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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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Oct 9, 2023 • 1h 20min
Ai_008 - Ecash and Ai with Obi Nwosu
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Obi Nwosu, co-founder and CEO of Fedi, joins us today to talk about the new innovations and challenges in re-decentralizing the web and how both Bitcoin and Ai are at the core of making it possible.
Guest Links
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Fedi Website (Link: https://www.fedi.xyz/)
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Education & HomeSchooling
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Oct 9, 2023 • 1h 20min
FEATURING AI Unchained #008 - Ecash and Ai with Obi Nwosu
Obi Nwosu, co-founder and CEO of Fedi, joins us today to talk about the new innovations and challenges in decentralising the web and how both Bitcoin and Ai are at the core of making it possible.
This conversation was recorded for the AI Unchained podcast, but I decided to cross post it here since a lot of the conversation is themed around Bitcoin.
Guest Links: Follow Obi on X: https://x.com/obi
Follow Fedi on X: https://twitter.com/fedimint
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Oct 5, 2023 • 40min
Reboot - Bitcoin & Software Reliability
"With Bitcoin, lives and money are at stake. Interruption of its service can cause a cascade of losses and unintended consequences for potentially millions of people and billions of fiat dollars. If it is possible to build a Bitcoin that cannot fail, that should be the goal, and no compromise should be acceptable." — Beautyon
Before we get into a Guy'a Take to continue our FUD Relief series - addressing the failures to understand the value and purpose of Bitcoin - it's time to bring a brilliant piece back from the archive, update the audio and give some fresh commentary to set the stage for tackling another common misconception of "progress" when it comes to the bitcoin perspective. If there was a top tier of articles that are must-listens to grasp bitcoin, this would be in it. Let's dive in.
Check out the original article at: Bitcoin and Software Reliability by Beautyon | Medium
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"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." — Marcel Proust
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Oct 3, 2023 • 1h 11min
Read_769 - Orange is the New Green
"Our existing financial system is a mirage of wealth and liquidity, sustained by an ever-expanding money supply. Bitcoin emerges as the ultimate shield against the inevitable reckoning that will shatter this illusion."
— Theo Mogenet
Today, we dive into another great piece from Axiom BTC on the mission to reprice the world in sats. We all understand the incredible benefit of Bitcoin as a long term store of value, and that's its monetary properties give it unique capacity for long term savings. However, too often we hear it is a disaster for short term cash balances. What if this wasn't true? What if there was a possible path to Bitcoin, actually being the *best* short term cash equivalent on a global scale, even *despite* it's volatility? If that intrigues you, don't miss this piece.
Check out the original article at:
Orange Is The New Green — Axiom
Links:
Read_750 - Capital in the 21st Century [Allen Farrington]
Chat_80 - Building the Ark with Burak
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Sep 30, 2023 • 1h 9min
Ai_007 - Global Markets for GPU Power with Christopher David
What if we could mitigate the enormous centralizing effects of the massive server farms and huge corporate entities, by pooling the GPU power of the millions of users and tinkerers who have unused or regularly idle computational power, into a decentralized marketplace for buying and selling Ai execution, and we could power it all with instantly settled sats over lightning?
It just so happens that we can, and this ambitious project is being brought to life with GPUtopia. Chris David from the project joins us today to break down the vision and how they hope to play a part in the decentralized future of Ai.
Links mentioned
Tinygrad.org (Link: https://tinygrad.org/)
Inflection.ai (Link: https://inflection.ai/)
Read_712 - Lightning Prisms [DerGigi] (Link: http://tinyurl.com/28v53jsn)
Read_574 - Lightning & The Internet - Choosing the Right Path [Roy Sheinfeld] (Link: http://tinyurl.com/464xyars)
Guest Links
Christopher David on X (Link: https://twitter.com/AtlantisPleb)
Christopher David on Nostr (Link: http://tinyurl.com/69hcjbkc)
Founder of Open Agents (Link: https://openagents.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)
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)

Sep 29, 2023 • 1h 54min
Chat_85 - Bitcoin HyperDecentralization with Zack Bomsta
In this episode, I talked with Zack ₿omsta, the visionary leader behind Pivotal Pleb. Pivotal Pleb is on a mission to level the playing field for decentralized miners.
Zack shares insights into how their technology is driving decentralisation and empowering individual miners, allowing them to play a vital role in the Bitcoin network. Join us as we unravel the importance of accessible mining solutions and their impact on the future of Bitcoin.
