Open-source AI models are rapidly changing the trajectory of AI, and threatening the economic models of American AI companies. Now, conveniently, we are being bombarded by doomsday scenarios about AI, along with calls for regulation. In this Take, I unpack how (and why) the US AI companies are trying to use the levers of government to pull up the drawbridge on AI and protect their failing business models. Listen to The AI Crisis @Guy Swann Take, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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In this Take, I break down why the biggest AI labs, while deeply unprofitable sitting on massive future compute obligations, are racing toward tril...

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Do we need the U.S. dollar to completely collapse for Bitcoin to win? Cory Klippsten and I explore how Bitcoin can win over the long run without requiring a dramatic dollar collapse or Weimar-style hyperinflation. We get into why true medium-of-exchange use is likely still a distant dream, how stablecoins are absorbing payments demand, the Coldcard exploit and navigating various self-custody tradeoffs, and much more. Listen to Back to What Matters with @Cory 🦢 Swan on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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***"The dollar is going to continue to lose purchasing power. Bitcoin is going to continue to gain purchasing power. It's going to keep on happenin...

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Watching the recent back to back exploits in Bitcoin feels exhausting, and it exposes the uncomfortable truth that the skill barrier to exploiting open-source code has dropped to near zero. But bitcoin isn’t getting hit because it’s weak, but because the payout is irreversible, making it the perfect canary in the coal mine for the rest of the internet. Here’s my take on the changing economics of cybersecurity, and how the current turmoil is simply hardening the Bitcoin ecosystem towards becoming "impossibly secure". Listen to The TRUTH about Iran's "Bitcoin" seizure @Guy Swann Take, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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In this Take episode, I break down the “Great Hackening” ripping through Bitcoin right now – from Coldcard’s catastrophic entropy bug to Li...

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Are we looking at the end of mass adoption? ⏱️ The recent entropy disaster has everyone panicked and questioning who they can actually trust. But throwing away your signing devices and giving up isn't the answer. In part 3 of the Coldcard Q&A, I address your questions and lay out the specific lessons we must learn to fix our security and recover from this trust crisis. Listen to How Does Bitcoin Self Custody Recover From This? @Guy Swann ‘s Take, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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The Roundtable is back! Mechanic has stepped down from the Roundtable, so it is just Jeff, Steve, and me looking at the wreckage of the recent soft fork attempt. Is block-template centralization the true existential risk right now? We definitely didn't see eye to eye on how the latest moves impacted the ecosystem... so grab a coffee and listen to us argue this out! Listen to Roundtable_024 - The Aftermath with @Jeff Swann and Simple Steve on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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The roundtable is back, but we're missing a familiar face. Mechanic has officially stepped down from Ocean, so it’s just Jeff, Steve and I diggin...

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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 @Guy Swann Take, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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I walk through the global push for Central Bank Digital Currencies, why voluntary rollouts have mostly flopped, and what governments really gain fr...

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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 @Guy Swann Take - The Most Important Project in Bitcoin, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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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 vulnerabili...

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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? @Guy Swann 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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Sats are on sale again! In case you missed my @Guy Swann ‘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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Bitcoin Audible • 10.5 Million Bitcoin Underwater: Is This THE Bottom? • Watch on Fountain

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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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 @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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***"We're entering the Bitcoin golden era with all the new technologies we're discovering because for the first decade Bitcoin was still very, at l...

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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 , @Bitcoin Mechanic, @Jeff Swann & @Guy Swann on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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The whole crew is back for another roundtable, and things get wild right out of the gate. I sat down with Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff to talk through...

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"The second you write down a passphrase or store it in a password manager, it switches from something you know to something you have. And that's a completely different security model where multisig, in my humble opinion, wins every time." ~ Seed Listen to Chat_167 - Why Your Keys Matter with @npub1fft9...6sxp on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"If you think of River or Gemini or Coinbase or whatever, think of all of those as silos and how people custody Bitcoin. If some sort of compromise...

