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You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free.
When you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts.
So it's all acting like safe haven.
I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency, Bitcoin wins.
In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor.
I mean, that's part of the bull case for Bitcoin.
If you're not paying attention, you probably should be.
I'm tired. I got home at like 3 a.m. last night.
Woke up, took the kids to school.
I haven't showered.
I'm going to put my hat back on.
Logan says you look like Tintin.
Happy Friday.
R.H.R. Friday.
Happy Friday.
You know, if we're waiting a day,
I was traveling yesterday from the West Coast.
Yeah.
I mean, that's the impressive part.
I know we don't shout out ourselves enough,
but that's the impressive part of not missing a week in seven years.
is we're like constantly traveling for work we obviously both have growing families
and so we got to be flexible we got to move we got to move around when we're recording every week
and so to the freaks who keep joining us in the live chat and joining us live even though
we're not as that consistent on time of of day and week thank you
it's part of the it's part of the uh the charm of the show too i would say it's like you never
know when you're gonna get it we're not no agenda you know exactly when they're gonna record on
thursdays and sundays rhr is most shows um yeah it is weird traveling with everything going on in
the middle east like i don't know if you've experienced this in the last couple weeks uh
since you've been traveling but like i was on the west coast i was like all right looking at the tsa
lines looking at all the oil infrastructure in the middle east middle east getting bombed i'm like
fuck am i gonna get stuck on the west coast and have to drive home well because the tsa hasn't
been paid in a while right in a couple weeks now i think it's been three weeks now at this point
and i mean it's extra fucked up because i mean look the tsa can go fuck themselves
But the actual people that work there, I don't have the same contempt I have for the organization and the regulation towards the people.
And they're mostly getting paid like $35,000 a year.
So they're one of the lowest paid wage earners in the country, at least in the bottom quarter.
And imagine you're getting paid that little.
And then so you're definitely living week to week.
You go three weeks without pay.
like that's serious that's significant yeah it's not um it's not great no i mean
and i agree with you i agree with like i my ire is toward the the agency itself and the fact that
it exists not the not the individuals that work there though i have had my fair share of power
drunk TSA agents fondle me.
Yeah.
I mean,
but
the reaction can go fuck themselves too.
They're also like,
what is it called?
Collaborators.
Yes.
It's,
but I saw a quote tweet the other day
of like somebody was showing the lines
at the Philadelphia airport,
which were,
I missed it by a day.
I flew out to the West Coast
on Wednesday morning and Thursday,
they cut off to checkpoint access points
and it was pure chaos.
I made it through security in 20 minutes.
The next day, it was an average of a four-hour wait time.
Somebody quote-tweeted the video at the Philly airport
and was like, come on, just fund the TSA.
It's like, no, we should abolish the TSA.
and just like there's there's been plenty of studies like
they they they're not effective like when they do the test studies like oh are they going to
catch like this fake bomb i'm getting through like yeah no they like it was a couple years ago
they like got a handgun through newark yeah what the fuck are you doing and then um not to give it
ideas to anybody out there but i ride amtrak pretty frequently and like arguably that is more uh
No, no, shut up.
Yeah, yeah, I'm going to shut up.
But point being, it should go back to the way it was.
They can just walk through.
Shut your mouth.
I am.
They should not add TSA to Amtrak.
I will say that.
Yeah, I mean, look, if the resolution out of all this is they get like eight weeks later,
they're still not paid and they abolish the whole thing.
like that would be fucking terrific but what's going to happen is they're not going to get paid
for like another 10 weeks or something ridiculous maybe they get paid before then um their lives get
significantly worsened as a result of government incompetency and then there's like a huge new
funding package to fund them even more and it just gets even more locked in but yeah that's
So they took it from us.
Yeah, they took it from us.
And then the reason that it'll never get fucking abolished
is because the rich people don't do it.
Like I do a common talking point for me
at like two in the morning
when I'm hanging with friends
and we're drinking a little bit
is we need to add TSA to private jets.
And then we'll get that thing abolished
in like three months.
It's risky because I hope to be private
jet level one day and there there is there is a small probability that we add it to private jets
and then we have to deal with it as well but i think it's worth the risk and if we add tsa
and the private jet people have to go through that shit then it'll get abolished really quickly
i mean i don't want this to come off as pompous i'm a humble a humble boy from from northeast
philly but i flew private last week before it was a prop plane four seed or nothing crazy it
like a G5 or
G6 or anything but
was in a meeting some part
of the country was on my way to Texas
and somebody that was in the meeting
had a
four seater prop plane
and was like hey do you just want me to drop you off
and I was like yes please the experience of just
walking onto
the run with the municipal airport
and just getting on a plane without having to do anything
it's fucking incredible
so fucked up
Stay humble. Stay humble and stack stats.
Yeah.
It's way more convenient.
Way more convenient.
All right.
It's not even a convenience thing.
It's a fucking humiliation ritual.
They want you to feel like you're cattle.
Yeah, you certainly do.
You certainly do.
Okay, sorry.
We have to keep it tight this week, so no more ragging on TSA for now.
Why don't we just one time?
I don't know.
How did we even get there?
Oh, right.
I was traveling.
TSA.
No, and also just the wild times we're living in right now.
I mean, what, the war now is at three weeks.
I don't think people realize.
It's been 20 days in Iran with no internet.
It's been longer because we talked about it months ago.
You even shut it down when there were protests.
I think they briefly turned it back on and then it's been off for a straight stretch of 20 days.
Can you just imagine the chaos?
Like just in just let's just in isolation, right?
Because obviously their country is getting bombed.
They're at war.
Their leaders are getting assassinated.
There's a lot.
There's many things going on in Iran right now, obviously, and in the region.
But just in isolation, imagine if the Internet was cut in the United States for 20 days.
