This was a great interview, thanks for deciding to post it. I’ve read Jeff’s book, but he seemed to explain it even better here? Maybe it was just the repetition of the message making it clearer for me?

Anyway, I’m glad I chose to listen and not watch as I see now the video is like an optical illusion. Jeff’s house seems to be experiencing clock inflation and guitar deflation!

Seriously, you’d never heard of the nudge unit before?! And not one question about the role of this unit during Covid etc? You can do much better than this, Pete.

Read Laura Dodsworth’s ‘A State of Fear’, we were all nudged massively.

Happy New Year all. Here’s to 2025 and to regular people rediscovering their own agency and taking control of their lives.

It’s such an honour to have made the top 40 artists on Fountain, for 2024

Can’t wait to help grow this in 2025.

This is awesome, Oscar, well done to you and all at Fountain. It’s very inspiring to see you just solidly getting on with building the tools and circular economy for creators in Bitcoin. All the best for 2025.

Absolutely, the future is what we make it, and we can only ever control our own actions.

I’m similarly thinking to myself recently, what am I going to do with my hopefully 30 useful years left.

I’ve got about a nine month runway carved out left for myself to help try to make something out of value for value music on Bitcoin.

Here’s to 2025 and what we make of it, all the best, cheers!

Nice to meet you too.

Well done for making a living at it for 25 years, that’s not easy. I’ve seen so many good musicians either walk away from it or not make much to live on and have to compromise on things etc.

I agree there are a lot of talented youngsters still learning to play - and they are really good! I just hope that the Bitcoin effect could be to allow some of the older generation musicians to be able to support viable live venues or studios to help guide and produce the talent coming through.

I hear the term ‘generational wealth’ thrown about on podcasts and it is like they mean ‘sit on it forever, Laura, so my great-grandkids will think I was a fucking genius’, but I think generational wealth really should mean ‘wealth that generates something’, including great-grandkids too of course.

I agree, but also think/hope it is an unmet need in people. Maybe it is just that there is so much low quality, ignorable music out there, people just don’t invest in it in the same way. But I’ve seen with giving my kids access to the whole Spotify catalogue, they have ended up reaching back into the past and listening to older music that I also like, but haven’t pushed on them at all. This makes me happy that we can bond over music I like, but also sad for them that it seems like they don’t have generational records/sounds of their own. The people in the family most knowledgeable or invested in current chart music are the grandparents- it makes no sense!

Early 80s records are like a teleport back to my childhood for me now. But what sounds will do that for them? The endless Ed Sheeran shit we hear playing in the shops?🤷‍♂️

You’re good there, I think future generations will judge that work kindly on its merits.🤣

Merry Christmas all.

A Christmas wish - no more AI shite music. If Bitcoin is going to be at the root of a renaissance, I hope it helps support a revival of the music studio, with pools of talented people being paid for working with bands to make truly great records again. Music for the future generations of humanity.

This is a great idea. I couldn’t find anything that actually made me laugh in the ‘comedy’ categories on my TV the other night. Reminded me why I try to never watch TV anymore.

This is correct. If Saylor’s pitch is to be believed and Bitcoin is energy, then this practice is electric arse kissing.

This looks cool. Going to be a real step forward and quickly make most hardware wallets looks dated.

Well done for putting this out.

Malhotra sounded too much the luke warm apologist for my liking.

Nice one, Danny. Looking forward to seeing you make this show your own now. Best of luck.

This is a great idea, Joe.

I would always appreciate you playing one of mine if it fits in, how about this one? It has the benefit of being quite short too 😀

https://wavlake.com/track/c9c53615-23a0-4a27-9024-d6dd6f3d7dea

Nearly Halloween and the timeline is full of spooks being spooky.

I always enjoy your episodes with Douglas Macgregor. I laughed out loud at this one when he suggested people might want to get a crack habit to see them through the next few years.

nostr:npub19r9qrxmckj2vyk5a5ttyt966s5qu06vmzyczuh97wj8wtyluktxqymeukr hi Joe, it was me that wrote the V4V pdf you were sent. Sorry I’ve been quiet for a while. If we can get this Liverpool music festival to fly next summer, you are definitely invited, all the best!