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Guy Swann
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“The Guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anyone else you know.” Adjectives: Smart/Sexy Host of Bitcoin Audible 🎧
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TheGuySwann 1 week ago
Nostr devs out there: Is there anything that stops Nostr from recognizing a different type of key as legitimate signatures on the network aside from the (admittedly very painful) bootstrapping problem of client compatibility/adoption?
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TheGuySwann 2 weeks ago
GM, if a doctor prescribes you something, you don’t actually have to buy it or take it. The responsibility for living life drugged out of your mind or deal with whatever crazy list of side effects that may arise is still yours.
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TheGuySwann 1 month ago
Been so focused on getting keys moved and contacting people and responding to DMs i forgot my Nostr fma: IF YOU HAVE A COLDCARD PLEASE MOVE YOUR BITCOIN. Assume it is compromised, be careful but act quickly. We're trying to push out a video asap on what to do but here's a quick version in the meantime... image
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TheGuySwann 1 month ago
GM There are no reserve requirements for banks. They can issue as much debt as they want from nothing at all. This is normal and could never have massive, systemic negative consequences so don't think about it.
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TheGuySwann 1 month ago
Imagine thinking that one achieves independence from a totalitarian ruler without paying some price for it? No volatility, no risk, no days of losses, no period of stagnancy, no regulatory risk, no institutions fighting back. Just skipping through meadows and green candles and then throwing in the towel the moment the wind blows. Bitcoin isn't about getting rich, if that's why you're here then you've lost the plot. Bitcoin is about not being beholden to the waste and corruption of a class of people who live off of monetary fraud. Bitcoin is about PROVING that they cannot dilute us for their wars, they cannot counterfeit for their subsidies, they cannot indebt us and our children and their children to get the lie of "free stuff" today. Bitcoin is about independence and the risk and costs that come with it. We may get wealthy IF we achieve independence. But we will never get it asking for permission or waiting for green candles before even taking a stance. Imagine if the American founders had said "we pledge our lives as long as we are comfortable, our fortunes as long as they only go up, and our sacred honor as long as we only benefit from this quest. Otherwise we apologize and ask the King's approval." Some people may not understand that this is THE battle, and maybe they have no idea how or where they are paying for the corruption of their own society. But they are paying for it nonetheless. Bitcoin is the solution and it's not because its going to go up every day you hold it. Quite literally the opposite in fact. When we take away the power to dilute the money, we force them to come straight to our door with their guns and demand what we have earned directly. Bitcoin's mission is to destroy the illusion that they are giving us something for free, and prove that the state is a system of violence and the central bank is a system of covert theft at an unheard of scale. That is the purpose of this tool. It is *independence* through technological rebellion. Not wealth. It is *risking our wealth* for a chance at ending the era of central banking and infinite debts and a world where kids grow up with the poisonous and absurd notion that even as technology becomes more advanced and our capacity to produce grows exponentially, somehow everything still gets "naturally" more expensive and wealth becomes more concentrated. Nothing could be further from the obvious truth. It is govt debt, the central bank money printer, and the counterfeit class that huddles around them like leeches that suffocate society of what would otherwise be stable and consistent growth in our general prosperity, time, and meaning. If you are here only because of 50% returns and leave when it falls 25%... we are not the same.
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TheGuySwann 1 month ago
I really wish the US had a free market economy. It’s hard to imagine how prosperous we would be.
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TheGuySwann 1 month ago
What is the MOST important project in Bitcoin right now? It's probably not what you think.
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TheGuySwann 1 month ago
Holy shit! Kimi K3 just dropped and it outperforms Fable 5 at coding takes. State of the art Ai models just went fully open and the full weights will be available in just a week or so
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TheGuySwann 1 month ago
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.” — John Gall