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94: Cope, Narratives, and Dark Pools

By Chris Fisher

Aired Feb 25, 2026 · 1h 21m · Last boosted Mar 11, 2026

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Bitcoiners find evidence of market manipulation, and Wall Street calls it liquidity. This week: dark pools, Jane Street, AI capital rotation, and why two things can be true at the same time. 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 Boost Question Is AI impacting YOUR job right now in any way? 🧠 Ja...

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Everyone who has boosted 94: Cope, Narratives, and Dark Pools on Nostr, ranked by sats sent, all time.

  1. bobbypin 100k sats
  2. JCube 55k sats
  3. Dogbath 22k sats
  4. adevries17 19k sats
  5. KT 12k sats
  1. Brew Gator 11k sats
  2. Kiwi Bitcoin Guide 9.1k sats
  3. alin h 5k sats
  4. nakamoto6102 5k sats
  5. Clarkian 5k sats
  6. Boba 4.4k sats
  7. aceackerman 2.2k sats
  8. Geek 2k sats
  9. Chris Fisher 2k sats
  10. Jiggy 1.1k sats
  11. BBuell 1k sats
  12. william_the_french 1k sats
  13. Akuchi Rao 500 sats
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adevries17Mar 24, 2026
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Another question: as a member who also boosts, do you prefer having income from memberful or as boosts? Say for example I wanted to increase my financial contribution to JB. Is the membership or boosts more effective/easier for you guys to take in?
adevries17Mar 24, 2026
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Show production question for ya: What part of Jb's operations takes the most of your time? What takes the most energy? What is the highest cost? As a member, I want to help offset that some, especially if it is something that I could either help support with time or by helping automate or maintaining some of the infrastructure, etc
JCubeMar 21, 2026
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You guys are making me want a Tesla… Also, I’m thinking of buying a Framework Desktop with the Ryzen AI Max 300 and the 128GB of Shared memory to use as a local AI server. What’s your take on that?
william_the_frenchMar 20, 2026
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william_the_frenchMar 20, 2026
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Always boost Longly :-) didn’t even wait for the first bar
adevries17Mar 20, 2026
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Fidgets are a big part of my life, mostly because when you have a 3d printer, you can make your own. I've made probably around 20 infinity cubes for people and then 2 for myself, 1 for work and 1 for home. Look up fidget on printables.com or thingiverse
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Apr 6, 2026
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JCubeApr 13, 2026
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I really enjoyed this episode and would love even more in-depth coverage like it. I enjoy all of your AI coverage. I know it can’t be all AI, all the time; nor should it be… you guys do an excellent job. Keep it up.
Kiwi Bitcoin GuideApr 11, 2026
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I enjoy the AI subject matter and the way you cover it. I’m fairly new to the Linux and FOSS world and now I have to weave AI into it all, so I appreciate the way you bring it into the Linux ecosystem, give examples of practical use cases and also potential hooks to be aware of. AI is here to stay and everyone needs to understand how to use it, so leep the content coming, that’s my vote.
adevries17Apr 10, 2026
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I think you guys are balancing AI and non-AI topics very well. I can definitely tell there is a lot of work put in each week to keep topics fresh and highlight the lesser hyped things. Keep it up
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Sep 10, 2025
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bobbypinSep 23, 2025
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Live video? In my Fountain app? We're living in the future guys!
adevries17Sep 20, 2025
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re: fusion power I'm not an expert, just someone who has been interested in nuclear physics and done some research, so if there's anyone out there in the audience who knows more, please correct me We're actually getting there. ITER is planned to be operational as the first power grid scale fusion power plant in France by 2037, japan has had a working fusion generating station since 2023 called JT-60. So for Helion to be making a much smaller scale fusion generator compared those those projects, I believe it. Smaller and more efficient stations might be the way to go for the future. Would make the power grid more resilient since if there are many smaller systems adding power to the grid, the chance of a chain blackout is less. Also fusion has minimal waste compared to fission. The fuel is deuterium which is Hydrogen with 1 proton and 1 neutron smashed into Tritium which is Hydrogen with 1 proton and 2 neutrons. The most waste producing part is creating the tritium since that involves lithium mining
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Kiwi Bitcoin GuideSep 28, 2025
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Time traveller boost for Texas. I’m randomnly working through the back catalogue to learn things as they come up in my setup. Just learnt the difference between Snap and Flatpaks in eps 532, 501 and 499. It’s evergreen content, thanks for the work you put into creating these and the passion in the delivery.
