Bitcoin Audible

“Often, in an argument, what people think they are arguing about is not the real subject of disagreement, which is deeper and often unspoken, if it is even understood. So it is here. The divisions that have opened up in society about the covid vaccines are not really about the covid vaccines at all: they are about what vaccination symbolizes in this moment. What it means to be 'vaxxed' or 'unvaxxed', safe or dangerous, clean or dirty, sensible or irresponsible, compliant or independent: these are questions about what it means to be a good member of society, and what society even is, and they are detonating like depth charges beneath the surface of the culture.” - Paul Kingsnorth We take a small detour to look at the state of the world and what is unfolding before us. How it applies to our future and the systems of control being constructed around us with so little resistance or open discussion. Paul Kingsnorth brings us an excellent article trying to make sense out of all of this. What is wrong, and what can we do about it? Don't forget to check out the original with tons of links referenced throughout the article to explore further and verify what he claims for yourself: https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-vaccine-moment-part-one For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (20% discount) • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (5% discount code GUY) • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the world! Bitcoin 2022 (10% discount code GUYSWANN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“If price is truth, then a market capitalization of over $1 billion for over 100 different cryptocurrencies tells a story: we live in a multicoin world. But does that mean that bitcoin has competitors on its path to world reserve currency? No.” - Nik Bhatia “Which crypto should I buy?” I’m sure you’ve heard it a thousand times if you’ve been in this space for even a few months. Are Bitcoin and crypto really in the same space, fighting for the same markets? Or is there a more fundamental difference that is difficult to see in such a novel space? What if they aren't even in the same asset class? Nik Bhatia breaks it all down in this short, but excellent piece on why Bitcoin and Crypto, are not in fact, the same. Check out the article with lots of links for reference and further digging here. Check out Some of Nik's other great works at the link below, or search for Nik in the Bitcoin Audible Library: https://bitcoinaudible.com/lightning-why-i-quit-the-bond-market-for-bitcoin/ Don't forget to snag your copy of Layered Money in physical or audiobook format: https://www.amazon.com/Layered-Money-Dollars-Bitcoin-Currencies-ebook/dp/B08PS293NT For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (20% discount) • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (5% discount code GUY) • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the world! Bitcoin 2022 (10% discount code GUYSWANN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"The Bitcoin network itself and the personal owning of bitcoin is an act of peaceful rebellion against the fiat money system." - Dr. Wolf Von Laer There are a million different ways to discuss the benefits and attributes of Bitcoin, how it will influence the world, how it will change economic calculation. But what is most important for us and our hopes for the future, is the freedom it enables. And this isn't in some esoteric, vague sense, but in a real sense, for both the collective, and the individual. Bitcoin is our best hope for liberty. Don't miss a short, but excellent piece from Dr. Wolf Von Laer. Find the original, plus links to other great reads on the article below: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-single-best-shot-at-liberty Don't forget to check out Alex Gladstein's amazing works mentioned in the commentary: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/authors/alexgladstein For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (20% discount) • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (5% discount code GUY) • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the world! Bitcoin 2022 (10% discount code GUYSWANN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“as the internet has slowly but surely eroded the obstacle of restricted information access in the past decades, the limiting factor for an individual to make intellectual progress merely shifted from an accessibility problem to a filtering problem (filtering the information that is relevant from the information that is not).” - Willem Van Den Bergh Another excellent piece from Willem on the core issue of information flow in the modern age. What is the difference between systemic versus regional experts, and what framework can we use to better assess and filter the ocean of information flooding at us everyday? Are we destined to be the victims of supposed "authorities" with no skin in the game? Or is there a path to sustainable, robust knowledge in our digital future? don't miss this one! Check out the original with tons of great links for further reading into these concepts below! Plus drop some massive applause on this article on Medium: https://medium.com/@willemvandenbergh_85885/the-ir-relevance-of-experts-top-down-versus-bottom-up-information-flow-428bd5005d88 Don't forget Willem's previous, amazing piece on Schelling points and the natural path toward convergence on Bitcoin: https://bitcoinaudible.com/on-schelling-points-network-effects-lind/ For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (20% discount) • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (5% discount code GUY) • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the world! Bitcoin 2022 (10% discount code GUYSWANN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Hudson’s thesis was that America had forced other countries to pay for its wars regardless of whether they wanted to or not. Like a tribute system, but enforced without military occupation. “This was,” he writes, “something never before accomplished by any nation in history.” - Alex Gladstein Another banger from Gladstein this week that follows Michael Hudson's work, Super Imperialism from the 1970s, critiquing and laying out the framework of power resulting from a global reserve system backed by American debt. Was he just a cynic, or was there a thread of truth in his warnings of the dangers of the global dollar system and the resulting dynamics of international power. Don't miss another great piece from Gladstein! Check out the original with many links for further exploring the pieces discussed. Plus the many other great works by Gladstein and Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-replacing-us-super-imperialism For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (20% discount) • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (5% discount code GUY) • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the world! Bitcoin 2022 (10% discount code GUYSWANN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

