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Commute and Compute is your front seat to unfiltered thoughts from the road. Recorded straight from the cab during my daily truck commute, this podcast is a rolling stream of consciousness—rants, reflections, random stories, and deep dives into whatever's on my mind, including Bitcoin, Nostr, and the weirdness of the world. No script, no filter...just a dude driving and thinking out loud. Tune in, zone out, and ride along.
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- Jun 30, 202634 min
Rented
Bitcoin is down more than 50% from October’s high and June was the worst month for ETF outflows in the product’s history. More than four billion dollars left the funds, most of it from BlackRock’s IBIT. This episode argues the sell-off wasn’t holders capitulating, it was renters leaving. The people who bought Bitcoin through a paper wrapper never had the keys, so the second the Fed turned hawkish they bailed. Meanwhile conviction buyers like Strategy and Strive were buying above the market price on purpose. The price got cut in half but the network never changed. Renters left, owners stayed, and that’s the whole story.
- Jun 23, 202624 min
Bitcoin, Nostr, and the Quantum Problem
Washington just made quantum a national priority, and governments don’t scramble funding for science fair projects. This one walks through why quantum is a sovereignty story before it’s a tech story. Who’s positioned (IBM, Google, IonQ, the post-quantum security plays), where the durable money actually sits, and the part that should keep you up at night. Quantum doesn’t threaten proof of work. It threatens the signature layer. Your keys. Same problem hits Nostr, except there the keys secure your voice and your identity instead of your coins. The near-term defense isn’t exotic math. It’s hygiene. Fresh addresses, no reuse, treat key management like the first-class problem it is. Quantum isn’t just a threat. It’s a forcing function, and it’s about to test whether the decentralized world can keep its promises when the cryptographic floor starts moving.Find me on Nostr: Npub: npub14hq5lgadtyy9dhvtszq46dnl0s0xwdddqr7e32rdqqhma8a4xhsspxjjzu
- Jun 22, 202637 min
Why the Brotherhood Keeps Finding Them
Why do veterans bond so hard, in life and especially in Bitcoin? Because humans were built for the tribe, not for comfort. The military rebuilds the tribe, then sends men home to “paradise” where nobody needs them. This episode connects the dots: the gap between the official story and ground truth that breeds permanent skeptics, the printed money that funds the war and robs the household, and why a money built on “don’t trust, verify” lands in a vet’s chest like cold water. Bitcoin gathers the exact people the crucible forges. Skeptics of authority, believers in proof, holders of the line. It’s not a financial community. For a lot of us, it’s coming home.
- Jun 16, 202634 min
The Undivided Man
This week on ContraCast: character. The real kind, not the brand kind. The mark that gets engraved into you by what you do when nobody’s watching. We take apart the modern lie that being open to everyone is the same as being known, talk discipline and the expensive promise, and tell the story of Witold Pilecki, the man who walked into Auschwitz on purpose, got erased by the regime that killed him, and came out the other side of history a hero anyway. Small circle. Expensive word. A room that’s never actually empty.
- Jun 11, 202635 min
You Can’t Kill It
They told you Bitcoin grew up. What they mean is it learned to behave. This episode is about the one feature that ever mattered, that nobody can stop you from holding your own money, and why the price everyone’s watching only exists because of it. The banks buying in was never the win. You not needing them already was.2011 Article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/the-crypto-currency
- Jun 10, 202657 min
The Night They Emptied the Files
8, 1971. While the whole country watched Ali fight Frazier, eight ordinary citizens with day jobs burglarized an FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania and walked out with a thousand documents proving everything the “paranoids” had been saying for years. The files exposed COINTELPRO, forced the first legal restraints ever placed on domestic spying, and the crew was never caught. Two hundred agents hunted them for five years and came up empty. Then they stayed silent for forty-three more.This episode breaks down how a daycare director, a cab driver, and a physics professor beat the most feared agency on earth, why a nearly identical crew got rolled up five months later, and what their trust model teaches anyone building outside the system today. Surveillance is a filing system. Filing systems have dependencies. Dependencies can be attacked, and the tools you hold now are better than a crowbar.Do the work. Skip the credit. Hold.
- Jun 9, 202638 min
Is AI going to destroy humanity, or not?
I made an episode asking whether AI is going to destroy humanity, and my answer is no, at least not the way the movies promise. It’s a glorified calculator that scales, not a mind, and it’s never going to wake up and hate you. I pulled C.R. Wiley’s work on AI and transhumanism for the spine. His read is that the real danger is theological, not robotic. The machine becomes a competing eschatology, a counterfeit resurrection, a thing people start treating like a god. So the destruction isn’t a war. It’s a slow surrender where you let the box pray for you, think for you, and love your people for you, one convenient outsourcing at a time. I close on how to use the tool without bowing to it. Limit it to what humans literally cannot do, and guard the soul work with your life.
- Jun 8, 202626 min
The Unexamined Man
Most men aren't lacking potential.They're lacking conviction.In this episode, I break down why motivation is overrated, discipline is freedom, and leadership begins long before anyone follows you.We talk about examining your life, holding beliefs that actually cost something, living with accountability, governing your appetites, and becoming the kind of man whose actions carry more weight than his words.The world doesn't need louder men.It needs governed men.
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