adevries17Sep 25, 2025
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Regarding multikernels Maybe you have a specifically optimized for gaming kernel run on a few cores so that all the gaming tasks have better performance. Wait, if there's a different kernel running on each core does that mean that things like kernel anticheat won't be able to see other tasks running elsewhere? So do you negate the privacy implications of kernel level anti cheats that way? Hmmmm
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Aug 12, 2026
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adevries17Aug 18, 2026
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HAPPY LAUNCH SUNDAY ON A TUESDAY
adevries17Aug 13, 2026
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Couldn't make it yesterday since the storms in my area knocked out the regions electricity. Thankfully I have a portable generator to keep water and fridge running. Maybe it's time to invest in a battery system with an inverter and a bigger generator to keep more of the home running
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May 27, 2026
The Launch 🚀Holy IPO
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adevries17Jun 2, 2026
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Split to angerz is failing on fountain
adevries17Jun 2, 2026
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Upper-ed expectations!
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adevries17Aug 4, 2026
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Reverse Linux process is restoring a backup. Go in depth about backups
adevries17Aug 4, 2026
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The backwards show idea sounds so fun. All you gotta do is read everything backwards then have Drew reverse the track :P
adevries17Aug 4, 2026
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Thank you for covering all the kernel stuff. I know it's a lot of work, but I love hearing it. That AMD regression in 7.2 would affect me since that's what my desktop runs, so I'll keep an ear open for the fix
adevries17Aug 4, 2026
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I choose to run the Zen kernel on my stuff. Performance babyyyyyy
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Sep 20, 2024
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ChrisLASSep 21, 2024
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Imho we have let the crypto skeptics get inside our heads. I think as a community we should lean into the fact that boost are powered by bitcoin. As a small business, I’m grateful to have support in a hard asset. It’s helped me fight inflation and keep my head above water. Bitcoin is an intelligence test, and I don’t need everyone in the world listening. I want a great audience, not the biggest audience possible. These are things we should lean into as a podcasting community trying to offer an alternative to mainstream crap. Go Podcasting!
ChrisLASSep 21, 2024
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Just wanted to say I really appreciate the work you guys do behind the scenes for the us Podcasters out here! Also +1 to the idea of putting an on-chain Address in the funding tag. I’ve definitely heard from a few listeners that would support via onchain, because that’s where they already have their stats.
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adevries17Mar 5, 2025
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If family computer counts, the first computer I remember using and learning was a dell dimension 5000. Keep in mind I'm only only 10ish years older than your oldest... Sorry to make you feel old lol The first computer that was actually mine was a custom built machine centered around an A10-7890K because I was too poor for a dedicated video card at the time. This was during high school so what money I did get from the job I had was saved up and I later bought a 1050ti.
adevries17Mar 5, 2025
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For the dumb time machine thought experiment I would back to the era of early steam locomotives so 1880s to early 1920s. I would love to be on a train crew and armed with my current knowledge of how to run one already, I probably wouldn't need to learn too much in terms of being an engineer or even a fireman. Plus it was the old west which is one of my favorite historical eras. Yeehaw pardners
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Mar 5, 2025
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adevries17Mar 6, 2025
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Regarding that CTO that got hired in the first story. Sounds like someone had a bunch of Microsoft stock and wanted to pump the value up
adevries17Mar 6, 2025
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The intro song for bootleg sums up my work life pretty good
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Oct 19, 2025
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adevries17Oct 25, 2025
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Name for us listeners: Jupiteers. We are pioneers in the FOSS space
Kiwi Bitcoin GuideOct 24, 2025
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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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Mar 9, 2025
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adevries17Mar 12, 2025
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Awesome deep dive. Keep those coming I really like them
ChrisLASMar 9, 2025
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We went deep on this one. Let me know if we over did it?
