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Chat_115 – FEMA, Fiat, & The Cancer of Government – RANDOM RANT [THE Bitcoin Podcast]

October 11, 2024 Guy Comments Off

In this episode originally on THE Bitcoin Podcast, I had an intense and unfiltered conversation with Walker, where we dove into some hard truths about the nature of government, the fiat system, and the illusion of ownership in modern society. We discussed how true prosperity stems from good money and community-driven trade, while government and fiat act as destructive forces. I likened both to cancer—something that can’t just be treated but must be completely removed to allow society to heal.We also touched on topics like FEMA, Hurricane Helene, and how corruption permeates the system, keeping poverty as the default state for most people. This was a raw and valuable conversation, offering perspectives that challenge the mainstream narrative and are well worth sharing.
Here’s the original episode on THE Bitcoin Podcast. (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGoQSt_o2p0)References from the show:

West NC Hurricane Recovery Feed on Keet (Link: https://tinyurl.com/9m3p4s58)

Walker’s Links:

Walker on Nostr (Link: https://primal.net/walker)
Walker on X: (Link: https://twitter.com/walkeramerica)
THE Bitcoin Podcast on X (Link: https://twitter.com/titcoinpodcast)
Website (Link: https://bitcoinpodcast.net/)
Support THE Bitcoin Podcast on HIGHLIGHTER (Link: https://highlighter.com/walker@primal.net)

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⁠Guy on Nostr ⁠(Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xc96ney)
⁠Guy on X ⁠(Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann)
Guy on Instagram (Link: https://www.instagram.com/theguyswann)
Guy on TikTok (Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@theguyswann)
Guy on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@theguyswann)
⁠Bitcoin Audible on X⁠ (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible)
The Guy Swann Network Broadcast Room on Keet (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3na6v839)

AI Read_012 – The Subprime AI Crisis

October 10, 2024 Guy Comments Off

What do numerous over-hyped product launches, massively subsidized compute, over extended investment, lack of customer adoption, unwillingness to pay extra, enormous and increasing costs, and total dependence on a few massive players have in common?
The big tech Ai industry!
Today we dive into a fantastic breakdown of the state of the ai market, and the potentially dismal financial forecast for the poster child of Ai success, OpenAi. Is there really a massive market here that supports 100 billion dollar investments ongoing? Or is it all smoke and mirrors with a very uncertain future.
Check out the original article by Edward Zitron at wheresyoured.at (Link: https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/)

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Read_849 – A Global Liquidity Barometer

October 9, 2024 Guy Comments Off

“These findings are notable because they demonstrate that even though the strength of the correlation may vary based on the time frame, Bitcoin’s price direction generally aligns with the direction of global liquidity. Furthermore, its price direction more closely mirrors global liquidity than any other traditional asset analyzed.” — Sam Callahan
If Bitcoin was set to become the purest price signal in the global economy, how might that manifest before it became a more widespread medium of exchange, and still played mostly the role of risk asset in global markets? Would it maybe provide the clearest, least affected by other arbitrary supply changes, market conditions, or jurisdictional economic effects than any other asset? Might it already be the best asset in the world for a directional correlation with global liquidity and a mirror for the money supply than every other traditional asset?
What if we had analysis that suggested exactly this? Sam Callahan and Lyn Alden bring us this incredible investigation into Bitcoin’s role in the global economy, and how it may already be telling us more than we realize. Don’t miss this incredible investigation into global markets.
Check out the original article at Bitcoin: A Global Liquidity Barometer (Link:https://tinyurl.com/yaur4wrb) Guest Link

Sam Callahan on X (Link: https://x.com/samcallah)
Lyn Alden on X (Link: https://x.com/LynAldenContact)
Lyn Alden Website (Link: https://www.lynalden.com/)

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“Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” — Oscar Wilde.

TPR_005 – Updates from the Pear World

October 7, 2024 Guy Comments Off

Today we dive back into the Pear universe and catch up on the many recent changes, updates to apps we’ve discussed, and explore new ways we are using them. This episode is primarily built for video so if you haven’t subscribed to the YouTube or Rumble channels, don’t forget to check them out!
Links to check out

Keet News (Link: https://tinyurl.com/mr2jykku)
holesail.io (Link: https://holesail.io/)
pears.com (Link: https://pears.com/)
keet.io (Link: keet.io)
Pinokio (Link: https://tinyurl.com/4cw6v2wr)

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Guy’s Roundtable_002 – Conbase, Control, The Nature of Privacy, and Decentralized Mining

October 4, 2024 Guy Comments Off

It’s here! We are back for the second Roundtable!! What do Coinbase and the Blackrock debacle, paper Bitcoin, the difference between privacy and anonymity, Bitcoin drama, the capitulation of Telegram, the problems of centralized mining pools, and the efforts to re-decentralize it have in common? That’s right, Guy’s Roundtable!
Links mentioned for further exploring from the show:

