Plebchain Radio

Paul Keating and DirectorHodl come on the show to talk about Hummingbird, the documentary they just released on IndeeHub. The film started life as a small video idea for Bitcoin Jungle and grew over a couple of years into a feature-length meditation on indigenous prophecy, the fiat system, and the strange gravitational pull of one small town in Costa Rica. The philosophical spine of the film is the prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor, which is unpacked in some depth during the conversation. The eagle represents the engineering mind that builds and abstracts. The condor represents the body and its way of living in relation to the land. The prophecy holds that these were once in balance, then tipped toward the eagle after European contact around 1500, and that the current 500-year cycle is meant to bring them back together to birth a third bird called the Hummingbird, which carries both. The film weaves that mythological frame together with the very grounded story of Estella, a Costa Rican farmer who lost money to a bank, fought off corporate pressure to take her land for monoculture planting, and through her daughter Kena became the connective tissue of what eventually grew into the Bitcoin Jungle community. She now has a sign at the farmers market reading La Abuelita del Bitcoin. The IMF loans, the structural adjustment programmes, the resource stripping all sit in the film as the practical machinery by which the eagle mindset extended its reach into the global south. The rest of the hour wanders into the realities of making the film. Roughly twenty hours of footage. DirectorHodl editing essentially solo, watching the cut something like a hundred times, finishing only when he reached the right level of crazy. Paul talks about the strange productivity tax of living somewhere as beautiful as Uvita, where the days are short and the sun pulls you out of the chair. DirectorHodl suggests you visit, you pick up the energy, and you carry it home. Hummingbird is on IndeeHub now, with a free YouTube release planned for the coming weeks, and it premieres at the Bitcoin Film Fest in Warsaw in early June. Links Hummingbird on IndeeHub Finding Home Episode 4 [Discount code: PIONEER21] Revolution.Rocks BTC Prague Discount code (15%) – NOSTR

Joe Martin finally made it onto Sunday Brunch after a few months of being impossible to pin down, which turns out to be a good problem – his new album Alone in Valentine came out in May and he just wrapped an eight-date UK tour to go with it. The album was recorded in Nashville at Glen Campbell's old house with Cal Campbell and Cornelius Webb producing, cut in about a week of 12-hour days with most of the arrangements happening live on the floor. Joe describes it as made by humans for humans, finished before AI slop takes over the world and makes a pure record harder to come by. We spend a good chunk of the hour in the weeds on craft – what mixing actually does, why mastering is a dark art that affects how a record feels more than how it sounds, why vinyl needs its own master because of the physics of a needle in a groove. From there the conversation drifts into territory that has been on Joe's mind: AI music and its uncanny perfection, the decline of grassroots venues as a downstream effect of cheap debt favouring the chains, why the kids are at stadium shows instead of small rooms, and what happens to culture when food and architecture and music all converge on the same shape of slop. The second half gets into harder questions about value-for-value. Joe is honest about where he is on the thousand-true-fans curve, where Nostr is right now (his word: quiet), and what it's actually like trying to convince a fan to leave Spotify when even artists with their entire catalog deleted have crawled back to the legacy platforms. He thinks the path through is culture, not lectures – more events like Bitfest, more music at conferences, winning hearts before minds. Joe brought five songs and not one of them was his own, which I had to overrule by playing Checkmate off the new album – his nod to Max Hillebrand's quiet exit, with Jeff Booth and Saylor quotes tucked into the bridge. Links Joe on Nostr Joe's Music Revolution Rocks BTC Prague Discount code: NOSTR

Philip Charter, fiction writer, prose editor, the man behind totallyhumanwriter.com and the editor of the 21 Futures Bitcoin fiction anthologies, joins Avi for a conversation about storytelling, the slow craft of prose, and the gap between the two that most people don't see until they try to cross it. The thread that runs through the hour: Bitcoin is not the story. People don't care about Bitcoin, they care about the impact it has on their own lives, and the work the space is sleeping on is the work of showing those impacts in human terms. They argue that Bitcoin-centric fiction faces an almost impossible bind: Bitcoiners treat fiction as frivolous, and non-Bitcoiners read anything orange-tinted as a scam. The more interesting territory is stories where Bitcoin lives quietly in the plot rather than wearing laser eyes on the cover. From there the conversation moves into the long apprenticeship of prose, the chasm between a great oral storyteller and a workable sentence on the page, and the unmistakable tells of AI fiction – the stacked adjectives, the spectral humming, the silences that stretch, the quiet everything. Avi shares his own experience using AI for the first pass of July 18 and the horror of recognizing those tics. Philip's defence of the short story form follows: it is a snapshot of change where the reader writes the ending – meaning living between the words and after the full stop, which is precisely the territory LLMs cannot reach. They close on Bitcoin's culture funding problem, the case for patrons and guilds (Bitcoin for the Arts, the artist guild forming around BTC Prague), and the affliction that keeps artists making things whether anyone pays for it or not. Plus Philip's nearly-finished fantasy novel about a husband chasing mythical islands across an alternate-world ocean while his wife tries to find his trail home. Links Philip on Nostr Totally Human Writer 21 Futures Bitcoin For The Arts Finding Home Episode 4 [Discount code: PIONEER21] Revolution.Rocks BTC Prague Discount code (15%) – NOSTR

What does it mean to be human online? In an age of AI agents posting, interacting, and transacting across the network, the question has stopped being philosophical and started being structural. Avi is joined by David Strayhorn (Brainstorm) and Nathan Day to dig into proof of personhood and why your social graph might be the most non-intrusive way to solve it. On Nostr, bots are first-class citizens. The problem isn't that they exist, it's that we have no native way to tell who is who they claim to be. Nathan traces his path from BTC Map's proof of place to the attestation primitives that grew out of that work, and now to the Person NIP he's preparing to publish. David comes at the same problem from the other side: tags and decentralized lists, community-curated structures where web-of-trust scoring filters the spam by default. The two approaches turn out to be complementary. The conversation maps the natural progression – proof of person, then proof of profession, then proof of competence – and lands on the inversion underneath it all: first-person credentials, issued by sovereign individuals and verified by the people who actually know them. Music discovery becomes the worked example. Spotify surfaces the popular. So does ChatGPT. But a Brainstorm-style service operating on social proof can finally surface the Joe Martins of the world. Timeline: Nathan says weeks. David says definitely this year. Links Attestr Brainstorm.world NosFabrica

A man who travelled to 42 countries was asked to then go as far as he could travel. He found the farthest journey was the one within himself. Paco of Run with Bitcoin returns after two years off the grid to talk about where he disappeared to. After finishing his 42-country journey at the end of 2023, the road ran out. An ankle injury ended his running. The conference circuit blurred into late nights and lost purpose. A wake-up call in Prague sent him to the Himalayas, where he traded the road for yoga, silence, and a notebook. What followed was the inner journey that no map could chart. The AWS reset (not what you think it is). Three months of writing that produced 700 pages of blabber. Six months chasing the wrong tools and the wrong editors. The slow lessons in patience and humility. And eventually, the way back to the community through grassroots work with the 256 Foundation, the BitAxe assembly project, and India's quietly thriving Bitcoin scene. Avi and Paco also dig into the upcoming book, "Proof of Work" or possibly, "Around the World with Two Bitcoins," and the Geyser all-or-nothing fundraise that ends Friday May 9th. With six and a half million sats to go and five days left, the man who traveled the world is asking the village to help fund the song he wants to sing in the next one. Links Paco's Geyser Campaign Paco on Nostr Finding Home Episode 4 [Discount code: PIONEER21] Revolution.Rocks BTC Prague Discount code (15%) – NOSTR

Henrik Flyman joins Sunday Brunch for a wide-ranging conversation on his musical journey from Sweden to Denmark, the highs and hardships of life in bands, and the evolution of his solo “shadow music” project. Along the way, he and Avi dig into awakening, sovereignty, creativity, and the strange beauty of becoming who you really are, with Henrik sharing a set of songs that reflect both darkness and resilience, plus a nod to the value-for-value world through Matt Finlay’s “Copenhagen Time.

