Podcasts back in the day were totally better than they are today. Back on 2019-2022 was when I was on the podcast binge and it was great. Nowadays you just have pods that talk about ETFs and regulations and macro. I can't remember the last time I heard something interesting about Bitcoin itself.

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I started in 22 and listened to a lot of the older stuff. I agree it felt like there was a lot of interesting and useful info being shared. I remember Robert Breedlove and Jimmy song doing a deep dive on democracy the god that failed. But now it’s all rage bait and/or click bait current events and trending topics. If the information isn’t valuable beyond the current trend, you’re just being monetized imo. It’s like the difference between reading a timeless classic book and an article talking about the current thing which people will forget about in a few weeks or less. One gives you timeless wisdom and the other is useless brainrot.
We also had Svetski going on all sorts of interesting tangents. Spiral dynamics? Multimillenial shifts in human civilization? Mycelium? Gimme those all day over yet another story about an IOU sale. It does seem a bit more sanitized now. And it's hard to trust someone when they pause to tell you about how great Trezor or Bitkey is. I do still hear some interesting enough updates from RHR, and Bitcoin Optech keeps things focused. And I gotta hand it to @Nunya Bidness for things like Cathedral and the general focus on relating Bitcoin's incentives with agricultural innovation and general best practices. If nothing else it's a nice break from some of the news that gets to be a grind. I came into bitcoin podcasts from macro and geopolitical podcasts, and that's still the area they're often more interesting in. For information about Bitcoin itself, aside from when there really is news, you're better off with a book or a conversation. Get to a Bitdevs! As for the podcasts, I'm not dropping them, but it's some signal in a high noise environment very dependent upon who the guests are. 1.75x listening while working or otherwise doing things is enough so that I can catch if something of interest actually comes on.
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Amelia 1 week ago
There really is ZERO reason to listen to BTC podcasts. If you know what it is, how it works, and you know how to get some and store it securely, that's it. Job done🤷🏻‍♂️. Any new snippets that you need to be aware of, you'll trip over them on here🙏🏻.