I’d like to hear more about places to use Bitcoin as money. Especially any online services you use or are aware of.
I know there are VPNs, Email services and AI aggregators who accept sats.
Any more?
I’ve always thought using sats to support Open Source projects and developers should be an easy win.
Thanks
119: Debt Always Wins
By Chris Fisher
Aired Aug 19, 2026 · 1h 1m · Last boosted 24d ago
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Washington reaches for Hamiltonian economics, the bond market pushes back, and Bitcoin rips for exactly the reasons Bitcoiners warned about. Episode Links 🎉 Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 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 ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes BIP-110 Post Mortem Luke Dashjr Proposes BLAKE2b Bitcoin H...
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Part 2: A listener shared this website, which has some excellent explainers and guides on wallets, entropy, keys, seeds and more. Awesome resource, all tools are free to use under the MIT license. https://selfcustodylabs.com/
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My question last week was more about generating the seed phrase and checksum in an offline way. I rolled the dice so can get the entropy offline, but wonder how to generate and verify the actual seed words and checksum. It seems like that part is harder to do in a truely offline way. Do you have any tips on that? Thanks.
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In regards to entropy and offline generation, I think people are missing the point. You want more entropy data points and to get such things, most operating systems get that from network, disk, memory, all kinds of different things that are changing. If you have a tails system that's completely air-gapped, you're not going to have all the network data points that you can pull from to add to the entropy pool. To get the most randomness, you want a very high entropy pool and the Linux entropy pool is taking all sorts of different inputs, so the more inputs you can add, the higher your entropy, the better your random number generator is. So when I generated more dice rolls, I was using my main online system with browser open as much entropy as you can possibly get based off of network activity, and all that. Yes, sure, if somebody pwned that computer already, they could see the numbers that were generated, but that still is much higher entropy than if you have an offline system that you just booted up and you're already generating numbers off of.
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Community Mining pool update. The upstream project P2PoolV2 is still working on mining share payouts. The software is not yet a minimum product. At the same time, I have been working in a NixOS flake to run the project as a service module.
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From DOGE to Bessent breaking out the checkbook and buying his own supply. I’ll explain why Treasury is buying back its own bonds, and why Bitcoin is ripping on the news. Plus some Bitcoin Core32 news, wallet security updates, and more. Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/mINbvSG83CfjIsCCRoAE YouTube: https://youtu.be/eF5VA-ogQMo
