Bitcoin Audible

Marty Bent, co-host of TFTC, dives deep into the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, critiquing the government's slow response and praising community-led efforts. He highlights how grassroots initiatives often outshine bureaucratic systems in disaster relief. The conversation also touches on the contributions of Bitcoin veterans to local resilience and explores the potential of technology, like AI and open-source solutions, in enhancing disaster management. It's a thought-provoking discussion blending community spirit with economic innovation.

The discussion dives into Bitcoin's challenging relationship with traditional financial systems. It poses critical questions about Bitcoin's future: will it capitulate, create a revolution, or fragment? The hosts analyze the shifts in perception of Bitcoin's value against fiat currency and explore the vulnerabilities of the fiat system. They highlight the importance of building supportive networks for individual freedoms and the need for humility within the Bitcoin community. The podcast also examines Bitcoin's potential to reshape global power dynamics amid increasing geopolitical tensions.

Explore the harsh realities of inflation and its detrimental effects on the economy. Challenge the common belief that inflation stimulates growth, as it actually erodes value and benefits only the elite. Discover the flawed narrative of the broken window theory, highlighting the absurdity of linking destruction to economic progress. Learn about the unsustainable nature of fiat money and the promise of Bitcoin as a stable alternative, advocating for genuine wealth creation and honest transactions.

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 of ownership in modern society. We discussed how true prosperity stems from good money and community-driven trade, while government and fiat act as destructive forces. I likened both to cancer—something that can't just be treated but must be completely removed to allow society to heal.We also touched on topics like FEMA, Hurricane Helene, and how corruption permeates the system, keeping poverty as the default state for most people. This was a raw and valuable conversation, offering perspectives that challenge the mainstream narrative and are well worth sharing. Here's the original episode on THE Bitcoin Podcast. (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGoQSt_o2p0)References from the show: West NC Hurricane Recovery Feed on Keet (Link: https://tinyurl.com/9m3p4s58) Walker's Links: Walker on Nostr (Link: https://primal.net/walker) Walker on X: (Link: https://twitter.com/walkeramerica) THE Bitcoin Podcast on X (Link: https://twitter.com/titcoinpodcast) Website (Link: https://bitcoinpodcast.net/) Support THE Bitcoin Podcast on HIGHLIGHTER (Link: https://highlighter.com/walker@primal.net) Host Links ⁠Guy on Nostr ⁠(Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xc96ney) ⁠Guy on X ⁠(Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann) Guy on Instagram (Link: https://www.instagram.com/theguyswann) Guy on TikTok (Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@theguyswann) Guy on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@theguyswann) ⁠Bitcoin Audible on X⁠ (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible) The Guy Swann Network Broadcast Room on Keet (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3na6v839)

What do numerous over-hyped product launches, massively subsidized compute, over extended investment, lack of customer adoption, unwillingness to pay extra, enormous and increasing costs, and total dependence on a few massive players have in common? The big tech Ai industry! Today we dive into a fantastic breakdown of the state of the ai market, and the potentially dismal financial forecast for the poster child of Ai success, OpenAi. Is there really a massive market here that supports 100 billion dollar investments ongoing? Or is it all smoke and mirrors with a very uncertain future. Check out the original article by Edward Zitron at wheresyoured.at (Link: https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/) Bitcoin Audible & Guy Swann Links ⁠Guy on Nostr ⁠(Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xc96ney) ⁠Guy on X ⁠(Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann) Guy on Instagram (Link: https://www.instagram.com/theguyswann) Guy on TikTok (Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@theguyswann) Guy on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@theguyswann) ⁠Bitcoin Audible on X⁠ (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible) The Guy Swann Network Broadcast Room on Keet (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3na6v839) Check out our awesome sponsors! HRF: The Human Rights Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies. Subscribe to HRF's Financial Freedom Newsletter today. (Link: https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/financial-freedom-newsletter) OFF: The Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) is an international human rights conference series hosted and produced by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF). Bringing together the world’s most engaging human rights advocates, journalists, artists, tech entrepreneurs, and world leaders, we aim to share their stories and brainstorm ways to expand freedom and unleash human potential across the globe. (Link: https://oslofreedomforum.com/) Pubky: Pubky is building the next web, a decentralized system designed to put control back in your hands. Escape censorship, algorithmic manipulation, and walled gardens by owning your identity and data. Explore the Pubky web and become the algorithm today. (Link: https://pubky.org/) Trying to BUY BITCOIN? River: Secure, trusted, bitcoin only, lightning enabled, simple. (Link: https://bitcoinaudible.com/river) Bitcoin Games! Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from the Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1) Bitcoin Custodial Multisig Want to get into Bitcoin but not ready for self custody? Use custodial multisig for the best way to distribute trust across multiple institutions and even jurisdictions! Check out OnRamp. (Link: BitcoinAudible.com/onramp) Education & HomeSchooling Get the lesson in real economics that you never got in school, and teach your kids the truth, not the statist insanity that is Keynesianism. Liberty Classroom is the invaluable resource you are looking for! (Link: BitcoinAudible.com/Liberty)

