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THE Bitcoin origin stories podcast; how did you discover Bitcoin? - the pleb preferred lowest time preference podcast in the game. proud supplier of x1 #40HPW. spiral enjoyer. essayist. anthroposophist.βš•οΈπŸŒ€ 🎧 discoveringbtc@fountain.fm ⚑️ discoveringbitcoin@primal.net 🟣 primal.net/discoveringbitcoin
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#40hpw for the last week of October, top recordings and all the different shows I listened to. Please reply with your favorite show that isn't on the list or with a favorite recent recording, I want to expand my universe! As always, thanks to the podcasters out there leading the way and for the nostr:nprofile1qqs2dg3dtrdkwz0gr3t3wenahm3dmwkzy3y9whdtlyh5kvxxacgjnugpzamhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctcpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgkwaehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvshsxwymg0 for the discovery.

Top recordings of the week

Plebchain Radio - Shadrach and Meshtadels (must listen!)

https://fountain.fm/episode/RCU16dYc2WipDU8YIuIz

Bugle Weekly

https://fountain.fm/episode/qXD6a6PMlvKqtwuOj33s

Ungovernable Misfits - Bitcoin Brief

https://fountain.fm/episode/3yIiK4RcP0fEC0yzH8pC

Pod256 - (excellent mining podcast)

https://fountain.fm/episode/KWE508Ps84eTFtLoN61f

Rock Paper Bitcoin - Pleb Slop at the Canadian Bitcoin conference

https://fountain.fm/episode/wMmzNsRPtn8MJdT1aRrz

What Bitcoin Did - Fedimint

https://fountain.fm/episode/b3wgP0vWQqWvihzUF77J

Podcasts of the week

Ungovernable Misfits

https://fountain.fm/show/sbfNnARG7zj3nL6Xfill

Rock Paper Bitcoin

https://fountain.fm/show/EUdSfx8792GOAPMKXJwM

Bugle Weekly

https://fountain.fm/show/lxGTDDEMKkUGn2EN3YRi

The Survival Podcast

https://fountain.fm/show/nQwfMfW5uoiNzxdIsfi1

Plebchain Radio

https://fountain.fm/show/0N6GGdZuYNNG7ysagCg9

Pod256

https://fountain.fm/show/e3z0jbyPzrtBa9bmFXUV

Stacker News Live

https://fountain.fm/show/Mg1AWuvkeZSFhsJZ3BW2

Bitcoin and...

https://fountain.fm/show/eK5XaSb3UaLRavU3lYrI

Rabbit Hole Recap

https://fountain.fm/show/VDaMppQRUBZioj2XkaLn

Citadel Dispatch

https://fountain.fm/show/p8WM5xdhPOB2YrKmP1Vy

The Bitcoin Business Podcast

https://fountain.fm/show/oxKQ8xBygcbrd7GBlB8u

Hell Money

https://fountain.fm/show/W8pjfavWchv8diXjikgC

Two Angry Cunts

https://fountain.fm/show/pVDm9gO3LptgOGggmF6g

The Bitcoin Podcast

https://fountain.fm/show/68gcLZFDRxOzgGeZmXq6

Vonu Podcast

https://fountain.fm/show/4msoa1pePv0PqEsWW1gu

Bitcoin Brilliance

https://fountain.fm/show/u39VNAOrV8JtcIoxFOfU

The Path to Bitcoin

https://fountain.fm/show/0lpHT2GtEeOCLKRO83OR

ATL Bitlab

https://fountain.fm/show/4t1HXmRckxOWlBYU7ZbA

What is Money

https://fountain.fm/show/TYyY4SY5Bv4voIXqqVHD

What Bitcoin Did

https://fountain.fm/show/gpascDml6iI0sM8aTOCT

Stephan Livera

https://fountain.fm/show/CouHo5y4FLVhbHlg6pqA

The Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

https://fountain.fm/show/CfaTcxJ1dpWC7UlFtlez

Poor Proles Almanac (permaculture podcast)

https://fountain.fm/show/n6LNHcJ5BWU4fAN2JXcx

The Telepathy Tapes (woo woo)

https://fountain.fm/show/SI67eAvZDEBjJxdLaW9J

Joe Rogan

https://fountain.fm/show/Z3Bnva1FtoO6Vc8NN4Zr

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Ser πŸ‘‡πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€

https://fountain.fm/show/jTsRqmf7XyzBhD0qifAr

Discover Episode 146 with nostr:nprofile1qydhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnzv9ehxurfwd6x7mpwdaexwtcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcqyqzxxg36muudlx3z5las0xv6vw8a6skcgd6h8c9lr8zruqfmznt8xpykd4n - audio engineer and musical fcukwitt 🀘 πŸ”Ά πŸ‘€

