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1843 - "Token Muncher"
By Adam Curry & John C. Dvorak
Aired Feb 15, 2026 · 2h 54m · Last boosted Feb 20, 2026
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"Token Muncher" Executive Producers: Commodore Paul Vreugdenhil Jeff Woodward Dan Bilthouse Sir Foster of the Deep Woods Electrons Associate Executive Producers: Eli the coffee guy La Jolla Salt Corporation Aaltje de Boer Linda Lu, Duchess of Jobs, writer of winning résumés Become a member of the 1844 Club, support the show here Boost us with with Podcasting 2.0 Certified apps: Podverse - Podfriend - Breez - Sphinx - Podstation - Curiocaster - Fountain Knights & Dames<...
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Trading a CBDC for a PPDC means that your transactions can be censored by that company without the protection of the Constitution, they can really do whatever they want and the government can just say "it wasn't us". This just eases everyone into a more centralized system slowly. It's still a garbage solution and doubles as a way for the government to print more, which is why all the politicians and financial crowd like it. I estimate that physical cash is gone within 10 years.
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Local BitcoinersCypherpunks Write Code: AI, Meetups & the Meshtadel | Ep. 004
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🎯 help you bring ideas into reality
That's one thing I've struggled with, I've got lots of good ideas but I need assistance and assistants 🤭 to help me move forward to completion
What I would like to see more Nostr apps doing is hiding the fact that they are Nostr apps. Just obscure it away so normal people think it's a normal app, and not a power app. And let the features and usability make them a fan without them realizing it
Custom scripts for everybody! 🥳🥳
Ya there's definitely nothing wrong with waiting. 6 to 12 months from now it will be much more capable, and in order of magnitude easier to set up
I've been setting up mine to automatically log conversations. I've been feeding it all of my notes and business ideas. Everything gets automatically cataloged into obsidian. That obsidian vault is included in the QMD database for vector memory search. My agents have excellent short and long-term memory with minimal token usage.
To set it up right, you really need to spend quite a while setting it up - or buy the files from somewhere. I've been setting up going on 3 weeks.
It has already made me more productive. Soon my calendar will be synchronized. Client leads with automatically be filtered and surfaced front and center to me.
The more you use something like this, the more you will start to understand how you can compound little abilities on top of each other. One cron job can trigger a cascade of events and work.
I have used simplistic bots for many years. I used to have one that would pay my child support for me. That ran with no issues for about 5 years before they updated the site and broke my bot.
I used to use another one for automatically populating descriptions and titles for an online store. At that time, I was replacing an employee with a simple bot. These things have been providing real value for people, for longer than people assume. Again it all comes down to how you use it and what you're doing with it.
6 to 12 months from now the landscape will be much different. Right now it's very hard to set up correctly and easy to burn money if you don't know what you're doing. But soon a lot of these things will be ironed out and much more normal people will be able to get higher value from it.
On top of that, every time the models get better or cheaper, that means you can also upgrade your system to be smarter or cheaper.
I don't know who's spending $1,000 but you doing it wrong. I spent $15 in the past 3 weeks with more usage than I've ever had. It all depends on the model.
But If they are also using it to do scraping and analyzing, it's not exactly simple work. And if you compare that to a human being doing the same work - that $1,000 is probably much cheaper than a human spending the time manually scraping and analyzing.
I think I saw a graph recently saying that Claude opus outputs - in one prompt - between 5 and 15 hours of human work. Obviously that's not on every prompt, but that's pretty substantial even if it's expensive at a 30 cent API call, then maybe it's an extremely good deal.
It's all very relative to what you're using it for and what your accomplishing in the end. Some of us have been playing with AI models for years already so we already know how to prompt better and we get better results. You've got to keep playing with different models - talk to them in different ways - and be explicit, try to remove ambiguity.
And if you're having problems writing prompts - ask one AI to write a prompt for you to give to the other.. and that will often increase your chance of a one shot successful prompt
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Closed Network Privacy PodcastEpisode 38 - Protocols not Platforms - NOSTR, BTC, SimpleX
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Ftr btcpayserver has had payjoin for years - anyone with a btcpayserver should turn it on!
I got a bunch of the original Jades for $20/ea
New ones look good, old ones sucked
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Real rich listening to NVK complain about using the state when he's the fagot who attacks people in the community with bullshit trademark infringements.
That's why I bought a BTClock yesterday. Everybody should buy a BTClock. Fuck NVK in his slobbery stuttering mouth
Pro trip, when using NFC to broadcast your transactions, open up Tor browser first, then broadcast and it will use Tor browser to broadcast your transaction over Tor
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Need part 2, great conversation 🧨
There are still good women out there... Just snagged one...
Alas I did not get a girlfriend this cycle... Moved her straight to wifey
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Congrats! 🎉🔥🧡
Cool to hear you're expanding on Wavlake and Nostr 🔥
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Love this series, keep up the great work!🚀🧨
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The North Sea nexus. Fuck the Brits, butt hurt bastards
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Great rip. Love when government spending waste being removed, but bigger battles are coming. Lightning was designed to work with shipcoins from the beginning, so not surprising to see Tether. Has anyone seen a decent breakdown of how it works?
P.S. Don't accept any pagers.
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Video would be a nice option but not necessary in my opinion
No need for video. I feel the need for video mostly comes from the want/need to put something on YouTube. Audio is more useful and when you listen and you pick up more details in how things are said.
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I will make a correction - bitchat was mentioned. I overheard somebody asking somebody else if they want to try it. It sounded like a group of two or three people were going to try it at Lake Satoshi
Rev.Hodl da man, we need more people like him 🧨🧨🧨
Karl is the real Rev 😏
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These charts should really be used as the chapter art on podcasting 2.0 apps. ❤️🔥
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Looking forward to John being on! I love the crossover of people going on shows with other people that I like ❤️🔥🧨
Well shit, I should have checked the show out sooner
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Include links to things guests reference please
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I thought that sounded like AI. Not bad though!
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Ok I didn't realize the front end of OwnTracks will work in conjunction. That is pretty cool 🧨
Dawarich is brand new and for iOS only?
Solid pass.
Use OwnTracks for self-hosted location tracking.
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You self-censor yourself on the word ass? That's extremely gay
Leave your routers alone. People need those proxies. 😉
EU can suck a dick and they will HFSP
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Sorry for my hieroglyphics 😆
It's my way of being lazy, and saying "hello"
🧨 Isn't firecracker...
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Phoenix was always still usable in the USA, using the APK, no VPN needed
It was only removed from the Google app store in the United states. It was still available in Aurora, Github, Obtainium
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