#415: Coal Is The Future with Steve Barbour
Marty sits down with Steve Barbour before the first Nakamoto Forum debate to talk about energy, mining, and replacing the US Dollar.
Steve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SGBarbour
Upstream Data: https://blog.upstreamdata.ca/
7:30 - Bitcoin dev conflict of interest
19:18 - Bitcoin reaching maturity
21:01 - Russian mining
25:37 - Fiat IOUs
28:30 - The state of US mining
34:25 - Will "Coal" Cole
38:09 - Upstream's progress since Steve's last pod
47:06 - Hydro is better for portability
55:31 - New design
59:53 - Is coal the future?
1:04:48 - Hydrocarbons debate
1:08:33 - Lizard men
1:10:57 - Mock the rulers
1:19:03 - Fiat dying
1:25:01 - Wrapping up
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#414: The Dollar Endgame Theory with Peruvian Bull
Marty sits down with Peruvian Bull to discuss how the world will move away from the USD reserve.
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12:01 - Starting out writing on Reddit
17:48 - Is the dollar currently in its endgame?
23:02 - Weaponizing dollar against Russia hurt US
25:19 - Past the debt event horizon
33:45 - Bitcoin reserve
36:21 - Will BRICS BUCS gain traction?
41:06 - A great opportunity for bitcoiners
44:01 - Nations missing the Bitcoin bus
49:40 - Converting individuals to Bitcoin
52:02 - Why Latin America understands intuitively
55:43 - SUPERSTONK
58:42 - Suffering in the streets
1:00:51 - Price post-hyperbitcoinization
1:03:57 - Societal impact of hyperbitcoinization
1:10:24 - The next 3 months
1:17:01 - technical difficulties
1:17:59 - Dollar losing network effect
1:21:42 - Plugs
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#413: Resisting mRNA Food with Charles Mayfield
Marty sits down with Charles Mayfield to talk about Keto Con, the wonders of pig biology, and the destruction of food and agriculture wrought by corporations and legislation.
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Farrow: https://farrow.life/
11:01 - Marty field tested the skin food
12:20 - Keto Con
16:58 - Epic Dermis
20:59 - Why Farrow
24:34 - Pigs
34:05 - Untrustworthy institutions
41:10 - Poison in the livestock
45:43 - Insidious legislature
51:01 - Looking at more accurate health markers
1:00:26 - Big Pharma and Big Ag
1:05:57- Resisting mRNA food
1:10:31 - Life insurance story
1:12:15 - Instilling urgency
1:16:40 - Symbiosis
1:22:56 - Blackpill/Whitepill
1:29:58 - Mock the rulers
1:33:52 - 3 years of madness
1:40:47 - Health is wealth
1:43:43 - Big week for Farrow
1:47:46 - Marty is a glowing god of goodness
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Rabbit Hole Recap #249: Is Russia Mining Bitcoin?
This week Marty gets a new nickname.
https://tass.ru/ekonomika/17542637
https://twitter.com/TDF_Can/status/1648712428568424448
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/eu-parliament-approves-travel-rule-and-mica/
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/mullvad-vpn-data/
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/wavman-music-player-for-nostr/
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/zapworthy-nostr/
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/upgrade-your-luks-key-derivation-function/
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/n3xb-exchange/
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bhutan-sovereign-fund/
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/sweden-removes-tax-credits-for-data-centers/
https://twitter.com/clarkmoody/status/1645127454950866948
https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1646470359346970624
https://twitter.com/SGBarbour/status/1649046385248079877
4:00 - Opening riff
8:21 - Dashboard
15:30 - Coinjoin drama
23:40 - Marty loses brain cells & Matt talks privacy
35:42 - Payjoin
37:59 - Cashu
42:16 - New Unchained
46:50 - Russia mining?
