Best Guy Swann Podcasts (2024)

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Read_847 - This is the Great Ravine 53:16

1h ago53:16

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"I’m not asking you to fight the Beast of Big Politics, Big Tech and Big Media. Honestly I don’t know how you would. This is the end of an age, the _fin de siecle_, the period of time where the Beast is strongest because it is everywhere and invisible all at once. Big Politics, Big Tech and Big Media _are_ the water in which we swim. We are totally…

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I don't care about Will Turner, only Elizabeth Swann. — 5 Star Books 1:02:25

34m ago1:02:25

1:02:25

this episode, we discuss books that we thought would be 5 star reads but were not, and then books that we expected to be flops but were actually 5 star reads. Without spoiling which are which, our lists included: Assassins Blade by Sarah J. Maas; When The Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker; One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig; If We Were Villians by M. L…

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Read_846 - Three Strangest Paradoxes of Mathematics 56:02

1h ago56:02

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"Sometimes your gut feelings lead you astray—particularly in mathematics, in which one constantly comes across results that seem impossible... There are also many scenarios that appear contradictory at first glance (or second or third). These paradoxes can be explained, however. They are not errors but rather reminders that we should not rely too h…

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Chat_112 - Consensus Problems with ReardenCode 1:46:54

1h ago1:46:54

1:46:54

"If we leave Bitcoin as it is, it’s a new money for the 1%. The 1% can absolutely hold their own coins in a way that they really couldn’t with gold in the same in the same way. So there’s. But the question is, are we are we building Bitcoin to be a new money for the 1% or the point 1% or are we building Bitcoin to be a new money for the world that …

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Read_845 - Understanding The COLDCARD Mk4 Security Model 1:16:14

1d ago1:16:14

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"Using the COLDCARD Mk4 is pretty straightforward. Yet, what goes on under the hood is far from obvious. Technical documentation, the hardware specifications and code used are available, yet not easily understandable by all. To best understand what’s going on under the hood, we will go through the process of setting up a COLDCARD and using it." — T…

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Guy's Take_091 - The Path of Greatest Pain 1:02:42

9d ago1:02:42

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Sometimes life will make you feel stuck, it will wear you down and gaslight you into believing you have made no progress. Small, persistent progress is hard to see, and its only when you take a big step back that it becomes clear. Today I explore the parallels between life's ups and downs and Bitcoin's market volatility and where we are today. I'll…

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surprise mother fuckers, it's book club. — The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren 55:37

2d ago55:37

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it is such a rare thing for both of us to rate a book 5 stars, so when we each read The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren and fell equally in love with Anna and Liam...we HAD to record our thoughts. The Paradise Problem is like Succession meets The Proposal and will single-handedly convince forced proximity haters that the trope is 100/10 when d…

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Consciousness, Karma and the Game Inside Ourselves ft. Hosshin [SFP082] 1:52:08

3d ago1:52:08

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For this episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Hosshin, a yoga teacher with over three decades of spiritual exploration. He shared his journey of retreating from modern life to live in the Scottish wilderness, where he is building a personal sanctuary for deeper spiritual work. We delved into his belief that the heart acts as a bridge be…

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Chat_111 - Brollups, Ark 2.0, and 1000 tps with Burak 2:03:39

5d ago2:03:39

2:03:39

"Dark merchants would never use Lightning, right? Because well, you need a node ID, an entity... Versus Ark, you're not a node or entity. All you are is entropy. You're just a public key with silent payment style tweaking. That means no address reuse. By default, coins gets mixed in each round. In a scalable and convenient way. And so it's all priv…

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Read_844 - Soft Fork, Covenant Review - Part 2 1:51:40

15d ago1:51:40

1:51:40

"An argument for doing a consensus cleanup soft-fork first, prior to enabling any new opcodes or other features for new types of L2’s, is that we’d learn more about how willing the wider community is to implement what should be a relatively uncontroversial soft-fork that arguably benefits everyone." — Peter Todd In this deep dive into Bitcoin's Lay…

