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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.
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- Today29 min
Coldcard Emergency - MOVE YOUR BITCOIN NOW
This 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 walk through concrete, step‑by‑step instructions to move your coins to safety (including using Sparrow, Nunchuck, and even exchanges as a last resort), who’s most at risk across MK3, MK4, MK5, and Q devices, and what this means for hardware wallets, AI‑driven security research, and multi‑sig going forward. This is the worst hit to self custody in Bitcoin's history. All we can do is act as quickly as possible. If you have a coldcard in your setup, you need to move to safe keys or cycle your multisig, don't wait, don't assume you have time, sit down and get it done. Do it carefully and don't skip steps. Here are a few of the quickest paths to safety and how to think about this going forward. To everyone who got hit by this, I cannot be more sorry. Chapters - Coldcard bug red alert - MK3 absolute worst case - Other wallets who’s safe - Links confirmation panic check - Dice entropy and urgency - MK4 MK5 Q risk - Fastest escape route - Recovering with just seed - When to use exchange - Multisig exposure lessons - Personal note Affiliate Links Become sovereign, hold your keys, be censorship resistant with the Bitbox hardware wallet. Get 5% off everything in the store with code GUY (Link: https://bitbox.swiss/guy/) Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from The Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1) References from the episode\ Coinkite Security Advisory: https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-mk3-seed-generation-warning/\ Predictable RNG Fallback and 32-Bit Reseed in COLDCARD Firmware (Block): https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/predictable-rng-fallback-and-32-bit-reseed-in-coldcard-firmware 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's Takes on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@GuysTake) Guy Swann 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)
- 2 days ago22 min
Are We "Censoring" Spam?
There 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 take: Is it actually censorship to address spam? I'll explain why prioritizing financial transactions over JPEGs isn't authoritarianism, and why claiming it is destroys our ability to protect the network. We built a protocol for decentralized money, not unlimited file storage. Let's talk about what real censorship actually means. Chapters - "Censorship" and Spam - The analogy - Free speech and limits - The trick - Size limits vs censorship - What censorship really is - The Motte and Bailey argument - Bitcoin is for money - Is limiting spam censorship? Affiliate Links Become sovereign, hold your keys, be censorship resistant with the Bitbox hardware wallet. Get 5% off everything in the store with code GUY (Link: https://bitbox.swiss/guy/) Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from The Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1) 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's Takes on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@GuysTake) Guy Swann 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) References from the episode Coronavirus: Staying safe and informed on Twitter (12 January 2021): https://tinyurl.com/2cb4fxej X - Updating our approach to misleading information (11 May 2020): https://tinyurl.com/285vdpbe Block 960074 (Mempool.space): https://tinyurl.com/29rr7lwg Bitcoin Whitepaper: https://tinyurl.com/kkxbyss Giacomo Zucco X post: https://tinyurl.com/2yhf55q6
- 3 days ago48 min
Read_948 - The Battle for Monetary Independence
"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 future. When the monetary system allows others to dilute those savings without your consent, it weakens your claim on that future. Bitcoin offers a peaceful alternative, giving every individual access to property that cannot be created without limit, altered for political convenience, or administered according to a different set of rules for the powerful." "Two hundred and fifty years ago, Americans declared that they would no longer live as subjects. […] the best way to honor that inheritance is not merely to look backward and celebrate what they accomplished. It is to identify the unfinished work of freedom in our own time and do our part to advance it." ~ Cory Klippsten Today I’m reading Cory Klippsten’s latest piece, The Battle for Monetary Independence. Cory uses his grandfather’s World War II journal to show that real historical changes aren't won through sudden heroic events, but built on quiet, unglamorous, day-to-day work. Bull markets get the hype while bear markets do the actual heavy lifting. I share my thoughts on what true monetary freedom looks like and the few things that matter far more than waiting for Wall Street's permission. Check out the original article: The Battle for Monetary Independence by Cory Klippsten (Link: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/essay/the-battle-for-monetary-independence/) 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's Takes on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@GuysTake) Guy Swann 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) Check out our awesome partners! Become sovereign, hold your keys, be censorship resistant with the Bitbox hardware wallet. Get 5% off everything in the store with code GUY (Link: https://bitbox.swiss/guy) Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from The Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1) "People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take." ~ Emma Goldman
