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#007 – How Many Degrees Celsius is a Lunatic? with Cory Klippsten

WE ARE BACK! Were you wondering about everything that happened in the collapse of TerraUSD, the algorithmic stablecoin that got algonniahilated? And how exactly did one project’s failure create such a cascading shitstorm of Defi defaulting? Cory Klippsten, CEO of SwanBitcoin, and outspoken critic who warned everyone of these projects long before they collapsed, breaks…

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Guy’s Take #58 – “Rent-Seeking Savers!” Misconceptions in Noahpinion’s Crypto Misconceptions

“I think there are some important economic errors in the stories I see people telling about crypto, on Twitter and elsewhere — errors that have important implications for how we should think about the value of Bitcoin and other blockchain assets.” – Noahpinion Unfortunately I think there are quite the few economic errors in Noahpinion’s…

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Read_642 – Losing Your Keys Without Losing Your Coins [Block]

“These two jobs are almost always in tension. Any added protection to keep a bad actor out adds a risk that it may also trip up the owner, and any new backup or alternative way to access creates a new potential security hole.” – @max_guise Today we dive into a practical piece on how to…

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Chat_71 – Redesigning the Internet for Fun & for the Revolution, with Mathias Buus and Paolo Ardoino

Following up on the release of Keet.io and a simple to use, responsive, encrypted, & scalable P2P data sharing protocol in Holepunch, its network backend, we bring the CEO of Holepunch Mathias Buus, and the CSO of Holepunch and CTO of Bitfinex, Paolo Ardoino on the show to talk about what the long term vision…

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Chat_71 – Redesigning the Internet for Fun & for the Revolution, with Mathias Buus and Paolo Ardoino

Following up on the release of Keet.io and a simple to use, responsive, encrypted, & scalable P2P data sharing protocol in Holepunch, its network backend, we bring the CEO of Holepunch Mathias Buus, and the CSO of Holepunch and CTO of Bitfinex, Paolo Ardoino on the show to talk about what the long term vision of this project truly is. This isn’t just a better video chat app, this is the first building block in a plan to rebuild the internet & potentially break down the walls of the internet’s major platforms. Are they onto something, or is it a pipe dream? Listen to hear what they say in today’s chat.

Follow Mathias and Paolo on twitter at the links below to stay up on the projects they are working on, and the many new developments to come:
https://twitter.com/mafintosh
https://twitter.com/paoloardoino

Check out Keet if you want to explore the potential of this new networking protocol and backend. If you are a developer looking to build on the P2P web, go to their discord link to find out more:
https://keet.io/
https://discord.com/invite/holepunch

The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary: https://www.amazon.com/Cathedral-Bazaar-Musings-Accidental-Revolutionary/dp/1565927249/ref=sr_1_2?crid=32I7TKBRZH4MT&keywords=cathedral+bazaar&qid=1659981647&sprefix=%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-2)

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Read_641 – Bitcoiners Are Not Utopians [Aleks Svetski]

“It’s not and never was about equality or perfection. It’s about fairness and consequence. Bitcoin is “Responsibility go Up” technology.” – Aleks Svetski The principles and rules of Bitcoin do not establish utopia, they do not create a perfect equality for all participants, instead it creates fairness and enforces equal responsibility on all who use…

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Chat_70 – Mashing it with Magic Internet Money, Jesse Berger & Jared Nusinoff

Orange pilling the everyday user with Mash. Combining simple, fast onboarding into the Lightning ecosystem and enabling a unique monetizing experience with micropayments and payment flows to any content imaginable. Author Jesse Berger joins to announce the experience available for exploring his book, Magic Internet Money. Pay for the book, or by the chapter, or…

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Chat_70 – Mashing it with Magic Internet Money, Jesse Berger & Jared Nusinoff

Orange pilling the everyday user with Mash. Combining simple, fast onboarding into the Lightning ecosystem and enabling a unique monetizing experience with micropayments and payment flows to any content imaginable. Author Jesse Berger joins to announce the experience available for exploring his book, Magic Internet Money. Pay for the book, or by the chapter, or the page. Pay only for what you want to read, and not a sat more.

Find out more in today’s chat, Mashing it with Magic Internet Money. Explore more with the links below and follow Jared at Get Mash, and Jesse Berger for ongoing developments.

Keep an ear out for the audiobook available very soon!

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• Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 20% OFF with code BITCOINAUDIBLE (guyswann.com/fold)
• Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 5% off everything in the store! Coinkite.com

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Read_640 – Keet, P2P Encrypted Communications To Integrate Lightning [Namcios]

“Holepunch makes Hypercore more accessible by abstracting away low-level technical details of the protocol. It takes Hypercore one step further by simplifying the architecture and enabling more people to build apps with it — which enabled a single frontend developer to build Keet in under four months” – Namcios Keet is going to change the…

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What is Money, Anyway? [Lyn Alden]

“If a money (the most salable good) is easy to create more of, then any rational economic actor would just go out and create more money for herself, diluting the whole supply of it. If an asset has a monetary premium on top of its pure utility value, then it’s strongly incentivizing market participants to…

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