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Bitcoin Audible

Bitcoin Audible

By: Guy Swann
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The Best in Bitcoin made Audible. Guy Swann makes the knowledge of Bitcoin, the world's most secure, independent money, accessible to everyone. Exploring Bitcoin from an investment perspective, economic analysis, its philosophical foundations, & technological primitives. Reading and distilling thousands of hours of others' works on Bitcoin, Guy explains everything you need to know.Guy Swann
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  • Chat_168 - Hashing for Heat with Tyler Stevens

    Chat_168 - Hashing for Heat with Tyler Stevens
    May 21 2026
    "Our little home controller, building controller, it knows our electric rate, it knows the way that electric rate changes based on the time of day. It knows the PV flux, the solar flux from the solar panels. So it knows if there's excess power that the building's not using.It also knows our natural gas rate. It also knows the Bitcoin price and the network difficulty. This is all just in our software.And in real time, our building can choose, it can flip between heating with gas or with hashrate to save you the most money." ~ Tyler Stevens I am constantly shocked by how much of our everyday infrastructure is basically begging for a Bitcoin upgrade. Almost half of the world's energy is used for heat, and a quarter of it is just "comfort heat" to keep our homes and water warm. What if we generated all of that with bitcoin miners instead? I sat down with Tyler Stevens, a former aerospace thermal engineer who is currently helping spearhead the Hashrate Heatpunks movement. I’ve been running my own hacky miner-heater setup downstairs to survive the winter, but Tyler and the guys at the 256 Foundation are taking this to an entirely different scale. We talked about stripping away our reliance on monopolistic giants like Bitmain and finally building a fully open-source mining stack. The stakes here are high. If even a fraction of normal households swap their standard electric heating elements for ASIC chips, we're looking at a huge decentralization shift for the grid and an explosion in Bitcoin's security budget. We also get into the reality of sovereign smart homes, avoiding creepy cloud-connected thermostats, and why the "energy waste" critics are entirely blind to how thermodynamics actually works. This was an incredibly fun conversation and it proves we are still incredibly early to what home mining will eventually look like. Guest Links Tyler on X (Link: https://twitter.com/tylerkstevens)Exergy's Website (Link: https://exergyheat.com/)256 Foundation's Website (Link: https://www.256foundation.org/)Hashrate Heatpunks' Website (Link: https://heatpunks.org/)The Space's Website (Link: https://denver.space/) Affiliate Links Become sovereign, hold your keys, be censorship resistant with the Bitbox hardware wallet. Get 5% off everything in the store with code GUY (Link: https://bitbox.swiss/)Get ⁠10% off the COLDCARD⁠ with code BITCOINAUDIBLE ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(Link: https://bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard)Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from The Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1)(Under construction) Check out the list of products and services I use and recommend on BitcoinAudible.com (Link: https://bitcoinaudible.com/) Host Links ⁠Guy on Nostr ⁠(Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xc96ney)⁠Guy on X ⁠(Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann) Chapters (00:00:00) - Introduction to Hashing for Heat(00:02:55) - Tyler Stevens and the Heat Punks community(00:11:10) - The economics of unprofitable home mining(00:17:39) - Replacing global comfort heat with ASIC chips(00:19:30) - Why Bitcoin miners are fully efficient resistive heaters(00:26:42) - Capital expenditure savings against traditional gas furnaces(00:32:47) - Routing solar, gas, and hash rate automatically(00:38:52) - Why local smart thermostats beat corporate cloud options(00:44:50) - The challenge of retrofitting commercial hardware for homes(00:50:31) - Rebuilding the open-source mining stack with 256 Foundation(00:58:11) - Corporate backdoors and the true risk of closed firmware(01:09:54) - Connecting water-cooled miners to residential HVAC ducts(01:22:31) - Fixing failed residential solar economics with Bitcoin computation(01:30:27) - Using protocols to build a fully decentralized energy grid(01:42:27) - 256 Foundation fundraising efforts and grant program(01:50:03) - Closing thoughts
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    1 hr and 54 mins
  • Chat_167 - Why Your Keys Matter with Seed

