You were told to trust the science. You were never allowed to check it. There is exactly one product in America you can't sue when it harms you — and its safety trials can be a joke, precisely because no one is ever forced to answer for them. That's not a conspiracy. It's an incentive structure. Remove liability, and you remove the reason to be careful. Who audits the people who decide what's "safe" — and what happens when you're not allowed to? @AaronSiriSG, the most consequential vaccine litigator in America and the lawyer behind the legendary 9-hour deposition of Dr. Stanley Plotkin, the "godfather of vaccines," came on to point this show's one question at a different cathedral, in plain English: how a custody case led to that deposition, the Hepatitis B shot he says was licensed on 147 kids with five days of monitoring and no control group, the 1986 law he calls "the original sin" that made vaccine makers un-sueable, the Ford Pinto and what punitive damages actually do, informed consent vs. the right to refuse, whether vaccines stop transmission, and the measles-mortality data almost no one talks about. Not medical advice. This is his case, at full strength — form your own conviction. Send this to anyone who was told to trust the science but never allowed to check it. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Welcome + cold open: "What is real?" 0:24 Intro & disclaimer: not medical advice 1:57 How the Stanley Plotkin deposition happened 3:38 From Goldman Sachs to the largest non-pharma vaccine practice 5:00 Prep: treat a vaccine like any other product 8:27 Plotkin's conflicts of interest (Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi, GSK) 11:00 The Hep B trial: 147 kids, 5 days, no control group 18:20 The reveal: Plotkin was the trial's principal investigator 23:45 1986: the "original sin" of vaccine liability 33:48 The Ford Pinto & punitive damages 36:54 Sponsors 38:34 Informed consent vs. the right to refuse 47:51 Do vaccines stop transmission? Pertussis & the pulled ad 55:00 Measles & polio: the mortality-decline argument 1:03:57 Individual rights, COVID & where we are now 1:09:24 Where to find Aaron 1:12:11 Outro Hosted by @cedyoungelman Powered by @Stamp_Seed and @firefish_io

@_BitcoinMatrix #286: @hodlonaut - The Fight for Bitcoin "If no one fights for Bitcoin, Bitcoin will very soon be dead." The Space Cat on the capture of Bitcoin Core, the five-year Craig Wright war, and why he's all-in on BIP-110. youtube.com/watch?v=hXQGKGVS…

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Bitcoin didn't win. Bitcoin can change. Bitcoin is changing. Bitcoin has changed. We fell in love with a thing that was set in stone, and then we bypassed the one layer that actually holds it in place: the humans. While we posted "number go up," the reference implementation was being quietly captured. If no one fights for Bitcoin, Bitcoin will very soon be dead. Who is actually running Bitcoin Core, and who is allowed to audit them? @hodlonaut, the Space Cat, the citizen journalist who told the simple truth about Craig Wright and then stood in the fire for five years over it, came on to lay out the fight consuming Bitcoin right now, in plain English: how he found Bitcoin and shepherded the Lightning Torch, what the five-year Craig Wright war taught him about choosing principles over outcome, his Capture series and how informal power over Bitcoin Core was assembled and defended, the DEI and "extractive" playbook used to shut down anyone who asked questions, why every line of code must serve monetary sovereignty, the real cost of running a node at 10x and 100x, and why he went from BIP-110 skeptic to all-in. Send this to anyone who thinks Bitcoin already won. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 A message on ColdCard 3:17 Cold open: "What is real?" 3:34 Welcome the Space Cat, on a brutal day 4:30 An apology for promoting ColdCard 6:15 The Capture series: a Bitcoin citizen journalist 11:24 A year away, and the shock of coming back 18:38 The node runner's stake: the canary in the mine 20:58 Citadel21, Surfer Jim & the culture 23:18 Finding Bitcoin in 2013: the Pirate Bay ethos 25:51 The birth of Hodlonaut & the Space Cat 27:56 The Lightning Torch: an experiment in trust 31:21 Craig Wright's letter, the bounty & the doxxing 34:38 Nine tweets, five years: telling the truth 35:24 Lightning today & "it feels like Ethereum" 38:54 What Craig Wright taught him: principles over outcome 41:05 Trust vs verify, and its limits 44:48 How Core's power was assembled: the priesthood 49:30 The Gavin/CIA flag & full-time Core 53:10 The armor: DEI & "extractive" 57:58 What makes a good Bitcoin coder 1:00:13 "Every line of code must serve monetary sovereignty" 1:04:43 Sponsors 1:06:30 The Matt Corallo quote & the inflation-bug rehire 1:10:32 How old was Satoshi? 1:13:30 BIP-110: judge the idea, not the messenger 1:21:53 We bypassed the social layer: fight for Bitcoin 1:24:24 The real fight is the ledger & the node-cost problem 1:28:50 Why he fully supports BIP-110 now 1:33:36 The technical merits: "node runners don't matter" 1:36:10 The three buckets & why people won't engage 1:44:08 Change capital vs "this is our shot" 1:47:07 If BIP-110 fails: the fallout 1:51:30 Ossification & the anti-spam team 1:54:36 Article 4 & his July accident 1:56:00 Closing: form your own conviction 2:01:46 Outro 🎧youtube.com/watch?v=hXQGKGVS… Then watch #285: Defending Bitcoin with @lukedewolf, the cybersecurity case for the same fight. 🎧youtube.com/watch?v=wV-w9BxY…

