"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:

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"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:

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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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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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"The knowledge, capital, and innovations that came before us, is our inheritance. We inherit the trade and the knowledge that came before us, but we are being denied the ability to use it for our own purposes. That information, that intellectual property, and the regulations that surround everything you could want to do in this world actually prohibit you from using, to a degree, the inventions - the wealth - that were bequeathed to you by our ancestors. So, not only is it massive theft, but it is also a barrier to entry. They are putting up guardrails to prevent you from using the things that you have every right to use. In a free world, in a free economy, we are all rich, but it is being 100% artificially kept from everyone." - Matt Hill Listen to Chat_164 - Skating To Where The Puck Will Be with @Matt Hill of @Start9 on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"I can't think of anything that I can do long-term that isn't going to look like a toddler trying to do it to these systems. And you could extend that to your family, 'Well, I'm a father; I tuck my children in..." Yeah, that's going to be safe for a while. I do think it's going to be safe for a while, but it's not safe indefinitely. They'll make better life partners. Humanoid robots will be better life partners than humans. Most people will choose the robot. The vast majority of people will choose the robot. People could care less if they are dating, having sex with, and procreating with a human or a robot. They don't care. If the exponential improvement of these things continues, it will literally be better at being a human than any human." ~ Matt Hill Listen to Chat_164 - Skating To Where The Puck Will Be with @Matt Hill of @Start9 on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"We are trying to make it possible for people to use computers with a statement as simple as this: use computers without intermediaries and custodians. The more they do, the more the lines will diverge until there is a chasm between the centralized model and the decentralized model with a clear line between them. We will either force a reconciliation at the natural, technical level, let the best product in the market win, or we will force the hand of the authoritarians to say that our model is illegal. And then we have a different reconciliatory approach: okay, it's revolution time." ~ @Matt Hill Listen to Chat_164 - Skating To Where The Puck Will Be with Matt Hill of @Start9 on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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The cashless trap is closing faster than most people realize. And with governments pushing CBDCs to track dissent and control capital, the stakes couldn't be higher. In today's Read from the Financial Freedom Report, I look at the fight back. We cover offline privacy tools like BlackBox and how Lightning fixes our digital cash problem. Will our tools outpace their overreach? Listen to Read_937 - When the Withdraws Start by @HRF on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/cQxSCr07JWNvYhHM823x

What if we prioritized accessibility over perfection? Seedless wallets are starting to look like the bridge we've been missing. In today's Read, I’m breaking down Juan Galt‘s thoughts on Breez SDK’s new passkey login update and why this might be the reality check the self-custody movement needs. If you’re tired of the "too techy" argument, check it out. Listen to Breez SDK Launches Passkey Login by @Juan Galt and @Breez ⚡️ on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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There is a reason why every argument from the big blockers is some conspiracy about a government takeover rather than one about the actual technical debate. Why? It is easier to spin a web of nonsense than argue about protocol nuances. Here is the technical reality: Bitcoin is a broadcast layer network. A serious protocol nerd should already see the scaling problem. A broadcast network is one where every single participant must broadcast their message to every single other participant in the entire network. This is part of how and why Bitcoin stays decentralized. It is decentralized because anyone who wants to do so can confirm every last rule of the network has been followed by every other participant for its entire history. Essentially, it has made every single one of its users their own referee to the game. Watch the latest 2Sats - Did Epstein Hijack Bitcoin? on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann : Youtube: Rumble: https://rumble.com/v77syh2-2sats-did-epstein-hijack-bitcoin.html

The big blockers cannot be honest about what the debate was really about. They posed it as one group - themselves - who wanted Bitcoin to be digital cash and money for the whole world, and then the "evil" small blockers who just wanted it to be digital gold. The block size debate was not, and I repeat was not, about digital gold versus digital cash. The actual debate, half of it, was about how to scale the network so it could be decentralized money for the whole world, while the other half was exactly how to make changes to the protocol that required cooperation from everyone when things were contentious. There is a reason why every argument from the big blockers is some conspiracy about a government takeover rather than one about the actual technical debate. Why? It is easier to spin a web of nonsense than argue about protocol nuances. Watch the latest 2Sats - Did Epstein Hijack Bitcoin? on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann : Youtube: Rumble: https://rumble.com/v77syh2-2sats-did-epstein-hijack-bitcoin.html

The big blockers cannot be honest about what the debate was really about. They posed it as one group - themselves - who wanted Bitcoin to be digital cash and money for the whole world, and then the "evil" small blockers who just wanted it to be digital gold. The block size debate was not, and I repeat was not, about digital gold versus digital cash. The actual debate, half of it, was about how to scale the network so it could be decentralized money for the whole world, while the other half was exactly how to make changes to the protocol that required cooperation from everyone when things were contentious. There is a reason why every argument from the big blockers is some conspiracy about a government takeover rather than one about the actual technical debate. Why? It is easier to spin a web of nonsense than argue about protocol nuances. Watch the latest 2Sats - Did Epstein Hijack Bitcoin? on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann : Youtube: Rumble: https://rumble.com/v77syh2-2sats-did-epstein-hijack-bitcoin.html

Blaming Jeffrey Epstein for weakening Bitcoin is the ultimate cope. I am so tired of this recycled big blocker narrative, so I finally took the time to expose it. I went through the emails and followed the funding step by step. The reality is that there was no grand, shadowy government op to destroy Bitcoin. The fact that this conspiracy still exists is a massive red flag. Let's find out why they want you distracted by this, and what the whole picture actually shows. Youtube: Rumble: https://rumble.com/v77syh2-2sats-did-epstein-hijack-bitcoin.html

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: https://fountain.fm/episode/AkZHGXQZz6QFEZtYzEYg

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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“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: https://fountain.fm/episode/ylwiHHoSBMjfUFZJjuAL 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v77ac66-chat-163-mining-in-real-life-with-bitcoin-mechanic-and-hodltarantula-plan-b.html

"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: https://fountain.fm/episode/ylwiHHoSBMjfUFZJjuAL 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v77ac66-chat-163-mining-in-real-life-with-bitcoin-mechanic-and-hodltarantula-plan-b.html

"[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: https://fountain.fm/episode/ylwiHHoSBMjfUFZJjuAL 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v77ac66-chat-163-mining-in-real-life-with-bitcoin-mechanic-and-hodltarantula-plan-b.html