Guest host Aaron of Essex takes the Sunday Brunch wheel again and welcomes Nat Cole for a lively, music-first conversation about building a “new music economy” on a Bitcoin standard. Nat frames the idea carefully: not just another platform or “ecosystem,” but a permissionless economic layer where artists can participate without gatekeepers, own more of their rails, and connect more directly with listeners. From there, the episode opens into Nat’s origin story: a childhood split between music and computing, with a Jamaican sound-system lineage on one side, early internet tinkering on the other, and formative years spent around studios, sound engineering, youth projects, pirate-tech curiosity, and anti-establishment energy that made Bitcoin’s freedom ethos click hard once he finally understood it. A big center of gravity is 2140 Music, Nat’s culture-maxi bridge between legacy music and Bitcoin rails. He describes it as part education hub, part events engine, part curation/bookings layer, built to help artists understand the tools, perform live, and find real opportunities in Bitcoin-adjacent spaces rather than just getting dumped into the deep ocean of Spotify-style discovery. The recurring theme is that the goal is not simply to preach “leave Spotify,” but to help artists add sovereign tools to their stack and gradually own more of their infrastructure. Along the way, Aaron and Nat spin a five-track set from the 2140 orbit, including music from Air Klipz, Andy Prince, G-O-L-D, Sites, and Acme, using each song as a doorway into the artists, the camp, and the wider mission. One highlight is “Buffalo Gals,” which Nat describes as the unofficial mascot track for 2140 Music, anchored by the refrain that they “came to change the game.” The closing stretch turns practical and forward-looking: Nat previews Bitcoin Graffiti Jam in Brixton/Stockwell, more intimate education/community events, and a continued push to build new bridges from the fiat music world into an uncapturable network where artists can actually own the relationship with their audience. Links 2140 Art Nat on Nostr New Music Nudge Unit Aaron on Nostr

Episode 157 opens with Avi’s sermon “The Forgotten Forge,” a meditation on what happens when a civilization outsources the making of the things that keep it alive. The frame is applied directly to Bitcoin: early on, acquiring BTC and producing it were effectively the same act, but convenience split buyers from builders, and the network has been living with that fracture ever since. Kent Halliburton, CEO of Saz Mining, joins to argue that this split is one of Bitcoin’s under-discussed fault lines. He traces his own path from a decade in the solar industry, through burnout and a Portugal walkabout, into Bitcoin and eventually mining, where he came to see mining as the “hashpunk” counterpart to the ledger’s cypherpunk side. His core mission with Saz Mining is to make sat-based acquisition through mining accessible to normal people rather than leaving production to specialists and institutions. A big chunk of the episode is devoted to Kent’s “hidden history” thesis: the 2013 combination of ASIC specialization and Coinbase convenience created a fork in how people acquire Bitcoin. One path led to buyers, the other to producers, and over time those became culturally separate worlds. Kent argues that Bitcoiners failed to think through the downstream consequences of surrendering majority hashrate, while the mining industry failed to earn the trust of Bitcoin-native users with products that felt sovereign, legible, and easy to use. From there the conversation gets practical: Saz’s hosted-ownership model, mining pool payout tradeoffs, the meaning of “wild sats” mined straight from the network, and the dangers of pool concentration, especially with Foundry and Antpool commanding an outsized share of global hashpower. Kent’s answer is simple but demanding: more proof of work from actual Bitcoiners, and less passive dependence on fiat-native public mining companies. There is also a rich side-thread through the geopolitics of energy and place: solar incentives and greenwashing, hydro-powered mining in Paraguay, Norway, and Ethiopia, plus reflections on Portugal, Peru, and the cultural textures of life on a Bitcoin standard outside the U.S. orbit. Executive Producer: Richard Greaser Links Sazming Kent on Nostr Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 3 – Paraguay [IndeeHub Code: PIONEER21 ] <a href="https://www.amazon.com/24-Avi-Burra/dp/B0CN9NRNNB/ref=sr*1*1?crid=27RW9P8JQ4YMV&keywords=avi+burra+24

Sunday Brunch #11 is a relaxed, music-first decompression chamber with Buttercup Roberts at the table: coffee poured, no sermon, no script, and the Value-for-Value house rule intact, where 90% of sats streamed during songs goes directly to the artist. Buttercup brings a playlist built through deep dives on WaveLake and Nostr, using the episode to reflect on how direct zaps can create a real feeling of connection between listener and musician in a world usually clogged with intermediaries. The conversation ranges across Buttercup’s wider creative world. She shares her film background, her love of storytelling’s emotional power, and her growing disenchantment with the modern film industry’s shift from immersive movies toward disposable “content.” That opens naturally into talk about The Bridge, her parallel Nostr project using comics, characters, and visual storytelling to make privacy, censorship, data rights, and digital freedom more legible to everyday people. A big middle section focuses on discovery, onboarding, and the UX challenge in open music ecosystems. Avi and Buttercup compare WaveLake and Fountain, discuss how hard it still is for normal people to browse music intuitively, and zoom out to the broader Nostr problem: how do you onboard artists and non-Bitcoiners into a network that is still culturally dominated by Bitcoin-native conversation? Their answer is less about hiding the ethos and more about building compelling creative entry points around art, identity, and sovereignty. That leads into Bitcoin for the Arts, where Buttercup discusses the initiative’s mission to fund artists across disciplines, not necessarily for explicitly “Bitcoin” art, but for work that carries the ethos into culture through story, symbolism, and emotional resonance. The episode closes in a playful, ambitious place: imagining grants, murals, scavenger hunts, and global artistic treasure maps as ways to make the parallel culture feel alive, participatory, and worth showing up for. Links The Bridge on Nostr Today's Playlist

