Bitcoin Audible

"The computers used to create valuable new Bitcoin tokens and validate transactions consume around the same amount of energy as a medium-sized country such as Sweden would generate. Hence the stinging...

8 Jan 202441min

"Bitcoin appears to be a decentralized Ponzi scheme not a decentralized currency. People don't spend it because they want it to go up. The dollar works because of inflation. It keeps velocity up like ...

6 Jan 20241h

The models, the tools, the implementations, everything is moving incredibly fast. But a very interesting trend that I've been seeing, is that the open source benchmarks are improving just slightly fas...

5 Jan 202450min

"Since 2017, bitcoin has been Stone Ridge’s treasury reserve asset because of my extreme aversion to risk. We run net short USD – which is fancy way of saying we net borrow fiat - to pay bills and mak...

3 Jan 20241h 31min

"This decision, which is legally sound, has the effect of declaring all private mortgages on real and personal property, and all U.S. and State bonds held by the Federal Reserve, National, and State b...

1 Jan 20241h

“This makes Bitcoin miners uniquely symbiotic with energy grids serving as “demand response” partners. If energy is ever in short supply, people get priority over Bitcoin miners. However whenever ther...

30 Des 20231h 57min

"We’re less than a year from another halving, awaiting systemic implications from federal regulation and institutional adoption, standing at the precipice of an American primary election into which Bi...

27 Des 20231h 4min

"You’re a thirsty bitch. You like to gargle Peter’s balls." ~ DeaterBob Merry Christmas! In this reboot episode, we revisit the infamous debate between Bitcoin plebs American HODL and DeaterBob. They'...

26 Des 202348min