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The Best in Bitcoin made Audible. Guy Swann makes the knowledge of Bitcoin, the world's most secure, independent money, accessible to everyone. Exploring Bitcoin from an investment perspective, economic analysis, its philosophical foundations, & technological primitives. Reading and distilling thousands of hours of others' works on Bitcoin, Guy explains everything you need to know.
Episodes
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- Roundtable_026 - The Internet's Black October · 2 h 11 minWe are back for another Roundtable, and this time we've got Giacomo Zucco joining me, Steve, and Jeff to break down the absolute madness of the last month. October was basically…
- The Enshittification of Everything · 22 minI bet you’ve noticed it too. Everything we buy just seems cheaper, flimsier, and worse than it used to be. Some call it the "enshittification" of everything. And almost everyone…
- Chat_180 - Invalid Checksum: How I Almost Lost My Bitcoin Stack with STACKTOTHEFUTURE · 1 h 53 min"There's a lot of emphasis on the moment at how AI is making everything less secure, and that is a part of the story. Of course, any tool, any powerful tool has its advantages…
- Read_950 - The Internet Is Under Attack · 48 min"This isn't one bad week. It's the start of something we all need to be prepared for. Just look at the numbers. Security firm CrowdStrike says the attacks it sees that likely…
- Everything Is a Lie (Inflation Edition) · 6 minI break down four of the biggest lies we’re told about inflation, from the idea that prices must always rise to the fantasy that GDP growth means we’re getting richer. I show how…
- Read_949 - The Singularity Stack · 1 h 11 min"The cost of intelligence keeps falling toward the cost of electricity, and everyone will share in what that intelligence can do. Bitcoin captures the gains directly, while in…
- Ledger Wallet Spy Implants (The Great Hackening Continues...) · 18 minIn this breakdown of the Ledger supply chain hack, I walk through how a tiny hardware implant turned legitimate hardware wallets into seed-stealing spy devices. I cover who’s…
- Everything Should Always Get More Affordable · 4 minI break down the biggest lie we've all deeply internalized about the economy: that prices are just supposed to go up. In a productive and advancing society, almost everything…
- Roundtable_025 - This Time, It's Actually Different · 2 h 20 minWe finally stopped being lazy and brought a guest onto the Roundtable. Max Hillebrand joins Steve, Jeff, and I to talk about the absolute madness happening in the freedom tech…
- The AI Crisis · 11 minIn this Take, I break down why the biggest AI labs, while deeply unprofitable sitting on massive future compute obligations, are racing toward trillion-dollar valuations. I…
- Chat_179 - Back to What Matters with Cory Klippsten · 1 h 26 min***"The dollar is going to continue to lose purchasing power. Bitcoin is going to continue to gain purchasing power. It's going to keep on happening over the rest of the century…
- The Great Hackening of 2026 · 38 minIn this Take episode, I break down the “Great Hackening” ripping through Bitcoin right now – from Coldcard’s catastrophic entropy bug to Liquid’s recent 4,000 BTC exploit…
- How Does Bitcoin Self Custody Recover From This? (Coldcard Q&A P3) · 19 minIn this third Coldcard Q&A, I tackle entropy, device trust, DIY signers, and why I’m leaning harder than ever on multi-sig. I walk through why understanding encryption must…
- Roundtable_024 - The Aftermath · 2 h 6 minThe roundtable is back, but we're missing a familiar face. Mechanic has officially stepped down from Ocean, so it’s just Jeff, Steve and I digging into the aftermath of BIP110…
- Was it all a "Retirement Attack"? (Coldcard Q&A P2) · 20 minIn this episode I continue unpacking the Coldcard RNG disaster, wrestling with whether it was malicious or just shockingly incompetent design and attitude. I walk through how…
- Is Rolling Your Own Entropy The New Standard? (Coldcard Q&A P1) · 22 minIn this Guy's Take, I walk through listener questions and comments on the Coldcard random number generation failure and what it really means for Bitcoin self-custody. We dig into…
