Trust Revolution

NEW EPISODE Twitter verification used to mean something. Now it means you paid $8. Meta employees need permission to remove spammers if their ad budget is high enough. @Pip the WoT guy built the alternative on Web of Trust. Reputation computed from your actual social graph, not from a company that can flip a switch and erase you. S02E16 Pippellia – Reputation Without a Kill Switch https://fountain.fm/episode/K745y4I3kdplDkqnI7D2

@HRF Director of Financial Freedom, @ck, joins to discuss the power of Bitcoin, open source AI, and the fight for freedom around the world. Full episode available Thursday for supporters, Friday for all. https://fountain.fm/show/Mk0fJte5vrfiDQ5RyCZd

NEW EPISODE Voluntary payment has never cracked 5% adoption. Fifty years of trying. NPR, Radiohead, Patreon, Nostr zaps. Human nature doesn't change. So why build #V4V rails at all? Because when Patreon banned creators in 2018, lightning worked. When SubscribeStar got cut off by Stripe and PayPal, sats kept moving. That creator you zap? You're not tipping them. You're making them uncancellable. S02E14: trustrevolution.co

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NEW EPISODE It took 69 years to break up AT&T. IBM outspent the DOJ for 12 straight years and ran out the clock. Cory Doctorow knows this. He still thinks regulation is how we escape enshittification. We talked about why—and whether that faith is warranted. S02E13 is out now: https://fountain.fm/episode/bJgdt0hJAnppEve6Qmt8

Cory Doctorow on why the future of the internet is “Post-American.” Full episode tomorrow: https://fountain.fm/show/Mk0fJte5vrfiDQ5RyCZd

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“Mining is ruthlessly competitive. Revenue trends to zero every halving. All you need is energy and minimal bandwidth.” @DudeChicken lays out why Bitcoin mining isn't your friend—it's a market force that consumes stranded energy, builds infrastructure, then moves on when real consumers show up. Jurisdictions that get out of the way win. Those that don't lose. Full episode: https://fountain.fm/episode/wLcSOyS8mZORCpm6HTpK

NEW EPISODE: @DudeChicken went from Naval Special Warfare intelligence to software engineering at a large-scale Bitcoin miner. His career arc reveals something important about how centralized systems are showing cracks and what's replacing them. Key insights: → Open source contributions build reputation that matters more than corporate credentials in Bitcoin → Military “thinking shooter” training—knowing where to find answers rather than having all answers—translates directly to decentralized technology work → Financial surveillance isn't abstract: working in FinTech showed him exactly how payment censorship operates at the technical level → Bitcoin Veterans is creating pathways for the military community to transition from defending centralized institutions to building alternatives Listen and watch: https://fountain.fm/episode/wLcSOyS8mZORCpm6HTpK