Almost $9 Billion in Bitcoin just moved for the first time in 14 years, and it seems like the person who moved them, are not the original owners. Did quantum just break something in Bitcoin? Is there a critical exploit that old balances need to worry about in the cryptography or software for wallets? Is this a major hack hiding behind apparent legitimacy? Or did someone who knows bitcoin well happen upon $9 billion in an old bitcoin wallet? Public declarations of abandonment, a legal defense tea...
Jul 08, 2025•49 min
Everyday the world is becoming more connected, but there are consequences to this at every level of society, and its been made perfectly clear, that the powers that be will not relinquish control of the narrative without a fight. Today we are diving into the HRF’s Financial Freedom Report #77, exploring crackdowns on speech from El Salvador to Saudi Arabia, digital repression in Cuba and Iran, and the pivotal role that decentralized technologies like Bitcoin, Nostr, Pubky, the Pear stack, and ot...
Jul 04, 2025•1 hr 13 min
Today we dive into a piece by Brunswick that makes it crystal clear why characteristics even claimed to be major defects or Bitcoin's design - from its "ossification" to its limited throughput - aren't defects as often claimed, but deliberate and essential characteristics for building the world's monetary foundation. Can a protocol that prioritizes integrity over speed truly solve the fundamental problems of global finance that have plagued nations for centuries? And why do so many engineers mis...
Jul 02, 2025•43 min
We are BACK with the roundtable, after 2 long and crazy months and more to cover than the judge examining Craig Wright's forgeries. We dive into chain archaeology, the mempool spam wars, Zoom weddings in Utah, why nobody actually wants to run a node, and whether DARPA invented Rust to destroy humanity. Also, are we fixing decentralization or just soft forking our way into creative bankruptcy? Strap in for Roundtable #10 — it’s chaos, clarity, and a little conspiracy. Check out our awesome sponso...
Jun 30, 2025•2 hr 47 min
The future of banking and payments will be run on old laptops and built by rebels. But really. As inspiration from Callebtc's announcement of successful multinut payments, Marty gives a short but interesting rip on where ecash is headed, and we get the audio today in my lovely voice followed by an unnecessarily long rant about network lock in and how to prevent it, what the "one step back" period of our evolution might look like, and why pessimists are dumb. Lets go. Check out the original artic...
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr 1 min
"As will become clear as the argument progresses, I actually think the outcome to which I am building up is where things have to go . I think the technical and economic incentives at play make this an inevitability rather than a “choice”" ~ Allen Farrington What if the stablecoin boom isn't a threat to Bitcoin, but a stepping stone? In this episode, I dive into Allen Farrington’s "A Half Baked Thesis on Stablecoins" and follow it with a massive guy's take unpacking the implications. Are stableco...
Jun 23, 2025•2 hr 2 min
"I think there's a very clear distinction between inflation and hyperinflation. One is a rational response to an increase in the money supply. Right? So if the money supply is increasing by 10%, you increase the price of your assets by 10%. That's inflation. Now, hyperinflation is emotional. Hyperinflation is a forced liquidation of your assets and your currency. And you're doing a market sell order not knowing what the price of sale is. You just want out. You will take anything." ~ Mauricio Di ...
Jun 21, 2025•1 hr 56 min
What if everything you think you own in the financial system—your stocks, your retirement, your savings—could be taken away in an instant, not because of your own mistakes, but because the institutions holding them are “too important” to fail? Today we finally unpack the horrifying reality behind asset ownership in today’s fiat-driven world, laid out in the shocking work from David Rogers Webb, The Great Taking. Are we living through the final act of centralization, where the only real escape is...
Jun 18, 2025•1 hr 36 min
"In Hunan, an elderly woman in a wheelchair died outside a bank after being forced to appear in person to withdraw her own money for medical care. Too weak to pass mandatory facial recognition scans, she collapsed after repeated failed attempts." ~ FFR #75 Technology is moving at an incredible pace, but the question is which direction is it moving? I increasingly believe we are on two divergent paths at the same time and headed for a collision course between two very incompatible worlds. Today w...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr 6 min
"A year and a half ago, two years, bitcoin was still a joke. Bitcoin was still something that was very hard for someone legitimate to... you had to have balls to go speak of it like a legitimate thing, like a serious player. And today it is a legitimate safe haven asset. Even though it hasn't been adopted like that, in the sense that every institution is rushing out to buy - the conversation has completely changed. Like night and day." ~ Guy Swann Catch up with me and the crew on this re-release...