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"With multisig, hardware wallets make less sense to me for your long-term setup because of the issue of hardware wallets storing a digital copy of your private keys. When you set that hardware wallet up, what's the first thing they have you do? Take out the card that came with the hardware wallet, write down these 12 or 24 words, and store them in a safe place. Even with a simple multisig, you end up having a lot of places where you need to hide things. For a simple 2-of-3, you now need six hiding places: three for the hardware wallets and three for the backups. My argument is that for your long-term cold storage, let the analog, physical copies of your private keys be the ones you worry about securing. Focus on those physical backups, because you are going to have to worry about how you're securing them anyway." ~ Seed Listen to Chat_167 - Why Your Keys Matter with @npub1fft9...6sxp on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"If you think of River or Gemini or Coinbase or whatever, think of all of those as silos and how people custody Bitcoin. If some sort of compromise...

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“If you think of River or Gemini or Coinbase or whatever, think of all of those as silos and how people custody Bitcoin. If some sort of compromise were to come into the Bitcoin ecosystem at the private key generation level, that could create an incident that could set Bitcoin back by 10 or more years because it would be almost indistinguishable from a protocol compromise and that we would be talking about Bitcoin being hacked again and not individual custodians being hacked. So I think we need to decentralise how people do Bitcoin custody as much as possible and what better way by leveraging private freedom preserving open source software.” - Seed Listen to Chat_167 - Why Your Keys Matter with @npub1fft9...6sxp on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"If you think of River or Gemini or Coinbase or whatever, think of all of those as silos and how people custody Bitcoin. If some sort of compromise...

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The reality where you own nothing and rent everything starts with broken money. I don't buy the narrative that normal people just aren't working hard enough to own things anymore. The truth is that zero interest rates gave the ultra-wealthy a blank check to corner the market on productive assets. It's entirely structural, and it is robbing us blind. Want to know the exact mechanics of how they use cheap debt to price you out of ownership forever? I lay it all out in Guy's Take_107. Listen to Guy's Take_107 - Free Rent for the Rich on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"It's often discussed that arbitrarily lowering interest rates and the zero interest rate policy era leads to massive recklessness and unethical an...

Ever wonder why modern society produces so much worthless junk instead of civilization-defining architecture? It all comes down to proof of work. Today I'm reading a chapter from Wyatt’s book The Bitcoinization of Finance, his latest case for tying the real economy back to sound money. And I took it a step further: if you strip away that foundation, society eventually just dies. Listen to Proof of Work in the Real Economy by @npub1sknv...6jle on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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"If your money isn't sound, it is not reflecting any proof of work. It is not reflecting anything about who should be able to consume, or how much ...

Is the biggest threat to Bitcoin the tech, or is it us? We spend so much time worrying about quantum computers and code changes, while the real test is firstly human. Can a massive, easily divided global community actually hold the line when the world demands we break? I read Part 2 of this essay today, and the main argument is hard to shake. Listen to Modern Money Only Works By Cheating (Part 2) by @npub1z7eq...0qhv on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 Fountain:

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**_“what matters now is not belief, but endurance. __bitcoin does not promise comfort. it does not promise justice. it does not promise to sav...

I think a lot of us feel it, but no one wants to admit it. The internet just doesn't feel real anymore. Aleks Svetski and I sat down to talk about the total collapse of digital trust and the weird micro-echo chambers we all live in now. But it's not all doom and gloom. We also discussed family, meaning, personal growth, and the hopeful picture of where social life could be heading next. Listen to Chat_165 - Family and Focus with @Alekandar Svetski on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann , available on all major platforms: 🔗 YouTube: 🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v78khkw-chat-165-family-and-focus-with-aleks-svetski.html

There is a reason why every argument from the big blockers is some conspiracy about a government takeover rather than one about the actual technical debate. Why? It is easier to spin a web of nonsense than argue about protocol nuances. Here is the technical reality: Bitcoin is a broadcast layer network. A serious protocol nerd should already see the scaling problem. A broadcast network is one where every single participant must broadcast their message to every single other participant in the entire network. This is part of how and why Bitcoin stays decentralized. It is decentralized because anyone who wants to do so can confirm every last rule of the network has been followed by every other participant for its entire history. Essentially, it has made every single one of its users their own referee to the game. Watch the latest 2Sats - Did Epstein Hijack Bitcoin? on Bitcoin Audible with @Guy Swann : Youtube: Rumble: https://rumble.com/v77syh2-2sats-did-epstein-hijack-bitcoin.html