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Open-source AI models are rapidly changing the trajectory of AI, ...

2026-09-28T17:51:47Z

Open-source AI models are rapidly changing the trajectory of AI, and threatening the economic models of American AI companies. Now, conveniently, we are being bombarded by doomsday scenarios about AI, along with calls for regulation.

In this Take, I unpack how (and why) the US AI companies are trying to use the levers of government to pull up the drawbridge on AI and protect their failing business models.

Listen to The AI Crisis TheGuySwann (nprofile…twl9) Take, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/hesztUTJzFHXgoQcuyV0
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/FkXzXJf2lHQ
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7g2hr2-the-ai-crisis.html

Do we need the U.S. dollar to completely collapse for Bitcoin to ...

2026-09-23T17:30:43Z

Do we need the U.S. dollar to completely collapse for Bitcoin to win?

Cory Klippsten and I explore how Bitcoin can win over the long run without requiring a dramatic dollar collapse or Weimar-style hyperinflation. We get into why true medium-of-exchange use is likely still a distant dream, how stablecoins are absorbing payments demand, the Coldcard exploit and navigating various self-custody tradeoffs, and much more.

Listen to Back to What Matters with cory (nprofile…pvxa) on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) , available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/UXkHLA66Ao2zWkc6rAqN
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Rg8CbQXFAjc
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7fu4q6-chat-179-back-to-what-matters-with-cory-klippsten.html

Watching the recent back to back exploits in Bitcoin feels ...

2026-09-21T17:22:39Z

Watching the recent back to back exploits in Bitcoin feels exhausting, and it exposes the uncomfortable truth that the skill barrier to exploiting open-source code has dropped to near zero.

But bitcoin isn’t getting hit because it’s weak, but because the payout is irreversible, making it the perfect canary in the coal mine for the rest of the internet.

Here’s my take on the changing economics of cybersecurity, and how the current turmoil is simply hardening the Bitcoin ecosystem towards becoming "impossibly secure".

Listen to The TRUTH about Iran's "Bitcoin" seizure TheGuySwann (nprofile…tm4y) Take, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/uYJnMyAVb74DwgZUKlti
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/puDshk5-yh8
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7fn8ia-the-great-hackening-of-2026.html

Are we looking at the end of mass adoption? ⏱️ The recent ...

2026-09-13T23:07:57Z

Are we looking at the end of mass adoption? ⏱️

The recent entropy disaster has everyone panicked and questioning who they can actually trust. But throwing away your signing devices and giving up isn't the answer.

In part 3 of the Coldcard Q&A, I address your questions and lay out the specific lessons we must learn to fix our security and recover from this trust crisis.

Listen to How Does Bitcoin Self Custody Recover From This? TheGuySwann (nprofile…r2n6) ‘s Take, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/studio/jju8hH7aXnP0afzXN7GS/JlJMSGrzzDP1FSFRmHg7
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/vHISmk-okZE
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7fbziq-how-does-bitcoin-self-custody-recover-from-this-coldcard-q-and-a-p3.html

The Roundtable is back! Mechanic has stepped down from the ...

2026-09-11T19:16:55Z

The Roundtable is back!

Mechanic has stepped down from the Roundtable, so it is just Jeff, Steve, and me looking at the wreckage of the recent soft fork attempt. Is block-template centralization the true existential risk right now? We definitely didn't see eye to eye on how the latest moves impacted the ecosystem... so grab a coffee and listen to us argue this out!

Listen to Roundtable_024 - The Aftermath with Jeff Swann (nprofile…3pdz) and Simple Steve on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/wMCkDxdDunIOrGAhhGvM
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/ivY_Hrju228
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7f8ei6-roundtable-024-the-aftermath.html

Conspiracy theories about a retirement attack, fake wallet apps ...

2026-09-08T17:28:45Z

Conspiracy theories about a retirement attack, fake wallet apps getting panicked holders rekd, and hard questions about how the Coldcard's RNG was handled...

In part 2 of my Coldcard Q&A series, I address more audience questions, and dig a little deeper into what we know, and still need to uncover, about the exploit.

Listen to Was it all a "Retirement Attack"? TheGuySwann (nprofile…hslh) ‘s Take, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/NbV5NIq76LHJZts61KsQ
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/RLE5x0Z2GqM
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7f5ei0-was-it-all-a-retirement-attack-coldcard-q-and-a-p2.html

Should "dice your 24 words" be a new mantra in bitcoin? ...

2026-09-04T20:33:38Z

Should "dice your 24 words" be a new mantra in bitcoin?
Can the Coldcard still be trusted to generate a seed with dice rolls?
Was the Coldcard's 2 secure elements just "security theater"?

I tackle these questions and more in the first of this short series of Q&A TheGuySwann (nprofile…hslh) ‘s Takes on the Coldcard exploit and lessons learned about self custody.

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/RZ5nt9RBqnyOL13HAZip
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/inTOUO5P-cU
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7f123k-is-rolling-your-own-entropy-the-new-standard-coldcard-q-and-a-p1.html

Want to actually protect your bitcoin from what's coming? ...

2026-09-01T18:19:47Z

Want to actually protect your bitcoin from what's coming? Today, I'm sitting down with three sharp minds to cut through the noise on self-custody, freedom tech, and how to build real resilience against what's to come.

American HODL, Erik Cason, and Brandon Quittem have each spent years in the trenches on this, and lay out what actually works best: the tools we need to build, the attacks we must prepare ourselves for, and how to think about hardening your setup the right way.

Listen to Our Burden To Carry with HODL (nprofile…zc47) , erikcason (nprofile…ajuv) , and Brandon Quittem (nprofile…utud) on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) , available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/DBbHtQfb564rV3DQzeCG
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/px7rGcXtIXs
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7ext6k-chat-178-our-burden-to-carry-with-american-hodl-erik-cason-and-brandon-quit.html

📢 Self-custody is not dead. The Coldcard entropy bug was ...

2026-08-31T18:23:10Z

📢 Self-custody is not dead.
The Coldcard entropy bug was brutal, and I won't sugarcoat the pain people are going through right now. But if you think giving your keys back to a custodian is the safer play, you have forgotten the painful history of Bitcoin wipeouts.

We don't need to abandon self-custody. We need to fortify it. I lay out three actual lessons we must take away from this mess so it never happens again.

Listen to 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘓𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴 TheGuySwann (nprofile…sss2) Take, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/LS4xQXRpngqUcMjfdJj9
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/SPIqg9Rittg
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7erycs-learning-the-wrong-lessons.html

What do you do when you can't even trust the device signing ...

2026-08-28T17:01:08Z

What do you do when you can't even trust the device signing your transactions?

Self-custody is far from dead, but is still incredibly hard to get right. I had Lloyd Fournier from Frostsnap on to explain the fatal flaw in bad random number generation and why it leaves your stack completely exposed. We talked about how Frostsnap fixes this by using Shamir secret sharing. And then we started looking at alternative cryptography. It turns out BLS signatures might completely remove the need for randomness in the first place, fixing one of our biggest blind spots.

If you hold your own keys, and want to survive the next Colcard-like event, listen to the full conversation and start rethinking your security assumptions.

Listen to Chat_177 - Security Is Just a Hard Problem with Lloyd Fournier & TheGuySwann (nprofile…5336) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/fveA8wcgrwz64uthFYQu
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Sal2IHdSg6c
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7emmny-chat-177-security-is-just-a-hard-problem-with-lloyd-fournier.html

Are conspiracy theories in Bitcoin actually true? Our guest Talip ...

2026-08-24T21:20:17Z

Are conspiracy theories in Bitcoin actually true?

Our guest Talip gave an insider's perspective on the BIP 110 spam war that I wasn't expecting.

We then got straight to the reality of AI-driven red teaming, statechains privacy, and ended up debating why now might be the most important time for Bitcoin to return to its cypherpunk roots.