- Chat_178 - Our Burden To Carry with American HODL, Erik Cason, and Brandon Quittem · 2 h 16 min***"In the early days, the average user could probably use a Coldcard and know the amount of entropy required. The average Bitcoin user today, no clue. And so the times have…
- Learning the Wrong Lessons · 16 minThousands of careful Bitcoiners just got wiped out by a Coldcard entropy bug, and I use this episode to push back hard on the idea that self-custody is dead, and "don't trust…
- Chat_177 - Security Is Just a Hard Problem with Lloyd Fournier · 2 h 3 min***"I think that self custody is not going to be dead. I think that there is going to have to be a group, a vanguard of people that do this and take it seriously. The revolution…
- BIP110 vs UASF: Do the Suitcoiners Control Bitcoin? · 12 minIn this episode, I unpack the claim that BIP110’s failure proves corporate miners and suitcoiners now control Bitcoin. I walk through the real dynamics between miners and…
- Chat_176 - Is Every Conspiracy True? with Talip · 1 h 40 min***"Today can you also use Coinbase to sell your coin? Yes. But can you guarantee that if Coinbase disappears, your funds will be with you? No. Because, it is, at the end of the…
- Chat_175 - Building in the AI Era with Luís Novo & Matt Ahlborg · 1 h 23 min***"It's going faster than most people thought. We thought that these models would be useful, but not extremely useful, for a while. Now you look at this and you feel [that] if…
- Roundtable_023 - Staying Humble · 1 h 55 minIn this episode, Steve, Jeff, and I walk through the catastrophic Coldcard entropy failure, how a trusted hardware wallet ended up generating weak keys, and how attackers are now…
- Coldcard Emergency - MOVE YOUR BITCOIN NOW · 29 minThis is an emergency episode to warn everyone of the catastrophic Coldcard entropy bug that’s letting attackers regenerate users’ keys and drain wallets without device access. I…
- Are We "Censoring" Spam? · 23 minThere is a massive miscommunication tearing Bitcoiners apart right now. Instead of arguing over specific code like BIP 110, I want to ask a much harder question in this solo…
- Read_948 - The Battle for Monetary Independence · 49 min"Your savings represent hours you worked, risks you accepted, businesses you built, time spent away from people you love, and consumption you postponed for the sake of the…
- CBDCs are Coming (And the Bitcoin Exit Awaits) · 16 minI walk through the global push for Central Bank Digital Currencies, why voluntary rollouts have mostly flopped, and what governments really gain from programmable, fully…
- Chat_174 - Preparing Bitcoin for an Unknown Future with Hunter Beast · 2 h 17 min***"I'm almost 99% certain that [BIP] 110 will activate. And not only that, I think there will be a capitulation after October, where if the month of October passes and [BIP] 110…
- The Most Important Project in Bitcoin (You probably haven't heard of) · 15 minWhat is the most important project in Bitcoin? It isn't BIP 110 or some shiny new payment protocol. We actually have a massive security vulnerability sitting at the base layer…
- Chat_173 - The Time Has Come for Privacy on Bitcoin with Dan Gould · 1 h 55 min***"I think I got kind of orange-pilled and privacy-pilled in this way when Snowden exposed all this surveillance that was happening by default through every system you've ever…
- What does the woke left TRULY worship? · 12 minThe extreme left often claims to follow logic and "the science". But I've noticed a glaring pattern that contradicts this. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. In this Take…
- Roundtable_022 - What if Bitcoin Dies? · 1 h 59 minThe sentiment lately has been total garbage. We’re deep in a bear market, the red candles are stacking up, and people are getting nervous. So, I got the guys back around the…
- Read_947 - On Overconfidence · 42 min"In this X post, I said I don't know the consequences of BIP-110. Plenty of people called that incompetent, cowardly, or both. Others praised it as humility. It's neither. It's…
