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Car González is a bitcoiner, producer of Tales From From The Crypt and Rabbit Hole Recap, co-founder of Austin Pleb Lab, and all around great guy. We talk grassroots bitcoin, pleb life, building community, and the Austin bitcoin scene. Follow Car on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThrillerX_  Pleb Lab: https://twitter.com/PlebLab  Thriller Bitcoin: https://twitter.com/ThrillerBitcoin

Today we bring you a conversation with Craig Deutsch, recorded at BitBlockBoom!, the premier Bitcoin maxi conference / sausage fest. Craig organizes the Asheville, NC Bitcoin meetup, is working on a Bitcoin board game, and is an editor at Bitcoin Magazine, having retooled after a pre-pandemic career as a teacher.   Follow Craig on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoin_phan  And The Bitcoin Board Game: https://twitter.com/TheBitcoinGame_  And hell, throw Bitcoin Mag a follow too, we love that rag: https://twitter.com/bitcoinmagazine

In this episode we dive into… ordinals! Ordinal numbers are serial numbers for satoshi. Every satoshi, which is ¹⁄₁₀₀₀₀₀₀₀₀ of a bitcoin, has an ordinal, and every ordinal has a satoshi. Ordinals are Casey's somewhat crazed project to bring collectable sats, and eventually, digital art and NFTs, to Bitcoin. Strap in, because it's a bewildering ride through a sat bazaar, redolent with the smell of rare and exotic ordinals.  For an intro to ordinal theory, check out this blog post: https://rodarmor.com/blog/ordinal-theory/ You can play with the ordinal block explorer here: https://ordinals.com  A live version of the Bitcoin clock is here: https://ordinals.com/clock  Ordinal theorists congregate on the discord: https://discord.com/invite/87cjuz4FYg  The block explorer and ordinal wallet is open source and developed on GitHub: https://github.com/casey/ord

This week, Erin and Casey bring you a grab bag of Bitcoin-related topics - Tornado Cash crackdown, the upcoming Ethereum merge, and community college micro economics:   - Tornado Cash crackdown and why the government has yet to crack down on Bitcoin  - The Ethereum merge, and why Casey originally thought it was a long-term liability, but now might also turn out to be a short-term liability.  - How to feel sane when everything is crazy. Especially relevant for Bitcoiners.  - Why a community college micro economics course taught by a retired Shell oil exec (shout out to V. Lee Prescott!) had a lasting impact on Casey's world view.  - And more!

Sidd drove his motorcycle across America hitting up Bitcoin meetups around the country, discovering the soul of American Bitcoin culture. He joins us at the end of his road trip to discuss the American political divide, Bitcoin culture across America, and what qualities make a Bitcoiner.  Follow Sidd on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CaptainSiddh

This week Casey and Erin break down how the Bitcoin Lightning Network works using craft supplies. Channels, preimages, onions, and more!

This week Casey and Erin are joined by special guest CK, general manager of Bitcoin Magazine, and quite possibly the most bullish person in Bitcoin. Most people are not bullish enough by multiple orders of magnitude, but CK is only not bullish enough by one order of magnitude. We talk hyperbitcoinization, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

This week Casey and Erin talk about the wild world of Crypto, a.k.a. everything that's not Bitcoin. They dive into the early history of Bitcoin, early altcoins, the ICO boom, defi, NFTs, crypto psychology, and dig into a host of different projects, including Ethereum, Monero, Cardano, Solana, and more.

Erin gives Casey a lowdown on the astrology of Bitcoin, including a breakdown of the current astrological cycles, Bitcoin's natal chart, and the Pluto return of the USA. Plus, Casey gets a natal chart reading and goes from astrology skeptic to believer.

Erin has returned from Europe and we're back with another episode! This week, Erin and Casey have a wide ranging conversation, touching on the fall of Rome, new gods versus old, the energetics of the Large Hadron Collider, and of course, Bitcoin Maximalism.