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Bitcoin Audible Guy Swann
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The Best in Bitcoin made Audible.
Guy Swann makes the knowledge of Bitcoin, the world's most secure, independent money, accessible to everyone. Exploring Bitcoin from an investment perspective, economic analysis, its philosophical foundations, & technological primitives. Reading and distilling thousands of hours of others' works on Bitcoin, Guy explains everything you need to know.
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Read_778 - Durabit, Incentivizing Torrent Seeders
"A recent anonymous proposal specifies a system using timelocked Bitcoin transactions and chaumian ecash mints to create an economic incentive for BitTorrent users to seed files."
~ Shinobi
Bittorrent was one of the most important protocols in the world during its day, but it always had one striking drawback, for any content that wasn't very popular, availability was always a problem. Even more so today as the network has found itself a smaller and more fringe part of internet culture. What if there was a way to incentivize seeders to return? To bring the P2P protocol back into its element?
An anonymous proposal called Durabit, seeks to marry bitcoin, ecash, and bittorrent, to potentially breathe new life into the old P2P system. Listen to today's episode to learn more.
Check out the original article at DURABIT: INCENTIVIZING TORRENT SEEDING WITH BITCOIN (Link: https://tinyurl.com/5drhn83u)
Guest Links
Shinobi on X (Link: https://twitter.com/Brian_trollz)
References in the show
Simon Morris "Lessons of Bittorrent Series" Bitcoin Audible - CryptoQuikRead_219 - Why BitTorrent Mattered: Lesson 1 [Simon Morris] (Link: https://tinyurl.com/4rmwf2k8)
Bitcoin Audible - CryptoQuikRead_220 - Not Breaking Rules? You're Doing it Wrong: BitTorrent Lesson 2 [Simon Morris] (Link: https://tinyurl.com/f473b72n)
Bitcoin Audible - CryptoQuikRead_221 - Intent, Complexity, & Governance Paradox: BitTorrent Lesson 3 [Simon Morris] (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2fesdh4v)
Bitcoin Audible - CryptoQuikRead_222 - Decentralized Disruption, Who Dares Wins: BitTorrent Lesson 4 [Simon Morris] (Link: https://tinyurl.com/bdht8mz6)
The Audiobook for Broken Money is now available! Check it out below Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better by Lyn Alden (Link: https://a.co/d/a3dT5jr)
Host Links
Guy on Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/yc376bff)
Guy on X (Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann)
Bitcoin Audible on X (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible)
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"The universe, our physical universe, has that property that makes it possible for an individual or a group of individuals to reliably, automatically, even without knowing, encipher something, so that all the resources and all the political will of the strongest superpower on earth may not decipher it. And the paths of encipherment between people can mesh together to create regions free from the coercive force of the outer state. Free from mass interception. Free from state control."
~ Julian Assange
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Reboot - Bitcoin is Digital Scarcity
"The difference between the Linden Dollar, World of Warcraft Gold, Fortnite V-Bucks, the Euro, and the U.S. dollar is in scale, not in nature. While V-Bucks are created and controlled by Epic Games (the company that created Fortnite), the U.S. dollar is created and controlled by the Fed. One impacts millions of people, the other billions. The mechanism that keeps these monies in check--the rules of the game, if you will - is the same in both cases: central decree."
~ DerGigi
For those who are new to the show, there are so many phenomenal pieces we have covered that deserve to be heard. One of those that gave the most approachable arguments for understanding the difference between the multitude of *virtual* monies we experience in the digital age, and Bitcoin, the first truly *digital* money, was absolutely, Gigi's incredible piece, "Bitcoin is Digital Scarcity."
If you haven't heard or read this one, stop what you are doing, and turn this on.
Check out the original article at Bitcoin Is Digital Scarcity | dergigi.com (Link: https://tinyurl.com/bdv8p5n4)
Guest Links
Gigi on X (Link: https://twitter.com/dergigi?lang=en)
Gigi on Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2jhz4y6t)
Host Links
Guy on Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/yc376bff)
Guy on X (Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann)
Bitcoin Audible on X (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible)
Check out our awesome sponsors!
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Get 50,000 free sats, plus sats back on everything you buy by signing up with Fold and the Spin+ Debit Card. (Link: bitcoinaudible.com/fold)
Check out the KYC Free, simple, no management, Bitcoin merchant solution - Nodeless.io. Use my link to go to nodeless.io/guy and setup your donation page for free, then share it out on nostr/Twitter and tag me, and I'll throw 10,000 sats your way!
Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence." —
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Guy's Take_075 - A Global Monetary Rebellion
The election of Javier Milei is unlikely the be the next El Salvador, but I don't think it needs to be in order to be significant. There is something deeper going on for Javier to win on the message he is sending. And I think it shows the signs of a shifting tide, and Bitcoin is the island that's coming into view.
