“The Guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anyone else you know.” Host of Bitcoin Audible, Shitcoin Insider, & Ai Unchained 🔥
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Last Notes npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Babylon Bee posted it on Twitter, lol. that's where i pulled it from. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann BREAKING!! 🚨 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT from Gavin Newsom about illegal memes and the upcoming most important election of your lifetime! Early access brought to us from the Babylon Bee. https://v.nostr.build/ykVfRTZsKfKi7qto.mp4 #note1k65…4w2w npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann OpenAi's o1 preview model codes a chess game that even has a computer playable character... damn dude. https://v.nostr.build/7hY8iBXTNoAZNO2x.mp4 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann He makes an excellent point... https://i.nostr.build/MeDr0mfRYmdFPI3Z.png npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann This story is absolutely bonkers and keeps getting crazier. This will very likely create a wave of alternative hardware/devices and potentially bring back the hacker mentality. Honestly this scares the ever loving shit out of me because I do not for one second believe our govt wouldn't use this, even covertly, to attack its domestic "enemies." I can't help but look at my phone now and wonder if they have a means of just making the battery burst into flames if the agency of evil decided it should. I suddenly have a new respect for the coldcard's choice to have the casing transparent! https://i.nostr.build/LgHzzJqip7YuDYCL.png npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann As a key representative of the World Elite Podcaster's Union I hereby apologize for what I have done to you. This specific detail being slightly incorrect during a general discussion of many L2 designs and trade offs is an offense I will have difficulty recovering from. I shall refrain from any conversation that may in the future give you reason to look down on the podcasters of the world. We will be getting the global committee together upon the new moon in order to right this great injustice. 🫡 I have failed you all. https://i.nostr.build/8LZZduVMhe7qbWOB.png npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Since this meme was just made illegal in California, I feel it would be an injustice not to post it on #nostr where ti can breathe the free internet air. This is a perfect example of pure, unstoppable Streisand Effect 🤣 By MrReagan on X https://v.nostr.build/PMV1ixx1gjMCJ6YD.mp4 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I've decided I'm going to keep engaging on Twitter, BUT I'm going to screenshot their post, respond to it here on #nostr, and then link them to the response 🤣 Yes it's a little clunky and slow. But I have chosen to only engage on #nostr where the response belongs to me. And it forces them to come over here to continue our conversation. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann All utility tokens are just promises of some arbitrary, singular utility that will be "trapped" behind the use of the token itself. In how it was framed and used, I think "financialization of everything" is the best way to describe the crypto thesis. https://i.nostr.build/2o9nTwWwDhsMmkM0.png npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann A short story on why ETH is dying and will continue to do so: First, why on earth does the ETH crowd work so hard to be the cringiest thing in the world? Second, ETH is stagnant because they sold their token on a bunch of "revolutionary hullabaloo" and literally the only thing with a meaningful market turned out to just be token gambling during the hype cycles. The growth was always on the "next thing" that was gonna "break open the floodgates" of the whole world running on the ethereum VM, but it never came and there was never a use case that really mattered. The value case for Bitcoin was always just fixing the money. ETH thought it was literally going to replace the entire internet with a giant, slow AF, expensive, poorly secured and completely unnecessary consensus system because the whole world would financialize everything arbitrarily, and literally sold people on that idea. Apparently all of the same things, "BuT WiTh tOkENs!" that inject pointless volatility, liquidity problems, and that were all centralized anyway, was somehow a "groundbreaking" idea. -- Bitcoin realized that the problem was the gross OVER financialization of the world, and the pointless gambling of the fiat financial and political apparatus that had caused staggering imbalances and trillions in misallocated and wasted resources. All resulting from shitty, cheap, endlessly manipulated money. It sought to END it. -- While ETH didn't even understand that as a problem. To the contrary, it sought to EXPAND the over financialization of everything into every last corner of the world and into every market that it hadn't yet ruined. It only hung on for as long as it did because it had a "roadmap" and everyone could just point to a date in the future where it would suddenly get better and fix all the problems. It was the iceberg build, then the avalanche merge, then the deep freeze, or whatever stupid name they came up with for the15 stages of their 1 year plan that stretched out a decade, that finally culminated into the conversion to a PERMISSIONED proof of stake system... and it was all just a giant "meh." It's now even more convoluted and less secure, and essentially for the sole purpose of appealing to the "cult of fixing the weather." And still to this day, they survive on the last vestiges of token gambling, but increasingly people are finding out that theres no long term market to gamble