
Chat_120 – How P2P is changing the Internet [Pears]
“There are so many reasons to be interested in peer-to-peer. You can be interested in it for resilience, because there are no middlemen, so it’s going to work if any of your devices are online.
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“There are so many reasons to be interested in peer-to-peer. You can be interested in it for resilience, because there are no middlemen, so it’s going to work if any of your devices are online.

“On nostr we have maybe a couple hundred thousand users who are active, but all all those users are holding their keys. We’re actually bootstrapping this censorship resistant network. There isn’t anything like that out

“Once you understand the economic situation of the United States and how they’re in a debt spiral, there’s only one way out of it and it’s to turn the money printer on so that they

In this previous episode of Final Settlement, I joined the show to tackle custodial threat vectors and the security challenges unique to Bitcoin. We discussed Bitcoin as apolitical money and its role as a digital

In a episode of TFTC, I sat down with Marty Bent to break down the reality behind the hurricanes devastating America and the government’s inept or even malicious response to these disasters. We explored the

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

“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.

“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

“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

“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

“When you introduce 2 million, 10 million “developers” that were never developers into an ecosystem that’s used to having closed platforms and silos and stuff, what do those 10 million motivated people build? They’re more

“The government is more than half of the economy. They control everything.What this new battleground is showing is that in the Bitcoin world, within the Bitcoin environment, they’re going to have to Samourai Wallet every

“The government and the corporate environment so desperately want us to centralize so they can they can have total surveillance and they can have backdoors into everybody’s stuff.They’re abusive and everything, but not everything’s imploded

“My thinking is always resilience. How did I make Proton resilient? And the conclusion I came to after thinking about it for a long time is actually the best way to be resilient is to

“Historically, what do nations do when they’re on a gold standard and they need to fight a war? They just suspend the gold standard. The difference is that what Bitcoin brings is this decentralization, where

“Something else has to go down in order for something to go up. That’s why it is specifically a relative weight between all of these things… You can’t just charge $100,000 dollars for something if

“I really wanted to screen share stuff with people and make it as easy as possible and I got fed up. So I was just like, okay, you know, let’s throw this up and let’s

“Only the giant corporations are gonna have this and anybody less than a billion dollars, these won’t exist. And that was scary, I was like, this can undo what Bitcoin is doing unless we get
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