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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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Last Notes npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance A status quo stays a status quo until it doesn't. History looks flat for decades. Then the frame flips OVERNIGHT. That's the pattern: invisible, then inevitable. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-096/clips/x-clip-11-status-quo-never-changes-until-it-suddenly-does.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance You don't need the full map to start. Walk through one door today: two more open behind it, then three behind those. You still have to pick one tomorrow. The compounding is on the action, not the thinking. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-096/clips/x-clip-19-every-day-you-walk-through-one-door-and-three-more-open.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The money in your account is hours of your life. Someone prints more. Those hours shrink. We argue over who gets to do it. The deeper question is simpler: should anyone? https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-102/clips/x-clip-16-creating-money-is-a-quiet-form-of-theft-from-everyone-who-wo.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Why did our generation take to Bitcoin so fast? As Ben Leavitt puts it, we grew up on LimeWire and BitTorrent. Peer-to-peer networks that couldn't be STOPPED. Bitcoin is that same pattern, applied to money. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-034/clips/x-g04-limewire-and-bittorrent-taught-us-bitcoin.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Bram Kanstein sold 5 startups and failed at 50 plus of them. Every failure gave him one or two lessons. That's enough. Keep the motion. When learning is the point, doing stops being scary. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-101/clips/x-g02-i-sold-5-startups-and-failed-50.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance History remembers the generals. It forgets the money. Money moves quietly in the background. That's why it keeps getting left out. Now the consequences are too loud to miss. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-095/clips/x-clip-09-money-is-invisible-thats-why-history-leaves-it-out.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance A decentralized YouTube needs counterweights. Without them it's just you and an algorithm. Family used to pull you back - no one does that now. The feed sprinkles what hooks you until you're the worst version of yourself. Good point Ben Leavitt https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-034/clips/x-g03-what-a-decentralized-youtube-actually-needs.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance What brought us to Bitcoin won't bring the next wave. Different values, different fears, different ways of deciding. Right now we're firing arrows blindfolded. Take the blindfold off and start with who they actually are. Daniel Batten https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-025/clips/x-g03-the-blindfolded-archer-why-bitcoiners-keep-missing.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance You can tell when you're being sold to. It doesn't feel good, even when it works. Fiat communication runs on getting you to believe a lie. The new skill is helping people feel their OWN truth. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-098/clips/x-clip-10-you-can-feel-when-youre-being-sold-to-heres-why.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Monopolies aren't a free market failure. They're a fiat phenomenon. Cheap capital buys the user base. Regulatory capture freezes out competitors. Fix the money and the monopoly dissolves. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-096/clips/x-clip-15-monopolies-cannot-exist-without-a-money-printer.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance What's the way out of pain you can't see past? Feel it fully, it's real. Then ask what it FORGES ten years from now. Short horizons trap you inside it. Long ones turn it into story. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-098/clips/x-clip-04-the-pain-you-feel-today-is-the-story-youll-tell-in-ten-years.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Money is why we TRADE instead of kill. It scaled cooperation on top of our worst instincts. When money works, we settle differences through exchange. When money breaks, we settle them through violence. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-095/clips/x-clip-17-money-is-why-we-trade-instead-of-killing-each-other.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Want to change someone's mind on Bitcoin? Start with their actual problem. For most under 40, it's cost of living and no visible path forward. Bitcoin offers the opposite: real agency, real contribution, a hand in shaping what comes next. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-020/clips/x-g02-how-to-orange-pill-in-2026.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Britain didn't beat Napoleon with better soldiers. They beat him by borrowing from the FUTURE. Debt layered on gold let them pay armies with money that didn't exist yet. Napoleon still hunted physical gold to fund the war. One side was playing a different game. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-095/clips/x-clip-10-britain-learned-to-borrow-from-the-future-napoleon-never-cau.