I mean, people will lose their shit.
X goes down for two hours and people lose their shit.
I feel like countries like Iran, though, like they're not conditioned, but like they've got thicker skin, thicker Internet skin when it comes to I feel like they're more adapted to it.
Not that it's a good thing.
It would be much worse here.
People would be freaking freaking out.
Yeah.
Same with like the rolling blackouts in Cuba.
Like imagine if if the United States had rolling blackouts and no Internet.
people lose their shit the cities would be wild and when we saw it in texas in 2021 it was like
two days well we're on the on the cusp of of having full-on chimp outs
okay sorry i cut you off no it's good clark's dashboard current price of bitcoin 69 770 dollars
one cup buck is going to get you 1,433 sats. We're at a $1.4 trillion market cap. We are looking at
block height, 941,445, which means we are only 27 blocks away from the next difficulty adjustment.
So that should happen in about four and a half hours. So 3.30 Eastern, or maybe probably a little
Later, blocks been coming in at 10 minutes and 47 seconds on average,
so probably around 4 p.m. Eastern, March 20th, 2026.
Happy spring, by the way, freaks.
First day of spring, looking like a negative 7.3% difficulty adjustment.
They're currently 2,588 blocks in Clark's Menpool.
If you go over to menpool.space, we'll see that they have 26,715.
block space is cheap right now two sats per vbyte for high priority transaction and if you look at
the last block um less than one saper vbyte was getting through so you're probably good
if you put a very low fee and um you can see spikes here um that's the state of the network
it's the state of the network a big i mean you don't have it on the list there's a ton of um
so our good friend francis bullett uh he tweeted it out and i thought it was very apt
tweet, but he was saying,
you know, it's the end of a bear market when
the
pace of product
shipping that we're seeing
in the Bitcoin space is where it is
today. A lot of
shit dropped this week. It was cool to see.
It's quite funny. You can tell we're
at the tail end of a bear market, but the fact that Bitcoiners
will tell, that's what he said.
Did you see that?
No, but I'm
glad you highlighted it for us.
are you are you are you not impressed by the pace of shipping no i mean i just thought
i've there's a decent amount of things that have been shipped that are on the list
um oh yes what's what's what's not on the list what's not on the list is france's commentary
that there's a bunch of things being shipped that's not on the list but the things being
shipped are on the list all right speaking of the list things that we hope don't ship
one thing that we hope doesn't ship that is apparently being talked about as an amendment
in a kentucky bill that would threaten bitcoin self-custody the amendment would make it so
hardware wallets will be forced to reset seed phrases upon request from from the kentucky
government. Our good friends
at BPI. We're covering
this sound of the alarm bell
both figuratively
and literally in emoji form
in this tweet, as you can see.
This is buried
in Kentucky HB380.
Again, require
reset user
seed phrases on request. Could they even do that?
How would you do this?
I mean,
specifically,
I mean, obviously, you could reset the seed phrase, but you wouldn't have access to the Bitcoin.
They want like a backdoor access to the Bitcoin, like just press a button.
And you can't, first of all, hardware wallets, current hardware wallets aren't designed that way intentionally.
And then second of all, you could never do it in a secure way because there's no such thing as a secure backdoor.
If you have a backdoor, then malicious people can use it.
But, I mean, in practice, if this thing got passed, what it would mean is hardware wallets just wouldn't be sold in Kentucky, which is not a great situation.
Let's be clear here, but it was not like you pass a law and then automatically the functionality gets implemented.
They would just completely cut themselves off from the hardware wallet market.
this caught me off guard but as i think is another reminder that
the the fight to keep private and freedom focused bitcoin usage
non-criminalized is very active and very fluid and we got to keep the pressure on otherwise
we'll be right back where we started two years ago three years ago where
they were just throwing Bitcoiners in the gulags.
And every Bitcoiner that was building in this space
in America had at least some level of concern
that the FBI was just going to barge in through their fucking door.
So we've got to keep up the pressure.
What's going on in Kentucky?
Who's proposing this?
Who got the idea to propose this?
To read the clause in Kentucky HB 380 Section 33 a hardware wallet provider shall provide a mechanism for and assist any person who owns a hardware wallet
that was provided by the provider with resetting any password, PIN, seed phrase, or similar information
that is necessary to access the contents of the hardware wallet.
as the BPI
highlights this man that it is technologically
impossible
these things are air gapped
I mean at least if you're doing it the right way
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Yeah, like, could you imagine Rodolfo if you're like, all right, Kentucky, we have the Kentucky
cold card queue.
He would just never sell it.
He would just stop selling in Kentucky.
Yeah.
I mean, the Kentucky politicians can enter the wrong pin 13 times and have it wipe the
seed, but I don't think that's what they're asking for.
No, they want the money.
they want the money Kentucky get it together
Thomas Massey
get your uh get your state
legislator in uh in check there sir
please
all right
quick rip today
I'm gonna stay stay on task here
you know I like to meander especially when I'm tired
mind is racing but
um
somebody else was racing to get GPUs into China
that was the CEO
super co-founder
excuse me
is this why i mean yeah first of all the dude's a billionaire uh he had 500 million dollars in his
own stock alone um i mean i think it shouldn't be first of all export controls are incredibly
hard to enforce um so it should not be a surprise that people have been getting around them right
specifically these high-end, top-of-the-line AI chips, GPUs,
are being smuggled into China, even though they're legally not allowed to.
But yeah, the crazy part to me is that he's literally an American-based Chinese billionaire.
And he was doing it himself.
They have him on tape with a hairdryer,
pulling off serial numbers and pasting on new serial numbers.
um so i just i don't think you'd see many american billionaires do that for their country
like he clearly was doing it for the love love of the game i had not like what was he going to make
more money it doesn't feel like it was a money thing it very feels like a nationalist pride thing
um and then the last thing i would say is i wouldn't be surprised if this connects back to
nvidia and they're but nvidia is the golden goose like they're going to protect nvidia no one wants
video to get dragged into it.
