New @Plebchain Radio episode is live 🌀⚡️ Today’s episode is with @Sourcenode , and it’s a pattern-walk back to the center. We start with a sermon on weaponized escapism: the system doesn’t just sell distractions, it aims to keep you numb, looping, and harvestable. The real exit is constructive escapism: retreat into craft, build tools, make art, write code, and turn flight into creation. Then Sourcenode and I get into: • why Nostr feels different in the nervous system than legacy platforms (and why clout is a golden handcuff) • “fiat” as something deeper than currency: unwinding psychological and social layers • Bitcoin as trust-minimized, not magically trustless (the social layer matters) • the risk of financialization turning money into “asset-only” • practical onramps: helping businesses adopt Bitcoin and build real vendor networks If you like conversations that trace the mandala back to the source node, press play.

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Plebchain Radio • 154 – Mandalas That Converge To The Sourcenode • Listen on Fountain

Episode 154 opens with Avi’s sermon “Weaponized Escapism”: in an attention-extraction world, the urge to flee is rational, but the kind of es...

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Going live on nostr with @Sourcenode in ~1hr at 3pm ET/ 2000 UTC for episode 154 of @Plebchain Radio Available on your favorite Nostr livestream client

Say WoT? Ep 4 is live 🔧🕸️🤝 I sat down with @Marks (CEO of Maple AI, ex-Apple) for a technical deep dive on the question hiding underneath the whole agentic future: How do we get useful AI without turning our private lives into training data? We get into: – privacy-first AI design (local encryption + confidential computing / secure enclaves) – why “AI proxy” setups still leak prompt content to big model providers – the coming “inference hangover” (venture-subsidized compute doesn’t last forever) – agents with memory and permissions, and why the real problem is attack surface – Web-of-Trust, identity, and signed events as bots and humans transact side-by-side If you’re building on Nostr, thinking about agents, or just want your AI to stop being a snitch … this one’s for you.

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Plebchain Radio • Say WoT? – Ep. 4: Secure Enclaves, Sovereign Agents with Mark Suman • Listen on Fountain

Avi is joined by Mark Suman (CEO of Maple AI, former Apple engineer) for a technical dive into the intersection of AI privacy, confidential computi...

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In ~2hrs at 1pm ET / 1800 UTC, @Marks joins me for Episode 4 of Say WoT? to talk about how AI agents are taking over nostr and what we can do to hasten the enslopification* Tune in on your favorite nostr livestreaming client for this important conversation 👀 *or something. We haven't actually discussed what we're going to cover

GM I yearn for the good old days when men were men and masked their waning testosterone with sports cars. Now it’s agentic frameworks

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Sunday Brunch Ep 8 is live ☕️🎶⚡️ I was joined by @ivy lumi for a music-first, no-script hang where the house rule stays sacred: 90% of sats streamed during songs goes straight to the artist. We talk: • her journey into songwriting and releasing music as Ivy Lumi • a “melody-first” creative process and capturing ideas fast before full production • why “Love is the cure” is the thesis, even for Bitcoiners still carrying fiat trauma • and we spin a playlist that includes Ivy’s tracks (“Wow Wow Wow,” “SideQuest,” “The Cure”) plus a couple gems she’s excited about from the wider V4V/Nostr orbit

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Plebchain Radio • Sunday Brunch 8: Ivy Lumi • Listen on Fountain

Avi’s guest in this serving of Sunday Brunch is Ivy Lumi, a singer-songwriter and Bitcoin-industry native who began writing songs in late 2023 an...

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Sunday Brunch goes live on nostr in ~2hrs at 12pm ET / 1700 UTC My guest today is singer/songwriter @ivy lumi, who comes armed with a carefully crafted playlist of her own work as well as a few others she's chosen The show will be livestreamed on your favorite nostr livestreaming client. Tune in to shake those saturday night cobwebs off!

New Plebchain Radio is live 🦅⚡️ This one’s with @RedTailHawk , and it’s a deep ride through the outer ledger and the inner one. We cover: – why Bitcoin can’t fix the operator (and what it means to “audit the inner ledger”) – a 2008-era origin story: austerity, homelessness, rebuilding, and the rabbit hole into sound money – “golden rule orange-pilling”: qualify the lead, learn their worldview, tailor the frame – canon vs code, authority vs truth, and skepticism toward fiat-like belief structures – kundalini/perennial philosophy threads, “Language of the Birds,” and a Bentov/Schumann/theta-state detour If you like your Bitcoin conversations with equal parts grit, empathy, and metaphysics, press play.

Plebchain Radio • 153 – Metanoia Through Praxeology: The Golden Rule with Red Tail Hawk • Listen on Fountain

Episode 153 opens with Avi’s sermon “Fix Yourself to Fix the World”: Bitcoin can be a flawless instrument, but it doesn’t magically heal th...

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I will be going live for episode 153 of @Plebchain Radio in ~40 minutes at 2 pm ET/ 1900 UTC with @RedTailHawk Available on your favorite nostr livestreaming client

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New Plebchain Radio episode is live 🍷⚡️🧵 @Ben Justman🍷 returns for a real-world conversation at the edge of the parallel economy: what happens when you try to do Bitcoin-native commerce in a world of licenses, shipping rules, and regulated goods. We get into: • the “compromised substrate” problem: don’t let human drama smear the protocol • the Denim Road dream vs the reality of alcohol law (and why some rails stay fiat for now) • Nostr commerce friction: discovery, demand, and payment UX • an early-adopter tuition moment (lost sats, learned lessons) • artisan pricing in a bear market: integrity, signaling, and removing shipping pain If you care about building trade routes that can survive reality (not just tweets), this one’s worth your time.

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Plebchain Radio • 152 – A Bootlegger on the Denim Road with Ben Justman • Listen on Fountain

Avi opens the episode with a sermon on “the compromised substrate”: when public idols crack, the scavengers try to smear the entire network wit...

Sunday Brunch, Essex edition is live ☕️🎸⚡️ Guest host @Aaron of Essex takes the wheel and hangs with @Longy for a proper music-first Brunch: six Longy tracks spun and dissected at length, including two brand new ones. They talk: • why live performance is the ultimate truth serum (the stage audits you) • local scene storytelling (shoutout “Hamlet Court Blues” and Essex lore) • the legacy music pipeline vs Value-for-Value (direct, fast, human) • Spotify gatekeeping + the ugly incentives around streaming numbers • a real-world V4V gig experiment at The Fickle Pickle: in-room show + livestream + recorded release + Bitcoin onboarding

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Plebchain Radio • Sunday Brunch 7: Guest Host Aaron of Essex with Longy • Listen on Fountain

Guest host Aaron of Essex takes the Sunday Brunch wheel and welcomes Longy for a laid-back, music-first hang: five Longy tracks get spun, boosted, ...

GM Over the course of two 15 hr flights back and forth in the last week, I’ve watched 7 out of 8 Mission Impossible movies. No idea why. (The 8th isn’t available)