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Every sat you spend helps your other sats gain value. Spending is what turns Bitcoin into MONEY. Hoard every sat and you're not playing it safe. You're capping your own upside. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-098/clips/x-clip-08-if-you-hoard-your-bitcoin-you-make-it-worth-less.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Fifteen years of soccer results sat on top of a lie. That's a MICROCOSM of 5,000 years of history. When the money underneath is broken, the game on top isn't real. People sense this everywhere. They just don't have the language yet. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-100/clips/x-clip-10-we-live-in-a-sham-world-15-years-of-football-proved-it.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance A short time horizon makes every bad thing worse. The pain you feel today is real. But seeing five, ten years out is what gets you through it. Protect your ability to look that far. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-098/clips/x-clip-03-a-long-time-horizon-is-your-way-out-of-the-pain.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance For 5,000 years, wealth was physical. Physical means seizable. That's why history rewarded whoever could deploy violence at scale. Bitcoin is the first wealth you can't take by force. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-905/clips/x-clip-03-for-5000-years-violence-always-paid-thats-finally-ending.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance What will govern us? Not courts, not laws, not governments - every one of them puts flawed power in someone's hands. Free markets, honest price signals, reputation you can verify. Rules anchored in math and physics, not in whoever's holding the gavel. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-100/clips/x-clip-05-what-actually-governs-us-when-nobody-can-be-trusted-with-pow.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance What does a house actually cost? In dollars, it keeps climbing. In Bitcoin: 100,000 coins, then 10,000, then 1,000, soon one. Same house. Sound money just shows you the real price. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-015/clips/x-g02-bitcoin-flipped-my-rose-colored-glasses.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Most taxes come from labor hours. AI just compressed those hours to a fraction. That's the foundation of the social contract. It's cracking. Politics is about to get strange, and this is why. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-905/clips/x-clip-11-ai-is-sending-graduates-to-an-abyss-then-what-happens-to-the.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance AI amplifies the system it runs on. Run it on debt-based money and you get the trap: power concentrates, wealth concentrates, meaning drains from the people doing the work. Fix the money and the same AI builds abundance. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-007/clips/x-g02-ai-plus-debt-based-money-is-the-trap.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance There is no they. Only you. The world is just billions of people acting on their own incentives. You can't control the money - you can't control the price - you can control what you do. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-100/clips/x-clip-08-there-is-no-they-running-everything-only-you.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance With sound money, buying ten lamborghinis stops making sense. What gets expensive is presence, care, witnessing. Wealth becomes which pain you chose to alleviate. That's what fixing the money actually buys. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-098/clips/x-clip-15-age-of-abundance-means-you-choose-which-pain-you-alleviate.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance AI can manufacture code, text, media, even fake video. It can't manufacture energy. You buy it from the grid or pull it from nature - there's no third option. That's why money anchored to real energy matters more now, not less. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-905/clips/x-clip-08-ai-can-do-almost-anything-but-it-still-cant-forge-energy.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance AI does the tasks. You decide what AI does. Labor and management get absorbed. What's left is choice, creation, and bringing people with you. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-098/clips/x-clip-07-ai-does-the-tasks-you-decide-what-ai-does.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Most people picture 2036 as 2026 with better phones. Scott Dedels sees it differently. The next ten years won't look like the last ten. They'll be 50 times more different. Exponential change hides. Then it's past you. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-099/clips/x-g04-2036-will-be-50x-more-different-than-today.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The idea isn't why you lose people. The jargon is. Say time preference, they stop listening. Say time horizon: same idea, now it clicks. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-098/clips/x-clip-13-stop-saying-time-preference-thats-why-normies-tune-out.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The money you use is 55 years old. In 1971 the dollar's last link to gold was cut - and ever since, nobody actually knows what a dollar is worth... Not you, not the Federal Reserve, not the market. It inflates just slow enough that we haven't noticed yet. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-095/clips/x-clip-02-the-money-we-all-use-is-only-55-years-old.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Why would Bitcoin change us if humans are humans? It wouldn't. Humans don't change. The incentives do. Fiat rewards whoever's willing to backstab the most. That's who ends up at the top. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-904/clips/x-clip-11-humans-didnt-change-the-incentives-did.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance You are part of Bitcoin. Thinking about it, writing about it, holding it, watching this. That's the network. Killing it would mean every person on Earth looking away at the same moment. That doesn't happen anymore. Too many of us already see it. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-097/clips/x-clip-02-you-are-part-of-bitcoin-thats-why-it-cant-be-killed.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Web of trust isn't a social credit score, says Derek Ross A credit score has one authority at the top. One number applied to everyone. On Nostr, each person sets their own weights. My score of you isn't anyone else's. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-094/clips/x-g05-web-of-trust-isn-t-a-social-credit-score.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance If fiat breaks fast, chaos isn't the real question. The real question is where people run. Fear pushes them deeper into surveillance and CBDCs. Unless they KNOW Bitcoin is the exit. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-904/clips/x-clip-05-what-if-bitcoin-breaks-fiat-too-fast-where-do-people-go.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Self-custody is hard. That's not a flaw. It's a fact. Banks didn't appear by accident. A custodian beats a password taped to the monitor. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-094/clips/x-g03-there-s-a-reason-humans-invented-banks.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The worst people aren't winning by accident. A debt-based money system filters for one trait: willingness to look the other way. Everyone else gets passed over. Fix the money and you change who rises. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-093/clips/x-clip-05-the-system-selects-for-people-willing-to-sell-their-souls.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance So much of what gets built doesn't need to exist. It's there because the debt has to be serviced. The economy has to keep growing or the whole thing cracks. That's the ILLUSION the planet pays for. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-092/clips/x-clip-12-we-build-things-nobody-needs-just-to-service-the-debt.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Electricity used to be use-it-or-lose-it. A wind turbine spinning at night with no town nearby - that power just vanished. Bitcoin mining turns that moment into value. Value that can be spent on the other side of the world. Energy can finally teleport. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-092/clips/x-clip-02-electricity-can-now-teleport-across-the-world.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Until 1971, a dollar could be redeemed for real gold. Then the link was cut. Paper money became a made-up system overnight. Every strange thing about prices and debt since traces back to that one moment. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-091/clips/x-clip-03-in-1971-money-stopped-being-tied-to-anything-real.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Why won't a single politician tell you to tighten the belt? Because the one who promises more spending wins. Honesty loses votes, pandering wins them. The filter is structural: the truth-teller never makes it to office. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-026/clips/x-clip-03-why-no-politician-will-ever-tell-you-the-truth-about-debt.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The shift to Bitcoin isn't top-down. It's the private school head shaping a generation. The mid-level exec turning their company. The regular person talking Bitcoin at the barbershop. Wherever you stand, that's where it happens. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-028/clips/x-clip-17-the-bottom-up-revolution-school-heads-executives-hairdresser.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Why does money printing never stop? A debt-based system has only two states. Forever expansion, or everyone's savings vanish at once. There's no third option. So we always choose to keep printing. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-030/clips/x-clip-04-debt-money-only-ends-two-ways-forever-or-all-at-once.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Buying a home feels like escape. Every mortgage creates new money. That money bids up the next home. You didn't rig this game. You just joined it. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-004/clips/x-clip-14-the-moment-you-buy-a-house-you-become-the-problem.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The job market is a treadmill that only speeds up. The instinct is to run faster - more applications, more credentials. That path only leads to pain. Step off NOW, while it's still slow enough to jump. Later, stepping off is just falling. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-089/clips/x-clip-16-step-off-the-treadmill-before-it-moves-too-fast-to-jump.