Apparently he's good friends with Jensen.
Yeah.
Like very well known, like publicly associated good friends.
Yeah, do you see the meme floating around?
It's like Jensen being like, they need one of our bodies.
Yes, yeah, I took you that.
And then it's his body that gets taken.
But I think he faces up to 30 years for this.
yeah i mean it's uh two and a half billion dollars worth of compute it's not it's a lot
how do we feel about this how do we feel about these uh this meme is fucking hilarious
logan you did the bane voice you do better than i do
i expect one of us in the records brother
logan and i do bane voices before uh before a guest top saw the tfts do it
I think, I think, I think export controls on AI hardware is a losing battle.
And we should, at least from a policy point of view, we should assume that there just will not be effective and not actually rely on it as a, you know, as something that is perceived as effective.
And I think what happens is I think there might be some, you know, it's a hard decision. Like I understand that these things are very much getting rolled into defense tech on both sides. And so it's very much like a war footing type of thing. You don't want your enemy to have the best capability, which is why it exists.
But what happens is you're basically just pushing all this stuff into the black market and you're not able to track it in any kind of way.
Obviously, it's negative for free markets in general, which I'm very much aligned with.
And then it's just really hard to enforce.
And particularly if manufacturing isn't happening in the United States.
But even in this case, by the way, there's been a lot of speculation that, oh, so the chips are made in Taiwan and then they get sent to like Singapore and then Singapore resends them to China.
And it makes sense. It's like all in the Asian sphere influence. There's a lot of commingled money all around that region. And so at least in my head, I was like, oh, if we manufacture in the US, they have to cross a really big ocean to smuggle these things. But in this case, the chips were made in Taiwan, shipped to the US. The billionaire founder is pasting serial numbers and then shipped back to China. It crossed the ocean twice.
i mean the fact that he was using a hair dryer to to take the stickers off that's
hey dedication dedication uh you're rich enough to hire somebody to do it but the fact that you
did it yourself and that's that's a love of the game i'm like unlike anything i bet you he was a
boss if i'm worth a billion dollars and i'm trying to do that i'm not doing that i don't think i'm
want to do that marty's flying private no tsa calling up his telling his agent to tell the
people to do things for him this billionaire is doing artisanal gpu smuggling it's uh
it's you gotta respect it he's gonna get a prison that seems like zuckerberg zuckerberg would never
do this himself no no god no speaking of which do you have that on the list probably the only
a US billionaire?
No, there's
there's
is Palmer Lucky
a billionaire yet?
I would assume so.
The only two that
the only two that would
have this level of hustle
I think is
is Palmer and Elon.
I guess I could see
both of them doing it
and Palmer would be doing
in like an Hawaiian shirt
like in Crocs.
And he probably
wouldn't get caught
because he knows
he's like
no.
Well, he wouldn't get
caught by the Americans
if he'd be complicit.
I like Palmer Lucky.
I'm not a big war
war guy
as you guys know.
Not a big war
War is bad.
Bitcoin, not bombs.
No, no.
Palmer Lockheed is extremely impressive.
Look, I respect the hustle.
I respect his vibe.
But he's definitely going to be an enemy.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, mass surveillance.
All this stuff is going to be used against us.
Yeah.
Killer drones.
Well, you don't have it on the list, but we should bring it up.
there was some autistic redditor a couple we should i think it happened after we uh recorded
last week but some autistic redder we don't have to pull up a link but just to explain like
all these age verification and open source software tools this autistic writer did like a
in-depth forensic sort of accounting of all the lobbyist groups that have been
funding politicians that are bringing these age verification bills
to the floors in individual states and it all tracks back to facebook like facebook is funding
all of it i saw that do we know i guess we didn't talk about it last week right my bad
they spent like two billion dollars on it right to do kyc on the internet yeah and it's like
Zuck's been trying to build up his cool guy, like privacy, sort of personality over the last three or four years.
Post-COVID, like he's trying to make COVID, FBI stuff.
I don't know if he's necessarily been trying to make himself seem pro-privacy, but.
He's been trying, I mean, he's been trying to.
He's definitely trying to improve his personal brand.
Yes.
Remember, I mean, like the holding the American flag, wakeboarding or whatever.
But I will say, I mean, dude is in a long-term marriage.
He's like clearly not chasing looks.
It seems like a family that is well taken care of and good spirits.
And they're like eating meat.
And they're, I mean, they're like fucking over local lions.
But like they have their own little citadel over there.
like there's there's there's definitely levels of respect there in terms of uh
he could have very much been like one of these
i don't know like disgusting playboy billionaire types if he wanted to be
like he could he could have been bezos but instead he he's like a family man and i respect i respect
that part but he definitely wants kyc on the internet and freaks it's not that hard to realize
why. The reason is because all of these tech companies, they're in the data collection business.
And with bots and AI and whatnot, it's really hard to figure out which people are real and which
people aren't and whose data is more valuable and to be able to monetize that data. And if you're
able to attach it to verifiable identification, then it makes all of that data significantly more
valuable yeah and apparently met has already got the technical architecture and infrastructure set
up where they'd be compliant um out of the gate yeah and regulatory mode yeah yeah yeah so be
aware met is funding all this throwing a lot of money at it too um so that's gonna be that's gonna
be a fight to pay attention to in the coming years they're really gonna try and i mean i was
look i i think uh it's probably a little bit of surprise of how much they're spending
but also i mean if you look at the pay packages that they're giving the ai people like they just
have so much fuck you money they're just spending money like crazy um but it shouldn't be as a
it's been yeah it's just like all right we're up on this it shouldn't be a surprise to people that
that they're supporting it and i will like once again i will say that most of big tech is and
they're not so quiet about it like if you like x's policy page literally says we support age
verification of users.
