GavinGreen / Gavin Green is on Nostr

https://fountain.fm/show/jfZokPuWino6F91jSGYq

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2026-09-16 11:07:44 UTC

Humans are the top of the food chain because of our brains. Hands too soft to break open a coconut? Use a rock. Suffocating prey too hard? Sharpen flint to use as a knife. Too slow to chase down prey? Shoot it with a bow and arrow. We have used tools to our advantage since the beginning. It's our brain that has helped us make those tools. AI is now the tool for our brains. It will help us with our natural limitations so we do so much more. What a time to be alive.

2026-08-25 12:07:56 UTC

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Only 29 days left of winter. Southern Hemisphere rocks 🤘🤘🤘
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2026-08-20 09:15:15 UTC

We unpack why South Africa’s new draft crypto regulations could be less about protection and more about control, then pivot into what real pushback might look like when the rules sit on top of unsettled legal ground. We also confront a brutal self-custody lesson from the Coldcard RNG failure and ask how Bitcoiners stay paranoid without becoming reckless followers of loud voices.
• draft crypto and Bitcoin regulations in South Africa and why process matters
• challenging regulation through litigation strategy rather than debating each clause
• capital controls as the real fight and why banks benefit
• grassroots campaigns versus corporate compliance culture
• Coldcard entropy failure and what it breaks in self-custody trust
• why open source hardware and verifiable code become non-negotiable
• practical entropy methods including dice rolls and device-based randomness
• BIP110 activation fallout and why proof-of-work changes look fringe
• strategic Bitcoin reserve companies leverage risks and why late entrants struggle
• cult personalities in Bitcoin and why humility matters when stakes are high
join property rights defense, it’s propertyrightsdefense.org. We’re getting a legal fund together. You can send some Bitcoin our way, and we’ll use it for funding the legal offense
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https://fountain.fm/episode/4W7oNQLJSF3LrpZXptgL

2026-07-27 17:26:33 UTC

Nextcloud running on @nprofile…p3nw crashes with every app update. Guess it's ossification for me now.

2026-07-26 05:32:25 UTC

I first bumped into @nprofile…kmsy at TABConf2024 @nprofile…4q0e when I volunteered to help out at the event. He wasn't there. Or if he was, we wasnt introduced. The posters and banner artwork immediately caught my attention. Comic books are always something I've enjoyed, fat as far back as I can remember. And it's almost always the visuals that gets me. I've been away from comics for a while but walking into that room brought it all back to me. It's also not just the style I love about NG, it's the subject matter too. My dad bought a ZX Spectrum 16k machine in the early 80's. You needed to plug in a tube TV and tape deck (software was a cassette tape back then). Growing up with computers, watching them evolve (along side myself) but struggling to get other people to share my fascination was just how it was. My best friend could even switch it on. Building PC's from ordered parts, adding in sound cards and video cards, watching Commodore and Amiga do amazing things that pc's couldn't do (back then), has been a huge part of my childhood and teenage memories. In my adult years it was setting up a raspberry pi to my my first bitcoin node, and btcpayserver, and all the wallet & nostr stuff. No Good brings all that wonder back into one book. (The stickers are a wicked bonus too). Thanks man, the wait was worth it.
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2026-07-24 14:07:48 UTC

We weigh up BIP 110 and Bitcoin spam without pretending anger is a strategy, then zoom out to how narratives shape both protocol fights and geopolitics. We end on hands-on freedom tech, from Start9 and Nostr to self-hosted AI, plus a reminder that most Bitcoin “disasters” start with a basic node check.
• why BIP 110 is framed as a fix by some and a protest by others
• the uncomfortable idea that fees may be the only neutral filter
• how knee-jerk reactions and online behaviour distort technical debates
• Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, and the economic knock-on effects of escalation
• propaganda incentives and “good guy” branding in foreign policy
• South African elections, legitimacy, and the case for smaller governance units
• the Freedom Stack framing: Bitcoin, Nostr, and AI as practical tools
• Start9 experiences: remote access, services, hardware constraints, and experimentation
• privacy trade-offs when using hosted AI versus local models
• troubleshooting a “missing payment” by checking node sync and connectivity
Get yourself a little bit of Bitcoin, get off zero, buy something, move it around from your phone wallet onto somebody else. Just mess around, just get comfortable with it. Take five bucks, ten bucks, something, fifty bucks, something that you're not afraid to lose, and just try something.
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https://fountain.fm/episode/SKEc9swfpnQW0Cu9wbDR

2026-06-28 07:31:38 UTC

The next wave of AI will not only change how we work, it will change what we believe. When deepfakes get plausible, citations can be fabricated, and “evidence” can be manufactured at scale, the real threat becomes an epistemic crisis: a slow collapse of shared reality where even experts struggle to verify what is true. We sit down with freelance journalist Ivo Vegter to talk honestly about that risk, and why the fix is not panic but disciplined source checking, clearer provenance, and a return to careful fact-finding.
https://fountain.fm/episode/TJiFIiQnc9i5WKj5xzWh

2026-06-20 06:49:30 UTC

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Heresy

2026-06-20 06:06:03 UTC

We trade jokes and hard truths about stablecoins, surveillance, and why “self-custody” means very different things depending on who holds the off switch. We move from BTC Prague and Europe’s privacy-first Bitcoin culture to South African capital controls, then finish with a hands-on tour of tools like silent payments and Start9 for anyone who wants more real-world sovereignty.
• BTC Prague highlights and why European Bitcoiners feel more cypherpunk
• DAC8 as automated KYC data sharing and why Bull Bitcoin takes it to court
• On-chain spam arguments and why virtue signalling does not fix technical problems
• Rwanda and South Africa regulatory pressure through the lens of property rights
• Why capital controls undermine a free and open society
• Party politics scepticism and why “a saviour” narrative fails
• Silent payments in Sparrow Wallet for better Bitcoin privacy
• Progressive web wallets as a path around app store gatekeepers
• Nostr VPN, decentralised tools and peer-to-peer messaging under censorship
• Start9 OS 0.40, remote access and making self-hosting usable
• Private AI trade-offs, data retention and why cloud convenience has a cost
• Mining centralisation, Stratum V2 and the nation-state angle
If you've got any SATS lying around, please donate to property rightsdefense.org. Send some SATS over to us, please.
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https://fountain.fm/episode/5qAinf7cQ4JdepKX7DEm

2026-06-14 15:27:34 UTC

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Nice Emily. Good to see you taking the games all over the globe.

2026-05-29 06:05:59 UTC

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Ready to ship?