Bitcoin Audible

"Besides the advantage of near-instant payments, there can be privacy improvements to Lightning as well. Unfortunately, there are scenarios where Lightning is not great for privacy. I’d like to unearth some of these. Not as FUD about the network, but to keep people as informed as possible so they may privately use Lightning. Everything in this article is public knowledge and known to the industry to some degree. This is my attempt at aggregating the topic of Lightning privacy from a higher level. Everyone has a right to financial privacy and deserves to be aware of these things." - Tony It's time for a deep dive into the concerns, benefits, and future of privacy on the Lightning Network. This will be an awesome piece covering everything you want to know. So strap in. Link to the article for further digging on all the mentioned tech: https://abytesjourney.com/lightning-privacy/ You can earn Bitcoin by Donating Plasma in a new pilot program. I've put the details for you at the link below: guyswann.com/blood Check out the Fountain app to test out the value-for-value system and listen to Bitcoin Audible for 1,000 free sats! Fountain.fm For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (guyswann.com/fold). Get 20% off with discount code BITCOINAUDIBLE. • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin (swanbitcoin.com/guy) • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (guyswann.com/bitbox). Discount code GUY gets you 5% off. • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the universe! Bitcoin 2022 (guyswann.com/2022). 10% discount if you use code GUYSWANN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

This episode is because the previous read by Steve Barbour deserved a Guy's Take. Before we change topics to privacy in the episode coming later this week, "The State vs Bitcoin" deserves a solid shake down. A Guy's Take episode on Read 615. Link to the original article by Steve Barbour: https://sgbarbour.medium.com/the-state-vs-bitcoin-dbc044f23ea6 You can earn Bitcoin by Donating Plasma in a new pilot program. I've put the details for you at the link below: guyswann.com/blood Check out the Fountain app to test out the value-for-value system and listen to Bitcoin Audible for 1,000 free sats! Fountain.fm For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (guyswann.com/fold). Get 20% off with discount code BITCOINAUDIBLE. • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin (swanbitcoin.com/guy) • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (guyswann.com/bitbox). Discount code GUY gets you 5% off. • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the universe! Bitcoin 2022 (guyswann.com/2022). 10% discount if you use code GUYSWANN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"As with freedom and oppression, Bitcoin and State money may exist in a perpetual tug of war between ideals. Where State money relies on compulsory participation, Bitcoin offers completely voluntary entry and exit and thus represents the antithesis of State money. In this essay I will explore the mechanisms in which Bitcoin may resist State attack." - SGBarbour Today we explore the feasibility and the correcting mechanisms in the Bitcoin system for resisting sustained censorship of the network. This is a must listen for those who want to dig into the game theory of Bitcoin, and its struggles with the most powerful external adversaries it will face. Link to the original article by Steve Barbour: https://sgbarbour.medium.com/the-state-vs-bitcoin-dbc044f23ea6 The full audiobook of Eric Voskuil's CryptoEconomics read by Max Hillebrand: https://open.spotify.com/show/2y6oTLWiId7JmUp6pTjPOS Check out the Fountain app to test out the value-for-value system and listen to Bitcoin Audible for 1,000 free sats! Fountain.fm For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (guyswann.com/fold). Get 20% off with discount code BITCOINAUDIBLE. • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin (swanbitcoin.com/guy) • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (guyswann.com/bitbox). Discount code GUY gets you 5% off. • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the universe! Bitcoin 2022 (guyswann.com/2022). 10% discount if you use code GUYSWANN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Much more to say. This is just a starting point, but I'm interested in Bitcoin for its potential to reorient civilization to an existence rooted in truth. If adoption comes at the cost of that, all the NGU euphoria means nothing and most of what gives Bitcoin value will be lost." - SovrynMindset Michael brings us an excellent thread on the attack vectors likely to come in the not-too-distant future as we have clearly entered the "then they fight you" stage. Now is not the time to rest on our laurels and believe that we have already won a fight, that is only just beginning. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. This means pleb mining, privacy tools, adopting every tool at our disposal, building what we can, orange pilling our local communities, teaching how to protect our sovereignty, and that idea that you know is important, but keep procrastinating on. Check out the Fountain app to test out the value-for-value system and listen to Bitcoin Audible for 1,000 free sats! Fountain.fm For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (guyswann.com/fold). Get 20% off with discount code BITCOINAUDIBLE. • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin (swanbitcoin.com/guy) • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (guyswann.com/bitbox). Discount code GUY gets you 5% off. • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the universe! Bitcoin 2022 (guyswann.com/2022). 10% discount if you use code GUYSWANN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"...This purpose flounders, however, if their own evangelists and the community at large fails to lay the groundwork and impetus to push ever deeper. As a community, we fail when, in chasing the mainstream, we lose sight of the original spirit in which Bitcoin was created and bootstrapped." - Ariel Deschapell To kick off adversarial week, we are covering a great piece that brings us back down to earth so we can see where we are, the reality of our situation, & the true challenges that lay before us. From author Ariel Deschapell and published with Bitcoin Magazine, today we read & discuss: "Against the Inevitability of Bitcoin." Find the original article at the link below: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/against-the-inevitability-of-bitcoin Check out the Fountain app to test out the value-for-value system and listen to Bitcoin Audible for 1,000 free sats! Fountain.fm For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (guyswann.com/fold). Get 20% off with discount code BITCOINAUDIBLE. • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin (swanbitcoin.com/guy) • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (guyswann.com/bitbox). Discount code GUY gets you 5% off. • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the universe! Bitcoin 2022 (guyswann.com/2022). 10% discount if you use code GUYSWANN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"On a medium-term basis, it is time to back up the John Deere excavator and scoop up as much gold and Bitcoin as you can afford. This is it, the start of a monetary regime change. Nothing lasts forever, and the days of Petro / Eurodollar supremacy are over. The phase shift will be chaotic, it will be volatile, it will morph, but it will 100% be MASSIVELY inflationary in fiat currency terms. There is no government, ever, that resisted the temptation to print money in order to pay its bills and placate its citizens. The government will never voluntarily go bankrupt. This is axiomatic. I challenge you to contradict me with evidence." - Arthur Hayes You are simply going to want to hear Hayes justification for this stance. We may very well be in the middle of one of the largest shifts in the global monetary structure in history. And remaining ignorant will no longer be a viable option. The US just cancelled the world's largest energy producer from the global financial network. What does that mean? Check out the original article and drop some applause at the link below. Plus, tons of other great linked content within the article and writing by Hayes that is always incredibly valuable on top of entertaining: https://cryptohayes.medium.com/energy-cancelled-e9f9e53a50cd Check out the Fountain app to test out the value-for-value system and listen to Bitcoin Audible for 1,000 free sats! Fountain.fm For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (guyswann.com/fold). Get 20% off with discount code BITCOINAUDIBLE. • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin (swanbitcoin.com/guy) • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (guyswann.com/bitbox). Discount code GUY gets you 5% off. • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the universe! Bitcoin 2022 (guyswann.com/2022). 10% discount if you use code GUYSWANN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Thus, given enough time and popularity, every movie, every song, and every document will be available to the general public for free. The nature of information does not allow for another outcome. Hence the saying: information wants to be free. Although trying to create something that can't exist—information that can't be copied—is paradoxical in itself, this isn't what I mean by the DRM paradox. What I mean is something more hilarious. It is again psychological, not technical in nature. The paradox is this: content will only stay behind a paywall if it is shitty. If it's good, someone will set it free." - Dergigi Today we are exploring an article from Dergigi on how the incentives of the internet attention market has turned platforms into dopamine machines, and why it is causing us harm by us failing to understand what is inherently wrong with monetization on the internet, and why Bitcoin may just be able to fix it. LINK to the original article with Gigi's hat available for any value given back. https://dergigi.com/2021/12/30/the-freedom-of-value/ Check out the Fountain app to test out the value-for-value system and listen to Bitcoin Audible for 1,000 free sats! (will add link here when I get it) For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (guyswann.com/fold). Get 20% off with discount code BITCOINAUDIBLE. • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin (swanbitcoin.com/guy) • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (guyswann.com/bitbox). Discount code GUY gets you 5% off. • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the universe! Bitcoin 2022 (guyswann.com/2022). 