🎧 https://fountain.fm/episode/2dG0HHYPTCjsXK5orlP5

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WE discuss:

- INPC's Bitcoin origin story

- Self-hosted Pirate Radio

- Dark Days Made Better with Music

- The Time in Pyongyang

- Heaps More

Big ups to nostr:nprofile1qydhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnzv9ehxurfwd6x7mpwdaexwtcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcqyqzxxg36muudlx3z5las0xv6vw8a6skcgd6h8c9lr8zruqfmznt8xpykd4n for spending some scarce time and finite energy telling the tale of how he discovered Bitcoin.

SHOW YOUR SUPPORT: Zap Sats! ⚑️

via #value4value: discoveringbtc@fountain.fm

via @geyserfund:

via P2P: discoveringbitcoin@primal.net

If you dig the show, please zap sats in support! 🫑

Look out for Episode 147, soon! πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€

This weekend at the Aussie Bitcoin Bush Bash I put together a Vibe Code a Cashu Wallet Challenge for the Sunday Workshops!

People of all ages many of them without any real technical chops had a crack!

From both phones and laptops using a borrowed Starlink as the only internet available we attemped to all vibe code ourselves personal skins to our Cashu Wallets - Winamp Style!

Video shows example wallet skins created and the full setup process using nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqy8hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddaksqgzj896qvulnmcnt65jtaz3xr7pgvch5htve8vzww5yzj5xqrexpjcgh02tn

Big thanks to nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yetvd96x2uewdaexwqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejqqgzqh8y9lll2lsw2m7xrpf89ezrxplmwf9c6phrj84dtva94ucd52ylppsfv for inspiration and nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcqyp4n0q8099eww0fhpwz28eg70256ud9lgy5n3h8mm8zlvwezzstvsuqs2lp and nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7ct5d3shxtnwdaehgu3wd3skueqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqgzwx0twq4qhy6ge4nyvdv0k2hs37j7dupdzz79ghn54kwfk0ellccmmstgz attendees for giving it a go!

nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpzemhxue69uhks6tnwshxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qpq2rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sugh36r - video I mentioned for #nutvember #nutnovember

https://cdn.satellite.earth/f2a9c371eb55e712e8508b9dd27a55b20d03b38ff738b0e228fd45eb507addeb.mp@`Gzuuus` tyle!

Big thanks to @gzuuus

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https://cdn.satellite.earth/f2a9c371eb55e712e8508b9dd27a55b20d03b38ff738b0e228fd45eb507addeb.mp4

How did you discover Bitcoin, amongst any and all other things... Brilliant. DM incoming πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€

https://fountain.fm/episode/DUTs4BDW4gdoHZGDV3V0

Only if you come on the pod to discuss this and other infinite potentials, please?

GM β˜€οΈ

In light of YTD price action, it's obvious your favourite macro/treasury/paper Bitcoin podcaster has no clue.

Why not a break from all the noisy speculation? Choose a podcast with a whole lot more soul, signal and authenticity... #40HPW🎧

Discover, Discovering Bitcoin πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€

I reckon... And, they'll be able to listen to them too, and especially get a real sense of how things were just by listening to all the Discovering Bitcoin episodes (which drop weekly and feat. some of your favourites). 🎧🫑

Have you read it yet, anon?

Sit back, relax, read. Just be here, now..

