I got a few episodes in. I like the audio drama approach -- the world always needs more of these. Still on the fence about the 15 min length. You're probably smart for doing it this way in 2025, though there is that part of me that longs for the old radio dramas I listened to growing up with my grandmother which you could just get lost in, and the interruptions are a little jarring. Not sure how to juggle 21st century attention spans with my preferences there though -- and I assume it's NOT people who've taken steps to extend their time preferences already that you're really targeting with this.

I'll share it around with some normies and see what sort of feedback I can get there.

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Thanks really appreciate the feedback.

You’re 100% on the balance between attention spans (particularly for pre coiners etc). We’re hoping it pulls people down the rabbit hole.

Essentially I made this for everyone that I’ve given a copy of the Bitcoin Standard who never read it

Season 2 the episode are about 20min and a bit more in depth.

There's also a few places I roll my eyes but I sort of have to suspend my disbelief. The premise that everything is being super paranoid, but at the same time, not insisting on spinning up their own node, for instance. Or putting the key into a computer without specifying an airgap.

Thinking about how that'd flow as an audiodrama though, I can't blame y'all for the choices made. I don't envy the task of trying to make this accessible for normies but also comprehensive enough to cover the necessities.

Yeah - and there's a balance between the characters that are normies that don't know any better and are stumbling through a crash course in a high stakes time.

That said we're not perfect, so open to any feedback too. In prior versions we had even more bitcoin oriented talk, but a lot of the nocoiners we had as Beta listeners were not into it. (no surprise there lol). So we took a lets sprinkle things in vs bludgeon them. (And ultimately point them to greater resources than ourselves like BTC Sessions etc)