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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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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.

    Read_826 - The Supreme Court Ruling and Implications for Operation Choke Point

    Read_826 - The Supreme Court Ruling and Implications for Operation Choke Point

    "In _NRA_, the Court addressed a critical issue impacting not only traditional advocacy groups but any disfavored, but legal, industry. This ruling draws parallels to Operation Choke Point 2.0, where U.S. regulators have allegedly been targeting crypto businesses through financial exclusion. Moreover, the recent _Cantero_ decision sheds light on how this legal framework might impact Custodia Bank's appeal against the denial of their master account by the Federal Reserve." - Colin Crossman
    Multiple verdicts recently came down from the Supreme Court, and they may very well end up being ammunition to fight back against the gross regulatory overreach and extralegal attacks on the Bitcoin and crypto ecosystem. How might they change the fight against Operation Choke Point 2.0, squeezing the crypto market out of financial access, and how could it impact Custodia Bank's rejection and ongoing battle to get an account at the Federal Reserve? Find out what it means, and what we may be able to do about it, in a great article from Colin Crossman.
    Check out the original article at NRA & Cantero in the Supreme Court: Implications for Operation Choke Point 2.0 and Custodia Bank (Link: https://tinyurl.com/59u77utn)
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    "The normative principle I am suggesting for the law is simply this: No action should be considered illicit or illegal unless it invades, or aggresses against, the person or just property of another."- Murray Rothbard

    • 51 min
    Read_825 - Decentralization and Localized Manufacturing, Bitcoin, Ai, and 3D Printing

    Read_825 - Decentralization and Localized Manufacturing, Bitcoin, Ai, and 3D Printing

    What if the future of decentralization lies not just in Bitcoin, but in the convergence of a multitude of different technologies that bring power back to the individual? How can Bitcoin, AI and 3D printing together disrupt the centralized powers of today and redefine our world in the next 30 years? Dive into this episode with an article from Emile Phaneuf on the convergence of Bitcoin, AI, and localized manufacturing, and what it means for our technological and economic future.Check out the original article at Decentralization and Localized Manufacturing: Bitcoin, AI and 3D Printing (Link: https://tinyurl.com/mr2wrbz6)
    Links to check out  

    Read_813 - Mises's Regression Theorem, Bitcoin, and Subjective Value (Link:https://tinyurl.com/2bjebsw4)
    #008 - Ecash and Ai with Obi Nwosu (Link: https://tinyurl.com/dwekuuuu)
    The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson William Rees-Mogg (Link: https://tinyurl.com/4yx9dj3a) 

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    “Mass production keeps the world divided between consumer and producer. Demassification of production may hasten the speed towards an era of prosumers.” - Michael Petch

    • 48 min
    Read_824 - Ecash is Self-Custodial

    Read_824 - Ecash is Self-Custodial

    "Fedimint is a scalable self-custodial off-chain programmability layer on top of Bitcoin. It allows for use cases that are difficult, time-consuming, and unscalable for general users to do on-chain today. You might think I had a typo calling Fedimint a self-custodial network. Let me explain..." ~ Tony Giorgio
    Have we increasingly lost sight of the nuance in the market for trust that lets us dismiss an ocean of novel and highly valuable solutions to our problems? What if the goals we are aimed at with Bitcoin aren't really final conclusions, but a spectrum laid out on a never ending path? Fedimint presents a profound shift in the trust and privacy elements of being a bitcoin user, and breaks down enormous barriers to the problem of providing a service to others. Tony, one of the incredible minds behind Mutiny, brings us an article today to reframe both the problem and the solution to the many challenges of building a Bitcoin world.
    Check out the original article at Fedimint (Federated Ecash) is Self-Custodial — Tony Giorgio (Link: https://tonygiorgio.com/fedimint/)
     
    Links to check out  

    Mutiny Wallet (Link: https://www.mutinywallet.com/)
    Ai Unchained with Obi Nwosu (Link: https://youtu.be/vdFZ9cB_2n0?si=6cfzepQhUekUiKNz)
    The Pear Report 01 - Return of the P2P Web (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqmdbv01PEk)
    Fedi Bravo (Link: https://www.fedi.xyz/builders_
    Holesail Pear based tunnels Reverse tunneling software (Link: https://holesail.io/)

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    "You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit or it is nowhere." ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

    • 1 hr 13 min
    Guy's Take_086 - Fiat Waste

    Guy's Take_086 - Fiat Waste

    People look around and they see a wasteful world. They see endless, mindless consumption. Increasingly, we see people fearing the future rather than hoping for it.
    I'm going to make the case today that in order to realign this, money must be the most valuable good in society. And necessarily, it must be the hardest thing to produce and that we actually can know this because of where the value of money comes from and what the money is in relation to the society that uses it. I want you to come away from the end of this episode realizing that not only is it aligned to have a sound money that grows in value, but it is necessary for us to value the future of our society in the first place. So we're going to take this show to go back to our Fiat World Series with Fiat Waste. It's time for a Guy's Take episode.
    Links to check out

    The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (Link:https://tinyurl.com/bdzy7bfz)
    The Deflation Boogie Man (Link:https://tinyurl.com/4t2d5kj5)
    Guy’s Take_082 – Fiat Replacement Theory (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/YXHrvdYuGct6zmpfGZkF)

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    "By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us."- Alan Watts

    • 58 min
    Reboot - Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply

    Reboot - Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply

    Ideas and ways of thinking are much like paths in the wood. When we explore them often they are well worn and clearly defined. But often we get lost exploring other ideas or focused on something we hope to see in the future, and even the paths we know well get ignored, and the brush starts to creep back in. The noise of the world begins to obscure what was once an obvious truth. This is why its good to refresh important ideas from time to time. To walk those paths again, to remind ourselves of the perspectives that got us here.
    Today we dive into a reboot of a very important idea in grasping why Bitcoin works, and how it emerges from the individual enforcement of the Bitcoin rules, and how utterly revolutionary this seemingly simple concept really is. If you haven't heard it, today's episode will fix that terrible tragedy for you. So hit play and enjoy.
    Check out the original article at Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply. (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3aejkjam)
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     "Run a Bitcoin node, and use it."~ Guy Swann

    • 35 min
    TPR_002 - From Local to Global with Holesail

    TPR_002 - From Local to Global with Holesail

    "I believe that hole punch stack can be a really good alternative to static IPs. That way, for example, you want to access your camera from anywhere, you don't really need a static IP. You don't need to pay for that. You don't need to take all those security risks. All you need to do is boot up Holesail or a similar service built on Holepunch to connect peer to peer directly to your computer only to that specific port. That's it. You are connected to it. There are no middle men. And nothing is exposed to the public."




    In this episode, Guy Swann interviews Suryaansh Singh AKA Supersu about the transformative potential of peer-to-peer technology in reshaping how we connect and interact online, and how they are working to build towards this with Holesail. They delve into the challenges and innovations in deploying decentralized systems that enhance security and user control, discussing how such technologies can fundamentally alter the internet landscape towards a more user-empowered framework. How can peer-to-peer technology reconfigure our digital interactions and what are the broader implications for internet privacy and connectivity?




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    Supersu on Github (Link: https://github.com/supersuryaansh)
    Holesail Website (Link: https://holesail.io/)
    Holesail Discord (Link:https://discord.gg/ShabRe9sVr)
    Holesail on LinkedIn (Link: https://www.linkedin.com/company/holesail/)

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    "To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."~ Alan Wilson Watts

    • 1 hr 26 min

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