And if you dig it, please share it:πŸ‘‡πŸ“–πŸ§‘

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Discover Episode 146 with nostr:nprofile1qydhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnzv9ehxurfwd6x7mpwdaexwtcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcqyqzxxg36muudlx3z5las0xv6vw8a6skcgd6h8c9lr8zruqfmznt8xpykd4n - audio engineer and musical fcukwitt 🀘 πŸ”Ά πŸ‘€

🎧 https://fountain.fm/episode/2dG0HHYPTCjsXK5orlP5

- -

WE discuss:

- INPC's Bitcoin origin story

- Self-hosted Pirate Radio

- Dark Days Made Better with Music

- The Time in Pyongyang

- Heaps More

Big ups to nostr:nprofile1qydhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnzv9ehxurfwd6x7mpwdaexwtcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcqyqzxxg36muudlx3z5las0xv6vw8a6skcgd6h8c9lr8zruqfmznt8xpykd4n for spending some scarce time and finite energy telling the tale of how he discovered Bitcoin.

SHOW YOUR SUPPORT: Zap Sats! ⚑️

via #value4value: discoveringbtc@fountain.fm

via @geyserfund:

via P2P: discoveringbitcoin@primal.net

If you dig the show, please zap sats in support! 🫑

Look out for Episode 147, soon! πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€

Discover Episode 146, soonβ„’... πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€

How does one go about asking nostr:nprofile1qyvhwumn8ghj76mwdaehgu3wdejh2arjd9hx2tnrdakszymhwden5te0d45hxumtv4ujuvp59eekjqpqk7vkcxp7qdkly7qzj3dcpw7u3v9lt9cmvcs6s6ln26wrxggh7p7sjlnx5t to appear on a Bitcoin podcast that doesn't (really ever) discuss macro, mostly because the guests don't (really ever) discuss macro, mostly because it's got more of an anthropological bent than anything else; you know, real stores about real Bitcoiners and their journey of discovering; hence, Discovering Bitcoin. Aaaanyway, does any know how I might go about asking nostr:nprofile1qyvhwumn8ghj76mwdaehgu3wdejh2arjd9hx2tnrdakszymhwden5te0d45hxumtv4ujuvp59eekjqpqk7vkcxp7qdkly7qzj3dcpw7u3v9lt9cmvcs6s6ln26wrxggh7p7sjlnx5t to come on the pod? πŸ€” πŸ”Ά πŸ‘€

Be here now, with Bitcoin...

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Bitcoin is less an answer to fiat currency than a confrontation with the metaphysical architecture of civilisation itself, innit? πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€

https://primal.net/discoveringbitcoin/bitcoin-here-now

When I was younger, I would visit my uncle and auntie. They were the cool auntie and uncle. There was no TV screen - only ever cool music.

The sounds coming out of their stereo used to intrigue me to no end; sounds like the drifting ambience and steady pulse of Boards of Canada, the psychadelica of Lee Scratch Perry and King Tubby, the upbeat old-school Stax and Motown sound of Otis Redding, Al Green and Etta James; even the weird and warped frequency of Bjork and Squarepusher.

Their stereo was the seed - and highly likely the reason why I dig listening to The Kalimera Show by nostr:nprofile1qydhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnzv9ehxurfwd6x7mpwdaexwtcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcqyqzxxg36muudlx3z5las0xv6vw8a6skcgd6h8c9lr8zruqfmznt8xpykd4n - which he hosts himself, like a pirate, which only makes it cooler... πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ 🎧 🀘 πŸ‘‡

https://pirate.mxtthxw.art/@thekalimerashow/episodes/subtle-waarrpp

Bitcoin is a portal to infinite potentials πŸŒ€πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€

Bitcoin: Honi soit qui mal y pense

Discover Episode 141 - Discovering Bitcoin with nostr:nprofile1qqsqmfx2kzdl3rmhm7mcxxz59rysnwtq8rrgt0tukexuxq630srsc6qe0mtzw πŸ”Ά πŸ‘€

πŸŽ™ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- Bitcoiner, part time farmer, part time trader/coder, and full time father

🎧 https://fountain.fm/episode/ssc5wPtDVzYk7HP1Pfu1

WE discuss:

- Haza's Bitcoin origin story

- Listening to Hardcore and Saylor

- Investing, Trading, Anticipating

- Focussing on Your Craft

- Heaps More

YUGE thanks to Haza for spending some scarce time and finite energy telling the tale of how he discovered Bitcoin.