    Chat_167 - Why Your Keys Matter with Seed
    May 14 2026
    "If you think of River or Gemini or Coinbase or whatever, think of all of those as silos and how people custody Bitcoin. If some sort of compromise were to come into the Bitcoin ecosystem at the private key generation level, that could create an incident that could set Bitcoin back by 10 or more years because it would be almost indistinguishable from a protocol compromise and that we would be talking about Bitcoin being hacked again and not individual custodians being hacked. So I think we need to decentralise how people do Bitcoin custody as much as possible and what better way by leveraging private freedom preserving open source software." ~ Seed In today’s chat, I sat down with Seed, the creator of the SeedSigner project, and his backstory is completely wild. He told the story of how he got pulled into Bitcoin through a forensic case tied to a local Silk Road user, why he panic sold in 2017, and how that path eventually led him back to the basics and into building one of the most respected DIY signers in the space. But the real tension in this episode is the part most people skip over: what actually keeps your coins safe when things get messy in the real world. We talk about the grim reality of wrench attacks, what actually happens when law enforcement flips a house upside down with a search warrant, and how a former forensics cop secures his own wealth. If you think a standard hardware wallet hidden in a sock drawer is enough, hearing his threat models might completely rewrite your long-term storage plans. And yes, we got into a few stories that made me think about my own setup a lot differently. Guest Links Seed on X (Link: https://x.com/sesi_the_man)SeedSigner on X (Link: https://x.com/SeedSigner)Today in Bitcoin History on X (Link: https://x.com/daily_btc_lore)SeedSigner's Website (Link: https://seedsigner.com/) Affiliate Links Become sovereign, hold your keys, be censorship resistant with the Bitbox hardware wallet. Get 5% off everything in the store with code GUY (Link: https://bitbox.swiss/)Get ⁠10% off the COLDCARD⁠ with code BITCOINAUDIBLE ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(Link: https://bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard)Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from The Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1)(Under construction) Check out the list of products and services I use and recommend on BitcoinAudible.com (Link: https://bitcoinaudible.com/) Host Links ⁠Guy on Nostr ⁠(Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xc96ney)⁠Guy on X ⁠(Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann)Guy on Instagram (Link: https://www.instagram.com/theguyswann)Guy on TikTok (Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@theguyswann)Guy on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@theguyswann)⁠<... Chapters (00:00:00) - Guest introduction: SeedSigner creator(00:04:45) - Building PearDrive for peer-to-peer file sharing(00:11:38) - Nostr integration and monetizing digital goods(00:26:00) - Seed's background in law enforcement and digital forensics(00:33:20) - Finding Bitcoin during a digital forensics investigation(00:41:39) - Surviving bear markets(00:52:43) - The origins of the SeedSigner open-source project(01:07:05) - Privacy risks of buying commercial hardware wallets(01:11:53) - Hardware supply chain risks and centralized custody(01:23:58) - Practical multi-sig setups and debunking FUD(01:45:20) - Defending against wrench attacks versus self-rugging(01:55:43) - How police handle hardware wallets during search warrants(01:59:44) - Preserving early cypherpunk origins and Bitcoin history
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    2 hrs and 14 mins
  • Guy's Take_107 - Free Rent for the Rich

    Guy's Take_107 - Free Rent for the Rich
    May 13 2026

    "It's often discussed that arbitrarily lowering interest rates and the zero interest rate policy era leads to massive recklessness and unethical and irresponsible behavior. But there's something even more sinister that actually occurs. A lot of people notice how massive corporations are just buying up all of the hard assets and then renting it back to us. [...] Zero interest rate policy isn't merely something that leads to reckless investments. It essentially amounts to free rent for the rich for everything in the economy. If you can rent anything for free, what do you do? You lease everything and then rent it back to the public for a profit."

    ~ Guy Swann


    Why do massive corporations own everything, while the rest of us are stuck renting our lives back from them? Most people see the trend, but very few understand the actual mechanism driving it. In this episode, I break down how zero interest rate policy isn't just "reckless investment" – it's a fraud machine that hands the rich free rent on every productive asset in the economy. What happens when you can borrow anything for less than it's worth? You buy everything.

    References from the episode

    • Read_944 - Proof of Work in the Real Economy: Wyatt's chapter from The Bitcoinization of Finance (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/4v4LrOxS12vM15dE3tHT)
    • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (1841) (Link: https://ia800405.us.archive.org/28/items/memoirsofextraor01mack/memoirsofextraor01mack.pdf)

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    “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”

    ~ Charles MacKa...
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    41 mins
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