Bitcoin Audible

Merry Christmas! Working with the amazing crew at Braiins, we are happy to share the full audiobook of Bitcoin: The Ultimate Collateral free for all. You can find the ebook as well as the video version on youtube at the...

"We have entered a space where we literally own nothing." ~ Guy What happens when 25 years of digital identity vanishes overnight because of a $500 gift card? This jaw-dropping story exposes how deeply we've surrendered...

"The images are hacks in the first place, and it's not like Bitcoin had like a 'please put your NFT here' sign, so hackers found weird ways to do it. And if you stop them from using that weird way, they'll just do it...

"The broad point is that only the strong survive was correct. We are entering the endgame of crypto having any reason to exist. My thesis as to why it exists at all is a combination of a novel vector for gambling and an...

"We cannot master any one particular modality in the way that a company can master that on their own when it's the only thing they do. Basically what we can do at PPQ, is we can bring all of these models in one place...

“If you think they'll have restraint, I think you're making a grave error.” Can your wallet, your node, or even your hardware become “unlicensed financial activity” overnight? I walk through HRF’s latest Financial...

"What role do intermediaries—such as merchants, distributors, and traders—play in the market? Far from being mere profiteers, these intermediaries play an essential role in the division of labor. Without them, society...

What if the future of Bitcoin is decided in the mempool? I sit down with Simple Steve, Bitcoin Mechanic and Jeff Swann for a chaotic, curious roundtable. We riff on conspiracies and culture rot, pick apart BIP444 and...

"Bitcoin will fail. Because it is a lie... Because it claims truths that cannot be. That trust is defect. That property is virtue. That law, shared meaning should not supervene... I used to see value. Now I see a void...

In this 2Sats refresh, I revisit one of my most-shared videos - What Does $6 Trillion Mean? It’s a quick but powerful look at what happens when we normalize creating money out of thin air. Six trillion dollars - it...

"If you can get a court to say you're Satoshi, and you are of this mindset, you can then go ahead and you can sue Bitcoin developers, Bitcoin exchanges, whatever, to say, "look, I've got a court ruling that I'm Satoshi...

"The best, simplest, ultimate form of collateral is something that can instantly be claimed and sold at any time when the debtor fails to make their payments. A house can take months, even years to sell. Stocks too have...

"This analysis has demonstrated through 30 universal laws, empirically validated across 16 years and $1.83 trillion in market capitalization, that Bitcoin represents a genuine phase transition in monetary coordination...

"I think that all of the people that I know that are working on Bitcoin Core and other Bitcoin projects are only interested in the monetary use case. But I think that many of them take a more long term view in how that...

I dive into Adam Mastroianni’s piece “Thank You for Being Annoying” and use it as a launchpad to rant about work, love, and why being constantly irritated might be a feature, not a bug. From broken file‑sharing...

Why is the "world's most valuable money" stagnating while everything falls apart around it? With 401k hardship withdrawals at record highs and mortgage delinquencies surpassing 2008 levels, shouldn't Bitcoin be...

Have you ever wished you could pause time - just stop the clock long enough to catch up on all the things you’ve been meaning to do? In this 2SATS, I explore the illusion of “never having enough time” and how our...

"Bitcoiners have a spirit. I think the spirit is an ancient spirit. It goes back to the American Revolution. It goes back to the Magna Carta. It goes back to ancient Greece. It goes back to Christianity in the early...

Is ARK the missing piece that lets Bitcoin scale without sacrificing sovereignty? Or is it just a confusing mess that you can't make sense of? Hopefully this episode helps as I unpack Paco VM’s brilliant train analogy...

I dive into the Human Rights Foundation’s look at Bitcoin’s quantum vulnerability - what’s real, what’s hype, and what would it take to truly secure the network. Then I unpack the social and technical chaos such a shift...

Grab your drink and pull up a chair - it’s another Bitcoin Roundtable with Simple Steve, Bitcoin Mechanic, and my brother Jeff Swann. This time we’re diving into the chaos around soft forks, censorship, and the latest...

"They’re passing the torch. And the torch is being received by entities who care less about ideology and more about returns. BlackRock doesn’t care about “being your own bank.” They care about portfolio diversification...

"The necessity for guys to be around other good guys and girls to be around other good girls... we had that really well structured all throughout history. We fucked it all up over the last of the last hundred years when...

“Live by the mNAV, Die by the mNAV”. What happens when financial alchemy meets the hardest money in history? In this episode, we explore how Bitcoin treasury companies may be repeating the speculative sins of the...

"In 1929, one of its largest holdings was the Shenandoah Corporation. Another closed-end fund, organized by Goldman Sachs... that became a large investor in its stock. All these funds traded at Premia. At the top of the...