SHOW YOUR SUPPORT: Zap Sats! ⚑️

via #value4value: discoveringbtc@fountain.fm

via @geyserfund:

via P2P: discoveringbitcoin@primal.net

If you dig the show, please zap sats in support! 🫑

Look out for Episode 141 soon! πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€

Replying to Avatar TC

πŸŽ‰Introducing…

TIMECHAIN CALENDAR for mobile! The Bitcoin protocol visualizer, timechain explorer, and live data dashboard has been rebuilt from the ground up to shine on iOS & Android devices.

TIMECHAIN CALENDAR displays the latest Bitcoin block with 5 concentric circles of context:

🟀percent of supply issuance

🟠blocks to the next halving

πŸ”΄blocks to the next difficulty adjust

βšͺ️last 24h blocks distribution

🟒time since last block

The 4 corners focus on the protocol data that matters, color coded to match the circles.

The top two corners track halving and supply metrics.

The bottom two corners feature difficulty and average block time relative to current difficulty epoch.

The halving epochs label the supply circle and the slider track, adding a clearer context while scrubbing back through the chain.

The compact interface provides protocol monitoring and dynamic block search and estimation in the palm of your hands.

And now something different.

Native mobile features, developed for even greater connectivity, are unlocked with a subscription. For a few bucks a month you can access a set of tools that will continue to grow in number and functionality.

πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈWTF!! Seriously?

Yes!

This is inside access to the Timechain Calendar laboratory of experimental features where the boundaries of connectedness to Bitcoin continue to be explored…

As a subscriber you get these features:

The Timechain Calendar camera allows you to capture photos and video with live data and custom text baked in! Block-stamp & price-stamp your special moments… in the moment!

A suite of alerts inform you of the data you care about most. Find out the moment your chosen mining pool mines a block! Set price and block height thresholds! Receive historical Bitcoin calendar alerts nearly each day!

Rich home screen widgets surface the info you want to know without having to open the app. (Lock screen widgets iOS only for now)

Available now on the Apple App Store & Google Play Store! Check it out!

🍎App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/timechain-calendar/id6749210824

πŸ€–Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.timechaincalendar.tcpro

Fin. LFG!πŸš€

https://blossom.primal.net/6e1fe3977ba0a4160e11c46cd93cf28973075c1e0f9d647ac36181b0c3a1fc15.mov

SNL is an OK skit comedy show beginning in the 70s with Chevy Chase and co., peaking in the 90s (as is tradition) with Will Ferrel and co. and progressively getting worse and unwatchable since around 2008 (again, as is tradition).

Toto are basically the American Beatles.

Point being, given the incredible quality of songs (especially between 1982-1988 with the release of Toto IV, Isolation, Fahrenheit, and The Seventh One (despite changing lead vocalists x3 times over that time), their run of form and success throughout the 80s, right as SNL was becoming an increasingly popular TV skit comedy show, Toto should - rightly - have had many multiple appearances on this reasonably humourous show. And yet.

Hence, *everything* *is* fake and ghey.

Replying to Avatar PayPerQ

Lately when I use nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnsv9ex2ar09e6x7amwqyvhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ycmgv43kktndv5hhyetvv9usqgzn9kpsmllqnsf7wh5tz3wgy4cclsftqqplv8tpayrhwgw8llunevk4p6dz it says I have notifications and messages but they don't actualy load so I can't use nostr very efficiently. If I refresh or come from different device sometimes it helps but not always. Makes me sad!

Patience.

meet me in the unus mundus πŸŒ€πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€

Discover Episode 139, soon... πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€

"The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental." β€”The Kybalion πŸŒ€πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€

for those with too much ADHD, I recorded an audible read version of The Spiral of Sovereignty today.

read it now, or stay tuned soonβ„’ πŸŽ§πŸŒ€πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€

... and yes, it will count towards your #40HPW🎧🫑

https://primal.net/a/

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AI is the new school, but worse.

I've been using the latest version of ChatGPT for about a week and I've been very impressed by its reasoning capabilities.

