“Everything has changed. First they ignored Bitcoin, then they laughed, then they fought it. Now they’re trying to join it and make the most of it...It used to be taboo in finance. Now it’s everywhere. Nobody denies you need at least a small allocation.” ~Ben Kaufman Listen to Chat_155 - Where We Are, Where We've Been, & Where We're Going with @Ben Kaufman on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/arKvuqvrU5yrE648NNNn Rumble: https://rumble.com/v73lquo-chat-155-where-we-are-where-weve-been-and-where-were-going-with-ben-kaufman.html YouTube:

We’ve outsourced our memories, money, and identities; but at what cost? This Read tells a jaw-dropping story of total digital lockout and asks the bigger question: how do we protect ourselves in a platform-run world? Listen to Read_922 - 20 Years of Digital Life Gone in an Instant by Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"We have entered a space where we literally own nothing." ~ Guy What happens when 25 years of digital identity vanishes overnight because of a $500...

“There’s a total of 51,801,803 [Ordinals]... image trackers... that’s... more than a third of the entire UTXO set. So almost 40% of your entire Bitcoin live state... almost half of that is being used as a data tracker for some NFT.” ~ The Shitcoin Insider Listen to Chat_154 - Unpacking "The Cat" with The Shitcoin Insider on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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What happens when Bitcoin can do everything that "crypto" claimed it would? This episode reads Allen Farrington Only the Strong Survive on crypto’s endgame, Bitcoin’s misunderstood purpose, and why ARKADE, Lightning, and e‑cash may render the rest obsolete. Is there any reason left for "crypto" to exist? Listen to Only the Strong Survive by @allen on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/RjhHVdgLS8XuIkbPAodH

One last roundtable to close out the year. From Quantum fears to the Samourai Wallet case, we spiral into the biggest controversies of 2025. Alongside the usual team - @Simple Steve , @Bitcoin Mechanic and @Jeff Swann - we discuss UK crackdowns, jury trials, and the "sly roundabout way" to victory. Watch and listen to Roundtable_016 - From Keonne to Quantum and Building the Sly Roundabout Way on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: Fountain:

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“Even the spammers know this is spam… nobody thinks it’s monetary… we all know it’s not the purpose of Bitcoin… this isn’t what Bitcoin is for… it’s not even morally bad, it’s technically bad for the network.” ~ The Shitcoin Insider Listen to Chat_154 - Unpacking "The Cat" with The Shitcoin Insider on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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What happens to Bitcoin culture when ETFs, politics, and financialization enter the picture? In this conversation with Ben Kaufman, we explore the four‑year cycle, Lightning as default rails, and what real sovereignty looks like in practice. Listen to Chat_155 - Where We Are, Where We've Been, & Where We're Going with @Ben Kaufman on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/arKvuqvrU5yrE648NNNn Rumble: https://rumble.com/v73lquo-chat-155-where-we-are-where-weve-been-and-where-were-going-with-ben-kaufman.html YouTube:

"The big, big stab that we're going to be making - the thing that could make PPQ go from kind of like a small community of users to like a gorilla website with millions of users - is this creator monetization program where we allow outsiders to create some cool new image model or a new AI tool, serve it up on PPQ, and then also allow us to distribute their model on other websites that are orders of magnitude larger than us. And then we do it all with lightning payments." ~ Matt Ahlborg Listen to Chat_153 - Welcome to Subscription Hell with Matt Ahlborg of @PayPerQ on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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Can sats stay fungible when markets try to make them something else? 🐱 In this conversation with The Shitcoin Insider, we explore CAT, ordinals, mailing list politics, and the strange overlap between devs, spammers, and AI-powered creativity. Bitcoin, culture, and governance collide. Listen to Chat_154 - Unpacking "The Cat" with the Shitcoin Insider on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"Our primary payment methods are crypto. Lightning is actually about 50% of all deposits on our platform. The pay per use, the extremely small fees, the final settlement of Lightning, is huge. And so I think that if we were to fast forward ten years, I think that subscriptions are going to be used less in ten years than they are now. And companies like PPQ that are offering it all in one place, on a per use model, are going to win." - Matt Ahlborg Listen to Chat_153 - Welcome to Subscription Hell with Matt Ahlborg

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How close are we to a world where self‑custody is treated like a crime? From DIY hardware to Cashew Ecash, this Read episode explores the shrinking space for financial freedom, and what tools still work. Listen to Read_920 - Criminalized Self-Custody by @HRF on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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“If you think they'll have restraint, I think you're making a grave error.” Can your wallet, your node, or even your hardware become “unlicen...