Listen to Chat_176 - Is Every Conspiracy True? with Talip & TheGuySwann (nprofile…fyhx) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/12mIXlL7TWSDYq00JWxe
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/HUahJppk7Tg
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7eceho-chat-176-is-every-conspiracy-true-with-talip.html

People have been saying that because the UASF succeeded in 2017, ...

2026-08-20T18:14:02Z

People have been saying that because the UASF succeeded in 2017, but BIP110 failed, it means the mining pools are now in charge. That the suitcoiners run Bitcoin.

To the contrary, a clear picture of the balance of power between miners, ecosystem builders, and the nodes/users actually tells us why BIP110 failed, and the UASF succeeded.

The difference isn't in Bitcoin being captured (regardless of any other changes good or bad), the difference is a misunderstanding of history and why the UASF won.

Listen to BIP110 vs UASF: Do the Suitcoiners Control Bitcoin? TheGuySwann (nprofile…c8xj) ‘s Take, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/FNFj8zVXwPutKcIo7MCQ
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/486M4KWst3I
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7efgsk-bip-110-vs-uasf-do-the-suitcoiners-control-bitcoin.html

AI is moving so fast that most of us are just reacting instead of ...

2026-08-18T22:11:07Z

AI is moving so fast that most of us are just reacting instead of building intentionally.

Are you creating a private thinking layer, or just feeding your data to the cloud? I talked with Matt Ahlborg and Luís Novo about the mindset required to survive this acceleration. We debate the best tools, local setups, and why maintaining total control over your tech matters more now than ever.

Listen to Chat_175 - Building in the AI Era with Matt Ahlborg and Luis Novo on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) , available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/i52n4nkOqXxE6SYlO4Ph
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/qTOZ_L_Za2k
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7e27gg-chat-175-building-in-the-ai-era-with-lus-novo-and-matt-ahlborg.html

The debate around BIP110 is a masterclass in poor logic. Both ...

2026-08-06T23:34:38Z

The debate around BIP110 is a masterclass in poor logic. Both sides are resorting to obvious motte-and-bailey fallacies, instead of addressing the real technical arguments.

In this Take episode, I use the concept of a hypothetical article-publishing blockchain - "The Blog Chain" - to expose how ridiculous the "BIP-110 is censorship" argument really is.

If we can't separate the concept of "censorship" with a set of protocol design choices in order to optimise Bitcoin for money - regardless of whether or not you agree with those choices - then we erode all logical foundations for discussing bitcoin as money.

... And no, this has nothing to do with whether I personally support BIP110!

Give it a listen and tell me I'm wrong.

Listen to Are We "Censoring" Spam? TheGuySwann (nprofile…a28x) ‘s Take, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/pwwAQ8XpWpjiVmvaWpB1
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/9911LvO9Jcw
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7dhga8-are-we-censoring-spam.html

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The hype cycle will flat out lie to you about what actually ...

2026-08-05T20:54:22Z

The hype cycle will flat out lie to you about what actually builds success.

I just went through Cory Klippsten’s latest piece for today's Read. It’s a sobering reminder framed around his grandfather's WWII journal. Real freedom means grinding through the bear markets when no one cares, not just riding the bull market high and asking institutional gatekeepers for validation.

Listen to The Battle for Monetary Independence by cory (nprofile…5x2c) on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (nprofile…a28x) , available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/dx0QutnXU4u89RCWnyQV

This Coldcard entropy failure was a real gut punch, but it showed ...

2026-08-04T20:00:27Z

This Coldcard entropy failure was a real gut punch, but it showed us where our blind spots are.

Steve, Jeff, and I walk through the specifics of this exploit, how AI is widening the attack surface, and how we turn this mess into real anti-fragility for your own self-custody setup.

Listen to Roundtable_023 - Staying Humble with TheGuySwann (nprofile…a28x) , Jeff Swann (nprofile…w27g) , GrassFedBitcoin (nprofile…4umg) & nprofile1qqsqlk5pjxkwgjh4x9gxj990vm5ewrqw0qmrwyst05wh5hexduvvt4cpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuargv4ekzmt9vdshgtnfduq3wamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wfjkccte9e3k7mf09sk0texv (nprofile…texv) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/SWljpBsiLCJcyGagi7xc
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/uNuHNKKcl2I
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7dq1r8-roundtable-023-staying-humble.html

This is the worst hit to self custody in Bitcoin's history. ...

2026-07-31T23:46:16Z

This is the worst hit to self custody in Bitcoin's history. All we can do is act as quickly as possible.
If you have a Coldcard in your setup, you need to move to safe keys or cycle your multisig.

Don't wait, don't assume you have time, sit down and get it done. Do it carefully and don't skip steps.
Here are a few of the quickest paths to safety and how to think about this going forward.

To everyone who got hit by this, I cannot be more sorry.

As always, this TheGuySwann (nprofile…c8xj) ‘s Take is available on all major platforms.

Central Bank Digital Currencies are a desperate grasp for ...

2026-07-25T17:24:17Z

Central Bank Digital Currencies are a desperate grasp for control, falsely sold to us as "innovation". Every time a country tries a voluntary rollout, it flops. And yet, the push for CBDCs continues because the end goal is total surveillance.

In this Guy's Take I chart the trend of CBDCs and where I think it's all going. And here's the white pill - could the financial grid these bureaucrats are building accidentally teach us how to use the true sovereign technologies which can offer an escape valve from their control grid?

Listen to The TRUTH about Iran's "Bitcoin" seizure TheGuySwann (nprofile…dvqw) Take, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/5MMbGGW5cbzQUnhqlsKJ
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/uFY7eAWYcJQ
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7d7do2-cbdcs-are-coming-and-the-bitcoin-exit-awaits.html

The way we manage Bitcoin development is at a crossroads. In my ...

2026-07-21T11:20:38Z

The way we manage Bitcoin development is at a crossroads.
In my latest chat, Hunter Beast argues we need to drop the obsession with new features and focus entirely on provable safety.
We also had a fascinating conversation about AI’s role in securing the future of Bitcoin, and even delved into faith and natural law.

Listen to Chat_174 - Preparing Bitcoin for an Unknown Future with HunterBeast (nprofile…l5g8) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain:
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/G1LxBFRQfqE
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7chqly-the-basement-theory-of-bear-markets-clip.html

What is the most important project in bitcoin right now? One that ...

2026-07-18T17:12:07Z

What is the most important project in bitcoin right now?
One that obsoletes Slipstream and non-standard transaction concerns, that forces the spam and BIP-110 discussion to resolve organically in a decentralised way, and that prevent the single largest attack vector in the entire ecosystem.
In this Guy's Take, I give a breakdown on DATUM and Stratum V2, the indispensable protocols which are radicalising the way mining works.

Listen to TheGuySwann (nprofile…fvh2) Take - The Most Important Project in Bitcoin, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/Y7tgMH1yDbNGDc8LC1fz
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/bJxJM_I2Q8A
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7ctpqc-the-most-important-project-in-bitcoin-you-probably-havent-heard-of.html

We’ve spent years trying to get Bitcoin privacy right: ...

2026-07-14T19:21:01Z

We’ve spent years trying to get Bitcoin privacy right: TumbleBit, early mixing, all of it. Why haven't these tools seen any real adoption?

Dan Gould and I debate what went wrong and how the new Payjoin protocol finally makes privacy approachable.

Listen to The Time Has Come for Privacy on Bitcoin with bitgould (nprofile…806v) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/wFASGQIzwgLXm80Qms1a
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/HVkjGK_-taA
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7cju6o-chat-173-the-time-has-come-for-privacy-on-bitcoin-with-dan-gould.html

The big auto players are burning billions just to hold your ...

2026-07-13T18:46:28Z

The big auto players are burning billions just to hold your car’s features hostage behind monthly paywalls. Harald Schäfer and the team at comma are proving you don't need to accept that.

