“The world will become richer, so much richer. But how will we distribute the riches? I want you to imagine two camps, communist China and capitalist America. I want you to imagine what would happen in capitalist America if we have 30% unemployment? There will be social unrest in the streets. And I want you to imagine if China lives true to caring for its nations and replaced every worker with a robot, what would it give its citizens? UBI? Correct. That is the ideological problem. Because in China's world today, the prosperity of every citizen is higher than the prosperity of the capitalist. In America today, the prosperity of the capitalist is higher than the prosperity of every citizen.” From The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Ex-Google Exec (Mo Gawdat) on AI: The Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven… And Only These 5 Jobs Will Remain!, Aug 4, 2025

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Ex-Google Exec (Mo Gawdat) on AI: The Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven… And Only These 5 Jobs Will Remain!

Podcast Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 08/04/2025 · 2h 36m

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“I have the simplest possible investment thesis. Every morning I look at the state of the Bitcoin network and see like our transactions coming through. What are the ages of coins spent yesterday? What's the mempool look like and everything's fine. So I buy more. I literally have never made an investment decision based on news and Bitcoin. A 100 percent just the health of the network. That's all you have to do.” From Bitcoin Audible: Guy's Roundtable_011 - Treasuries, Politics, Quantum & Why This Cycle is Different, Jul 31, 2025

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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Audible · 07/31/2025 · 2h 22m

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“I believe we will end up with one brain. Okay. So you understand the argument I was making a second ago. It's from the position of lots of different countries all having their own AI leader. We're going to be back in the same place of greed. But if the world had one AI leader and it was given the directive of make us prosperous and save the planet, the polar bears would be fine. 100% and that's what I've been advocating for a year and a half now.” From The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Ex-Google Exec (Mo Gawdat) on AI: The Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven… And Only These 5 Jobs Will Remain!, Aug 4, 2025

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Ex-Google Exec (Mo Gawdat) on AI: The Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven… And Only These 5 Jobs Will Remain!

Podcast Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 08/04/2025 · 2h 36m

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“We learn the code outside of space time and we can just change the code. Just like the Grand Theft Auto. In Grand Theft Auto, the car has to drive through the roads to get from A to B. But not if you look at the code. In the code, I just need to change the value of a register and all of a sudden, the position of the car is now at B. It was at A and I put it at B. Is this what time travel is? This would appear like immediate time travel or immediate space travel. Is there anything within the laws of physics that tells you that this isn't possible? It's impossible inside space-time. If you only use, so inside space-time, it's impossible. But outside of what we know about space-time? A theory that's outside of space-time that properly contains space-time as a projection of the theory allows us to then build technologies that aren't restricted to space-time.” From The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Top Psychologist & Scientist (Donald Hoffman): Science Has the Answer to Why Seeing True Reality Would Kill You!, Jul 31, 2025

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Top Psychologist & Scientist (Donald Hoffman): Science Has the Answer to Why Seeing True Reality Would Kill You!

Podcast Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 07/31/2025 · 2h 4m

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“First, some humble pie is required. I have stress and suffering, so I am not speaking as someone who has transcended stress and suffering. So I speak as another fellow person with stress and suffering that is still dealing with it on a daily basis. Given that humble pie, then I will say this. I think a lot of, and I'll make it personal, so I think a lot of my problems, my stress, a lot of my suffering is because I believe allusions. To the extent that I believe that I need to become something at all, you need to be better than I am in any way, need to prove anything to anybody else, that's an illusion. I'm already the infinite. I don't need to prove anything. I'm making everything is already, so I don't need to get anywhere. I don't need to accomplish anything. I don't need to succeed at anything to become what I need to become. I'm already that. “So I don't, so the suffering comes from me forgetting who I am. I don't need to, I don't actually need to impress anybody, accomplish anything, because everything that I'm saying, I'm already making this all up. This is already me. I've already done all this. What more do I need to do? I am transcendent. I'm completely transcendent of this thing. And my suffering is not recognizing that. My suffering is entirely being caught in my avatar. This is just my avatar. It's not me. So my suffering is because I made this avatar, I let myself on purpose be identified with the avatar, knowing that I would be suffering because of that, and knowing that I needed to wake up. So I'm suffering because I'm identified with the avatar, but I put myself in that place because I really wanted to look at the world through this avatar. That's why I'm suffering. But eventually I wake up and I look and I see the avatar for what it is, and I realized that everything I was trying to do to prove that I was worthwhile and I was better than you or not as bad as you think I am or things like that, all of that was just, you know, all the pain and suffering was because of an illusion. But I needed to do that. I needed to look at myself from that perspective for a while, in part to find out who I am by finding out who I'm not. I'm not that, just that avatar.” From The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Top Psychologist & Scientist (Donald Hoffman): Science Has the Answer to Why Seeing True Reality Would Kill You!, Jul 31, 2025