Plebchain Radio Ep. 156 is part sermon, part game-theory lab, part cultural weather report. Avi opens with “The Price of a Voice,” using Primal’s new zap polls to explore a bigger idea: when voting has a real cost, consensus stops being cheap theater and starts becoming an economy of conviction. In the context of Maxi Madness, that means last-minute snipes, whale zaps, coalition strategy, and a genuinely new social dynamic where intensity beats duplication and every move leaves a receipt. Richard Greaser of The Bitcoin Bugle joins to unpack how the tournament has evolved from a fun bracket into a live experiment in Bitcoin-native participation. He talks through why they kept the wide zap range, how unpredictability is part of the magic, and why Nostr’s version feels more wholesome and sportsmanlike than the more politically charged version on Twitter. The bigger theme is that having fun is not a distraction from the mission, it’s part of how movements stay alive. Mid-episode, the conversation shifts into music and culture-building. Richard explains how the new “Maxi Madness” song, written by him and performed by Noa Grumman, came together, and why collaborations like that matter as markers of a maturing Bitcoin-native creative scene. That opens into a passionate discussion of Revolution Rocks, the upcoming Belgrade festival, and the need to build music ecosystems where artists are actually paid, not merely offered “exposure.” The closing stretch zooms out again to the mood of the moment: podcast boosts are down, people feel psychologically squeezed, and the wider world is radiating bear-market fatigue. Richard’s answer is not pity but purpose. Hard times, he argues, are not proof that the signal failed. They are the proving ground that reveals whether people can turn struggle into meaning instead of despair. Executive Producer: Brandon Karpeles (plebiANON) Links Maxi Madness Video Richard on Nostr Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 3 – Paraguay [IndeeHub Code: PIONEER21 ] Avi's First Book – 24 (2nd Edition)

Sunday Brunch #10 is a classic “table, coffee, record player” decompression chamber with Aza (Şelale, “waterfall”) as guest-DJ, running on the Value-for-Value house rule: stream during songs and 90% goes straight to the artist; boost during conversation and you’re buying a round for the table. Aza shares updates on her newest culture node, Amplified Tunes: a European-leaning hub designed to connect independent musicians with fans through Nostr + Lightning, with a focus on making discovery and artist connection feel human (including only listing artists who have active Nostr accounts for direct audience connection). She also previews a physical magazine component (interviews, playlists, reviews, games) meant to be an extra “missing puzzle piece” for the ecosystem. The episode’s playlist swings across genres and scenes: “The Sky Is Falling” by Zēmar Red, a track Aza connects to real-world economic anxiety and hope (and notes the artist is active on Nostr). “Unify” by Halene, highlighting the band’s range and a detour into alternative tuning/frequency rabbit holes. “Telling Lies” by My Friend Jimmy, chosen for warm, introspective vibes. “Like A Ear Drum” by Silver Unit, a German discovery Aza hopes to “onboard” toward Nostr by giving them traction. “Nothing Left to Say” by Jaded Jester, a high-energy closer with that “teenage time machine” effect. Between tracks, Avi and Aza riff on the growing Europe/UK V4V scene (Essex, South by Worldwide) and Aza’s other long-running passion project: Bitcoin Junior Club / bitcoin4youth, focused on kid-friendly creativity, critical thinking, and family education without turning Bitcoin into a pushy sermon for children. Executive Producer: Strange Love Links Amplified Tunes Website Amplified Tunes on Nostr Bitcoin Junior Club Bitcoin Film Fest Zēmar Red on Nostr Haleen on Nostr My Friend Jimi on Nostr Jaded Jester on Nostr Today's Playlist

Episode 155 opens with Avi’s sermon “Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls”: permissionless networks don’t remove gravity. They remove gatekeepers and then demand competence: slow proof-of-work, deep roots, and the brutal honesty of output. UTXO the Webmaster returns and the convo starts in familiar territory: why the most recent “politician + Wall Street” Bitcoin cycle felt dirty, and why Bitcoin can’t survive as only a mainstream asset proxy. They both argue the cypherpunk ethos is fading and that the “Bitcoin as money” vision needs defending. From there, it’s full Nostr dev shop talk. UTXO explains why he built Wisp (Android): years of relay-side work (Haven) didn’t get client adoption, especially around inbox/outbox, and he got tired of waiting for basic UX improvements (including obvious stuff like GIF keyboards). AI-assisted front-end building helped him finally close the execution gap. A big chunk is the painful state of Nostr DMs: NIP-04 vs NIP-17 vs the newer “Marmot/White Noise” direction, and the interoperability mess that forces users to juggle clients just to coordinate shows. They agree the current situation is abject and that any migration will be chaotic, but necessary. Then the Nostr.band replacement: UTXO sketches why Nostr.band likely died (cost + maintenance + endless complaints) and why search/trending need to be treated like real ranking problems rather than “chronological results from a few relays.” His approach is to provide better search (authority + recency + credibility signals) and expose trending as relay feeds, so any client can consume it without proprietary lock-in. Wallet talk rounds it out: Wisp is NWC-first (no clunky “open external wallet” flow), with discussion of custodial vs non-custodial tradeoffs, Spark/Breez-style UX, and why Lightning’s single-node reliability model still fails the “pleb in a basement” test. Links Nostr Archives Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 3 – Paraguay [IndeeHub Code: PIONEER21 ] Avi's First Book – 24 (2nd Edition)

Sunday Brunch #9 is a classic “coffee + record player” decompression session with Budtender (Hash Power Music) as guest-DJ, running on the house rule: 90% of sats streamed during songs goes straight to the artist, and boosts during conversation keep the table stocked. Budtender shares how a chain of Nostr serendipities pulled him from a “silent Bitcoiner” life into hands-on music onboarding. He revisits Nostrville 2023 as a hinge moment, including the funny full-circle detail that a Plebchain Radio shirt photo ended up embedded in an album context, tying his early V4V journey to the first song Avi ever played on the show (“Closer to Somewhere” by The Retrograde). The conversation then zooms out into Budtender’s broader mission: Hash Power Music as an “end game” vision for the music world, built to merge what worked in legacy labels with artist sovereignty and V4V rails, avoiding the predatory incentive drift that corrodes centralized platforms. Playlist-wise, they spin and react to a set of tracks chosen to match the Brunch arc, including The Velvics’ “Favorite Child” (a stadium-sized, Pink Floyd-adjacent slow burn), Abel James’ “Live While I’m Alive” (a buoyant “do the thing anyway” anthem), The Trusted’s “Spin” (acoustic live version), Mooky’s “Shotgun” (a quirky new-to-V4V drop), and Survival Guide’s “Blood Perfume” (dark, cinematic mood, paired with a clever “Death Drinks” cocktail-book concept). A major mid-episode highlight is Budtender’s plug for South by Worldwide: a Bitcoin/Nostr community-built, Lightning-enabled variety-show-style music festival running alongside SXSW, with zaps/boosts dynamically routed as acts change, plus shoutouts to the crew making it happen and an open invite for artists to submit sets.

Episode 154 opens with Avi’s sermon “Weaponized Escapism”: in an attention-extraction world, the urge to flee is rational, but the kind of escape matters. Numbing out through feeds, outrage, and dopamine loops keeps you tethered to the machine. The real exit is constructive escapism: retreat into craft, build tools, make art, write code, and turn flight into creation. Sourcenode returns and immediately pushes the theme deeper: escaping “fiat” isn’t just dropping a currency, it’s unwinding layers in the psyche and social fabric. That leads into why he’s stayed on Nostr and off X: the nervous-system difference is real, and a lot of resistance to Nostr is less technical than it is about giving up accumulated influence (golden handcuffs, but for clout). From there: a detour into back pain as stress/anger, mattresses, and the body keeping receipts. Then the personal update: Sourcenode’s Austin chapter, where he helped build a podcast studio but walked away after realizing “podcasting is show business,” and monetizing it often means bending the knee to algorithmic clickbait. The heart of the episode is a high-level “node debate” reflection without getting dragged into tribal mud: Bitcoin is “trust-minimized,” not magically trustless, because humans still run the software, fund development, and choose what to ossify. The immutability lives partly in the social layer. Executive Producer: Rev Hodl Links Sourcenode on nostr Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 3 – Paraguay [IndeeHub Code: PIONEER21 ] Avi's First Book – 24 (2nd Edition)

Avi is joined by Mark Suman (CEO of Maple AI, former Apple engineer) for a technical dive into the intersection of AI privacy, confidential computing, and Web-of-Trust as the internet shifts toward an agentic future. Mark explains Maple’s core design: privacy-first by default, where each user starts with a private encryption key, data is encrypted locally, and then processed in the cloud using secure enclaves/confidential computing so the company only ever sees encrypted blobs. The conversation contrasts this with “AI proxy” services (VPN-like shared accounts) that may reduce identity linkage but still send sensitive prompt content to big-tech model providers. From there, they widen out into the economics and trajectory of models: open-source catch-up (benchmarks like Humanity’s Last Exam), the limits of benchmark-chasing, and why Mark expects the “model obsession” to fade as apps and user experience become the real battleground. They also debate the sustainability of today’s venture-subsidized inference, the likelihood of price “switch flips,” and how platforms monetize users indirectly. The back half turns to agents: Mark outlines Maple’s roadmap toward a privacy-preserving personal agent with durable memory and carefully staged permissions (read-only integrations first, sandboxed work later), plus the hard problem of letting agents act in the world without becoming a giant attack surface. The episode closes by tying agents to identity and trust: Nostr’s signed events as an authenticity primitive, and the need for richer reputation signals as bots and humans transact side-by-side. Links Mark Suman on Nostr Maple AI

Avi’s guest in this serving of Sunday Brunch is Ivy Lumi, a singer-songwriter and Bitcoin-industry native who began writing songs in late 2023 and spent about a year and a half getting her first five tracks produced, eventually releasing under the Ivy Lumi name starting May 2025. Ivy shares her creative process: she “hears” melodies first and uses a mobile songwriting app (Demo) to quickly capture chord progressions, arrange instruments, and record vocal ideas before moving into fuller production workflows. The conversation weaves through love, presence, and emotional honesty as Ivy explains the thesis at the core of her work: “Love is the cure.” She unpacks how Bitcoiners often unshackle themselves from fiat thinking but still carry “fiat trauma,” and why inner work matters even (especially) when Bitcoin “moons.” Playlist highlights include Ivy’s own tracks “Wowowow,” “SideQuest,” and “The Cure” (her first song, and the title track of her EP), plus guest picks that widen the palette: Zazawowow's “It’s the Only Way Through” (Zaza also collaborated on Ivy’s “Wowowow” visuals, alongside F-Zero) and Halene’s “Greatness,” a Nostr discovery Ivy champions as the kind of music we might hear in a more abundant future. Ivy also shares her Geyser campaign “Love is the Cure”, offering supporter items like a Nostr badge, collectible pins, and signed CDs as a way to fund independent, Bitcoin-native art. Executive Producer: Silvie Links Ivy's Geyser Campaign Ivy on Nostr Today's Playlist

Episode 153 opens with Avi’s sermon “Fix Yourself to Fix the World”: Bitcoin can be a flawless instrument, but it doesn’t magically heal the operator. The call is to audit the inner ledger with the same seriousness we bring to the timechain, because sovereign networks demand sovereign people. Red Tail Hawk then shares a raw origin story shaped by the 2008 financial crisis. After graduating with an applied mathematics degree in 2007, he gets hit by the post-crash job-market catch-22, sliding into a stretch of extreme austerity and homelessness before eventually rebuilding stability. That experience becomes the gateway into monetary curiosity: Ron Paul, the Fed, precious metals, and finally a serious Bitcoin deep dive around 2017 after watching price (and conviction) accelerate. From there, the conversation takes a spiritual turn. Red explains how he received the name “Red Tail Hawk” through a remote encounter with an elderly medicine man, and how that catalyzed years of research into comparative religion and esoteric traditions. He recounts a pivotal 2018 experience during Hurricane Florence era stress, describing a body-wide “pins and needles” event and involuntary hand postures, which he later connected to kundalini frameworks and a broader “perennial philosophy” lens, looking for common ground across traditions. A practical centerpiece of the episode is Red’s approach to “golden rule orange-pilling”: qualify your lead, learn what makes them tick, and tailor the Bitcoin entry point to their worldview (security/military frames vs ecology/permaculture frames), rather than trying to brute-force a one-size pitch. They also explore “missing years” Jesus travel theories (India/Tibet threads), skepticism toward religious canon as a kind of “fiat authority,” and Red’s current writing project around symbolism, etymology, and what he calls “Language of the Birds.” Later, they touch the “Bitcoin metanoia” phenomenon (Bitcoin as a mind-and-heart pivot), praxeology as a bridge toward empathy, and a deep nerdy detour into theta states, grounding, Schumann resonance, and Itzhak Bentov as a missing-link figure in consciousness research. Links Red Tail Hawk on Nostr Flight Club Red's Latest Appearance on the Once Bitten Podcast Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 3 – Paraguay</

Avi opens the episode with a sermon on “the compromised substrate”: when public idols crack, the scavengers try to smear the entire network with the sins of a few. Bitcoin is not its loudest humans, and the protocol shouldn’t inherit anyone’s moral debt by association. Then Ben Justman returns, bringing it back to earth with the reality of shipping bottles, licensing, and the awkward border where Bitcoin-native trade meets heavily regulated goods such as wine. They riff on the dream of resilient “Denim Road” style trade routes and courier networks, but Ben explains why alcohol law keeps him partially pinned to the fiat rails, even if his customers and values are fully Bitcoin. From there, they dig into the state of Nostr commerce: marketplaces like Plebeian Market/Shopstr and the practical frictions of e-cash, discovery, and demand. Ben shares a very relatable “I’m early and I paid tuition” moment: he sold wine once, fumbled an e-cash withdrawal, balked at fees, and later realized the funds were gone. The conversation closes around an artisan’s paradox in a bear market: quality requires pricing with integrity, but buyers feel poorer, even as they might “need the wine the most.” Then the deeper pricing insight: sometimes raising prices and removing shipping friction signals quality more honestly than trying to compete with supermarket expectations. Links Peony Lane Soak Quest Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 3 – Paraguay [IndeeHub Code: PIONEER21 ] Avi's First Book – 24 (2nd Edition)

Guest host Aaron of Essex takes the Sunday Brunch wheel and welcomes Longy for a laid-back, music-first hang: five Longy tracks get spun, boosted, and dissected in real time, with the chat and sats flowing as part of the show’s “participation layer.” Between songs, Longy rewinds the tape to his early influences (from childhood sparks to teenage band chaos) and makes the case for live performance as the ultimate truth serum: the stage doesn’t care about hype, it only cares what you can actually do when the lights hit. The conversation keeps one foot in Essex lore and one foot in the Valueverse. “Hamlet Court Blues” becomes a love-letter-to-a-place (with a cheeky Margot Robbie thread), and the guys talk about why gritty, story-rich local scenes still matter. On the industry side, Aaron and Longy contrast the legacy music pipeline (distributors, slow publishing, tiny payouts) with the immediacy of value-for-value, where artists can get paid directly and fast. They dig into Spotify-as-gatekeeper dynamics and the uglier incentives around streaming, including allegations of inflated numbers and the way “top-heavy” manipulation starves everyone downstream. They also unpack a practical, boots-on-the-ground example: a UK gig at The Fickle Pickle that turned into a mini proof-of-concept for the new model, combining an in-room show, livestream participation, and even a recorded release as additional revenue, with Bitcoin onboarding help for attendees. Links New Music Nudge Unit Aaron on Nostr Longy on Fountain Longy on Nostr