- Chat_172 - Sovereign Devices in a Subscription World with Harald Schäfer · 1 h 36 min"comma develops open source ADAS software. You can call it self-driving software, but currently what we ship is something where the user is supposed to pay attention all the…
- 10.5 Million Bitcoin Underwater: Is This THE Bottom? · 11 minOver 10.5 million Bitcoin are currently underwater. Everyone is panicking about a grueling bear market, but I see things differently. In today's Take, I explain why this recent…
- Why Elon's Trillion = Carnegie's Millions (The Fiat Illusion Exposed) · 14 minElon Musk is officially a trillionaire. Naturally, people are calling it yet another failure of capitalism, and I'm calling BS. I compared his wealth to Andrew Carnegie’s…
- Chat_171 - Building Instant Fiat-to-Bitcoin Bridges with Gustavo Flores · 1 h 29 min***"We're entering the Bitcoin golden era with all the new technologies we're discovering because for the first decade Bitcoin was still very, at least for the first five, six…
- The TRUTH about Iran's "Bitcoin" seizure · 9 minI break down the Treasury’s claim that it seized $1B of Iran’s "crypto" and explain why this was actually Tether, not Bitcoin – and why that distinction matters. I digs into how…
- Chat_170 - Can Anything be Secured in the Digital Age? with Luke de Wolf · 1 h 59 min**"Keeping Bitcoin running is the primary concern here. Making sure that Bitcoin is available to be used as money by everyday people, any actor who wants to come onto Bitcoin and…
- Roundtable_021 - The Fight is Never Over · 1 h 55 minThe whole crew is back for another roundtable, and things get wild right out of the gate. I sat down with Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff to talk through the absolute mess that is the…
- Chat_169 - Bitcoin Proving its Case with Walker America · 1 h 6 min"Bitcoin is being embraced by the U.S. and the U.S. financial system and it is it being embraced by Iran and the Iranian regime at the exact same time and both of them know that…
- Read_946 - When the Experimenter Fails the Marshmallow Test · 44 min"Generation X and the millennials both tried to do everything right, according to what the boomers told them was the path forward: save money, study hard, get a ‘job’. At every…
- Read_945 - Milei's Austrian Scam by the Numbers · 56 min"The peso scam is around a thousand times larger than the Libra scam, and its victims are the poorest, about 95% of Argentines." ~ Saifedean Ammous Javier Milei swore he'd burn…
- Chat_168 - Hashing for Heat with Tyler Stevens · 1 h 54 min***"Our little home controller, building controller, it knows our electric rate, it knows the way that electric rate changes based on the time of day. It knows the PV flux, the…
- Chat_167 - Why Your Keys Matter with Seed · 2 h 14 min"If you think of River or Gemini or Coinbase or whatever, think of all of those as silos and how people custody Bitcoin. If some sort of compromise were to come into the Bitcoin…
- Guy's Take_107 - Free Rent for the Rich · 41 min"It's often discussed that arbitrarily lowering interest rates and the zero interest rate policy era leads to massive recklessness and unethical and irresponsible behavior. But…
- Read_944 - Proof of Work in the Real Economy · 36 min"If your money isn't sound, it is not reflecting any proof of work. It is not reflecting anything about who should be able to consume, or how much there is available to consume…
- Read_943 - The Fabric of Desires · 26 min"It is not markets that made money possible. It is collectibles, which we now call money, that make markets possible." ~ Nick Szabo What if everything we've been told about how…
- Roundtable_020 - Anything But Bitcoin · 2 h 26 minIn this roundtable, we sit down with Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff, and honestly, we struggle to stay on Bitcoin for half of it. Our catch-up quickly turns into a rant about LLMs…
- Read_942 - Stepping Outside the Fiat Frame · 42 min"They say the ruler is bent, then use the bent ruler to measure the table. They say the clock is broken, then solemnly read out the hour. They say the instrument is false, then…