10% discount if you use code GUYSWANN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"In sum, the U.S. government has shown that — through the GFC, repo spike crisis in 2019 and pandemic crisis in 2020 — it is willing to do anything to keep interest rates down: start an experimental QE program to buy long-dated treasuries and subprime mortgages; nationalize the repo markets; and even nationalize the corporate debt markets." - Alex Gladstein Today we conclude Alex Gladstein's incredible new article on the invisible costs of war, and how our monetary policy disconnects the unbelievable cost of war & its fallout, from the minds of the citizens. Only in the age of infinite money printing, can we sustain infinite war. This is not an accident. Listen to the epic conclusion in today's episode. Link to the article: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/how-the-fed-hides-costs-of-war For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (guyswann.com/fold). Get 20% off with discount code BITCOINAUDIBLE. • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin (swanbitcoin.com/guy) • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (guyswann.com/bitbox). Discount code GUY gets you 5% off. • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the universe! Bitcoin 2022 (guyswann.com/2022). 10% discount if you use code GUYSWANN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"As detailed in Saifedean Ammous’s “The Fiat Standard,” in November 1914 the British government “issued the first war bond, aiming to raise 350 million pounds from private investors at an interest rate of 4.1% and a maturity of ten years. Surprisingly, the bond issue was undersubscribed, and the British public purchased less than a third of the targeted sum. To avoid publicizing this failure, the Bank of England granted funds to its chief cashier and his deputy to purchase the bonds under their own names.” This was one of the more prominent early examples of government bond market intervention to finance war, and it would provide a blueprint for America to follow for decades to come." - Alex Gladstein Today we have an incredible piece from Alex Galdstein returning with his incredible deep dives into the history of money, what is happening around the world, and how Bitcoin fits into the world's massive problems today, and may fundamentally alter the course of history. Don't miss an incredible walk through the history of war, and how money has hidden their cost, and thus made them a permanent part of our modern society.  Link to the article: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/how-the-fed-hides-costs-of-war For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (guyswann.com/fold). Get 20% off with discount code BITCOINAUDIBLE. • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin (swanbitcoin.com/guy) • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (guyswann.com/bitbox). Discount code GUY gets you 5% off. • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the universe! Bitcoin 2022 (guyswann.com/2022). 10% discount if you use code GUYSWANN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Aspiring Republican politicians and conservative opinionators love talking in darkened tones about the malevolence of elites. And yet, for all the fingers wagged and pixels rendered, conservatives have largely ignored the most economically significant way in which elites actually _have_ rigged the game in their favor. The widening gap between elites and the rest of us comes down in large part to the highly abnormal way in which the United States has defined money for the last 50 years." - Avik Roy Avik breaks down in this article from The American Mind, the poisonous nature of our monetary system, where it all started, how it unfairly benefits the already wealthy at our expense, & how Bitcoin truly fixes this. Plus a lengthy Guy's take that gets heated because economics is just too exciting not to get amped up about it. Check out the link below for more work by Avik Roy and The American Mind: https://americanmind.org/features/free-bitcoin/want-to-stick-it-to-coastal-elites-use-bitcoin/ For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (guyswann.com/fold). Get 20% off with discount code BITCOINAUDIBLE. • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin (swanbitcoin.com/guy) • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (guyswann.com/bitbox). Discount code GUY gets you 5% off. • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the universe! Bitcoin 2022 (guyswann.com/2022). 10% discount if you use code GUYSWANN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message