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance AI can give you anything you want, instantly. What it can't give you: another human choosing to spend their scarce hours on you. That choice becomes the last real luxury. The one thing abundance can't manufacture. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-090/clips/x-clip-07-the-last-luxury-is-being-chosen-by-another-human.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Cathedrals took 500 years to finish. The people who laid the foundation never saw the roof. They built like they would anyway. Fixing the money is that kind of work - if it outlasts me, it still gets every waking hour I have. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-087/clips/x-clip-10-we-used-to-build-for-generations-wed-never-meet.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Your parents worked their whole lives. Why do they end up depending on you or the state? Follow it back and you hit rising prices... That dependence isn't aging. It's what broken money does to a lifetime of savings. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-090/clips/x-clip-02-parents-shouldnt-have-to-depend-on-their-kids-to-survive-old.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance We used to build cathedrals that took 400 years to finish. Nobody alive would see them done. That was the point. Fiat money compressed our time horizon down to the second. A new Bitcoin block every ten minutes pulls it back out. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-087/clips/x-clip-09-we-used-to-build-cathedrals-wed-never-live-to-see-finished.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Follow any big question far enough and it lands in the same place. Not markets, not politics, not the news cycle. The base layer of reality: what you choose to act on today. That's the only lever you actually hold. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-087/clips/x-clip-01-the-base-layer-of-reality-is-your-agency.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance If you sell tasks for pay: Your competition is now humanoid robots and frontier AI. Not cheaper humans overseas. This isn't a competition that can be won. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-089/clips/x-clip-13-how-ai-eats-the-world-and-why-you-cant-win.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Every dollar transaction is a quiet fight. The merchant trying to extract more from you. You trying to defend yourself from the merchant. And the money itself - losing value under both of you. No honest relationship grows on ground like that. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-087/clips/x-clip-17-why-every-fiat-transaction-is-a-low-grade-form-of-backstabbi.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The money poured into AI can't be earned back. The tech's whole nature is to spread cheaply. You can't build a moat around abundance. The whole house has been bet anyway. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-008/clips/x-clip-11-ai-companies-can-never-charge-enough-to-recoup-the-investmen.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Where does universal basic income actually come from? Money is lent into existence at the top. Inflation pulls it out of your pocket first. It comes back with strings and less buying power. Left pocket to right pocket, and you paid in time. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-008/clips/x-clip-09-ubi-is-a-song-and-dance-that-takes-your-time.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Why does getting ahead feel like stepping on people? It's not a moral failing. Debt-based money rewards whoever sits closest to the money printer. Serving your neighbor stopped paying. Climbing over them started to. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-004/clips/x-clip-02-why-the-incentive-is-to-step-on-your-neighbor-instead-of-ser.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance If you bought a Bitcoin ETF: You bought price exposure - not Bitcoin. No private key. You can't redeem it for the real thing. You're long the chart, not out of the system. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-016/clips/x-clip-14-an-etf-is-just-a-claim-on-price-action.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The cycle repeats for one reason. No one wants the collapse in their lifetime. So we print, we bail out, we kick the can. Every generation does this. Bitcoin is the first money that takes the choice away. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-014/clips/x-clip-11-why-we-always-kick-the-can-and-what-finally-breaks-the-cycle.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Can a government stop AI from replacing workers? China just tried. They're fining companies that swap employees for AI. It won't hold. Any firm abroad will out-compete them in a year. AI hands ordinary people leverage no rule can take back. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-083/clips/x-clip-12-ai-is-a-force-of-liberation-even-for-centralized-states.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance If you tried AI and gave up: The old deal was jagged: brilliant in flashes, useless in the gaps. You spent more time fixing its output than working. This class of model closes the gaps. Try again. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-017/clips/x-clip-18-the-jagged-frontier-is-finally-smoothing-out.