We talked about how they built a self-driving system that lets you retrofit your own car without taking a dime from VCs. We discussed the wild decade of building this project and keeping control of the hardware at all cost.

Listen to Chat_172 - Sovereign Devices in a Subscription World with Harald Schäfer & TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/AHcY5J1X52NsP81eaApf
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/aF9JmmXZ7W0
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7bzvnu-chat-172-sovereign-devices-in-a-subscription-world-with-harald-schfer.html

They claim to follow logic and science, but that’s just a mask. ...

2026-07-07T00:24:30Z

They claim to follow logic and science, but that’s just a mask. Once you look at the patterns in their behavior, a different reality appears.
I’ve identified the "holy trinity" the woke left actually worships, and it has nothing to do with facts.
Check out my latest Take below.

Listen to What does the woke left TRULY worship? TheGuySwann (nprofile…t9p8) Take, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/DEyom3otki1V4R7DsVwP
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/GWcYWSY6jEk
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7ca62q-what-does-the-woke-left-truly-worship.html

The market looks like total trash right now. We're seeing red ...

2026-07-03T16:17:07Z

The market looks like total trash right now. We're seeing red candles everywhere and the mood is low.
So in this Roundtable we tackle the ultimate question: what if Bitcoin actually dies? We stop sugarcoating the leverage, the paper Bitcoin obsession, and the dev drama.
This was a great riff with some excellent rants. Don’t miss it!

Listen to Roundtable_022 - What if Bitcoin Dies? with nprofile1qqsqlk5pjxkwgjh4x9gxj990vm5ewrqw0qmrwyst05wh5hexduvvt4cpzamhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2un9d3shjtnrdakj7tqpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuargv4ekzmt9vdshgtnfdu7e24gs (nprofile…24gs) , GrassFedBitcoin (nprofile…ljrg) , Jeff Swann (nprofile…3pdz) and TheGuySwann (nprofile…62st) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/XqcMnSjlzKmwOuSttxlD
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/8hCxF4sM0tw
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7c60a8-roundtable-022-what-if-bitcoin-dies.html

What happens when brilliant developers try to predict complex ...

2026-07-01T18:19:32Z

What happens when brilliant developers try to predict complex human behavior? Usually, they get it wrong.

I read Jimmy Song’s essay "On Overconfidence" today, and it prompted some heavy reflection. It’s easy to get caught up in our own projections, but history shows that complex systems rarely behave the way we expect.

I break down my perspective on the episode.

Listen to Read_947 - On Overconfidence by jimmysong (nprofile…2q9y) on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) , available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/QOdAoEwtewccCimXfqJ0

Sats are on sale again! In case you missed my @nprofile…m6f7 ...

2026-06-30T18:21:36Z

Sats are on sale again!

In case you missed my TheGuySwann (nprofile…m6f7) ‘s Take last week on where we are and where (I think) we're going, you can check the episode out here, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/zhrgkUl9RJVtgmBPI9tz
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/VpVtDCAp6W0
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7bvtbs-10.5-million-bitcoin-underwater-is-this-the-bottom.html

People are losing their minds over Elon Musk becoming a ...

2026-06-29T01:58:39Z

People are losing their minds over Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire, with many calling it a “failure of capitalism”.

So I ran the math. Comparing his wealth to a great businessman of the past. And when you adjust for the real money supply of their eras, the narrative isn’t quite what it seems…

Are we really witnessing a historic wealth imparable due to late-stage capitalism, or simply measuring success with a broken tape measure?
Listen to my full breakdown.

Listen to Why Elon's Trillion = Carnegie's Millions (The Fiat Illusion Exposed) by TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) on Bitcoin Audible (and don't forget to subscribe to the new Guy's Takes YouTube channel!)

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/PfOccIT60kUWZhZjSpHa
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/r67gjWvNO2k
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7bs3a8-why-elons-trillion-carnegies-millions-the-fiat-illusion-exposed.html

Imagine sending local fiat directly to a self-custodial Lightning ...

2026-06-24T18:07:00Z

Imagine sending local fiat directly to a self-custodial Lightning wallet without ever touching a custodian. Gustavo Flores actually built this out for Mexico. I talked to him about the intense technical hurdles required to make that happen in a low-trust environment. If you assume the best days of Bitcoin development are behind us, this conversation is going to shatter that assumption.

Listen to Chat_171 - Building Instant Fiat-to-Bitcoin Bridges with Gustavo Flores on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) , available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/DmDU1FdBMLhRzK9igKbl
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/61ekemjtoh4
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7bnrd6-chat-171-building-instant-fiat-to-bitcoin-bridges-with-gustavo-flores.html

The writing is on the wall for centralized finance. I’ve ...

2026-06-24T02:53:55Z

The writing is on the wall for centralized finance. I’ve watched this play out too many times, and the U.S. Treasury's latest $1B "crypto" seizure from Iran is the loudest warning sign yet.

The media calls it a Bitcoin seizure. I call it a lesson in why Tether and ETFs are just banking 2.0 with the exact same confiscation risks. True self-custody works very differently. I broke down the details of this seizure and the future of global reserves.

Be sure to subscribe to the new Guy's Takes YouTube channel with yours truly TheGuySwann (nprofile…zytk) for my weekly breakdown on the biggest stories in Bitcoin & beyond ✊

🔗 https://fountain.fm/studio/jju8hH7aXnP0afzXN7GS/Qy6BjrYPcv9yKGh5ozJJ
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hraWif0lnRw
🔗 https://rumble.com/v7bls4s-the-truth-about-irans-bitcoin-seizure.html

Luke de Wolf spent years securing oil pipelines and power grids. ...

2026-06-16T22:24:36Z

Luke de Wolf spent years securing oil pipelines and power grids. Now he is applying that hardcore cybersecurity mindset to Bitcoin. We debated the very real security risks facing the network right now, and why treating it as critical infrastructure is fundamentally non-negotiable. The decisions we make today will decide if this system survives long-term.

Listen to Chat_170 - Can Anything be Secured in the Digital Age? with lukedewolf (nprofile…pd7s) & TheGuySwann (nprofile…s76c) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/AtXufLKEacq8h6v567oo
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/cj5oV4fDyBo
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7bak2a-chat-170-can-anything-be-secured-in-the-digital-age-with-luke-de-wolf.html

I sat down with Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff because someone needed ...

2026-06-10T22:18:19Z

I sat down with Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff because someone needed to cut through the noise on Taproot, chain bloat, and real censorship vs. spam. Steve brought fresh data on network users right now. And Mechanic made the wildest case: the healthiest miners might be the ones willing to operate at a technical loss.
We also tore apart the ETF flow obsession and looked at a wallet cracked by AI after eleven years.

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“Try to get a package into Iran. Can't do it. Try to get ...

2026-06-05T15:53:14Z

“Try to get a package into Iran. Can't do it. Try to get dollars into Iran. Not a chance in hell. Get Bitcoin into Iran? You don't do anything different. It's not even a thing that you have to do. It just works.

And there's nothing Iran can do about it. Which is probably why they're being very serious about it from the Strait of Hormuz. Their position is: well, if we can't do anything about it, the U.S. government can't do anything about it. You know, what do you do?

I really think that's the path to a Bitcoin standard. It's not that we've got super devotees, and we've explained Austrian economics to people, and someone has to be convinced that sound money is better than fiat money. Nah, it's just going to be the thing that kept working when everything else stopped.”

Listen to Chat_169 - Bitcoin Proving its Case with walker (nprofile…7e5c) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

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“All of monetary history actually explains all the wars. It ...

2026-06-04T19:31:39Z

“All of monetary history actually explains all the wars. It explains all the conflicts. It explains why one country won and beat another country. But what do you hear about? The kings, the great battles. But, you know, the real mover was gold. The real story was that a currency couldn't sustain its level of inflation, or its level of fraud from its kingdom, as well as a competing kingdom could.

