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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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Guy's Take #64 - No Way Back, Only a Way Out
There is no magic wand. There is no such thing as a free lunch. When we bail out an institution, a bank, or "depositors" for billions of dollars, someone else LOSES billions of dollars worth of wealth. Their life got harder, their job got cut, the car they needed became less affordable, the house they hoped for their family stays out of reach, they PAID for it. Unfortunately, our government and central bank is either not mature enough to realize that magic is for children, or they are robbing from us knowingly and destroying the lives of the people on purpose, and simply don't care. Either way, there is no way back, our only option is a way out.
Today we finally dive into the SVB insolvency and the wider banking crisis. An episode that turned quickly from a meticulous set of notes into an hour long rant that basically ignored all of them. Enjoy
Allen Farrington's npub: npub1sfhflz2msx45rfzjyf5tyj0x35pv4qtq3hh4v2jf8nhrtl79cavsl2ymqt
Guy's Nostr Pubkey: npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev
My Twitter Post: https://twitter.com/TheGuySwann/status/1634954336739491843?s=20
Liberty Lockdown with Greg Foss: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Z4jfPlKburchKlNESbinJ?si=a35f5034c6144383
Brad Mills tweet thread: https://twitter.com/bradmillscan/status/1637182219943919618?s=20
Caitlyn Long WBD: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ZA0BGuUwZFoBRhXLSJetL?si=b2bf4e2e38d749b4
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• Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 20,000 FREE SATS! at (https://bitcoinaudible.com/fold)
• The Swan IRA is live! Follow the link to find out how to get your tax free retirement funds, securely allocated to Bitcoin! The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy)
• Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, with the NEW Coldcard Q1! A company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! (https://bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard)
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"The most egregious falsehood regarding economic health that is nonetheless widely believed is surely that we ought to measure it by the magnitude of goods and services consumed. This is dangerous nonsense.” – Allen Farrington, Sacha Meyers
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Read_712 - Lightning Prisms [DerGigi]
"One aspect that is still massively under-utilized is the programmability of Bitcoin. While simple things like scheduled payments and automated payment splits do exist, we are undoubtedly still trapped in conventional thinking when it comes to the flow of sats.
I’d like to share a simple idea that was shared with me a couple of months ago in the hopes that it will spread far and wide and, in the best case, that someone will just go ahead and implement it. (Or a better version of it.)
Here is the idea..." – DerGigi
Check out the article at the link: https://dergigi.com/2023/03/12/lightning-prisms/
And send any tips to blogpost@satprism.com if you want to split between Gigi and Mr. Kukks.
Mr. Kukk's Nostr Pubkey: npub1y24gz5gwucl79vtv4ctwpysl0r5m4xyzu2rgulnr44ks3t5mt92q4nz2ad
DerGigi's Nostr Pubkey: npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc
Guy's Nostr Pubkey: npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev
Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors:
• Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 20,000 FREE SATS! at (https://bitcoinaudible.com/fold)
• The Swan IRA is live! Follow the link to find out how to get your tax free retirement funds, securely allocated to Bitcoin! The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy)
• Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, with the NEW Coldcard Q1! A company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! (https://bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard)
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun" – Albert Einstein
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Read_711 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 2 [Matthew Pines]
"One immediate lesson many drew from this event was a reconsideration of the risk of fiat liabilities in an environment where trust is lacking (including the trust not to violate territorial integrity and Westphalian sovereignty). This event reinforced the nature of fiat money as a system of centrally maintained ledger entries denominating a unit of account corresponding to a sovereign authority's sphere of power. As such, the use of such a liability as a medium of exchange (or store of value) is contingent on the political assent of that sovereign authority." – Matthew Pines
Today we finish Matthew Pines excellent piece breaking down the domains of geopolitical and monetary contest across the major political forces in the world. In Part 2 we lay out the potential outcomes and shifts likely to take place, where the greatest opportunities and risk may lie for certain blocs of state actors, and how Bitcoin is likely to fit into this new, global, monetary disorder. This is a great one for a foundation on the movements of the geopolitical world.
Mentioned in the guy's take was my recent show with John Vallis on the banking crisis: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2sdikMa9kJ0d8yJF4cCxA4?si=c35f279d350d4baa
Matthew's Nostr Pubkey: npub128tlrdek6x2clft0zylg9gnes736ef8sumfr0750cd5uc9sgchqqkffadp
Guy's Nostr Pubkey: npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev
Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors:
• Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 20,000 FREE SATS! at (https://bitcoinaudible.com/fold)
• The Swan IRA is live! Follow the link to find out how to get your tax free retirement funds, securely allocated to Bitcoin! The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy)
• Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, with the NEW Coldcard Q1! A company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! (https://bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard)
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"If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn." — Ayn Rand
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Read_710 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 1 [Matthew Pines]
"The 20th century was the first where technology enabled forms of violent state competition, as well as peaceful globalization, across the full scale of the Earth. Moreover, the same technology made possible the organization of massive state systems to project power and maintain integrated, centralized control over large, diverse populations and cultures." - Matthew Pines
Bitcoin Audible is officially 5 years old today! And what a time to be celebrating an anniversary for the show than with a banking crisis and an incredible piece by Matthew Pines on the unraveling of the global monetary and political order and how and where Bitcoin is likely to play its most important role. Don't miss this incredible piece with part 1 today, and the conclusion in tomorrow's episode.