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Sep 28, 2023 • 36min
Read_768 - Living Through the Fall of Rome
"Today historians focus on the symptoms of Rome’s fall, the consequences: The moral decay, the economic decline, the fall in public safety, the multiplying plagues from dysfunctional public services, the hollowed-out military that ultimately invited barbarian invasions. But we know these well - in fact we're living through many of them. What's a lot more interesting is the why. Because that's how you stop it." — Peter St. Onge
Are we living through the Fall of Rome? There are so many parallels with the United States empire today and the Roman Empire of so long ago that its hard to ignore. It's difficult to not think we will see the same fate when we experience so many of the same symptoms, with all of the same underlying causes. But do we have a way out? Is there an alternative? Peter breaks it down for us in another great piece, don't miss it.
Check out the original article and Peter's amazing newsletter at: Are we Living the Fall of Rome? - Peter St Onge, Ph.D.
Check out the other great episodes and resources discussed in the commentary:
Chat\_81 - An Austrian View of US Collapse with Peter St. Onge - Bitcoin Audible | Podcast on Spotify
Read\_602 - Bitcoin's Peaceful Revolution, A New Hope for Humanity [Peter St Onge - Bitcoin Audible | Podcast on Spotify
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Sep 25, 2023 • 58min
Read_767 - Pay Me in Bitcoin Theory
"If the merchant wants the bitcoin and you pay in fiat_, that is you shifting the burden of fiat friction on to them. And paying your valued vendors in bitcoin is the opposite of mutually assured destruction–it's mutually assured survival." — Parker Lewis
Ultimately, the decision to accept Bitcoin as payment will be driven by the fact that those merchants understand the value of Bitcoin and why it is expected to store value into the future. What does that mean for how we think about finding our way to a Bitcoin future? Parker Lewis is back with another great piece, on the "Pay Me In Bitcoin Theory."
Check out the original article at: Pay Me in Bitcoin Theory
The playlist to the entire Gradually, Then Suddenly series in audio: Gradually, Then Suddenly Series - playlist by Guy | Spotify
Another great piece suggested in the commentary: Read\_724 - The Virtue of Selfishness - The Objectivist Ethic [Ayn Rand] - Bitcoin Audible | Podcast on Spotify.
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"If you want to change the world, start with yourself." — Mahatma Ghandi
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Sep 20, 2023 • 1h 9min
Read_766 - Spiderchains, Proof of Stake L2
"Take the idea of proof-of-stake as a base layer consensus mechanism, and throw the idea away for right now. That's not what this is, and the problems that need to be solved to enable proof-of-stake as a second layer system instead of a stand alone base layer are not the same. #Proof-of-stake is essentially a #federation, but where anyone can join and can't be stopped from doing so, and with a mechanism to punish members for acting malicious. As a base layer that creates all kinds of existential issues, like the objectivity of a slashing penalty. Proof-of-stake as a second layer does not have that problem when the bonds for slashing are on the main chain, governed by proof-of-work."
We have a new addition to the sidechain discussion with the announcement of "Spiderchains," a novel approach to the peg in/out model. Enalbing a proof of stake system that uses the underlying Bitcoin chain as the ultimate source of time and finality. The interesting thing? Not a single change to Bitcoin is necessary to make it work, so one way or the other, it's going to happen. Find out more...
Check out the original article at: Spiderchains, a Proof of Stake L2
Lopp's Spiderchain Article: An Introduction to Spiderchain
Bitcoin Audible: Read 562 - Only the Strong Survive - Part 1 [Allen Farrington & Big Al]
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite." — William Blake
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Sep 15, 2023 • 33min
Read_765 - "Hoarding" is a Keynesian Slur
"This has been one of the most effective psychological operations that has ever been conducted on the public in human history. The high priests of central banking started running with this narrative and people have come to believe that it is a law of physics. Economies cannot operate efficiently unless there is a steady flow of new monetary units being created and introduced to the economy. If new monetary units aren't being created people will hoard their money and grind the economy to a halt." — Marty Bent
Today we take another angle of attack against the absurd notion that savers are the ones grifting from society, while the counterfeiters are doing a noble service to save us from the evil, ordinary citizens who have earned money and hope to keep it.
Check out the original article and sub to Marty's Bent at: Higher Savings Rates Are Good for the Economy
Mentioned in the take, you can find the new video Guy's Take series on Youtube or Rumble and by following me on Nostr and Twitter.
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"I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form." — Calvin Coolidge
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