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Flow state isn't calm. It's a PULL you can't put down. I pulled an all-nighter to finish one project. The next one had to start on time. The idea had to come out. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-082/clips/x-clip-13-the-all-nighter-that-told-me-it-was-time.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance AI attacking banks isn't hypothetical anymore. Last week a hacker group used AI to fake a government subpoena. Revolut handed over KYC data on a batch of customers. Every bank holding your ID is now a door that can be talked open. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-084/clips/x-clip-07-ai-just-tricked-a-real-bank-into-handing-over-customer-kyc-d.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The frontier labs trained on everyone's work without permission. Now DeepSeek does the same to them and it's called theft. The principle didn't change. The incumbents did. IP law protects whoever's already on top. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-003/clips/x-clip-01-the-frontier-labs-trained-on-everything-now-they-call-it-the.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Under fiat money, the smart move is to get close to the money printer. That's not greed - that's just the incentive. It bends careers, industries, whole centuries. Humanity worked the problem for a long time. A solution was born in 2009. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-082/clips/x-clip-04-the-money-printer-cycle-humanity-finally-solved-in-2009.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance An idea in your head is weightless. An idea backed by work you actually did - that's evidence your future self can stand on. The daily show isn't about the output. It's about having something to point to. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-081/clips/x-clip-07-ideas-without-proof-of-work-dont-land-thats-why-i-show-up-da.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Point an AI at any goal. Under fiat rules it EXTRACTS before it serves. Suppresses before it creates. The machine inherits the incentives of the money. Fix the money and you fix what AI optimizes for. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-081/clips/x-clip-13-point-an-ai-at-any-objective-under-fiat-and-it-extracts-supp.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Bitcoin replacing money that can be printed isn't an if. It's a when. The only variable: how long you stay closed before you open. The waiting isn't free. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-082/clips/x-clip-15-its-not-a-matter-of-if-youll-accept-bitcoin-its-when.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Code is speech. Courts settled that in the 1990s fighting over encryption. It's just MATH, and you can't legislate math. Any law banning open source AI hits the same wall. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-081/clips/x-clip-10-code-is-speech-thats-why-ai-regulation-wont-hold.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Attacking Bitcoin destroys the thing you just captured. The moment a 51% attack lands, trust in the network collapses... And the coins the attacker now controls collapse with it. The incentives are weaponized against the attacker. That's the defense. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-067/clips/x-clip-13-why-attacking-bitcoin-destroys-the-value-of-your-attack.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Your phone is cheap because their money is dying. Cobalt gets mined by people paid in a currency that melts while they dig - kids strapped to their backs, so we can scroll TikTok. That's not history - that's happening NOW. Fix the money and the trade changes. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-068/clips/x-clip-12-children-strapped-to-their-backs-mining-cobalt-so-we-can-scr.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Your feed isn't neutral. Unrelated podcasts all riffing on the same AI doom story? That's not curiosity. Someone PICKED that fear. Most people can feel it now. They just can't name it yet. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-081/clips/x-clip-02-the-media-isnt-neutral-someone-picks-which-fear-you-feel-thi.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Fiat doesn't flip anyone from good to evil. It does something quieter: it nudges every heart 1% toward the self-serving move. You defect first because you assume everyone ELSE will. Fix the money and the bar moves back. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-066/clips/x-clip-19-fiat-doesnt-corrupt-people-it-nudges-them-1-at-a-time.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance We tell ourselves we'll always spot the AI. AI content already goes viral - if we can tell, why do we keep watching? Soon the feed floods with content no one can verify. Finding truth becomes the hard problem. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-003/clips/x-clip-12-were-about-to-be-flooded-with-content-no-one-can-tell-is-ai.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance How old is the airplane? 100 years. How many people have ever flown: about 1 in 5. The modern world isn't finished. It's barely started. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-066/clips/x-clip-23-only-20-of-humans-alive-today-have-ever-been-on-a-plane.