The debate around BIP110 is a masterclass in poor logic. Both sides are resorting to obvious motte-and-bailey fallacies, instead of addressing the real technical arguments. In this Take episode, I use the concept of a hypothetical article-publishing blockchain - "The Blog Chain" - to expose how ridiculous the "BIP-110 is censorship" argument really is. If we can't separate the concept of "censorship" with a set of protocol design choices in order to optimise Bitcoin for money - regardless of whether or not you agree with those choices - then we erode all logical foundations for discussing bitcoin as money. ... And no, this has nothing to do with whether I personally support BIP110! Give it a listen and tell me I'm wrong. Listen to Are We "Censoring" Spam? @npub1h8nk...rpev ‘s Take, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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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 ha...

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The hype cycle will flat out lie to you about what actually builds success. I just went through Cory Klippsten’s latest piece for today's Read. It’s a sobering reminder framed around his grandfather's WWII journal. Real freedom means grinding through the bear markets when no one cares, not just riding the bull market high and asking institutional gatekeepers for validation. Listen to The Battle for Monetary Independence by @npub18p63...0k8k on Bitcoin Audible with @npub1h8nk...rpev , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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This Coldcard entropy failure was a real gut punch, but it showed us where our blind spots are. Steve, Jeff, and I walk through the specifics of this exploit, how AI is widening the attack surface, and how we turn this mess into real anti-fragility for your own self-custody setup. Listen to Roundtable_023 - Staying Humble with @npub1h8nk...rpev , @npub1ajv7...tppj , @npub1wnlu...n3wr & @npub1pldg...5nc9 on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/SWljpBsiLCJcyGagi7xc 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7dq1r8-roundtable-023-staying-humble.html

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. As always, this @npub1h8nk...rpev ‘s Take is available on all major platforms.

Central Bank Digital Currencies are a desperate grasp for control, falsely sold to us as "innovation". Every time a country tries a voluntary rollout, it flops. And yet, the push for CBDCs continues because the end goal is total surveillance. In this Guy's Take I chart the trend of CBDCs and where I think it's all going. And here's the white pill - could the financial grid these bureaucrats are building accidentally teach us how to use the true sovereign technologies which can offer an escape valve from their control grid? Listen to The TRUTH about Iran's "Bitcoin" seizure @npub1h8nk...rpev Take, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/5MMbGGW5cbzQUnhqlsKJ 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7d7do2-cbdcs-are-coming-and-the-bitcoin-exit-awaits.html

The way we manage Bitcoin development is at a crossroads. In my latest chat, Hunter Beast argues we need to drop the obsession with new features and focus entirely on provable safety. We also had a fascinating conversation about AI’s role in securing the future of Bitcoin, and even delved into faith and natural law. Listen to Chat_174 - Preparing Bitcoin for an Unknown Future with @npub1qqqq...lxwk on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7chqly-the-basement-theory-of-bear-markets-clip.html

What is the most important project in bitcoin right now? One that obsoletes Slipstream and non-standard transaction concerns, that forces the spam and BIP-110 discussion to resolve organically in a decentralised way, and that prevent the single largest attack vector in the entire ecosystem. In this Guy's Take, I give a breakdown on DATUM and Stratum V2, the indispensable protocols which are radicalising the way mining works. Listen to @npub1h8nk...rpev Take - The Most Important Project in Bitcoin, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/Y7tgMH1yDbNGDc8LC1fz 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7ctpqc-the-most-important-project-in-bitcoin-you-probably-havent-heard-of.html

We’ve spent years trying to get Bitcoin privacy right: TumbleBit, early mixing, all of it. Why haven't these tools seen any real adoption? Dan Gould and I debate what went wrong and how the new Payjoin protocol finally makes privacy approachable. Listen to The Time Has Come for Privacy on Bitcoin with @npub1yevr...qrkl on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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***"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 thr...

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The big auto players are burning billions just to hold your car’s features hostage behind monthly paywalls. Harald Schäfer and the team at comma are proving you don't need to accept that. We talked about how they built a self-driving system that lets you retrofit your own car without taking a dime from VCs. We discussed the wild decade of building this project and keeping control of the hardware at all cost. Listen to Chat_172 - Sovereign Devices in a Subscription World with Harald Schäfer & @npub1h8nk...rpev on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/AHcY5J1X52NsP81eaApf 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7bzvnu-chat-172-sovereign-devices-in-a-subscription-world-with-harald-schfer.html

They claim to follow logic and science, but that’s just a mask. Once you look at the patterns in their behavior, a different reality appears. I’ve identified the "holy trinity" the woke left actually worships, and it has nothing to do with facts. Check out my latest Take below. Listen to What does the woke left TRULY worship? @npub1h8nk...rpev Take, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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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...

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The market looks like total trash right now. We're seeing red candles everywhere and the mood is low. So in this Roundtable we tackle the ultimate question: what if Bitcoin actually dies? We stop sugarcoating the leverage, the paper Bitcoin obsession, and the dev drama. This was a great riff with some excellent rants. Don’t miss it! Listen to Roundtable_022 - What if Bitcoin Dies? with @npub1pldg...5nc9 , @npub1wnlu...n3wr , @npub1ajv7...tppj and @npub1h8nk...rpev on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/XqcMnSjlzKmwOuSttxlD 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7c60a8-roundtable-022-what-if-bitcoin-dies.html

What happens when brilliant developers try to predict complex human behavior? Usually, they get it wrong. I read Jimmy Song’s essay "On Overconfidence" today, and it prompted some heavy reflection. It’s easy to get caught up in our own projections, but history shows that complex systems rarely behave the way we expect. I break down my perspective on the episode. Listen to Read_947 - On Overconfidence by @npub10vlh...sp42 on Bitcoin Audible with @npub1h8nk...rpev , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"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...

