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Martin is proposing the following number (221,905) of Satoshis for the Boostagram Numerology page on GitHub. Blair is informing about Swan Bitcoin. At the end of the episode, we announce the winner of 50,000 sats, thanks to the giveaway campaign by Fountain app, and share stats about our podcast.
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Episode 54 (22 minutes) was recorded at 1830 Central European Time, on July 31, 2022, with Ringr app.. Martin did the editing and post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu.
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Good afternoon everyone.
Speaker:This is an addition of the secular
Speaker:Fox with just Martin and I.
Speaker:Martin has some good stuff that he wants to share
Speaker:with everyone and today our top are going to be
Speaker:the podcasting 2.0 which I believe was fathered by Adam
Speaker:Curry the podfather and Dave Jones, his sidekick and their
Speaker:extension of that called Value for Value Martin.
Speaker:How are you?
Speaker:I'm fine, and yourself?
Speaker:I'm doing okay.
Speaker:Got some hectic activity here at the house
Speaker:but otherwise I'm trying to hang in there.
Speaker:Good Blair, appreciate that.
Speaker:And we are now coming up to soon third year here.
Speaker:Yes we are, yes.
Speaker:September we'll talk a little bit about that plans and
Speaker:we are always glad to get feedback, ideas, thoughts and
Speaker:so on today we will talk about then for episode
Speaker:54 here and the title will be RandsDay Boost
Speaker:number and I will propose to this page called Boost
Speaker:Gram numerology, how would you say it?
Speaker:Numerology. Yeah, thanks.
Speaker:Numbers, things like that with symbolic numbers.
Speaker:Like for example, one of your
Speaker:favorite bands is Rush, right?
Speaker:Right, certainly yes.
Speaker:And I remember on a presentation how people come to RAND'S
Speaker:work and some of them are doing that through Rush album
Speaker:2112 and that's an example of a boostagram that
Speaker:you could send to somebody like a podcaster.
Speaker:So that's listed on this page.
Speaker:So I wanted to add like two like ducks in the row.
Speaker:If you look at the number two, if you
Speaker:have good imagination, it looks like a duck.
Speaker:But here is my proposition proposal for the future.
Speaker:I will see if I could add it in because if this
Speaker:is a bit geeky nerdy so you have to add it on
Speaker:something called GitHub page that programmers and so on are using.
Speaker:So you could propose things and you could fix things and
Speaker:you could do as I did maybe break things also.
Speaker:You're talking is that github? Yeah. Okay.
Speaker:I include that in the show notes also.
Speaker:But Podnews net James Cridland, he has a podcast
Speaker:called Podnews reporting on the podosphere and what's
Speaker:going on with podcasts and so on.
Speaker:So he created a page there on GitHub.
Speaker:And there you have Brian of London where we know that
Speaker:thanks us that we had Bosch Fawstin guest back in the
Speaker:day and also Oscar Merry, that's the founder of Fountain.
Speaker:They are all contributors to this page.
Speaker:But I have done something called a pull request to
Speaker:adding two ducks in a row because I have heard
Speaker:about it and I have also given it myself.
Speaker:But here is my proposal for the future and I will
Speaker:see here if you could guess Blair and the listeners.
Speaker:So it's 221,905.
Speaker:Well that's February 2 five was Ayn Rand's birthday. Yes.
Speaker:So the Rand's Day site called Randsday.com, I think
Speaker:it's Harry Binswanger that created that one.
Speaker:I believe that's true.
Speaker:And others that have written blog posts and articles about that
Speaker:that could be a holiday RandsDay so what do you
Speaker:think about that boostagram number for the future?
Speaker:Well, for the future, I'm sure, hopefully we'll
Speaker:have that to be able to cover that.
Speaker:That would be an ideal sum to give. Yes.
Speaker:So we could prepare until then,
Speaker:next year, on February 2.
Speaker:Of course, you could already boost us with that
Speaker:number, if you want, but I want to have
Speaker:so called official to get it there.
Speaker:And that's the beauty of the thing, that
Speaker:you could always propose something like that.
Speaker:So that lists have all kind of interesting,
Speaker:like the pi number, all kinds of interesting
Speaker:numbers, and some are shorter and some are
Speaker:longer, depending on the symbolic in the thing.
