Bitcoin Audible Read_908 - The Utility of Bitcoin
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Oct 20, 2025 Roy Sheinfeld shares a groundbreaking vision of Bitcoin as a tool for transferring value seamlessly, akin to sending a text. This radical shift could eliminate payment intermediaries, fostering a new creator economy through Lightning. The podcast explores how Bitcoin's decentralized nature outperforms stablecoins, enabling direct, permissionless transactions. Conversations also highlight the potential societal changes from boundless value flow, allowing creators to monetize freely and reshaping the interplay of culture and political power.
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Value Transfer Beats Payment Instructions
- Bitcoin's core utility is moving value directly rather than facilitating fiat-style payments through intermediaries.
- Treating value as information enables permissionless, borderless transfers and new economic patterns.
Cash Is The Digital Archetype
- Cash demonstrates how value transfer differs from payments because it moves value directly without asking permission.
- Bitcoin can replicate cash's directness digitally, restoring the ability to push value at will.
Stablecoins Are Still Intermediated Fiat
- Fintech and stablecoins still route value through regulated intermediaries, keeping payments constrained and permissioned.
- Bitcoin's decentralization avoids those chains and their geopolitical, regulatory friction.