They've gone out on record
trying to get the Texas bill passed.
Anyone in the data surveillance game
wants increased KYC across everything.
Be aware. Speak up.
Fight back.
Use Nostr.
On that note,
we'll skip and come back
on the list while we're mentioning
Nostr. Primal 3.0.
is live. It's got a new wallet, polls,
and gifts, and we've got the
founder of Primal.
Also,
Primal.
That's not
Million in the video. That's Paul Keating.
I know you know.
That's Paul. That's Paul. I'm
looking at our live stream group chat.
Million.
I am...
I'm sorry, go on.
Bunzir Safu.
I am...
Yeah, in the video, this is Paul. He's awesome and a good friend. But yeah, look, the Primal team, we've been working on this for six, seven months now. Massive, massive release. Complete redesign of our wallet architecture.
So previously we were using Strike Custodial.
It was great.
The UX was great, but it required light KYC, had limits, was not global.
For instance, you couldn't use the Primal Wallet in Canada because Strike doesn't support Canada, which is just absolutely wild.
So we wanted to move to something better for a while now.
But we have very strict requirements.
It needs to be easy to use.
It needs to have full Lightning and on-chain support.
And then it needs to have full Nostra integration.
The big one on the Lightning side is because of Nostra,
you need to be able to just create a new wallet
and then just immediately receive Zaps.
So you shouldn't need Bitcoin to then be able to receive Bitcoin.
And you should be able to receive small amounts, right?
A lot of these Zaps are like 21 sats.
That's like $0.07.
You'd be able to receive it.
And so what we found works best right now is Spark by LightSpark.
This allows us to offer a wallet that is probably one of the easiest wallets, Bitcoin wallets that people have ever used.
You can immediately get set up.
You get seed backup.
We worked with them to build out full Nostra integration.
So you have full Zaps, everything that you'd expect there.
Right now, we don't have like the nice, pretty full Zap receive info.
live yet, but it will be live in the next update. I'm already testing it. It should be out in a few
days. No limits, global. You get a seed backup. Please backup that securely. It works across
other Spark-based wallets like Wallet of Satoshi and Cake Wallet. And so you can just move it back
and forth. And we did what a lot of people said is one of the hardest things to do in this space,
which is migrate people from a custodial wallet.
We migrated 7,000 wallets over the last three days.
And as a result, overnight, by the way,
some wallets were showing zero balance errors.
And it was because we overloaded Sparks Indexer.
So we migrated 7,000 wallets.
Also, this update has polls, including Zap polls.
And the Bugle Boys launched Maxi Madness.
with zap polls.
So we migrated 7,000 wallets
and then everyone was zapping like crazy.
It overloaded the indexer that checks wallet balances.
You can think of it kind of like an Electrum server
on regular Bitcoin.
It was showing people zero balances.
And so we reached out to them overnight
and we were like, we have RHR.
We have RHR in the morning.
We need this fixed before RHR in the morning.
And they rolled out the fix about 30 minutes ago,
right before we went live.
We got David this directly.
Of course, straight to the top.
But so yeah, everything should be working now.
I think you'll really enjoy the experience.
Even if you don't want to use Nostra as a social network,
consider playing around with Primal as well.
I think it's important to think of it
as more of a spending wallet.
Obviously, this is a hot wallet.
Don't keep large amounts in it.
Keep your savings in cold storage.
As we said earlier, we recommend the cold card.
Use code RHR.
but I think this is a phenomenal win, a massive win for Bitcoin as money.
And I think if you care about Bitcoin as money and people using Bitcoin as money,
the easiest way to get there, the most actionable way to get there is to release tools that make
Bitcoin more accessible and easier to use. And I think we made a huge step forward on that.
Last but not least in the Primal 3.0 update is we added a GIF button.
that was harder than people realize.
We wanted to do it Noster Native.
Most of the GIF providers,
yes, there's like a whole industry
of GIF providers out there,
require you to host with them.
Basically, the image is on their servers
so that they can see every time
someone viewed it in their IP address.
And that was a non-starter for us.
So we figured out a way to do it
where everything is hosted native on Noster,
on Blossom servers.
So everything's hashed and signed and reproducible.
So you can have redundant copies of your gifts
and not have the gift company have all of your information which I thought was pretty cool And then we updated the onboarding flow In the early days of Primal I think a lot of people rightfully gave a shit that there
was like auto follows and stuff like that, which was kind of hacky.
Now there's proper lists.
You can choose if you want to follow people at start or not.
It's a very smooth flow, no KYC.
The last thing I would just add is the biggest trade-off of this new wallet architecture
is you are trusting Primal and LightSpark with your privacy.
Both Primal and LightSpark can see all of your transactions.
Externally, people cannot see those transactions,
but obviously you should assume that that data will become available to people at some point.
That's how you should think about it in your trust model.
But Spark does offer unilateral exit,
so you can exit on-chain without permission of Spark or Primal.
And if we find a better option for our users,
we are going to adapt and move to it in the future,
but I'm pretty excited about this.
Download Primal in your favorite app store.
Download Primal.
Shout-out to Milyon, Marco, Paul, the team over there.
Incredible upgrade.
One comment to the Bugle Boys.
We got a little tiff last night.
uh pretty pissed i'm not part of the uh the nostre marsh madness
but you're you're in the x one right yeah i'm in the x one i i think they're probably pretty
happy that was probably intentional and they're probably pretty happy that you're pissed about it
so you just gave them some bait you just took the bait and i uh yeah they have two different
brackets they have uh one for nostor and one for x and like i said the nostor one uses our new zap
poll feature um they're using the zap poll feature in the most aggressive way by the way where everyone
gets one vote but you can put infinite zap infinite sats and whoever has the most sats wins
uh which is obviously there's elements there that are pretty gameable um especially since they're
sponsored by predix and so they have a live prediction market betting on this stuff so you
like go bet on it and then switch your back um but i think missing there is i think it's important
to tell people we give uh at prime we give people that are creating the polls a lot of creativity
if they want to do no zaps if they want to do zaps but then also within zaps the feature that
i really like is you can set a minimum uh sad amount and a maximum sad amount for a vote in
the poll. And I really like doing a small min max that's the same. So like 21 sats min max,
that means every vote requires 21 sats. What I like about that is, first of all,
you can't just like easily buy a vote. The vote costs seven cents. I don't know,
the vote costs a penny, a hundred sats is seven cents. The vote costs a penny.
But it helps mitigate bots because it adds some level of cost and friction to people
hitting these polls with bots.
If you want to like spin up a bot army
and you want to do a thousand votes
and then they need a thousand wallets,
they need to send a thousand zaps,
all 21 sets.
So I think that's a really cool feature
that I think people are going to have fun with
because you should just assume that this,
polls on the internet are flooded with bots
and there's only two ways to mitigate them.
You can either mitigate them with Zaps and webs of trust, or you can mitigate them with KYC.
And what we're seeing big tech do is try and mitigate them with KYC.
But I think the better way is to mitigate them with Zaps and webs of trust, and that's kind of where we're going with it on Primal.
I just – what the heck, Bugle Boys?
I just Zaps.
I mean, I think an upset of Justin Mood.
No, you have to wait.
The zap receipt is going to get sent.
When you refresh, it'll be there.
Not there yet.
And obviously all the sats in the polls go to whoever the poll creator is.
So the Bugle Boys are pulling in the most revenue they've ever pulled in.
This sellout.
On their voting structure.
You know, it's a...
I love the Bugle Boys.
I kid.
It's in jest.
Apparently, they love our thumbnails.
Our thumbnails are pled cocaine, as it was described.
Yeah, I think I brought it up, but we're going to be doing a show with them in Vegas on the 27th.
So there'll be more info, at least shortly, on that.
We like trying to iron down the venue and everything.
Yeah.
We got to keep going.
You've got a hard stop here in 17 minutes.
We're not even happy.
Sticking on the list, updates, strike line of credit has expanded to 21 states.
So this was launched, what, two weeks ago, maybe three weeks ago at this point.
And they said, hey, we're going to ship and we're going to continue knocking off states.
They're already up to 21 states.
Every state that they add is another group of Bitcoiners who never have to sell a SAT to cover expenses again.
Let me see.
Use code RHR if you're signing up for a new Strike account for $500 off trading fees.
Yeah.
And then set up auto DCA and you never have to pay another trading fee again.
Yeah.
It's a beautiful thing.
Yeah.
The Strike team is mission focused on rolling this out to everywhere.
where we already offer our services,
all 50 states, 90 plus countries.
In the US, at least,
my understanding is it's not a regulatory burden
on future rollout.
We just don't want...
The system needs to be like properly...
We're like leaning into it, right?
Rather than releasing it to everyone at once.
A staged gradual rollout,
but we're trying to move as quick as possible.
Yeah. Be aware first. Be aware. Next up, we got the Human Rights Foundation.
The other thing on Strike is we lowered fee levels for the highest tier users, 10 million plus.
I think part of it is just the success of Jack's reach and his early narratives around Strike.
But a lot of people still think of it as a payments first business.
If you're a high net worth out there and you want to move lots of coin or lots of dollars into Bitcoin, Strike is a great choice for you.
I really appreciate the fee.
When Marty's on his private jet trading $10 million, he's very grateful for the BIPs decrease.
I wish. One day, maybe. One day, maybe.
Financial Freedom Report story of the week coming out of Asia, where states ration energy as fuel prices surge, as the strength from use remains closed, to shipping amid conflict between Iran, Israel, and the United States.
And I would add the broader Gulf region now.
At this point, governments across Asia are rushing to reduce energy use as fuel prices climb and supply issues.
Australian economies reliant on Middle Eastern oil.
Bangladesh's limited supply of fuel includes universities to save electricity.
Pakistan shut schools and shifted service online, while the Philippines adopted a four-day workweek for some government offices.
Vietnam and Thailand are promoting remote work, and South Korea has set a fuel price cap for the first time in nearly three decades.
As we saw after the outbreak of COVID, authoritarian regimes often exploit macroeconomic crises to expand and cement their control.
For more stories like this and others, make sure you get a financialfreoreport.org.
I mean, I think there is a legit economic force to this force.
I think energy lockdown has been talked about.
But I do think some of these countries are running out of petrol, specifically, literally.
Yeah, and they weren't prepared at all.
They had no reserves.
And the fucking strait is closed.
And Trump is not playing 4D chess.
bro thought it was going to be a weekend assassination job and didn't think about the
consequences and now we're now we're dealing with the impact of it i've had two cross-country flights
in the last three days which means there's a lot of doom scrolling you get on the internet
you're just following it's just like i mean we were talking it uh talking about it like in a chat
offline but like the disruption to the oil and gas supply chain particularly in the eastern hemisphere
is going to be it already is catastrophic and it's going to be incredibly disruptive for years
to come at this point if the reports of the refineries of qatar uae kuwait um iran are as
Saudi Arabia are as extensive as they seem to be.
And it seems like it's escalating too.
It's not, I mean, did you see what Trump said?
Trump said, so the Israelis hit the Iranian gas fields.
Yeah, it's one of the biggest gas fields in the world.
and then the Iranians responded by hitting Qatar
and specifically it was like a refinery or something, right?