on stuff that has no purpose to begin with, except to simply gamble with money. Adding arbitrary tokens just makes it worse. Slot machines are far simpler and serve the purpose perfectly. And if the tokens aren't going anywhere, then there is no way up, and if the token gambling isn't going anywhere, then what does ETH even do except suck at the one thing #Bitcoin has done since the beginning? Be reliable, trustworthy, open, and incorruptible money. #Bitcoin sught to undo the destructive disincentives of the fiat world. While ETH tried to "technify" all of those bad incentives by tokenizing it all on the blockchain, without ever understanding what any of it actually meant. -------------------- Financialization for the sake of financialization is so completely missing the point. That is always what "crypto," with ETH as the cringe father of it all, really represented. The slow, drawn out fall of ethereum was easily predicted. #note1txf…a5ej npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann SAYLOR’S ON NOSTR ARE YOU SERIOUS!!??? https://media4.giphy.com/media/xUNda6HbRyFEISoWqI/giphy.gif?cid=9b38fe91yhvzni8n7aut932yeftpq8edh7buypagpuwx1j2t&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann The only thing I miss about Twitter was my favorite way to make morons and lunatics quietly go away: Block them, and then immediately unblock them. This would make them unfollow you without them knowing. So they wouldn’t see your content anymore. It was a wonderful tool. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I wasted a whole hour on Twitter by accident this morning and the entire place is just disgusting vitriol and politics. I’m coming here to apologize for what I did to myself and know that I will do better. Worst possible way to start the day honestly. (It appears either my current Brazil ISP has stopped blocking Twitter IP or that Twitter has gotten around it maybe, but it was connected and isn’t currently blocking anything) npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann No there isn’t it’s purely P2P. It’s a DHT same as BitTorrent. @npub1h5t…45z5 isn’t running any infrastructure or anything. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Exhibit #6,102,702 #note1er2…ff0q #note1kh7…2exf npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann It’s a giant PR system for a violent mafia. That’s literally all it is. https://i.nostr.build/zXRrZ4MV4Y0VlSU1.jpg npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann The problem is that it attempts to hold up the value of a literal monetary good, through some arbitrary compute “utility.” It’s simply not going to work. We will be able to do all of those same things *without* some huge, messy, blockchain with a very poor security system destined to end up centralized anyway. In the end ETH must compete as money. And if you aren’t willing to hold it and only want to use it for “its utility” whenever it seems to be relevant, you’re explaining exactly the dynamic that will eventually kill the whole system npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann 🫡 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann The simple version: Money has the ultimate network effect, and its core values are in TRUST, liquidity, and stability (not price, but supply). The value is not in payments (this has always been served by a million layers on top), wingdings, “smart contracts,” writing stuff on it, or the million other arbitrary “improvements” that a million shitcoins sell people on. The “crypto” market is something that will consolidate over 30-50 years with the trend we have seen from the beginning. And everything that isn’t Bitcoin will slowly die, in my humble opinion… ETH will be a particularly bad one. Their “staking” system for “security” is a disaster of permissioned, unreliable nonsense. Trust is the last thing they have built and everyone wants it for hyped up marketing nonsense that has no lasting staying power. Want the in depth version: I’ve covered thousands of hours of the history of money, network effects, Austrian economic theory, and crypherpunk history on my show, Bitcoin Audible npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I pay the $12 almost every time 🤣 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann “I think you should be happy about having your pay cut in half at the same time that we steal half of your savings.” #note1f5y…nrlu npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Where were you during the “Penis Butter” incident? #note1whj…wrq8 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Could be just a client side “visible time,” and you just deal with the minor amount of false positives. But basically if you stopped and looked at it for like 3 seconds, it gets locally marked as “seen.” npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I really wish my #nostr client knew which posts I had seen already. It would allow me to search through only posts that I’ve seen to find things I liked, and also to refresh my main feed to only posts I have *not* seen. I spend quite a large amount of time now scrolling through just to get past stuff I’ve already looked at, and many times it will accidentally reset and launch me way up or even back to the top. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann In other words they will spend tens of billions to create a worse version of what we built for ourselves, basically for free, and turned into a trillion dollar market already 🤣🤣🤣 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Those ads were the worst. Not gonna lie 😂 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Get out of Australia while you still can… #note13tr…jkcg npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Just in case 😂 #note15qu…aemq npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann oh god I'm sorry, lol npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann So, in Obsidian, my notes would randomly be completely empty. I'd be working on my TODO list, or my current episode's project file with all my links and writing. Then i'd go away from the app to find something, come back, and the entire note is completely empty. I would have to close the note, open something else, close that, then reopen the original. It would often take like 3-5 seconds, but it would usually come back. Sometimes though I'd have to do this multiple times. I tried SO many things... today however, I realized i've been using iCloud drive to host all my notes so i could work from the same list on every device without having to subscribe to syncing services. I was just moving stuff in the file system and I saw the little "cloud" icon next to the Obsidian folder, showing that the content wasn't synced to this device — and it hit me, iCloud is auto removing the files after there is a timeout and only when i refresh it did Obsidian "request" the file again and so it would get reloaded. Opened Obsidian and my TODO list was blank again, a common occurrence. I clicked on the cloud icon in the finder to download the folder locally, and it popped up almost instantly. 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Ever have one of those moments where you had some sort of a regular problem with a piece of software.... - You search it constantly, nobody in the world appears to have this same problem. - You ignore it, time goes by, you search again. Still nothing. - You get annoyed and start deleting plug ins, reseting settings, deleting customizations, etc. - still happening - ignore it for some more time. - drives you crazy one day, you delete the app and reinstall. Still happening. - every update you install and you think maybe... but no, it still happens. Then one day out of the blue, you are just working on stuff and you see something and it triggers that little tiny 0.5% processing power in the back of your subconscious that's been set to permanently try to figure out what that problem was, and it makes perfect sense, its super simple, and you do a single thing and its completely fixed... ? I just had one of those moments. 🤣 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann New profile pic From the BTC trading cards... https://i.nostr.build/GZd3CdZZ7kR1SNS1.png npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Skill level: 100 https://v.nostr.build/fCUAt5TSoFrikgmE.mp4 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I've not made a claim one way or the other, I'm just pointing out a simple thing we can observe about it's history. I didn't even bring up a security budget issue in the positive or the negative. That said, the point you make is an interesting way to think about it. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann This was something Steve pointed out to me that I found super interesting. On chain fees, DENOMINATED IN SATS, are actually extremely consistent across time. And by the same measure are right now the lowest in 12 years... kinda crazy to think about with all the insanity around discussion of fees and how often its THE talking point when 99% of the rhetoric around it literally has nothing to do with the simple facts of the network and what we have seen. #note1e42…68nr npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann It’s funny the researchers that got literally dragged through hell and back by the pharmaceutical companies and establishment media for their data that showed an unmistakable link between autism and the MMR vaccine, actually weren’t studying that at all. The study itself was about connections between gut health and brain disease. They simply accounted for treatments and vaccines in their data, and the connection just emerged while studying something completely different. Then the pharmaceutical companies when on full attack and destroyed their reputations and careers. Saying they were crazy anti-vax loons and quacks. Yet in the actual research they don’t even make the claim of causation, they merely pointed out the data, with a huge defensive caveat of “this isn’t proof, we know nothing, but this should probably be investigated.” But that was enough to get publicly “black bagged.” Most likely because pharma knows perfectly well there’s a connection. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I increasingly think (especially with how completely ignorant we have been of our gut biome and the parasites in our systems affect us until *very* recently) that these things have a vastly greater affect on our world, the collective conscious, and our decisions than we want to admit. I always think about the zombie stories where everyone is infected with some fungus or parasite that turns them into mindless demons… and all I can think is that this *literally* could be happening in some form across our society and we wouldn’t even know it. Just look around at the mental and physical state of most people. Hard to dismiss outright, imo. #note1e5s…ch7z npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I won’t even be upset if they send me sats 😆 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann It’s not about bitcoiners always being the richest person in the room or nothin my they say is valid. Thats a super “crypto bro”/fiat appeal anyway. Plus, most people don’t listen to the good advice from successful people, they listen to people in their community and peer group, even if the advice is literally bad. It’s about *normalizing* it for people. The idea is sound, imo. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Gaming break: I loved Breath of the Wild, but have to admit that I have no attachment to Tears of the Kingdom whatsoever. The sequel feels like the same game, with all of the same basic functions and enemies, and the entire “building and connecting things” mechanic is terrible, imo. I have zero desire to use it ever, and they have these stupid piles of stuff to build a cart with all over the place like it’s something useful, but it’s so annoying to build them, and then you can’t steer worth crap and it almost never gets you anywhere far enough to justify trying to put it together. It seems completely useless other than there are little quests or puzzles that purposefully add elements where you need it to complete a task… but even that feels forced and arbitrary. And the “sky world” element just kinda feels like somebody said “man we should do something different this time… what if we had a bunch of floating islands in the sky!” And then that was it. Theres no reason for it. It doesn’t matter to the story. It doesn’t seem attached to anything of consequence or have even a mystery around it to solve… it just… is. Also, despite trying to start it back up multiple times in my “spare time” (as if I have any of that), and still in this moment I have no idea what the story is. There’s literally no hook, or engrossing question to answer, so every element just feels like something arbitrary that I’m watching without even knowing why any of it matters. Just really sad considering BoTW felt like a revival of the Zelda franchise, and I think they spent too much time wondering how they could capitalize on it as quick as possible, rather than thinking about how to make another really engaging story & game for the sequel. Important caveat: had the game and all the mechanics been the same still, but the story had been super engrossing, none of that other stuff would’ve mattered. Anyway, that’s my 2 sats on why the new Zelda game hasn’t been able to convince me to charge my Nintendo Switch for like 6 months. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann That’s probably a better ratio than bitcoin users and nodes honestly 😂😅 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Do you run your own personal relay and connect to it? Like/zap1sat for “yes,” repost for “no” npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann It took muting 3 different phrases so far but I haven’t seen one since. I only encounter a “one off” that sneaks through then I add the new phrasing. Hasn’t been that big of a deal so far. [knocks on wood] npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann My first thinking was there was some sort of huge tank sticking into the trees, but there’s no spot on the ground with dead grass to back that up, lol npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Sometimes shit happens and it makes you feel like an idiot, and a failure. And you realize just how much you wasted and how much you promised that wasn't even close to where/what you thought it was. Sometimes you put enormous amounts of personal capital and work into something and the results end up being "fuck all" and all you can feel is embarrassed, stupid, and angry. I guess what I'm getting at is that's its ok ,and at some point that's just how shit is going to unfold if you try to do something useful. Doesn't mean you will end up with what you hoped for, and that's really just part of the process most of the time. "get back on the horse..." feels trite, but it's really all there is. Give up, or keep going are the options on the table. I'm not fucking giving up so... npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann “I know Bitcoin is a low-float scam” says the guy who holds the most utter trash money from an integrity standpoint that humanity has ever used… npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Just a heads up for anyone who posts media and especially for those who want to be nice to @npub1nxy…avr7 servers: This video started as 184 MB, but I did the quick conversion I always do for web media, and the mp4 version was 3.9 MB. That’s a 97.9% reduction in size! Handbrake is a free tool that I use constantly, and you can use ffmpeg CLI if that works better for you (or you want to build an auto-tool with Ai to do it with a simple drag and drop function). But you can convert video to vastly more efficient formats without even being able to see the difference in quality, *especially* if you did a screen capture. Many don’t realize how important that step is, so it’s good to remind people who don’t think about it. #note1xxx…e382 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann This guy just kills me 🤣 🤣 https://video.nostr.build/7fcb2acad4ec5c39853751e6775f824d34623c912eb1ad845ba9b62a55ba167e.mp4 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I’ve been using Hushed for a couple of years npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I’m seriously considering just pausing our home construction so I can buy sats then starting it back in a few months… how foolish is that? #Bitcoin https://media3.giphy.com/media/MBUgdMxZL4nK0zSXSE/giphy.gif?cid=9b38fe912oetdzlth3zwqrg3hrjc9rrteyhj6lkr7th0vblc&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I think it is a mistake to equate the many hoops around regulations as “security,” when I know multiple people who tried to get regulatory approval, and ended up having to refuse because it would have deliberately *weakened* their actual security to follow their requirements. For the regulations to make sense from a bitcoin keys perspective, it has to understand them. I find it extremely unlikely that they do. There are likely areas where some of it still applies, mainly in basic computer access, user controls, and possibly physical separation. But the idea that this properly translates to the bitcoin environment and doesn’t either leave them vulnerable to accidental data loss (because you can always “roll back” in fiat) or exposure of keys in a different way (because authority overrides mistakes in fiat) I think would likely be naive. If you want to argue that regulations work and that incentives are aligned, I’d probably just point to the AAA ratings for MBS’s immediately prior to the worst housing collapse in this countries history. “Corrupt” or “incompetent” I think are far more broadly accurate terms when it comes to describing our regulatory systems. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann It's going to be brutal, and its inevitable unless we get lucky with a small hack and it scares the shit out of half of these stupid, irresponsible shitheads and they make the necessary changes. Otherwise, there is only one most likely outcome to this story. And they will deserve it. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann These companies think they can make billions without having to learn anything or take any responsibility... they will learn the very, VERY hard way that this isn't the fiat world. #Bitcoin will always punish the fiat mind. https://m.primal.net/KgsZ.png npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Is there a profile picture under those lasers? 🤣 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Rules for thee, but not for me. I think this plea is being made probably to avoid chasing down any actually serious crimes. I’m sure there was a “don’t look at the collusion, the explicit selling of political influence, trading political programs for foreign power, and let’s ignore connections to human trafficking of course, but I’ll plead guilty to the tax thing now and daddy can pardon me since he’s still president.” npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann This is the ultimate defeatist, pussified take. If you bail on freedom because you are worried it’ll be “removed from the App Store” then you never cared about it to begin with. You *deserve* to lose it. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann The US needs this so bad it isn’t even funny. You could literally delete 80% of govt and no one but their employees would even feel it. But then we still need to cut 80% of what’s left so people *can* feel it and THEN we actually have a shot at stopping the govt from destroying our gd country. #note1pqx…hvc6 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Btw, this is a form of capitulation if it isn’t obvious. The position has to shift from “Nobody uses Nostr, it doesn’t even work,” to “Sure I like Nostr, but…” I remember as this same thing began happening with bitcoin. We are going to win. It feels too similar, imo. #note14ch…m5m9 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Welcome Johnny Solo 🫡 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann When everyone is like, “THE PRICE IS LITERALLY 58K FoREVER!” OH REALLY!? HAVE YOU EVEN LOOKED AT THE PRICE LATELY? Checkmate 58K gang 😎🖕🏻 https://i.nostr.build/38Yy6jNZcVVuaVKG.jpg npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann A fucking dryer is LITERALLY just a heating element and a fan, in a bucket that tumbles clothes. Like holy shit how in god's name did they manage to fuck that up? Literally have you ever taken the back off of an old dryer? Couldn't be simpler. It's like 4 pieces. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Half of the comments think I'm talking about apps, and the other half understand what I'm really talking about because they've had to buy a washing machine post 2015. That said, I do also despise the "subscription everything" bullshit. Ran into that today. I'm just about sick of paying for ridiculous subscriptions just to use an app one fucking time. Or having to sign up and remember to cancel when I'm done, which inevitably means they take two months of pay from me before it registers that i forgot to go back and cancel it. The pirate bay is coming back #note17p5…lg09 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann WTF happened to simple shit that just works? npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I can’t imagine wanting to leave the room. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann GM, When people say "Ai will be more intelligent than humans," this doesn't mean that they will be able to predict what humans like, or know what will be highly valuable or worthless, which memes will go viral, or what the future will actually look like. Those problems aren't "intelligence" problems. It may very well be a complete waste of capital to make "vastly smarter than human" Ai, for the simple reason is that people won't care and won't even be able to judge how good it even is. Think about it, when ChatGPT 5-8 and Claude 5 and Llama 6.2 all get so good that you can't tell the difference, and where you can't tell which output is better than the other, why would you pay 3x as much for the "super intelligence" model than the "gets me the results I want" model? I increasingly think model intelligence will act more like computer graphics in video games. For about 15 years "better graphics" was literally everything. If you had better graphics you had the better gaming console. But then one day it just stopped mattering becuase graphics got good enough where the cost to make it better outweighed the fact that people just wanted good games. It simply looked "good enough." What if this same thing happens to the "smarter models" in LLMs? 🧐 https://fountain.fm/episode/98UjiXJsa1b2VusbQQur npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann GM [SYN flag. GM sent] npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann They think they are gonna make it hard, and then we are just gonna roll over and give up. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I feel like this is a trick 😂 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Orbit is Tor based which would be good for DMs, I don’t know Citrine. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann We already have the proof of use-case, imo. It’s custodial Lightning. Wallet of Satoshi could offer the exact same service with just a CTV pool in the most naive sense. And then if WOS ever vanished, literally everyone could redeem their coins still. All we need to prove this viable is demand for people to use custodial wallets and assume they don’t want to be rug pulled. Also, I’m not trying to make a sense of urgency here, just to explain. I don’t even think there is a rush, I just think CTV is basically just waiting for there to be a clear line in the sand for people to decide about. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I think coracle and satlantis are the only clients/tools I know explicitly utilizing this so far. Spam isn’t bad enough for it to be a necessity, but it will be soon, for better or worse. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Web of trust. You could auto-mute anyone who is completely outside your web of trust without any one step connection to accounts you know. And the ability to see it in the list so you can expand, versus completely hiding it could also be based on degrees of separation. ie. More than 6 degrees? Hide completely. 5 degrees or less, leave a “show post” option for muted comments. Leveraging the web of trust is a massively underappreciated tool, imo. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann PSA This place will likely be overwhelmed with trolls, morons, and angry and bitter people one day soon like all the rest. Muting will be a very necessary tool in your toolbox (and it even helps other with your web of trust), don’t forget to use it before getting angry and fighting with people trying to trigger you. This is also how you can keep the vibe up indefinitely, curate your graph deliberately. Use the network, don’t let the network use you. GM 😁 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I don’t think you understand the concept, that’s not what the limitation/creativity dichotomy is about. It’s about direction and focus. If I stub my toe and that inspires me to create a chair leg that you can’t stub your toe on, it isn’t because I got stockholm syndrome with the chair. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann BeCAuSE iT ViOlAtEs PoLiCiES oF AbuSe aNd UnAuThoRiZeD DePiCTiOn oF OtHErs npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann This is also something that many dont understand about art. But I remember there was a day in film school with one of my favorite professors and we spent the entire class talking about it. Freedom in creativity leads to indecision and feeling overwhelmed. When you leave yourself too many options, you don't have direction. Which is why its often best to be given a very restrictive prompt, or to just start writing **something,** because as soon as you put down any idea, you've constrained your world, you introduce a problem and an environment, and now you have to find your way out of it. In other words., restriction and limitation are actually the mother of creativity. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann All the pieces still haven't been put together into a cohesive experience, but we are very close to it. I don't think people appreciate how fucking fast the world can change when all the right tools fall into place at exactly the right time. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann WHAT IF... when Github or Google or App Store or whatever public index was hosting a developer's or author's content/files/code/etc decided to remove it due to "regulations" or "reasons"... what if you could still follow the key of the creator and get it directly from them, or from any other host who insisted on keeping it available? This future is much, much closer than you think #nostr #pear #bitcoin #lightning #note1f53…mf6a npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann You'd be surprised how quickly your taste/conditioning for it fades if you just cut it out. And you1000% CAN cut sugar. The only reason you "cant" is because you say and believe that you can't, but literally anyone can. I bet you've done vastly more difficult things in life. If you legit want to be healthy and cut sugar there's literally nothing at all stopping you. It's just a choice. If you don't want to then that's fine too. But don't gaslight yourself and say you "can't," because you can. Just choose to do so, or don't. Then accept whatever that decision is. (I probably brought way too much seriousness to this simple and lighthearted post 😆, but I think it's an important issue and all of us lie to ourselves a lot and we dismiss how powerful it is to be genuinely honest with ourselves, and just accept that we are in control and be ok with whatever our decisions are rather than hiding behind "I can't" -- there's a lot of power in that, imo) npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann It appears that DeepFakeLabs and its dozens of forks and other projects have all been removed from Github... which ruins a meme I am working on because there are shockingly few alternatives to this. Does anyone know how to get ahold of the linux installer still? The torrent only has the EXE. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I can understand people not abandoning traditional social networks where they’ve made big investments of time & energy to build an audience… BUT I cannot understand refusing to invest ANY time and energy into a protocol that can’t be shut down. It’s like buying a huge, expensive house, filling it with your favorite things, then putting candles in every room, but refusing to add a smoke detector or buy insurance. You’re just begging to lose everything. Any investment made into a centralized service, ESPECIALLY one that is known for censoring people and shutting down accounts for no reason, should at MINIMUM require an equal investment into a decentralized alternative. If everyone who was aware of the problem did this, #Nostr wins. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Vegeta!? 😆 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Have you ever read the original Wired magazine from 1993 that revealed the Cypherpunks to the world? Well now you can listen to it: https://fountain.fm/episode/FExVWCrHTGsH3WfTasSt npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann This sounds like a perfectly reasonable approach honestly. I think you should be able to commit armed recovery of your assets. An even slightly sane society would support and defend it. #note1rnp…j8v5 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Imagine if you had all your savings in this bank and this just happened to you. #note1mnl…2h7q npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I have 57 anon accounts and they are all my biggest fans 😂 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann This is what the app does, btw 🤣 https://i.nostr.build/wM0xlkNFL5QJLPOE.jpg npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Found a new way to stay off of Twitter. Set your VPN to Brazil 😆 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann “Smart contract” is a buzzword. Lightning and multisig can do what you explain above. It’s just more annoying and requires more interactions. Are we getting rid of those things because of “smart contracts”? CTV is not a “framework”, Sapio is. It’s a coding language to work with bitcoin script, CTV is not the problem here and I also think you misunderstand MEV on top of this. There are already options contracts in Bitcoin, it’s already financialized. Also something that you can’t stop. There have been futures contracts for years. It’s completely impossible to stop practically everything you listed and maybe I’m wrong, but you don’t seem to understand what the *actual* problems with those things are, rather than thinking there’s some concrete line where it does/doesn’t exist and thinking that CTV leaps over it. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann “You’re not going to respond? Once I brought receipts and then you suddenly “didn’t have the time”? Disappointed. I thought we cared about what’s best for bitcoin rather than our established positions.” I was literally just trying to find the time because I am insanely busy and also out of town at the moment, but you beating your chest like you are the only one who cares about anything and this sort of attitude is what makes me not want to. If you want me to respond this isn’t how to do it. And no, Sapio doesn’t change anything, as I said I knew about it and I’m pretty sure I did an episode on it a couple years back. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann 🔥🔥 #note13zk…9vr7 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Being able to boost and comment on Fountain as a post on Nostr is just cool. https://fountain.fm/episode/Y8tfjIkOcPCU8BiysVrS #nevent1q…353n npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 https://fountain.fm/track/FFv57RY7RYYpSNbfUk0e #nevent1q…yqvn npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Thank you, I tried to search for “Bitcoin Mechanic” like 10 different ways and I was getting annoyed 😂 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann BOOM 🔥🫡 INTRODUCING the first episode of Guy’s Roundtable 🟠 Join me, Bitcoin Mechanic, @npub1pld…5nc9, and @npub1ajv…tppj breaking down all of the latest news and events to recap the month in #Bitcoin. We’ve seen more bear markets panic and more bull market insanity than any other roundtable you know.😎 What do you get when you mix knowledge, intuition, experience, sarcasm, and the most humble of the humblest? Guy’s Roundtable YouTube: [https://youtu.be/Wdh2ryDGKW0%5D(https://youtu.be/Wdh2ryDGKW0) Fountain: [https://fountain.fm/episode/ZPN0IjyENUODoDx585ak%5D(https://fountain.fm/episode/ZPN0IjyENUODoDx585ak) #note10x5…9hh2 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann ItS FoR SaFEtY AnD tO StOP MisNFoRmATiOn #note1jkc…yh32 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann It means you can make direct connections to devices, to peers, to any other computer *using* the nostr social database. In other words, what if you could connect to your own node, encrypted and without any setup and from anywhere, just by going through nostr relays? What if you could share a file with a friend by simply punching in their npub and they accept it? No middle men, no accounts, no subscriptions, no setup. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann for sure, but the great depression was simply something that would have been cleared by the market in about 6-12 months like every major down turn is when there isn't aggressive intervention. So FDR is the only reason it lasted for 10 years and actually *became* the Great Depression to begin with. But you are entirely right that Hoover was very much the same. In fact there was a writing i read a long time ago by one of FDR's economic advisors who said that they literally took one of Hoover's plans, while publicly attacking hoover, essentially rebranded it as The New Deal, and did almost all of the same things Hoover had intended to do. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Between this and what we are doing with the pear stack, we are going to solve all of the connection, latency, encryption, and authentication problems for all of our tools and I'm fucking HERE FOR IT!! 🔥🔥 This is SO awesome to see. I dont think people realize how huge this will be for UX and app design. #note1skq…gf0l npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I did, should’ve sooner, but I’m out. Time is too valuable.