{"podcast":{"title":"Bitcoin Audible","slug":"bitcoin-audible-1000839","podcast_index_feed_id":1000839,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fountain.fm/jju8hH7aXnP0afzXN7GS","website_url":"https://bitcoinaudible.com/","image_url":"https://feeds.fountain.fm/jju8hH7aXnP0afzXN7GS/files/COVER_ART---DEFAULT---66f9025f-5f2f-4f91-a09f-9def09641622.jpg","author":"Guy Swann","episode_count":1383,"summary":"The Best in Bitcoin made Audible. Guy Swann makes the knowledge of Bitcoin, the world's most secure, independent money, accessible to everyone. Exploring Bitcoin from an investment perspective, economic analysis, its philosophical foundations, & technological primitives. Reading and distilling thousands of hours of others' works on Bitcoin, Guy explains everything you need to know.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T10:18:22.798139+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bitcoin-audible-1000839"},"episode":{"title":"Chat_166 - The Great Distraction: Epstein vs. Quantum in Bitcoin with Rob Wallace on Bitcoin News","slug":"chat-166-the-great-distraction-epstein-vs-quantum-in-bitcoin-with-rob-wallace-on-bitcoin-news","published_at":"2026-04-27T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bitcoin-audible-1000839/chat-166-the-great-distraction-epstein-vs-quantum-in-bitcoin-with-rob-wallace-on-bitcoin-news","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bitcoin-audible-1000839","url":"https://bitcoin-audible.castos.com/episodes/chat-166-the-great-distraction-epstein-vs-quantum-in-bitcoin-with-rob-wallace-on-bitcoin-news","audio_url":"https://feeds.fountain.fm/jju8hH7aXnP0afzXN7GS/items/nNkS9zgbkDJ6UzJJNdtq/files/AUDIO---DEFAULT---a1ea1696-66b5-4255-9697-6c2e561bd2a5.mp3","summary":"\"The whole point of libertarianism is that we should recognise that we don't know how to plan the world. We don't know what the solution is going to be. You can't have a central planner decide it. If it was really just that libertarians understood how the world worked, then you could have a central planner. You would just need them to be libertarians. That's not how it works at all. **It's antithetical to the whole concept. ** **That's why the Block Size War was such a huge success, because it did not hard-fork. It did not decide: 'Oh, if there is a schism in the community, one small group is going to be able to force it onto everybody else.' ** And that's exactly the thing that you actually need to have society's rules be sustainable, because otherwise, that's all you get. You get people who will violently disagree about the tiniest shit, and then they will put a gun to everybody else's head, and they will say: 'You just got to come along with me or you're screwed.'\" ~ Guy Lately, it feels like an endless stream of noise tries to predict the death of Bitcoin. So I joined Rob Wallace on the Bitcoin News channel to cut through the panic and tackle the two loudest distractions: Google's latest quantum computing claims and the wild conspiracy that Jeffrey Epstein dictated Bitcoin's code. We look at the actual physics of quantum processing to see if scaling qubits without catastrophic environmental noise is even possible. But the Epstein drama is what really gets me fired up. People are rewriting the history of the block size wars to fit a comfortable narrative. We lay out why he had zero practical influence over Bitcoin, and why some folks would rather believe an elaborate lie than accept the reality of decentralized consensus. But we do not just stay in the weeds. I also…","meta_description":"\"The whole point of libertarianism is that we should recognise that we don't know how to plan the world. We don't know what the solution is going to be. Y…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3832,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/bitcoin-audible-1000839/episodes/chat-166-the-great-distraction-epstein-vs-quantum-in-bitcoin-with-rob-wallace-on-bitcoin-news/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bitcoin-audible-1000839/chat-166-the-great-distraction-epstein-vs-quantum-in-bitcoin-with-rob-wallace-on-bitcoin-news.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}