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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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Guy on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@theguyswann)
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The Guy Swann Network Broadcast Room on Keet (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3na6v839)

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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

Read_846 – Three Strangest Paradoxes of Mathematics

September 16, 2024 Guy Comments Off

“Sometimes your gut feelings lead you astray—particularly in mathematics, in which one constantly comes across results that seem impossible… There are also many scenarios that appear contradictory at first glance (or second or third). These paradoxes can be explained, however. They are not errors but rather reminders that we should not rely too heavily on our intuition in mathematics.”-Manon Bischoff
What if our intuition can trick us when it comes to understanding complex and interactive systems? What happens when our worldview is challenged by seemingly contradictory ideas? In this episode, we explore three mind-bending paradoxes in mathematics and examine how they can help us better understand the nuances of Bitcoin and the world around us.
Check out the original article and other great works of the author at Three of the Strangest Paradoxes in Mathematics (Link: https://tinyurl.com/5n9xk3r6)
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Chat_112 – Consensus Problems with ReardenCode

September 13, 2024 Guy Comments Off

“If we leave Bitcoin as it is, it’s a new money for the 1%. The 1% can absolutely hold their own coins in a way that they really couldn’t with gold in the same in the same way. So there’s. But the question is, are we are we building Bitcoin to be a new money for the 1% or the point 1% or are we building Bitcoin to be a new money for the world that fundamentally decentralizes people’s ability to control their own finance. And certainly I’d much rather be building the latter thing fundamentally decentralizing finance, not new money for the wealthy.”- ReardenCodeHave we reached a point where establishing consensus for a change to Bitcoin is even possible? Join me as I chat with ReardonCode to delve into the complexities of Bitcoin governance, try to find common ground on what Bitcoin actually needs, breakdown the various technical proposals, and explore the trade-offs between salesmanship, earnestness, and “pot-stirring” in the pursuit of a brighter future for Bitcoin. Is there a way to balance the need for innovation with the need for caution and prudence in the development of the Bitcoin protocol? Don’t miss this chat.
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Reardencode on X (Link: https://twitter.com/reardencode)
Reardencode on Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/ywmpczce)

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Ai_034 – Small Models Reign Supreme

September 13, 2024 Guy Comments Off

Will the increasing shift towards smaller, more efficient AI models revolutionize the way we interact with AI? Can open-source models and fine-tunes like Hermes 3 and Grok 2 challenge the dominance of proprietary models? And what does the future hold for AI development as the hype and investment surrounding AI begin to wane? Join me as I explore these questions and more on this episode of Ai Unchained.Links to check out to explore more:

Jimmy Song: AI vs Bitcoin (Link: https://primal.net/e/note1rwa45e9flhmtyw85gwprfsqr0vs4fldhv5sc8ejqzqwurefjz7xqmrs92n)
fabric: extract wisdom (Link: https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric/blob/main/patterns/extract_wisdom/system.md)
Deep-Live-Cam: Real time face swap and one-click video deepfake with only a single image (Link: https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam)
AgentK: An autoagentic AGI that is self-evolving and modular (Link: https://github.com/mikekelly/AgentK)
hailuoai (Link: https://hailuoai.com/video)
Linux Foundation’s adoption of OMI could pave way for ethical LLMs, analysts say | InfoWorld (Link: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3486247/linux-foundations-adoption-of-omi-could-pave-way-for-ethical-llms-analysts-say.html)
We finally have a definition for open-source AI | MIT Technology Review (Link: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/22/1097224/we-finally-have-a-definition-for-open-source-ai/)
Introducing World’s First Automatic and AI-powered Deepfake Detector | McAfee Blog (Link: https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/internet-security/mcafee-deepfake-detector-with-lenovo/)
Freedom at the Frontier: Hermes 3 – NOUS RESEARCH (Link: https://nousresearch.com/freedom-at-the-frontier-hermes-3/)
Grok-2 Beta Release (Link: https://x.ai/blog/grok-2)

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Read_845 – Understanding The COLDCARD Mk4 Security Model