The real stories are gunpowder. The real stories are technological as to what shaped the world. While the political and dramatic stories that we tell about the people and the events are brilliant and fun because they're human stories, largely, they are the consequential outcomes of built pressures from technological and monetary shifts.”

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Bitcoin is being embraced by the U.S. financial system and the ...

2026-06-02T17:49:24Z

Bitcoin is being embraced by the U.S. financial system and the Iranian regime at the exact same time. Both sides know they can use it without the other one threatening it.

That puts it in an insanely unique place in a world where there are no other monies that work like that anymore.

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We spent decades telling an entire generation that if they just ...

2026-06-01T21:04:52Z

We spent decades telling an entire generation that if they just wait and work hard, they'll get the payout. Well, the payout got inflated away.

Right now, everyone is arguing over generational wealth gaps, and John Carter breaks this down perfectly using a twisted version of the classic marshmallow experiment. His argument is devastating. It forces you to ask if high time preference is just a symptom of a society that broke its promises.

Can sound money actually reverse the damage?

Listen to When the Experimenter Fails the Marshmallow Test by John Carter on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (nprofile…n2dp) available on all major platforms:
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Is a self-proclaimed Rothbardian actually running one of the most ...

2026-05-28T19:06:12Z

Is a self-proclaimed Rothbardian actually running one of the most inflationary presidencies in Argentine history?

It sounds crazy, but the data points directly to yes. We were promised a totally different approach to money, yet debt is soaring and the currency keeps diluting. The disconnect between his political rhetoric and the actual economic policy is staggering. In today's read, we take a dive into Milei's legacy so far.

Listen to Milei's Austrian Scam by the Numbers by saifedean (nprofile…9w6m) on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (nprofile…ckzt) - available on all major platforms:

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"I hope a substantial chunk of the network hashrate online is ...

2026-05-27T14:21:36Z

"I hope a substantial chunk of the network hashrate online is distributed into these low-energy states, building energy systems where hashrate is solving a utility function, not aiming to be a profitable mining operation. Meaning they're solving real problems for people's paychecks, they're solving real problems for people's load balancing, helping balance the grid, monetizing solar, and heating your home. In this sense, hashrate becomes synonymous with building energy infrastructure. That's my vision."
~ Tyler Stevens

Listen to Hashing for Heat with Tyler Stevens on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (nprofile…ckzt) , available on all major platforms:

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"If it gets colder at night, the miner will ramp up 200, 300, ...

2026-05-26T16:16:50Z

"If it gets colder at night, the miner will ramp up 200, 300, or 400 watts. The miner's wattage is what's wiggling and the temperature of the house is what's flat, instead of the heat being flat and the temperature of the house wiggling."
~ Tyler Stevens

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Did you know a quarter of global energy is used just for ...

2026-05-25T18:21:12Z

Did you know a quarter of global energy is used just for "comfort heat"? Imagine if we generated all that warm air and water using Bitcoin miners instead.

I had an incredibly fun chat with Tyler Stevens about the hashrate heating movement and what happens to Bitcoin's security budget when normal people start heating their homes with ASICs. Catch the full conversation below.

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"The second you write down a passphrase or store it in a ...

2026-05-21T20:12:00Z

"The second you write down a passphrase or store it in a password manager, it switches from something you know to something you have. And that's a completely different security model where multisig, in my humble opinion, wins every time."
~ Seed

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"With multisig, hardware wallets make less sense to me for ...

2026-05-20T17:47:56Z

"With multisig, hardware wallets make less sense to me for your long-term setup because of the issue of hardware wallets storing a digital copy of your private keys.
When you set that hardware wallet up, what's the first thing they have you do? Take out the card that came with the hardware wallet, write down these 12 or 24 words, and store them in a safe place.

Even with a simple multisig, you end up having a lot of places where you need to hide things.
For a simple 2-of-3, you now need six hiding places: three for the hardware wallets and three for the backups.

My argument is that for your long-term cold storage, let the analog, physical copies of your private keys be the ones you worry about securing. Focus on those physical backups, because you are going to have to worry about how you're securing them anyway."
~ Seed

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“If you think of River or Gemini or Coinbase or whatever, think ...

2026-05-19T15:38:25Z

“If you think of River or Gemini or Coinbase or whatever, think of all of those as silos and how people custody Bitcoin.
If some sort of compromise were to come into the Bitcoin ecosystem at the private key generation level, that could create an incident that could set Bitcoin back by 10 or more years because it would be almost indistinguishable from a protocol compromise and that we would be talking about Bitcoin being hacked again and not individual custodians being hacked.
So I think we need to decentralise how people do Bitcoin custody as much as possible and what better way by leveraging private freedom preserving open source software.”
- Seed

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The reality where you own nothing and rent everything starts with ...

2026-05-18T16:30:37Z

The reality where you own nothing and rent everything starts with broken money. I don't buy the narrative that normal people just aren't working hard enough to own things anymore. The truth is that zero interest rates gave the ultra-wealthy a blank check to corner the market on productive assets. It's entirely structural, and it is robbing us blind.

Want to know the exact mechanics of how they use cheap debt to price you out of ownership forever? I lay it all out in Guy's Take_107.

Listen to Guy's Take_107 - Free Rent for the Rich on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) , available on all major platforms:

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Ever wonder why modern society produces so much worthless junk ...

2026-05-17T21:31:02Z

Ever wonder why modern society produces so much worthless junk instead of civilization-defining architecture? It all comes down to proof of work.

Today I'm reading a chapter from Wyatt’s book The Bitcoinization of Finance, his latest case for tying the real economy back to sound money. And I took it a step further: if you strip away that foundation, society eventually just dies.

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We started the mics with the intention of talking Bitcoin, but ...

2026-05-11T17:17:11Z

We started the mics with the intention of talking Bitcoin, but things went sideways fast.

Between AI acting like a corporate filter and the absurdity of the St. Louis Fed trying to own Bitcoin price data, it was a wild session. Plus, we actually get into Steve's UTXOracle, the status of Bitcoin Core cluster mempool changes, and the challenges of renting hashrate.

Oh, and don't miss the hot take on why the "Quantum threat" to Bitcoin is mostly just a sad marketing ploy!

Listen to Roundtable_020 - Anything But Bitcoin with
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Why did humans start using shells or gold long before they had ...

2026-05-11T16:53:57Z

Why did humans start using shells or gold long before they had "efficient markets"?
Nick Szabo’s latest essay The Fabric of Desires explains the ancient link between high-stakes life events and the need for a store of value.
It’s a fascinating look at how money acts as the stitching between events in space and time.

Listen to The Fabric of Desires by Nick Szabo on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

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I firmly believe the worst thing we ever did was accept ...

2026-05-06T15:53:55Z

I firmly believe the worst thing we ever did was accept "elastic money" as our economic savior. People constantly point to the crashes of 1929 and 2008 as proof we need financial intervention. But the reality says the exact opposite.
Constant manipulation isn't saving the system, it is just keeping a broken machine on life support.
Here is my take on the massive lie we all bought into.

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We constantly complain that fiat money is completely broken, but ...

2026-05-06T01:49:37Z

We constantly complain that fiat money is completely broken, but we still trust it to tell us exactly what Bitcoin is worth. It really makes no sense.

I recently read this great piece by Craig Tindale, and he completely nails this hypocrisy. If the ruler is bent, stop using it to measure the table. Escaping the fiat frame is a lot harder than just buying BTC.

Listen to Stepping Outside the Fiat Frame by Craig Tindle on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) , available on all major platforms:

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"You should not just do what you're told, or you will ...

2026-05-02T17:35:19Z

"You should not just do what you're told, or you will literally get the normal. You'll have cancer; you'll have heart disease. If you do what they say is healthy – the things that we believe are correct and are normal – will produce normal results, and we are the least healthy.
We are the most sick and diseased generation in the history of this country. If those are the results you want, then do what the healthcare system tells you to do.
I think a lot of people are waking up to that."
- Guy Swann

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If you're doing anything over $1,000 in fiat, it is like ...