Jun 10, 2025•58 min
"Only the Federal Reserve System was designed to survive and take over all assets and banking activities. Only the Federal Reserve Banks and those selected and controlled by the Federal Reserve were allowed to reopen. The Federal Reserve was also indemnified by the government, i.e. the public, for any losses. And so, large-scale closure of banks and taking of bank deposits is not unprecedented. Holders of cash in banks are unsecured creditors, with no enforceable claim to their money. [...] All ...
May 29, 2025•1 hr 16 min
"Inevitably following the “Everything Bubble” will be the “Everything Crash.” Once prices of essentially everything crash and all financial firms rapidly become insolvent, these collateral management systems will automatically sweep all collateral to the Central Clearing Counter- parties (CCPs) and Central Banks. The trap, into which all nations have been herded, is ready and waiting to be sprung." ~ David Rogers Webb Continuing our dive into Part 3 of David Webb's incredible piece not he struct...
May 28, 2025•41 min
"I am illustrating the horror and simplicity of the lie. You are led to believe that you own something, but someone else secretly controls it as collateral, and they have now established legal certainty that they have absolute power to take it immediately in the event of insolvency, and not your insolvency, but insolvency of the people who secretly gave them your property as collateral. It does not seem possible, but this is exactly what has been done with all tradable financial instruments glob...
May 27, 2025•46 min
"It is important to note that what is exposed here is not conjecture. It is found in authentic primary source documents, in which the planners themselves lay out their plans. ... You are about to be confronted with quite shocking, depressing material. You don’t want to know about this. I don’t even want to know about it." ~ David Rogers Webb What if "The Great Reset" is exactly what it seems? A deliberate plan to subvert the sovereignty of every nation on earth by a system of total monetary and ...
May 22, 2025•1 hr 22 min
"People can use inscriptions today and they do use them. If on the one hand you believe that marginally raising the costs to unwanted usage of the chain is going to succeed in discouraging them, which, fair, we can discuss it. I disagree but we can discuss it. On the other hand, you cannot say that, oh well, making it four times four times more expensive is going to incentivize them to do more of it. They are not compatible arguments. So the OP_RETURN is not an invitation. It's not a signal to V...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 48 min
"You must not work hard for something that somebody else can make an infinite amount of for free at no cost and no contribution. If you are working hard for something, do it for something that is hard to make. That is the point of money. That is the point of society. It is an antithetical to cooperation and basic common sense to work for something. It just means you're working for them. If they can print trillions of it for free, you're just working for them. Stop working for them and use a mone...
May 15, 2025•1 hr 6 min
What if the real issue is actually much deeper than how to deal with spam? Everyone is arguing about mempool settings, who gets to decide the policy, what spam is, can it be filtered, and what the consequences of doing so are on the network. But this all stems from a much more serious and too often ignored issue, something that still seemingly VERY few people are doing anything concrete about: that Bitcoin has no miners, it has hashers and barely a handful of centalized pools that control what g...
May 12, 2025•41 min
In this episode, I break down one of the most contentious mempool debates in Bitcoin’s recent history — the proposed removal of OP_RETURN limits. I explore what the change actually means, why it’s causing such a stir, and what both sides are getting wrong. Is this a technical clean-up or a social signal with dangerous implications? Could it quietly invite back the crypto spam Bitcoin has fought to shed? I do my best to separate the signal from the noise, stealman the arguments, and offer my own ...
May 09, 2025•1 hr
Have you ever been tempted by the glittering world of crypto, with promises of easy money and astronomical gains? This week, I'm diving into a thread from someone who's been in that world for 12 years, detailing all their painful mistakes. From chasing ICOs and getting social engineered out of funds, to buying into DeFi bubbles and getting caught in exchange collapses, their story is a stark reminder of the risks involved. What can we learn from their journey, and how does it highlight the funda...
May 07, 2025•50 min
Bitcoin Core is in the spotlight again — and not in a good way. In this roundtable, Jeff Swann, Simple Steve, Bitcoin Mechanic, and I dig into the growing divide over mempool policies, the latest controversial pull request, and what it means for node sovereignty. Why is Core removing user configurability? Are we witnessing a philosophical shift away from Bitcoin's foundations? And more importantly — who's really in control of your node? This conversation is raw, fiery, and filled with high-level...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 51 min
What if the true barrier to a world of seamless micropayments isn’t technological, but psychological? In this episode of Bitcoin Audible, we revisit Nick Szabo’s classic essay, “The Mental Accounting Barrier to Micropayments,” exploring why even with lightning-fast, low-cost Bitcoin transactions, the smallest payments might never take off as expected. Can new monetization models, AI agents, and value-for-value systems overcome the hidden costs in our minds-or will human cognition always set the ...
