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Built on Bitcoin

by @tace

"Bitcoin is not merely a network, it's a foundation for an anti-authoritarian political movement in an increasingly authoritarian world. If you're looking for why so many people are deeply passionate about Bitcoin & nothing else, start there." - Guy Swann Today I decide to rant about what Bitcoin maximalism means to me, why I am totally and completely focused on Bitcoin and nothing else, and why I think "crypto" has lost the plot. Crypto is interested in building a bunch of toys to be accepted by the establishment, Bitcoin is a declaration of independence from it. The other episodes mentioned for diving deeper into this topic: • My Path to Bitcoin Maximalism (by Sessions) • How to Be a Bitcoin Maximalist (Pete Rizzo) • Setting the Record Straight (Nic Carter) Check out our amazing sponsors and the products that Guy uses most in the space: • 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. (swanbitcoin.com/guy) • COME HANG OUT! Join us and the Swan Bitcoin team at the Pacific Bitcoin Conference in November! Get your tickets now, 10% off with code BITOCINAUDIBLE (https://www.pacificbitcoin.com/) • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 5% off everything in the store! (guyswann.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. 20% OFF with code BITCOINAUDIBLE (guyswann.com/fold) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

We were wrong. We keep doing pods with plebs from all over the world looking for how things are different where they are. And the answer is always...they’re not. Brendo even broke into “We Are the World” (sorry). This week it was our pleasure to chat with Abhilash Nair (Abi) from Hexa Wallet (hexawallet.io) the first product from BitHyve. A fully remote team, predominantly based in India, the conversation focussed on Abi’s personal journey, the parallel journey of the Hexa Wallet and the Bitcoin 4 India conference on November 5th and 6th in Goa. We also touch on: Accents changing every 20km, language changing every 100km. Educating 1.3 billion people in India. NO CONNECTION TO HEX COIN (please avoid) Simplifying Hexa Wallet for ease of use, and the introduction of “Pledge” (fundraising) and “Keeper” (storage) to be released in a couple of months. Building an easy on-ramp to the Bitcoin ecosystem with a polished UI/UX Gifting sats Integrated exchange functionality (Swan, Ramp and Wyre) The polarising view of Testnet Sentiment in India for Bitcoin and cRYptO Family gatherings Transformative books The BitHyve team and the use of advisors Bitcoin4India for Indian bitcoiners Job satisfaction “through the roof” Choose to be a cynical optimist Bitcoin 4 India https://bitcoin4india.org/ Bitcoin ONLY conference. 5/6 November. Goa, India. https://twitter.com/Bitcoin4India Hexa Wallet https://hexawallet.io/ A feature-rich, Bitcoin-only, self-custody wallet. https://twitter.com/HexaWallet Book Recommendations Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand https://amzn.to/3BQplpj Pod Shout-outs https://twitter.com/Raahulc369 https://twitter.com/sachintr_ https://twitter.com/mrugakshee https://twitter.com/BitcoinKeegan https://twitter.com/Prinsu777 https://twitter.com/pseudonymous369 https://twitter.com/RajarshiMaitra https://twitter.com/anant_tap https://twitter.com/Pras_Bit https://twitter.com/saiy2k https://twitter.com/saravananmani_ www.2bitidiots.com

The Ethereum merge? More like the Ethereum DIRGE! Today we have Mark Goodwin, editor of the print edition of Bitcoin Magazine. The conversation is deranged, which is par for the course for all our conversations with Mark, and we are HERE FOR IT. We talk the Ethereum merge, the media, Epstein, rationalist cults and their stablecoin spin offs, energy, cars twerking, and how to survive the coming collapse. Follow Mark on Twitter: https://twitter.com/markgoodw_in

The Ethereum merge? More like the Ethereum DIRGE! Today we have Mark Goodwin, editor of the print edition of Bitcoin Magazine. The conversation is deranged, which is par for the course for all our conversations with Mark, and we are HERE FOR IT. We talk the Ethereum merge, the media, Epstein, rationalist cults and their stablecoin spin offs, energy, cars twerking, and how to survive the coming collapse. Follow Mark on Twitter: https://twitter.com/markgoodw_in

“I think freedom is what humanity is striving for; I think we should have freedom in our societies, and freedom is not something that we should bargain for.”— Pascal GauthierPascal Gauthier is the CEO of Ledger. In this interview, we discuss how to build and grow a business in a bear market, making the business part of the mission, how nation-states are trying to steal Bitcoins, the vulnerability of software wallets to hacks at scale, and why freedom is not something that we should bargain for.- - - - Ledger is a French hardware wallet manufacturer. Founded in 2014, it is now a market leader, providing 2 of the leading hardware wallets on the market, with sales in over 165 countries. It’s valuation is at least $1.5 billion. In July it was seeking to raise $100 million to fund further expansion at the exact time as other digital currency companies were struggling to stay afloat. How has this company continued to grow throughout the recent bear market? The company is clear-eyed about the criticality of the Bitcoin mission: the opportunity to regain personal financial freedoms that have been eroded over time. And freedom has always required security: they are interdependent. It’s just that the weapons have changed over time. Today, a state can hold a person captive by denying them access to uncensorable private money. So, today, freedom is nothing without digital security for money. Ledger has made their mission to provide the market with personal security for its digital assets. What differentiates Ledger from other companies is that they see business as the means to achieve the mission: a ruthless pragmatism that acknowledges that without money we will never achieve or retain freedom. This is because security is an arms race.Hacking is now a state-level enterprise: Russia, North Korea, and China are just some of the nations that have invested heavily in developing cyber warfare skills. This has contributed to: 300,000 new pieces of malware being created every day; a hacker attack occurring every 39 seconds; yet, the chance a cybercrime is detected and prosecuted in the US is 0.05%. This means security in the nascent yet highly valuable digital assets industry is an asymmetric balance of power, so those seeking to provide security solutions need to invest and focus. Ledger does both. It invests heavily in R&D. And, it only provides air-gapped hardware that performs a singular security function. That is why they are successful. And that is good for Bitcoin.- - - - This episode’s sponsors:Gemini - Buy Bitcoin instantlyLedn - Financial services for Bitcoin hodlersBitcasino - The Future of Gaming is herePacific Bitcoin - Bitcoin‑only event, Nov 10 & 11, 2022Ledger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware walletWasabi Wallet - Privacy by defaultTexas Blockchain Summit - Nov 17-18, 2022 | Austin, TexasBCB Group - Global digital financial Services-----WBD555 - Show Notes-----If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following:Become a Patron and get access to shows early or help contributeMake a tip:Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2SQR Codes: BitcoinIf you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank youSubscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer | TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and familySubscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium | YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

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This week Marty and Matt discuss: - ethereum switches to proof of stake - greenpeace continues to FUD bitcoin - hodlonaut trial starts in Norway - ledger hardware wallets now available at best buy stores - fidelity and charles schwab launch bitcoin exchange - mining pool Poolin announces IOUs amid solvency concerns - Alby v1.15.0 - LDK v0.0.111 - Phoenix v1.4.23 - LNMarkets increases trade limits and moves to nodl cloud - red dirt mining open source mining profitability calculator - OFAC releases additional guidance on tornado cash sanctions - yooper crate guide - brother of former coinbase employee pleads guilty to insider trading - increased surveillance of gun purchases with credit cards Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl Upstream Data CrowdHealth TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast Follow Odell: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - ethereum switches to proof of stake - greenpeace continues to FUD bitcoin - hodlonaut trial starts in Norway - ledger hardware wallets now available at best buy stores - fidelity and charles schwab launch bitcoin exchange - mining pool Poolin announces IOUs amid solvency concerns - Alby v1.15.0 - LDK v0.0.111 - Phoenix v1.4.23 - LNMarkets increases trade limits and moves to nodl cloud - red dirt mining open source mining profitability calculator - OFAC releases additional guidance on tornado cash sanctions - yooper crate guide - brother of former coinbase employee pleads guilty to insider trading - increased surveillance of gun purchases with credit cards Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl Upstream Data CrowdHealth TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast Follow Odell: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