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adevries17Mar 21, 2025
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The split to drew failed in my last boost
adevries17Mar 21, 2025
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Congratulations Alex for figuring out why in the business datacenter we have a few separate SANs, compute hosts and NAS boxes instead of one. All because the department of redundancy department exists. In my homelab, I have found that added complexity can make more headaches down the road when one box gets updated and that breaks a thing or you have to shut everything down because your NAS with all the data needs an update or whatever the case may be
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adevries17Jan 6, 2026
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I have a lot of similar ability for monitoring with the Unifi dream machine, but I might still set this up... Good find Mr Fisher!
ChrisLASJan 5, 2026
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Sharing this because keeping an eye on what’s going on, on your network is easy, and just good opsec.
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May 13, 2026
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adevries17May 18, 2026
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So Chris, you're in a farm with a barn and a wide open area right? So when are you going to get a ham license? That kind of terrain is perfect to set up a dipole antenna... Well, maybe I'll just have to come out and make it happen. At this point you are 2 years overdue. I even waited a whole year after it was originally mentioned and STILL got both a technician and general license before you guys. Anyway, as we say in ham radio, 73
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Feb 9, 2026
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bobbypinMar 1, 2026
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I'm just about ready to finally dive into Nix. My question for you Nix nerds is should I start with a general use PC and hypr-vibe, an appliance level media server, or the coveted Nix Bitcoin node?
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Could you give us some beginners tips for trying OpenClaw. In a FOSS way, what’s a safe way to play with this without losing the farm. I was thinking of spinning it up on an old Raspberry Pi 4 I’m not using. How do you think that would work? I’d like to play around with this but aren’t quite ready to unleash it on my main computers. Thanks.
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Aug 19, 2026
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adevries17Aug 21, 2026
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I don't like to acknowledge my birthday in general. I'd rather it not exist sometimes, but I will celebrate everyone else's birthday with great enthusiasm
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KTMar 13, 2026
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Had to make it over to Fountain for a long overdue boost… The Neo-cons, like the libtards, have never actually been in charge… They are both too retarded for global domination. They are just masters at schlong gobbling the centuries old occult bloodlines that actually rule over us. However, they did help summon Baal with the public execution of Charlie Kirk inside a pentagon, so ushering in the return of Jesus makes sense now for some final boss showdown action. Can I place a ploymarket bet on that?! Wow, separate shout outs from Richard AND Rod, thanks Gentlemen! I’ll add a deserving shout out to all the Mom’s of the pioneers! P.S. I traded in 2 decades of 40 HPW on my first generation iPod for 40 HPW of bitcoin podcasts. It was such a natural progression. Still love TooL though, even if Maynard turned into a woke retard.
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KTOct 4, 2025
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Lynn Alden discussing the intricacies of cleaning a vagina versus a penis on Nostr definitely elevated her hotness level in my book. Being endowed with a pair of tits myself, I feel qualified to say that she helps validate other tits in bitcoin and anyone threatened by hot tits should automatically fail the purity test. Also, as the purveyor of an Elvis themed establishment, this episodes’ boost reading section gave me extra good vibes!
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To everyone out there having a hard time right now, hang in there. Your families need you.
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ClarkianJul 4, 2026
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Thanks for all your work, guys. I don't always agree with you but appreciate you regardless. I'm trying to add to the free, private, decentralized apps space based on p2p protocols and design using the Pear stack. So far I have a family/group calendar, family/location sharing and screen time apps. Please check out what I've got so far at https://peerloomllc.com or check out @npub16u9hy2m8w… on NOSTR.
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adevries17Apr 9, 2026
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Thank you for this episode!!!
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bobbypinNov 18, 2025
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I will resort to bribing if I must. More Bitcoin fiction into my ears!
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bobbypinOct 29, 2025
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It's been awhile since I've checked in with the lunch. Hope y'all are doing great and cooking up some delicious recipes! I do miss Brunch with Brent. Sad he's going through a bit of a villain arc now.
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Kiwi Bitcoin GuideSep 17, 2025
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have a great time at Linux Fest. Do you have any suggestions or old episodes to help new Linux users decide on distros as a daily driver? I’m not a total Linux newbie, have been running a couple of Ubuntu servers and Linux Mint on a laptop for over a year now, but want to set up a Linux desktop as a daily driver now. I’m looking at Pop OS for now, any suggestions appreciated. Thanks from New Zealand!
