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Trust Revolution
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Banks freeze accounts. Platforms sell data. Institutions don
ICYMI Trust Atlas is live. Open data for global trust. image What Happened: Iran dropped 55 points between 2000 and 2007, with a small recovery since. Indonesia fell steadily from 52% to 5%. Iraq and Egypt declined through years of conflict. The data ends at 2018 for most—we don't know the current state.
Trust Atlas
Trust Atlas
Trust is the invisible infrastructure of society. Open data across 210 countries.
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Trust Revolution
Trust Revolution
Unfiltered conversations with builders, thinkers, and operators in Bitcoin and beyond. Exploring systems we trust, why they work (or don
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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What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?
“Mining is ruthlessly competitive. Revenue trends to zero every halving. All you need is energy and minimal bandwidth.” @average_bitcoiner 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