Today we have an incredible conversation with Preston Pysh and Greg Foss on the Bond markets, the shifting sands of the global financial world, and the incredible impact that Bitcoin will have on our future direction and the outcome of these crazy times. You don’t want to miss this one guys, so dive right in. Don’t forget to check out Preston and Greg on twitter if you haven’t. They are must follows in this space, all signal: https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss https://twitter.com/PrestonPysh For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (20% discount code BITCOINAUDIBLE) • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (5% discount code GUY) • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the world! Bitcoin 2022 (10% discount code GUYSWANN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"The passage of time is one thing that we can never get back. Once it has been spent, there’s no refund. Time is the ultimate currency, forever passing without the ability to return to a prior moment: ever passing, ever spent, ultimately and unequivocally finite." - Mike Hobart The mainstream ignorance of money is ubiquitous. But Bitcoin forces one to rethink everything they thought they knew. By Making a pure, independent monetary medium, we are forced to question all the fallacies and loosely held untruths about money that we have never challenged before. Mike Hobart brings us a short, but excellent little piece on the fallacies of money, and why Bitcoin forces them to change. Check out the original and other works by the author below: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-changes-perception-of-money For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (20% discount) • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (5% discount code GUY) • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the world! Bitcoin 2022 (10% discount code GUYSWANN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“I wish people engineered things to be self-replicating, self adjusting, self-governing, and ever-lasting. But nobody has engineered anything to do even one of these, and then along comes Bitcoin and does them all” - Tomer Strolight Bitcoin isn't merely a new innovation in the world of tech, its a wholly unique system that behaves so differently from everything today, the social, the engineering, and the organic systems that we are accustomed to, that one could easily find themselves wondering whether it makes more sense that Bitcoin is an alien technology. Maybe we know that it isn't, but it is certainly hard to learn about Bitcoin without once pausing to wonder... check out this piece plus tons of other great work from Tomer below: https://tomerstrolight.medium.com/why-people-wonder-if-bitcoin-is-alien-technology-f9fda5b018b Mentioned in the episode for further reading/exploring: Brandon Quittem's Mycelium Series Part 1 - https://bitcoinaudible.com/bitcoin-is-a-decentralized-organism/ Part 2 - https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_224---Bitcoin-is-a-Social-Creature--Mycelium-Part-2-e3iq3u Part 3 - https://bitcoinaudible.com/bitcoin-is-the-antivirus/ Part 4 - https://bitcoinaudible.com/bitcoin-is-a-catalyst-for-human-evolution/ Bitcoin is Generational Wealth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rnqst5qCgA For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (20% discount) • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (5% discount code GUY) • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the world! Bitcoin 2022 (10% discount code GUYSWANN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"We’re revolutionaries. There’s no reason to be coy about it. Our goal is to replace fiat with bitcoin. “Disruption” is almost a quaint term for a change of the magnitude we’re bringing about. We’re taking power from institutions and transferring it to individuals by giving them control of the value they generate in their lives.” - Roy Sheinfeld We are at a crossroads and Lightning has an extremely difficult and important task. Do we go with the Lightning expansionists, using this decentralized network to embed every single byte of data into our messages and routing them across our nodes to take all that is the internet and redesign it to work on Lightning? Or do we keep lighting simple, focused, and optimized for the best, most robust decentralized payments network in the world? Choosing the right path, by Roy Sheinfeld.  Drop some applause on the original at: https://medium.com/breez-technology/lightning-the-internet-choosing-the-right-path-bedfa6382316 For more digging into the philosophy & thinking behind this from the Guy's Take, here are the other episodes mentioned: Simon Morris: Lessons of Bittorrent https://bitcoinaudible.com/why-bittorrent-mattered-lessons-for-crypto-1-of-4/ Szabo: Minimizing Consumer Worry https://bitcoinaudible.com/estimating-and-minimizing-consumer-worry/ For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (20% discount) • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (5% discount code GUY) • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the world! Bitcoin 2022 (10% discount code GUYSWANN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“Freedom, transparency, honesty, meritocracy, fairness, voluntaryism and hard work are great things one should strive toward, whether it is in developing money or living life and setting a good example for others.” - Hass McCook Today we dive into another great piece from Hass on the show, posted with Bitcoin Magazine on the broad disciplines around the Bitcoin technology. And how deeply tied it is to the understanding and study of social phenomena. How could one pretend to understand the social sciences, politics, philosophy, governance, ethics, & economics, without studying Bitcoin? Hass argues that one simply cannot. Don’t miss today’s read Check out the original article and links for diving in further below: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/you-cant-have-ppe-curriculum-without-bitcoin For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (20% discount) • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (5% discount code GUY) • Get tickets to the biggest & most exciting Bitcoin conference in the world! Bitcoin 2022 (10% discount code GUYSWANN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message