2026-04-30T20:58:03Z

If you're doing anything over $1,000 in fiat, it is like nails on a chalkboard.
But every single year, living on a Bitcoin standard has become easier and easier.

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Every week there is a new reason why Bitcoin is supposedly dying. ...

2026-04-28T17:32:25Z

Every week there is a new reason why Bitcoin is supposedly dying. Right now, it is Google's quantum computing claims and, not so long ago, some wild Epstein conspiracies.

So I joined Rob Wallace on the Bitcoin News channel to look at the actual science behind the quantum panic and see if it actually holds up to scrutiny. But we also talk about why I am wildly optimistic about what is coming next, especially with non-custodial scaling solutions like Ark, and how vibe coding is pushing us toward a massive peer-to-peer renaissance.

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Deflation isn't the economic monster they want us to fear. ...

2026-04-26T16:15:26Z

Deflation isn't the economic monster they want us to fear. And falling prices are just the honest proof that real innovation happened. Yet, we let central authorities print endless money to stop it.

In Part 2 of Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers' latest essay, we look at why falling prices may be the most honest measure of innovation, and expose the myth of fiat economics.

Listen to Read_941 - Number Go Down (Part 2) by allen (nprofile…aju9) & Sacha Meyers on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (nprofile…7p24) available on all major platforms:

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The way the "experts" think about spending and prices is ...

2026-04-24T00:27:37Z

The way the "experts" think about spending and prices is completely backward.
Everyone assumes the economy grinds to a halt if prices fall. But what if an economy built on hard money actually thrives on that exact dynamic?
Today I'm sharing part one of Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers' incredible essay: "Number Go Down", and it'll change how you look at the system entirely.

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"The Industrial Revolution gave us unlimited food, and we all ...

2026-04-22T18:25:52Z

"The Industrial Revolution gave us unlimited food, and we all became fat of the body. The information age gave us unlimited information and made us fat in the mind.

...We don't think anymore, we just parrot. Everything we do is a parroting of something else, something someone else said.

Maybe the only antidote to this is to go on a diet.
No more information, no more reading, no more socials, no more nothing.

You know so much already, but how much of what you know have you actually acted on?"
~ Aleks Svetski

Listen to Chat_165 - Family and Focus with Alekandar Svetski (nprofile…jttu) on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (nprofile…nuzf) , available on all major platforms:

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"In my time as a libertarian, I started to believe that the ...

2026-04-21T20:21:37Z

"In my time as a libertarian, I started to believe that the market comes before politics, like economics is upstream of politics. But, you know, I’ve come to believe it’s the other way around actually, because the political framework defines the framework in which the market can operate.

The nation is a concept that, you know, reinvigorated itself in my mind, especially after writing Bushido. Is that okay: the nation’s job, its existence, is to put not the market first, but its people first, and then the market second. And if you have to sacrifice one, you sacrifice the economic reality. Because, in the short term it might hurt the economics, but in the long term it maintains the civility or the cohesion of the polity of the people whom the market is serving."
- Aleks Svetski

Listen to Chat_165 - Family and Focus with Alekandar Svetski (nprofile…jttu) on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (nprofile…nuzf) , available on all major platforms:

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Is the biggest threat to Bitcoin the tech, or is it us? We spend ...

2026-04-20T21:12:57Z

Is the biggest threat to Bitcoin the tech, or is it us? We spend so much time worrying about quantum computers and code changes, while the real test is firstly human. Can a massive, easily divided global community actually hold the line when the world demands we break?

I read Part 2 of this essay today, and the main argument is hard to shake.

Listen to Modern Money Only Works By Cheating (Part 2) by zerohedge (nprofile…625g) on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) , available on all major platforms:

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Get the episode on @npub1v5u…n0v5 : ...

2026-04-17T19:18:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…h6wc
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We put so much trust in a system that constantly rewrites its own ...

2026-04-17T19:17:02Z

We put so much trust in a system that constantly rewrites its own rules.
Reading through Hugh Hendry’s audit of modern money left me rethinking a lot today. He makes it obvious that fiat *only* exists by cheating.
And it turns out Bitcoin's stubborn refusal to compromise might be the exact medicine we need to stop the endless bailouts.
Give this one a listen and decide for yourself.

Listen to Modern Money Only Works By Cheating (Part 1) by zerohedge (nprofile…9dj5) on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (nprofile…xsv0) , available on all major platforms:

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I think a lot of us feel it, but no one wants to admit it. The ...

2026-04-16T18:20:06Z

I think a lot of us feel it, but no one wants to admit it. The internet just doesn't feel real anymore.
Aleks Svetski and I sat down to talk about the total collapse of digital trust and the weird micro-echo chambers we all live in now.
But it's not all doom and gloom. We also discussed family, meaning, personal growth, and the hopeful picture of where social life could be heading next.

Listen to Chat_165 - Family and Focus with Alekandar Svetski (nprofile…jttu) on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) , available on all major platforms:

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"I love NetBird. I love Tailscale. But if your goal is to ...

2026-04-15T20:24:39Z

"I love NetBird. I love Tailscale.

But if your goal is to host things on the internet in a safe and private way, StartTunnel crushes these things.

It's free, it's open source, and it's simple. You get a $4 a month VPS, install StartTunnel in less than three minutes, and you're literally up and running with a virtual router that you can use to obfuscate your home IP. It's that simple.

It's MIT licensed. If you find a way to make it better, or fork it, or monetize it, do it. I don't give a fuck. Everything we make is free - as free as it can be.

We don't even go the whole GPL bullshit route: 'You must keep this open source because I'm a statist and I will shoot you if you don't keep it open source.'

Fuck GPL. It's either free or it's not free. Don't tell me it's free and then tell me what I can't do with it.
MIT or death.”
- Matt Hill

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"The knowledge, capital, and innovations that came before us, ...

2026-04-13T20:44:57Z

"The knowledge, capital, and innovations that came before us, is our inheritance. We inherit the trade and the knowledge that came before us, but we are being denied the ability to use it for our own purposes. That information, that intellectual property, and the regulations that surround everything you could want to do in this world actually prohibit you from using, to a degree, the inventions - the wealth - that were bequeathed to you by our ancestors.
So, not only is it massive theft, but it is also a barrier to entry. They are putting up guardrails to prevent you from using the things that you have every right to use. In a free world, in a free economy, we are all rich, but it is being 100% artificially kept from everyone."
- Matt Hill

Listen to Chat_164 - Skating To Where The Puck Will Be with MattHill (nprofile…lupf) of Start9 (nprofile…dsrl) on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) , available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/slw43HLq2kMTwNeSLThm
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/c7ueHTTdu-A
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v787v9w-chat-164-skating-to-where-the-puck-will-be-with-matt-hill.html

"I can't think of anything that I can do long-term that ...

2026-04-10T20:11:41Z

"I can't think of anything that I can do long-term that isn't going to look like a toddler trying to do it to these systems.
And you could extend that to your family, 'Well, I'm a father; I tuck my children in..." Yeah, that's going to be safe for a while. I do think it's going to be safe for a while, but it's not safe indefinitely.
They'll make better life partners. Humanoid robots will be better life partners than humans.
Most people will choose the robot. The vast majority of people will choose the robot.
People could care less if they are dating, having sex with, and procreating with a human or a robot. They don't care.
If the exponential improvement of these things continues, it will literally be better at being a human than any human."
~ Matt Hill

Listen to Chat_164 - Skating To Where The Puck Will Be with MattHill (nprofile…ng3f) of Start9 (nprofile…xrcz) on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) , available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/slw43HLq2kMTwNeSLThm
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/c7ueHTTdu-A
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v787v9w-chat-164-skating-to-where-the-puck-will-be-with-matt-hill.html

"We are trying to make it possible for people to use ...