Michael Millerman is a Philosopher, the Founder of Millerman School, and Author of the book “Inside Putin’s Brain”. In this conversation, we discuss the declining state of education, what Stoicism teaches us, the importance of philosophy, being a free & critical thinker, controversial thinkers like Alexander Dugin, the new world order, and institutional collapse. ======================= Bullish is a powerful new exchange for digital assets that offers deep liquidity, automated market making, and industry-leading security. Combining the innovations of DeFi with the regulated environment of traditional finance, Bullish empowers users to trade with certainty and earn passively at scale across variable market conditions, in an environment backed by multibillion-dollar liquidity contributions from the Bullish Treasury. Visit bullish.com/pomp today to learn more. Note: Bullish is licensed by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission. Virtual assets and related products are high risk. Consult your investment advisor and trade responsibly. Bullish is available in select locations only and not to U.S persons. Visit bullish.com/legal for important information and risk warnings. ======================= The bridge between iGaming, online sports betting, and emerging technology, such as Blockchain, NFTs, fintech, GameFi, metaverse, and AI, is loud and clear. The largest global summit of this kind is heading to Malta from November 15 to 17. Over a thousand exhibitors and 25,000 industry leaders will be there, including top executives from Draft Kings, Bet365, Socios, crypto exchanges, betting software providers, operators, gaming affiliates, and more. Log on to AIBC.WORLD and SiGMA.WORLD to see all our upcoming global summits! See you in Malta, November 15 to 17 for the leading global event in Gaming & Emerging Tech! THIS IS SiGMA! ======================= Valour (formerly DeFi Technologies) represents what’s next in the digital economy -- providing simplified, trusted access to crypto, decentralized finance and Web 3.0 investment opportunities. Institutions and investors can gain diversified, secure, compliant, and easily tradable access to a diversified set of industry-leading equity products and protocols, through a single stock purchase on a regulated exchange. Currently listed on U.S. (OTC: DEFTF) and Canadian (NEO:DEFI) exchanges. For more information or to subscribe to receive company updates and financial information, visit our website at valour.com ======================= LMAX Digital - the market-leading solution for institutional crypto trading & custodial services - offers clients a regulated, transparent and secure trading environment, together with the deepest pool of crypto liquidity. LMAX Digital is also a primary price discovery venue, streaming real-time market data to the industry’s leading analytics platforms. LMAX Digital - secure, liquid, trusted. Learn more at LMAXdigital.com/pomp ======================= Compass Mining is the world's first online marketplace for bitcoin mining hardware and hosting. Compass was founded with the goal of making it easy for everyone to mine bitcoin. Visit https://compassmining.io/ to start mining bitcoin today! =======================

The Path to Bitcoin

by @tace

The Path to Bitcoin

Join me today for Episode 615 of Bitcoin And . . . Topics for today: - Hodlonaut v. Fraud - Bitcoin as a Political Party? No. - Do Kwon arrest warrant - #ETHW Core fork - US Treasury clarity on Tornado Cash #Bitcoin #BitcoinAnd $BTC You can find me at My Tippin.me page: tippin.me/@GhostOfNunya Instagram: Bitcoin_And Mastodon: @NunyaBidness@bitcoinhackers.org Facebook: @bitcoinAnd Music by: Flutey Funk Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

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Join me today for Episode 612 of Bitcoin And . . . Topics for today: - The Queen is dead, Long live the Corn - More mining consolidation - "Florida Man" - @piratebeachbum2's Walton interview - "Pay me in shit" - LUNA zomble #Bitcoin #BitcoinAnd $BTC You can find me at My Tippin.me page: tippin.me/@GhostOfNunya Instagram: Bitcoin_And Mastodon: @NunyaBidness@bitcoinhackers.org Facebook: @bitcoinAnd Music by: Flutey Funk Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Today I wanted to go solo on a variety of bitcoin and lightning network topics I see popping up a lot in listener emails, youtube live chat and especially on Bitcoin Twitter.  There is a lot going on, good news, … Continue reading → The post The State of Bitcoin and the Lightning Network – Epi-19 first appeared on The Bitcoin Breakout.