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Read_843 - Soft Fork, Covenant Review - Part 1 1:44:18

9d ago1:44:18

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"Lightning achieved a many-to-one mapping of transactions to transactions... But creating even a single UTXO per user is, arguably, not good enough. So there are many proposals out there to achieve even greater scaling by allowing multiple users to share a single UTXO in a self-sovereign way. Again, collapsing another “space” dimension of scaling u…

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fuckin top that glass up, bucko. — RWAus Conference 57:30

9d ago57:30

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have you ever wanted to attend a giant three day party dedicated to romance novel obsessed individuals? RWAus might just be for you. this episode, we have a conversation about the Romance Writers of Australia (RWAus) annual conference which we attended this August 2024. This includes discussions about networking, how under-appreciated the romance g…

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Guy's Roundtable_001 - 85% Bitcoin Tax, Bitaxe, Big Banks, and a Shitcoin Trojan Horse 1:54:35

14d ago1:54:35

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It's Here! Today I am thrilled to introduce the first episode of Guy's Roundtable. I've assembled a group of OG bitcoiners for a new monthly series where we dissect the latest developments in the bitcoin world. In this inaugural episode, we set the stage for what promises to be an enlightening journey through the ever-evolving Bitcoin landscape. Ou…

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Guy's Take_090 - What if Bitcoin Saves the Dollar? 1:48:46

23d ago1:48:46

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Is the Bitcoin-Dollar theory a path to salvation or destruction for the US currency? Stablecoin issuers have become major buyers of US bonds, and political figures have flipped the script to embrace Bitcoin. What does this mean for the future of money, and will Bitocin reinforce dollar dominance or pave the way for a new monetary standard? It's tim…

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if my heart had a dick you would kick it. — Gideon the Ninth 1:14:19

17d ago1:14:19

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Welcome to #3 of the WineyWriters Book Club! Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir follows a sword-wielding, lesbian ginger with an undercut and aviators—what else could you possibly need in a novel, really? Join us as we rave about all things necromancer and cavalier, the brilliant mind of Muir, and our predictions for the rest of the Locked Tomb series…

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Read_842 - BTC investing vs BTC Standard 41:48

17d ago41:48

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"It’s been amazingly freeing because I don’t worry about my investments, mostly because I don’t have very many. I’m on a Bitcoin standard and I keep my value in my unit of account." — Jimmy Song What's the difference between investing in Bitcoin and living on a Bitcoin standard? In this episode, we explore Jimmy Song's insights on how shifting your…

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Read_841 - Trump Embraces the “Bitcoin-Dollar” 1:09:28

20d ago1:09:28

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"The end result was a historical wealth transfer from regular Americans to a handful of billionaires. This wealth transfer, which was heavily premeditated and provably used the COVID-19 crisis as cover, should be treated as an unprecedented theft from the American taxpayer. Yet few Americans know that it even happened." — Unlimited Hangout We've al…

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Chat_110 - The Global Monetary Rebellion [Swan Signal] 1:16:11

23d ago1:16:11

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"The government is more than half of the economy. They control everything. What this new battleground is showing is that in the Bitcoin world, within the Bitcoin environment, they're going to have to Samourai Wallet every one of us to get that money, which means it's not going to work. There's either going to be a revolution or society goes from a …

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did you mean creepy pasta or creepy pastor? — Weird Fiction 49:47

24d ago49:47

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this week we're discussing Weird Fiction — often described as a liquid genre that seeps between the cracks of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and mystery. It appears we were on a very different side of the internet than creepy pastas and Cthulhu and so we wrestle with internet definitions and articles to discover the conventions of Weird Fiction, discuss …

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Read_840 - Godzilla Returns 58:16

1M ago58:16

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"The Fed, knowingly or not, is basically in charge of the global financial system. They may shout, “We raise rates in the US to fight inflation, global consequences be damned!!” – But that’s a hell of a lot more difficult to follow when large G7 countries are in the early stages of a full blown currency crisis.The most serious implication is that t…

