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Age of Abundance
A daily live show about the monetary transition from fiat to Bitcoin - AI deflation, energy abundance, and the restoration of humanity. Hosted by Ricky Zhang. Live weekdays at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Clips daily.
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npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance What will people pay for when AI makes everything cheap? npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Which money does the age of abundance run on? npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance "Just save in dollars" sounds responsible. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance This isn't a monetary collapse. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Bitcoin looks right-wing because it had to start there. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Nobody sat you down and told you to buy a house. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Who understands Bitcoin fastest? npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Anyone can attack Bitcoin with LLMs. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Under fiat, you have two choices. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Elon and Saylor keep telling the abundance story. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Bitcoin was never really about money. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance An infinite money printer can buy the supply. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance AI can do everything a human would do. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance If you lean left: npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance What destroys a society if no bomb ever falls? npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Fiat money is a cartel between the government and Wall Street. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The one honest objection to the abundance thesis I'll concede: it's unfalsifiable. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Most people we call lazy aren't lazy. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Coldcard patched the seed phrase bug. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Stop asking if Bitcoin survives AI. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance A trillion dollar valuation isn't a trillion of created value. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Warning your users is the attack. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Cybersecurity held together for 16 years on one fact. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Any money that needs a manager gets managed in the manager's favor. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance People hear the case for abundance and call it too utopian. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance You feel broke, tired, distracted. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance A bitcoin thief with a guilty conscience has one strange exit. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The sun already delivers enough energy to feed a billion people. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Paste this episode into your AI. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Coldcard shipped Bitcoin wallets with a flaw that can't be patched. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance People ask if Bitcoin will scale in their lifetime. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance 32 bits vs 256 bits isn't 8 times weaker. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The end state of freedom isn't a heroic mission. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Self-custody for a billion people was never the goal. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Eternal vigilance sounds abstract until an event makes it concrete. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Fiat spreads losses across everyone. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance A computer can't create real randomness. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Why does Bitcoin pain teach faster than fiat pain? npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The Coldcard vulnerability sat in the device for years. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The abundance I'm chasing comes back to truth. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Robots beat humans at every chess game. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The fiat system had 10 acronyms in 1900. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Time is the one resource that can't be printed. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Gold got captured because you couldn't carry it. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Luxury goods aren't signaling taste. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Every hour, more energy hits Earth than civilization uses in a year. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Why does banking have 378 acronyms today? npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The official inflation target is 2 percent. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Planes have existed for 100 years - and only about 20% of humans have ever flown on one. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Digital scarcity was a zero to one invention. npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance "We're early" keeps you feeling like an outsider.
