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  1. 26 MAR

    Ancient Echoes

    Visit the episode webpage below to sign up to the Audible 30-day free trial to listen to full audiobooks for free! Title: Ancient EchoesSubtitle: Ancient Secrets, Book 1Series: #1 in Ancient Secrets SeriesCategories: Action, Adventure, Fiction, SupernaturalAuthor: J.M. PenceNarrator: Tim PaigePublisher: Quail Hill PublishingRelease date: 03-26-2026Language: EnglishSummary:Two centuries ago, a covert expedition following Lewis and Clark vanished into the Idaho wilderness. Two centuries ago, a covert expedition following Lewis and Clark vanished into the Idaho wilderness. Now seven students have disappeared in the same mountains—and archaeologist Michael Rempart is the only man who suspects the truth. In his forties and dangerously compelling, Rempart carries more than academic controversy. He is the last heir of a lineage steeped in forbidden alchemy—and he knows that those who draw too near him rarely remain untouched by its shadow. The land isn’t hiding bodies. It’s guarding something. Buried beneath the forest lies a power whispered about for centuries—an alchemical force tied to immortality, legend, and something far older than recorded history. The only warning comes from a journal written in 1806 by a dying explorer who claimed he had witnessed evil made flesh. Most dismissed his words as madness. But Rempart recognizes something far worse—a sign that an ancient force long believed buried may be rising again. Because the deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes: whatever was unleashed long ago was never destroyed. It was waiting. And it has begun to stir again.

  2. 24 MAR

    The Bitcoin Standard

    Visit the episode webpage below to sign up to the Audible 30-day free trial to listen to full audiobooks for free! Title: The Bitcoin StandardSubtitle: The Decentralized Alternative to Central BankingCategories: E-Commerce, FinanceAuthor: Saifedean AmmousNarrator: Shawn K. JainPublisher: Ascent AudioRelease date: 03-24-2026Language: EnglishSummary:When a pseudonymous programmer introduced "a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party" to a small online mailing list in 2008, very few people paid attention. Ten years later, and against all odds, this upstart autonomous decentralized software offers an unstoppable and globally accessible hard money alternative to modern central banks. The Bitcoin Standard analyzes the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implications. While Bitcoin is an invention of the digital age, the problem it purports to solve is as old as human society itself: transferring value across time and space. Author Saifedean Ammous takes the listener on an engaging journey through the history of technologies performing the functions of money, from primitive systems of trading limestones and seashells, to metals, coins, the gold standard, and modern government debt. Exploring what gave these technologies their monetary role, and how most lost it, provides the listener with a good idea of what makes for sound money, and sets the stage for an economic discussion of its consequences for individual and societal future-orientation, capital accumulation, trade, peace, culture, and art.

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