Love this insight about the "orange pill."
There is a choice. You take the green pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe what you want to believe. You take the orange pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Stablecoins, the green pill, represent a corporate/government partership designed to monetize the debt and pay for national socialism, which includes removing International people.
The orange pill allows you to
participate in a global economy, buy stuff and earn sats by providing valuable goods and services regardless of your national origin, credentials, or even your identity. Maybe you don't want to live in the David Friedman-esque world of Anarcho Capatalism or maybe you don't want to remove all government employees. Fine, but you can't opt out of it with the green pill.
TPB 113 - Scientist Reveals: Bitcoin is Kinda Cringe?
By Bitcoin is for Everyone
Aired Aug 22, 2025 · 1h 2m · Last boosted Aug 22, 2025
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Margot and Patrick return after a hiatus, discussing their absence and the evolution of the podcast discussing these topics:Bitcoin's Cultural Shift - A deep dive into the changing narrative of Bitcoin, from a peer-to-peer cash system to a store of value for the wealthy. Stablecoin Legislation - An exploration of the recent stablecoin bill, its implications for private money, and the potential risks of corporate-controlled currencies. Libertarianism vs. Cooperation - A discussion on the balance between individual freedom and societal cooperation, and the potential pitfalls of extreme libertarian views. The Progressive Bitcoiner, Inc. is the 501c3...
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5k Bitcoin Meetup at Good Day Brewing in Perris, California on April 24th, 2026. Buy a beer, burger, or soda with bitcoin over the lightning network. Meet plebs. Join the mission.
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1k Awesome episode!
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1k @npub1aeh2zw4el… Encrypting the Spark wallet with an nsec was a great idea. What do you think about backing up the nsec using NIP-06? Am I the only freak that likes this NIP?
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1k I used Shakespeare to vibe code my new meetup website. It has NIIP-52 calendar events, links, and a NIP-23 blog. I am considering adding a NIP-15 merch store/support page, but haven't figured out all the details yet. I'll share it next week under a new npub.
I love the Bitcoin meetup guide on GitHub. It's giving me a lot of Great ideas.
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1k This was fucking great guys. I started using the espy.you website to find hexadecimal color codes for my next vibe code project. Great tool. 🔥
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1k I thought clawstr was a shitcoin before I saw Derek talk about it on nostr. For the record, I am 99.99999999% sure Marti has nothing to do with it. The only reason I am not 100% sure is because I can't prove a negative. :)
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1k I make greeting cards for my kids that pay them Bitcoin with lightning and Cashu. It gives a visual, tangible representation of electronic cash. That's why I think it's a useful tool for teaching smaller children how to earn, spend, and save sats.
Because you can't tell a five year old to read the White Paper. "Put away The Cat In The Hat Tommy! It's time to have fun staying rich with BIP39!" So I think Cashu is a great first step.
"Thank you you for putting away you're toys Tommy. Here is a piece of paper redeemable for 1,000 sats."
Show , don't tell.
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1k @egge
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1k Building on the base layer with SHA1 hash collisions are the most galaxy brain thing since Adam Back's hashcash. Why haven't I heard more about this?🤯
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1k Yo Chris! You can host many of the Start9 services over the clear net by:
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You can find this info in the manifest.yaml file at
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991 Keep up the good work.
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888 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Marc26z/zapthisblog/refs/…
You can send sats to the cash app from the fountain app by using the artust's lightning wallet.
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888 Great episode. Fedimint is getting interesting.
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520 Set up a test account with Iris. The automatic npub.cash address you mentioned is amazing.
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500 This part about the game theory was super fucking ridiculous. It looks like he randomly picked some game theory thought experiments on Wikipedia to argue Bitcoiners pretend to care about game theory to pretend their money is "scientific" rather than "ideological."
Satoshi describes the 51% attack using the Gambler's Ruin problem, not the Prisoners Dilemma. I read that yesterday and was like..What the hell is this guy even talking about? 🦆
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500 Great episode. I especially like the idea of calculating the risk of working a 9-5 through a Bayes's Theorem lens.
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500 Why do politicians focus on "possible terrorist attacks", but they don't mention the gangs from Chile flying to the US to rob NFL players and that dude from the Matrix?
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500 What do you think about theEFF's dice list to create secure passwords?
Bitwarden/Vaultwarden can create these with a click of a button too.
https://www.eff.org/dice
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210 r < g
Is a 180° turn from Tomas Pickety's famous mathmatical expression in Captial On The 21st Century. Pickety argued that wealth inequality was created because
r > g
Before you start calling me a Commie, I did not say I am a Pickety super fan. I am into Austrian economics, but I studied many different schools before I finally found Hazlit.
I never read Capital in the 21st Century, but I was an avid econtalk listener.
If we accept the current financial regime does not view the world through an Auatrian lens, we can see the math behind what I believe is another 4th Turning.
Bessent announced he wants to turn r>g around. He literally means flipping r>g to r<g.👀
https://www.econtalk.org/thomas-piketty-on-inequality-and-c…
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If I'm in agreement with Jamie Dimon, the US fiscal outlook must be worse than I thought.
I think he's starting to get it. He'll pump stableshitcoins first, for sure, but I think he's begining to understand the problem.
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210 You should have Saif on the pod to talk about Milei.
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210 Excellent argument for privacy. "Do you want people recording you go into a sex shop?"
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210 I didn't realize this was a podcast too. I'll need to catch up on the other episodes, but the fact that you're talking about modulo math with Rob Hamilton is epic. 😃
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