Mind blown by the Meshtastic node density around here! Just staring at the map and regretting not bringing a node to Victoria Island.

I could've easily messaged my home across the water. Now that I've got Meshtastic integrated with Home Assistant, the possibilities are wild: private mesh channels to trigger automations remotely. Garden watering, off-grid smart home controls... all over decentralized LoRa mesh. 2026 is going to be fun. #Meshtastic #HomeAssistant #OffGrid

Brands are about to ditch human influencers for purpose built AI ones. Real looking faces, zero drama, endless content.

Short-form video creators: you’re cooked.

I think most Podcasts will be safe from this. What do you think?

I'll cover your replies tomorrow on The Launch 🚀

https://blossom.primal.net/9a06d10bb8ee544871b4dd7263f19287d0eb9698fe3d518df39f0fd9e4347aad.mp4

New episode! This week I take some time responding to Luke Gromen’s mid-level take on Bitcoin’s Quantum Computing risk. And it’s packed full of other news of the week. Enjoy! 🍻

https://fountain.fm/episode/572orJ6yuCR8W18h2NBn

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I got a lucky shot while checking out the food damage in Washington.

https://blossom.primal.net/79f369b382bfb9c66a8145b976f498c87f4770071412a73f652792b393263055.mov

Maybe now, as whales have sold accordingly. But I try to make the case that 2026 could break that.

Fresh TWiB: I try to make the case: why the Fed had to cut rates, and why it’s going to kill the four year cycle for Bitcoin.

Plus my thoughts on what I’m calling baby-QE.

https://fountain.fm/episode/EOObZmKyTCz2UM5wEnf0

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Fresh TWiB! I think this is an important one and explains why some big macro investors are hedging for a bad bear market.

https://fountain.fm/episode/qBmPOFvmB6HalsJo4AaB

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Fresh TWiB! My updated thoughts on BIP-444, the storm brewing for Bitcoiners, some good news, and much more!

Enjoy 🍻

https://fountain.fm/episode/ESiLMwmjgT3EKg7VfEhg

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Impressive!

I’ve definitely gotten some pushback for my take on BIP-444.

But I still haven’t gotten any answers to two basic questions:

1. Who will monitor the blockchain?

2. Who decides when action is needed?

That’s a good question. I don’t think it requires a majority of notes, but I do think it requires a large consensus. Maybe larger than it has now?

Ok I get the soft fork bit. But I don’t follow who makes the call and scans for the material and sets everything in motion when necessary.

Fresh TWiB! Last week, I asked if the US government shutdown was impacting Bitcoin. Boy did I get my answer! Also thought on BIP-444, the supposed whale selling, and more. Enjoy! 🍻

https://fountain.fm/episode/WOslYaeXHkGPni8BznUK

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GM. Stormy sunrise on the farm.

I always hate leaving the homestead during a big storm. Anyone else feel that way?

Ok, WTF Is going on with BIP-444? Is this a prank?

BIP-444 proposes removing entire blocks if there is toxic content immediately, but who decides what is toxic content?

https://cdn.satellite.earth/91766440ebd954d734ac45034325f2b35d210c8dbd3f5ad0669f8a38d9935e8d.mp4

How do people post video on Nostr? I tried both Zap.Stream for uploading a video, and nostr.build. Both puked in ugly ways.

Is there another service I am missing that works?

I watched the FOMC meeting so you don’t have to. And it’s rate cuts, but with a gotcha.

Plus the two companies working on a Bitcoin line of credit and why I think they sound terrific, and a lot more!

https://fountain.fm/episode/tpO39owhO8Nv1arT5lrQ

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Fresh TWiB! Packed with the macro news that impacts Bitcoin, and more!

https://fountain.fm/episode/NJ9Vr8mMPTAt9Q7GUgCb

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Back from a road trip hiatus it’s a fully loaded episode. I think I make the meta case in this episode why NOT owning bitcoin is the biggest risk.

Enjoy! 🍻

https://fountain.fm/episode/sP3uJ6IM6krMt8WNatvn

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Hello from Texas LinuxFest in Austin. 👋

Check out this cool guy I came across on the farm today.

GM! Eating breakfast with some guests.

Fresh TWiB: Why I think a rate cut was a lock and it’s not because of the jobs revision. That’s a smoke screen. Also, why this cut Isn’t a ripper for the price, yet.

https://fountain.fm/episode/H5lo1HQmAk34SY3FDwe7

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Actually, this is the problem.

You can do it, but there’s several huge disadvantages right now and I don’t think most people realize it.

Important Metadata podcasters need to credit supports is missing, just not even captured. And importantly to me if you’re self hosting a node, it gets even worse and anyone in the split doesn’t get any metadata.

When you receive the boost, you have no idea the total amount, and the most situations you won’t even know who sent it. It depends on all of the systems between.

It currently only works in very limited situations.

I’ve been testing this the hard way with some of my shows, and it was a mini disaster. Even though I’m a big proponent of using lnadress I had to roll back to using my node address/keysend for now because of all of the shortcomings with the current implementation.

Being able to properly credit people who support the show is a vital and important part of the value for value cycle - that is fundamentally broken right now with the current lnadress implementation.

