Guy Swann
@TheGuySwann • 110,668 subscribers
Liberty is a technology problem • Host of @BitcoinAudible • Professional Memecraft • Audiobook Narrator
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Working a local Silk Road case is a pretty intense way to find Bitcoin. That's how Seed got his start before eventually building the SeedSigner project. He came on to share his story, but we quickly moved into the ugly side of self-custody. What actually happens to your coins when things get messy in the real world, not digitally? His answer is absolutely worth your time. Listen to the full episode below.
Guy Swann52,036 Aufrufe • vor 27 Tagen
I used to be super wired at night (literally 10pm was peak work/idea hour) and it took me like 4 hours to actually feel "awake" in the morning. My wife put me onto light health as something I was completely neglecting, and the problem is gone... this is all i did.
Guy Swann274,703 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
Imagine scrapping everything and spending three years rebuilding an operating system from scratch because the old way of doing things is completely broken. That is exactly what the team at Start9 just did. In this Chat, Start9's CEO Matt Hill walked me through the absolute beast that is StartOS 0.4.0 and how their latest product - StartWRT - made networking feel like putting together Ikea furniture. We also went SUPER deep on privacy tech and navigating the world as AI takes over everything (and we mean literally EVERYTHING!). I know I always say this, but you really DO NOT want to miss this one!
Guy Swann37,884 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Did you know a quarter of global energy is used just for "comfort heat"? Imagine if we generated all that warm air and water using Bitcoin miners instead. I had an incredibly fun chat with Tyler Stevens about the hashrate heating movement and what happens to Bitcoin's security budget when normal people start heating their homes with ASICs. Catch the full conversation below.
Guy Swann10,750 Aufrufe • vor 20 Tagen
This is the #1 way that I use to stack tons of extra, easy bitcoin. And I'm not even *buying* it. ~$8,000 worth in 1.5 years... not a joke. People really dismiss this combo, but it makes a huge difference if you use them consistently. 👇 Shout to FOLD BITCOIN The Bitcoin Company & Strike for the setup that makes this work. 🫡
Guy Swann110,553 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
What do you do when you’re in Saylor’s dining room on New Years…
Guy Swann97,212 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
"I'll never understand why people are so desperate to believe him… He keeps saying or doing things that undermine what he said before, yet they refuse to let it register. When this saga ends, the real question will be: why are people still determined to believe him?" ~ Arthur Van Pelt
Guy Swann39,901 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
Has Bitcoin’s technical direction become political? 🤔 Jimmy Song brings the cypherpunk spirit back to the table in this unfiltered chat about trust, power, and the future of BTC. We get into: 🧠 OP_RETURN debates ⚙️ Dev culture shifts 💡 "Innovation" vs. ossification + more!
Guy Swann33,163 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
"I don’t know anyone in Bitcoin Core who wants Bitcoin as anything other than money… but that doesn’t mean others won’t use it differently. You can say ‘I only want it used for money,’ or ask: how are they doing it, what can we do, and is it worth fighting?… Being upset without a plan solves nothing." ~Murch
Guy Swann29,170 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
Start the week right with these ESSENTIAL #bitcoin reads 📚🧠⚡ From state-sponsored censorship to corporate Bitcoin adoption and a new frontier in cryptographic signatures - this week’s reads explore what’s at stake when freedom, finance, and innovation collide. — The fight for narrative control is global - and sometimes deadly. From Saudi Arabia to Cuba, free speech is under siege. This episode unpacks the Human Rights Foundation (HRF)'s Financial Freedom Report #77 and the role of decentralized tools like Bitcoin, Nostr, and the Pear stack in defending human rights. 👇 Link below — If Bitcoin is freedom money, what happens when governments and corporations start buying it? Lyn Alden’s framework for situational vs. ubiquitous money offers a powerful lens on Bitcoin’s monetization arc - from ETFs to balance sheets to political game theory. 👇 Link below — A new signature scheme could deliver major gains in privacy and efficiency, without changing Bitcoin’s curve. Kiara Bickers explores DahLIAS and the economic incentives that could finally bring privacy into the protocol’s core design. 👇 Link below
Guy Swann39,972 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
"The only reason we have time to bicker with each other about nonsense is because nobody is using Bitcoin for money. That's why the blocks aren't full. We're always going to be unhappy with the people that use it because they're just there to fill up cheap block space." ~ John Carvalho
Guy Swann23,635 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten
A couple of days ago I released a Guy's Take diving into the 80,000 #Bitcoin Mystery - in which almost $9 billion in BTC moved for the first time in 14 years. Was it an exploit? A hack? An accidentally discovered wallet? Well, turns out it was likely none of these... 👇
Guy Swann29,023 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten
!["There's a total of 51,801,803 [Ordinals]... image trackers... that's... more than a third of the entire UTXO set. So almost 40% of your entire Bitcoin live state... almost half of that is being used as a data tracker for some NFT." ~ The Shitcoin Insider](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2006539176121163998/amplify_video_thumb/2006538706669154304/img/DigcCURwCvEgbh66.jpg)
1/n In this episode I try to separate the signal from the noise on the OP_RETURN debate, despite my opinion on this issue, I cover all that I think holds water in the discussion, & make it clear which arguments from both sides I think aren't useful. For more digging, here's a huge thread of useful discussion and points on this issue:
Guy Swann30,409 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr