“It's really difficult to engineer freedom tech—solutions that require you to kind of take ownership of your money, take ownership of your data. These things typically have engineering solutions that are harder to build; they might take a longer time to build, or it might actually require the user to kind of learn something new.” — @Stephen DeLorme NEW EP: Bitcoin and Freedom by Design https://fountain.fm/episode/N6ZXzeTlp5nSMyx4Qt66

Cory joins us later this month to talk 💩.

"You may actually get to a point where too much decentralization actually makes it ungodly hard to use." npub1nxy56ame2gfnfj6fjylzxwq7r94phvgwt037mmvwr60qsqlaseksswlnxl on why Signal wins by accepting centralization trade-offs—and what Bitcoin builders somtimes miss about usability. Full episode coming tomorrow. https://fountain.fm/show/Mk0fJte5vrfiDQ5RyCZd

Privacy usually costs extra. PayJoin flips that. Dan Gould built the protocol that makes Bitcoin transactions cheaper when both parties contribute inputs. Up to 25% fee savings. Chain analysis gets harder as a side effect. The rare case where doing the right thing costs less. S02E10: https://fountain.fm/episode/jrcWHYhorCfoI4hagzD0

Payjoin is the https of Bitcoin payments. @Dan Gould explains why. Full episode tomorrow. Follow on @Fountain to be notified. https://fountain.fm/show/Mk0fJte5vrfiDQ5RyCZd

NEW EPISODE npub1q6mcr8tlr3l4gus3sfnw6772s7zae6hqncmw5wj27ejud5wcxf7q0nx7d5 spent 20 years architecting Canada's digital identity framework. He's also building Safebox—a Nostr wallet no entity can shut down. “It's not about identity theft. It's about intention theft.” In this conversation: • Axioms vs rules • Encrypted Cashu tokens on Nostr relays • What the trucker protest revealed about fragile systems Understanding centralized systems deeply is how you build alternatives that actually work. S02E09 | Trust Revolution https://fountain.fm/episode/KoDQBw5S2Ga7bbUqLs7A #nostr #bitcoin #cashu

"If you go into a local community bank and ask for $50,000 in cash, you're going to get a lot of questions—and very likely they're going to say, 'Come back in a week, we need to order that.' The cash doesn't exist." Former Goldman Sachs risk manager and current VP Sales at Unchained, @Trey, spent 15 years inside the machine before realizing the wealth you think you control is just a ledger entry someone else manages. Full episode is out now. Watch, listen, and support on @Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/FHJBXSVwd3JGkqIDGfBB

"Trust evolves along a continuum. At the personal level, it begins with identity, the belief that a signer or speaker will keep their word. At the institutional level, it is mediated by delegation and credentialing: we trust entities because they have been certified by others. At the cryptographic level, trust becomes procedural, shifting from human judgment to verifiable logic." —@Tim Bouma

The Internet of Promises

From Bound Intent to Negotiable Value

“Being aware and mindful does not mean we don't take action. It's the software in our minds that matters most.” Join Shawn and @RobBrinded for a deeply personal conversation in this episode of Trust Revolution. Listen now:

Trust Revolution

Trust Revolution

Unfiltered conversations with builders, thinkers, and operators in Bitcoin and beyond. Exploring systems we trust, why they work (or don

Can you trust your mind? @RobBrinded maps the childhood programming that determines what drives us and reveals how Bitcoin became the mirror that showed him the glitch in his own mind. This is a fascinating conversation. New Trust Revolution 👇

Trust Revolution • S02E07 Rob Brinded – Can you trust your mind? • Watch on Fountain

What if the mind you trust is running a four-year-old's survival code? Rob Brinded, author of Glitch: The Hidden Code Running Your Life (And How to...