Basics_008 – How to Buy Bitcoin
We are diving back into the Bitcoin basics series today! Now that we understand how bitcoin works, what is important, how to stay safe, and how to use it, it’s time to answer the most basic question for getting started… How do I get some Bitcoin!? Let’s dive in with Bitcoin Basics episode 008.
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Basics_06
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” — Albert Einstein
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Read_772 – Easier Way to Bootstrap the UTXO Set
“After four years of work, James O’Beirne’s assumeutxo option to allow instant UTXO set bootstrapping for your Bitcoin node is merged into Bitcoin Core.” — Shinobi
There has always been a gap between the sovereignty, privacy, and security of software, and the usability of it. But thanks to an enormous amount of work and brilliant developers, day by day that gap is getting smaller. Where the most secure tools, the most robust node setups, the non-custodial options, are getting easier, faster, and more responsive. Today we have an article by Shinobi on another seemingly small, but potentially very impactful development on bootstrapping a new node, with assumeutxo finally merged, into Bitcoin Core. If you want to know what that means, then don’t miss this episode.
Check out the original article at: Bitcoin Magazine
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Read_771 – Beating Fiat with the Breez SDK
“There used to be tradeoffs between Lightning and fiat: UX vs. sovereignty; UX vs. speed; UX vs. cost; off-the-shelf fiat payment widgets vs. coding a node into an app. With the Breez SDK, Lightning beats fiat across the board. It’s faster to implement (as Ross says, “It’s like one or two API calls to set up a node, one to send a payment and one to receive payment”), cheaper to use, legally less complicated (check your jurisdiction), more private, and the UX is on par with fiat for the user and even better for the developers.” — Roy Sheinfeld
If you are curious what the future of lightning is going to look like, or exactly how huge the runway is for adoption and onboarding in the next bull run, then this short article detailing out a simple example will show you just how powerful the Breez SDK + Blockstream Greenlight combo really is. Non-custodial, always online, instant node setup, and zero channel or liquidity management. This is the culmination of everything built in lightning to date, and its going to be a game changer!
Check out the original article at:
Satimoto Is Beating Fiat with the Breez SDK | Breez Technology – https://medium.com/breez-technology/building-on-lightning-how-satimoto-is-beating-fiat-with-the-breez-sdk-88aa8252a994
Check out some of Roy’s other great articles covered on the podcast:
Read_701 – Lightning for Everyone in Every App
Read_574 – Lightning & The Internet – Choosing the Right Path
Read_732 – We Need More Apps With Lightning, Not More Lightning Apps
Read_450 – Getting Lightning Ready for Global Takeover
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Read_770 – The Big Deal with BitVM
“It requires no consensus changes to Bitcoin at all. The trick is lifting all of that logic off-chain and being able to challenge a few steps of the computation on-chain if the other party asserts a dishonest outcome. In short, BitVM will bring arbitrary Turing-complete computation, in an enforceable way, to bitcoin itself – today.”
What if you could enforce the ownership of Bitcoin, with literally any code you could think of writing? That may just be possible, today, without any changes or soft forks to the underlying network, through a system of abstraction that cleverly, and verifiably, allows execution of completely arbitrary code within the Bitcoin script, which will determine the ultimate owner of any bitcoin balance. This, could be massive. A great piece from Shinobi explains, how and why it works…
Check out the original article at: Bitcoin Magazine
Links:
Spiderchains: A proof of stake second layer for Bitcoin
Read_734 – Introducing Ark [Burak]
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“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
– Richard P. Feynman
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Guy’s Take_071 – But Bitcoin Doesn’t Innovate
I hope you listened to the recent read by Beautyon, Bitcoin and Software Reliability, because today we continue our FUD Relief series. I suspect you have heard the claim that “Bitcoin doesn’t innovate” and that newer and shinier blockchains are destined to replace it. I explore this idea today and suggest that the very framing of the claim suggests they have misunderstood Bitcoin’s highest value. I break it down in today’s Guy’s Take episode.
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“The system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.” — F. A. Hayek
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Ai Chat_008 – Ecash and Ai with Obi Nwosu
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Obi Nwosu, co-founder and CEO of Fedi, joins us today to talk about the new innovations and challenges in re-decentralizing the web and how both Bitcoin and Ai are at the core of making it possible.
Guest Links
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Fedi Website (Link: https://www.fedi.xyz/)
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)
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FEATURING AI Unchained #008 – Ecash and Ai with Obi Nwosu
Obi Nwosu, co-founder and CEO of Fedi, joins us today to talk about the new innovations and challenges in decentralising the web and how both Bitcoin and Ai are at the core of making it possible.
This conversation was recorded for the AI Unchained podcast, but I decided to cross post it here since a lot of the conversation is themed around Bitcoin.