- 1 weeks ago15 min
CBDCs are Coming (And the Bitcoin Exit Awaits)
I walk through the global push for Central Bank Digital Currencies, why voluntary rollouts have mostly flopped, and what governments really gain from programmable, fully surveilled money. I dig into the upcoming digital euro, the U.S. Senate’s move against a federal CBDC, and the rise of OpenUSD as an open stablecoin standard. Ultimately I argue that while CBDCs are about control, the infrastructure they create may unintentionally supercharge a global Bitcoin exit ramp. I break down why this surveillance trap might give us our ultimate exit. Chapters - CBDCs are inevitable - Sales pitch vs reality - The quiet part aloud - Programmable control layer - The inclusion myth - Global pilots are flopping - CBDCs and privacy - OpenUSD and surveillance - Stablecoins as a backdoor - Bitcoin literacy barrier - CBDCs will backfire Affiliate Links Become sovereign, hold your keys, be censorship resistant with the Bitbox hardware wallet. Get 5% off everything in the store with code GUY (Link: https://bitbox.swiss/guy/) Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from The Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1) 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's Takes on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@GuysTake) Guy Swann 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) References from the episode CoinDesk.com: https://tinyurl.com/2a3zkokc ICMAgroup.org: https://tinyurl.com/2cyxvsnc Congress.gov: https://tinyurl.com/24qxpmm8 TheStreet.com: https://tinyurl.com/2ac54w2a CoinDesk.com: https://tinyurl.com/2dm2kajl Wiley.com: https://tinyurl.com/27ydh5q6 CentralBanking.com: https://tinyurl.com/2amemcsv Reuters.com: https://tinyurl.com/yrpt6cug CBDC Tracker: https://tinyurl.com/2xn6qxyj CBDC Tracker: https://tinyurl.com/2dmtppbe HRF.org: https://tinyurl.com/27ojcx72 Cato.org: https://tinyurl.com/23nltch2 EFF.org: https://tinyurl.com/2bx3dyhu X.com: https://tinyurl.com/22yq2ftx JoinOpenStandard.com: https://tinyurl.com/2399fw43 TFTC.io: https://tinyurl.com/28n9b2e8 CoinDesk.com: https://tinyurl.com/25mnrnjk Europa.eu: https://tinyurl.com/24xvdqan
- 1 weeks ago2h 17m
Chat_174 - Preparing Bitcoin for an Unknown Future with Hunter Beast
***"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 is still not merged by Core devs, it essentially reflects that they are no longer relevant because they failed to be good stewards of the protocol." ~ Hunter Beast*** In this episode I sit down with Hunter Beast for a sprawling, high-signal exploration of how to prepare Bitcoin for an unknowable future. We cover formal verification and Lean 4, AI-accelerated proofs, surveillance and BIP39 risks, faith and natural law, and why he thinks governance must shift toward provable safety over new features. We finish with his confident prediction that BIP 110 will activate, and what it would mean for Core’s relevance if it doesn’t. Chapters - Intro and Hunter's prediction - Researching critical vulnerabilities - Hilbert's questions and the limits of mathematics - Faith, personal struggles, and identity - BIP39 and surveillance - AI, false idols, and religious history - Natural law and nation states - Nodes, and decentralized storage markets - BIP 110, crisis and shift - Predictions around BIP 110 activation - Defending Bitcoin against economic populism Guest Links Hunter on X (Link: https://twitter.com/cryptoquick) Hunter's Website (Link: https://cryptoquick.com/) Hunter's GitHub (Link: https://github.com/cryptoquick) Affiliate Links Become sovereign, hold your keys, be censorship resistant with the Bitbox hardware wallet. Get 5% off everything in the store with code GUY (Link: https://bitbox.swiss/) Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from The Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1) 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's Takes on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@GuysTake) Guy Swann 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)
- 2 weeks ago15 min
The Most Important Project in Bitcoin (You probably haven't heard of)
What 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: Bitcoin mining isn't really mining anymore. Right now, we have millions of hashers but barely a handful of real miners deciding what transactions make it into a block. And that means a few centralized pool operators could easily censor the network. In this Take, I explain why the critical distinction between a hasher and a miner matters. But more importantly, I outline how newer protocols are finally fixing a decade-long mistake. Chapters - The most important project - Hashers vs miners - Pools choose transactions - The few pools who can censor - Nodes and block templates - Holding your own keys - Datum and Stratum V2 - The single giant pool risk - Spam, Slipstream, BIP110 - Ocean, DMND, and what's next Affiliate Links Become sovereign, hold your keys, be censorship resistant with the Bitbox hardware wallet. Get 5% off everything in the store with code GUY (Link: https://bitbox.swiss/guy/) Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from The Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1) 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's Takes on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@GuysTake) Guy Swann 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) References from the episode Bitcoin StackExchange #1: https://tinyurl.com/279wnyjg D-CentralTech: https://tinyurl.com/284e3gdh Stratum v2: https://tinyurl.com/26wn5kps Pavlenex's X post: https://tinyurl.com/23w828ac LNhance: https://tinyurl.com/2c9k4ogm DMND: https://tinyurl.com/2yfurts9 BitcoinTalk: https://tinyurl.com/234qlqgb Bitcoin StackExchange #2: https://tinyurl.com/279wnyjg Mempool.space: https://tinyurl.com/245ahvdq Minoa.com: https://tinyurl.com/24qmfn4d The Defiant: https://tinyurl.com/28vsgv7z
- 3 weeks ago1h 55m
Chat_173 - The Time Has Come for Privacy on Bitcoin with Dan Gould
***"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 touched. That's when I started treating all digital infrastructure as inherently recording devices. They're trying to take information and, even if someone doesn't really want or intend to store the information, it's possible that it gets leaked through a hack. And when it comes to money, that reveals all the relationships someone has. And without privacy, there's no way for that to be free. For Bitcoin to kind of live up in my mind to what it was meant to do, be censorship resistant, you need to have privacy." ~ Dan Gould*** We've all heard that Bitcoin needs privacy to function as real money. But most current solutions force you to jump through ridiculous hoops. Dan Gould has been obsessing over this exact problem for years, and he came on the show to explain why we might finally have a viable fix. Dan and I talked through the history of Bitcoin privacy tools. We looked back at the early days of TumbleBit and Wasabi, and got into why past attempts failed to gain significant adoption. But the core of our conversation was about Payjoin V3. If you care about protecting your stack and keeping your identity safe from on-chain surveillance firms, you need to hear this one. Dan breaks down exactly how the new Payjoin protocol strips out the heavy infrastructure and simply hides your transactions in plain sight. It completely shifted my perspective on how we actually achieve basic on-chain privacy. Chapters - Guest intro - Fixing base layer anonymity - The physical risks of public ledgers - Lessons from early privacy protocols - FinCEN and the downfall of Stratus - The technical flaws of synchronous mobile coinjoins - Developer assumptions versus actual user behavior - Understanding Payjoin and interactive transaction batching - Overcoming complex connection barriers in p2p privacy - Async Payjoin directories - Output substitution and routing interactive payments - Achieving non-interactive additions without covenants - The push for widespread adoption Guest Links Dan on X (Link: https://twitter.com/bitgould) Payjoin's Website (Link: https://payjoin.org) Payjoin's GitHub (Link: https://github.com/payjoin) Edward Snowden's X post (Link: https://x.com/Snowden/status/1391040522433830912?s=20) Affiliate Links Become sovereign, hold your keys, be censorship resistant with the Bitbox hardware wallet. Get 5% off everything in the store with code GUY (Link: https://bitbox.swiss/) Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from The Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1) 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's Takes on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@GuysTake) Guy Swann 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)
- 3 weeks ago12 min
What does the woke left TRULY worship?
The 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, I share my thoughts on the "holy trinity" the woke left actually worships. It starts with treating other people's money like magic. But seizing wealth is just the beginning. I break down the dangerous obsession with political authority and blind submission driving this hostile new religion. Chapters - Woke left claims logic - Other people’s money - Money as magic wand - Money isn’t enough - Gov waste vs billionaires - Power as second god - “Trust the science” dogma - The holy trinity - Saving their own world Affiliate Links Become sovereign, hold your keys, be censorship resistant with the Bitbox hardware wallet. Get 5% off everything in the store with code GUY (Link: https://bitbox.swiss/guy/) Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from The Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1) 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's Takes on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@GuysTake) Guy Swann 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) References from the episode Demand Sage: https://tinyurl.com/2blh4j3x CNBC: https://tinyurl.com/y86nqau8 Fox News: https://tinyurl.com/25tpbxjz NewsBreak: https://tinyurl.com/29wlamev GAO.Gov: https://tinyurl.com/24szjfr5 NPR: https://tinyurl.com/2yfms6k7 Yahoo News: https://tinyurl.com/2cfvzxuy Fox News: https://tinyurl.com/2xmslvkp We Forum: https://tinyurl.com/26ltmt5r The Hill: https://tinyurl.com/23wqhj5d NewsWeek: https://tinyurl.com/28apgpqt BBC: https://tinyurl.com/2y8zhvs4 BBC: https://tinyurl.com/23b522tn
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