Bitcoin secures over a trillion dollars in value. It has no security team. It was never finished, and it was never safe by default. Two known vulnerabilities let unlimited data flood the chain, and Bitcoin Core decided they weren't worth fixing. In cybersecurity that's called putting your head in the sand, and ignoring a risk doesn't make the risk go away. What happens when critical infrastructure has no defenders? @lukedewolf, a cybersecurity professional who spent his career defending power grids and pipelines, came on to lay out the fight consuming Bitcoin right now, in plain English: what BIP-110 actually is and why he flipped from skeptic to supporter, the CIA triad and why availability is the whole game, why spam is a DDoS and a hidden tax on everyone using Bitcoin as money, the two CVEs behind inscriptions and why he says Core "failed" to fix them, why node runners are the hodlers who really hold the power, the "intolerant minority" and the 2017 UASF precedent, soft fork vs hard fork and the URSF, and whether BIP-110 even has a failed state. Send this to anyone who thinks Bitcoin already has a security team. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Cold open: "Bitcoin has no security team" 0:21 Welcome: Luke de Wolf and Defending Bitcoin 2:27 From gas pipelines to critical-infrastructure security 7:49 People are the weakest link: the Stuxnet lesson 14:11 Education, accessibility, and defense in depth 18:47 Why Bitcoin is critical infrastructure: the CIA triad 24:44 Defending the shared ledger: nodes and mining 30:52 51% attacks, Ghash.io, and normalization of deviance 36:09 The real cost of running a node 42:02 What a node costs, and the chicken-and-egg problem 47:03 Spam as a DDoS: the hidden tax on Bitcoin 58:27 Sponsors 1:02:45 The two CVEs behind inscriptions 1:13:39 Difference of opinion, or an exploit? 1:20:56 Death by a thousand cuts and "six people in an office" 1:23:11 BIP-110: what it is and why he flipped 1:25:57 The Capture series, the offices, and rough consensus 1:32:47 Node runners are hodlers: economic weight 1:41:56 Sponsors 1:45:35 Chain splits and the game theory of activation 1:54:25 Why 2017 (BIP-148) was different 1:59:36 Soft fork vs hard fork: URSF and the intolerant minority 2:06:20 Consensus and the beach analogy 2:10:52 Money vs programmable money 2:16:46 Does BIP-110 have a failed state? 2:20:59 "What if they get a letter?": miner incentives 2:24:19 Pissing off both sides, and why he wrote the book 2:31:32 Act or don't act: the binary 2:35:24 Where to find Luke and Defending Bitcoin 2:38:34 Outro Hosted by @cedyoungelman Powered by @Stamp_Seed, @cluborange, and @firefish_io ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=wV-w9BxY…

Bitcoin Core won't fix it. New episode with Luke de Wolf, author of Defending Bitcoin: the two logged CVEs behind the whole fork fight, spam as an availability attack, and why he flipped on BIP-110. 🎙️youtube.com/watch?v=wV-w9BxY…