Apr 29, 2025•51 min
"For me, the most important war, the thing that we are fighting for in the world today more than anything else for me is the spirit of the West. The spirit of the West has been under attack by globalists, by fucking adversaries, the trader parasite money changer class. That class, whoever the fuck that is, has been looking to destroy the productive spirit and soul of the West in any way that it can. Weaponizing everything from Chinese to fucking Indians to central banks to everything. And if tha...
Apr 24, 2025•1 hr 43 min
New technologies demand a better imagination. Old models will break, and new, unexpected, and wild ideas will replace them. In this episode, I dive into David Bennett’s wild “Forest Walker” concept. Can Bitcoin mining actually tip the scales on ideas that couldn't breach the barrier into economic sustainability? Could a fleet of autonomous, Bitcoin-powered forest robots be the answer to catastrophic wildfires, or is it too much complexity in a world that needs simple solutions? Let’s dig in and ...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 13 min
"This over-developed brain wiring supercharged our interest in scarce assets and our drive to obtain them. Behaviorally, this may have amounted to making us weirdos who collected seashells, simply because we couldn’t help but value their special rarity. But as we’ll explore, that odd behavioral quirk may have made all the difference for our species." — Jesse Myers What if the secret to humanity’s dominance wasn’t intelligence or brute strength, but a weird obsession with rare objects? Today we d...
Apr 18, 2025•1 hr 3 min
"All fiat dies because it's a trusted token that governments can arbitrarily change. Every fiat with every single powerful military behind it fell when the entity decided that they were just going to change the rules. And the military didn't protect them, the military protected them abusing the rules from the population. Argentina's military did not protect the Argentine population from hyperinflation. It protected the government from a revolution. The Venezuelan, the Zimbabwean, the huge list o...
Apr 16, 2025•1 hr 56 min
What does financial repression look like in real time — and how are people fighting back with Bitcoin? In this episode, I read the Human Rights Foundation’s Financial Freedom Report #67, a roundup of the latest developments in monetary control, state surveillance, and Bitcoin tools empowering those under authoritarian regimes. From currency collapses in Turkey to smart contract-enforced CBDCs in Russia, we explore the chilling precision of financial control systems being deployed around the worl...
Apr 15, 2025•54 min
Have you ever felt lost in the rabbit hole of Bitcoin? In this episode, I revisit Gigi's "21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole," diving deep into Chapter 3, which focuses on technology. What makes Bitcoin's technology so revolutionary? How does it invert the power balance of the physical world? We'll explore the cryptography that secures Bitcoin, the importance of decentralization, and the cypherpunk ethos that shaped its creation. Is Bitcoin just another app, or is it the foundation for a new ...
Apr 09, 2025•58 min
In this episode, I revisit Chapter 2 of Gigi's "21 Lessons from the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole," taking another look at the core principles of economics through a Bitcoin lens. We'll explore concepts like inflation, value, and sound money, questioning the traditional financial system along the way. How does Bitcoin challenge our understanding of these concepts? Is it a return to sound money or something entirely new? Tune in for a fresh perspective on these fundamental economic ideas. Check out the ori...
Apr 08, 2025•55 min
Returning to a classic! I revisit Gigi's "21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole," starting with Chapter 1: Philosophy. What does Bitcoin have to teach us about immutability, scarcity, and identity? Can a digital creation challenge our understanding of the world around us? Join me as I re-explore these foundational ideas and consider what they mean in today's ever-changing landscape. It's always a good time to dust off these fundamentals and ask ourselves if we've really understood the lessons th...
Apr 07, 2025•31 min
If you are looking for real bitcoiners giving their take on all the major news that happened in bitcoin for the past month, you found the right place. This is Guy's Roundtable with collectively more than 50 years of Bitcoin experience. We hit updates on the bitaxe phenomenon, the strategic bitcoin reserve is here, is el salvador throwing in the towel, the IMF is fighting bitcoin, new developments on CBDCs around the world, bitcoin investment from many new institutions, and only a little bit of m...
Apr 03, 2025•2 hr 18 min