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Peruvian Bull put it plainly. Most government revenue is a tax on time - payroll, income, Social Security all tax the hours you work. AI does that same work in a fraction of the hours. The tax base doesn't shrink from that, it collapses. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-079/clips/x-g04-ai-is-an-existential-crisis-for-the-government.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Every big AI-future essay skips the same question. Who prints the money? UBI, post-labor abundance, all of it - written as if the fiat system just stays. Miss that and you've missed the forest for the trees. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-078/clips/x-clip-12-post-labor-economics-is-a-scam-if-you-dont-talk-about-the-mo.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Cost of living gets bad enough. People start asking a question they never asked before. What the hell is a dollar? It sounds obvious. It isn't. Every path out starts with that question. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-075/clips/x-clip-11-what-a-dollar-actually-is-in-one-question-at-your-kitchen-ta.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance One day there won't be a Bitcoin price. The question flips. It becomes how many sats. How many sats for a strawberry. A steak. A house. An HOUR with someone you love. That's the conversation waiting on the other side. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-070/clips/x-clip-14-one-day-nobody-will-ask-what-bitcoin-costs-theyll-ask-what-t.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Kurtis Warren runs a Bitcoin cafe. He didn't call it Bitcoin Coffee. Be excellent at the craft first. Bankers come in for the coffee. They leave asking about the Bitcoin ATM. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-073/clips/x-g03-why-we-don-t-call-ourselves-bitcoin-coffee.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Two cars. So two adults can drive to two jobs. To pay for the daycare that watches the kids they never see. And the cars that get them there. That's not ambition. It's a treadmill fiat built. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-070/clips/x-clip-11-two-cars-two-jobs-drop-off-the-kids-forever.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance 1776 to 1981. That's how long it took the US to hit 1 trillion in debt. The jump from 39 to 40 trillion took 4 months. The number isn't the story. The acceleration is. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-066/clips/x-clip-03-the-first-trillion-took-200-years-the-last-one-took-4-months.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Writing a Bitcoin ban is cheap. Enforcing one is not. Cheap power and a profit motive mean someone always defects. Every leaky ban weakens the government that wrote it. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-026/clips/x-clip-19-the-asymmetric-cost-of-trying-to-ban-bitcoin.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Stable relative to what? Relative to the dollar. A currency that's lost 99% of its value in 100 years. An anchor to something SINKING isn't stability. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-027/clips/x-clip-19-stable-relative-to-what.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Disney sues OpenAI and cuts a deal. The Tumblr artist whose work trained the model got nothing. And NEVER will. We all quietly agreed to it. Because no one's willing to stop using AI. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-064/clips/x-clip-04-the-tumblr-artist-whose-work-trained-chatgpt-got-zero-dollar.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Tax enforcement is triage. An IRS officer has limited hours and a quota. They're chasing the $10 million offshore case. Not the 30 cents you owe on a coffee. MATERIALITY is the filter nobody names. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-065/clips/x-clip-14-why-the-irs-isnt-chasing-your-30-cent-coffee-gain.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Your money isn't sitting in a vault. It's a line on a ledger. Every dollar that exists was borrowed into being by someone. Your savings only hold value as long as those debts get paid back. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-001/clips/x-clip-03-every-dollar-you-own-is-someone-elses-debt.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Who do you picture on the other end of that tax notice? Someone on the same melting wages you're on. In a union that won't let them touch AI - watching their own bills climb while enforcing yours. It's humans all the way down. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-065/clips/x-clip-19-the-tax-collector-chasing-you-is-drowning-in-the-same-meltin.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Calling fiat a lie doesn't reach anyone. It marks you as the outsider - and people turn inward to the group. A truer framing is that fiat locks out potential truths. That one actually reaches people. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-037/clips/x-clip-05-why-calling-fiat-a-lie-doesnt-reach-the-people-who-need-to-h.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The old guard can't keep up. AI moves too fast for the fiat system to paper over its contradictions. You don't need permission. You just need to ACT. Study Bitcoin, hold it, build with it. That's the frontier. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-064/clips/x-clip-13-you-dont-need-anybodys-permission-just-act.