout got inflated away. Right now, everyone is arguing over generational wealth gaps, and John Carter breaks this down perfectly using a twisted version of the classic marshmallow experiment. His argument is devastating. It forces you to ask if high time preference is just a symptom of a society that broke its promises. Can sound money actually reverse the damage? Listen to When the Experimenter Fails the Marshmallow Test by John Carter on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/v23MgHs3JBoCBrtPOvGi