September 11, 2024 Guy Comments Off

“Using the COLDCARD Mk4 is pretty straightforward. Yet, what goes on under the hood is far from obvious. Technical documentation, the hardware specifications and code used are available, yet not easily understandable by all. To best understand what’s going on under the hood, we will go through the process of setting up a COLDCARD and using it.”— Tristan Borges Solari
Today we are going to take a bit of a dive into the inner workings of hardware wallets, and the security and thinking around protecting your keys. Working from an article that breaks down how the Coldcard works at a technical level, and then geeking out on the design philosophy, simple strategies for creating and remembering PIN numbers, backup rituals, and writing spy stories. Hope you enjoy this one XD

Check out the original article at Understanding The COLDCARD Mk4 Security Model and Secure Element Use (Link: https://tinyurl.com/4y5m5ure)
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Guy’s Take_091 – The Path of Greatest Pain

September 10, 2024 Guy Comments Off

Sometimes life will make you feel stuck, it will wear you down and gaslight you into believing you have made no progress. Small, persistent progress is hard to see, and its only when you take a big step back that it becomes clear. Today I explore the parallels between life’s ups and downs and Bitcoin’s market volatility and where we are today. I’ll share why Bitcoin’s limited supply and steady upward push make it a powerful reminder of the importance of seemingly tiny, but unceasing improvements, and why it’s essential to endure through the tough times to still be there for the great times.
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“Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” ― Robert Frost

Chat_111 – Brollups, Ark 2.0, and 1000 tps with Burak

September 6, 2024 Guy Comments Off

“Dark merchants would never use Lightning, right? Because well, you need a node ID, an entity… Versus Ark, you’re not a node or entity. All you are is entropy. You’re just a public key with silent payment style tweaking. That means no address reuse. By default, coins gets mixed in each round. In a scalable and convenient way. And so it’s all private. You can’t tell who pays what and when and what amount really. It is great and appealing for privacy people, and I can see Ark dominating Dark web.”
-Brock

In this episode, Guy Swann hosts Burak for an in-depth conversation on the future of Bitcoin, smart contracts, and the innovative potential of Ark. What if Bitcoin could scale beyond its limits without compromising privacy or decentralization? Burak introduces BroLab, a groundbreaking framework that merges Bitcoin and smart contracts, but also explores Ark—a new P2P transaction model offering enhanced privacy and scalability for both business and personal use. How could Ark outperform lightning in peer-to-peer systems and revolutionize Bitcoin’s future? And what role will stablecoins, Web5, and reputation-based contracts play in transforming global finance and social systems? Dive into this thought-provoking episode as Burak and Guy break down the building blocks of the next generation of decentralized technology.

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Burak on X (Link: https://twitter.com/brqgoo)
Brock on Primal (Link: https://tinyurl.com/mrxc853z)

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Read_844 – Soft Fork, Covenant Review – Part 2

September 4, 2024 Guy Comments Off

“An argument for doing a consensus cleanup soft-fork first, prior to enabling any new opcodes or other features for new types of L2’s, is that we’d learn more about how willing the wider community is to implement what should be a relatively uncontroversial soft-fork that arguably benefits everyone.” — Peter Todd
In this deep dive into Bitcoin’s Layer 2 solutions, we explore Peter Todd’s comprehensive analysis of soft fork and covenant proposals. What are the trade-offs between different scaling solutions like CTV, OP_CAT, and SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT? How might these changes impact Bitcoin’s future, and what path forward offers the best balance of innovation and security? Join us as we unravel the complexities of Bitcoin’s potential upgrades and their implications for the network’s scalability and functionality.
Links to check out

Soft-Fork/Covenant Dependent Layer 2 Review (Link: https://tinyurl.com/bdey68v4)
Peter Todd on Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/y5py725j)

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”― Kurt Vonnegut

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

Read_846 – Three Strangest Paradoxes of Mathematics

Chat_112 – Consensus Problems with ReardenCode

Ai_034 – Small Models Reign Supreme

Read_845 – Understanding The COLDCARD Mk4 Security Model

Guy’s Take_091 – The Path of Greatest Pain

Chat_111 – Brollups, Ark 2.0, and 1000 tps with Burak

Read_844 – Soft Fork, Covenant Review – Part 2

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