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ChrisLASJun 21, 2025
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So excited about LIT support in Castamatic, great work!
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ChrisLASNov 22, 2024
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Happy to help test / transition things at Jupiter Broadcasting as app’s transition off the Alby API. After listening today, my biggest concern would be losing the info in the TLV record. And how to handle the transition in our value tags.
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ChrisLASSep 1, 2024
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Killer value to the community this week in taking time to talk patiently with Rob at Libsyn. Good work! Really been enjoying the board meetings recently. Happy belated birthday Podfather 🍻
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Episode 190: Chattelle
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Sending a little love from the new Fountain update! 🫡
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Episode Boosts

Every boost sent to this episode, as published to Nostr, newest first.

  • 100,000 via Fountain
    Welcome back from SCALE! I'm curious if you saw any Bitcoin usage while you were there. I started listening to you because of Linux and then you introduced me to Bitcoin. The reason why I'm so passionate about Bitcoin now are a lot of the same reasons I've been passionate about Linux since 2014 so it seems like it would be a great fit.
  • 1,024 via Fountain
    Huge update on JB mining pool coming soon. Chris, please contact me to discuss some details
  • 12,345 via Fountain
    I own a tavern & pizzaria… AI Isn’t replacing me OR any of my staff. In fact, I could get behind the arguement that It increases future job potential. I use it daily to help fine-tune social media posts, brainstorm pizza and cocktail features, and even write recipes… All of which add to my productivity, reach, and growth.
  • 4,567 via Fountain
    A question about nodes and one for Wes. What is Nix Bitcoin? I hear you talk about Nix on LUP, and as I understand it Nix is a distro, but maybe it’s not? And how does Nix Bitcoin fit in? Is it a node implementation? Or not? Help me out with this one please. For Wes: What would it take for more Open Source believers to get into Bitcoin more? I’d love to hear his thoughts on this, hopefully you have some time on the road for some Bitcoin chat. Safe travels.
  • 1,111 via Fountain
    Chris always has a way of keeping things light and refreshing while still providing deep value. Thank you sir
  • 500 via Fountain
    As an educator AI is a tool to first draft output like report card comments, email responses, lessons plans, and unit planning. Essentially it has increased my productivity, reducing my hours, allowing me to spend more time on human interactions with my students and colleagues. Same result as when I started using online testing tools and translation software (second language teacher) as they became more effective over the last 2 decades.
  • 500 via Fountain
    As a teacher AI is a tool to draft my lesson plans, report card comments, and emails. I have ideas around using it for assessment that I have not tested yet. So my hours of work have been reduced, the quality of my Productions has increased, and my pay has remained unchanged.
  • 4,567 via Fountain
    Has AI affected my job? Yes, in a positive way. I am self employed and take care of clients’ website and e-commerce infrastructure. AI allows me to do way more than before. An example is testing, I use AI to write scripts to automate testing, saves me hours each time. AI helps me troubleshoot issues on tools I have very little experience with. And this is just the beginning, I haven’t even gone deep into the Agent world yet. AI is going to disrupt and create opportunities at the same time. It’s up to all of us to make sure we’re in the right place to benefit.
  • 2,222 via Fountain
    Great show as usual- thanks for your insight on BIP 110- it's interesting to watch controversial topics get evaluated by BTC adopters- overall I think it is a show of strength for the Network
  • 55,000 via Fountain
    AI has augmented the way I work, but I haven’t seen it replace or even threaten my job. The real drawback is that mgmt has started taking AI responses as gospel. Enjoy PlanetNIX!!
  • 2,000 via Fountain
    ... but it's going to impact my personal future, as my skills become less valuable. Oh, well, at least society overall would benefit from these technological advancements. :)
  • 3,000 via Fountain
    Is AI impacting my job (as a database engineer for huge enterprise software)? Yes, it makes me skowly but surely more productive (realistically, maybe 5% so far).
