Guy Swann

Bitcoin & Crypto

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theguyswann@iris.tobitcoinaudible.com

“The Guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anyone else you know.” Adjectives: Smart/Sexy Host of Bitcoin Audible 🎧

ReplyJul 7

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This is exciting dude! Nice work

ReplyJul 7

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Never heard of it. They doing the same thing though?

ReplyJul 7

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I think most are through PPQ using either FLUX or Nano Banana. But my producer has been putting them together and we’ve shifted things a ton over the past few weeks so it might not be the same anymore. I’ll ask

ReplyJul 7

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Big time user still. I’ve become a .md maxi. Everything on my computer is a .md or a .json now 😂

ReplyJul 7

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Interesting I don’t even know that movie. Will check it out 🙏🏻

ReplyJun 25

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Ah damn. Would’ve been fun to catch this while it was happening. Coulda zapped a big one live, lol. It’s always fun to get first impressions from people seeing zaps for the first time. I apparently need to check Nostr more frequently 😂

ReplyJun 25

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That seems like a lot of work to demonstrate the obvious. 😆 I mean just off the top of my head I can see dozens of different motion and muscles that are activated, you have to actually picture the shape and flow of the letter and the word, predict the spacing of the words, etc - there’s numerous things that typing is explicitly supposed to be a shortcut for, thus those things wouldn’t be activated. I guess I’m not trying to hate, but it seems a little “duh” to me, lol. And when it comes to re...

ReplyJun 25

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WE DID IT GANG!!! 58K GANG FOR LIIIFFEEEE!

ReplyJun 23

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because i haven't been banned yet, lol. Rumble, podcast, nostr and X are all in the mix too.

ReplyJun 23

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ReplyJun 23

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The audio and video version will be published in the same Bitcoin Audible feed. It will just start having a lot more Guy's Takes episodes and on Fountain and other video enabled clients you'll be able to watch the video from the same feed. No change needed if you already follow, only the youtube is under a new channel name.

ReplyJun 23

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Guy's Take is officially here! I've got something special for you guys that I'm super excited about. We've put together a new channel and are shifting to video as the dominant, regular content type for the show. I also am separating out Guy's Takes (shorter form, topic specific videos) as its own medium to keep it separate from the longer form interviews. Check out the new channel! Subscribe and stay tuned. We've got a ton of stuff coming and so many ideas to dig into. It's a new era for the ...

ReplyJun 22

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“Got don’t” is supposed to be “got done” if that wasn’t totally obvious 😆

ReplyJun 22

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I’m not sure what you’re talking about, but nothing he said is relevant to my point.

ReplyJun 22

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I’m shocked that a week went by and there was no progress. I’m busy all the goddamn time unfortunately… but usually there is some sense that something actually got don’t with all that work.

NoteJun 22

It’s shocking how fast an entire week can go by while you’re scrambling the whole time and working constantly only to feel like you got nowhere.

ReplyJun 20

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A bunch of fucking crooks and pedophiles got in power and they are milking the country for all it’s worth.

ReplyJun 20

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“I haven’t even seen your book but I have a strong opinion about it” vibes for real 😂

ReplyJun 20

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What is “Falling Down 2.0”?

ReplyJun 18

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All good man. I would have been out a long while ago if I was overly sensitive about shit on socials. I do appreciate the candidness though 🙏🏻

ReplyJun 18

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I’ve considered a few different paths, and that’s actually a really interesting one I hadn’t considered, basically running a node professionally and using the podcast as its “public face” so to speak. That’s a clever idea actually. But generally speaking, 99.5% of podcasts probably do not make meaningful money. I had 2 good years but trying to squeeze money out of it is a serious battle, *especially* when you don’t just take whoever comes asking you to shill or take money from guests to come o...

ReplyJun 18

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Oh man. I love some good tits

ReplyJun 18

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🫡

ReplyJun 18

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Appreciate that, I’ll look at the STRC chart for a good laugh 😆

ReplyJun 18

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I read what people are interested in and want to hear. I’ll always give my take but I make the assumption that my audience can think for themselves.

ReplyJun 18

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I’m probably just being sensitive because you calling me a “paid influencer” when all I do is turn down sponsors and I’ve lost money on the show for a year and a half honestly makes me feel like shit. As if no one gives a fuck if I’m not scamming them so why refrain? I don’t do the show because I get tons of money, I do the show because I love it and I think it’s valuable to the space. My goal is simply to make it sustainable. If the ad was awkward I’m happy to have the feedback, but your insta...

ReplyJun 18

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Ok dude whatever. It’s a good hardware wallet and my joke about them being better off was accurate. They had half a billion in fucking tether. I only recommend stuff I like and use personally. If that’s not good enough then I should just stop caring honestly.

ReplyJun 18

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In other words, I wasn’t expecting Iranian officials to watch the video and I wasn’t making them a recommendation. 🤣

ReplyJun 18

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1. They held centralized tether, so honestly what’s the difference? There’s one key either way. Bitbox would be vastly better. 2. I recommended the hardware wallet to the listener of the show so they didn’t end up like Iran. 3. Doesn’t really matter, the point is about holding your own keys.

ReplyJun 17

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Vibe central banking is the true way

ReplyJun 17

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If you think the goal of a healthy economy is to never have banking problems or never have contractions, then you believe a Disney fairy tale. Fiat and central banking does not prevent nor stop them. It makes them *systemic* rather than surface layer. In other words, they simply build for 10x as long and when they collapse, they take everything with them.

ReplyJun 17

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There was a panic following the breakdown of the war and infrastructure debts in the early 1870s, but the early 1880s are claimed to have a depression that was only declared in hindsight. There was a smaller credit contraction during this period but it’s mostly equated as a depression only because of *price* deflation and not because living standards went down. Quite the opposite happened. In fact the 70s and 80s are semi decent examples of the difference between a debt crisis caused by federal...

ReplyJun 17

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Find me one that wasn’t caused by credit deflation

ReplyJun 17

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No depressions. Bank panics are necessary if the bank is corrupt or insolvent.

ReplyJun 17

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I explained exactly why in the second paragraph. I gave the exact reasons why no one is experiencing it. And it’s not “theory,” it’s exactly what happens in the absence of massive money printing. In fact, in the sectors that out pace it, we even still experience today. Computation and electronics all improve so fast that every element of compute gets more affordable every year despite trillions printed.

ReplyJun 16

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If you have a central entity issuing infinite credit from nothing at an arbitrary price because they issue it from nothing, then everything you just laid out is meaningless. If on the other hand, you have a sound money where people are lending real savings and thus the supply is real and not make believe, then everything you explained is simply exactly how a market works.

ReplyJun 15

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Already part way through them. Just been crazy busy. You’ll probably notice I haven’t had many reads at all lately. Just a lot going on

ReplyJun 15

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They’re long as shit, lol. I’m working on them actually

ReplyJun 15

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“Just let humans use whatever the fuck they want to use in order to transact, to save, or whatever.” When have I not allowed that in any way whatsoever? I’m telling you what the extremely likely result of that is in the long term. Literally nobody is forced to use anything in Bitcoin or crypto. The outcome as it has been is exactly what you are demanding. If you are mad that people think differently, then you simply can’t handle the basic reality of decentralization and markets. It doesn’t mean...

ReplyJun 15

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That makes absolutely no sense. Bitcoin maximalism is just the simple result of thinking about the outcome. It’s not prescription, it’s a logical conclusion. The idea that realizing what the outcome of competing monies will be is “authoritarian” honestly only shows how much baggage you have coming into this.

NoteJun 15

They say we issue debt from nothing because it “grows the economy” and it’s a “net benefit.” Well… if we have 2% price inflation, it means the “net” is explicitly a loss. Otherwise stuff would be more affordable. 2% inflation means that the cost of explicitly out weighed the additional production, because the net result was clearly that things got 2% more expensive. This is exactly why you can’t afford a house, you need 2 earners, and you have no time. You’ve been losing minimum 2% on net of ...

ReplyJun 15

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I HAVE tried this!

ReplyJun 15

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I have become a huge Zorin fan

ReplyJun 15

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The electric credit system isn’t bad, it’s simply regulated by a *real* interest rate and genuine savings being loaned. Otherwise it’s either being manipulate by price controls (on interest rates) or by fraud (rehypothecation and fake backing). But there’s nothing inherently wrong with credit. It’s the fake prices, central bank manipulation, and financial fraud to fake economic signals that is bad.

ReplyJun 15

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Nobody. That’s exactly why we want a natural sound money and not a managed one. In the end the soundest money that most reliably secures its integrity will be the one that society consolidates on.

ReplyJun 15

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Bitcoin maximalism isn’t monopoly. It’s common sense. That’s like saying everyone having the same free speech is a “human rights monopoly.” Money has the most powerful and most convergent network effects of anything in an economic system, because it’s what *defines trade* in that system. If a society uses a different money, it’s more accurate to call it a separate society than a different part of the same one. This is why one can be viciously poor, unproductive, and industrialized, right next ...

ReplyJun 15

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Yes. The period from the late 1870s to about 1900 experienced the most sustained natural price deflation probably in US history, and it also happens to be called “the Industrial Revolution.” And the greatest period of rising living standards occurred during this as well. The reason recent “deflationary” period are called recessions or depressions is because they are *credit* deflations. It’s caused by excessive fiat debt issuance from thin air. Look at Japan for the past 20 years, look at the G...

NoteJun 14

There is no false mental model more destructive than the idea that prices are supposed increase over time. All prices should fall if the economy is more productive. Indefinitely. It is literally only because trillions of dollars are counterfeited from nothing every year, and our time, living standards, home affordability, and critical resources get sucked out of the economy to pay for it that things get more expensive. It is explicitly unnatural and it’s explicitly because we have fake money ...

NoteJun 12

The 2 biggest and most unexpected winners of the Ai era are json and markdown files 😆

ReplyMay 27, 2024

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What if the podcast is literally reading Hayek, Rothbard, Sowell and many other authors *to you*? Huh, what about that?

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