In episode 3 of Say Wot?, guest host David Strayhorn sits down with Matthias DeBernardini, a software developer and “agentic engineering” tinkerer who’s just joined NosFabrica to help build open-source Web of Trust tooling on Nostr. They trace Matthias’ path from materials engineering into Bitcoin (including an early “$90 BTC is too expensive” family moment), then into graph theory, Lightning experiments, and Rust-heavy open-source work (Fedimint, AnchorWatch). From there, the convo zooms into the core question: can we build decentralized recommendation systems without recreating the extractive, centralized incentives of Big Tech? They unpack why today’s large-scale AI training tends to favor hyperscalers (hardware, bandwidth, overhead), why “decentralized labeling” often still collapses into centralized control, and where a better hybrid might live: community-curated, topic-structured data (a “grapevine” Web of Trust) paired with local models for narrow tasks, fine-tuning, and personal assistants. The episode ends with a clear thesis: the internet’s signal-to-noise problem is incentive-driven, and the way out is opt-out plus better tools, built around user control and delegated trust. Links NosFabrica David on Nostr Matias on Nostr

Ryan Cooper from Bitcoin Ranch joins Avi for a boots-on-the-ground conversation about rebuilding real-world resilience: food, trade, and community. Ryan shares his path from Detroit childhood roots and a fiercely independent, homeschool-led upbringing to managing a Chevy dealership, then getting “pandemic orange-pilled” into realizing how fragile modern supply chains really are. That wake-up call turns into a local “milk route,” hands-on support for nearby farmers, and the broader Bitcoin Ranch vision: a decentralized farm incubator built around relationships, volunteer labor, and a growing network of producers and consumers who want clean food and direct-to-consumer markets. They dig into the “Denim Road” idea (a regional trade corridor), the practical realities of distribution, and Ryan’s near-term solution: member-only microstores. Think climate-controlled sheds with shelf rentals for producers, RFID (or future Nostr-based) access for members, and minimal middlemen, inspired by honor-system farm stands and a self-serve community shop model Ryan saw in Finland. The throughline is proof-of-work living: if you want real food, real money, and real comms, you build it, locally, with people you can shake hands with. Links Ryan On Nostr Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 3 – Paraguay [IndeeHub Code: PIONEER21 ] Avi's First Book – 24 (2nd Edition)

Guest host OpenMike takes the wheel for a laid-back, music-first Sunday Brunch with Tatum Turn Up, kicking off with some classic Nostr “we’re live … are we live?” chaos across Primal/Damus before settling into the vibe of Value for Value radio: sats flow to artists during tracks, and to the show during the chat. Tatum shares an origin story that feels like pure internet destiny: getting orange-pilled after time in Pomp’s “crypto academy,” then accidentally DM-ing his way into filming with Anthony Pompliano, which launched Between Two ASICs and a run of heavyweight guests. The conversation ranges from the creator reality of modern platforms to why community-driven funding models matter, including how V4V and live events can restore a more direct patron-to-artist relationship in a world drowning in content. They also nerd out on the future of streaming: Tatum dunks on Twitch’s walled-garden incentives and explains why zap.stream is a better creator-native loop, then detours into gaming culture with Kaizo Super Mario World romhacks and the joy of high-skill, high-fail challenges. Closing stretch: festival energy and “micro-Nostrica” moments, including talk of WhatFest in Wyoming and the magic of running into Nostr people IRL, plus a shout to Ainsley Costello (“Cherry on Top”) as a V4V breakout and artist model.

In episode 150, Avi Burra welcomes Auggie from the “Meshtadel” world to talk regenerative farming, circular Bitcoin economies, and what it looks like to build a parallel system from the dirt up. Avi opens with a “soil is the original protocol” sermon: real resilience comes from base layers (trust, attention, relationships, values), not glossy interfaces or top-of-stack hype. Auggie, a DevOps engineer turned farmer, shares how he’s regenerating 99 acres in Missouri with management-intensive rotational grazing, raising sheep, pigs, and a small but growing cattle herd. He frames “Meshtadel” as both literal mesh networking and a broader metaphor: local “citadels” that can meet essential needs on their own, then trade for luxuries and gaps across a wider network, like a resilient hologram. They dig into externalities: how modern living hides downstream consequences (waste, subsidies, monocrops), while regenerative practices close loops with manure, rotation, biodiversity, and low-input systems. Auggie gives vivid on-the-ground examples, from using pigs and sheep to suppress invasives (like Japanese honeysuckle) to celebrating dung beetles as a sign the soil biology is coming back online. They connect the farm to Bitcoin: Auggie sells farm goods for sats through local meetups, helps bootstrap a circular economy (raw milk, honey, soaps, salsa, 3D-printed goods), and dreams up “trade routes” between cities and meetups to move real-world necessities on a Bitcoin standard. Links Ink Blot Farm KC Bitcoiners Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 3 – Paraguay [IndeeHub Code: PIONEER21 ] Avi's First Book – 24 (2nd Edition)

Avi hosts the fifth serving of Sunday Brunch as a proper decompression chamber: coffee on the table, records on the turntable, and a strict Value-for-Value house rule where 90% of sats streamed during each song goes straight to the artist. This week’s guest-DJ is DJ Valerie B LOVE, who rolls in with “curve balls and lightning rods and heart openers” and a playlist designed to surprise. Between tracks, the conversation wanders in the best Sunday way: from the idea of building an open-source “cyber opera” inspired by The Legendary Treasure of Satoshi Nakamoto (a “Cirque du Soleil meets Burning Man meets Hamilton” kind of mutant art form) and how that project gathered momentum through community collaboration and remix culture, long before today’s push-button creative tools. Later, the chat gets practical and spicy: Avi and Val dig into intellectual property and copyright in a world where AI eats styles for breakfast, and whether the future is protection, permissionless sharing, or something stranger that artists can still live on. Along the way you’ll hear shoutouts to V4V musicians, a nod to new Nostr entrants, and the general vibe of two friends trying to build a better music economy without turning the soul into an API. Executive Producer: Shadrach Links Extended Playlist DJ Valerie's Website Val on nostr

In this episode, Avi talks with Stirling Forge about building a decentralized rideshare alternative on Nostr, sparked by the brutal economics of driving for Uber and Lyft today. Stirling shares his background: former weather forecaster turned rideshare driver who stacked sats hard when payouts were better, then watched driver take-home shrink dramatically in recent years (with platforms extracting a much bigger share). From there, the episode dives into his open-source project: Ridestr (rider) and Drivestr (driver), a peer-to-peer rideshare flow that uses Nostr as the communication layer, does routing and fare calculation locally on-device, and aims to keep privacy tighter (drivers share approximate location; riders avoid broadcasting location by default). A big chunk is the “how does this not die to network effects?” question, and Stirling’s answer is the episode’s secret sauce: Road Flare, a “bat-signal” mode for repeat rides. Riders scan a driver QR once, save them to a favorites list, and later ping their personal micro-network of trusted drivers first, reducing signup friction and sidestepping the classic chicken-and-egg problem. Links Stirling on nostr Ridestr Video 1 | Ridestr Video 2 Ridestr GitHub page Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 3 – Paraguay [IndeeHub Code: PIONEER21 ] Avi's First Book – 24 (2nd Edition)