Speaker:So if you convert this, because satoshis are bits of
Speaker:a bitcoin, so if you take one bitcoin and then
Speaker:divide it 100 million times, then you get the satoshi.
Speaker:So today and it fluctuates a bit today.
Speaker:Now when I did the screen dump of it.
Speaker:So this number two, two 1905 Satoshis are worth
Speaker:or converted to this currency in fiat dollars, 54.54.
Speaker:So that's a good bit of change, right?
Speaker:$54.54, is that true?
Speaker:Yes, around $50. Okay.
Speaker:If we will get that as a donation, we would be
Speaker:happy to receive that, I could say absolutely, yeah, sure.
Speaker:But this is again the beauty of the thing.
Speaker:You could send very small amount with no
Speaker:transaction fee directly from one to another.
Speaker:And this is again to get this going.
Speaker:So this is my proposal for the future.
Speaker:RandsDay boost number.
Speaker:Very cool.
Speaker:And then I could give you some stats.
Speaker:Here what we have received so
Speaker:far and then you will understand.
Speaker:It sounds maybe like a big number,
Speaker:but then you see what it is.
Speaker:But we are happy because this
Speaker:is only the beginning of things.
Speaker:The whole podcast index has been around for two years.
Speaker:Right now it's around 8000 podcasts that are
Speaker:hooked up to, as you mentioned, value for
Speaker:value model of 4 million podcasts.
Speaker:So we have received 7777, seven SATS, so forth.
Speaker:So that's about $2, I'll take it though.
Speaker:And we've got like ten supporters.
Speaker:And we are using Fountain app and you could use
Speaker:of course, our own app that we are paying for.
Speaker:So we need support for that one.
Speaker:But this is in beta.
Speaker:But it's fascinating how you could start with
Speaker:getting a comment, a feedback or a shout
Speaker:out and then you have a note.
Speaker:And then with that note you have direct transaction or
Speaker:donation or support or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker:You could call it tokens also.
Speaker:But it is real money, it is a part of a bitcoin.
Speaker:And we have a guest. Dave Veksler.
Speaker:But explain that in a great way.
Speaker:Yes, you did the whole thing and
Speaker:we are still newbies, we are learning.
Speaker:But the whole thing that you could
Speaker:do it in a simple way.
Speaker:We have received donations by PayPal and other things,
Speaker:buy Me a coffee, and we appreciate that very much.
Speaker:Also, of course, there are some
Speaker:middleman and some cuts and whatnot.
Speaker:And we believe in the free market.
Speaker:So we want to have friendly competition here.
Speaker:So I will do a bit here.
Speaker:Announce the winner of this episode of 50,000
Speaker:Satoshis that Fountain will give as a campaign.
Speaker:So it's mere mortals and he sent 2111, two, one, one.
Speaker:So that's around you calculate that quickly.
Speaker:We could say something like that.
Speaker:And he said on July 24,
Speaker:always nice hearing another aussie accent.
Speaker:Funnily enough, I don't listen to so many Aussies.
Speaker:Podcasts is all my favorites are around the globe.
Speaker:Related to episode 52 with
Speaker:remaining guest Vinay Kolhatkar, right? Yeah.
Speaker:He's in Australia.
Speaker:That episode.
Speaker:So you will see also if people have
Speaker:done directly to the show or if you
Speaker:have done it to a specific episode also.
Speaker:And then if somebody writes a note, you could
Speaker:also comment on that back or reply to it.
Speaker:So if we say this, then we
Speaker:have added Vinay and he's Savvy Street.
Speaker:So he added himself to this fountain app.
Speaker:We had added him to the split 31%,
Speaker:and you and I get 32 each.
Speaker:And then it is 1% is going back
Speaker:to the podcast index for system and then
Speaker:4% Fountain is taking for running this also.
Speaker:I think that's pretty fair all around. Yeah.
Speaker:So in the future, when people listen and
Speaker:donate to these episodes, our guest is there,
Speaker:he will get the cut of it.
Speaker:And we want all our guests who want to
Speaker:join this to add them to the split.