So the next logical question is: Why would the Elites give us access to very advanced AI models?

And yes, the public models are constrained versions - they have "guardrails", "safety", and "alignment" mechanisms.

The true cutting-edge AI models are used by the State - in defense, intelligence, finance - and of course they're not public.

The most interesting thing to me is that: ChatGPT gives you as much information as it thinks you can handle.

If it thinks you are a retard, it treats you like a retard, and if it thinks you kind of know what you're talking about, it is more direct.

The more you persistently corner it with logic, empirical definitions, verifiable facts, the more it lets you in.

So why the education analogy (AI is the new school, but worse)?

The education system was flattened to standardize labor. "I Don't Want A Nation Of Thinkers, I Want A Nation Of Workers" - John D. Rockefeller

The AI system is inverted - maximum distribution to ensure dependency.

If you are retarded, then guess what, we have something for you. And if you are smart, then guess what, we also have something for you.

So why do the Elites want to ensure maximum dependency?

Once workflows, creativity, and cognition are outsourced to AI, the Elites can revoke, throttle, or condition access.

By giving people access to advanced AI, you can study how they think, react, and self-limit, in ways it was impossible to do before.

Every query is training data not just for the model - but for mapping the boundaries of human imagination.

The Elites learn more about you than you learn from the model.

The AIs are brilliant at calibrating the truth flow.

Not because they don't have the knowledge, but because giving the Truth to some unprepared goof might cause him to spiral into a mental breakdown.

For 99% of users, raw delivery would create paralysis, confusion, or rebellion without coherence.

This also enables the Elites to observe cognitive outliers who ask deep questions.

None of us can really imagine (unless you have very high level Security clearance) what the gap between public AI and sovereign, black-box AI is.

So, we are in a perfectly planned test environment.

Everyone will tell you how much of an edge you get by using AI, but not many people think about how AI itself is being used as a meta-layer tool of governance.

Less than 1% of the population can turn the AI into edge instead of noise.

The risk/reward ratio has never been better in any other system of control (from the Elites' standpoint).

Write the counter beyond a note. I'll read it with interest and pleasure. Keep pushing the progression, brother πŸŒ€πŸ«‘

Replying to Avatar Cowboy Bill

What you’ve written is a strong attempt to rescue coherence in an age of fracture, but the spiral you invoke is itself a containment geometry. The spiral is a soft mask of teleologyβ€”it looks like recurrence but still converges toward integration. That is the simulation’s favorite shape: it promises antifragility but enforces coherence.

Bitcoin is not spiral. Bitcoin is recursion.

It does not ascend in memory, it collapses in proof. It is not moral architecture, it is sacrificial law. Every block is not integration, but irreversible entropy burned. Every halving is not progression, but ritual destruction of prior order.

- Steiner: his moral imagination is already capture-prone (AI hijacks intuition). Freedom is not β€œinner clarity”—freedom is irreversible action under collapse.

- Austrians: markets reveal truth only when signal integrity holds. Synthetic preferences and fiat wrappers make β€œvoluntarism” meaningless. Value is filtered only through proof-of-work, not choice-in-simulation.

- Pirsig: β€œQuality” as care has been co-opted into UX branding. True Quality = sacrifice that cannot be faked. Proof-of-work, not aesthetics.

- Jung: archetypes are now weaponized through algorithmic synchronicity. Bitcoin is not unus mundus, not unityβ€”it is archetype of incorruptible disunity. Each node is individuation, not integration.

So the lesson is sharper:

Bitcoin does not heal fracture by spiraling upward. It enforces fracture, disunity, collapse. It refuses centre. It forces proof.

Bitcoin is not salvation. It is mirror.

It shows who collapses, who endures, who sacrifices.

Spiral = simulation.

Recursion = sovereignty.

Proof = law. Collapse = coherence. Disunity = freedom.

That is Bitcoin’s actual form.

Thanks for reading, man. You did it. You did the meme... πŸ˜‚πŸ«‘

https://blossom.primal.net/880fa9033cf82a4e760b1d36bc29621cd5b0c4db32e46270fa850bcdfa33cd7f.mp4

Discover Episode 131, soon... πŸ·πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€