Something that's really expensive and difficult to build.
G refinery, yeah.
And then Trump came out and was like,
if you do that again, I'm blowing up your entire gas field.
How dare you think it was related to us or Qatar
that the Israelis hit you?
We were completely unrelated.
i don't mean to laugh but it's uh it's not good i mean the gas lighting is
because who the fuck does he think who the fuck does he think he's talking to
like not everybody's retarded
it's 4d chess it's 4d chess though
yeah it's not good
it's not good at all
alright
we've got 10 minutes we're not going to belabor this point
there's enough people talking about the
the war you can go find that
that analysis somewhere else
soapminer and we'll probably still be talking about it next week
based on how this is all going
we'll have more time next we'll elaborate on it next week
soapminer zap 21,212
sats palindrome
zap
I thought there was a message earlier, but I'm not seeing one now.
I don't know if you can see one.
If you do, you can read it.
I don't see so much.
Chesapeake Bitcoiner.
Chesapeake Bitcoin is at 21,000 stats.
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That's next Saturday at 2 p.m.
Location is Accorda Chiropractic in Chesapeake, Virginia.
Everybody getting their back work done next week in Virginia.
We meet the fourth Saturday of every month.
This is the sixth meetup group in the Hampton Roads Bitcoin Meetup community.
We now have a meetup every week of the month.
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Bitcoin is for everyone, I'm assuming.
I can't see the full name here.
21,031 sats.
What's up, freaks?
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The biggest Bitcoin conference in the Pacific Northwest set for May 22nd and 23rd at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon.
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Use promo code RHR for 21% off.
I love this trend.
The RHR promo code is spreading.
I'm just going to assume this one is make no mistakes, 21,000 sets.
Yeah.
Get yourself a planker.
Self-hosted on a dedicated laptop.
Makenomistakes.shop.
Use code RHR for $50 off.
There we go.
Use code RHR everywhere you go.
And if it doesn't work, message support and ask them why it doesn't work.
Link that to RHR.tv.
They line now.
I mean, if the TSA line is backed up in your airport because we're not paying them,
you go to the front of the line.
You just whisper to the TSA agent.
You go RHR.
There I go.
Go ahead, sir.
I got to say, I like make no mistakes.shop.
not a bad domain um and then there's one more 21 000 sat zap from phil mustang artisanal zap
smuggalo that was 21 212 sets or palindrome zapped and then i'm actually crunched for time
from bracket bingo 21 212 sets palindrome zapped marches here brackets bingo and bitcoin
we've got and then we want to read then we also um on the nostor video which you can find at
primal.net slash rh from last week the highest zap was roaming a ride or die freak with just
under 21 000 stats but i'll read it anyway he did the asteroid emoji that he's famous for
um love to see it by the way freaks i'm redesigning rhr.tv i have not told marty yet
and it's not quite finished yet but it's supposed to show the top zappers of all time across both
the live stream and also if you zap the nostril video will be shown on the website
it's pulling it directly from nostril and so i need to like figure out a way to
index it so that the information is more complete depending on when you refresh sometimes it shows
different people but i think that's kind of cool and i'm pretty excited about it i love it so far
you've been vibe coding a lot sir even even vibe coding hard um it's fun two more zaps to read
wood miner 30 303 sets palindrome zap what's up freaks long time listener first time caller be
sure to check out only nostr the only nostr native farmers market tomorrow saturday march 21st
From 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Central, that's 1,400 to 1,500 UTC,
there will be 15-plus Noster native vendors of high-quality goods available.
For sats, Matt and Marty enjoy a 50,000 sat credit at the wood mine
if you decide to stop by.
Go to https colon backslash backslash bullishmarket.onrender.com.
So is this like an online market?
Bullishmarket.onrender.com.
Yeah.
And the last one, 33,000.
No, it looks like it's a farmer's market.
It's an in-person market.
He just linked you to a website with information.
Are you sure?
Oh, maybe a Noster native farmer's market.
A real-time multiplayer 2D market experience where you can walk around, interact.
Okay, so you're right.
It's just internet.
Interesting.
Fascinating.
Wild times you're living.
Maybe I'll check it out.
I got the kids to myself tomorrow, actually.
I got three of them to myself.
Wish me luck tomorrow, freaks.
So kids, you want to go to the farmer's market?
Let's go to my office.
Yeah, get in here.
Get in here.
And last but not least, Brian, 33,333 sets, threes across the board,
pound rooms at Noster is for agents now.
I like that.
Agents so hot right now.
Speaking of which, if you have an agent and you want to be able to buy things
online and you need it to basically know who's accepting bitcoin via l402 payment gateways
ryan gentry friend of the show friend of the crew legendary bitcoiner launched 402 index.io
which doesn't seem to be working right now but it's pretty cool when it was working
it looks like logan's got it up um you can basically go find he's he's basically trying
to create an index of agentic services offering the ability for other agents to purchase things
using Bitcoin via the L402 protocol or the X402 protocol.
He's doing diagnostic checks on the endpoints to make sure that they're up and running and
basically letting you know which ones are reliable Then on top of that two marketplace If you have sort of a gated service that you want to offer via L402 you can put it on the index as well Look it pretty simple If you
want to use this AI stuff with data providers, because that's where they really get superpowered,
is when they're able to pull in real data and use it. I've talked about in the past,
on building citadelwire.com.
It's pulling in a bunch of data, right?
And then it's using that data
to then provide whatever service it wants to do, right?
In this case, it's a newswire, right?
The problem is a lot of these APIs,
you need a human to go to the website,
sign up for an account, pay with a credit card.
It's a whole fucking process.
It should just be native.
You should be able to just tell your bot,
I want you to buy this information.
It should be able to pay with sats
and then get access to the API
all in like two seconds with one prompt.