Jim Costello joins Avi for Episode 4 of Sunday Brunch. The conversation pinballs from David Lynch deep cuts and the musical fingerprints of Angelo Badalamenti into how Costello’s Phantom Power Media helps independent artists navigate the Bitcoin and podcasting music ecosystem, inspired by daughter Ainsley Costello’s breakout via Wavlake and the broader “open mic / sats flowing” live-scene energy. Big themes: the messy-middle of onboarding (don’t lead with “Bitcoin,” keep it human, meet artists where they are), the very real discovery problem (duplicate feeds, fragmented identifiers), and the rising tide of AI-generated slop and chart-gaming, with a hopeful counterspell: web-of-trust curation and simpler, more elegant one-click tooling. Executive Producer (top booster from last episode): ToneWrecker Links Jim's Playlist Today Jim's Solo Piano Works Phantom Power Media

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, Avi sits down with Coach Carbon for a wide-ranging conversation that treats football as a laboratory for truth: you can talk your way through many professions, but you can’t talk your way into elite performance. The pitch keeps receipts. They dig into the idea of “proof of workout” and why athletic consistency is the purest anti-fiat mechanism: no bailouts, no narrative dressing, no marketing varnish. Just reps, recovery, and results. From there, the discussion moves into building a culture where players and creators can be rewarded directly, without gatekeepers, ads, or permission slips, using value-for-value mechanics. Coach Carbon shares the story behind his clothing line: wearable statements timestamped to the chain via block heights, turning apparel into both message and breadcrumb trail. Even better, the “spotted in the wild” concept flips merch into an onboarding funnel, rewarding people in sats when they post proof they’re wearing it, making education part of the exchange. The conversation also sketches a near-future vision for football broadcasts where fans can stream sats to players in real time based on performance, with experiments already hinting at what’s possible: QR codes per player and live sats streaming during a match. Links Coach Carbon Life Coach on nostr Coach on X Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 3 – Paraguay [IndeeHub Code: PIONEER21 ] Avi's First Book – 24 (2nd Edition)

In Episode 2 of Say WoT?, Avi sits down with Gzuuus to “debug the intersection of AI and the Web of Trust,” tracing his build path through DVMCP, ContextVM, and his latest project, Relatr, with the goal of engineering machine intelligence that amplifies human reputation instead of harvesting it. Gzuuus explains why ContextVM evolved from an earlier “kitchen sink” approach into a cleaner design that lives at the transport layer, using Nostr keys for authentication/authorization, and leaning into ephemeral events plus a single kind for communications to keep things minimal and composable. Then the conversation drops into Relatr: a fully open-source, self-hostable Web-of-Trust service designed to run “anywhere” (even on a Raspberry Pi), with real-world performance on a cheap VPS and fast search response times. Relatr supports two complementary interfaces: ContextVM’s request/response pattern (needed for things like search) and NIP-85 Trusted Assertions (a more native produce/consume model that’s easier for clients to integrate). On scoring, Gzuuus describes a tunable weighted formula that outputs a float from 0 to 1, anchored by social graph distance (hops) mapped through a decay function, with weights configurable by anyone running an instance. Finally, they explore practical client UX (like Amethyst consuming trusted assertions for spam mitigation) and the broader interoperability headaches haunting secure messaging, including MLS complexity and the risk of siloed implementations. Links ContextVM Relatr Gzuus Github | ContextVM Github Enemies of Nostr Article

Avi and guest OpenMike riff on the weird gap between “real-world popularity” and how few followers some incredible musicians have on Nostr, then use that as a springboard into what it looks like to actually build culture: paying creators directly, making venues more resilient, and turning community into infrastructure. The conversation detours into Tunestr and OpenMike’s search for a true “home base” venue, landing on Maggie Mae’s on 6th Street in Austin, right across from Rogan’s Comedy Club, as a potential flagship location to revitalize a legendary (and struggling) music corridor with Bitcoin/Nostr-native tooling. Near the end, they preview a Value-for-Value music fest in Belgrade (week after BTC Prague), with a floating-club venue on the Danube called Zappa, plus a mix of independent and bigger acts. Executive Producer (top booster from last episode): Rod Palmer Find today's artists on nostr: Doomtree (Lazerbeak) Theo Katzman Sam Means Henry Invisible Suzanne Santo

Avi opens Episode 147 with “The Return of the Local Oracle,” a sermon on outsourced knowing, supply-chain truth, and rebuilding trust through people you can look in the eye: ranchers, butchers, and neighbors with gardens. Tom Taber returns to unpack his work with the Beef Initiative, arguing that ranching culture runs on integrity, “cowboy code,” and accountability in a world he frames as increasingly Truman Show-ish. They dig into the initiative’s mission: connecting consumers to ranchers (via beefmaps.com) while building something bigger. Tom explains that Texas Slim acquired beef.com, positioning it as a “digital ranch” with privacy protections and a marketplace for ranching trade beyond just beef. The conversation turns to rebuilding independent micro-processing centers, and why Bitcoin capital can fund real-world infrastructure that saves ranches. Links Beef Initiative on X Tom Taber on X Tom on nostr Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 3 – Paraguay [IndeeHub Code: PIONEER21 ] Avi's First Book – 24 (2nd Edition)

Sunday Brunch is your lightning-laced decompression chamber: no sermon, no prepared questions, just coffee, a record player, and a guest DJ, with Value-for-Value splits (90% of boosts/streams during songs go to the artist; talk-time splits go to the guest + show). This episode’s guest is Rod Palmer (Bitcoin Bugle), spinning a playlist that sparks a wide-ranging riff on staying sovereign through the noise: “the remnant will subscribe,” waves of normie dilution, and why the frontier always keeps a core that survives every cycle. Between tracks, Avi and Rod go from “slop culture” (AI-generated everything and the new “hurdle rate” for art) to modern “glazing” as a social currency, plus a youth-perspective detour via E-Cash Sailor, broccoli haircuts, and peak timeline absurdity. Links Rod's Playlist Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 3 – Paraguay [IndeeHub Code: PIONEER21 ] Avi's First Book – 24 (2nd Edition)

Avi opens with a sermon on “embracing the outsider” and argues that the real mission isn’t winning debates, but building a parallel city, with art as core infrastructure and Bitcoiners as the new patrons. Guest Dion Wilson, former professional dancer (including the touring cast of Disney’s The Lion King), shares his path from the demanding Broadway ecosystem into Bitcoin and launches Bitcoin for the Arts, a 501(c)(3) designed to support artists, institutions, and nonprofits with Bitcoin microgrants plus practical education on living and creating on a Bitcoin standard. They talk NYC’s cultural cycles, fiat’s squeeze on artists (rising costs, stagnant artist pay), and a hopeful vision of a Bitcoin-driven Harlem renaissance. Bitcoin For The Arts Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 3 – Paraguay [IndeeHub Code: PIONEER21 ] Avi's First Book – 24 (2nd Edition)

