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? @npub1h8nk...rpev Take, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/DEyom3otki1V4R7DsVwP 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7ca62q-what-does-the-woke-left-truly-worship.html

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 , @npub1wnlu...n3wr , @npub1ajv7...tppj and @npub1h8nk...rpev 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 @npub10vlh...sp42 on Bitcoin Audible with @npub1h8nk...rpev , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/QOdAoEwtewccCimXfqJ0

Sats are on sale again! In case you missed my @npub1h8nk...rpev ‘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: https://fountain.fm/episode/zhrgkUl9RJVtgmBPI9tz 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7bvtbs-10.5-million-bitcoin-underwater-is-this-the-bottom.html

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 @npub1h8nk...rpev 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 @npub1h8nk...rpev , 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 @npub1h8nk...rpev 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 & @npub1h8nk...rpev on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/AtXufLKEacq8h6v567oo 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7bak2a-chat-170-can-anything-be-secured-in-the-digital-age-with-luke-de-wolf.html

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 , @npub1wnlu...n3wr, @npub1ajv7...tppj & @npub1h8nk...rpev on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/KNdIKAKu6JCEcwouiECB 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7b0toc-roundtable-021-the-fight-is-never-over.html

“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: https://fountain.fm/episode/x6O2BKPByw0IKiitJvV5 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7apfay-chat-169-bitcoin-proving-its-case-with-walker-america.html

“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 @npub1h8nk...rpev , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/x6O2BKPByw0IKiitJvV5 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7apfay-chat-169-bitcoin-proving-its-case-with-walker-america.html

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 @npub1h8nk...rpev, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/x6O2BKPByw0IKiitJvV5 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7apfay-chat-169-bitcoin-proving-its-case-with-walker-america.html

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 @npub1h8nk...rpev available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"Generation X and the millennials both tried to do everything right, according to what the boomers told them was the path forward: save money, stud...

Is a self-proclaimed Rothbardian actually running one of the most inflationary presidencies in Argentine history? It sounds crazy, but the data points directly to yes. We were promised a totally different approach to money, yet debt is soaring and the currency keeps diluting. The disconnect between his political rhetoric and the actual economic policy is staggering. In today's read, we take a dive into Milei's legacy so far. Listen to Milei's Austrian Scam by the Numbers by @npub1gdu7...6nak on Bitcoin Audible with @npub1h8nk...rpev - available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/HoUcDTqmGUgc0uLubaok

"I hope a substantial chunk of the network hashrate online is distributed into these low-energy states, building energy systems where hashrate is solving a utility function, not aiming to be a profitable mining operation. Meaning they're solving real problems for people's paychecks, they're solving real problems for people's load balancing, helping balance the grid, monetizing solar, and heating your home. In this sense, hashrate becomes synonymous with building energy infrastructure. That's my vision." ~ Tyler Stevens Listen to Hashing for Heat with Tyler Stevens on Bitcoin Audible with @npub1h8nk...rpev , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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**"Our little home controller, building controller, it knows our electric rate, it knows the way that electric rate changes based on the time of da...

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"If it gets colder at night, the miner will ramp up 200, 300, or 400 watts. The miner's wattage is what's wiggling and the temperature of the house is what's flat, instead of the heat being flat and the temperature of the house wiggling." ~ Tyler Stevens Listen to Hashing for Heat with Tyler Stevens on Bitcoin Audible with @npub1h8nk...rpev , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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Did you know a quarter of global energy is used just for "comfort heat"? Imagine if we generated all that warm air and water using Bitcoin miners instead. I had an incredibly fun chat with Tyler Stevens about the hashrate heating movement and what happens to Bitcoin's security budget when normal people start heating their homes with ASICs. Catch the full conversation below. Listen to Hashing for Heat with Tyler Stevens on Bitcoin Audible with @npub1h8nk...rpev available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"The second you write down a passphrase or store it in a password manager, it switches from something you know to something you have. And that's a completely different security model where multisig, in my humble opinion, wins every time." ~ Seed Listen to Chat_167 - Why Your Keys Matter with @npub1fft9...6sxp on Bitcoin Audible with @npub1h8nk...rpev , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/afPM32LwtbzpLcqnJXdT 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v79tuv2-chat-167-why-your-keys-matter-with-seed.html

"With multisig, hardware wallets make less sense to me for your long-term setup because of the issue of hardware wallets storing a digital copy of your private keys. When you set that hardware wallet up, what's the first thing they have you do? Take out the card that came with the hardware wallet, write down these 12 or 24 words, and store them in a safe place. Even with a simple multisig, you end up having a lot of places where you need to hide things. For a simple 2-of-3, you now need six hiding places: three for the hardware wallets and three for the backups. My argument is that for your long-term cold storage, let the analog, physical copies of your private keys be the ones you worry about securing. Focus on those physical backups, because you are going to have to worry about how you're securing them anyway." ~ Seed Listen to Chat_167 - Why Your Keys Matter with @npub1fft9...6sxp on Bitcoin Audible with @npub1h8nk...rpev , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/afPM32LwtbzpLcqnJXdT 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v79tuv2-chat-167-why-your-keys-matter-with-seed.html

“If you think of River or Gemini or Coinbase or whatever, think of all of those as silos and how people custody Bitcoin. If some sort of compromise were to come into the Bitcoin ecosystem at the private key generation level, that could create an incident that could set Bitcoin back by 10 or more years because it would be almost indistinguishable from a protocol compromise and that we would be talking about Bitcoin being hacked again and not individual custodians being hacked. So I think we need to decentralise how people do Bitcoin custody as much as possible and what better way by leveraging private freedom preserving open source software.” - Seed Listen to Chat_167 - Why Your Keys Matter with @npub1fft9...6sxp on Bitcoin Audible with @npub1h8nk...rpev available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/afPM32LwtbzpLcqnJXdT 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v79tuv2-chat-167-why-your-keys-matter-with-seed.html