Swan Signal

This week’s Swan Signal Live features Michael Saylor and Danielle DiMartino Booth discussing Fed policies, running a company during monetary manip­u­la­tion, price discovery, and Bitcoin as tool for freedom.

Michael Saylor is CEO of MicroS­trategy, a publicly-traded business intel­li­gence company. Michael burst onto the Bitcoin scene when he put MicroS­trategy onto a Bitcoin standard by converting nearly all of the company treasury to Bitcoin with a $450 million buy over the past few months.

The best way to approach investing in Bitcoin is regular contri­bu­tions over time like a 401k.

If your company is consid­ering acquiring some bitcoin, email us at Treasury@SwanBitcoin.com to see how we can help. Did you know that compa­nies around the world are starting to hold Bitcoin on their balance sheets? When compa­nies like Square and MicroS­trategy start buying Bitcoin, it’s time to pay atten­tion. But smaller private compa­nies are also making […]

What’s the best way to invest in Bitcoin? Some people see price volatility and think the best move is to actively trade BTC. However, the vast majority of traders lose money. Instead, automatic recur­ring Bitcoin purchases are the best approach for 99% of people.

Join Bitcoin Philoso­phers Robert Breedlove, author of “Masters and Slaves of Money”, and Parker Lewis, author of the “Gradu­ally then Suddenly” blog series for a cosmic discus­sion about Bitcoin. They discuss how fiat perpet­u­ates inequality, how central banking causes the problems it is supposed to fix, how every­body follows their incen­tives (including the Fed), how fiat money distorts pricing and commu­ni­ca­tion, and how Bitcoin is free speech and a funda­mental monetary right. As always Brady Swenson, Swan’s Head of Educa­tion, hosts the lively discus­sion.

So I’ll start off by saying that I am by no means a “Bitcoin OG,” but I have been around longer than some folks. I can still remember buying my first bit of bitcoin back in 2013, right at the top, right before we crashed… The day we crashed was the day I became a HODLer, and at the time, […]

This week we were joined by two Dans: Dan Tapiero, the founder of DTAP Capital and 10T holdings, and Dan Matuszewski, previ­ously Head of Trade at Circle and a member of the early Kraken team). Dan Tapiero is an old gold bug investor and entre­pre­neur who has recently become bullish on Bitcoin, and Dan Matuszewski is a Bitcoiner who has built his career helping source, route, and provide liquidity for the Bitcoin market.

Raoul Pal, founder and CEO of Real Vision and the Global Macro Investors, joins Vijay Boyapati, author of “The Bullish Case for Bitcoin”. Most of the conver­sa­tion focuses on building our new finan­cial infra­struc­ture on top of Bitcoin and why Vijay Boyapati doesn’t believe that will be built via Ethereum. But Raoul and Vijay also discuss the history of fiat, defla­tion, Bitcoin vs Ethereum, risks to Bitcoin, and price manip­u­la­tion. As always Brady Swenson, Swan Head of Educa­tion, hosts the lively discus­sion.

Founder of The Investors Podcast Network, Preston Pysh, and author of Why Buy Bitcoin, Andy Edstrom, reunite their incred­ible camaraderie to discuss Micros­trategy adding even more Bitcoin to their balance sheet. They disucss how Michael Saylor’s made these purchase, why he made the purchases, and why this was such an impor­tant devel­op­ment for Bitcoin. As always Brady Swenson, Swan Bitcoin’s Head of Educa­tion, hosts the lively discus­sion.

There is an ongoing discus­sion about the quality of Bitcoin’s user experi­ence. Bitcoin UX is evolving just like the Internet.

People new to Bitcoin commonly think that Bitcoin is for crimi­nals. They think it is for hackers, kidnap­pers, and drug-dealers, not for normal people like you and me. This idea arose because Bitcoin was indeed used as currency on an early online drug market­place, called the Silk Road. And it is true that many computer hackers now demand Bitcoin as a ransom payment.

This week we were joined by Bitcoin OGs Max Keiser and Tone Vays. Max has been publicly recom­mending people purchase Bitcoin since it was trading for $1, and Tone Vays has made a name for himself as a risk analyst, educator, and Bitcoin option trader. In this lively conver­sa­tion, they spoke about price predic­tions, bitcoin ending poverty, Bitcoin hard-forks fading into oblivion, and what countries would adopt a Bitcoin standard first.

Erik Townsend, host of the vener­able MacroVoices Podcast, and Yan Pritzker, author of Inventing Bitcoin and Cofounder of Swan Bitcoin, held a lively discus­sion about central bank digital curren­cies and govern­ment responses to Bitcoin. Erik argued that Silicon Valley will create a new currency that govern­ments will foist on their citizens, whereas Yan argued that Bitcoin would outcom­pete any other currency.

