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"Much like how two nuclear bombs ended World War II, capital-crushing central bank policy rate hikes and Russian sanctions were like two nuclear bombs dropped on the economy and the banking system. The shock wave took one year to make its way around the world, and now we're dealing with the fallout.European banks like Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse were very intertwined with Russia, and tried to resist cutting ties with Russian business lines as this would inevitably lead to their failures, which would spread as contagion to the rest of the global banking system." — ⁠Brad Mills⁠ Part 2 today of Brad Mills's excellent breakdown of the state of the banking crisis, the potential risk to the everyday depositor, and the likely paths forward. Will more banks collapse, and will this lead us into hyperinflation, broad default, or will we manage another kicking of the can? How do we, as depositors to these crumbling institutions, protect ourselves from the growing storm? Find out in today's episode... For the tons of extra data and sources to give the visual comparisons and tell the "story" of all this as it plays out, I highly encourage you to visit the link below to get a sense of what has been happening. Part 2 is coming soon, stay tuned: ⁠https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/the-banking-crisis-threatens-your-money⁠ Brad Mills on Nostr: npub1zjx3xe49u3njkyep4hcqxgth37r2ydc6f0d7nyfn72xlpv7n97ss73pvrl Guy's Nostr Pubkey: npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev Don't forget that Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. Lets be 50k Sat buddies by signing up! at (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bitcoinaudible.com/fold⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) • The Swan IRA is live! Follow the link to find out how to get your tax free retirement funds, securely allocated to Bitcoin! The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://swanbitcoin.com/guy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) ------------------------------- “What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong.”― Michael Lewis, The Big Short --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Price inflation is the highest it’s been in decades. Labor participation is the lowest it’s been in decades. Wealth inequality is continually going in the wrong direction since 1971 and has accelerated during the QE period. The  bond markets are more volatile now than they have been in decades, and 2022 was the worst year for stocks and bonds since 1920. The ballooning of the money supply and growth of the debt-based monetary system is not a left versus right phenomenon — at least in America — both sides have presided over the destruction of the dollar’s purchasing power and the weakening of the banking system." — Brad Mills If the entire banking system is insolvent, if the fictional reserve banking means none of our deposits really exist, and we are in the midst of a potentially global banking crisis still unfolding, what does it mean for the money we have in the bank? What does it mean for our access, and for its purchasing power? And of course, what role does Bitcoin play in all of this? Don't miss this incredible breakdown of what is happening to our deposits by Brad Mills. Starting with Part 1... For the tons of extra data and sources to give the visual comparisons and tell the "story" of all this as it plays out, I highly encourage you to visit the link below to get a sense of what has been happening. Part 2 is coming soon, stay tuned: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/the-banking-crisis-threatens-your-money Brad Mills on Nostr: npub1zjx3xe49u3njkyep4hcqxgth37r2ydc6f0d7nyfn72xlpv7n97ss73pvrl Guy's Nostr Pubkey: npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev Don't forget that Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. Lets be 50k Sat buddies by signing up! at (⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bitcoinaudible.com/fold⁠⁠⁠⁠) • The Swan IRA is live! Follow the link to find out how to get your tax free retirement funds, securely allocated to Bitcoin! The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (⁠⁠⁠⁠https://swanbitcoin.com/guy⁠⁠⁠⁠) ------------------------------- "When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind." — C.S. Lewis --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"The idea of a language user interface as the next step from the thumb tapping we’ve become used to over the past decade is fascinating, and what we should be thinking about is how to make these tools new “bicycles for the mind,” as Steve Jobs said about computers. It’s very important we push back against doomer narratives that lean the world toward “approved Ai” in order to avoid such tools becoming yet another appendage of the state." — Aleks Svetski What are the true power and limitations of AI in a world where it can amplify madness or be a tool for liberation? Will we have to choose between passively accepting woke madness or actively escaping to awakened sanity? Today we read a great piece by Aleks Svetski on what happens when Bitcoin meets AI... Find the original and tons of other great work at his substack, Authentic Intelligence Don't forget to check out the second episode of Ai Unchained for a deeper discussion on these ideas with tons more to come, and to understand the promise of self-hosted, sovereign Ai tools: https://open.spotify.com/episode/479OhNJQHCUytf1WsdEKE0?si=a9ad55d0169946c2 Guy's Nostr Pubkey: npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev Don't forget that Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! ⁠⁠⁠⁠(⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard⁠⁠⁠⁠) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. Lets be 50k Sat buddies by signing up! at (⁠⁠⁠https://bitcoinaudible.com/fold⁠⁠⁠) • The Swan IRA is live! Follow the link to find out how to get your tax free retirement funds, securely allocated to Bitcoin! The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (⁠⁠⁠https://swanbitcoin.com/guy⁠⁠⁠) ------------------------------- "True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, it’s the refusal to acquire it.” — Jeff Booth --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

