Everyone is terrified that AI will eat their industry and wreck the economy. But they have the stakes all wrong. In today's Read, I go through a brilliant A16Z piece that explains why we aren't heading for a post-human future. I followed it up with a bit of a rant on how this shift actually increases the value of human decision-making. If you are stressed about AI taking over, listen to this to flip that fear into real excitement. Listen to Read_935 - AI Will Eat Application Software by Alex Immerman and Santiago Rodriguez on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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[Apologies for the double post everyone. We had to pull a quick swap on this one because of a glitch.] "Yes, AI is a big deal, but the conclusion...

Some people will invent literally anything to avoid admitting they lost an argument. Enter the "Epstein hijacked Bitcoin" narrative: pure fiction designed to keep the defunct scaling argument alive. But I just brought the receipts to finally kill it off. By tracking the actual money involved, I show exactly what was really happening behind the scenes. Listen to Guy's Take_105 - Did Epstein Hijack Bitcoin? on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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Did Jeffrey Epstein secretly hijack Bitcoin during the block size war? Was is all a covert operation by Jeffrey Epstein and shadowy government acto...

“There is a point of contention that every miner reaches, where they have to fine-tune their operation and maintain certain controls in order to stay viable on the network over the long term. The most profound way to do this is from behind the meter. If you start there, at the point of zero to one where the energy originates, you are basically playing 4D chess with mining. Instead of being vulnerable to the variables that would knock most people offline, you are now in control. You have the ability to identify underutilized or wasted resources and bring the market to the molecule, instead of trying to force it the other way. This puts Bitcoin miners in a position to be the buyers of energy of last resort in all cases, stress-testing the systems and making them better.” - HODL Tarantula Listen to Chat_163 - Mining in Real Life with @Bitcoin Mechanic, HODL Tarantula & @Guy Swann on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"One of the most important aspects of what we’re doing is building out in ways that, like Bob Burnett says, you’ve got your big elephants, your little rabbit home miners, and then you’ve got the wild horses like myself. Gentlemen going out there wildcatting and finding ways to produce these operations that are literally impossible to stop unless you quite literally come out there and put a bullet in my brain." Listen to Chat_163 - Mining in Real Life with @Bitcoin Mechanic, HodlTarantula & @Guy Swann on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"[Utilize] the fundamental principles that we see in Bitcoin itself: having a standard ruleset that you apply to yourself every day with discipline, and developing standard operating procedures that force us to hold ourselves accountable to higher standards." - HODL Tarantula Listen to Chat_163 - Mining in Real Life with @Bitcoin Mechanic, HodlTarantula & @Guy Swann on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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“Lightning is way more private and also more censorship resistant than on-chain. If miners are going to start censoring blocks, the off-chain economy can actually go on for a while before even needing an on-chain settlement. And miners cannot do shit about off-chain transactions.” - @Giacomo Zucco Listen to Chat_162 with Giacomo and @Guy Swann on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"If people are not ready for Bitcoin, just go use USDT as long as you can before dollar hyperinflation. It's like Noah's Ark: it's going to rain, w...

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"People will complain, you know, all the darknet markets are moving to shitcoins. The biggest darknet market is Robosats and it's Bitcoin only. It's not risk-free. But one risk is you having your Revolut account nuked. The other risk is you being kidnapped or attacked with actual blackmail or fake blackmail. This is worse than having your fiat account nuked." - @Giacomo Zucco Listen to Chat_162 with Giacomo Zucco on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"If people are not ready for Bitcoin, just go use USDT as long as you can before dollar hyperinflation. It's like Noah's Ark: it's going to rain, w...

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When you get Bitcoin Mechanic and HODLTarantula together for a panel, the big picture talk on physical infrastructure is next level. We teamed up to break down the reality of mining centralization, block building, and staying completely off-grid. Listen to Chat_163 - Mining in Real Life with @Guy Swann , @Bitcoin Mechanic & HODL Tarantula on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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“Long term, the dollar is going down, but short term you can plan one month for the other in dollars better than in Bitcoin. If people are not ready for Bitcoin, just go use USD as long as you can before dollar hyperinflation. It's like Noah's Ark. It's going to rain. We build the Ark; we don't have to force people on board. Just wait there. And when you feel ready to swim, come aboard.” ~ Giacomo Zucco Listen to Chat_162 with @Giacomo Zucco on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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You want to connect a device? Scan a QR code, you're connected. You want to share some files? Talk files. You want to share a folder that you can see, it will look everything in the folder, and then you can just look and scroll through that list on your phone. The underlying engine is simple, it obscures all that stuff away and it works with WebSocket and RPC to communicate so you can just basically build any kind of web app you want on top of it. There's no server, there's not even a networking page. You get a link, or a QR, you connect, and your devices can talk to each other." ~ @Guy Swann Learn more about PearDrive in The User Doesn't Care About Your Mission talk from @Plan ₿ Network on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/jfXO4Tytf0HdxfPgTARv 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v76c4u6-guys-take-104-the-user-doesnt-care-about-your-mission-re-upload.html