  • 2,000 via Fountain
    This is an overly terse follow-up from my previous cut off boost. Whichever way BIP110 is eventually resolved, the risk of a minority forcing their opinion on Bitcoin doesn’t change. Consider: that risk exists today. It’s what BIP110 is trying to exploit. The opposition to BIP110 is to not change anything. If nothing changes then that risk still has to exist. Meanwhile I continue to run BIP110 because I think it does mitigate some risks to Bitcoin (although not that one). We can quibble about how big those risks are. I said earlier that this is a function of Nakamoto consensus. It’s actually a function of complex systems. Taleb wrote about this in his book Skin in the Game. Here's the relevant chapter discussing it: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dic…
  • 500 via Fountain
    I work in the MTB industry and am unaffected, like you using ai tools can be a big help as we’re a small team wearing many hats and ai certainly has streamlined business, legal and HR research. I do have a close friend in the Saas industry and he’s had to completely pivot creating a new service within ai or otherwise be completely replaced being a coder, hacker, ect. Just read the ai2027 piece you spoke about and agree that the level of uncertainty is creating a lot of fear. I’m personally largely a spectator, my background is largely anolog in the physical space, preferably in nature with aww inspire views, however I do my best to stay informed and it is fun to be able to hold a conversation with folks like you and my friend since nobody else seems to even have an idea of what is currently happening outside what’s on mainstream media. Wanted to boost more, trying to figure out how as I’ve done it before, see, just team try hard over here. Keep up the amazing content across all your shows!
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  • 5,000 via Fountain
    For the love of all that is holy, please read the actual BIP. Lightning would not be affected. So much of the outcry I've heard against the BIP is either not true or has nothing to do with the technicals (I.e. philosophical/ideological) Start with www.bip110.org for the high level FAQ. It took me 10 seconds to look this up. I could be wrong on this, but I haven't seen any technical debates happening (i.e. "the BIP says it won't affect lightning channels becaue of X but actually it will because of Y...")
  • 22,222 via Fountain
    Great show! I'm a dog groomer in south GA so I don't expect AI to take my job anytime soon. I'd love to hear more about running a node. Thanks for the show!
  • 11,111 via Fountain
    I’m a software engineer at IBM, and there’s been a recent push for us to start using what is essentially an internal clone of Claude Code as a “coding buddy.” My team has mainly been using it heavily to help speed up our code review process, which has been our biggest bottleneck. That said, everything is still human-gated. As with most new tools, the team is split. About half are adamantly against using it, while the other half probably lean on it a bit too much. I’ve often said that AI won’t take your job, someone who uses AI better than you will.
  • 2,222 via Fountain
    I work in manufacturing. Our company has softly mandated that all supervisors and leaders must use AI daily. I see this as more of a crowdsourcing effort to yield Innovation. AI may dissolve some positions but it’ll be a minute before that actually happens and substantially affect the markets. IMO.
  • 2,222 via Fountain
    I’ve been wondering how on earth these institutions have been buying tens of thousands of actual BTC when only a finite amount can be mined a day. It can’t all be OTC from exchanges. I imagined it’d have to be backroom sweetheart deals you never hear about. Go figure. All the more reason to keep stacking sats and self custy. When the rule makers can change the rules THEY follow on a whim, it negates the incentive to participate.
  • 2,048 via Fountain
    Thanks for the boost question in the show notes, great addition to the notes
  • 16,384 via Fountain
    I am an IT sysadmin that also enjoys coding. LLMs have changed by job a little bit in that I don't have to spend as much time sorting through search results to find solutions to my problems. I'm able to find things sooner and have answers that are more catered to the problem that I am having. For coding, I enjoy doing it and I don't have a pressure to release anything faster than normal so agentic coding hasn't really been a huge part of it yet. If there was a pressure to ship mostly functional programs sooner, I might be using it more but at the moment it is just a fabulous search tool
  • 5,000 via Fountain
    I work in a law office. AI is used for research and drafting documents. It hasn’t eliminated any jobs, but it has made us more productive. If anything, we’re actually looking to hire. If I can make a recommendation to folks, check out trymaple.ai - it offers end to end encryption so the confidential client information remains private and isn’t used to train AI models. Thanks for the value.
  • 1,999 via Fountain
    Hey a new TWiB! Everyone’s crying about price suppression, so I had to give my take. What’s real, and what’s just cope. And all the other big news of the week. Enjoy! 🍻