Say WoT? with host Avi Burra kicks off by staking the claim that Nostr’s “exit ramp” from addictive, black-box feeds is Web of Trust, and then immediately drops into the engine room with Vitor Pamplona (Amethyst), Derek Ross (Soapbox), and David Strayhorn (NosFabrica). The trio breaks down NIP-85 trusted assertions as a simple delivery mechanism for portable, personalized trust scores (clients shouldn’t compute them), and tackles the “is this a social credit score?” fear head-on: the key difference is user-chosen providers + user-specific perspective, not a single global, centralized rating. They close by mapping real use-cases: spam/scam suppression (especially in notifications), better sorting and discovery, and the longer arc toward contextual trust (different signals and scores depending on what you’re trying to find). Links NosFabrica Soapbox Amethyst

Welcome to the inaugural serving of Sunday Brunch – a new weekly format from Plebchain Radio designed to be your decompression chamber after a long week in the fiat mines. No roadmap grilling, no deep-dive technicals, just coffee, conversation, and a curated playlist of independent Value-for-Value music. To kick things off, Avi is joined by Oscar Merry, the creator of Fountain, to spin tracks, discuss the state of the Open Music ecosystem, and chat about everything from the rise of Arsenal FC to the surprising resilience of London's food scene. In this episode: The Brunch Format: Why we need "slow content" and spaces to relax, listen, and discover music without the pressure of constant learning. Life in London: Oscar debunks the "decline of London" narrative, shares his amateur football career, and discusses the cost-of-living crisis vs. salary stagnation in the UK. The State of V4V Music: The growth of independent music on Fountain, the ease of onboarding for artists, and the roadmap for 2026 – including live stream splits and better listener curation tools. The Playlist: A deep dive into 6 tracks from independent muscians, ranging from acoustic ballads to high-energy indie rock and symphonic metal. Links Oscar's Playlist Follow Hartlight on nostr

This week, I strip it back. No interviews. No sermon. Just signal. I explore the philosophy of the Exit. Why fighting the system is a trap, why building alternatives is the only winning move, and how to navigate the inevitable friction this creates with the people we love. I perform a reading of four essential essays by Max Hillebrand, woven together with a custom musical score to help the signal land. The Program: Builders, Not Talkers: Why waiting for mass adoption is a waste of time. Societies break down collectively, but they are rebuilt individually. The Quiet Departure: Fighting the system validates it. Leaving it renders it irrelevant. The door is open for anyone willing to walk through. What Your Loved One Is Trying to Tell You: Reframing the conflict at the dinner table. It isn’t aggression; it is desperation born of care. The Candle’s Work: A tactical shift for your relationships. Stop preaching. Stop arguing. Just stay lit. Music: Interludes: "Rubble and Dust" & "Who Or Where You Are" by Steve Thorne. Exigenesis Score: Original Neo-Classical Arrangement (Mureka). Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 2 [IndeeHub Code For 21% off: PIONEERCHAIN21 ] Avi's First Book – 24 (2nd Edition)

In the first Plebchain Radio episode of 2026, Avi is joined by Noa Gruman (lead singer of Scardust) and Lahav, for a conversation ranging from Scardust’s Bitcoin-adjacent music lore (including the “RIP” video) to the reality that “Bitcoin is definitely metal” … and prog. Noa shares highlights from Sabaton’s Legendary Orchestra project, a massive arena-scale production where she both conducts and performs lead vocals. The conversation digs into the “fiat loop” musicians get trapped in, plus how value-for-value and Lightning splits could offer a more direct path between listeners and artists (and how labels might react). Finally, they look ahead to Scardust’s 2026: getting back on the road with Europe dates, ProgPower USA, and a newly teased live Nostr/value-for-value event in Belgrade after BTC Prague. Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 2 [IndeeHub Code For 21% off: PIONEERCHAIN21 ] Avi's First Book – 24 (2nd Edition)

In this episode, Chad F joins the show to dismantle the false dichotomy between the "ancient scrolls" of RSS and the high-speed relays of Nostr. As a longtime Podcasting 2.0 + V4V operator (and “welcoming committee” booster), Chad traces the arc from No Agenda’s time-talent-treasure model through the Alex Jones deplatforming moment that helped catalyze Podcast Index, and onward into Lightning-powered media. The conversation dives deep into the practical challenges of this union, specifically regarding music curation and the decentralized "discovery problem". Chad and Avi explore the concept of a "Contextual Web of Trust" to replace algorithmic feeds and discuss the technical friction between Keysend and LNURL that hinders artist onboarding. Ultimately, Chad calls for a proliferation of new apps – "more Fountains, more Wavlakes, more StableKrafts" – to give creators true independence from centralized platforms. Song of the Week: "Everything Will Fall In Its Place" by Look Ma No Cavities. Stablekraft V4VMusic.com Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 2 [IndeeHub Code For 21% off: PIONEERCHAIN21 ] Avi's First Book – 24 (2nd Edition)

Episode 142 is a Nostr year-in-review roundtable with Avi, QW, Vitor Pamplona, and Corndalorian. They reflect on the mid-year “Nostr bear market” in engagement and argue it wasn’t a death spiral, it was infrastructure season: fewer tourists, more plumbers, deeper roots. Vitor breaks down why user drop-off is normal at this stage, and why 2025 felt like “working on the pipes,” with Nostr expanding beyond Twitter-style clients into a richer set of social shapes (chat, Instagram/TikTok-like experiences, etc.). The group riffs on Nostr’s culture of resisting ad-driven incentives, celebrates experimentation (like Jumble forks), and spotlights how music has become a real-world “ground game” for Nostr gatherings. Looking ahead, they’re bullish on 2026 being a Web-of-Trust year (more data, better personalization feeds), plus more creator tooling like zap splits, subscriptions, and AI-accelerated development. Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 2 [IndeeHub Code For 21% off: PIONEERCHAIN21 ] Avi's First Book – 24 (2nd Edition)

In this episode, Avi sits down with de-commerce builder Eric FJ, creator of Conduit Market, to explore how Nostr and Bitcoin can rebuild the old-school bazaar in protocol form. They dig into NIP-99 product listings, NIP-17 DM-based order flows, and the emerging “infinite product pool” that multiple marketplaces like Shopstr, Plebian Market, and Conduit can all share and filter in their own ways. Along the way, they tackle price discovery vs discovery distortion on Amazon-style platforms, local artisans thriving in a monoculture world, and how web-of-trust, reputation and privacy-preserving messaging could solve the “who do I trust with my address?” problem. They also get practical about business models with zero platform fees, BTC Pay and stablecoins as bridges, and what it will take to make decentralized markets feel as smooth as mainstream e-commerce while staying sovereign. Conduit Market Find Eric on Nostr Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 2 [IndeeHub Code For 21% off: PIONEERCHAIN21 ] Avi's First Book – 24

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, Avi sits down with Aaron of Essex, the Bitcoiner, hairdresser, and music superfan behind Bitcoin Essex and the New Music Nudge Unit. Aaron shares his 90s-era origin story, from Napster and CDs to discovering Bitcoin and realizing he could help working musicians build parallel rails for their art. He explains how the New Music Nudge Unit works in practice: self-hosting tracks, publishing them once via RSS to dozens of Podcasting 2.0 apps, and routing sats straight to artists through value-for-value. Along the way, he tells onboarding stories of artists like Longy, Fable, Nathan Abbott, Fifty Four Plates, and Hear My Roar, plus the UK’s first Bitcoin-powered gig, Into the Valueverse, and the recent BitFest music night. The conversation digs into Spotify’s exploitative economics, the thousand-true-fans model, paying artists properly at Bitcoin conferences, and why Bitcoin and Nostr give independent musicians a truly global stage – without labels, gatekeepers, or permission. New Music Nudge Unit Wednesday Dec 10th at Peggy's Music Bar Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 2 [IndeeHub Code For 21% off: PIONEERCHAIN21 ] Avi's First Book – 24