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Top Psychologist & Scientist (Donald Hoffman): Science Has the Answer to Why Seeing True Reality Would Kill You!

Podcast Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 07/31/2025 · 2h 4m

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“So in a sense, the left is unifying at the level of software, and the right is unifying at the level of hardware. Because the right says, it's our genetics, it's our culture, it's our language, but reproduction is much slower than conversion, right? This is like Athens versus Jerusalem, like it's a tension within Western culture, like is it genetics, nation, land, soil, blood, et cetera? Or is it religion, law, in a sense, software versus hardware, right? Like this is the cloud versus the land. That's like a long tension within humanity, right?” From The Peter McCormack Show: #100 - Balaji Srinivasan - The Collapse of the West, Jul 30, 2025

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#100 - Balaji Srinivasan - The Collapse of the West

Podcast Episode · The Peter McCormack Show · 08/01/2025 · 2h 19m

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“So you can see essentially that blue America was in conflict with internet and red America, and red America was in conflict with blue America and China. You can actually make a graphic of that, right? Red America versus China is a trade war, red America versus blue America is Trump, blue America versus red America is wokeness, blue America versus the internet is the tech lash.” From The Peter McCormack Show: #100 - Balaji Srinivasan - The Collapse of the West, Jul 30, 2025

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#100 - Balaji Srinivasan - The Collapse of the West

Podcast Episode · The Peter McCormack Show · 08/01/2025 · 2h 19m

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“we actually have not a two-party conflict between red and blue, but a four-party conflict between China, red, blue, and the internet. Hmm, okay. And it was the loss of economic status that led blue America to go woke and then push the tech lash. Wokeness, because when blue America's resources were getting constrained, they had a backlash against internet, which was all the anti-tech stuff of the mid 2010s, and they had a backlash against red, which was wokeness, because they felt, okay, we're under assault, we need to expand our territory again” From The Peter McCormack Show: #100 - Balaji Srinivasan - The Collapse of the West, Jul 30, 2025

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#100 - Balaji Srinivasan - The Collapse of the West

Podcast Episode · The Peter McCormack Show · 08/01/2025 · 2h 19m

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“But like the Chinese software only runs on the Chinese hardware. Like the Chinese party state and the great firewall and all the Chinese apps only run on the Han Chinese, like in a sense of hardware, right? They themselves say that their system is not meant to be exported outside China, right? The opposite of that, what's opposite of Apple, it's Android. It runs on any device. It's messy. It's chaotic. It's free. That's the Internet. So China versus Internet is like Apple versus Android, right? And so if you take an Internet first view of things, what is Internet first? It's freedom. It's freedom. That's right. But basically, it's freedom. And so we would call it freedom versus order. They would call it, we'd call it freedom versus oppression. They would call it control versus anarchy, right? So you want to have a balance of something which is ordered liberty” From The Peter McCormack Show: #100 - Balaji Srinivasan - The Collapse of the West, Jul 30, 2025

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#100 - Balaji Srinivasan - The Collapse of the West

Podcast Episode · The Peter McCormack Show · 08/01/2025 · 2h 19m

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“Because the real drivers of economic growth, you know, it's not inflationary monetary policy, as your Keynesian textbook explained to you. What drives economic growth is capital accumulation, trade, and technological advancement.” From The Bitcoin Standard Podcast: 284. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 3 - Fiat Technology, Jul 29, 2025

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284. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 3 - Fiat Technology

Podcast Episode · The Bitcoin Standard Podcast · 07/29/2025 · 42m

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“I think we'll need new governance structures, institutions probably to help with this transition. So I think political philosophy and political science is going to be key to that. But I think the number one thing, first of all, is to create more abundance of resources. So that's the number one thing, increase productivity, get more resources, maybe eventually get out of the zero-sum situation. Then the second question is how to use those resources and distribute those resources. But yeah, you can't do that without having that abundance first.” From Lex Fridman Podcast: #475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games, Jul 23, 2025