Matthew's Nostr Pubkey: npub128tlrdek6x2clft0zylg9gnes736ef8sumfr0750cd5uc9sgchqqkffadp
Guy's Nostr Pubkey: npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev
Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors:
• Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 20,000 FREE SATS! at (https://bitcoinaudible.com/fold)
• The Swan IRA is live! Follow the link to find out how to get your tax free retirement funds, securely allocated to Bitcoin! The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy)
• Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, with the NEW Coldcard Q1! A company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! (https://bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard)
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"Man has only one tool to fight error: reason." – Mises
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Read_709 - The Breez Open LSP Model [Roy Sheinfeld]
"Lightning is the way to make bitcoin the universal mainstream currency it was designed to be. This is how we’re going to bring open financial services to everyone. And we’re scaling Lightning by inviting people to participate and share in the gains." – Roy Sheinfeld
As a loose follow up to a recent article on bringing lightning to every user in any app, Roy, from the Breez team, brings us another article laying out their plans to take the LSP model to anyone, by providing an automatic LSP software system so anyone with liquidity can become a part of the Lightning ecosystem with as little barrier as possible. Not merely as users and app developers, but now as Lightning liquidity providers as well. This is true decentralized finance in a global, permission-less economy. You don't want to miss this.
• Listen to the previous episode mentioned here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1J81aL1LU3Sy9ZgCShzr9L?si=8f605074cbcf43c2
• Also mentioned "The Banks are So F*ckd: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7nq8jRwd6SyMZPqq3tNZxz?si=f5d7ecd2bd2e4585
• Check out the original article plus a ton of other developments and fascinating ideas shared by Roy and the Breez team at the link below:
https://medium.com/breez-technology/the-breez-open-lsp-model-scaling-lightning-by-sharing-roi-with-3rd-party-lsps-e2ef6e31562e
Guy's Nostr Pubkey: npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev
Check out details on the Swan IRA!
Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors:
• The Swan IRA is live! Follow the link to find out how to get your tax free retirement funds, securely allocated to Bitcoin! The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy)
• Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, with the NEW Coldcard Q1! A company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! (https://bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard)
• Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 20,000 FREE SATS! at (https://bitcoinaudible.com/fold)
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"the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas." — Peter Thiel
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Read_708 - Implications of Open Monetary & Information Networks, Part 2 [Lyn Alden]
"Over the long run, I view the outcome, one way or the other, more as a matter of technology than politics. From the top-down side, there is the development of Big Data and automated data surveillance capabilities. From the bottom-up side, there is the development of encryption tools and open monetary/information networks. Whichever direction proves more powerful will play a major role in how all sorts of things operate in the decades ahead" – Lyn Alden
Concluding the incredible piece by Lyn Alden on the SwanBitcoin blog with Part 2 today. Don't miss it!
If you missed Part 1, start here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/21x2wpollhLtVfScGrBPJO?si=5341ad29c5044f29
To check out the new MEME, you'll find it here: https://youtu.be/EELJ00mi91M
Check out the original article with tons of other great stuff on the SwanBitcoin feed at the link below:
https://www.swanbitcoin.com/the-implications-of-open-monetary-and-information-networks/
Guy's Nostr Pubkey: npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev
Lyn Alden's Pubkey: npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a
Check out details on the Swan IRA!
Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors:
• Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, with the NEW Coldcard Q1! A company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! (https://bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard)
• Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 20,000 FREE SATS! at (https://bitcoinaudible.com/fold)
• The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy)
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“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ― George Washington
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Customer Reviews
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If I could recommend only one resource to learn about Bitcoin, this would be it. I’ve learned a lot from Guy over the past few years. The reading selections cover so many aspects, including economics, computer science, finance, political theory, philosophy, etc. The show is well produced and Guy keeps it fun. One of my favorite podcasts by far.
Great Bitcoin Resource; Ventures into Politics
Guy does an excellent job breaking Bitcoin down into examples and metaphors anyone can relate to. When he ventures into rants about vaccines, unproven conspiracy theories, and other political discourse it is a turn off.
Eager for each new episode
I reluctantly started listening to this podcast because my other BTC podcast hadn’t put out content yet that day. Since then, Bitcoin Audible has been a staple on my podcast schedule. Keep up the great work