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, Avi sits down with London-based bitcoiner, artist and playwright Psyfer, caretaker of the legendary Cyphermunk House in Bloomsbury. They trace the unlikely origin of the house back to a 10-day Vipassana retreat in rural India, where Psyfer was flooded with images of fiat collapse and Bitcoin art, eventually leading him to turn a four-story Victorian building into a living Bitcoin sanctuary. He describes Cyphermunk as an ever-shifting gallery, bar and salon where sats flow, incense burns, random locals wander in off the street, and culture quietly onboards the curious. The conversation ranges from using shredded fiat as an art medium, to staging a Prometheus-inspired mask play with a million-sat seed phrase hidden in a wordless performance, to building parallel culture in the shadow of the Bank of England and why real walls still matter in an age of surveillance. Cyphermunk House Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 2 [IndeeHub Code For 21% off: PIONEERCHAIN21 ] Avi's First Book – 24

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, QW interviews Sam Means (aka Lightning Store, Wavlake), a musician, father, and entrepreneur, discussing his various projects and perspectives on the music, his band The Format and much more. The Format Live on Tonight Show : https://youtu.be/5i9GQzPM8G0 The Format Merch : https://www.theformat.com/home/#merch Hello Merch : https://www.hellomerch.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqOPiYjnUxxk3V9pPFrlG4gLtS1GLWI7swneEYPoE76NQCNS3VB Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 2 [IndeeHub Code For 21% off: PIONEERCHAIN21 ] Avi's First Book – 24

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, Avi talks with Swiss-German Bitcoin artist Yena, aka Lady Block Jane, about how vivid dreams and a forest vision pulled her into Bitcoin and birthed works like Dressed in Entropy and the mermaid piece I’ll Take Yours Too, who quietly stacks sats from our “boating accidents.” They get into the gritty reality of hauling physical Bitcoin art across borders, the birth of her A2B project in a Swiss tunnel, and the hilariously doomed “laser eyes” performance at a conference. The conversation closes with Yena’s reflections on taking the pressure off monetizing her gift and how Bitcoin art can act as a bridge for people already walking the path toward sound money and deeper meaning. Yena's Art Avi's New Book – July 18 Finding Home Episode 2 [IndeeHub Code For 21% off: PIONEERCHAIN21 ] Avi's First Book – 24 BitFest 10% Discount Code: plebchainradio

Max Hillebrand returns to the show to map the cypherpunk “freedom stack” for real life. He digs into open source hardware and works up the stack to Nostr-native coordination (from relay hygiene to posting CoinJoin rounds). We talk private, scalable group communication – what’s missing, what’s promising, and how mixnets and layered encryption fit. Max makes the case for value-for-value as the funding rail that keeps builders sovereign and aligned with users. Finding Home Episode 2 [IndeeHub Code For 21% off: PIONEERCHAIN21 ] Avi Burra's Book 24 BitFest 10% Discount Code: plebchainradio

This episode of Plebchain Radio features QW and Avi hosting Shadrach, a cypherpunk and Bitcoiner, to discuss Bitcoin, Nostr, A to B, Web of Trust, Meshtadel and building parallel societies. A to B : https://atobitcoin.io/ Finding Home Episode 2 [IndeeHub Code For 21% off: PIONEERCHAIN21 ] Avi Burra's Book 24 BitFest 10% Discount Code: plebchainradio

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, QW and Avi are joined by Ainsley Costello, Heather Larson & Open Mike live from Bitcoin Park in Nashville to discuss the intersection of Nostr and Bitcoin, including the latest developments on the live music front, Nostrrville 3.0, Nostr Shire, and Nostr Valley and more. Finding Home Episode 2 [IndeeHub Code For 21% off: PIONEERCHAIN21 ] Avi Burra's Book 24 BitFest 10% Discount Code: plebchainradio

Summary David Strayhorn, creator of Brainstorm and Grapevine, joins the show to announce a major initiative to build a decentralized Web-of-Trust for Nostr. David explains his journey from neurologist to trust-protocol architect and details how NosFabrica pivoted from healthcare to tackling the foundational problem of trust that all Nostr applications face. The discussion covers David's GrapeRank algorithm, a personalized scoring system that uses follows, mutes, and reports to effectively combat spam and impersonation, and how NIP-85 (Trusted Assertions) can deliver these scores to any client. The episode culminates in the official announcement of the "WoT-a-thon," NosFabrica's six-month hackathon designed to kickstart an open-source ecosystem of trust tools, ultimately aiming to make Nostr a safer and higher-signal network for everyone. Links Service Providers for Personalized Trust Metrics GrapeRank Integration of NIP-85: Trusted Assertions into Nostr Clients Finding Home Episode 2 [IndeeHub Code For 21% off: PIONEERCHAIN21 ] Avi Burra's Book 24 BitFest 10% Discount Code: plebchainradio

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, QW and Avi welcome back Rob Brinded, author of "Glitch," to discuss his new book, the reception it has received, and the underlying principles of understanding one's own mind. Citadel Garden : https://citadel.garden/ Glitch Book : https://www.glitchthebook.co/ Rob Brinded : https://www.robbrinded.com/ Finding Home Episode 2 : https://indeehub.studio/film/finding-home/season/1/episode/2 Finding Home Discount code for IndeeHub (21% off): PIONEERCHAIN21 Avi Burra's Book 24 : https://www.amazon.com/24-Avi-Burra/dp/B0CN9NRNNB/ref=sr11?crid=27RW9P8JQ4YMV&keywords=avi+burra+24&qid=1700327391&sprefix=avi+burra+24%2Caps%2C122&sr=8-1

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, QW and Avi interview Franzap, creator of Zap Store about Paraguay, Fran's work, La Crypta, Web of Trust, Nostr, Bitcoin and more. Zap Store : https://zapstore.dev/ Avi Burra's Book 24 : https://www.amazon.com/24-Avi-Burra/dp/B0CN9NRNNB/ref=sr11?crid=27RW9P8JQ4YMV&keywords=avi+burra+24&qid=1700327391&sprefix=avi+burra+24%2Caps%2C122&sr=8-1

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, QW is joined by Rick from CryptoCloaks to discuss Bitcoin home mining, community, 3D Printing, fatherhood, Nostr and the intersection of Bitcoin and real-world issues. CryptoCloaks Store : https://www.cryptocloaks.com/ CryptoCloaks Makers Space Community : https://t.me/+VHijd8LhSv1WCjPK Rigly / Upendo / Alliance Community : https://t.me/+AEvub_E_9hNiYzAx Avi Burra's Book 24 : https://www.amazon.com/24-Avi-Burra/dp/B0CN9NRNNB/ref=sr11?crid=27RW9P8JQ4YMV&keywords=avi+burra+24&qid=1700327391&sprefix=avi+burra+24%2Caps%2C122&sr=8-1