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#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games

Podcast Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 07/23/2025 · 2h 35m

This material may be protected by copyright. This is the CEO of Google Deepmind talking about the priorities for AI and the main problem we need to figure out is how to distribute this abundance. Who’s gonna tell him? #Bitcoin

“this is my whole reason why I worked on AI and AGI my whole life, because I think it can be the ultimate tool to help us answer these kind of questions. I don't really understand why the average person doesn't worry about this stuff more. Like how can we not have a good definition of life and not living and non-living, and the nature of time, and let alone consciousness and gravity and all these things. It's just quantum mechanics weirdness. It's just, to me, I've always had this screaming at me in my face.” From Lex Fridman Podcast: #475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games, Jul 23, 2025

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#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games

Podcast Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 07/23/2025 · 2h 35m

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Just vibe coding… can anyone make this happen? ⚡️ Influencer Referral System with NOSTR + API + Bitcoin Lightning ⚡️ ✅ System Overview: - Influencers share referral links containing their NOSTR public key (npub) - Buyers click links and complete purchases on external or partner sites - Checkout sites send purchase confirmation to your API - Your API signs and broadcasts a NOSTR event as proof of purchase - Automation bot listens to NOSTR relays, validates events, and pays influencers via Lightning Network ✅ Referral Link Format:

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✅ API Purchase Confirmation (Example): POST https://yourdomain.com/api/purchase-confirmed Content-Type: application/json { "order_id": "order789xyz", "amount_sats": 50000, "commission_sats": 5000, "ref_npub": "npub1influencerxyz...", "timestamp": 1723456789 } ✅ Example NOSTR Purchase Event: { "kind": 50001, "pubkey": "business_nostr_pubkey", "tags": [ ["p", "npub1influencerxyz..."], ["amount", "50000"], ["commission", "5000"], ["order", "order789xyz"] ], "content": "Purchase completed via referral link", "created_at": 1723456790, "sig": "..." } ✅ System Flow: 1. Influencer shares referral link 2. Buyer clicks link and purchases product 3. Partner checkout site sends purchase data to your API 4. Your API signs and broadcasts NOSTR event 5. Automation bot detects event on NOSTR relays 6. Bot resolves influencer's Lightning Address 7. Bot pays influencer commission from pre-funded bounty pool ✅ Security Considerations: - API accepts requests only from whitelisted partner IPs - NOSTR events are signed with your business private key - Bot only triggers payouts for valid, signed NOSTR events - Influencers cannot forge purchases or events ✅ Technologies: - NOSTR protocol for decentralized event broadcast - API backend (Flask, Node.js, etc.) for purchase confirmation - Bitcoin Lightning Network for instant payouts - Automation bot monitoring NOSTR relays ✅ Key Benefits: - Open, auditable purchase proofs via NOSTR - Automated Bitcoin payouts to influencers - Decentralized, trust-minimized referral model - Supports external checkout sites via API integration

“The future is gonna be weird” -Elon Musk

“I just think, sadly, people just aren't that bright, and people are heavily propagandized to believe in government as the source of money, and they're heavily propagandized to believe that government dictates what money is, and they, you know, people love their chains, and people grow used to their chains, and they cannot conceive of a world without their chains, and they'd rather laugh at the person who's telling them that they could get rid of their chains than to try and actually move and realize that their chains are actually in their mind, because it's really actually very straightforward to get rid of your chains. Since Bitcoin has been invented, that's it, you know, you've got the key, you can just unlock them and move on with your life.” From The Bitcoin Standard Podcast: 279. Bitcoin and Tether: Las Vegas Keynote, Jun 24, 2025

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279. Bitcoin and Tether: Las Vegas Keynote

Podcast Episode · The Bitcoin Standard Podcast · 06/24/2025 · 45m

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Was listening to Lex Fridman Podcast…He had a theoretical physicist on who was saying how the universe is fundamentally made up of energy and information. Sounds like proof of work with a monetary network built on top is the key to the universe.