Sats are on sale again! In case you missed my @npub1h8nk...rpev ‘s Take last week on where we are and where (I think) we're going, you can check the episode out here, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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Over 10.5 million Bitcoin are currently underwater. Everyone is panicking about a grueling bear market, but I see things differently. In today's Ta...

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People are losing their minds over Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire, with many calling it a “failure of capitalism”. So I ran the math. Comparing his wealth to a great businessman of the past. And when you adjust for the real money supply of their eras, the narrative isn’t quite what it seems… Are we really witnessing a historic wealth imparable due to late-stage capitalism, or simply measuring success with a broken tape measure? Listen to my full breakdown. Listen to Why Elon's Trillion = Carnegie's Millions (The Fiat Illusion Exposed) by @npub1h8nk...rpev on Bitcoin Audible (and don't forget to subscribe to the new Guy's Takes YouTube channel!) 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/PfOccIT60kUWZhZjSpHa 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7bs3a8-why-elons-trillion-carnegies-millions-the-fiat-illusion-exposed.html

Imagine sending local fiat directly to a self-custodial Lightning wallet without ever touching a custodian. Gustavo Flores actually built this out for Mexico. I talked to him about the intense technical hurdles required to make that happen in a low-trust environment. If you assume the best days of Bitcoin development are behind us, this conversation is going to shatter that assumption. Listen to Chat_171 - Building Instant Fiat-to-Bitcoin Bridges with Gustavo Flores on Bitcoin Audible with @npub1h8nk...rpev , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/DmDU1FdBMLhRzK9igKbl 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7bnrd6-chat-171-building-instant-fiat-to-bitcoin-bridges-with-gustavo-flores.html

The writing is on the wall for centralized finance. I’ve watched this play out too many times, and the U.S. Treasury's latest $1B "crypto" seizure from Iran is the loudest warning sign yet. The media calls it a Bitcoin seizure. I call it a lesson in why Tether and ETFs are just banking 2.0 with the exact same confiscation risks. True self-custody works very differently. I broke down the details of this seizure and the future of global reserves. Be sure to subscribe to the new Guy's Takes YouTube channel with yours truly @npub1h8nk...rpev for my weekly breakdown on the biggest stories in Bitcoin & beyond ✊ 🔗

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Luke de Wolf spent years securing oil pipelines and power grids. Now he is applying that hardcore cybersecurity mindset to Bitcoin. We debated the very real security risks facing the network right now, and why treating it as critical infrastructure is fundamentally non-negotiable. The decisions we make today will decide if this system survives long-term. Listen to Chat_170 - Can Anything be Secured in the Digital Age? with @Luke de Wolf & @npub1h8nk...rpev on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/AtXufLKEacq8h6v567oo 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7bak2a-chat-170-can-anything-be-secured-in-the-digital-age-with-luke-de-wolf.html

I sat down with Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff because someone needed to cut through the noise on Taproot, chain bloat, and real censorship vs. spam. Steve brought fresh data on network users right now. And Mechanic made the wildest case: the healthiest miners might be the ones willing to operate at a technical loss. We also tore apart the ETF flow obsession and looked at a wallet cracked by AI after eleven years. Listen to Roundtable_021 - The Fight is Never Over with @npub1pldg...5nc9 , @npub1wnlu...n3wr, @npub1ajv7...tppj & @npub1h8nk...rpev on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/KNdIKAKu6JCEcwouiECB 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7b0toc-roundtable-021-the-fight-is-never-over.html

“Try to get a package into Iran. Can't do it. Try to get dollars into Iran. Not a chance in hell. Get Bitcoin into Iran? You don't do anything different. It's not even a thing that you have to do. It just works. And there's nothing Iran can do about it. Which is probably why they're being very serious about it from the Strait of Hormuz. Their position is: well, if we can't do anything about it, the U.S. government can't do anything about it. You know, what do you do? I really think that's the path to a Bitcoin standard. It's not that we've got super devotees, and we've explained Austrian economics to people, and someone has to be convinced that sound money is better than fiat money. Nah, it's just going to be the thing that kept working when everything else stopped.” Listen to Chat_169 - Bitcoin Proving its Case with @npub1cj8z...rz4u on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/x6O2BKPByw0IKiitJvV5 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7apfay-chat-169-bitcoin-proving-its-case-with-walker-america.html

“All of monetary history actually explains all the wars. It explains all the conflicts. It explains why one country won and beat another country. But what do you hear about? The kings, the great battles. But, you know, the real mover was gold. The real story was that a currency couldn't sustain its level of inflation, or its level of fraud from its kingdom, as well as a competing kingdom could. The real stories are gunpowder. The real stories are technological as to what shaped the world. While the political and dramatic stories that we tell about the people and the events are brilliant and fun because they're human stories, largely, they are the consequential outcomes of built pressures from technological and monetary shifts.” Listen to Chat_169 - Bitcoin Proving its Case with @npub1cj8z...rz4u on Bitcoin Audible with @npub1h8nk...rpev , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/x6O2BKPByw0IKiitJvV5 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7apfay-chat-169-bitcoin-proving-its-case-with-walker-america.html