You are not short on money. You are short on time. The clock is a technology. It was invented about 600 years ago, and somewhere along the way we forgot it was ever invented at all. Standardizing time turned it into a commodity that could be priced, bought and sold. Fiat came downstream of that. The first central bank arrived roughly thirty years after the pendulum clock. Is time upstream of money? @LanternBitcoin, founder of Block Rewards and author of The Age of Time, came on to lay out the argument in plain English: what the tyranny of the clock actually is, how the Prague Orloj started reshaping Western civilization, Saturn as the invisible operating system still running in the background, why we stopped building 300 year cathedrals and started building boxes, the user illusion and why your experience of right now is already on a delay, AI and the information hyperstream, and why Bitcoin's ten minute heartbeat might be the last guardrail we have. Send this to anyone who feels like they never have enough time. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Cold open 0:47 Meet Scott Dedels: The Age of Time 2:25 Why write a book that isn't about hard money 6:48 Li Jiang: the lantern as the first link in the chain 10:04 Prague, the Orloj, and the birth of mechanical time 12:50 "Minutes, seconds, hours: entirely made up concepts" 15:21 What life was like before coordinated time 17:27 The tyranny of the clock: Woodcock, 1944 22:52 Coordination, and what Satoshi actually solved 24:59 From the clock to fiat: "time is money" 28:00 Saturn, Kronos, and the watchmaker god 31:36 The pocket watch: time arrives on the body 34:23 Saturday, Saturnalia, and devouring the future 37:24 "Time is not neutral. It moves toward consumption." 41:24 Why most people would worry less about money 43:20 Sponsors 45:21 The many ways we experience time 49:48 Saturn logos, the cube, and the built environment 52:08 The Matrix: a system designed to disappear 53:32 Cathedrals, beauty, and civilizational memory 1:00:19 State capitols, great fires, and the world's fairs 1:06:03 Godel Escher Bach and the user illusion 1:09:50 Your experience of now is already on a delay 1:12:27 A plant medicine detour: perceiving time differently 1:19:53 Bitcoin as a different kind of external clock 1:23:09 Reading: the cathedral in cyberspace 1:25:56 Notification culture and thinking as an ancestor 1:31:24 Sponsors 1:33:21 The clock as an attack vector on deep time 1:35:33 AI, the singularity, and the information hyperstream 1:38:00 The ten minute heartbeat as a critical guardrail 1:41:32 Prediction markets and free will 1:47:49 The tattoo, intuition, and the block universe 1:54:48 Bitcoin, certainty, and the future 1:56:50 The great returning and the long human 2:02:00 "Evaluated by nodes run by descendants we will never meet" 2:09:32 From "what is time" to "what time is it" 2:15:34 Where to find Scott, the book, and Block Rewards 2:16:53 Outro Hosted by @cedyoungelman on The Bitcoin Matrix. 🎧 youtube.com/watch?v=uCgzH8QS…

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Bitcoin isn't finished. It's not safe by default. It can still be captured. Bitcoin Core stripped out a filter that protected the network since 2014. If the node runners lose the fight to restore it, the industry inherits Bitcoin, and a Bitcoin the industry controls is a Bitcoin the state can finally reach. Are nodes the soul of Bitcoin? @GrassFedBitcoin, a node runner's node runner, came on to lay out the fight consuming Bitcoin right now, in plain English: what BIP-110 actually is, why he says Bitcoin Core has turned hostile, the spam war over OP_RETURN, why he calls nodes "the soul of Bitcoin," who really controls the network, the "intolerant minority" and the 2017 UASF precedent, and why "21 million is a rule, and that's freedom." Send this to anyone who thinks running a node doesn't matter. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro: "What is real?" 1:03 Why he likes BIP-110: "basic maintenance" 2:09 What winning looks like: adoption + activation 5:00 What losing looks like: the industry ignores it 7:00 Where BIP-110 gets censored: Reddit, GitHub, the mailing list 8:20 The numbers: ~14,300 nodes, ~15% of the network 9:34 Coercibility & capture: are the plebs corruptible? 12:30 OCEAN, KYC & why the industry is captured by design 16:00 The "intolerant minority" & the populism critique 21:01 85% not running = a non-vote? 22:30 Taproot is "90% trash": the OP_IF exploit 30:33 Sponsors 32:59 Running full nodes: spam filters & property rights 38:00 What Core 30 ripped out, and what BIP-110 restores 42:40 "21 million is a rule. That's freedom." 48:30 "Get out of the way of the immune system" 50:48 Core 30 as the high-school bully 52:16 Does BIP-110 failing mean the death of decentralization? 59:00 The state's Eye of Sauron 1:09:37 Sponsors 1:12:37 Is BIP-110 rushed? The 12-month temporary design 1:18:47 An inauthentic movement? 1:20:41 "King Luke" & the Linus Torvalds analogy 1:24:49 Prune nodes, the tenth man & rage-quitting 1:29:06 Will miners take credit at the last minute? 1:33:00 Holding the line: closing thoughts 1:37:13 Outro Hosted by @cedyoungelman on The Bitcoin Matrix. 🎧 youtube.com/watch?v=yRjzSb-g…