58:37 - Nostr hype
1:06:26 - Bhutan stacked sats and got rugged
1:09:11 - EU passes FATF rule
1:13:56 - Jordan Peterson
1:16:40 - Bitcoin art
1:21:38 - Ordinals broken
1:24:20 - Consensus alternatives in Austin
1:31:37 - Unicoin
1:33:23 - Boostagrams and an accidental shoutout
1:37:50 - More Prime Trust rugging
1:39:52 - Uncle Snotty loves his name
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#412: Speaking Out For Those Injured By The Jabs with Michael Koss and Joel Wallskog
Marty sits down with Michael Koss and Dr. Joel Wallskog for a discussion of injuries from the Covid-19 shot, React19, and the Dartmouth College roundtable.
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React19 roundtable at Dartmouth: https://react19.org/DartC19/
9:47 - Michael's background - Dartmouth roundtable
18:30 - Joel's background - React19
27:34 - Politicization of the jab
29:25 - Doubling down on bad decisions
32:13 - Justice for crimes against humanity
35:29 - Regulators' lost credibility
42:15 - Incompetence or malice?
49:47 - Fixing incentives
56:55 - Bringing it back to bitcoin
1:03:50 - Speaking to the silent majority
1:12:17 - Wrapping up
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#411: How OnRamp Is Setting the Standard for Bitcoin Custody in Financial Products with Michael & Jesse from OnRamp
Marty sits down with Michael Tanguma and Jesse Meyers to talk about OnRamp.
Check out OnRamp: http://onrampbitcoin.com/
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5:26 - Marty's chair is stolen
7:11 - OnRamp's use case and problems to solve
14:28 - Legal structure of OnRamp
19:30 - Difficulty in educating on self custody
31:10 - Decentralized control
41:55 - How will OnRamp's launch impact the market?
51:59 - The adoption curve
55:01 - Qualified custodians vs collaborative custody
1:00:36 - A new industry model
1:10:16 - OnRamp's educational mission
1:20:20 - OnRamp's content platform and new podcast
1:26:27 - Plugs
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Rabbit Hole Recap #248: The NY Times is a Dying Blog
5:17 - Can't send bitcoin on an airplane
11:28 - Pierre Rochard CO2 trolling
21:49 - Texas anti-mining
25:45 - Drop Twitter, use Nostr
33:15 - BRICS meeting
35:21 - Chaumian Ecash
38:43 - Bitcoin Fog case
45:12 - Can't argue rulers into submission
48:48 - Is China taking Taiwan?
51:44 - AI will break you toilet
57:27 - Elon's social credit score
1:02:47 - Off-chain channel management
1:03:49 - Come grab Matt's $2000 knob
1:05:44 - Xapo bank
1:08:30 - Easter resurrection of the market?
1:11:16 - Vivec's workshop
1:16:01 - Boostagrams
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#410: The Fed Is Trying To Bring Down The European Banks with Tom Luongo
Join Marty as he sits down with Tom Luongo to discuss the role the banking crisis plays in the inter-cabal squabble.
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Tom's website: https://tomluongo.me/
8:14 - What the hell is going on?
13:08 - Communicating ideas
20:04 - Intentions of the Fed and big American banks
31:39 - Europe in trouble as rates raise
38:41 - Pivot to BRICS
42:20 - FEMA
47:52 - Keeping a finger on the pulse
51:03 - Multi-vector attack on America
55:36 - Trump's indictment and the need for trust
58:37 - Tom's take on Bitcoin
1:02:01 - Stablecoins
1:04:48 - Can the Fed fix what they've created?
1:15:17 - Shaping reality with headlines
1:17:08 - Credit where credit is due
1:20:03 - The Fed on Bitcoin and crypto
1:25:06 - Congealed energy
1:28:51 - Keep your eggs in more baskets
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Rabbit Hole Recap #247: BRICS Bucks
5:17 - It takes a while at the start ;)
6:15 - Dashboard
8:45 - BRICS Bucs
16:52 - Chinese agents using America's southern border
27:06 - BRICS Bucs are bad for the dollar
29:35 - Bitcoin's messianic aspects
31:25 - Mutiny Wallet
37:16 - Texas rugs miners
45:35 - CZ rumors
50:05 - Paxful shut down
55:15 - Noones
58:23 - Emerging markets and beef sticks
59:35 - MacOS Bitcoin whitepaper
1:00:50 - Twitter trolls everyone
1:06:15 - Coinbase coming down?
