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<p>The Best in Bitcoin made Audible. Guy Swann makes the knowledge of Bitcoin, the world's most secure, independent money, accessible to everyone. Exploring Bitcoin from an investment perspective, economic analysis, its philosophical foundations, & technological primitives. Reading and distilling thousands of hours of others' works on Bitcoin, Guy explains everything you need to know.</p>
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The Enshittification of Everything
<p>I bet you’ve noticed it too. Everything we buy just seems cheaper, flimsier, and worse than it used to be. Some call it the "enshittification" of everything. </p> <p>And almost everyone blames the exact same thing: corporate greed and th
Chat_180 - Invalid Checksum: How I Almost Lost My Bitcoin Stack with STACKTOTHEFUTURE
<p>"There's a lot of emphasis on the moment at how AI is making everything less secure, and that is a part of the story. Of course, any tool, any powerful tool has its advantages and disadvantages or has the thing bad guys can use it, good
Read_950 - The Internet Is Under Attack
<p>"This isn't one bad week. It's the start of something we all need to be prepared for.</p> <p>Just look at the numbers. Security firm CrowdStrike says the attacks it sees that likely involve AI agents more than doubled in August, then dou
Everything Is a Lie (Inflation Edition)
<p>I break down four of the biggest lies we’re told about inflation, from the idea that prices must always rise to the fantasy that GDP growth means we’re getting richer. I show how money printing, cheap debt, and fake economic metrics quie
Read_949 - The Singularity Stack
<p><strong><em>"The cost of intelligence keeps falling toward the cost of electricity, and everyone will share in what that intelligence can do.</em></strong></p> <p><strong><em>Bitcoin captures the gains directly, while in dollar terms the
Ledger Wallet Spy Implants (The Great Hackening Continues...)
<p>In this breakdown of the Ledger supply chain hack, I walk through how a tiny hardware implant turned legitimate hardware wallets into seed-stealing spy devices. I cover who’s actually at risk, why buying from resellers is a ticking time
Everything Should Always Get More Affordable
<p>I break down the biggest lie we've all deeply internalized about the economy: that prices are just supposed to go up. In a productive and advancing society, almost everything should actually be getting more affordable over time.</p> <p>U
Roundtable_025 - This Time, It's Actually Different
<p>We finally stopped being lazy and brought a guest onto the Roundtable. Max Hillebrand joins Steve, Jeff, and I to talk about the absolute madness happening in the freedom tech space right now. </p> <p>Max has been using AI agents to solv
The AI Crisis
<p>In this Take, I break down why the biggest AI labs, while deeply unprofitable sitting on massive future compute obligations, are racing toward trillion-dollar valuations. I explore how open-source competition, especially from China, is c
Chat_179 - Back to What Matters with Cory Klippsten
<p>***"The dollar is going to continue to lose purchasing power. Bitcoin is going to continue to gain purchasing power. It's going to keep on happening over the rest of the century. We will at some point have enough people that have most of
The Great Hackening of 2026
<p>In this Take episode, I break down the “Great Hackening” ripping through Bitcoin right now – from Coldcard’s catastrophic entropy bug to Liquid’s recent 4,000 BTC exploit, Lightning implementation issues, and a few major wallet update an
How Does Bitcoin Self Custody Recover From This? (Coldcard Q&A P3)
<p>In this third Coldcard Q&A, I tackle entropy, device trust, DIY signers, and why I’m leaning harder than ever on multi-sig. I walk through why understanding encryption must become a mandatory survival skill, rather than a niche hobby, if
Roundtable_024 - The Aftermath
<p>The roundtable is back, but we're missing a familiar face. Mechanic has officially stepped down from Ocean, so it’s just Jeff, Steve and I digging into the aftermath of BIP110, from why the soft fork failed to what Luke and Mechanic’s de
Was it all a "Retirement Attack"? (Coldcard Q&A P2)
<p>In this episode I continue unpacking the Coldcard RNG disaster, wrestling with whether it was malicious or just shockingly incompetent design and attitude. I walk through how arrogance, licensing changes, and convoluted security theater
Is Rolling Your Own Entropy The New Standard? (Coldcard Q&A P1)
<p>In this Guy's Take, I walk through listener questions and comments on the Coldcard random number generation failure and what it really means for Bitcoin self-custody. We dig into why the RNG bug went unnoticed for years, the difference b
Chat_178 - Our Burden To Carry with American HODL, Erik Cason, and Brandon Quittem
<p>***"In the early days, the average user could probably use a Coldcard and know the amount of entropy required. The average Bitcoin user today, no clue. And so the times have changed, our message should have changed. And where I come down
Learning the Wrong Lessons
<p>Thousands of careful Bitcoiners just got wiped out by a Coldcard entropy bug, and I use this episode to push back hard on the idea that self-custody is dead, and "don't trust, verify" failed us. </p> <p>I walk through the brutal history
Chat_177 - Security Is Just a Hard Problem with Lloyd Fournier
<p>***"I think that self custody is not going to be dead. I think that there is going to have to be a group, a vanguard of people that do this and take it seriously. The revolution won't work without that. Everything under the spectrum is a
BIP110 vs UASF: Do the Suitcoiners Control Bitcoin?
<p>In this episode, I unpack the claim that BIP110’s failure proves corporate miners and suitcoiners now control Bitcoin. I walk through the real dynamics between miners and validating nodes, compare BIP110 to the UASF, and explain why broa
Chat_176 - Is Every Conspiracy True? with Talip
<p>***"Today can you also use Coinbase to sell your coin? Yes. But can you guarantee that if Coinbase disappears, your funds will be with you? No. Because, it is, at the end of the day, their custody. Whereas in statechains, a really cool p
Chat_175 - Building in the AI Era with Luís Novo & Matt Ahlborg
<p>***"It's going faster than most people thought. We thought that these models would be useful, but not extremely useful, for a while. Now you look at this and you feel [that] if I'm not using this the entire day, I'm losing on something,
Roundtable_023 - Staying Humble
<p>In this episode, Steve, Jeff, and I walk through the catastrophic Coldcard entropy failure, how a trusted hardware wallet ended up generating weak keys, and how attackers are now brute-forcing Bitcoin wallets in minutes.</p> <p>We dig in
Coldcard Emergency - MOVE YOUR BITCOIN NOW
<p>This is an emergency episode to warn everyone of the catastrophic Coldcard entropy bug that’s letting attackers regenerate users’ keys and drain wallets without device access. </p> <p>I walk through concrete, step‑by‑step instructions to
Are We "Censoring" Spam?
<p>There is a massive miscommunication tearing Bitcoiners apart right now. Instead of arguing over specific code like BIP 110, I want to ask a much harder question in this solo take: Is it actually censorship to address spam?</p> <p>I'll ex
Read_948 - The Battle for Monetary Independence
<p><strong><em>"Your savings represent hours you worked, risks you accepted, businesses you built, time spent away from people you love, and consumption you postponed for the sake of the future. When the monetary system allows others to dil
CBDCs are Coming (And the Bitcoin Exit Awaits)
<p>I walk through the global push for Central Bank Digital Currencies, why voluntary rollouts have mostly flopped, and what governments really gain from programmable, fully surveilled money.</p> <p>I dig into the upcoming digital euro, the
Chat_174 - Preparing Bitcoin for an Unknown Future with Hunter Beast
<p>***"I'm almost 99% certain that [BIP] 110 will activate. And not only that, I think there will be a capitulation after October, where if the month of October passes and [BIP] 110 is still not merged by Core devs, it essentially reflects
The Most Important Project in Bitcoin (You probably haven't heard of)
<p>What is the most important project in Bitcoin? It isn't BIP 110 or some shiny new payment protocol. We actually have a massive security vulnerability sitting at the base layer: Bitcoin mining isn't really mining anymore.</p> <p>Right now
Chat_173 - The Time Has Come for Privacy on Bitcoin with Dan Gould
<p>***"I think I got kind of orange-pilled and privacy-pilled in this way when Snowden exposed all this surveillance that was happening by default through every system you've ever touched. </p> <p>That's when I started treating all digital
What does the woke left TRULY worship?
<p>The extreme left often claims to follow logic and "the science". But I've noticed a glaring pattern that contradicts this. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. </p> <p>In this Take, I share my thoughts on the "holy trinity" the woke