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Chat_109 - Bitcoin, Privacy, Sovereignty and the Future with Daniel Prince [Once Bitten!] 1:33:50

1M ago1:33:50

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"The government and the corporate environment so desperately want us to centralize so they can they can have total surveillance and they can have backdoors into everybody's stuff. They're abusive and everything, but not everything's imploded yet. And that continues on. But we continue in this trajectory until at some point, the some little thing br…

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Read_839 - The Power of Nostr 1:48:52

1M ago1:48:52

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"In fact, this is the key feature that re-energized me toward Nostr a second time after my initial experience with it. Bitcoin and Nostr combined together work like an international decentralized open-source Venmo. It’s a method of payment combined with payment discovery." — Lyn Alden How might Nostr's open-source protocol transform our digital ide…

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kind-of-disconcerted-by-eachothers-presence to lovers. — Book Tropes 55:09

1M ago55:09

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this week, we are attending a trope themed cocktail party, and so we're taking this opportunity to discuss everything book tropes! Our favourite tropes, least favourite tropes, how we feel about books being marketed by their tropes, which tropes we are absolutely sick of, and which tropes we use in our own writing.…

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Read_838 - Crypto Rebels 1:24:04

1M ago1:24:04

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"It would be wrong to think of Cypherpunks as a formal group. It's more a gathering of those who share a predilection for codes, a passion for privacy, and the gumption to do something about it. Anyone who decides to spread personal crypto or its gospel is a traveler in the territory of Cypherpunk." — Steven Levy Today we journey back to 1993 to ex…

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Fear to Freedom: The Optimistic Case for AI ft. Guy Swann [SFP081] 1:57:21

1M ago1:57:21

1:57:21

In a world where artificial intelligence challenges our deepest notions of freedom and control, the Staying Free Podcast welcomes back Guy Swann for a riveting discussion that pierces through the dystopian narratives often associated with AI. What if AI could actually enhance individual sovereignty rather than strip it away? Guy, host of Bitcoin Au…

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Chat_108 - Private Email & Unstoppable Money with Andy from Protonmail 1:12:07

1M ago1:12:07

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"My thinking is always resilience. How did I make Proton resilient? And the conclusion I came to after thinking about it for a long time is actually the best way to be resilient is to enable the entire Proton community of 100 million people to very, very easily adopt Bitcoin, which is a form of money that's outside of centralized control." ~ Andy Y…

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it starts with the heart and it ends in space. — FUTURES anthology 46:51

1M ago46:51

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did you know we're published in a book?! A local South Australian publisher, Glimmer Press, just published their most recent anthology: FUTURES, and our very own winey writer hosts made the cut. This episode, we review and discuss FUTURES including conversations about our own stories, how difficult it is to write short form, what it's like to atten…

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Read_836 - Lightning is the Common Language of Bitcoin 40:32

2M ago40:32

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"Lightning has already achieved a critical mass. It’s already obvious how a Cashu subnetwork and Fedimint subnetworks will communicate with each other: Lightning. That’s how they were designed, so switching the common language between networks would require rebuilding most of their parts. Like English, whatever language subnetworks use internally, …

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Chat_107 - Government Out of Control w/ Dave Smith, Luke Gromen & Mark Moss [BTC24] 41:44

2M ago41:44

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"Historically, what do nations do when they're on a gold standard and they need to fight a war? They just suspend the gold standard. The difference is that what Bitcoin brings is this decentralization, where if you were truly on a Bitcoin standard, someone in Washington, D.C. couldn't just say, "We're going off the Bitcoin standard now." That's the…

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murder your darlings. — How To Torture Characters 59:42

2M ago59:42

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TW: discussions of trauma, injury, illness, and death. this episode, we discuss the craft of writing in terms of torturing characters — how to torture your characters, the importance of internal torturing, how to write emotion and trauma that you are unfamiliar with, and how much trauma is too much trauma?…

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