Bitcoin Mechanic: Is Bitcoin Too Centralized? Mining Pools & Freedom Money vs State Surveilled SoV

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Awesome first episode Guy. Already looking forward to the next Roundtable!

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100% agreed you need both Medium of Exchange and Store of Value. The Bitcoin that are held by ETF custodian lose the MoE function. We gotta educate people as so many are considering moving their coins to ETF because “self custody is hard”. That would destroy Bitcoin’s value. SoV cannot existing alone.

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Can you stop recommending Primal? They lack the ethos in my opinion that Nostr community is about. They ask for KYC type info to use their built-in wallet, and they don't support using Amber and instead require you to trust them with your nsec.

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⚡️⚡️FINANCE BRO PODCASTS ARE THE REAL SHITCOIN!!!!

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I love this episode. I like point of view on the use of credit cards. 🤔 I agree that VISA/Mastercard aren't FIAT. It's simply a service that uses FIAT measuring stick. #bitcoin

Developments explained which most bitcoiners don't understand, but gain second hand opinions on X. Brilliant episode.

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This an important topic for people like me. I'm wondering why we need development when #bitcoin protocol works just fine.

I'm just upset, as an elderly super-boomer, that there is so little I understand. Lots of interesting stuff in here though.

easy for Bitkey to not show seeds by default, but allow you to access them behind a scary advanced user don’t give this to anyone for any reason warning. Just refusing to provide any seed access at all is disappointing.

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I hear many prominent / high profile bitcoiners keep saying the reason they oppose Luke’s reasoning is because “filters don’t work” “it’s not easy” “I’m as opposed to jpeg as much as anyone, but there is no solution”. Now this potential soft fork is a solution. Do you still want jpeg and garbage on chain, or do you not? I think the true colour of many people will show just by looking at which way they lean.

I use Liana Taproot miniscript and it’s awesome. Great wallet for inheritance.

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Came back and listened again after another assassination attempt on Trump. Fuck…

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Fuck Lava! Total rug!

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If it doesn’t have in app unilateral exit, it’s custodial, period. This is not negotiable. If something is not implemented then it simply doesn’t exist for the average user. 99.99999% of Spark users don’t even know a CLI app exists let alone how to use it. Without local caching and unilateral exit actually implemented in the app and having hard dependency on operator cooperation to exit then it’s custodial. Listen I actually like Spark and think it makes reasonable tradeoffs in a world without covenants, but as it stands it’s a custodial product. Happy to revise this once we see an actual implementation of unilateral exit and more operators and LSPs, but it’s just the honest reality today.

If it doesn’t have in app unilateral exit, it’s custodial, period. This is not negotiable. If something is not implemented then it simply doesn’t exist for the average user. 99.99999% of Spark users don’t even know a CLI app exists let alone how to use it. Without local caching and unilateral exit actually implemented in the app and having hard dependency on operator cooperation to exit then it’s custodial. Listen I actually like Spark and think it makes reasonable tradeoffs in a world without covenants, but as it stands it’s a custodial product. Happy to revise this once we see an actual implementation of unilateral exit and more operators and LSPs, but it’s just the honest reality today.

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Wore the “Bugle News” red shirt in Vegas

Hugs are underrated

Next year hug inbound!!

When details on the Sasha Vegas run?

Is my fountain subscriber working now?

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Flair espresso maker is a manual plastic free(in brewing chamber, not overall) and sub $400 option. Great shots and durable af

Need that Vegas event to happen again this year

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2026 prediction: in 2025 Mike Brock was only teetering. 2026 will bring his real crash out.

BANGER

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Quantum is a fake and gay VC scam until it can factor a random three digit integer. Until then my young kids are smarter.

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Amazing chat! Love everything you're doing to help those affected in NC @npub1h8nk2346q…

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Loved this read! I really want to hear about your Nunchuck setup though, as I'm interested in taking the plunge into multi-sig

Love what @npub12rv5lskct… is doing! Great episode!

I love #eCash . It's well explained in this podcast. #bitcoin #Lightning

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Seeing Assange free is the greatest win of 2024

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Preach Rearden

Great chat!

Just want to say thanks to Mechanic for standing up and voice out.

Sorry Paul is pretty delusional with his “Lightning story”, constantly defers to authority, this dev, that engineer… all he talks about is how someone else doesn’t like Lightning and has a bad comment, years ago. While in reality we are using it on a daily basis. Also what other shitcoin would work for 8 billion people today? Strawman.

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Continued love from the Seattle crew

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Mid and upper models of Flair Espresso maker are plastic free in the brewing areas and around $400-500. Tradeoff is it’s manual but that is just more proof of work. Pair with a metal hot water kettle and you’re all set.

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Great vibes

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Eye-opening podcast. I'm not familiar with his work so this was inspirational. Not sure why he's described as weird or annoying, I didn't detect that.

Inspirational.