"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 @SeedSigner ("the man") on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"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 @SeedSigner ("the man") on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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“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 @SeedSigner ("the man") on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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The reality where you own nothing and rent everything starts with broken money. I don't buy the narrative that normal people just aren't working hard enough to own things anymore. The truth is that zero interest rates gave the ultra-wealthy a blank check to corner the market on productive assets. It's entirely structural, and it is robbing us blind. Want to know the exact mechanics of how they use cheap debt to price you out of ownership forever? I lay it all out in Guy's Take_107. Listen to Guy's Take_107 - Free Rent for the Rich on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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Ever wonder why modern society produces so much worthless junk instead of civilization-defining architecture? It all comes down to proof of work. Today I'm reading a chapter from Wyatt’s book The Bitcoinization of Finance, his latest case for tying the real economy back to sound money. And I took it a step further: if you strip away that foundation, society eventually just dies. Listen to Proof of Work in the Real Economy by @Wyatt O’Rourke on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"If your money isn't sound, it is not reflecting any proof of work. It is not reflecting anything about who should be able to consume, or how much ...

We started the mics with the intention of talking Bitcoin, but things went sideways fast. Between AI acting like a corporate filter and the absurdity of the St. Louis Fed trying to own Bitcoin price data, it was a wild session. Plus, we actually get into Steve's UTXOracle, the status of Bitcoin Core cluster mempool changes, and the challenges of renting hashrate. Oh, and don't miss the hot take on why the "Quantum threat" to Bitcoin is mostly just a sad marketing ploy! Listen to Roundtable_020 - Anything But Bitcoin with @Simple Steve , @Bitcoin Mechanic , @Jeff Swann & @Guy Swann on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/awA4BMZvdrPseoucRado 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v79i0qg-roundtable-020-anything-but-bitcoin.html

Why did humans start using shells or gold long before they had "efficient markets"? Nick Szabo’s latest essay The Fabric of Desires explains the ancient link between high-stakes life events and the need for a store of value. It’s a fascinating look at how money acts as the stitching between events in space and time. Listen to The Fabric of Desires by Nick Szabo on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/ByGugoFYLU0uFDPI6Z2t

I firmly believe the worst thing we ever did was accept "elastic money" as our economic savior. People constantly point to the crashes of 1929 and 2008 as proof we need financial intervention. But the reality says the exact opposite. Constant manipulation isn't saving the system, it is just keeping a broken machine on life support. Here is my take on the massive lie we all bought into. Listen to @Guy Swann Take_106 - When Cheating Is The Law on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/XqjwqvT98XLGQ1RckNX7

We constantly complain that fiat money is completely broken, but we still trust it to tell us exactly what Bitcoin is worth. It really makes no sense. I recently read this great piece by Craig Tindale, and he completely nails this hypocrisy. If the ruler is bent, stop using it to measure the table. Escaping the fiat frame is a lot harder than just buying BTC. Listen to Stepping Outside the Fiat Frame by Craig Tindle on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/YNq0Dx4shSXO51AVdfIw

"You should not just do what you're told, or you will literally get the normal. You'll have cancer; you'll have heart disease. If you do what they say is healthy – the things that we believe are correct and are normal – will produce normal results, and we are the least healthy. We are the most sick and diseased generation in the history of this country. If those are the results you want, then do what the healthcare system tells you to do. I think a lot of people are waking up to that." - Guy Swann Listen to The Great Distraction: Epstein vs. Quantum in Bitcoin with Rob Wallace of @Bitcoin News on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann - available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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If you're doing anything over $1,000 in fiat, it is like nails on a chalkboard. But every single year, living on a Bitcoin standard has become easier and easier. Listen to The Great Distraction: Epstein vs. Quantum in Bitcoin with Rob Wallace from @Bitcoin News on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann - available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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Every week there is a new reason why Bitcoin is supposedly dying. Right now, it is Google's quantum computing claims and, not so long ago, some wild Epstein conspiracies. So I joined Rob Wallace on the Bitcoin News channel to look at the actual science behind the quantum panic and see if it actually holds up to scrutiny. But we also talk about why I am wildly optimistic about what is coming next, especially with non-custodial scaling solutions like Ark, and how vibe coding is pushing us toward a massive peer-to-peer renaissance. Listen to The Great Distraction: Epstein vs. Quantum in Bitcoin with Rob Wallace from @Bitcoin News on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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Deflation isn't the economic monster they want us to fear. And falling prices are just the honest proof that real innovation happened. Yet, we let central authorities print endless money to stop it. In Part 2 of Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers' latest essay, we look at why falling prices may be the most honest measure of innovation, and expose the myth of fiat economics. Listen to Read_941 - Number Go Down (Part 2) by @allen & Sacha Meyers on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/hpFDDKaBd41th64PVjJ2