Lyn Alden and Nic Carter sat down for a lively conver­sa­tion about the future of transi­tioning the world away from dollars and onto a Bitcoin standard. They discussed what a free-banking Bitcoin system could look like, the drawbacks of central bank digital curren­cies, and why Bitcoin will never suffer the same fate as gold.

Business intel­li­gence software company MicroS­trategy, a public company traded on NASDAQ, announced in August that it has adopted Bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset.

You know there’s something system­at­i­cally wrong. The world you knew 20 years ago is not what you have today. Guess what, the fiat money, fiscal spending, and infla­tionary monetary policy are causing it. Future bailouts and a further debase­ment of fiat currency will only strengthen this trend because it’s applying more of the same policies that brought us to this point. Bitcoin is the answer to this runaway global policy and broke incen­tive struc­ture.

Founder of The Investors Podcast Network, Preston Pysh, and author of Why Buy Bitcoin, Andy Edstrom discuss a range of Bitcoin topics. They cover Fidelity rolling out a new Bitcoin invest­ment product, Micros­trategy adding Bitcoin to their balance sheet, debt cycles, rumors of wealthy individ­uals buying Bitcoin, and their own personal concerns about Bitcoin.

Jameson Lopp, Founder and CTO of Casa, and Eric Martin­dale, cypher­punk and devel­oper and founder of Fabric Protocol, discuss Bitcoin’s past, present, future, the state of Bitcoin tech, cutting edge layer 3 devel­op­ment, Bitcoin businesses, and their predic­tions for transi­tions onto a Bitcoin standard. As always, Brady Swenson, Swan Head of Educa­tion, hosted the lively discus­sion.

This week Saifedean Ammous, legendary author of The Bitcoin Standard, and George Gammon, Rebel Capitalist, joined Swan Signal live to discuss gold, central banking, the deval­u­a­tion of curren­cies and how Bitcoin is going to suck value out of every store of value. George and Saifedean connected well and needed nearly no prompting for a lively discus­sion hosted by Brady Swenson, Swan Bitcoin Head of Educa­tion.

I feel blessed to be part of something so monumental, so profound, so optimistic as Bitcoin. An orange beacon of hope, in a world that seems to be split­ting apart at the seams. I feel blessed that I can work along­side so many amazing bitcoiners — inside and outside of Swan — people that tirelessly work towards a bright orange future.

In Episode 22 Cory Klipp­sten (CEO of Swan) and Robert Breedlove (CEO of Parallex Digital) joined our host Brady Swenson to discuss how Central banking steals human time and corrupts human values. They also discuss Nassim Taleb’s ideas, ancient wisdom, and the future of the world under a Bitcoin standard.

On July 27^th, Bitcoin broke out of a 2‑year downtrend, sending the price up to $11,400. BTC closed up 11% on the day, causing a frenzy of excite­ment. Let’s examine Bitcoin from a risk vs reward stand­point.

Lyn Alden, invest­ment manager and macro­eco­nomic thinker, and Jeff Booth, technology entre­pre­neur and author of Price of Tomorrow, held a lively discus­sion about technology as a defla­tionary force, long-term debt cycles, and Bitcoin as a solution to unpayable sover­eign debt.

Samson Mow, Chief Security Officer at Block­stream, and Parker Lewis, Head of Business Devel­op­ment at Unchained Capital, joined Swan Signal Live to discuss geopol­i­tics, Bitcoin mining, the integrity of Bitcoin businesses, and their expec­ta­tions for the next bull run. Brady Swenson and Yan Pritzker hosted this lively conver­sa­tion.

You may have wondered “How do I get my money out of Coinbase?” This guide is focused on how to transfer Bitcoin from Coinbase, and then delete your account.

Join Mark Moss, famous investor and host of the Market Disrup­tors Podcast, and Ben Prentice, creator of WTFhappenedin1971.com, as they discuss how they got inter­ested in Bitcoin, defla­tion, the role of money in an economy, govern­mental pushback on Bitcoin, and Bitcoin’s game theory.

The concep­tual world is governed by scarcity. This scarcity is most obvious in the physical realm: there is a physical limit to the size of our universe, the width of our solar system, the diameter of our Earth, the length of your street, the height of your spouse, and the size of an atom.

This week we are joined by Preston Pysh, cofounder of The Investors Podcast Network and Dr. Adam Back, cypher­punk legend, co-founder and CEO of Block­stream, and author cited in both the Bitcoin and Tor white papers.

Join two of the best Bitcoin devel­opers, Rockstar and Jeremy Rubin, as they discuss their most recent work, the state of the Bitcoin code, working on different levels of Bitcoin and hyper­bit­coiniza­tion.

