Bitcoin Audible

Now Audible: "#Bitcoin's Peaceful Revolution, A New Hope for Humanity" by Peter St. Onge (@profstonge) Listen - open.spotify.com/episode/6Zk2e2…

"[Identifying wasted energy] puts Bitcoin miners in a position to be the buyers of energy of last resort in all cases, stress-testing the systems and making them better." ~ HODL Tarantula

"One of the most important aspects of what we’re doing is building out in ways that, like Bob Burnett says, you’ve got your big elephants, your little rabbit home miners, and then you’ve got the wild horses like myself, gentlemen, going out there and wildcatting and finding ways to produce these operations that are literally impossible to stop unless you quite literally come out there and put a bullet in my brain." ~ HODL Tarantula

"You can achieve good privacy in Lightning. You cannot achieve very good privacy on-chain. [...] Potentially speaking Lightning is way more private and also more censorship resistant. And miners cannot do shit about off-chain transactions." ~ Giacomo Zucco

"The biggest darknet market is Robosats and it's Bitcoin only [...] One risk is having your Revolut account nuked. The other is being kidnapped. [That] is worse. If you have your fiat account nuked [...] just move to El Zonte, spend bitcoin and get over it." ~ Giacomo Zucco

When you get Bitcoin Mechanic and HODLTarantula together for a panel, the big picture talk on physical infrastructure is next level. We teamed up to break down the reality of mining centralization, block building, and staying completely off-grid.

From the "death" of the 4-year cycle to the role of stablecoins and the fight against the surveillance state. 🌍🇸🇻 I pulled Giacomo Zucco aside at the Plan B conference for a live update on the state of the Bitcoin world. We cover the bargaining phase, the Cypher Tank initiative, and why KYC is a step backward for humanity.

Everything is Fake and Gay. Or is it just the timeline getting weirder? 🤡🌎 Join me and the usual suspects as we oscillate between bullish milestones and the dystopian reality of AI interactions. We also ask the hard questions about Block's layoffs and the potential fallout of the current Bitcoin soft fork proposals.

Is the era of "one-size-fits-all" software coming to an end? Today, we are reading Max Hillebrand's fascinating take on how AI and the open source movement are teaming up to liberate users from modern SaaS bloated with telemetry. Are we truly ready for the era of hyper-personalized software?

The average user does not care about your sovereignty. It hurts to admit, but looking at the current state of freedom tech, the friction is undeniable. It’s 2026, and syncing files between devices is still migraine-inducing. We keep trying to sell the philosophy when we haven’t even mastered the basic utility. This is exactly why I'm building Pear Drive: scan a QR code, devices connect, files flow. No servers, no friction. Are we building the tools people want, or just the tools we want them to care about?

Does the spec create the code, or does the code discover the spec? In this episode, we dive into Jesse Posner's fascinating concept of The Secret to Vibe Coding. We explore the shift toward agentic workflows where the AI might just know your goals better than you do. Is this the entry point into a new era of software philosophy?

"People don't consider the tax advantage of this [...] If you convert all of your heating to mining Bitcoin, your energy bill to mine the Bitcoin is a deduction. [...] therefore you've just turned your heat bill into a full tax deduction." ~ Cade Peterson

"In our town, Wells Fargo had a building, and the building was originally built and called the Custer County Bank. [...] Then Wells Fargo left our town. [...] I approached the owner a few years ago and I said: 'I'd like to lease part of your bank to mine Bitcoin in it'. [...] So anyway, he ended up buying the equipment and putting in all the electrical for it. And now what used to be Wells Fargo is now a Bitcoin mine." ~ Cade Peterson

What if your heating system actually paid you back? Cade Peterson joins me to to discuss the fascinating economics of mining for heat. We explore his journey from Air Force mechanic to building Bitcoin-heated fortresses. Stop burning money and start earning it!

Germany, France, and the U.S. have all agreed at the Munich Security Conference: The world order is officially dead. In this Read, we explore Ray Dalio's chapter on how external order crumbles into disorder and war. But more importantly, we look at the role of the monetary system in driving this collapse. Is Bitcoin the exit ramp?

Roundtable is back in 2026 and the gloves are off. Andy Back speculation, MIT Media Lab influence, a sudden Core maintainer exit, and the real dispute: can listening nodes actually prevent a soft fork, or does this all end in chaos this August?

Is censorship resistance possible without the internet? In this episode, we look at the desperate scenarios where currency fails and connection to the outside world is severed. Yet, somehow, hundreds of thousands found a way to communicate. Come explore the limits of freedom tech in the face of total shutdown.

"Bitcoin functions for all the agents. My agent has eCash [and] can make purchases. That's crazy that you can deploy an entity to a random computer [that is] able to pay for itself and has the incentive to be productive so that it keeps alive." ~Max Hillebrand

"In the long-run future, the usual amount of users for a piece of software is probably going to be one. [Now] the cost of producing custom software is 200 bucks a month. That's insanely wild ... to realize how far you can get with just a GPU." ~Max Hillebrand

Are we inadvertently recreating the problems of fiat on the blockchain? In this read, we break down why the stablecoin boom might just be an extension of the legacy system rather than a departure from it. We discuss regulatory capture, the limits of utility, and the future of digital cash. Listen in to hear Roy's thesis.

Stop hurting yourself with broken systems. It’s time to exit. Max Hillebrand joins me on the show to break down the philosophy of the "Second Realm" and the mechanics of digital privacy. From White Noise to CoinJoin tech, we discuss how we are building a parallel economy right under the nose of surveillance.