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Unfiltered conversations with builders, thinkers, and operators in Bitcoin and beyond. Exploring the systems we trust, why they work (or don't), and what comes next. Stream sats, not ads.
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trustrev 2 months ago
NEW EPISODE Your AI agent is about to need a wallet. It's going to rent compute, buy API credits, and pay for services. Right now most people solve this by handing over their credit card. That means every transaction your agent makes is in your name, on your card, and tied to your identity. @Roland at @Alby built another way. We talk about what self-custody looks like when the machines start spending and why the infrastructure Bitcoiners built for human freedom turns out to be exactly what agents need. S03E07 is available now. https://fountain.fm/episode/GELkOA1AbmPUPUFZHX7l
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trustrev 3 months ago
NEW EPISODE “The big concern is the emailification of Bitcoin.” @Aaron van Wirdum spent 13 years covering Bitcoin and wrote The Genesis Book tracing its lineage back to DigiCash in the 90s. His warning: the protocol survives, but everyone interacts through custodial middlemen. SMTP still exists. Nobody runs their own mail server. We talk pre-Bitcoin failures, the block size wars, mining centralization, and why incremental regulation is a bigger threat than a 51% attack. S03E03 is out now for supporters, tomorrow for all.
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trustrev 5 months ago
NEW EPISODE Twitter verification used to mean something. Now it means you paid $8. Meta employees need permission to remove spammers if their ad budget is high enough. @Pip the WoT guy built the alternative on Web of Trust. Reputation computed from your actual social graph, not from a company that can flip a switch and erase you. S02E16 Pippellia – Reputation Without a Kill Switch https://fountain.fm/episode/K745y4I3kdplDkqnI7D2
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trustrev 6 months ago
NEW EPISODE It took 69 years to break up AT&T. IBM outspent the DOJ for 12 straight years and ran out the clock. Cory Doctorow knows this. He still thinks regulation is how we escape enshittification. We talked about why—and whether that faith is warranted. S02E13 is out now:
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trustrev 6 months ago
NEW EPISODE: @average_gary went from Naval Special Warfare intelligence to software engineering at a large-scale Bitcoin miner. His career arc reveals something important about how centralized systems are showing cracks and what's replacing them. Key insights: → Open source contributions build reputation that matters more than corporate credentials in Bitcoin → Military “thinking shooter” training—knowing where to find answers rather than having all answers—translates directly to decentralized technology work → Financial surveillance isn't abstract: working in FinTech showed him exactly how payment censorship operates at the technical level → Bitcoin Veterans is creating pathways for the military community to transition from defending centralized institutions to building alternatives Listen and watch:
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trustrev 6 months ago
From Naval Special Warfare to large-scale Bitcoin mining. @average_gary Average Gary spent years in intelligence and large-scale data systems, seeing how surveillance works, and then started building the alternatives. His path from classified operations to open source shows how military discipline translates to freedom tech—and why proof of work beats credentials. S02E12 is out tomorrow.
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trustrev 6 months ago
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trustrev 6 months ago
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trustrev 6 months ago
"You may actually get to a point where too much decentralization actually makes it ungodly hard to use." npub1nxy56ame2gfnfj6fjylzxwq7r94phvgwt037mmvwr60qsqlaseksswlnxl on why Signal wins by accepting centralization trade-offs—and what Bitcoin builders somtimes miss about usability. Full episode coming tomorrow.
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trustrev 6 months ago
"The longevity of the whole network, the selling point of Bitcoin is that it is censorship resistant, and this element of privacy is necessary." Dan Gould joins Trust Revolution to discuss how PayJoin enhances Bitcoin's privacy while saving users money. Listen to the full episode at Shared via
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trustrev 6 months ago
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trustrev 6 months ago
“If you're relying on them to move money, they can discriminate based on that. We need some baseline privacy.” —Dan Gould Dive into the conversation on Trust Revolution as Dan discusses how PayJoin reshapes Bitcoin's privacy landscape. Listen now: Shared via
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trustrev 7 months ago
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trustrev 7 months ago
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trustrev 7 months ago
NEW EPISODE npub1q6mcr8tlr3l4gus3sfnw6772s7zae6hqncmw5wj27ejud5wcxf7q0nx7d5 spent 20 years architecting Canada's digital identity framework. He's also building Safebox—a Nostr wallet no entity can shut down. “It's not about identity theft. It's about intention theft.” In this conversation: • Axioms vs rules • Encrypted Cashu tokens on Nostr relays • What the trucker protest revealed about fragile systems Understanding centralized systems deeply is how you build alternatives that actually work. S02E09 | Trust Revolution https://fountain.fm/episode/KoDQBw5S2Ga7bbUqLs7A #nostr #bitcoin #cashu