1:09:15 - Clown world
1:10:51 - Marty meets the Bidens
1:11:25 - Mulvad browser
1:17:49 - Zaprite 2.0
1:20:34 - Hyperbitcoinization panel at Bitcoin 2023
1:22:15 - Mempool spam and block fees
1:26:23 - Chivo is flagging Wasabi coinjoins
1:28:18 - Volitility incoming?
1:32:10 - Boostagrams
1:35:32 - Cashapp founder stabbed
1:39:00 - ZeroSync
1:41:11 - Beef Initiative Summit
1:43:13 - Packed week at Bitcoin Park
1:45:10 - Wrapping up
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#409: Talking Value 4 Value with the Podfather Adam Curry
Join Marty as he sits down with Adam Curry to discuss Podcasting 2.0, Value 4 Value, Bitcoin, energy, culture, and much more.
Adam Curry on Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamcurry
No Agenda Show: https://www.noagendashow.net/
8:57 - Opening Riff
14:51 - Information Freedom
18:57 - Bitcoin responsibility and remembering your keys
24:19 - Patriot Act 2.0 and thinking local
28:25 - Mining and energy
38:30 - Trans politics and transhumanism
52:41 - Nostr
55:50 - v4v
1:08:43 - Joe Rogan
1:13:23 - Go make children
1:15:50 - Modern dating
1:18:08 - Comedy mothership
1:21:22 - Elon, CBDCs and AI
1:33:27 - Habla
1:36:00 - Self hosting and running nodes
1:38:56 - v4v electric boogaloo
1:46:29 - Thank God for Bitcoin
1:54:59 - No Agenda
1:58:59 - These timestamps took a lot of condensing
2:00:11 - Drugs, digital and pharmaceutical
2:08:05 - v4v thunderdome
2:29:12 - Truth For The Commoner
2:30:56 - Meetups
2:30:58 - We're gonna win
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Rabbit Hole Recap #246: Time is Scarce
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1641079790537981952?s=20
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/route-blinding-merged/
https://twitter.com/RadarHits/status/1641414101527142402?s=20
0:00 - RIP Mr. Bent
6:45 - Dashboard
7:50 - Tik Tok ban AKA Patriot Act 2.0
22:25 - Dedollarisation
27:40 - Can't stop the signal
31:20 - Lightning route blinding
35:30 - Big difficulty adjustment
42:30 - Fedi pools
48:27 - ZeroSync utreexo
56:10 - Then they fight you
1:01:20 - Hug your kids, hug your parents
1:03:00 - It was never gonna be easy
1:06:15 - Brief software updates
1:07:30 - Texas Senate on mining
1:09:05 - EU monetary surveillance
1:12:25 - Boostagrams
1:19:00 - We didn't start the fire
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#408: The Truth About Renewable Energy with Brian Gitt
Join Marty as he sits down with Brian Gitt to discuss the flawed ideological approach behind ESG mandates and renewable energies.
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Brian's website: https://briangitt.com/
5:23 - California emissions and electric cars
14:08 - Material supply for EVs
16:21 - California's oil hypocrisy
21:15 - EGS mandates don't preserve environment or help human life
27:06 - Nuclear safety
32:48 - Small modular reactors
48:52 - Wind and solar subsidies
52:52 - Ranting on batteries
55:08 - Unreliable and inefficient renewables
1:04:05 - Top down ideological policy
1:09:27 - Regulations are the root of the problem
1:14:11 - Questioning beliefs and educating
1:19:25 - Money and energy are the backbone
1:25:23 - Speaking out
1:29:56 - Plugs, wrapping up
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Rabbit Hole Recap #245: Million Dollar Bitcoin in 84 Days
Marty dons a very cool and stylish hat while Matt rations his wifi.
https://twitter.com/stackhodler/status/1638830291287527424
https://twitter.com/Schuldensuehner/status/1639014379713708033
https://twitter.com/DylanLeClair_/status/1639013798362112000
https://tradeblock.com/markets/bfnx/xbt-usd/30m/
https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqyr2wfe8ycrwwfeqgsffcng7jk2fnq5vylp5m2sm26q3q4e7z9rr4lkh2qkq3pfkxam5rsrqsqqqa28rngva8
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Pod
3:16 - Opening riff
5:02 - Dashboard
7:37 - Balaji's prediction
10:13 - Powell is nervous
14:54 - Regulatory crackdown
21:00 - Wells notices
24:34 - Bitcoin's official separation from shitcoins?