Bitcoin Profitability as Moral Human Action: Empowering Consumers and Reshaping Production One of the most profound implications of a Bitcoin standard: the redistribution of power from centralized money printers to consumers themselves. 1. Bitcoin Aligns Profitability with Moral Human Action On a Bitcoin standard, profitability isn’t isolated to arbitrary financial success — it becomes a byproduct of moral, value-driven behavior. Actions that respect sound money principles — such as stacking sats and hodling — accelerate the global transition away from inflationary, manipulated fiat systems. Moral action is rewarded through: • Defending one’s savings from debasement. • Participating in building an economy grounded in voluntary exchange, scarcity, and accountability. ⸻ 2. Bitcoin Treasury Companies: Institutional Morality The next evolution is Bitcoin treasury companies — organizations converting fiat reserves into Bitcoin for long-term holding. Their role is moral in two ways: • Accelerating Transition: Reducing dependence on fiat expands Bitcoin’s network effects, trust, and market depth. • Protecting Value: By moving capital out of inflation-prone currencies, they preserve purchasing power and set a standard for sustainable corporate stewardship. ⸻ 3. Consumer Power: Ending Third-Party Control Over Value Creation Under a fiat system, third parties — primarily central banks and governments — print money at will. This allows them to direct capital flows toward favored sectors, corporations, or political agendas, often irrespective of actual consumer demand. Result: • Distorted production priorities. • Artificial bubbles in favored industries. • Misallocation of resources based on political expediency, not human need. Bitcoin disrupts this dynamic: • No entity can print Bitcoin. • New Bitcoin enters the economy through transparent, decentralized mining, not decree. • Value creation is steered by true market signals — voluntary exchanges between producers and consumers. Consumers Reclaim Power: • Every sat spent represents real, earned value — not inflated purchasing power. • Producers cannot rely on bailouts, subsidies, or monetary expansion to mask inefficiencies. • Only those who create products or services genuinely desired by the market are rewarded. ⸻ 4. Deflationary Profitability & Moral Production On a mature Bitcoin standard: • Holding Bitcoin naturally yields productivity gains through deflation — increased purchasing power over time. • To outperform this, businesses must create products so valuable that consumers willingly part with appreciating Bitcoin. Market Morality Emerges: • Producers prioritize quality, longevity, and real utility. • The market punishes low-value, deceptive, or exploitative practices. • Profitability and morality converge — the most successful enterprises are those that best serve voluntary, value-driven demand. ⸻ 5. Conclusion: Bitcoin Standard = Consumer Sovereignty Bitcoin restores the balance of power: ✅ No centralized money printers distorting production. ✅ Consumers determine what is created through honest, value-backed spending. ✅ Producers must compete to meet real needs, not chase political favor or manipulated capital. ✅ Savings and productivity, not inflationary speculation, become the foundation of wealth. Bitcoin makes the free market freer — and in doing so, aligns moral human action with profitability, empowering individuals to shape an economy that reflects genuine human flourishing.

AI as the abundant ice machine, fridges as the means to store and utilize that abundance of ice, and Bitcoin as a potential universally accessible fridge. To summarize the core insight: • AI dramatically increases productivity and wealth (ice abundance). • Without accessible infrastructure (fridges), many can’t benefit, so wealth gaps widen. • UBI is a temporary redistribution but doesn’t build lasting capacity or empowerment (just passing ice around). • Capital flight and taxing the rich too heavily can harm innovation and reduce overall growth — not positive sum. • The ultimate goal: a system that retains and grows purchasing power and empowers all people to participate sustainably — a “refrigeration system” everyone can access.

“It was like the map becomes the territory in a way. Right. When you finally map all of the territory, right to the final moment, to the furthest extents of the universe, then all of a sudden there's no one to use the map. Like they become one in the same. Right. But it's also suffused to the entire territory. So then it's like, oh, well, what else can you do? You got to start another round of the whole process.” From The "What is Money?" Show: Bitcoin, AI, and the Rise of the Cyborg Economy w/ Sad Oshi (WiM591), Jun 6, 2025

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Bitcoin, AI, and the Rise of the Cyborg Economy w/ Sad Oshi (WiM591)

Podcast Episode · The "What is Money?" Show · 06/06/2025 · 1h 55m

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“The natural state of the free market is deflation.” - @Jeff Booth