Speaker:So that's pretty fascinating how that
Speaker:could work out in the future. That's right.
Speaker:I'm again more and more fascinated with
Speaker:this bitcoin idea that it's completely decentralized.
Speaker:In other words, the government cannot manipulate it.
Speaker:No, that alone is worth anyone
Speaker:who's skeptical to investigate it.
Speaker:And the best book on that that I have found,
Speaker:and I know Martin is reading it as well, it's
Speaker:called The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous.
Speaker:It's S-A-I-F-E-D-E-A-N-A-M-M-O-U-S.
Speaker:He's a brilliant economist and both Martin
Speaker:and I are plowing through that book.
Speaker:And I bought his second book called The Fiat
Speaker:Standard, which I'm sure he decimates the history of
Speaker:fiat currency and how it's basically destructive of wealth.
Speaker:I can't wait to finish this book to start that one,
Speaker:and hopefully some day he will be on our show.
Speaker:But that's maybe a pipe dream at the moment.
Speaker:But I didn't tell Martin about this, but
Speaker:I'm going to give a shout out to
Speaker:Jack Spirko and his podcast, The Survival Podcast.
Speaker:He's been doing that for, I think, 15 years.
Speaker:And just recently he had a gentleman on, I believe
Speaker:his name is Guy Swann, and he has one of
Speaker:the most legitimate bitcoin where you can purchase bitcoin.
Speaker:And that's even as small an amount as $10 a month or
Speaker:as much as $50 a week or whatever, $10,000 a week.
Speaker:If you're wealthy, you can do any range like that.
Speaker:And I actually started a bitcoin account with Swan
Speaker:Bitcoin and I am an affiliate and I'll give
Speaker:my affiliate web address in the show Notes and
Speaker:I have to disclose that I get 25% of
Speaker:any new member using my link for twelve months. Great.
Speaker:That's pretty cool.
Speaker:Yeah, that's very good.
Speaker:I listened to that when I was
Speaker:on a train from being on vacation.
Speaker:Oh yeah, cool.
Speaker:Listen to that.
Speaker:He was a guest on the show.
Speaker:But he has a podcast himself also, right?
Speaker:Yes, he does.
Speaker:And he also has a podcast about thanks for that.
Speaker:Reminded me because I was looking for this, because I
Speaker:will talk about that on my podcast, Tea Party Media.
Speaker:I got a reaction of somebody using
Speaker:Fountain, but especially about this bitcoin.
Speaker:And Adam Curry had said that also that
Speaker:this cryptocurrency and bitcoin could be confusing and
Speaker:also people could be afraid of it.
Speaker:But he has a podcast also, I think about all
Speaker:these, and I don't use strong words, but sh star,
Speaker:t, coins and all these kind of things, because if
Speaker:you have that list of all the so called cryptocurrencies
Speaker:out there, it's lots of garbage.
Speaker:But again, if it's a free market,
Speaker:it will take care of itself.
Speaker:It's sad if people are getting fooled
Speaker:or duped or dumped or whatever.
Speaker:But yeah, I think he has a podcast about that also.
Speaker:Really taking care of the bad apples out there.
Speaker:Yes, that's good.
Speaker:He's a very sharp, very intelligent individual and I grew
Speaker:to respect him just in that hour and a half
Speaker:or 2 hours that he was talking to Jack, whom
Speaker:I've always admired for the last several years.
Speaker:And Martin, I'm going to email
Speaker:you my link, my affiliate link. Please do.
Speaker:And for the show Notes for this episode.
Speaker:But again, I know bitcoin has been
Speaker:smeared, of course, by your usual government
Speaker:hacks, but they know it's a threat.
Speaker:I'm hoping they're realizing that
Speaker:their time is soon up.
Speaker:Yeah, so maybe next year.
Speaker:I was planning to do that around my birthday
Speaker:because it's bitcoin pizza day around May 22.
Speaker:I think that was the history about more than ten
Speaker:years ago, a programmer, I think it was, that was
Speaker:hungry and two pizzas pie says in America for Domino's
Speaker:or some other I don't know, I don't remember the
Speaker:actual one, but he paid several bitcoins for that and
Speaker:that turned into his celebration, 10,000 bitcoins.