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Buying Bitcoin is buying eggs. Mining it is owning the farm. @khalliburton explains why the coin you produce beats the coin you purchase. Kent's thesis: Bitcoin isn't one zero-to-one innovation. It's two. The second is a decentralized money printer, and with hardware, electricity, and an internet connection, anyone anywhere can print their own. The man who runs a mining company on three continents came on to explain why the day we became buyers instead of miners is the root of the centralization we're still untangling. @khalliburton, CEO and co-founder of @sazmining, a former solar and distributed-energy operator who found Bitcoin among the unbanked in Peru's Sacred Valley, joins me to lay out the case for mining your own Bitcoin in plain English: what "wild sats" are and why they're better Bitcoin, the difference between a real miner and a "hasher," how anyone can mine from home for about $5K to start, the tax write-off fueling US demand, why nation-states are now mining for sanctions immunity, the right to transact as a human right, and why he calls all of it hash punk. Send this to anyone who thinks the only way to get Bitcoin is to buy it. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 "You get better Bitcoin when you mine it" (cold open) 1:41 Meet Kent Halliburton & Sazmining 2:23 Cranberry farms & a low-time-preference childhood 9:35 Solar, peak oil & his first taste of sovereignty 12:35 Why rooftop solar is secretly Bitcoin mining 17:44 The walkabout: around the world with no plan 21:58 Finding Bitcoin in the Sacred Valley (2015) 23:13 What the unbanked world taught him 29:34 From shitcoins to "Coinbase for mining" 33:59 Why mine instead of just buy? 34:12 Wild sats: Bitcoin straight off the protocol 35:42 How mining with Sazmining actually works 37:16 Which rig? What it costs to start ($5K) 41:03 The tax write-off fueling US demand 43:09 The math: a 12% discount on every sat 46:11 The miner's trilemma: buy when it hurts 48:26 The "can't pay your bill?" hashrate toggle 51:16 Is AI killing Bitcoin mining? 53:18 Nation-states mining for sanctions immunity 56:00 Mining the Texas grid & a wind farm 58:39 The 2013 split that broke Bitcoin mining 1:01:16 Centralization, Bitmain & the fiat miners 1:04:33 Are you a miner, or just a hasher? 1:09:35 Wild vs. custodial: the coin no one touches 1:14:02 The scariest bear market in hashrate 1:16:11 Life in the high Amazon 1:25:06 The right to transact should be a human right 1:28:02 Orange-pilling his wife (& Greta Thunberg?) 1:31:24 Rage against the machine: parenting & angst 1:36:45 Where to find Kent + $100 off your rig 1:38:43 Bitcoin against the machine: hash punk 1:40:39 Outro 🎧 youtube.com/watch?v=6l6TKE_4…

Owning Bitcoin and keeping Bitcoin are two different things. An estimated 3 to 6 million coins are already gone forever. Almost none were hacked. Most just died on paper. The man who turned a 1952 metal-stamping company into one of the most trusted security tools in Bitcoin came on to explain why paper is where Bitcoin dies, and what actually survives. @hammerseed21, co-founder of @Stamp_Seed and a metal-stamper who got orange-pilled by his own Google search-term data, joins me to lay out how to actually keep your Bitcoin in plain English: why paper backups fail (fading ink, coatings, fire, water), why titanium and a single solid plate beat every alternative, single-sig vs. multisig and planning for inheritance, the wild cold-storage setups people really use (including a seed plate disguised as a rock in a backyard pond), and why procrastination, not hackers, is the biggest threat to your stack. Send this to anyone who owns Bitcoin but still has their seed phrase on a piece of paper. The Bitcoin Matrix #281 with @hammerseed21: Paper Is Where Bitcoin Dies TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 "Paper is where Bitcoin dies" (cold open) 01:21 Meet James Caruso & Stamp Seed 02:31 How a metal-stamping company found Bitcoin 03:09 Combing the search terms, Bitcoin starts showing up 06:09 Convincing the bosses & the first listing 08:34 Orange-pilling himself + the first sale 11:10 His first crypto conference & learning multisig 15:38 NK Tools to ImpressArt to Stamp Seed (1952 to today) 19:30 From side project to real brand 21:24 From Robinhood trader to Bitcoin conviction 25:12 "I used to sell on the way down, scared" 32:04 Why titanium? The engineering case 34:17 What's actually in the box (kit walkthrough) 37:38 The brass hammer & why it matters 40:46 Why paper fails: gel pens, coatings, fading ink 42:31 The resin rock in the pond (creative cold storage) 44:00 Single-sig vs. multisig & inheritance 45:00 How people mess up (and how to fix it) 47:00 No batteries, no firmware, no third-party trust 49:27 Secure your stack now, parting words 50:30 Where to find James & Stamp Seed 53:21 Outro with @CedYoungelman 🎧 The @_BitcoinMatrix #281 — youtube.com/watch?v=ODTX4cW2…

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