
Bitcoin Audible
The Best in Bitcoin made Audible.
Guy Swann makes the knowledge of Bitcoin, the world's most secure, independent money, accessible to everyone. Exploring Bitcoin from an investment perspective, economic analysis, its philosophical foundations, & technological primitives. Reading and distilling thousands of hours of others' works on Bitcoin, Guy explains everything you need to know.
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Jun 16, 2024 • 1h 24min
Ai_028 - How Much Do You Trust Apple?
Today Guy Swann dives deep into everything about the "Apple Intelligence" announcement, which aims to integrate powerful AI capabilities directly into the company's operating systems. He raises thought-provoking questions about the implications of such a system, particularly regarding privacy and trust in a tech giant like Apple. The episode promises to explore the potential benefits and drawbacks of this groundbreaking AI implementation.
Links to check out:
Ai_023 - The Promise of personal Ai (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/zyaRbKCfCIPtUgzzmr6d)
Does Apple Have a Recording of You Having Sex (Link: https://tinyurl.com/ydhbcbar)
WWDC 2024 (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXeOiIDNNek)
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"Don't trust. Verify." — Unknown

Jun 13, 2024 • 59min
Guy's Take_087 - Credit, Burning Cash, and Real Growth
Is deflation always a bad thing, or have we misunderstood its true impact on the economy? Join me as I unravel the misconceptions about deflation, explore the different types, and explain why modern economics gets it wrong. Discover how Bitcoin fits into this picture and what it means for real economic growth.
Links to check out
2 Sats Video on Deflation (Link: https://youtu.be/vknNY3oTABc)
Guy's Take - Fiat Waste (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/1gcvdjEf8b3FB1D48jjX)
Guy's Take - Fiat Finance (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/0mPe87a9FOWQoHIPFytU)
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"It doesn't matter how smart you are, unless you stop and think." — Thomas Sowell

Jun 10, 2024 • 53min
Read_828 - Orange Pilling Has Stopped Working
"Educating the world about bitcoin has succeeded in building a community of knowledgeable, dedicated, enthusiastic people from the fields of tech, economics, politics, and finance, but orange pilling has taken us as far as it can. Like many strategies, the marginal gains of educating the world were remarkable in the early stages, but they’ve flattened... Orange pilling has stopped working." - Roy Sheinfeld
Has Bitcoin's "orange-pilling" strategy reached its limits? Explore why traditional methods of educating the masses about Bitcoin are losing steam and discover the new approaches needed to drive adoption in a changing landscape. Join us as we delve into the future of Bitcoin adoption and the role of technology in creating real-world utility.
Check out the original article at Orange Pilling Has Stopped Working. (Link: https://tinyurl.com/4wvr9j37)
Links to check out
Breez SDK (Link: https://breez.technology/sdk/)
Arc Labs (Link: https://www.arclabs.co/)
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“We don’t yet know the names of the architects who will build the next upgrade to the secret-killing machine. But we’ll know them by their work” -Andy Greenberg

Jun 9, 2024 • 1h 5min
Read_827 - The Conflict of Men's Interests
"...that the lives and efforts of other men are not his property and are not there to serve his wishes. A rational man never holds a desire or pursues a goal which cannot be achieved directly or indirectly by his own effort." ~ Ayn Rand
Is the conflict between individual interests and society a myth? Discover how Ayn Rand's principles of rational self-interest challenge common beliefs about competition and cooperation, and what it means for our understanding of freedom and responsibility. Tune in to explore these thought-provoking ideas!
Check out the original article and other links mentioned in the commentary at:
The Virtue of Selfishness Series by Ayn Rand (Link: https://tinyurl.com/pf6sps6k)
Read_724 - The Virtue of Selfishness - The Objectivist Ethic [Ayn Rand] (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3xudvuak)
Guy's Take_086 - Fiat Waste (Link: https://tinyurl.com/ajetxy8z)
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Bitcoin Audible on X (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible)
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“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.” ~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Jun 6, 2024 • 51min
Read_826 - The Supreme Court Ruling and Implications for Operation Choke Point
"In NRA, the Court addressed a critical issue impacting not only traditional advocacy groups but any disfavored, but legal, industry. This ruling draws parallels to Operation Choke Point 2.0, where U.S. regulators have allegedly been targeting crypto businesses through financial exclusion. Moreover, the recent _Cantero_ decision sheds light on how this legal framework might impact Custodia Bank's appeal against the denial of their master account by the Federal Reserve." - Colin Crossman
Multiple verdicts recently came down from the Supreme Court, and they may very well end up being ammunition to fight back against the gross regulatory overreach and extralegal attacks on the Bitcoin and crypto ecosystem. How might they change the fight against Operation Choke Point 2.0, squeezing the crypto market out of financial access, and how could it impact Custodia Bank's rejection and ongoing battle to get an account at the Federal Reserve? Find out what it means, and what we may be able to do about it, in a great article from Colin Crossman.
Check out the original article at NRA & Cantero in the Supreme Court: Implications for Operation Choke Point 2.0 and Custodia Bank (Link: https://tinyurl.com/59u77utn)
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"The normative principle I am suggesting for the law is simply this: No action should be considered illicit or illegal unless it invades, or aggresses against, the person or just property of another."- Murray Rothbard

Jun 6, 2024 • 54min
Ai_027 - Is AI Breaking the Web?
A trend I've noticed with Ai, is that it has shifted itself into the middleman position between everyone and the normal surfing of the web. While it may save the user time, could this be disrupting the very traffic that monetizes content on the internet? With this fundamental change in the monetization paradigm, a huge shift is coming to the web. What will it look like, and how should we prepare? Tune in to find out.
Links to check out
Descript (Link: https://tinyurl.com/bdhr75jr)
Pinokio (Link: https://pinokio.computer/)
ComfyUI and Automatic 1111 (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3c6rc6f8)
Ollama (Link: https://www.ollama.com/)
Open Web UI (Link: https://docs.openwebui.com/)
Logseq and Obsidian (Link: https://tinyurl.com/yypmkrd2)
LLaVA Model (Link: https://llava-vl.github.io/)
Hookmark (Link: https://hookproductivity.com/)
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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)
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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)