2026-04-09T20:38:31Z

"We are trying to make it possible for people to use computers with a statement as simple as this: use computers without intermediaries and custodians.
The more they do, the more the lines will diverge until there is a chasm between the centralized model and the decentralized model with a clear line between them.
We will either force a reconciliation at the natural, technical level, let the best product in the market win, or we will force the hand of the authoritarians to say that our model is illegal. And then we have a different reconciliatory approach: okay, it's revolution time."
~ MattHill (nprofile…r8kg)

Listen to Chat_164 - Skating To Where The Puck Will Be with Matt Hill of Start9 (npub126n…e9ll) on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (nprofile…5cxj) , available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/slw43HLq2kMTwNeSLThm
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/c7ueHTTdu-A
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v787v9w-chat-164-skating-to-where-the-puck-will-be-with-matt-hill.html

The cashless trap is closing faster than most people realize. And ...

2026-04-07T18:33:40Z

The cashless trap is closing faster than most people realize. And with governments pushing CBDCs to track dissent and control capital, the stakes couldn't be higher.

In today's Read from the Financial Freedom Report, I look at the fight back. We cover offline privacy tools like BlackBox and how Lightning fixes our digital cash problem. Will our tools outpace their overreach?

Listen to Read_937 - When the Withdraws Start by HRF (nprofile…kysg) on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) , available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/cQxSCr07JWNvYhHM823x

What if we prioritized accessibility over perfection? Seedless ...

2026-04-06T01:41:32Z

What if we prioritized accessibility over perfection? Seedless wallets are starting to look like the bridge we've been missing.

In today's Read, I’m breaking down Juan Galt‘s thoughts on Breez SDK’s new passkey login update and why this might be the reality check the self-custody movement needs. If you’re tired of the "too techy" argument, check it out.

Listen to Breez SDK Launches Passkey Login by juangalt (nprofile…h9h2) and Breez_tech (nprofile…ypxv) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/PdOzZI42gR6GlM1GWlkX

There is a reason why every argument from the big blockers is ...

2026-04-04T20:23:16Z

There is a reason why every argument from the big blockers is some conspiracy about a government takeover rather than one about the actual technical debate.

Why? It is easier to spin a web of nonsense than argue about protocol nuances. Here is the technical reality: Bitcoin is a broadcast layer network. A serious protocol nerd should already see the scaling problem. A broadcast network is one where every single participant must broadcast their message to every single other participant in the entire network.

This is part of how and why Bitcoin stays decentralized. It is decentralized because anyone who wants to do so can confirm every last rule of the network has been followed by every other participant for its entire history. Essentially, it has made every single one of its users their own referee to the game.

Watch the latest 2Sats - Did Epstein Hijack Bitcoin? on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (nprofile…h35u) :
Youtube: https://youtu.be/OHT7pG-gZfU
Rumble: https://rumble.com/v77syh2-2sats-did-epstein-hijack-bitcoin.html

The big blockers cannot be honest about what the debate was ...

2026-04-03T17:31:03Z

The big blockers cannot be honest about what the debate was really about. They posed it as one group - themselves - who wanted Bitcoin to be digital cash and money for the whole world, and then the "evil" small blockers who just wanted it to be digital gold. The block size debate was not, and I repeat was not, about digital gold versus digital cash.

The actual debate, half of it, was about how to scale the network so it could be decentralized money for the whole world, while the other half was exactly how to make changes to the protocol that required cooperation from everyone when things were contentious. There is a reason why every argument from the big blockers is some conspiracy about a government takeover rather than one about the actual technical debate. Why? It is easier to spin a web of nonsense than argue about protocol nuances.

Watch the latest 2Sats - Did Epstein Hijack Bitcoin? on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) :
Youtube: https://youtu.be/OHT7pG-gZfU
Rumble: https://rumble.com/v77syh2-2sats-did-epstein-hijack-bitcoin.html

The big blockers cannot be honest about what the debate was ...

2026-04-03T00:20:33Z

@nprofile…qyku 🔥

2026-03-30T19:36:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…6fev
_________________________

TheGuySwann (nprofile…qyku) 🔥

Blaming Jeffrey Epstein for weakening Bitcoin is the ultimate ...

2026-03-30T19:35:01Z

Blaming Jeffrey Epstein for weakening Bitcoin is the ultimate cope. I am so tired of this recycled big blocker narrative, so I finally took the time to expose it.

I went through the emails and followed the funding step by step. The reality is that there was no grand, shadowy government op to destroy Bitcoin. The fact that this conspiracy still exists is a massive red flag. Let's find out why they want you distracted by this, and what the whole picture actually shows.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/OHT7pG-gZfU

Rumble: https://rumble.com/v77syh2-2sats-did-epstein-hijack-bitcoin.html

Everyone is terrified that AI will eat their industry and wreck ...

2026-03-28T01:23:03Z

Everyone is terrified that AI will eat their industry and wreck the economy. But they have the stakes all wrong.

In today's Read, I go through a brilliant A16Z piece that explains why we aren't heading for a post-human future. I followed it up with a bit of a rant on how this shift actually increases the value of human decision-making. If you are stressed about AI taking over, listen to this to flip that fear into real excitement.

Listen to Read_935 - AI Will Eat Application Software by Alex Immerman and Santiago Rodriguez on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) , available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/AkZHGXQZz6QFEZtYzEYg

Some people will invent literally anything to avoid admitting ...

2026-03-26T16:19:19Z

Some people will invent literally anything to avoid admitting they lost an argument. Enter the "Epstein hijacked Bitcoin" narrative: pure fiction designed to keep the defunct scaling argument alive. But I just brought the receipts to finally kill it off.
By tracking the actual money involved, I show exactly what was really happening behind the scenes.

Listen to Guy's Take_105 - Did Epstein Hijack Bitcoin? on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) , available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/6HFdAg1NGeuKkG8BA4nS

“There is a point of contention that every miner reaches, where ...

2026-03-25T18:12:48Z

“There is a point of contention that every miner reaches, where they have to fine-tune their operation and maintain certain controls in order to stay viable on the network over the long term.

The most profound way to do this is from behind the meter.

If you start there, at the point of zero to one where the energy originates, you are basically playing 4D chess with mining. Instead of being vulnerable to the variables that would knock most people offline, you are now in control.

You have the ability to identify underutilized or wasted resources and bring the market to the molecule, instead of trying to force it the other way.

This puts Bitcoin miners in a position to be the buyers of energy of last resort in all cases, stress-testing the systems and making them better.”
- HODL Tarantula

Listen to Chat_163 - Mining in Real Life with GrassFedBitcoin (nprofile…fg0n), HODL Tarantula & TheGuySwann (nprofile…r2n6) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/ylwiHHoSBMjfUFZJjuAL
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/STPttIXYhwc
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v77ac66-chat-163-mining-in-real-life-with-bitcoin-mechanic-and-hodltarantula-plan-b.html

"One of the most important aspects of what we’re doing is ...

2026-03-24T21:35:06Z

"One of the most important aspects of what we’re doing is building out in ways that, like Bob Burnett says, you’ve got your big elephants, your little rabbit home miners, and then you’ve got the wild horses like myself. Gentlemen going out there wildcatting and finding ways to produce these operations that are literally impossible to stop unless you quite literally come out there and put a bullet in my brain."

Listen to Chat_163 - Mining in Real Life with GrassFedBitcoin (nprofile…5z4g), HodlTarantula & TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/ylwiHHoSBMjfUFZJjuAL
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/STPttIXYhwc
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v77ac66-chat-163-mining-in-real-life-with-bitcoin-mechanic-and-hodltarantula-plan-b.html

"[Utilize] the fundamental principles that we see in Bitcoin ...