If the current implementation sees wider adoption, it will destroy boost for podcast. I don’t say that lightly, you probably know how critical this is for my shows.

I think some key insights that I have here that maybe others are missing is that I run multiple shows at scale that are funded by boost. Multiple episodes of my shows are often in the fountain top charts each week. I’m not bragging. I’m just pointing out, it’s significant us.

We self-host our entire infrastructure.

And we build tooling around boost, so that way we can properly credit those who supports us.

And I’m a big supporter of other v4v podcast and as a listener, I boost a lot .

So I really been looking at this for all angles since about December.

If I could go on the podcasting 2.0 show every week and yell that we have a problem here I would! I think a lot of people are missing this because they’re not quite as deep into the technicals .

Technically lnadress is supported. But it’s a disaster in its current implementation and limitations.

It also reinforces centralization because just look at the practical implementation so far. Fountain is the easiest and most complete implementation. Even using Alby Hub the experience is sub-par. You will get the stats. And your SOL if you just want to run your own node and lnadress.

Even if Alby had kept easy hosted wallets around, no major lightning wallet supports keysend.

And when you consider what’s easiest for podcasts to give out on air Lnadress offers a familiar email address format.

To be clear, I think it’s a real shame Keysend has not seen more love.

and… it’s a shame lnadress is not Bolt12 ready which also solves some of this.

But there is a hard reality we are up against. We are down to just Fountain and Alby compatible apps that can boost.

Ironically fountain could just sit back and do nothing and they pretty much consolidate and lock up the entire boost market because they probably already have about 80% of it. They’re pretty much the last easy lightning wallet for boosting in town.

And for the listener, it’s a lot less of an ask if they can use any lightning app that supports LNaddress to support the show. They could use strike or other apps directly even.

I think some key context when reading this is:

1. There is already a active Podcasting 2.0 Boost community, that existed before Nostr and Zap. This is not something being invented today. This is about modernizing something that has been around since the early days of Lightning.

2. Keysend has not been widely adopted outside of Podcasting 2.0 (it's NOT a P2.0 tech, it's a lightning thing) and if we want to grow the base of users who can Boost/Zap a podcast, we have to move beyond Keysend.

3. lnaddress, and the email format for payments is an obvious UX improvement over node addresses, and opens podcast Boosts up to the entire Lightning ecosystem.

Just to be clear, Oscar's spec here still uses the Podcasting 2.0 valueblock in the RSS feed.

The big change, is instead of the metadata coming via Keysend (at the lightning level) it would be delivered via Nostr, as the lnaddress spec does not support including all the metadata needed for a boost/Zap.

If you want a wild read to get more background on today’s episode this 17 page essay by the Treasury Secretary is screaming the quiet part out loud. I can’t believe a sitting Treasury Secretary wrote this.

https://www.international-economy.com/TIE_Sp25_Bessent.pdf

GM. Working on today’s TWiB, assuming I can find the 🎙️in all the fog.

I think Wes has been playing with this for a bit. Seems like it has potential.

I know I almost feel like I should be paying him for the good work!

That little spider will be telling the story of this day to his grandchildren

I arrived home to tornadoes of mosquitoes at sunset last night. Multiple groups of these things in these swirling group tornadoes of bugs.

Maybe a bunch of them just hatched? This is gonna be a nightmare 😂

https://blossom.primal.net/610f77862da1253c03e9d53fdc993c620297cdd46b4bf43f0a1a57c3b3d76d5e.mov

I hope you are right. But every couple months we seem to have another story about Google tightening its grip. 🥶

While on an early morning walk around the farm, I think I discovered otters in our creek. I’m just kind of guessing, but it looked like a small group of three hanging out and getting some breakfast.

Now I wanna know everything about them instead of cameras 🤣

https://blossom.primal.net/ddfc3dc1bffbccf4933e7a325db9fa7a7c17492b7293876378fcc6113dd75e6f.mov

LINUX Unplugged is LIVE on zap.stream! https://zap.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

And so it begins! Starting the very early work to get a septic system installed. Job one is just clearing the area for the inspector.

I’ve never done anything like this so this should be quite the journey .

Fresh TWiB! Really tying together the last few weeks of news. If you understand what I discussed in this episode, you’ll inherently understand one of the major value propositions of bitcoin. 🍻

https://fountain.fm/episode/pIK01qcjeeU884gIpQKA

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Pre-show hype: We’re about to go live with a big episode!

https://fountain.fm/live/BEABXjGjItc0oooHGEed

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I’m back from my road trip, and it’s scams everywhere! We thought it was bad before, but we ain’t seen nothing yet!

https://fountain.fm/episode/kXECvtVUz0YchqJwYojt

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Fresh episode - and the last thing in record before my summer road trip. Also kinda fun, the show is now hosted on Fountain.fm’s new platform. Big week! 🍻

https://fountain.fm/episode/VFttjTwwdrQTY56jhvwT

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TWiB is back! So much to catch up on, and news is breaking as I record. Good to be back!

https://fountain.fm/episode/GQQPWGeUc9aBucftbmn8

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