"My learned opinion is that although your average toxic Bitcoin maximalist might be able to sniff out this bullshit a mile away, Silicon Valley cannot, because Crypto is peak Silicon Valley, and Silicon Valley has sadly become peak fiat." - Allen Farrington We bring another great piece by Allen just after our last great piece from Allen, but this time diving into the FTX insanity and how to understand why this and the other recent disasters are obvious consequences of the fiat mentality pervasive in the crypto space. Crypto is Peak Silicon Valley... Check out the original article and drop some applause on his medium page at the link below: https://allenfarrington.medium.com/crypto-is-peak-silicon-valley-b599ac24ec95 • The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (swanbitcoin.com/guy) • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 5% off everything in the store! (guyswann.com/coldcard) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 5,000 FREE SATS at (guyswann.com/fold) --------------------------- "Humans are shit. This thing is addressing problems that don't exist. It's solutionism at its worst. We are dumbing down machines that are inherently superior." - Gilfoyle, from Silicon Valley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

Today we bring John Carvalho back on to talk about Bitkit and the release of Synonym's first major product in the BitKit wallet and Slashtags. Re-Decentralizing the internet with serverless identities, default encryption, and where your Bitcoin seed is the key to your online kingdom. The first lego blocks of a potentially massive ecosystem. Download the Bitkit wallet in beta to check out slashtags & their intuitive wallet experience, as well as the other links below to explore more of what is possible in a P2P future that could alter our relationship with the networks that connect us. Add me on BitKit! slash:qhagr5jxmir5szaosn4i1wthfs7opbie777rps6e71x84trneogo Check out the links mentioned in the episode of all the tools that are building the foundation of this new ecosystem: https://slashtags.to/ https://synonym.to/ https://bitkit.to/ https://keet.io/ Check out our amazing sponsors and the products that Guy uses most in the space: • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 5,000 FREE SATS at (guyswann.com/fold) • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 5% off everything in the store! (guyswann.com/coldcard) • Join us and the Swan Bitcoin team at the Pacific Bitcoin Conference in November! Get your tickets now, 20% off with code BITCOINAUDIBLE (https://www.pacificbitcoin.com/) • The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (swanbitcoin.com/guy) ----------------------- "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." - Calvin Coolidge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message