28:03 - Foreign power grabs while US banks fail
30:54 - Individual states opposed to CBDCs
35:11 - Bitcoin feels scarce
37:58- They're scared shitless
42:57 - Dollar reserve on shaky ground if Saudis bail
44:53 - Matt gets internet rationed
46:56 - Hash value and price divergence
50:01 - Matt's presidential campaign
51:45 - Difficulty adjustment live on air
52:59 - Nostrica
56:23 - Habla
1:00:53 - Hindenberg accuses Block of fraud
1:05:17 - White house disses Bitcoin
1:06:30 - Priorities
1:11:05 - Central bank paper bitcoin
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#407: FedNow is not a CBDC with Matthew Mežinskis
Sitting down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q4 2022 Monetary Base update, the banking crisis, CBDCs, and more
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9:14 - Q4 update, just in time for Q1
13:32 - Bitcoin price
22:29 - The results of raising interest
24:42 - Bond duration risk
32:30 - QE5
34:40 - Choke Point 2.0
38:14 - Balaji's price prediction
46:53 - FedNow
55:04 - CDBC destroying big banks
1:00:09 - US state rights
1:05:21 - Flaring natural gas
1:11:00 - Blood in the water, Bitcoin is the way out
1:19:18 - Custodia Bank
1:27:17 - Black markets and civil disobedience
1:31:09 - Monetary base
1:39:09 - Back to CBDCs
1:45:33 - Bitcoin's rank in monetary base
1:47:22 - We're gonna win
1:59:39 - Gold and Silver
2:06:19 - Wrapping up
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#406: Debt-Based Colonialism and Structural Adjustment with Alex Gladstein
Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Gladstein to discuss how the IMF and World Bank harness debt to funnel resources from poor nations to rich ones.
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5:26 - In town for SXSW talking about CFA franc
10:06 - Colonial exploitation
17:21 - Transfer of control of energy
19:51 - Outsourcing the cost
28:24 - The unrecorded losses
36:38 - Structural Adjustment
42:36 - What it could look like without the current system
49:32 - Double standard
52:51 - Bitcoin fixes this
1:01:13 - No political solution
1:04:16 - Odious debt
1:10:10 - Biological effect of wage deflation
1:12:30 - Bitcoin fixes this - again
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#405: The Biden Laptop Report with Garrett Ziegler
Sitting down with Garrett Ziegler to discuss the Biden laptop.
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5:26 - Investigating the Biden family
14:53 - Firsthand sources
17:20 - Foreign interests
26:54 - Hunter the political whore
29:31 - Not a democrat/republican issue
34:58 - Legal action against the laptop shop
38:45 - Fake info
41:41 - Plausibility of forgetting the laptop
45:06 - Laundering money through Ukraine VC
48:51 - Joe is the main story
52:28 - IPhone backup
56:33 - What are intentions of the agencies?
58:23 - Joe's dementia
1:01:24 - What can be done
1:05:05 - What Americans should take away
1:07:55 - Secret daughters
1:09:52 - Gerontocracy
1:15:36 - Hope for the future
1:18:16 - International trade
1:22:46 - Climate nonsense
1:26:06 - Truth For The Commoner
1:31:42 - Garrett won't apologize
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Rabbit Hole Recap #244: Bitcoin Fixes This
silvergate, silicon valley bank, and signature bank failures
bailout of remaining banks
robosats disables swap feature due to vulnerability https://nitter.at/RoboSats/status/1635432123648622593
luxor releases custom mining firmware https://luxor.tech/firmware
lnbits diy nostr signing device https://github.com/lnbits/nostr-signing-device
specter v2.0.0 https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/tag/v2.0.0?ref=no-bullshit-bitcoin
start9 embassy v0.3.4 https://github.com/Start9Labs/embassy-os/releases/tag/v0.3.4
ronindojo team is now offers degoogled phones https://ronindojo.io/en/roninmobile
custodial mixer chipmixer shut down https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/international-authorities-take-down-chipmixer/
4:41 - Ninja launch
9:06 - Dashboard
10:40 - Banks melting
20:05 - Thomas joins
33:27 - Companies splitting up bank accounts
35:14 - Bitcoin fixes this
36:54 - Is this an attack on Bitcoin?