With the Introduction of Ark, the new 2nd layer payments and privacy protocol introduced with Read_734. I left with a lot of excitement, but I still had a ton of questions, so it felt like time for a chat with Burak, the creator of Ark. We dive into the bigger picture, how this is similar to lightning, how it is different, and then in an attempt to piece together the working parts we go through a bunch of edge cases and detail exactly how the ASP, past owners of Ark balances, and current owners of Ark balances all respond to secure the ownership of their coins. Don't miss this one. This is Bitcoin Audible Chat #80 - Building the Ark with Burak. Don't forget to check out arkpill.me for more details. Here are a few of the links that Burak sent my way for more exploration. Let me know if you want me to cover one on the show! Shoot me a message on Fountain https://github.com/fiksn/awesome-ark https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-May/021720.html Burak's Nostr Pubkey: npub18aq8s3z9xl87e74twfk93mljxq6alv4a79yheadx33t9np4g2wkqrtmask Guy's Nostr Pubkey: npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev Don't forget that Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! ⁠⁠⁠(⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard⁠⁠⁠) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. Lets be 50k Sat buddies by signing up! at (⁠⁠https://bitcoinaudible.com/fold⁠⁠) • The Swan IRA is live! Follow the link to find out how to get your tax free retirement funds, securely allocated to Bitcoin! The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (⁠⁠https://swanbitcoin.com/guy⁠⁠) ------------------------------- “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” ― Mark Twain --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"This is the first time we've interacted with anything other than a parrot that can string together a coherent sentence. And it sounds stupid, but it's actually true. So we are anthropomorphizing, we are projecting our own consciousness onto this thing, and we are immediately imagining Terminator, Minority Report, God knows what else we are imagining - the Ray Kurzweil's of the world - we're imagining that all of a sudden, that's it, we unlocked it, basically we have discovered God. We did it. To me that's such a mix of naivety, ignorance, and arrogance that it's not even funny." ~ Aleks Svetski We have an awesome conversation kicking off episode 2 of AI Unchained today with Aleks Svetski, who is currently building a not-yet-public project in the AI world. He brings a very unique perspective that tries to bring back a bit of perspective to the imaginations gone wild on the world ending possibilities of AI. What is the truth of it? And can we instill "truth" in these machines? Can we make them "objective and unbiased?" Or is there something both inherently foolish and presuming in even the attempt of such a thing, that we can prevent making the same mistakes of the past. Don't miss this crazy conversation.   Guest Links Aleks Svetski on Linktree (Link: https://linktr.ee/svetski) 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! Fold: The best way to buy, use, and earn #Bitcoin on everything you do! Sats back on your debit card, gift cards, auto-buys, round-ups, you name it. Fold is the true bitcoiner's banking. Get 20K sats for FREE using referral code bitcoinaudible.com/fold 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)

This episode will be part review, and part just going over some very practical, step by step ways to think about managing your keys with a hardware wallet. What you always need to do, how to not over complicate things, who you are protecting your keys from, and more. This episode will be good for those who had been considering taking the dive into their first hardware wallet, and still feel a little uncomfortable about exactly what to do to make sure their keys are there when needed. Guy's Nostr Pubkey: npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev Don't forget that Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! ⁠⁠(⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard⁠⁠) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. Lets be 50k Sat buddies by signing up! at (⁠https://bitcoinaudible.com/fold⁠) • The Swan IRA is live! Follow the link to find out how to get your tax free retirement funds, securely allocated to Bitcoin! The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (⁠https://swanbitcoin.com/guy⁠) ------------------------------- "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." — E.F. Schumacher --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Ark is a trustless, distinct layer two protocol with unilateral exit. ASPs cannot steal users’ funds or link senders & receivers. Users retain self-custody and can revert their funds to the base layer if something goes wrong on the second layer." — Burak Today we dive into possibly the most exciting announcement to come out of Bitcoin2023, a genuinely unique layer 2 protocol, for non-custodial, fully