“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

“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,

“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

“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

“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

“The last thing we should want to do is the government to print up a bunch of money, which steals from the poor, so that they can buy Bitcoin to enrich us. Or fill up

I joined Knut Svanholm and Luke de Wolf on the Bitcoin Infinity Show to explore the fundamental role of money, incentives, and sound economics in shaping society. We dug into the “Give-a-Shit Matrix”, a powerful

In a past episode, I joined Steve Patterson and the host for what was supposed to be a discussion but quickly turned into one of the most heated debates I’ve had on the show. Along

“We’ve planted our orange flag in the ground. We’ve made it known this is a space where we will try to propagate and spread the mission, values and ethos of Bitcoin. And we hope that

“That’s a really cool aspect of the Bitcoin community and the nostr community as things are right now is most of our users are not your typical what you consider like dumb TikTok users. most

“Our philosophy with building Pubky was, all right, we’re not going to say never on a server. We’re going to say, use a server if you want. Don’t use a server if you don’t want.Either

“Bitcoin is anti-fragile it secures $2 trillion worth of value currently and there’s a huge monetary incentive to maintain that security and there’s a number of very intelligent people who are working on that problem

“This was one of my early objections to Bitcoin is that “Well, everything gets hacked eventually”, right? Everything has some security flaw, so we’re still looking for the security flaw, but we’ll eventually find the

“The payment network has no value if your asset is not desirable. Like this is not, you cannot have this, like I’m just gonna build all of this stuff on top of it. And if

“There are so many reasons to be interested in peer-to-peer. You can be interested in it for resilience, because there are no middlemen, so it’s going to work if any of your devices are online.

“On nostr we have maybe a couple hundred thousand users who are active, but all all those users are holding their keys. We’re actually bootstrapping this censorship resistant network. There isn’t anything like that out

“Once you understand the economic situation of the United States and how they’re in a debt spiral, there’s only one way out of it and it’s to turn the money printer on so that they

In this previous episode of Final Settlement, I joined the show to tackle custodial threat vectors and the security challenges unique to Bitcoin. We discussed Bitcoin as apolitical money and its role as a digital