Podcast Episodes

Read_897 - The Great Vanishing of Information

"In my eyes, one of the most common playbooks used by the ruling class is to identify a life-essential resource everyone is using, introduce a new and quote, "better version" of it, and widely promot…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Chat_140 - Time, Family, and The Bullish Case for Pickleball with Vijay

"Consumerism is something that kind of hollows out society. It takes away from the real meaning of why we're here. Why we're here on earth and what our goal should be. And I think that just Bitcoin s…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Take_102 - An Unfair Game

"If you control the money, you control the purchasing power. Which, in turn, allows you to control most other things. [...] In short: you can decide who will be deplatformed from society. In the most…

Published on 2 months ago

Read_896 - Inalienable Property Rights

"Thanks to Bitcoin anyone can use the asymmetric defenses of cryptography to their economic advantage. A symmetry is at the heart of Bitcoin security. Hard to guess. Easy to verify. Cooperation is re…

Published on 2 months ago

Chat_139 - TheGuySwann On the porch [RobbieTheFire]

In this re-release episode from "Run Your Mouth" with RobbieTheFire, we delve into the intricate world of economics, exploring the challenges posed by the US dollar's status as a global reserve curre…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Read_895 - And Then They Fight You [FFR82]

When authoritarian regimes double down on financial surveillance and criminalize basic crypto activity, can new freedom tech offer a lifeline—or is the deck still stacked against dissent, privacy, an…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Guy's Roundtable_011 - Treasuries, Politics, Quantum & Why This Cycle is Different

Why does this Bitcoin cycle feel… different?

In this Roundtable, I sat down with Simple Steve, Bitcoin Mechanic, and my brother Jeff Swann for a deep dive into what’s really driving the current phase…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Read_894 - The parental dead end of consent morality

"A myopic focus on personal freedom — the nights out, the "me time", the money saved — is a spiritual mirage: You think you want the paradise of nothing ever being asked of you, but it turns out to b…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Chat_138 - Bitcoin Needs More Civil Wars with Super Testnet

"You can delete your Lightning transactions.
So unlike a blockchain, a blockchain's an append-only database and every transaction that gets stored in a blockchain is stored there forever. Lightning tr…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Read_893 - Building a Local Network with your Neighbors

"Privacy is not a bunker. It’s not cutting every wire, ghosting every friend, and hoping the grid forgets you exist. That’s fantasy. Romanticized exile for people who don’t understand surveillance ca…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago