β€œThere’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 Listen to Chat_154 - Unpacking "The Cat" with The Shitcoin Insider on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: πŸ”— Fountain: πŸ”— YouTube: πŸ”— Rumble: https://rumble.com/v73cd1a-re-upload-chat-154-unpacking-the-cat-with-the-shitcoin-insider.html
What happens to Bitcoin culture when ETFs, politics, and financialization enter the picture? In this conversation with Ben Kaufman, we explore the four‑year cycle, Lightning as default rails, and what real sovereignty looks like in practice. Listen to Chat_155 - Where We Are, Where We've Been, & Where We're Going with @Ben Kaufman on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: Fountain: Rumble: https://rumble.com/v73lquo-chat-155-where-we-are-where-weve-been-and-where-were-going-with-ben-kaufman.html YouTube:
"The big, big stab that we're going to be making - the thing that could make PPQ go from kind of like a small community of users to like a gorilla website with millions of users - is this creator monetization program where we allow outsiders to create some cool new image model or a new AI tool, serve it up on PPQ, and then also allow us to distribute their model on other websites that are orders of magnitude larger than us. And then we do it all with lightning payments." ~ Matt Ahlborg Listen to Chat_153 - Welcome to Subscription Hell with Matt Ahlborg of @PayPerQ on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: πŸ”— Fountain: πŸ”— YouTube: πŸ”— Rumble: https://rumble.com/v72x5zi-chat-153-welcome-to-subscription-hell-with-matt-ahlborg.html
Can sats stay fungible when markets try to make them something else? 🐱 In this conversation with The Shitcoin Insider, we explore CAT, ordinals, mailing list politics, and the strange overlap between devs, spammers, and AI-powered creativity. Bitcoin, culture, and governance collide. Listen to Chat_154 - Unpacking "The Cat" with the Shitcoin Insider on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: πŸ”— Fountain: πŸ”— YouTube: πŸ”— Rumble: https://rumble.com/v73cd1a-re-upload-chat-154-unpacking-the-cat-with-the-shitcoin-insider.html
"Our primary payment methods are crypto. Lightning is actually about 50% of all deposits on our platform. The pay per use, the extremely small fees, the final settlement of Lightning, is huge. And so I think that if we were to fast forward ten years, I think that subscriptions are going to be used less in ten years than they are now. And companies like PPQ that are offering it all in one place, on a per use model, are going to win." - Matt Ahlborg Listen to Chat_153 - Welcome to Subscription Hell with Matt Ahlborg on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: πŸ”— Fountain: πŸ”— YouTube: πŸ”— Rumble: https://rumble.com/v72x5zi-chat-153-welcome-to-subscription-hell-with-matt-ahlborg.html
How close are we to a world where self‑custody is treated like a crime? From DIY hardware to Cashew Ecash, this Read episode explores the shrinking space for financial freedom, and what tools still work. Listen to Read_920 - Criminalized Self-Custody by @HRF on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: πŸ”— Fountain: image
Ever wondered what society would look like without merchants, traders, or platforms? In The Unseen Role of Intermediaries, Bastiat had thoughts - and Bitcoin might have answers. Listen to Read_919 - FrΓ©dΓ©ric Bastiat: The Unseen Role of Intermediaries by Ulrich Fromy on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: πŸ”— Fountain: image
From cluttered subscriptions to seamless micropayments, in this Chat episode, Matt Ahlborg of PPQ AI maps a future where UX + Lightning unlocks new creator avenues. We discuss tradeoffs, costs, and adoption hurdles. Listen to Chat_153 - Welcome to Subscription Hell with Matt Ahlborg of @PayPerQ on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: πŸ”— Fountain: πŸ”— YouTube: πŸ”— Rumble: https://rumble.com/v72x5zi-chat-153-welcome-to-subscription-hell-with-matt-ahlborg.html
"It's almost certain [CSW] holds the record for the most number of forgeries submitted to a UK trial, a UK court case. There is nothing in any written records that exceeds the number of forgeries attributed to him. There is no written records anywhere of anyone coming close to him in terms of one person being responsible for so many forgeries, so he is almost certainly a record holder in that respect. If you think if he put that much effort into doing good in the world, think of the amount of good he could have done." ~ Mark Hunter Listen to Chat_152 - Forging Satoshi with Mark Hunter and Arthur van Pelt on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: πŸ”— Fountain: πŸ”— YouTube: πŸ”— Rumble: https://rumble.com/v72dh4o-chat-152-forging-satoshi-with-mark-hunter-and-arthur-van-pelt.html
"I don't understand. And I'll never understand why people are so desperate to believe him when it is. so he puts his foot in it so many times, like again and again and again. He'll say something or do something that completely undermines something that he's previously said or done, and they for some reason, refuse to let it register. And I mean, this is something that when this whole saga, however this whole thing finishes, it's going to be the one enduring thing for me is how do people still believe him after all the lies, and why are they so determined to believe him." ~ Arthur Van Pelt Listen to Chat_152 - Forging Satoshi with Mark Hunter and Arthur Van Pelt on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms: πŸ”— Fountain: πŸ”— YouTube: πŸ”— Rumble: https://rumble.com/v72dh4o-chat-152-forging-satoshi-with-mark-hunter-and-arthur-van-pelt.html