45:41 - What happens next?
50:12 - Lionel Shriver the Bitcoiner
42:46 - Banking crisis in the age of social media
55:28 - LuxOS
58:29 - Inscriptions
1:05:01 - Mempools will (never) be empty
1:10:41 - Are we in the storm's eye?
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#404: Thinking Beyond the Crowd with Konstantin Kisin
Join Marty as he sits down with Konstantin Kisin to discuss woke culture, covid hysteria, comedy, Ukraine, and more.
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6:06 - Thinking beyond the crowd
9:08 - The democratic response to Covid
14:57 - The next few years will shape the next half century
20:05 - Flaws in Bitcoin
27:13 - Escaping the Current Thing dichotomy
32:24 - Generational differences
36:51 - Calming the urgency to assess
45:51 - Comedy
49:41 - State of the UK
51:21 - People are tiring of woke culture
52:54 - Ukraine
1:04:54 - Baltic history
1:09:00 - Hong Kong
1:11:13 - Dangers of nihilism
1:16:21 - Plugs and wrapping up
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#403: Dissecting the Banking Crisis with Parker Lewis
Join Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis to break down the causes of the banking crisis from first principles.
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9:15 - Is it happening?
11:40 - The Fed caused bank failures, not crypto
19:15 - SVB balance sheet
24:49 - History of bank cash assets
30:07 - How QE is done without QE
38:51 - The cycles accelerate every time
44:52 - The system is built for moral hazard
49:39 - Trust in traditional money is failing
57:06 - Will Bitcoin be blamed?
1:00:54 - Bitcoiners shouldn't waste their time
1:03:42 - Bitcoin's most important next steps
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1:18:12 - QE5 is here
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Rabbit Hole Recap #243: Run on the Banks
4:41 - It's happening!
11:43 - Matt's bank run rabbit hole
15:39 - Mechanics of what's happening
18:46 - The speed of events
27:16 - Fed pivot
28:40 - Marty's bluecheck
30:08 - Dashboard flashed
30:34 - USDC
34:19 - Exchanges impacted by banks
44:25 - Slow mo into collapse
1:00:05 - Bitcoin's going to be blamed
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#402: The Fed Is Losing Money with Lyn Alden
Join Marty as he sits down with Lyn Alden to discuss the state of the Federal Reserve and inflation.
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7:12 - The myth of inflation and unemployment
13:39 - The problem with CPI as a metric
21:59 - Does the US have the fiscal capability to handle Fed policy?
26:04 - Nations abandoning USD reserve
31:30 - Bitcoin not yet big enough to settle international trade
34:07 - Lyn's view on current bitcoin
38:03 - Fedi pools and other centralizing factors
41:06 - Emerging markets driving adoption
44:44 - Supply side issues
47:38 - Fed unprofitable
51:39 - Glimmers of hope
55:52 - Will energy policy change?
1:08:58 - War drums
1:13:30 - Highlighting the solutions through Bitcoin
1:15:41 - Fed blindspots
1:20:16 - Wrapping up, plugs
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#401: Inflation Is Hitting The Real Estate Market And Bitcoin Urbanism
Join Marty as he sits down with Kelly Lannan to discuss the condition of infrastructure and the real estate market during this period of inflation, as well as Bitcoin Urbanism.
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9:55 - Riffing on infrastructure
17:18 - Current condition of real estate
22:43 - Marty asks question, are we in the eye of the storm?
27:04 - New home buyers are screwed
32:44 - Stopping the cycle with bitcoin
35:51 - Inflation is real, believe your lying eyes
45:42 - Debt slavery
49:03 - No man's land
50:46 - Hyperinflation looks near
56:57 - Diverting attention
1:01:18 - Bitcoin Urbanism
1:13:59 - Real estate is a shitcoin
1:16:14 - Strong Towns
1:19:08 - 15 Minute Cities
1:30:06 - The state of digital tech masks how bad it is
1:38:08 - California's decline
1:45:19 - Bitcoin fixes this
1:51:26 - Building on bitcoin
1:56:22 - Bullish vibes, plugs, wrapping up
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#400: We're Gonna Win Against Broken Money and Broken Culture with @sovereignbrah
Join Marty as he sits down with Chase, AKA Sovereign Brah, to discuss broken money, degenerate culture, energy, Bitcoin, and God.
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0:00 - Intro
5:37 - Divine Synchronicity
12:57 - Children are artillery against degenerate culture
20:58 - Broken money
27:03 - Debt slavery
31:30 - Threats to mining
35:39 - Future of Texas
38:19 - Ed Dowd's theory
42:33 - Awakening NPCs
51:48 - Blackpilled on leaders
54:35 - Whitepilled on Bitcoin
59:49 - Streaming sats
1:06:31 - Censorship resistance
1:13:44 - We're gonna win
1:20:35 - Who are we up against?
1:34:58 - Spreading the word
1:41:16 - Don't be a coomer
1:43:29 - Energy humiliation
1:48:11 - Carbon
1:54:37 - Nuclear
2:00:35 - Beef Initiative
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Rabbit Hole Recap #242: CashApp Users Bought Over $7B in Bitcoin Last Year
Silvergate Bank in trouble https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/03/02/silvergate-stock-drops-over-50-as-crypto-clients-flee-beleaguered-bank/ & https://twitter.com/DylanLeClair_/status/1593630883889778689/photo/2
Cashapp users bought $7.11 billion in bitcoin last year https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/files/2023/02/Block_Shareholder-Letter-4Q22.pdf
Block details global self custody wallet ambitions https://wallet.build/helping-customers-move-between-fiat-and-bitcoin-how-well-build[…]-to-bring-more-people-to-self-custody/
Block announces LSP operated by TBD https://cequals.xyz/
BTCPay Server Coinjoin Plugin https://twitter.com/MrKukks/status/1630221270246719489
Seedsigner v0.6.0 https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner/releases/tag/0.6.0
ColdCard MK4 v5.1.0 https://blog.coinkite.com/5.1.0-released/
Sparrow Wallet v1.7.3 https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.7.3
BTCPay Server v1.8.0 https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/releases/tag/v1.8.0
Stack Wallet v1.5.44 https://github.com/cypherstack/stack_wallet/releases/tag/build_131
Nunchuk and Coinkite Strategic Partnership https://nunchuk.io/blog/nunchuk-coinkite
Naira Crisis Fueling Bitcoin Adoption https://www.forbes.com/sites/abubakarnurkhalil/2023/03/01/nigerian-election-and-naira-crisis-is-fueling-bitcoin-adoption/
Bitcoin Optech Launches Podcast https://twitter.com/bitcoinoptech/status/1630613222389694474
Freedom Money EP5 https://youtu.be/kXzcVAXiZeE
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34:24 - Matt's the Jim Cramer of mempools
47:05 - Silvergate
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1:21:34 - Cashapp bitcoin sales
1:26:52 - Block wallet
1:31:24 - Block LSP
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#399: Bitcoin Mining is Igniting an Engineering Renaissancewith Rete and Isaac from Cathedra
Join Marty as he sits down with Rete Browning and Isaac Fithian from Cathedra to discuss the origins of off-grid bitcoin mining, their findings on over/underclocking ASICs, and the direction the mining industry is headed.
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7:38 - Great American Mining: Origins
18:24 - The state of off grid mining
22:17 - Designing for diverse domains
24:01 - Deadly details
31:09 - Pioneer challenges
34:57 - Applying bitcoin and mining everywhere
39:52 - Cathedra research on over/underclocking
48:29 - How heat affects chips
53:34 - Finding the sweet spot
56:47 - The future of mining and energy
1:12:55 - Changing the ASIC market
1:19:40 - Bullish vibes, creating an engineering renaissance
1:31:27 - Wrapping up
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