From the "death" of the 4-year cycle to the role of stablecoins and the fight against the surveillance state. 🌍🇸🇻 I pulled Giacomo Zucco aside at the Plan B conference for a live update on the state of the Bitcoin world. We cover the bargaining phase, the Cypher Tank initiative, and why KYC is a step backward for humanity. Listen to Chat_162 with @Giacomo Zucco on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"If people are not ready for Bitcoin, just go use USDT as long as you can before dollar hyperinflation. It's like Noah's Ark: it's going to rain, w...

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Everything is Fake and Gay. Or is it just the timeline getting weirder? 🤡🌎 Join me and the usual suspects as we oscillate between bullish milestones and the dystopian reality of AI interactions. We also ask the hard questions about Block's layoffs and the potential fallout of the current Bitcoin soft fork proposals. Listen to Everything is Fake and Gay with @Simple Steve , @Bitcoin Mechanic and @Jeff Swann on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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I'm joined by Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff for yet another Roundtable episode, and honestly, the digital world is getting weirder by the minute. Are w...

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Is the era of "one-size-fits-all" software coming to an end? Today, we are reading Max Hillebrand's fascinating take on how AI and the open source movement are teaming up to liberate users from modern SaaS bloated with telemetry. Are we truly ready for the era of hyper-personalized software? Listen to Read_934 - The Code Liberation by @Max on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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The average user does not care about your sovereignty. It hurts to admit, but looking at the current state of freedom tech, the friction is undeniable. It’s 2026, and syncing files between devices is still migraine-inducing. We keep trying to sell the philosophy when we haven’t even mastered the basic utility. This is exactly why I'm building Pear Drive: scan a QR code, devices connect, files flow. No servers, no friction. Are we building the tools people want, or just the tools we want them to care about? Listen to The User Doesn't Care About Your Mission on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/jfXO4Tytf0HdxfPgTARv 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v76c4u6-guys-take-104-the-user-doesnt-care-about-your-mission-re-upload.html

Does the spec create the code, or does the code discover the spec? In this episode, we dive into Jesse Posner's fascinating concept of The Secret to Vibe Coding. We explore the shift toward agentic workflows where the AI might just know your goals better than you do. Is this the entry point into a new era of software philosophy? Listen to The Secret to Vibe Coding by @Jesse Posner on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"The people who figure that out first won't just ship faster - they'll build things that others can't even spec, because the spec emerges last from...

“People don't consider the tax advantage of this... if you convert all of your heating to mining Bitcoin, your energy bill to mine the Bitcoin is a deduction. ...therefore you've just turned your heat bill into a full tax deduction.” ~ Cade Peterson Listen to Bitcoin is Tangible with Cade Peterson on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"In our town, Wells Fargo had a building, and the building was originally built and called the Custer County Bank. Then Wells Fargo left our town. Now what used to be Wells Fargo is now a Bitcoin mine." ~ Cade Peterson Listen to Bitcoin is Tangible with Cade Peterson on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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Germany, France, and the U.S. have all agreed at the Munich Security Conference: The world order is officially dead. In this Read, we explore Ray Dalio's chapter on how external order crumbles into disorder and war. But more importantly, we look at the role of the monetary system in driving this collapse. Is Bitcoin the exit ramp? Listen to The World Order Has Broken Down by Ray Dalio on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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What if your heating system actually paid you back? Cade Peterson joins me to to discuss the fascinating economics of mining for heat. We explore his journey from Air Force mechanic to building Bitcoin-heated fortresses. Stop burning money and start earning it! Listen to Bitcoin is Tangible with Cade Peterson on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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Is censorship resistance possible without the internet? In this episode, we look at the desperate scenarios where currency fails and connection to the outside world is severed. Yet, somehow, hundreds of thousands found a way to communicate. Come explore the limits of freedom tech in the face of total shutdown. Listen to When The Internet Shuts Off by @HRF on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/vVOgP9qtW8OUNXrdKGhK