2026-03-23T17:03:20Z

"[Utilize] the fundamental principles that we see in Bitcoin itself: having a standard ruleset that you apply to yourself every day with discipline, and developing standard operating procedures that force us to hold ourselves accountable to higher standards."
- HODL Tarantula

Listen to Chat_163 - Mining in Real Life with GrassFedBitcoin (nprofile…ljrg), HodlTarantula & TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/ylwiHHoSBMjfUFZJjuAL
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/STPttIXYhwc
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v77ac66-chat-163-mining-in-real-life-with-bitcoin-mechanic-and-hodltarantula-plan-b.html

“Lightning is way more private and also more censorship ...

2026-03-22T16:01:30Z

“Lightning is way more private and also more censorship resistant than on-chain.
If miners are going to start censoring blocks, the off-chain economy can actually go on for a while before even needing an on-chain settlement. And miners cannot do shit about off-chain transactions.”
- giacomozucco (nprofile…7lz5)

Listen to Chat_162 with Giacomo and TheGuySwann (nprofile…j5w3) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/bhPzNOjp0vOxhzf5iurM
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/ATvWS_9wNfk
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v76zxu2-chat-162-plan-b-el-salvador-with-giacomo-zucco.html

"People will complain, you know, all the darknet markets are ...

2026-03-21T22:59:13Z

"People will complain, you know, all the darknet markets are moving to shitcoins.
The biggest darknet market is Robosats and it's Bitcoin only.
It's not risk-free. But one risk is you having your Revolut account nuked. The other risk is you being kidnapped or attacked with actual blackmail or fake blackmail.
This is worse than having your fiat account nuked."
- giacomozucco (nprofile…0yag)

Listen to Chat_162 with Giacomo Zucco on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (nprofile…c8xj) available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/bhPzNOjp0vOxhzf5iurM
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/ATvWS_9wNfk
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v76zxu2-chat-162-plan-b-el-salvador-with-giacomo-zucco.html

When you get Bitcoin Mechanic and HODLTarantula together for a ...

2026-03-20T01:18:24Z

When you get Bitcoin Mechanic and HODLTarantula together for a panel, the big picture talk on physical infrastructure is next level. We teamed up to break down the reality of mining centralization, block building, and staying completely off-grid.

Listen to Chat_163 - Mining in Real Life with TheGuySwann (nprofile…056e) , GrassFedBitcoin (nprofile…fg0n) & HODL Tarantula on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/ylwiHHoSBMjfUFZJjuAL
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/STPttIXYhwc
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v77ac66-chat-163-mining-in-real-life-with-bitcoin-mechanic-and-hodltarantula-plan-b.html

“Long term, the dollar is going down, but short term you can ...

2026-03-17T16:25:30Z

“Long term, the dollar is going down, but short term you can plan one month for the other in dollars better than in Bitcoin.

If people are not ready for Bitcoin, just go use USD as long as you can before dollar hyperinflation.

It's like Noah's Ark. It's going to rain. We build the Ark; we don't have to force people on board. Just wait there. And when you feel ready to swim, come aboard.”
~ Giacomo Zucco

Listen to Chat_162 with giacomozucco (nprofile…z9w9) on Bitcoin Audible with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) , available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/bhPzNOjp0vOxhzf5iurM
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/ATvWS_9wNfk
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v76zxu2-chat-162-plan-b-el-salvador-with-giacomo-zucco.html

You want to connect a device? Scan a QR code, you're ...

2026-03-16T18:55:54Z

You want to connect a device? Scan a QR code, you're connected. You want to share some files? Talk files. You want to share a folder that you can see, it will look everything in the folder, and then you can just look and scroll through that list on your phone.
The underlying engine is simple, it obscures all that stuff away and it works with WebSocket and RPC to communicate so you can just basically build any kind of web app you want on top of it.
There's no server, there's not even a networking page. You get a link, or a QR, you connect, and your devices can talk to each other."
~ TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev)

Learn more about PearDrive in The User Doesn't Care About Your Mission talk from planbnetwork (nprofile…nmkj) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/jfXO4Tytf0HdxfPgTARv
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/hnnYgrOuVKU
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v76c4u6-guys-take-104-the-user-doesnt-care-about-your-mission-re-upload.html

From the "death" of the 4-year cycle to the role of ...

2026-03-13T00:25:42Z

From the "death" of the 4-year cycle to the role of stablecoins and the fight against the surveillance state. 🌍🇸🇻

I pulled Giacomo Zucco aside at the Plan B conference for a live update on the state of the Bitcoin world. We cover the bargaining phase, the Cypher Tank initiative, and why KYC is a step backward for humanity.

Listen to Chat_162 with giacomozucco (npub1au2…t53j) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/bhPzNOjp0vOxhzf5iurM
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/ATvWS_9wNfk
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v76zxu2-chat-162-plan-b-el-salvador-with-giacomo-zucco.html

Everything is Fake and Gay. Or is it just the timeline getting ...

2026-03-06T17:01:47Z

Everything is Fake and Gay. Or is it just the timeline getting weirder? 🤡🌎

Join me and the usual suspects as we oscillate between bullish milestones and the dystopian reality of AI interactions. We also ask the hard questions about Block's layoffs and the potential fallout of the current Bitcoin soft fork proposals.

Listen to Everything is Fake and Gay with nprofile1qqsqlk5pjxkwgjh4x9gxj990vm5ewrqw0qmrwyst05wh5hexduvvt4cpzamhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2un9d3shjtnrdakj7tqpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumr9vd682unfveujumn9ws8yc2f0 (nprofile…c2f0) , GrassFedBitcoin (nprofile…fg0n) and Jeff Swann (npub1ajv…tppj) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/oxLMGpN0DWflVPFHZmbg
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/2s19fW4LiZ0
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v76lrn2-roundtable-018-everything-is-fake-and-gay.html

Is the era of "one-size-fits-all" software coming to an ...

2026-03-06T02:35:24Z

Is the era of "one-size-fits-all" software coming to an end?
Today, we are reading Max Hillebrand's fascinating take on how AI and the open source movement are teaming up to liberate users from modern SaaS bloated with telemetry.
Are we truly ready for the era of hyper-personalized software?

Listen to Read_934 - The Code Liberation by Max (nprofile…w64m) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/ES2CKtjRnHfVmqBSWXHz

The average user does not care about your sovereignty. It hurts ...

2026-03-02T21:18:07Z

The average user does not care about your sovereignty.

It hurts to admit, but looking at the current state of freedom tech, the friction is undeniable. It’s 2026, and syncing files between devices is still migraine-inducing. We keep trying to sell the philosophy when we haven’t even mastered the basic utility. This is exactly why I'm building Pear Drive: scan a QR code, devices connect, files flow. No servers, no friction.

Are we building the tools people want, or just the tools we want them to care about?

Listen to The User Doesn't Care About Your Mission on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/jfXO4Tytf0HdxfPgTARv
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/hnnYgrOuVKU
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v76c4u6-guys-take-104-the-user-doesnt-care-about-your-mission-re-upload.html

Does the spec create the code, or does the code discover the ...

2026-02-27T21:06:58Z

Does the spec create the code, or does the code discover the spec?

In this episode, we dive into Jesse Posner's fascinating concept of The Secret to Vibe Coding. We explore the shift toward agentic workflows where the AI might just know your goals better than you do. Is this the entry point into a new era of software philosophy?

Listen to The Secret to Vibe Coding by jesseposner (nprofile…r9ur) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/XZwfb9vLLAPimDZEJRuN

“People don't consider the tax advantage of this... if you ...

2026-02-26T16:03:01Z

“People don't consider the tax advantage of this... if you convert all of your heating to mining Bitcoin, your energy bill to mine the Bitcoin is a deduction. ...therefore you've just turned your heat bill into a full tax deduction.”
~ Cade Peterson

Listen to Bitcoin is Tangible with Cade Peterson on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/0ipEPoPzahVZS6mU2tGK
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/iPGiPjlxrnE
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v75yo22-chat-161-bitcoin-is-tangible-with-cade-peterson.html

"In our town, Wells Fargo had a building, and the building ...

