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67: The Treasury Vacuum

By Chris Fisher

Aired Aug 6, 2025 · 1h 21m · Last boosted Aug 15, 2025

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Reserve tricks, revaluation games, and a brewing liquidity storm. While quietly, the groundwork for a national Bitcoin reserve is laid. Episode Links: 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform ⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling Show Notes: The Fed - Official Reserve Revaluations: The International Experience Luke Gromen on U.S. Collapse, AI Disruption & Bitcoin’s Rise - YouTube Treasur...

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  14. godsdeth (dr4kdr0u) 237 sats
  15. Wartime 133 sats
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My one regret of the conversation was that in the moment I forgot to mention @npub1jcympy69p… with @npub1luwkteu2e… and max one of my most inspirational podcasts that I listen to. That’s just the ADD retard in me. 🤣
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Gentleman this was a blast recording! The fucking intro song is EPIC!!!! I think I took a bit too many 🍄that day at work 🤣. Sorry for the abrupt ending because of my retard boss!
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Name for us listeners: Jupiteers. We are pioneers in the FOSS space
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Thanks for the explainer on the distros. More questions to follow! +1 for the deep dive on Alby hub.
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Thank your for the shout out my brother much appreciated!
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Great episode, despite the somber mood that has settled across the land. It’s hard not to be affected by it. Thanks for bringing us stories that the legacy media is intentionally suppressing, and for calling out their gross embellishments and glaring omissions. Have a great Friday
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“Hit in the face with a wet salmon” 🤣 🤣🤣
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  • 16,384 via Fountain
    Great episode, I'm a little behind. Keep them coming!!
  • 2,050 via Fountain
    Hey Chris! You probably don't remember me but I used to go by cardanerd. Thanks to you and Bitcoin dad i'm reformed and working on building an envelop style budgeting app built on lightning and nostr. Thank you for everything!
  • 9,001 via Fountain
    Hey Chris, I am one of those that _did_ come to bitcoin via the FIRE community. I literally read the entire Mr. Money Mustache blog. (RIP in peace google reader). I think you are right that they are largely our allies. They believe in frugality, the Trinity Study, and Safe Withdrawal Rates based on historic stock market performance. Obviously I think they'd do well to diversify into bitcoin directly, but the index funds will bring them along indirectly anyway.
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    Hi Chris, Alby is great, but to setup a node easily without hardware and for tinkering, I found Rizful. They also offer Vaults where you can customize your Lightning Address <something>@rizful.com. It's the guy behind The Megalith Node that created Rizful, a fun way to learn about LN and tinkle with it.
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    Thanks again for the solid signal. Wow, a lot of action in the comments this episode. I’ve tagged you in Nostr with some audio clips of the Tornado Cash and Samourai trials. The journals covering it are the Rage and Frank Corva from Bitcoin Magazine. Onwards.
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    AlbyHub is the greatest node implementation Also LND had a vulnerability that could've obliterated the entire network through DOSing them with gossip messages. This vulnerability had lingered for years. I say this cos LND is like 90% of the LN. That's why I shill AlbyHub and LDK Node.
  • 2,000 via Fountain
    I think you misunderstood the fire movement. They're not trying to get a 25x return. They're trying to reduce their spending so that having a nest egg that is 25x their annual spending is easier. And then live a lifestyle that allows them to withdraw 1/25th (4%) every year. The growth they need to sustain that is to merely match inflation. They don't need 25x to do that.
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    12 12 this is just a test to see if i can boost again. Had problems since the infra change.
  • 4,444 via Fountain
    The greater fool theory kills me. Someone decides to store value by hanging on to something with good monetary properties. Over time, he does better than someone holding onto something with worse monetary properties. Other people follow suit and the good money obtains a monetary premium and goes up in value. This doesn't require anybody to be fooled about the nature of the money. It would be foolish to not adopt the better money.
  • 5,000 via Fountain
    Thank you for putting together a fantastic show week after week.
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  • 4,321 via Fountain
    Also, "Bitcoin is already an index of human incentive" is the most insightful thing I've heard in a while. I'm shamelessly stealing that.
  • 4,321 via Fountain
    As a PNRI, not all of us are stuck in the fiat mindset. I personally am as all in on Bitcoin as I can be until I actually retire. It's my long term savings. It's my checking. My paycheck goes directly into Bitcoin. We are not beholden to our generational ideas. And it is each of our responsibility to question our assumptions. Which has fed my orange pill.
  • 4,321 via Fountain
    Well worth the time every Thursday. It’s how I know the weekend approaches. 🤙☕️ Thank you for a high quality pod.
  • 121 via Fountain
    Thank you sir
  • 22,222 via Fountain
    Hey Chris! Great show! Regarding the age vs gold standard stuff, I more or less agree with you, I just see it a little differently. Instead of time since 1971, I think of it as “time spent on a fiat system”: They blow up 100% of the time, so the longer one goes, the more messed up and prone to failure it is. Going off the gold standard allowed for more creative ways to keep the charade going. Also, consider the incentives of fiat. It basically incentivizes everyone to buy up all the resources as quickly as possible. The longer you hodl dollars, the less you get when you spend. Of course people are going to buy up and hoard all the scarce assets they can, it makes for better money than the money! We live in a clown world, I swear. 🤡 Keep the excellent Bitcoin content coming! I loved the bonus ep! I’d happily pay for bonus conent again. ❤️
  • 1,776 via Fountain
    Hey Chris, great episode. I think your rebuttal of JL’s criticisms of Bitcoin was right on point. Another thing to consider is that, even for someone born in 1971, it was still 1989 before that person left high school, 1992-1994 before they exited post-secondary, and perhaps another ten years after that before their income achieved a level that started generating any positive flow. Especially if student debt was part of the equation. By 2004 we were already only 4 years short of the GFC. The last group of people that made it ten years into their careers before the Nixon shock were born in 1937. Makes your head spin.
  • 121 via Fountain
    Thank you sir
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    Boost!
  • 1,999 via Fountain
    Fresh TWiB is out, sorry it’s a bit late. I spent some extra time debunking the “Greater Fool” argument against Bitcoin, and then there is just a ton of Macro to break down. It’s a packed episode!