Brady Swenson

"Tick tock, next block" is 300,000 blocks old.

GET REAL Thursday at noon ET / 9am PT! We'll be joined by @cprkrn for the Afterparty! He just used Claude to recover the password to Bitcoin he lost ELEVEN YEARS AGO!! 👏👏👏 Set a reminder and don't miss it! twitter.com/i/spaces/1MJgN…

GET REAL Ep. 2 Noon ET with @CorySwan and @EmilyDempsey • April CPI: 3.8% • Meta cuts 8,000, AI capex hits $725B • Schwab models 22% BTC allocations • "Spot Anthropic" on Solana (yes, really) • @parkeralewis was right Afterparty on Spaces (@CorySwan) right after 👇

Set your reminders for Thursday! And send us topics and questions via DM or right here in the replies, and we'll do it live 😎 Featuring @EmilyDempsey and yours truly from @Swan twitter.com/i/spaces/1MJgN…

Vigil exists to make your family's financial system visible while everyone is still here, still capable, and still able to fix what is missing.

To be clear, there's nothing new for Bitcoin in the Clarity Act. It will simply continue our right to hold private keys and use the Lightning Network, which are already covered under existing law. The Clarity Act is for cryptoblockchain and dollarcoins.

"If you're the one who manages the finances, Vigil is the proof that it's handled. If you're the one trusting that it is, Vigil is the proof that you could handle it yourself." - @jeremyshowalter, co-founder of Vigil Protocol by @Swan

@CorySwan Vigil is the answer to the question my wife and I ask ourselves every time we travel without the kids - is everything up-to-date?

"Get Real" launches today at noon ET. Quantum FUD. Fidelity's case for getting off zero. Szabo's first essay in 8 years. Cory & Emily break it down, then we pour the tea in Spaces. 20 minutes for the show, 40 minutes for discussion with the audience! twitter.com/i/spaces/1AGRn…

Seems like Proven Address-Control Timestamps (PACTs) could work. Worth reading 👏👏

LIVE - Swan Signal Live with Brady (@CitizenBitcoin) and Bradon (@bquittem) - The Fiat Plumbing is Bleeding x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Anthropic is racing to close another fundraising round, asking investors to submit applications within the next 48 hours as the company looks to take in ~$50B at a valuation of ~$900B+ (Anthropic closed its last round in Feb at a ~$380B valuation). Tech Crunch

2/n The site is the work of @MSTR_Norway, who pulls from a substantial evidence database He then trained it to answer claims using the FUD-countering model I developed to counter false Bitcoin mining claims and open sourced via @Swan's channel recently youtube.com/watch?v=Zak12x…

Claude now connects to the tools creative professionals already use. With the new Blender connector, you can debug a scene, build new tools, or batch-apply changes across every object, directly from Claude.

It's so funny to watch Hassan Minhaj and @ben_mckenzie running the exact same orange washing grift that "crypto" has been running for a decade, at the expense of Bitcoin. By deliberately conflating Bitcoin and crypto, deliberately using them interchangeably, they're trying to get more attention for their criticisms of crypto scams. It's good for selling books, promoting movies, and selling ads, but it's lousy for spreading the truth.

incredible report by Zeus, rigorous analysis of the financial mechanics and growing professionalisation of lightning, Axiom honored to copublish.

This is why I no longer speak at Bitcoin conferences. These conferences are created and sponsored by those who want to centralize as much Bitcoin as possible into financial-industrial complex wrappers. You resist by holding it in self-custody and boycotting all FIC wrappers, including conferences owned by Bitcoin treasury companies.

@DSBatten I appreciate you and the people like you 🙏

At the end of 2023 I met the person who ran GreenpeaceUSA's campaign against Bitcoin. I expected it to be tense. But it wasn't. He told me he'd read almost all of my responses to the posts they'd made on Twitter. "I wish we'd engaged with you and people like you from the outset," he said. Two months later he left Greenpeace. A few months after that they ended the campaign entirely. It was the most well-funded, yet the worst result in their history. I keep coming back to that phrase. "People like you." Not me, but a whole group: Troy Cross, Margot Paez, Elliot David, Susie Violet Ward and many others. We were working independently, with no budget and no coordination. We just shared data and conviction. It is a great story of a decentralized response beating a multi-million dollar centralized campaign, by a combination of having the truth behind us, and expressing that truth in such a way that reasonable people could see. That recipe has two parts, and it's like giving a glass of water to someone dying of thirst. The first part is truth, there must be water in the glass. The second part is the container, how you hold and deliver that truth matters just as much. You can have perfect data and still lose people if the glass doesn't reach them, or if the energy behind it makes them flinch instead of drink. We won because the data was right AND because enough people delivered it with the kind of energy that made opponents think rather than react. And this recipe, we can use again and again throughout Bitcoin's adoption journey, and each time a Bitcoiner builds a new Bitcoin project that involves outreach to non-Bitcoiners.

@EmilyDempsey x.com/idfinancial/st…

LIVE! Cory Klippsten & Emily Dempsey on Bitcoin, AI, & State of the Market x.com/i/spaces/1oKMv…