Pavel Durov criminal charges (Link: https://tinyurl.com/232razkc)
Signal messenger blocked in Russia (Link: https://tinyurl.com/mwhutn3r)
Blackrock’s Coinbase transactions recorded off-chain (Link: http://tiny.cc/taqozz)
BOLT-12 merged into LN spec (Link: http://tiny.cc/aaqozz)
Ashigaru (Link: https://ashigaru.rs)
DATUM: Decentralized Alternative Templates for Universal Mining (Link: https://tinyurl.com/4ydce8hb)

Thanks to the guests for joining:

Steve Simple Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3s6a8yn8)
Steve Simple Twitter (Link: https://twitter.com/stevesimple)
Bitcoin Mechanic Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2tm827ut)
Bitcoin Mechanic Twitter (Link: https://twitter.com/GrassFedBitcoin)
Jeff Swann Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3sjc3bcp)
Jeff Swann on Twitter (Link: https://twitter.com/agoristview)

Links mentioned for further exploring from the show:

⁠Dark Skippy (Link: https://darkskippy.com/)
ProtonWallet (Link: https://proton.me/wallet)
Mutiny Wallet to Shut Down at the End of the Year (Link: https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/mutiny-wallet-to-shut-down-at-the-end-of-the-year/)
Fedi Launch (Link: https://www.fedi.xyz/blog/fedi-announces-launch-of-world-s-first-community-superapp)

bitaxe mines a block! (Link: https://twitter.com/altair_tech/status/1816176460656243146)

Swan Cancels Public Listing Plans (Link: https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/swan-cancels-public-listing-plans-rolls-back-mining-business-cuts-staff/)
Swan cancels Pacific Bitcoin 2024 (Link: https://www.pacificbitcoin.com/)
Taproot Assets first mainnet release of multi-asset Lightning (Link: https://twitter.com/lightning/status/1815768786752164213)
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Chat_114 – Breaking Out of the Fiat Mind with Tanja Bänchle

October 2, 2024 Guy Comments Off

“Everybody’s acting as nothing happened. And in Germany, it was so brutal. We had two lockdowns. Each was 6 and 8 months. Like there was a curfew. This is why I found nostr so fascinating. This is why this affects me so personally and why I’m so passionate about it. It’s like, oh my God, there is hope.”~Tanja Bänchle
There is more about Bitcoin and Nostr than merely the tech. More people will be brought in by the energy, the constant building and problem solving, and the feeling of hope that comes with it. Tanja, new to both Bitcoin and Nostr, has gone head first down the rabbit hole. She has taken on a major organizational role in the Nostr Booth Initiative, after being brought in by the potential she felt meeting the volunteers, entrepreneurs, and cypherpunks in the Nostr world.
She joins me to share her journey of how she lost faith in the fiat world, chose to break from it by living in silence with monks, used her writing to empty her mind of the weight of it all, and then her discovery of bitcoin and nostr and finding hope in our decentralized future.

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Tanja Bänchle on Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/mstanpyx)
Tanja Bänchle on Twitter (Link:https://x.com/BachleTanja)
Tanja Bänchle on LinkTr (Link: https://linktr.ee/tanjabaechle)
The Extraordinary: between drugged and f**ked by Tanja Bächle (Link: https://tinyurl.com/yc7whubv)
The Traveling Nostr Booth – Bringing Nostr to LatAm project on Geyser (Link: https://tinyurl.com/y7cpyhdv)

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Ai_035 – My Favorite Ai Tool

September 27, 2024 Guy Comments Off

Today we dive into my favorite Ai app, combining dozens of open source tools unlocking a new era of creativity and productivity? How can you harness the power of AI to simplify workflows and organize our digital lives? Join me as I explore the possibilities and implications of AI-powered tools and share my own experiences with Pinokio and other innovative applications.
Links to check out to explore more:

Pinokio.computer (Link: Pinokio.computer)
Comfy UI (Link: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI)
Whisper C++ (Link: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp)
Flux (Link: https://github.com/lllyasviel/stable-diffusion-webui-forge)
Stable Diffusion Automatic1111 (Link: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui)
Florence 2 (Link: https://huggingface.co/spaces/gokaygokay/Florence-2)
Ollama (Link: https://ollama.com/)
Access Your AI From ANYWHERE with Holesail + Ai (Link: https://youtu.be/Ajxg-rX2Lao)
Free, Unlimited Transcription using Ai (Link: https://youtu.be/ZDw8ZNFBKes)

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Chat_113 – China’s Surveillance State, CBDC’s, Shifting Paradigms, and the Bitcoin Wildcard with Roger Huang

September 25, 2024 Guy Comments Off

“Stablecoins are acting in a way where they’re bottoms up becoming a country. Countries are trying to reason with it, and the one thing the US is starting to understand is that whatever this thing is, it buys a ton of treasuries.I think what is gonna end up happening is the Western block, for a lack of a better word, they’re putting their eggs in the stablecoin basket.”- Roger Huang
Today we bring on Roger Huang, author of “Would Mao Hold Bitcoin,” in a fascinating conversation that spans the intricacies of China’s surveillance state, the role Bitcoin played in resistance struggles around the world, the implications of central bank digital currencies, the stablecoin war, and the potential for bitcoin to become a global reserve currency. This one is not to be missed.
Links to check out

“Would Mao Love Bitcoin?” (Link: https://tinyurl.com/yck3t29u)
Cashless: China’s Digital Currency Revolution
(Link: https://tinyurl.com/487am7bh)
Carl Schmidt: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Link: https://tinyurl.com/4parr6nk)
The Network State: How To Start a New Country (Link: https://tinyurl.com/ykua5b9h)

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Roger on X (Link: https://x.com/Rogerh1991)

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Read_848 – Stop Calling it MEV

September 24, 2024 Guy Comments Off

“Sadly, there has been very little in the way of a clear definition of MEV in the context of Bitcoin. And the standard definition of the term is so broad as to be entirely useless in discussions of protocol risk.”— BlueMatt
As Bitcoin becomes increasingly expressive, does it risk sacrificing its core value of censorship resistance? Can the concept of Miner Extractable Value (MEV) be redefined to distinguish between its broad, unavoidable forms and the more insidious “MEVil” that threatens decentralization? Join us as we delve into Matt Corallo’s thought-provoking article “Stop Calling it MEV” and explore the implications of MEV on Bitcoin’s future.
Check out the original article at Stop Calling It MEV [BlueMatt’s Blog] (Link: https://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/2024/04/16/stop-calling-it-mev/).
Other links to check out:

Chat_112 – Consensus Problems with ReardenCode (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/s7gLR2bWOH0uPUN6r3GH)
Read_843 – Soft Fork, Covenant Review – Part 1 (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/ejj7Ll2L5L0ZmRuQj2ux)
Read_844 – Soft Fork, Covenant Review – Part 2 (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/DBJ9UYwvO9FTNuDwaw9b)

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“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”― Isaac Asimov

Read_847 – This is the Great Ravine

September 22, 2024 Guy Comments Off

“I’m not asking you to fight the Beast of Big Politics, Big Tech and Big Media.
Honestly I don’t know how you would. This is the end of an age, the _fin de siecle_, the period of time where the Beast is strongest because it is everywhere and invisible all at once. Big Politics, Big Tech and Big Media _are_ the water in which we swim. We are totally immersed in the common knowledge that the enemy is the Other Party, and until that common knowledge is weakened substantially, any direct challenge to the Beast is a suicide mission. A noble suicide mission, like charging a fascist machine gun nest in the Spanish Civil War, but a suicide mission all the same.”
— Ben Hunt

Today we dive into an important and sobering piece. A brilliantly written one that will challenge you to reflect on something we have all been a part of, and that we attempt to be honest and see how we have been pulled into a dangerous feedback loop that will send us to a place we don’t want to be.
If you end up only listening to a few episodes of the show that strike interest from the title and description… don’t let this be one that gets skipped.

Check out the original article and other links at:This is the Great Ravine – Epsilon Theory (Link: https://www.epsilontheory.com/this-is-the-great-ravine/)Epsilon Theory on X (Link: https://x.com/EpsilonTheory)

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“Go, track how many times the word “racism” was mentioned, and around 2012, it shoots up. Social justice shoots up. Transgenderism shoots up. White privilege shoots up. This was forced on the American people. Why are we having these conversations now? The people did not wake up one day and decide we want to have a national conversation about chicks with dicks. That didn’t happen. This wasn’t an organic movement. It was all of the most powerful people decided this is what we’re going to talk about, and why was that? Look, when you’re failing on policy, you pivot to a culture war. You pit people against each other, so they’re fighting each other. We had, in this country, we had an occupied Wall Stree

Chat_115 – FEMA, Fiat, & The Cancer of Government – RANDOM RANT [THE Bitcoin Podcast]

AI Read_012 – The Subprime AI Crisis

Read_849 – A Global Liquidity Barometer

TPR_005 – Updates from the Pear World

Guy’s Roundtable_002 – Conbase, Control, The Nature of Privacy, and Decentralized Mining

Chat_114 – Breaking Out of the Fiat Mind with Tanja Bänchle

Ai_035 – My Favorite Ai Tool

Chat_113 – China’s Surveillance State, CBDC’s, Shifting Paradigms, and the Bitcoin Wildcard with Roger Huang

Read_848 – Stop Calling it MEV

Read_847 – This is the Great Ravine

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