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Read_749 – Economics of Bitcoin as a Settlement Network [Saifedean]

"The obsession with consumer payments in the Bitcoin community is an unfortunate relic of the fiat money era. Generations that have only known monetary hot potatoes that need to be spent before they devalue have come to view life as a quest of mass consumption." — Saifedean Ammous Today we hit an historical piece from…

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Read_750 – Capital in the 21st Century [Allen Farrington]

"To do our best to minimize the economics jargon once again, we might simply ask: what are you going to do with your time? Are you going to create or consume? And how do the characteristics of money, as the salable representation of that time, influence your decision? I sincerely believe that this is the…

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Read_748 – Bitcoin & the Rise of the Cypherpunks [Lopp]

"While many of the innovations in the space are new, they’re built on decades of work that led to this point. By tracing this history, we can understand the motivations behind the movement that spawned bitcoin and share its vision for the future." Context matters. If you don't know the history of the cypherpunks and…

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Read_748 – Bitcoin & the Rise of the Cypherpunks [Lopp]

“While many of the innovations in the space are new, they’re built on decades of work that led to this point. By tracing this history, we can understand the motivations behind the movement that spawned bitcoin and share its vision for the future.”

Context matters. If you don’t know the history of the cypherpunks and where we are coming from. Then you may not really know where we are today. Listen to Lopp’s amazing piece from 2016, Bitcoin & the Rise of the Cypherpunks.

Check out the original article at: Bitcoin and the Rise of the Cypherpunks

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“All political theories assume…that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ…in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.” — F.A. Hayek

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Read_747 – The Bondholder’s Burning Platform [Croesus]

"Since 1800, in 51 out of 52 cases where a country’s debt-to-GDP ratio reached 130%, the country eventually defaulted. The only exception is current Japan, who is frankly in the final stages of circling the drain (e.g., central bank asset purchases and yield curve control). Where is the US now? 129% debt-to-GDP." — Jesse Myers Don't…

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Guy’s Take #68 – Lightning & the Ai Economy

Ai agents are going to be able to seek out, delegate, and pay for micro services from an ecosystem of other agents & services. But the resources being share will be delivered instantly, and irreversibly in the form of compute cycles. Only an instant, bearer, and irreversible payment method that scales massively will be able…

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Guy’s Take #68 – Lightning & the Ai Economy

Ai agents are going to be able to seek out, delegate, and pay for micro services from an ecosystem of other agents & services. But the resources being share will be delivered instantly, and irreversibly in the form of compute cycles. Only an instant, bearer, and irreversible payment method that scales massively will be able to meet the demands and provide a backbone for the economy of Ai exchange. In this Guy’s Take episode, I argue why I think Lightning is going to eat ALL of this ecosystem, and why fiat is incompatible. This is Guy’s Take #68 – Lightning & the Ai Economy…

Definitely don’t miss the conversation that got me headed down this rabbit hole on Ai Unchained: https://youtu.be/hI19IaODZPA

Bobby’s thread with further links to explore on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/iBobbyShell/status/1671485924218228737?s=20

More resources to explore on this topic:
https://lightning.engineering/posts/2023-07-05-l402-langchain/

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Reboot – Bitcoin and The American Idea [Alex Gladstein]

"Today Americans celebrate 246 years of independence from the British Empire. On this day in 1776 the Founding Fathers made a declaration. It was a bold and risky action. Never before had a colonial state defeated its overlord, especially at the apex of its global power." — Alex Gladstein For Independence Day and for all…

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Ai_005 – Ai, Fiat Incompatible with Kody Low

“So we had built this for a while, but because API calls are basically free, there really wasn’t a good match for it. There were some good matches for it and people would do it, but as they were doing it, it was like ‘I can do it this way, but I can also do it with dollars.’ This is kind of a really interesting paradigm when it comes to Ai stuff is that there’s basically 3 or 4 different aspects of Ai that make it so you cannot use credit card relationships to solve the monetization problems there. But you can with Bitcoin and Lightning as it exists today, not requiring any changes to the protocol…”
~ Kody Low

Today we dive into an incredible conversation with Kody Low from Fedi, who is hosting the Ai4All hackathon and believes he has found a solution to an increasingly huge, and seemingly impossible problem within Ai, that you can no longer distinguish human from robot online. What happens when Ai can create an infinite number of new identities? Is this the end of the open internet? find out in this awesome episode.

Links to the content mentioned on the show to check out

Andre Karpathy – Let’s build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY⁠⁠)

Brian Roemmelle on X (Link: https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele)

ChatGPT and the Dawn of Computerized Hyper-Intelligence | Brian Roemmele | EP 357 (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_E4t7tWHUY⁠⁠)

GPT4ALL – A free-to-use, locally running, privacy-aware chatbot. No GPU or internet required (Link: https://gpt4all.io/index.html)

Fedi – Community money, chat, and more (Link: https://www.fedi.xyz/)

Stakwork.ai – With business process automation that integrates an always-on network of cloud sourced workers, it doesn’t have to. | Stakwork | A New Way to Get Work (Link: https://stakwork.ai/)

Join the Hackathon! Follow everything going on in the Ai4All tournament or become a builder yourself (Link: http://tinyurl.com/35yzcn9b)

Guest Links

Kody Low on X (Link: https://twitter.com/kodylow)

Host Links

Guy on Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/yc376bff)
Guy on X (Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann)
Bitcoin Audible on X (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible)

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Read_746 – Orange Pilling Your Barber [Hector Alvero]

"Your barber or stylist likely has the broadest network of anyone you know. People from every walk of life, including business owners, accountants, teachers, firefighters and politicians, sit in their chairs, sometimes for hours. It is likely that no one else in your sphere of influence has the amount of time and trust to help…

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