"These findings are notable because they demonstrate that even though the strength of the correlation may vary based on the time frame, Bitcoin’s price direction generally aligns with the direction of global liquidity. Furthermore, its price direction more closely mirrors global liquidity than any other traditional asset analyzed." — Sam Callahan If Bitcoin was set to become the purest price signal in the global economy, how might that manifest before it became a more widespread medium of exchange, and still played mostly the role of risk asset in global markets? Would it maybe provide the clearest, least affected by other arbitrary supply changes, market conditions, or jurisdictional economic effects than any other asset? Might it already be the best asset in the world for a directional correlation with global liquidity and a mirror for the money supply than every other traditional asset? What if we had analysis that suggested exactly this? Sam Callahan and Lyn Alden bring us this incredible investigation into Bitcoin's role in the global economy, and how it may already be telling us more than we realize. Don't miss this incredible investigation into global markets. Check out the original article at Bitcoin: A Global Liquidity Barometer (Link:https://tinyurl.com/yaur4wrb) Guest Link Sam Callahan on X (Link: https://x.com/samcallah) Lyn Alden on X (Link: https://x.com/LynAldenContact) Lyn Alden Website (Link: https://www.lynalden.com/)   Host Links ⁠Guy on Nostr ⁠(Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xc96ney) ⁠Guy on X ⁠(Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann) Guy on Instagram (Link: https://www.instagram.com/theguyswann) Guy on TikTok (Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@theguyswann) Guy on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@theguyswann) ⁠Bitcoin Audible on X⁠ (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible) The Guy Swann Network Broadcast Room on Keet (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3na6v839) "Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." — Oscar Wilde.

Today we dive back into the Pear universe and catch up on the many recent changes, updates to apps we've discussed, and explore new ways we are using them. This episode is primarily built for video so if you haven't subscribed to the YouTube or Rumble channels, don't forget to check them out! Links to check out Keet News (Link: https://tinyurl.com/mr2jykku) holesail.io (Link: https://holesail.io/) pears.com (Link: https://pears.com/) keet.io (Link: keet.io) Pinokio (Link: https://tinyurl.com/4cw6v2wr) Host Links ⁠Guy on Nostr ⁠(Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xc96ney) ⁠Guy on X ⁠(Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann) Guy on Instagram (Link: https://www.instagram.com/theguyswann) Guy on TikTok (Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@theguyswann) Guy on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@theguyswann) ⁠Bitcoin Audible on X⁠ (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible) The Guy Swann Network Broadcast Room on Keet (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3na6v839)

In this lively discussion, Steve Simple, a keen Bitcoin enthusiast, and Jeff Swann, a thought leader in crypto perspectives, dive into the complexities surrounding Coinbase and BlackRock's recent controversies. They tackle the crucial differences between privacy and anonymity in digital finance, explore the ongoing challenges of centralized mining pools, and highlight innovative shifts towards decentralized mining solutions. With a dash of humor, they also critique current privacy tools and discuss the resilience of the Bitcoin community in the face of adversity.