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The real cost of paying with Bitcoin isn't the capital gains tax. It's walking a few extra blocks to find a shop that takes it. Inflation's silent tax costs more human potential than any capital gains ever could. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-065/clips/x-clip-17-the-true-cost-of-a-bitcoin-coffee-is-going-out-of-your-way.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance If you defer to economists on deflation: They were trained in a system funded by printed money. Of course they'll call falling prices dangerous. Progress makes things cheaper. That's the goal, not a crisis. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-006/clips/x-clip-05-why-the-experts-say-deflation-is-scary-when-cheaper-stuff-so.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance What does a tax audit actually look like? It's emails and PDFs. It's Excel sheets and lawyers. It's BORING, frankly. The fear in your head is bigger than the thing on the page. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-065/clips/x-clip-16-what-a-tax-audit-actually-looks-like-spoiler-its-just-boring.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Bhutan has more hydro power than its people use. They've been quietly mining Bitcoin with it... 40% of their GDP now comes from that. The proceeds fund public servants and a new city. Stranded energy is money waiting to be minted. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-005/clips/x-clip-05-bhutan-is-bitcoin-mining-40-of-its-gdp-and-building-a-city-w.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Every song came from another song. Every invention: a remix of what came before. We wrote laws pretending ideas start from NOTHING. AI just proved they never did. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-064/clips/x-clip-11-everything-is-a-remix-creativity-was-never-original-in-the-f.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Every pitch sounds the same. None of this is your fault: vote for me, or buy this, and the pain goes away. Both cures run on the same printed money that made you sick. A snake eating its own tail. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-065/clips/x-clip-11-the-palatable-story-that-keeps-you-sedated.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Why does every good thing online turn into a walled garden? Fiat money needs debt serviced. It finds any real human thing and converts it: the open web becomes a search monopoly. The pattern isn't malice, it's math. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-059/clips/x-clip-15-fiat-takes-any-good-thing-and-makes-it-an-extraction-vehicle.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Remember Sora 2? For a few weeks anyone could generate Disney, Marvel, Sam Altman, Martin Luther King - from a prompt. Then OpenAI shut it down and we all moved on. But we saw it. The idea that a company owns a likeness is already over. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-064/clips/x-clip-03-sora-2-was-the-moment-ip-quietly-died-in-front-of-everyone.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The tax on spending bitcoin is small. The fear of it is huge. That gap is psychological. And the fear is the real thing keeping you in the old system. Name it and it loses its grip. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-065/clips/x-clip-02-the-fear-on-your-bitcoin-coffee-is-the-systems-best-defense.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance All we see are young guys flashing Lambos. They're not the villain - they're the diagnosis. When dollars are infinite, grabbing more before someone else does is the only game. Fix the money and the aesthetic dies on its own. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-059/clips/x-clip-21-young-guys-with-lambos-young-ladies-with-g-wagons.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The World Cup used to sell soccer. Now it sells FanDuel bets and Kalshi prediction markets. This isn't respected brands teaming up to create value - they're combining their extraction capabilities. That's what late fiat partnerships look like. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-064/clips/x-clip-16-when-fifa-partners-with-a-gambling-app-theyre-extracting-tog.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Boomers want more money printing to lift their assets. Young people need those same assets to fall. Neither side is wrong. The MONEY is what puts them on opposite sides. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-010/clips/x-clip-11-boomers-want-money-printing-young-people-want-asset-prices-t.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance The Soviet shopkeeper still puts the slogan in the window. Everyone walking past KNOWS something is wrong... You show up, pay the mortgage, price your life in fiat. That gap has a name. It's what comes before everything changes. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-059/clips/x-clip-07-the-soviet-shopkeeper-still-puts-the-slogan-in-the-window.mp4 npub17f3jd9s63fw0rvdr0qcsze5gffc29qrymr3avejug3gd8e554rkqyc45t4 ageofabundance Anthropic says Chinese labs are copying its model. This from a company that trained on the world's copyrighted work. You don't build on everyone's IP. Then cry when someone copies yours. It's a mirror. https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-064/clips/x-clip-20-anthropic-cries-about-being-copied-after-building-itself-on.mp4