References made in the episode for further reading:
Find the many books and products recommended on this show at prodcast.io (Link: https://prodcast.io/collections/bitcoin-audible)
Broken Money by Lyn Alden (Link: https://tinyurl.com/mvu8jm7c)
Praxeology by Knut Svanholm (Link: https://tinyurl.com/y37ph73d)
Check out our awesome sponsors!
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Get 50,000 free sats, plus sats back on everything you buy by signing up with Fold and the Spin+ Debit Card. (Link: bitcoinaudible.com/fold)
Check out the KYC Free, simple, no management, Bitcoin merchant solution - Nodeless.io. Use my link to go to nodeless.io/guy and setup your donation page for free, then share it out on nostr/Twitter and tag me, and I'll throw 10,000 sats your way!
"The only way of determining how a conscious actor values one thing above another, is by observing how they act."
~ Knut Svanholm
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Read_777 - The Inevitable Bust
"The recurring cycle of economic booms followed by inevitable busts has remained a puzzle for generations of observers. While mainstream Keynesian and monetarist theories propose monetary interventions to smooth these fluctuations, the Austrian School offers a compelling and alternative perspective"
~ Michael Matulef
The bust will not be escaped. We cannot print our way out of it, we cannot cover it up with more artificial interest rate controls. We have drunken ourselves into an economic and financial stuper for far too long, we have avoided the hangover with another massive bender decade after decade - so long that we've lost sight entirely of the purpose of investment, the culture of sustainable capital, and the very reason for frugality and sustainable savings. The crash will hurt, but its the *solution*, not the problem.
Find out why in today's excellent article by first time author on Bitcoin Audible, Michael Matulef: The Inevitable Bust: Why Economic Booms Contain the Seeds of Their Own Destruction | Mises Wire. (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3zsw982z)
Guest Links
Michael Matulef on X - Link: https://twitter.com/MichaelMatulef
Michael Matulef on Nostr - Link: https://tinyurl.com/3s88xfwe
Micheal Matulef on Mises Institute - Link: https://tinyurl.com/3wmyk8rd
Books Mentioned
Broken Money by Lyn Alden - Link: https://tinyurl.com/mvu8jm7c
Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth - Link: https://tinyurl.com/bde45j95
Host Links
Guy on Nostr - Link: https://tinyurl.com/yc376bff
Guy on X (Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann)
Bitcoin Audible on X (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible)
Check out our awesome sponsors!
Get 9% off the COLDCARD with code BITCOINAUDIBLE (Link: bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard)
Get 50,000 free sats, plus sats back on everything you buy by signing up with Fold and the Spin+ Debit Card. (Link: bitcoinaudible.com/fold)
Check out the KYC Free, simple, no management, Bitcoin merchant solution - Nodeless.io. Use my link to go to nodeless.io/guy and setup your donation page for free, then share it out on nostr/Twitter and tag me, and I'll throw 10,000 sats your way!
"We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”
~ George Eliot
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Chat_87 - Coinos & Merchant Onboarding with Adam & Cole
"Ultimately, my goal with Coinos is to make Bitcoin a super simple user interface for "normies" to be able to come on and not have to understand how things are working under the hood... Just get on the website, make your account and you're good to go."
- Adam
Today we bring on the team from Coinos on the developing merchant market, how to build tools and services in an uncertain regulatory environment, and how to onboard your local market into the Bitcoin ecosystem easily and for their benefit. They've built a tool to simplify interfacing with Bitcoin and Lightning, and soon Liquid as well, to make the next era of adoption, the one that finally expands to a global, brick and mortar marketplace. The era of Bitcoin commerce is coming, it's time to prepare accordingly.
Check out our guests and follow the project on Twitter and Nostr below:
Coinos on Nostr
Adam on Nostr
Coinos Website
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Guy's Take_074 - Banks Without Bankers
Is Bitcoin destined to become another fiat system? Where we end up in a world where the dominant instrument isn't Bitcoin at all, but just more IOUs? Where Bitcoin substitutes replace real Bitcoin? Does it not just become another fiat system, or are there fundamental incentives and technological trends that prevent this and push us ever closer to total sovereignty? With smaller and smaller communities and institutions able to organize and exit in an independent way... where a Bitcoin world means a free world?
It's time for a follow-up to Eric Yake's and Axiom BTC's amazing piece, "Banks without bankers."
Get ready for another "Guys Take" episode.
Keep an ear out for the 1000th episode of the show! I'll have details soon, you don't want to miss it.
Follow AxiomBTC and Eric Yakes on Twitter
Other great sources mentioned in this episode:
-The 7th Property
-Broken Money
-The Fiat Standard
-Freedom & Exit
Found this and all the other great recommendations that I regularly share on the show on the Bitcoin audible page at Prodcast.io
A huge thanks to our sponsors, and don't forget to check out the offers for the listeners of this show!
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Check out the KYC Free, simple, no management, Bitcoin merchant solution, Nodeless.io/guy. Use my link to go to bitcoinaudible.com/nodeless and setup your donation page for free, then share it out on Nostr or Twitter and tag me, and I'll throw 10,000 sats your way!
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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