anonymous, fast, cheap, off-chain payments. Introducing Ark. We are diving right in and I promise you don't want to miss this one. Let's Go! Check out the original article at: Introducing Ark. I’m excited to publicly introduce Ark… | by Burak Guy's Nostr Pubkey: npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev If you'd like to take your own deep dive, then you may start at https://www.arkpill.me/ Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. Lets be 50k Sat buddies by signing up! at (https://bitcoinaudible.com/fold) • The Swan IRA is live! Follow the link to find out how to get your tax free retirement funds, securely allocated to Bitcoin! The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy) • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, with the NEW Coldcard Q1! A company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! (https://bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard) ------------------------------- "To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense." — Henry Ford --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"an unbounded number of assets can be minted and/or moved in a single on-chain transaction. This off-chain first design enables asset minters and transactors to enjoy the permissionless nature of the bitcoin blockchain and scale their businesses without running into bitcoin’s scaling constraints. Users will soon be able to integrate their assets into the Lightning Network for instant, high volume, low-fee transactions. This leverages existing network effects and the install base of wallets, exchanges, and merchants, instead of needing to bootstrap a new ecosystem from scratch." — Ryan Gentry With the issuance of assets on the Bitcoin network seeing a sudden surge, Taproot Assets drops there initial release at a very opportune time. Taproot Assets is a game-changing solution for scalable and efficient asset issuance and transfer on top of the bitcoin ecosystem. Seamlessly integrate with the Lightning Network for instant, low-fee transactions and enjoy developer-friendly tools designed for global accessibility. Don't miss this excellent episode. Check out the original article plus the other great things built by Lightning Labs at the link below: Mint the Future with Taproot Assets v0.2 - https://lightning.engineering/posts/2023-05-16-taproot-assets-v0.2/ Guy's Nostr Pubkey: npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 20,000 FREE SATS! at (https://bitcoinaudible.com/fold) • The Swan IRA is live! Follow the link to find out how to get your tax free retirement funds, securely allocated to Bitcoin! The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy) • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, with the NEW Coldcard Q1! A company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! (https://bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard) ------------------------------- "One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem." — Jacob Appelbaum --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

Welcome to the first episode of AI Unchained, a new show exploring how AI technology can be a means of empowering the individual, rather than a system of control, and all the tools and perspectives that enlighten that journey. Our first guest is none other than Jeff Booth, the author of "The Price of Tomorrow" on the incredible deflationary force of technology and why our only choice is to embrace it, not fight it. If you are trying to make sense out of the change that is being unleashed, you do not want to miss this show. Welcome to AI Unchained. Check out Jeff Booth's incredible book here: ⁠Amazon.com: The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future⁠ Guy's Nostr Pubkey: npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 10% off your ⁠Bitcoin2023 tickets⁠! Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • The Swan IRA is live! Follow the link to find out how to get your tax free retirement funds, securely allocated to Bitcoin! The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with ⁠Swan Bitcoin⁠ • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and Fold App. 20,000 FREE SATS! at the ⁠LINK⁠ • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, with the NEW Coldcard Q1! A company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. ⁠Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard!⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

Welcome to the first episode of AI Unchained, a new show exploring how AI technology can be a means of empowering the individual, rather than a system of control, and all the tools and perspectives that enlighten that journey. Our first guest is none other than Jeff Booth, the author of "The Price of Tomorrow" on the incredible deflationary force of technology and why our only choice is to embrace it, not fight it. If you are trying to make sense out of the change that is being unleashed, you do not want to miss this show. Welcome to AI Unchained. Check out Jeff Booth's incredible book here The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future by Jeff Booth. (Link: http://tinyurl.com/hws9f3cb)   Guest Links ⁠Jeff Booth on X ⁠(Link: https://x.com/JeffBooth) Jeff Booth Website (Link: https://www.jeffbooth.ca/) Jeff Booth on Nostr (Link: https://primal.net/jeffbooth) 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! Fold: The best way to buy, use, and earn #Bitcoin on everything you do! Sats back on your debit card, gift cards, auto-buys, round-ups, you name it. Fold is the true bitcoiner's banking. Get 20K sats for FREE using referral code bitcoinaudible.com/fold 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)