"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. This is why this affects me so personally and why I'm so passionate about it. It's like, oh my God, there is hope."~Tanja Bächle There is more about Bitcoin and Nostr than merely the tech. More people will be brought in by the energy, the constant building and problem solving, and the feeling of hope that comes with it. Tanja, new to both Bitcoin and Nostr, has gone head first down the rabbit hole. She has taken on a major organizational role in the Nostr Booth Initiative, after being brought in by the potential she felt meeting the volunteers, entrepreneurs, and cypherpunks in the Nostr world. She joins me to share her journey of how she lost faith in the fiat world, chose to break from it by living in silence with monks, used her writing to empty her mind of the weight of it all, and then her discovery of bitcoin and nostr and finding hope in our decentralized future.   Guest Links Tanja Bächle on Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/mstanpyx) Tanja Bächle on Twitter (Link: https://x.com/BachleTanja) Tanja Bächle on LinkTree (Link: https://linktr.ee/tanjabaechle) The Extraordinary: between drugged and f**ked by Tanja Bächle (Link: https://tinyurl.com/yc7whubv) The Traveling Nostr Booth - Bringing Nostr to LatAm project on Geyser (Link: https://tinyurl.com/y7cpyhdv) Host Links ⁠Guy on Nostr ⁠(Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xc96ney) ⁠Guy on X ⁠(Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann) Guy on Instagram (Link: https://www.instagram.com/theguyswann) Guy on TikTok (Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@theguyswann) Guy on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@theguyswann) ⁠Bitcoin Audible on X⁠ (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible) The Guy Swann Network Broadcast Room on Keet (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3na6v839)

Today we dive into my favorite Ai app, combining dozens of open source tools unlocking a new era of creativity and productivity? How can you harness the power of AI to simplify workflows and organize our digital lives? Join me as I explore the possibilities and implications of AI-powered tools and share my own experiences with Pinokio and other innovative applications. Links to check out to explore more: Pinokio.computer (Link: Pinokio.computer) Comfy UI (Link: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI) Whisper C++ (Link: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp) Flux (Link: https://github.com/lllyasviel/stable-diffusion-webui-forge) Stable Diffusion Automatic1111 (Link: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui) Florence 2 (Link: https://huggingface.co/spaces/gokaygokay/Florence-2) Ollama (Link: https://ollama.com/) Access Your AI From ANYWHERE with Holesail + Ai (Link: https://youtu.be/Ajxg-rX2Lao) Free, Unlimited Transcription using Ai (Link: https://youtu.be/ZDw8ZNFBKes) Bitcoin Audible & Guy Swann Links ⁠Guy on Nostr ⁠(Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xc96ney) ⁠Guy on X ⁠(Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann) Guy on Instagram (Link: https://www.instagram.com/theguyswann) Guy on TikTok (Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@theguyswann) Guy on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@theguyswann) ⁠Bitcoin Audible on X⁠ (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible) The Guy Swann Network Broadcast Room on Keet (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3na6v839) Check out our awesome sponsors! HRF: The Human Rights Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies. Subscribe to HRF's Financial Freedom Newsletter today. (Link: https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/financial-freedom-newsletter) OFF: The Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) is an international human rights conference series hosted and produced by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF). Bringing together the world’s most engaging human rights advocates, journalists, artists, tech entrepreneurs, and world leaders, we aim to share their stories and brainstorm ways to expand freedom and unleash human potential across the globe. (Link: https://oslofreedomforum.com/) Pubky: Pubky is building the next web, a decentralized system designed to put control back in your hands. Escape censorship, algorithmic manipulation, and walled gardens by owning your identity and data. Explore the Pubky web and become the algorithm today. (Link: https://pubky.org/) Trying to BUY BITCOIN? River: Secure, trusted, bitcoin only, lightning enabled, simple. (Link: https://bitcoinaudible.com/river) Bitcoin Games! Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from the Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1) Bitcoin Custodial Multisig Want to get into Bitcoin but not ready for self custody? Use custodial multisig for the best way to distribute trust across multiple institutions and even jurisdictions! Check out OnRamp. (Link: BitcoinAudible.com/onramp) Education & HomeSchooling Get the lesson in real economics that you never got in school, and teach your kids the truth, not the statist insanity that is Keynesianism. Liberty Classroom is the invaluable resource you are looking for! (Link: BitcoinAudible.com/Liberty)