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
From Naval Special Warfare to large-scale Bitcoin mining. @DudeChicken Average Gary spent years in intelligence and large-scale data systems, seeing how surveillance works, and then started building the alternatives. His path from classified operations to open source shows how military discipline translates to freedom tech—and why proof of work beats credentials. S02E12 is out tomorrow. https://fountain.fm/show/Mk0fJte5vrfiDQ5RyCZd
Choosing privacy today means building a resilient future. By resisting digital ID adoption and supporting privacy-first businesses, we preserve our freedom and sovereignty. Which path will you choose?
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September 2025 marked a critical turning point in the surveillance economy. Disney paid $10 million for illegally collecting children's data. Googl...
“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
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"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