2026-02-25T22:17:16Z

"In our town, Wells Fargo had a building, and the building was originally built and called the Custer County Bank. Then Wells Fargo left our town.
Now what used to be Wells Fargo is now a Bitcoin mine."
~ Cade Peterson

Listen to Bitcoin is Tangible with Cade Peterson on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/0ipEPoPzahVZS6mU2tGK
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/iPGiPjlxrnE
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v75yo22-chat-161-bitcoin-is-tangible-with-cade-peterson.html

Germany, France, and the U.S. have all agreed at the Munich ...

2026-02-24T22:26:53Z

Germany, France, and the U.S. have all agreed at the Munich Security Conference: The world order is officially dead.

In this Read, we explore Ray Dalio's chapter on how external order crumbles into disorder and war. But more importantly, we look at the role of the monetary system in driving this collapse. Is Bitcoin the exit ramp?

Listen to The World Order Has Broken Down by Ray Dalio on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/Ip3xamq8czBC1tutOtC1

What if your heating system actually paid you back? Cade Peterson ...

2026-02-23T20:58:56Z

What if your heating system actually paid you back?

Cade Peterson joins me to to discuss the fascinating economics of mining for heat. We explore his journey from Air Force mechanic to building Bitcoin-heated fortresses.

Stop burning money and start earning it!

Listen to Bitcoin is Tangible with Cade Peterson on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/0ipEPoPzahVZS6mU2tGK
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/iPGiPjlxrnE
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v75yo22-chat-161-bitcoin-is-tangible-with-cade-peterson.html

Is censorship resistance possible without the internet? In this ...

2026-02-22T15:44:34Z

Is censorship resistance possible without the internet?

In this episode, we look at the desperate scenarios where currency fails and connection to the outside world is severed. Yet, somehow, hundreds of thousands found a way to communicate. Come explore the limits of freedom tech in the face of total shutdown.

Listen to When The Internet Shuts Off by HRF (nprofile…3l0a) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/vVOgP9qtW8OUNXrdKGhK

"Bitcoin functions for all the agents. My agent has eCash ...

2026-02-21T18:04:25Z

"Bitcoin functions for all the agents. My agent has eCash [and] can make purchases. That's crazy that you can deploy an entity to a random computer [that is] able to pay for itself and has the incentive to be productive so that it keeps alive."
~ Max (npub1klk…x3vt)

Listen to A Quiet Global Resistance with Max Hillebrand on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/db0Y8qZkrhZpjhj2vT0D
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/esj50B3EKpI
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v75dbxm-chat-160-a-quiet-global-resistance-with-max-hillebrand.html

"In the long-run future, the usual amount of users for a ...

2026-02-19T16:48:31Z

"In the long-run future, the usual amount of users for a piece of software is probably going to be one. [Now] the cost of producing custom software is 200 bucks a month. That's insanely wild ... to realize how far you can get with just a GPU."
~ Max (npub1klk…x3vt)

Listen to A Quiet Global Resistance with Max Hillebrand on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/db0Y8qZkrhZpjhj2vT0D
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/esj50B3EKpI
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v75dbxm-chat-160-a-quiet-global-resistance-with-max-hillebrand.html

Roundtable is back in 2026 and the gloves are off. Andy Back ...

2026-02-18T16:53:26Z

Roundtable is back in 2026 and the gloves are off.

Andy Back speculation, MIT Media Lab influence, a sudden Core maintainer exit, and the real dispute: can listening nodes actually prevent a soft fork, or does this all end in chaos this August?

Listen to Did Epstein Hijack Bitcoin? with nprofile1qqsqlk5pjxkwgjh4x9gxj990vm5ewrqw0qmrwyst05wh5hexduvvt4cpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzamhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2un9d3shjtnrdakj7tqfkh00d (nprofile…h00d) , GrassFedBitcoin (nprofile…9hac) and Jeff Swann (nprofile…jjwe) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
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🔗 YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JF-swevWl7E
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v75jz0m-roundtable-017-did-epstein-hijack-bitcoin.html

@nprofile…ynpa 🔥

2026-02-11T18:12:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…lqyc
_________________________

Max (nprofile…ynpa) 🔥

Stop hurting yourself with broken systems. It’s time to exit. ...

2026-02-11T18:11:38Z

Stop hurting yourself with broken systems. It’s time to exit.

Max Hillebrand joins me on the show to break down the philosophy of the "Second Realm" and the mechanics of digital privacy. From White Noise to CoinJoin tech, we discuss how we are building a parallel economy right under the nose of surveillance.

Listen to A Quiet Global Resistance with Max Hillebrand on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/db0Y8qZkrhZpjhj2vT0D
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/esj50B3EKpI
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v75dbxm-chat-160-a-quiet-global-resistance-with-max-hillebrand.html

Are we inadvertently recreating the problems of fiat on the ...

2026-02-08T19:35:33Z

Are we inadvertently recreating the problems of fiat on the blockchain?

In this read, we break down why the stablecoin boom might just be an extension of the legacy system rather than a departure from it. We discuss regulatory capture, the limits of utility, and the future of digital cash. Listen in to hear Roy's thesis.

Listen to Stablecoins: Evolution, Not A Revolution by Roy (nprofile…ldg5) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain:
https://fountain.fm/episode/nJzVvk7JNZlSPKMYrVKn

Is your money stealing your future? We often talk about inflation ...

2026-02-03T20:13:50Z

Is your money stealing your future?

We often talk about inflation as price increases, but the real cost is the erasure of your ability to plan. In this Read episode, we explore the intersection of Bitcoin and Stoic philosophy to understand why fiat is designed to keep you distracted.

Listen to Bitcoin, Stoicism, and Our Relationship With Time by Connor Dolan on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/qvWxv9saC5g4cMNROKLc

"Bitcoin was born because of the internet. Without the ...

2026-02-01T00:48:14Z

"Bitcoin was born because of the internet. Without the foundation, without laying the groundwork, Bitcoin would not have been possible. It's technically feasible on a piece of paper, but it's not practically feasible without the internet to do the coordination. Which means that Bitcoin is realizing the internet's dream."
~ Guy Swann

Listen to Is The Bitcoin Mission Fading? with stephanlivera (nprofile…p6hr) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/4F2dJHcz6YZEoyzA9ZG8
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Vns0FYI78gE
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v74o49a-chat-158-is-the-bitcoin-mission-fading-with-stephan-livera.html

#Bitcoin #btc #futureofmoney

What if we could rebuild the digital world without the servers, ...

2026-01-30T20:21:03Z

What if we could rebuild the digital world without the servers, clouds, or middlemen controlling our data? 🤔

I joined the Ungovernable Misfits crew - Q&A, Max, and Seth - on Freedom Tech Friday 25 to break down the revolutionary potential of Holepunch and the Pear ecosystem. We discuss why file sharing is the true foundation of a decentralized web.

Listen to Talking Pears with the
Ungovernable (nprofile…87un) on FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 25 on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/zRKoLK0mT0c9XwJptlbd
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/GUNrI75YQrk
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v74y58c-chat-159-talking-pears-with-the-ungovernable-misfits-on-freedom-tech-friday.html

“There’s a clash between hardcore bitcoiners and treasury ...

2026-01-28T04:34:16Z

“There’s a clash between hardcore bitcoiners and treasury companies… some see 2017 style pump anddumps. But if you can borrow at 10% or less and Bitcoin is CAGR-ing at 30%, there’s [clearly] a business model.”
~Stephan Livera

Listen to Is The Bitcoin Mission Fading? with stephanlivera (nprofile…gfgl) on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:

🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/4F2dJHcz6YZEoyzA9ZG8
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Vns0FYI78gE
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v74o49a-chat-158-is-the-bitcoin-mission-fading-with-stephan-livera.html