Guest Links: Follow Obi on X: https://x.com/obi
Follow Fedi on X: https://twitter.com/fedimint
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Read_Reboot – Bitcoin & Software Reliability
“With Bitcoin, lives and money are at stake. Interruption of its service can cause a cascade of losses and unintended consequences for potentially millions of people and billions of fiat dollars. If it is possible to build a Bitcoin that cannot fail, that should be the goal, and no compromise should be acceptable.” — Beautyon
Before we get into a Guy’a Take to continue our FUD Relief series – addressing the failures to understand the value and purpose of Bitcoin – it’s time to bring a brilliant piece back from the archive, update the audio and give some fresh commentary to set the stage for tackling another common misconception of “progress” when it comes to the bitcoin perspective. If there was a top tier of articles that are must-listens to grasp bitcoin, this would be in it. Let’s dive in.
Check out the original article at: Bitcoin and Software Reliability by Beautyon | Medium
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“The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust
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Read_769 – Orange is the New Green
“Our existing financial system is a mirage of wealth and liquidity, sustained by an ever-expanding money supply. Bitcoin emerges as the ultimate shield against the inevitable reckoning that will shatter this illusion.”
— Theo Mogenet
Today, we dive into another great piece from Axiom BTC on the mission to reprice the world in sats. We all understand the incredible benefit of Bitcoin as a long term store of value, and that’s its monetary properties give it unique capacity for long term savings. However, too often we hear it is a disaster for short term cash balances. What if this wasn’t true? What if there was a possible path to Bitcoin, actually being the *best* short term cash equivalent on a global scale, even *despite* it’s volatility? If that intrigues you, don’t miss this piece.
Check out the original article at:
Orange Is The New Green — Axiom
Links:
Read_750 – Capital in the 21st Century [Allen Farrington]
Chat_80 – Building the Ark with Burak
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Ai Chat_007 – Global Markets for GPU Power with Christopher David
What if we could mitigate the enormous centralizing effects of the massive server farms and huge corporate entities, by pooling the GPU power of the millions of users and tinkerers who have unused or regularly idle computational power, into a decentralized marketplace for buying and selling Ai execution, and we could power it all with instantly settled sats over lightning?
It just so happens that we can, and this ambitious project is being brought to life with GPUtopia. Chris David from the project joins us today to break down the vision and how they hope to play a part in the decentralized future of Ai.
Links mentioned
Tinygrad.org (Link: https://tinygrad.org/)
Inflection.ai (Link: https://inflection.ai/)
Read_712 – Lightning Prisms [DerGigi] (Link: http://tinyurl.com/28v53jsn)
Read_574 – Lightning & The Internet – Choosing the Right Path [Roy Sheinfeld] (Link: http://tinyurl.com/464xyars)
Guest Links
Christopher David on X (Link: https://twitter.com/AtlantisPleb)
Christopher David on Nostr (Link: http://tinyurl.com/69hcjbkc)
Founder of Open Agents (Link: https://openagents.com/)
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)
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Ready for best-in-class self custody?
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Trying to BUY BITCOIN?
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Bitcoin Games!
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Chat_85 – Bitcoin HyperDecentralization with Zack Bomsta
In this episode, I talked with Zack ₿omsta, the visionary leader behind Pivotal Pleb. Pivotal Pleb is on a mission to level the playing field for decentralized miners.
Zack shares insights into how their technology is driving decentralisation and empowering individual miners, allowing them to play a vital role in the Bitcoin network. Join us as we unravel the importance of accessible mining solutions and their impact on the future of Bitcoin.
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Read_768 – Living Through the Fall of Rome
“Today historians focus on the symptoms of Rome’s fall, the consequences: The moral decay, the economic decline, the fall in public safety, the multiplying plagues from dysfunctional public services, the hollowed-out military that ultimately invited barbarian invasions. But we know these well – in fact we’re living through many of them. What’s a lot more interesting is the why. Because that’s how you stop it.” — Peter St. Onge
Are we living through the Fall of Rome? There are so many parallels with the United States empire today and the Roman Empire of so long ago that its hard to ignore. It’s difficult to not think we will see the same fate when we experience so many of the same symptoms, with all of the same underlying causes. But do we have a way out? Is there an alternative? Peter breaks it down for us in another great piece, don’t miss it.
Check out the original article and Peter’s amazing newsletter at: Are we Living the Fall of Rome? – Peter St Onge, Ph.D.
Check out the other great episodes and resources discussed in the commentary:
Chat_81 – An Austrian View of US Collapse with Peter St. Onge – Bitcoin Audible | Podcast on Spotify
Read_602 – Bitcoin’s Peaceful Revolution, A New Hope for Humanity [Peter St Onge – Bitcoin Audible | Podcast on Spotify
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