Inside Bitcoin

by @tace

"That misinformation in the form of money wouldn’t just create polarization. Because money connects value between people and nations, it would drive a tremendous misallocation of capital and resources as individual actors in the system all made the system worse with their actions to make enough money to escape the system." - Jeff Booth Today we take another brief pause from the Maximalism discussion to hit an awesome "back to the fundamentals" piece from Jeff Booth that dropped just last week. How on earth do you find the signal in a world just consumed with noise? And not only that, why has everything gotten so noisy? What has led to the polarization, distrust, group bias, & breakdown of institutions in our modern world, and is there any way to fix it? Booth does an excellent job in today's piece in making sense of our current world, with a little hope for our Bitcoin future. Don't miss it. Check out the original article to drop applause or explore many of the additional links to dive deeper into the content: https://medium.com/@JeffBooth/finding-signal-in-a-noisy-world-57497df06a35 Links to the other piece recommended by Jeff Booth at the bottom of his article above: • Bitcoin Energy Use is not a Problem, Here's Why https://open.spotify.com/episode/6dX8j22Mdg2Q7UgoNXMY6P?si=6dbc94969b1a4a2d • Bitcoin is Time https://open.spotify.com/episode/1BJ06LXnOHZxAgUrzC3hLd?si=d578e6544cf14ff9 Check out our amazing sponsors and the products that Guy uses most in the space: • 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% OFF with code BITCOINAUDIBLE (guyswann.com/fold) • 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. (swanbitcoin.com/guy) • COME HANG OUT! Join us and the Swan Bitcoin team at the Pacific Bitcoin Conference in November! Get your tickets now, 10% off with code BITOCINAUDIBLE (https://www.pacificbitcoin.com/) • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 5% off everything in the store! (guyswann.com/coldcard) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

Cole talks about Bitcoin and pushing Value For Value to evolve the conversation of how to use Satoshis peer-to-peer

I often ask the twitterverse if there are any bitcoiners out there who would like to jump on the podcast for a discussion about whatever they're into (or want to discuss). Mark reached out, and directed me toward his excellent work of summarizing each part of John Vervaeke's 'Awakening from the Meaning Crisis'. I thought it was a great effort, and likely indicative of someone who has considered those (and other) ideas deeply. So we set up a chat. Enjoy:) -- More from Mark: TWITTER: https://twitter.com/MarkMulvey MEDIUM: https://markmulvey.medium.com More from me: TWITTER: http://bit.ly/2P7PUjA YOUTUBE: https://bit.ly/3aBbZxg MEDIUM: http://bit.ly/2Zk0Dex SUBSTACK: Money Messiah If you're in Canada and looking to buy bitcoin at competitive rates, with an emphasis on privacy and security, check out bullbitcoin.com. Once you buy bitcoin, taking custody of it is extremely important, if you want to maximize the benefit of this unique asset. The Coldcard hardware wallet is one of the most popular and trusted devices for doing just that. Visit them at Coinkite.com, to learn more about the great features of this wallet, and the other awesome products they have available for self-sovereign bitcoin enthusiasts. If you (or someone you know) need a little help with setting up your Coldcard / custody solution, visit bitcoinsupport.com to browse packages available for making sure you get set up securely and properly. The Bitcoin Conference is taking the show to Europe for the first time, with the conference going down in Amsterdam from October 12-14. I'm sure they're going to blow it out of the water once again. If you want to scoop up some tickets, use the promo code 'VALLIS' to get 10% off. Also, the main Bitcoin Conference is going down May 18-20, 2023 in Miami. Use the same promo code 'VALLIS' for 10% off the biggest bitcoin conference in history! See you there! If you're in the US, Swan Bitcoin is a great option. Use this link to get $10 of free bitcoin! http://bit.ly/3rvxVlA