The way the "experts" think about spending and prices is completely backward. Everyone assumes the economy grinds to a halt if prices fall. But what if an economy built on hard money actually thrives on that exact dynamic? Today I'm sharing part one of Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers' incredible essay: "Number Go Down", and it'll change how you look at the system entirely. Listen to Read_940 - Number Go Down (Part 1) by @allen & Sacha Meyers on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"The fiat economist universally chooses to set the printing press to brrrrrrrrrr. While the enlightened elite watch their stock portfolios moon and...

"The Industrial Revolution gave us unlimited food, and we all became fat of the body. The information age gave us unlimited information and made us fat in the mind. ...We don't think anymore, we just parrot. Everything we do is a parroting of something else, something someone else said. Maybe the only antidote to this is to go on a diet. No more information, no more reading, no more socials, no more nothing. You know so much already, but how much of what you know have you actually acted on?" ~ Aleks Svetski Listen to Chat_165 - Family and Focus with @Alekandar Svetski on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/3RgrSlc5JDVr8hadfcOD 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v78khkw-chat-165-family-and-focus-with-aleks-svetski.html

"In my time as a libertarian, I started to believe that the market comes before politics, like economics is upstream of politics. But, you know, I’ve come to believe it’s the other way around actually, because the political framework defines the framework in which the market can operate. The nation is a concept that, you know, reinvigorated itself in my mind, especially after writing Bushido. Is that okay: the nation’s job, its existence, is to put not the market first, but its people first, and then the market second. And if you have to sacrifice one, you sacrifice the economic reality. Because, in the short term it might hurt the economics, but in the long term it maintains the civility or the cohesion of the polity of the people whom the market is serving." - Aleks Svetski Listen to Chat_165 - Family and Focus with @Alekandar Svetski on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/3RgrSlc5JDVr8hadfcOD 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v78khkw-chat-165-family-and-focus-with-aleks-svetski.html

Is the biggest threat to Bitcoin the tech, or is it us? We spend so much time worrying about quantum computers and code changes, while the real test is firstly human. Can a massive, easily divided global community actually hold the line when the world demands we break? I read Part 2 of this essay today, and the main argument is hard to shake. Listen to Modern Money Only Works By Cheating (Part 2) by @zerohedge on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/mUB44I6ny5Q3boysKcj6

We put so much trust in a system that constantly rewrites its own rules. Reading through Hugh Hendry’s audit of modern money left me rethinking a lot today. He makes it obvious that fiat *only* exists by cheating. And it turns out Bitcoin's stubborn refusal to compromise might be the exact medicine we need to stop the endless bailouts. Give this one a listen and decide for yourself. Listen to Modern Money Only Works By Cheating (Part 1) by @zerohedge on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Podcast feed:

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“This piece is my attempt to finally map the terrain I'd been circling for years: Bitcoin's hardness, its fragility, its human gove...

I think a lot of us feel it, but no one wants to admit it. The internet just doesn't feel real anymore. Aleks Svetski and I sat down to talk about the total collapse of digital trust and the weird micro-echo chambers we all live in now. But it's not all doom and gloom. We also discussed family, meaning, personal growth, and the hopeful picture of where social life could be heading next. Listen to Chat_165 - Family and Focus with @Alekandar Svetski on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v78khkw-chat-165-family-and-focus-with-aleks-svetski.html

"I love NetBird. I love Tailscale. But if your goal is to host things on the internet in a safe and private way, StartTunnel crushes these things. It's free, it's open source, and it's simple. You get a $4 a month VPS, install StartTunnel in less than three minutes, and you're literally up and running with a virtual router that you can use to obfuscate your home IP. It's that simple. It's MIT licensed. If you find a way to make it better, or fork it, or monetize it, do it. I don't give a fuck. Everything we make is free - as free as it can be. We don't even go the whole GPL bullshit route: 'You must keep this open source because I'm a statist and I will shoot you if you don't keep it open source.' Fuck GPL. It's either free or it's not free. Don't tell me it's free and then tell me what I can't do with it. MIT or death.” - Matt Hill Listen to Chat_164 - Skating To Where The Puck Will Be with @Matt Hill on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann - available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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