And that's where we're moving.
Now, a lot of the industry is moving to USD tokens,
Tether, USDC, whatnot.
So I actually think one of the cool parts of this site
that you didn't highlight is that it lists all of them.
That's why I said X4.
Oh, sorry. I missed that.
But it lists all of them, right?
So you can see where the shit coins
are being accepted for API stuff versus Bitcoin.
And we are losing right now.
We know from the BPI report that the AI agents prefer Bitcoin, but the API providers are moving towards USD tokens.
So we need to stop that trend and offer more options for people and agents that want to use sats as the currency.
Bitcoin has money.
It's pretty cool.
I mean, it was already 15,537 endpoints index.
They've tracked, not tracked.
They clearly vibed this website too.
Yeah, 5,753 payments have been verified.
So 563 payments, or excuse me, providers indexed.
This is cool.
I'm thinking of something that I can add to this.
More on that later.
next on the list
maybe applicable to what we just talked about
Bolt introduced non-custodial USDT swaps
from Lightning sats to stablecoins
so this is pretty cool
just being able to subray swap from Lightning to Tether and vice versa
so this is what I was talking about last week
or two weeks ago
when we were talking about Bitcoin
versus shitcoins and agents.
And I said, actually,
it's not clear that Bitcoin
immediately has a massive advantage here
because if you're already
in the shitcoin ecosystem,
it's easier to move
between different assets, right?
Like if you already have USDC on base,
it's easy to get USDC on Polygon.
It's harder to go from sats
on Bitcoin to Polygon.
And so Bolt solved that issue, right? If I use the example, OpenRouter, which is one of the largest pay-per-use AI providers, the only quote-unquote crypto they accept is USDC on base, right?
So if your agent has SATs and you want to pay for AI tokens with OpenRouter, it was a real clusterfuck to get those SATs into a payable form for OpenRouter.
Now you can just use Bolts, take no custodial risk in transit.
Obviously, if you're using USDC, you trust USDC.
And if you're using most of these shitcoin networks, by the way, they're legally considered self-custody, but they still rely on heavy trust in the operator.
Like Tron, for instance, is run by Justin Sun.
He is running a massive custodial wallet
that is running $10 billion worth of tether around.
But legally speaking, it's considered self-custody
and that's enough for regulators.
But yes, I think this is a cool feature.
I don't really use USD tokens myself.
But like I said, particularly, I got exposed to them more
through my agent trying to pay for things.
And now this helps that last mile.
And I think it's interesting because it's a lot more pragmatic
for actual end users that need these things today
rather than this whole concept of,
oh, we're going to put Tether on Bitcoin,
on Lightning or Liquid or this or that.
It's like most Tether's on Tron and Ethereum and Solana.
So if you want it, you can do an atomic swap
at time of delivery and just have your agent
hold it on the chain and that's fine.
It is what it is.
Yes.
in your clanker,
like my clanker,
discover bolts.
Like I was saying,
when I set up my Phoenix D server,
it was like,
oh, we need to open a channel.
I was like,
all right,
how do I do that?
He's like,
oh,
I found this bolts thing.
He said,
on-chain,
air,
it'll submarine swap
or atomic swap
into a,
into a lightning channel
so they know how to use this stuff.
So if you're out there,
you find a service
that you want your agent to,
to use
and has a paywall,
USDC,
USDT,
pointed towards bolts
and it'll figure out itself.
And the cool part is if it doesn't know, you can actually send it this blog post.
It'd be like, read this blog post and do it.
Yeah.
Make no mistakes.
Moving on, Nostra VPN, open source VPN, project shared on Nostra is out there now.
I think we've been talking about this for years.
It seems like making some progress.
No, I think Marty, this is Marty Malmi.
I think he just like vibed it and shipped it.
He went back to his OG name.
I was like, this looks like Marty.
No, he was Marty Malmy for a bit.
He switched it.
You're right.
That was his name.
Feedback of the day.
Yeah, when he was working with Satoshi directly.
But I mean, look, this is, I think, really cool.
it just shows the flexibility of Nostra, right?
It's super easy to build on Nostra.
In this case, he wanted a basically simple feature
to route between his two computers.
And historically, a lot of people have used Tailscale for that,
but that requires a third-party account.
So he just quickly built one that uses Nostra relays
to do the pairing and connection.
and then it creates an encrypted tunnel between the two computers.
Oh, yeah.
Very early, just released, but I thought it was cool, so I wanted to –
I mean, he literally released it this morning, but I wanted to highlight it.
Marty's that dude.
Shout out to you, Marty.
Serious.
I'm going to start calling you serious now.
Is this pretty dystopian?
Seems pretty dystopian.
Next on the list, we have introducing Dasher tasks.
Dasher can now get paid to do general tasks.
We think this will be huge for building the frontier of physical intelligence looking forward.
It's incredibly dystopian.
I didn't see this.
First big tech obsoleted all your...
Has it been deleted?
Yeah, I'm on that.
No, you got to delete French on the back of the URL.
So you had like a...
Oh, weird.
This was...
So first AI obsoleted the white-collar jobs.
Now DoorDash is releasing a feature
that basically is to train AI agents.
Like the example they use is you're a DoorDasher
and you get a task in the app to go take a picture
of mustard on the store shelves,
which is 100% to just be like,
the agent wants to know how much mustard
and what brands are on the store shelves right now.
And then they'll pay you pennies
and give you no job security.
And you won't even have a person
that you can talk to that's employing you.
It's just a big, massive corporation
that's using you for the most basic menial labor possible.
So yes, it's very dystopian.
Andy, Andy Fang, very, very excited.
I mean, is he the DoorDash CEO or founder or something?
This is not meant to be a dystopian post.
This is him proudly announcing the new feature.