Join Chris­tian Keroles (CK Snarks), editor of Bitcoin Magazine, and Bitcoin TINA (a famous perma-bull) to discuss the inevitability of Bitcoin, future price predic­tions, and a transi­tion to a Bitcoin economy.

Swan Signal Live Episode 8 was broad­cast live on April 29^th. It featured a lively discus­sion between Andy Edstrom, author of Why Buy Bitcoin, Ansel Linder, host of the popular Bitcoin and Markets Podcast, and Cory Klipp­sten, Swan Bitcoin CEO.

This week we are joined by Knut Svanholm, author of Sover­eignty through Mathe­matics and the new Indepen­dence Reimag­ined, and Gigi, author of 21 Lessons and creator of the projects bitcoin-resources.com and bitcoin-quotes.com. They, along with Brekkie Von Bitcoin and host Brady Swenson, discuss frame­works for under­standing Bitcoin as well as what they believe Bitcoin’s future will hold.

Gigi, author of 21 Lessons, and Udi Wertheimer, indepen­dent software consul­tant joined Brady Swenson and Cory Klipp­sten to discuss virtual reality, Bitcoin nodes, memes, and the geopo­lit­ical conse­quences of Bitcoin.

Jimmy Song, Bitcoin educator, devel­oper and entre­pre­neur, and Aleks Svetski, the Australian founder of Amber App, join Brady Swenson and Cory Klipp­sten to talk about Bitcoin’s morality, immune system, toxicity, and Bitcoin funding.

Bitcoin Podcasters Stephan Livera and Marty Bent join Brady and Cory to discuss every­thing from dominant Bitcoin narra­tives and the state of mining to Austrian economics liter­a­ture and the future of Bitcoin.

Episode 14 was broad­cast on June 17^th, 2020 at block height 635,216. We were joined by Isaiah Jackson, author of Bitcoin and Black America, and Max Keiser, host of the Keiser Report. Swan Creative Director Jason Don joined and Head of Educa­tion Brady Swenson hosted.

In Episode 14 we were joined by Tuur Demeester, Founding Partner of Adamant Capital, and Robert Breedlove, CEO and CIO of Parallax Digital.

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the midst of civil unrest, Alex and Matt discuss surveil­lance, privacy, Bitcoin as a toolkit for change, and the prospect of the govern­ment crack­down on Bitcoiners.

What Bitcoin wallet should I choose? Although it seems like a straight­for­ward question, there is a surprising amount of nuance to consider.

Massive govern­ment inter­ven­tion in markets is underway, but what happens to Bitcoin as a result?

Once people realize what’s happening to their money, they’re going to start buying Bitcoin.

A round­table conver­sa­tion about the current epidemic chaos and how it will impact Bitcoin, the global finan­cial system, remote working, and more.

The top Bitcoin invest­ment sites for buying Bitcoin. Going Bitcoin-only with automatic recur­ring purchases is a smart business decision.

We are living in hyper­bit­coiniza­tion, a process which is basically repricing the world in Bitcoin. This is because Bitcoin is actually much better than gold as a store of value. For the same reasons that many people like holding gold, I think it’s a reason­able propo­si­tion that Bitcoin will wind up being valued at least as highly as gold.

The next Bitcoin halving is almost here. We explore whether the halving is priced in, if other coins are a model for Bitcoin, and fears of a mining death spiral.

Competing on the sound money front requires an above-all commit­ment to decen­tral­iza­tion and proper­ties that are truly hard to change and attack. Unfor­tu­nately coins cannot compete on this front by virtue of the fact that they are built typically by central­ized teams with a profit motive, and not a happy accident of a slowly growing ecosystem that was built by cypher­punks.

Bitcoin repre­sents economic liberty. If you own Bitcoin, you have portable wealth. You can walk away from a failing regime and not lose your life savings.

Unlike a stock split, where the resulting shares still refer to the original company, a Bitcoin fork is much more analo­gous to creating new unrelated digital assets out of thin air at zero cost, and gifting them to existing holders of Bitcoin. A Bitcoin fork does not affect the 21 million supply limit of Bitcoin itself.

Is Bitcoin’s price in a bubble? Is this the Dutch Tulip Craze all over again? The answer might surprise you…

As money rapidly turns digital, we must contem­plate three possible futures of money: central bank managed, corpo­rate issued, and decen­tral­ized.

Find out why Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin to solve the problems of the modern finan­cial system including lack of privacy and monetary debase­ment.

We’re in the midst of two great economic exper­i­ments. The Keyne­sian ideal of central control of money is being challenged by a novel money called Bitcoin.

Not too many years from now, the number of Bitcoiners in the United States of America will cross ten million. When we hit that milestone, it’s game over: Bitcoin wins.