FSD is a fucking game changer. Had a TRX as my range truck and traded it for a Cyberbeast and now my hour long drive back after a full day at the range exhausted is now a breeze.
Lightning Turns Money Into a Data Network | Jesse Shrader, CEO of Amboss
@Jestopher_BTC built @ambosstech after paying $60 in Bitcoin transaction fees and watching his payment fail to arrive. Now Amboss is launching Rails X: full peer-to-peer trading directly on Lightning, self-custodial, near-instant, with the network itself acting as a decentralized exchange.
In this episode of the Conor Chepenik Podcast we get into Lightning doing 40 million TPS vs Solana's 17,000, why stable coins at the edges actually serve Bitcoiners, AI agents streaming sats for compute, the newspaper-page-size tax story, why the four-year cycle is dead, and Jesse's quote that still floats around Twitter: "Never before has greed tempted me to live a very simple life."
Plus my kid closes it out, and if a 3-year-old knows what the best money is, well, you should too.
Timecodes below:
00:00:00 — Intro & Jesse's origin story
00:05:46 — Rails X: peer-to-peer trading on Lightning 00:09:27 — Stable coins at the edges & Taproot Assets 00:11:28 — AI tools for building & the "vibe coded app" problem
00:20:41 — Self-custody flips finance on its head 00:29:17 — Lightning for AI agents & micropayments 00:36:04 — Arc, eCash, and symbiotic L2s
00:43:03 — "Never before has greed tempted me to live a simple life"
00:51:38 — 100 years from now: Bitcoin as humanity's record
00:57:01 — If you could ask Satoshi one question
00:58:33 — Sloan's verdict: Bitcoin or fiat?
Tesla makes the only cars that give the CHOICE of letting it drive you everywhere on FSD or being super fun to drive it yourself.
My Model 3 Performance drives me to the track, I race it all day, and then it drives me home. No other cars can do that.
@WeBuyPinball It’s actually a really good playfield. I enjoy how the rocket shot blows the ball right back at the left flipper and then you can hit the sisters shot.
Hey @Publix why are your bakery items just thrown away at the end off the night? Why aren’t you just reducing them to half off an hour or two before the close of business? Seems wasteful
@BLKMDL3 That’s crazy man. I just hit 30k on mine. Seeing this make me confident I’ll be able to enjoy my car for years. Any suggestions on longer lasting tires?
265,000 miles on my Tesla Model 3 Performance! Original motors with tons of track use and cross country trips.
This car is amazing and keeps getting better.
@Publix I’ve watched twice this week fresh breads and donuts be thrown into trash bags and thrown in the dumpster. Doesn’t sound like there’s any program in place
@BeachBumPresley@Publix James, former employee of Publix. That’s not entirely true. Certain items that expire the next day are trashed. Most is donated. That reason its trashed… its would take time to reprice the inventory so its cheaper to just throw it away instead of pay someone $20 hr to reprice.
Many of you missed the point. Most of the houses on that beach were built on telephone poles driven in to the sand. This was the house next door. It wasn’t the ocean that got these 70 year old homes, it was the fire