Ever wondered what society would look like without merchants, traders, or platforms? In The Unseen Role of Intermediaries, Bastiat had thoughts - and Bitcoin might have answers. Listen to Read_919 - Frédéric Bastiat: The Unseen Role of Intermediaries by Ulrich Fromy on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/vHPE1DFNKBaKqHOhaf3v

From cluttered subscriptions to seamless micropayments, in this Chat episode, Matt Ahlborg of PPQ AI maps a future where UX + Lightning unlocks new creator avenues. We discuss tradeoffs, costs, and adoption hurdles. Listen to Chat_153 - Welcome to Subscription Hell with Matt Ahlborg of @PayPerQ on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"We cannot master any one particular modality in the way that a company can master that on their own when it's the only thing they do. Basically wh...

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"It's almost certain [CSW] holds the record for the most number of forgeries submitted to a UK trial, a UK court case. There is nothing in any written records that exceeds the number of forgeries attributed to him. There is no written records anywhere of anyone coming close to him in terms of one person being responsible for so many forgeries, so he is almost certainly a record holder in that respect. If you think if he put that much effort into doing good in the world, think of the amount of good he could have done." ~ Mark Hunter Listen to Chat_152 - Forging Satoshi with Mark Hunter and Arthur van Pelt on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/gdV0WGKCh2b9iuBarUbr 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v72dh4o-chat-152-forging-satoshi-with-mark-hunter-and-arthur-van-pelt.html

"I don't understand. And I'll never understand why people are so desperate to believe him when it is. so he puts his foot in it so many times, like again and again and again. He'll say something or do something that completely undermines something that he's previously said or done, and they for some reason, refuse to let it register. And I mean, this is something that when this whole saga, however this whole thing finishes, it's going to be the one enduring thing for me is how do people still believe him after all the lies, and why are they so determined to believe him." ~ Arthur Van Pelt Listen to Chat_152 - Forging Satoshi with Mark Hunter and Arthur Van Pelt on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/gdV0WGKCh2b9iuBarUbr 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v72dh4o-chat-152-forging-satoshi-with-mark-hunter-and-arthur-van-pelt.html

Is Bitcoin a lie? Or does Bitcoin solve the very failures critics accuse it of creating? 🤔 I break down Mike Brock’s critique to explore whether Bitcoin really breeds cruelty or reveals a deeper layer of cooperation we’ve overlooked. Listen to Read_918 - Bitcoin is a Lie by Mike Brock on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"Bitcoin will fail. Because it is a lie… Because it claims truths that cannot be. That trust is defect. That property is virtue. That law, shared...

I’m revisiting one of my most-shared videos: What Does $6 Trillion Mean? $6T sounds abstract , until you translate it into real human time and sacrifice. Money created from nothing doesn’t vanish… it erases value, warps incentives, and steals the weight of our decisions. Listen to 2Sats - What Does $6 Trillion Mean on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/WquD65gz3me42OJh2L2E

Bitcoin might be the best collateral humanity has ever invented. Instantly verifiable, instantly transferable, never freezes, never defaults: 👉🏻 Houses take months 👉🏻 Stocks have restrictions 👉🏻 Gold needs trust ... Maybe we’re still thinking way too small about Bitcoin. In today’s episode, we break down a powerful chapter from Bitcoin is The Ultimate Collateral to explore why Bitcoin’s perfect digital scarcity, portability, uptime, and auditability make it fundamentally different from every legacy form of collateral. Listen to Read 917 - The Ultimate Collateral by Martin Connor on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"The best, simplest, ultimate form of collateral is something that can instantly be claimed and sold at any time when the debtor fails to make thei...

"As far as I can tell, yes, there might be a little more OP_RETURN used with a policy that's more lenient, but any bytes that go into OP_RETURN are probably bytes that don't go towards inscriptions. Those are the main competitors. I think their payments are pretty small. They have more economic density per weight, in my opinion. They will price out this spam. If you look at the prices for this stuff, they're down 30x from the top. Overall, the trend is this goes to zero—and then people stop doing it because it's expensive." ~ Murch Listen to Chat_151 - Bitcoin Technically, Ideologically, and Actually with @Murch on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"I think that all of the people that I know that are working on Bitcoin Core and other Bitcoin projects are only interested in the monetary use cas...

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"I do not know of anyone contributing to Bitcoin Core that is interested in anything else than just using Bitcoin as money. But that doesn't mean that it can only be used for money. And now there's two ways to react to that information. One is "but I only want it to be used for money" and then try to make it so. And the other one is, “well, how are they doing that and what can we do about it? And is it worth the effort of fighting this? How much harm is it? How much effort would it take to fight it?” Even if we all want this to be money, just being upset about it without a plan is a lot of energy towards not necessarily a solution." ~ @Murch Listen to Chat_151 - Bitcoin Technically, Ideologically, and Actually with Murch on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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