Jun 4, 2024 • 48min
Read_825 - Decentralization and Localized Manufacturing, Bitcoin, Ai, and 3D Printing
What if the future of decentralization lies not just in Bitcoin, but in the convergence of a multitude of different technologies that bring power back to the individual? How can Bitcoin, AI and 3D printing together disrupt the centralized powers of today and redefine our world in the next 30 years? Dive into this episode with an article from Emile Phaneuf on the convergence of Bitcoin, AI, and localized manufacturing, and what it means for our technological and economic future.Check out the original article at Decentralization and Localized Manufacturing: Bitcoin, AI and 3D Printing (Link: https://tinyurl.com/mr2wrbz6)
Links to check out
Read_813 - Mises's Regression Theorem, Bitcoin, and Subjective Value (Link:https://tinyurl.com/2bjebsw4)
#008 - Ecash and Ai with Obi Nwosu (Link: https://tinyurl.com/dwekuuuu)
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson William Rees-Mogg (Link: https://tinyurl.com/4yx9dj3a)
Guest Links
Emile Phaneuf III on X (Link: https://twitter.com/EconEmile)
Emile Phaneuf III Website (Link: https://www.aier.org/people/emile-phaneuf-iii/)
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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)
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“Mass production keeps the world divided between consumer and producer. Demassification of production may hasten the speed towards an era of prosumers.” - Michael Petch

Jun 2, 2024 • 1h 14min
Read_824 - Ecash is Self-Custodial
"Fedimint is a scalable self-custodial off-chain programmability layer on top of Bitcoin. It allows for use cases that are difficult, time-consuming, and unscalable for general users to do on-chain today. You might think I had a typo calling Fedimint a self-custodial network. Let me explain..." ~ Tony Giorgio
Have we increasingly lost sight of the nuance in the market for trust that lets us dismiss an ocean of novel and highly valuable solutions to our problems? What if the goals we are aimed at with Bitcoin aren't really final conclusions, but a spectrum laid out on a never ending path? Fedimint presents a profound shift in the trust and privacy elements of being a bitcoin user, and breaks down enormous barriers to the problem of providing a service to others. Tony, one of the incredible minds behind Mutiny, brings us an article today to reframe both the problem and the solution to the many challenges of building a Bitcoin world.
Check out the original article at Fedimint (Federated Ecash) is Self-Custodial — Tony Giorgio (Link: https://tonygiorgio.com/fedimint/)
Links to check out
Mutiny Wallet (Link: https://www.mutinywallet.com/)
Ai Unchained with Obi Nwosu (Link: https://youtu.be/vdFZ9cB_2n0?si=6cfzepQhUekUiKNz)
The Pear Report 01 - Return of the P2P Web (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqmdbv01PEk)
Fedi Bravo (Link: https://www.fedi.xyz/builders_
Holesail Pear based tunnels Reverse tunneling software (Link: https://holesail.io/)
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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)
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"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit or it is nowhere." ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

May 31, 2024 • 1h 11min
Ai_026 - The Scam of Open AI
A very unique dynamic occurs with generative AI. LLM companies are scraping the internet for millions of works belonging to other people, photos, videos and film, forum posts, tutorials, all of this human created content meant to provide value to others in hopes of monetizing the attention, or gaining reputation from that research or creation.But without attribution or sharing of the proceeds, we can recreate, mimic, or even pull that exact content back out of the generative models. What does that mean for AI models? What does this mean for copyright? And is the only solution in the violent hand of the state, or is there a technological or cultural solution to this technological problem?
It can be argued that Open AI has become the ultimate middleman, that never even sends its users to the content that makes its product valuable to begin with? In that sense, is OpenAi a breakthrough...or just a different kind of scam? Don't miss today's show.
Links to check out
Eight US newspapers sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement Dawkins (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2jywhzts)
The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning(Link: https://tinyurl.com/ycpx2f5m)
60% of OpenAI model's responses contain plagiarism (Link: https://tinyurl.com/avch8dfs)
Is A.I. Art Stealing from Artists? (Link: https://tinyurl.com/mukdju7h)
Voice Stolen by AI? Scarlett Johansson Sues OpenAI in Groundbreaking Case (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3ckpnwxf)
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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!
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Ready for best-in-class self custody?
Get the Jade here and use discount code 'GUY' to get 10% off (Link: bitcoinaudible.com/jade)
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)

May 30, 2024 • 59min
Guy's Take_086 - Fiat Waste
People look around and they see a wasteful world. They see endless, mindless consumption. Increasingly, we see people fearing the future rather than hoping for it.
I'm going to make the case today that in order to realign this, money must be the most valuable good in society. And necessarily, it must be the hardest thing to produce and that we actually can know this because of where the value of money comes from and what the money is in relation to the society that uses it. I want you to come away from the end of this episode realizing that not only is it aligned to have a sound money that grows in value, but it is necessary for us to value the future of our society in the first place. So we're going to take this show to go back to our Fiat World Series with Fiat Waste. It's time for a Guy's Take episode.
Links to check out
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (Link:https://tinyurl.com/bdzy7bfz)
The Deflation Boogie Man (Link:https://tinyurl.com/4t2d5kj5)
Guy’s Take_082 – Fiat Replacement Theory (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/YXHrvdYuGct6zmpfGZkF)
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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)
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"By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us."- Alan Watts