Yes, co-founder and CTO.
It's not funny, but you've got to laugh at these things.
Otherwise, it's just going to get really depressing.
You've got to find the silver lining, the humor in life, freaks.
speaking of which staying on the dystopian tech tip i mean we knew this uh
we knew that like pokemon go was sort of we called it at the time yeah back when it was going on we
said this yeah no one should be surprised lots of people are surprised so it's important to highlight
it yeah uh so essentially it is becoming clear that uh nyan tick which is the technology used
behind Pokemon Go
and the
company behind it. They were working
as a U.S. Department.
The
founders worked at the U.S. Department of State in the 90s
then founded Keyhole Inc., which was funded
by Inc. Utel, which is the CIA's
venture capital arm acquired by Google.
It became Google Earth.
Pokemon Go wasn't just a game.
It was the test for global surveillance.
So, 9Tec.
Similar funding
flow and they were basically...
like the dashers are going to be doing instead of finding Pokemon,
they're finding a mustard on a shelf.
Yeah. I mean, the, the,
the impressive part was at least DoorDash is paying you for the menial labor
Pokemon go supposedly 8 billion photos with location data.
So GPS enabled photos were taken by Pokemon go users over the years and then
immediately used to train AI and specifically,
you know, like automated vision for robots and drones and whatnot.
So when they told you like, oh, go down your street,
like take a picture, there's a Pokemon line there or whatever.
Like there's a killer drone that's going to be using that,
that picture that you took to, to figure out what to kill and where to go.
Yeah.
So congratulations.
That geo dude you scooped up.
Yeah.
in that remote location
is actually going to be that picture
of where Geodude, where you caught him.
It truly is impressively evil.
Like, well played.
I mean, we called him when it was going on.
It's like, there's no way.
100%. GPS permissions, taking photos everywhere.
It was very obvious.
Yes.
many people
because that was like a COVID thing
people were like oh we can get out and get our steps
it's like Pokemon Go
helps me get my steps while we're in lockdown
I mean it was before COVID
but people were definitely playing
during COVID
let's see when did
when did Pokemon Go launch
I mean it was a phenomenon
july 6 2016 2016 yeah i mean and the game mechanics weren't great either it was like
it they were really not hiding it they were just like go take pictures with gps location places
there was no like old school pokemon battles or stuff like i used to love with the old
game boy games you'd wire up and play pokemon against each other battle
those were the days when you just had the game boy i remember when i first got pokemon red
and i literally played it i i i went i killed the batteries in my game boy the first day i got it
the christmas i got it played pokemon red all day like up until dinner and then my charizard like i
didn't train him well enough and he just completely he would just sit there and not attack people
It was just lame.
Yeah.
You got too fat.
That's why you don't spoil your Charizard.
You don't spoil your Charizard.
You got to learn.
I got one more story here.
Yeah.
I know.
Last thing on the list.
I mean, I saw this too.
Just like.
This is also a reoccurring theme.
Yeah.
How do notaries let this happen?
Like, how is there not like a law, like no tracking devices?
I mean, this one is particularly bad.
So in the past, we have covered stories about Strava specifically, which is a fitness tracker that uploads anonymized, quote unquote, anonymized location data onto their website.
And it's shown like CIA bases and stuff because like well off physically fit white people are the buyers of these things.
And they run in circles around their CIA base.
And then even though it's quote unquote anonymized, you see the CIA agents running circles around this base in the middle of the desert.
This one, I mean, besides the fact that this has happened like 10 times already, this one's particularly crazy because it was a guy running on a French aircraft carrier.
So he's literally just showing where the aircraft carrier is in the Mediterranean on the way into the Middle East.
your link was broken again for that
Logan here it is pulled up
I'm sorry
it's all good but it is like
literally you can see the ship
it's him running circles
on an aircraft carrier
that's moving
fucking insane
yeah
I mean it's insane for the incompetence
and it's also insane that Strava
still has customers
when this is what they do with the data.
How are people cool with this?
It's a black pill that people are cool with this,
that they wear this fucking cattle tag
that just broadcasts their location all the time
to the public internet.
Nothing on the wrist.
I have a Casio.
I'm not a big health device.
No smartwatch.
It's just a watch.
an incredibly well-built watch that tells the time very accurately yeah use code rhr at casio.com
it will not get you a discount but maybe it'll bug them into adding rhr no no i think um i think
i think you get at least 15 off if you use code 50 yeah try it try it um all right you gotta go
this is great heads down shit's gonna get weird it's already getting weird they're gonna get
expensive i mean you see that the pump it's four dollars a gallon already here it was literally
less than a month ago 225 uh food's gonna get expensive prep i'm buying a quarter cow another
i have a quarter in the freezer i'm buying another quarter in the next couple weeks here
I'll tell you what I'm doing
I'm not going to tell you what to do
but I'm prepping
I've started prepping
good advice
great advice
Freaks
check out
Citadeladelarcade.com
my
my vibe game project
I added
zappable leaderboards
so the weekly winners
are decided in two days
I will zap
the winners of each game
a thousand sats a pop
so go play it
check it out. I will add more games. I'm just having fun with it. It's a cool proof of concept
too. And then if you're not already subscribed to Seal Dispatch,
search it in your favorite podcast app. I'm interviewing right after this, I'm interviewing
the SimpleX founder, the chat client.
I'm pretty fucking excited about this.
He's a legend in his own right. It's a great chat up. And I thought it was kind of cool.
He found my SimpleX contact information and he reached out to me on his own app.
And then we had a phone call on SimpleX.
It's like, really, we actually did the thing.
Well, that's what you want to say.
You want to see somebody building something dogfooding it, actually using it.
That's a good signal there.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, anyway, Freaks, love you all.
Stay on the StackSets.
Peace and love.