Speaker:But when bitcoin was like $2 a coin.
Speaker:Yeah, so now it will be 10,000 times $50,000 or
Speaker:what is it depending on, again, a current exchange.
Speaker:That's fascinating there.
Speaker:So thanks again for this because this is also that this
Speaker:could be a value to listen to us newbies in this
Speaker:area trying to learn and fall forward and try to really
Speaker:figure it out that we got from a previous episode with
Speaker:Andy about logic and Aristotle to really get it.
Speaker:So I appreciate that.
Speaker:So I will do a short
Speaker:run through around ten donations here.
Speaker:Mere Mortals then several times,
Speaker:jack Hyde, the secular foxhole.
Speaker:So you have tested the system also, blair
Speaker:I think I did just that one time.
Speaker:Blair is testing the system.
Speaker:I wrote here Mere Mortals again in June 7.
Speaker:Garas seated, 238 set streams.
Speaker:So you could also set like ten sets per minute
Speaker:or 100 sets or whatever per minute because you could
Speaker:earn them Satoshis if it's hooked up on Fountain.
Speaker:So if you listen to podcasts like Spirko, you
Speaker:own Satoshis and then you could decide every minute
Speaker:to give him and his podcast Satoshis.
Speaker:That's all you could get the
Speaker:boostagram, like a telegram.
Speaker:You could say it at donation directly
Speaker:one time, but you could also stream
Speaker:per minute when you listen to podcasts.
Speaker:We have got a user here called 68952 two long
Speaker:number because you often get the number you got that
Speaker:and then you change it to secular foxhole.
Speaker:Yes, I probably should have used
Speaker:my name, but that's okay.
Speaker:No, but it's good streamed.
Speaker:And then Merry Oscar of Fountain, he streamed
Speaker:95 sats at the beginning, testing the system
Speaker:also, very nice, 658-3928, seven sats stream.
Speaker:And then I tested the system with 35 SATS streamed.
Speaker:So that's the list.
Speaker:So now we have done checkmarked, everyone,
Speaker:because that's often how podcasts are doing every
Speaker:time we have an episode and check.
Speaker:Yeah, they think they're donors and now we have announced
Speaker:the winners, but that's how you could do it.
Speaker:So now I have done the catch up here.
Speaker:That's great and thank you for that, Martin.
Speaker:But I want to reiterate to listeners
Speaker:the Fountain app, it's just called Fountain.
Speaker:I'm not sure if there's any other apps, but this
Speaker:app is the gateway not only for podcasters to earn
Speaker:Satoshis, but guests and listeners to earn Satoshis.
Speaker:So everyone benefits, it's value for value.
Speaker:But thanks for letting me plug my affiliate
Speaker:link and sent you that email just now.
Speaker:Yeah, great for the show notes.
Speaker:So thanks for that explanation.
Speaker:I will do also if you have time here for a
Speaker:bit of another stats because we are very transparent here.
Speaker:So here is the stats from our, as I
Speaker:call it, audio Hotel or the podcast host Captivate.
Speaker:Oh, yeah, I love those guys and
Speaker:I have been on them also.
Speaker:Hello, Mark Asquith and company and
Speaker:all the team out there.
Speaker:Now it's going with podcasting 2.0
Speaker:applications and they're all for it.
Speaker:So they have transcripts and other things like
Speaker:that and this will be the friendly competition.
Speaker:Also recently there was a service called
Speaker:RSS.com, that is a hosting company that
Speaker:incorporated a service called Alby.
Speaker:So if you start an account there you get
Speaker:directly in the podcast player that you could get
Speaker:satoshis through a service called Get Alby.
Speaker:In the future we'll see if we could add
Speaker:that to our own page, our own site.
Speaker:Yes, I think we'll try.
Speaker:I think we will be able to do that.
Speaker:So then people, when they come to the site and
Speaker:if they have this plug in the Chrome browser, I
Speaker:think mainly they will see this site you could donate.
Speaker:So here for example, think about some of
Speaker:the guests that we have had like authors.
Speaker:If they do that, they come to their site
Speaker:and say you could support my work directly. Yeah.
Speaker:And that will be paid directly
Speaker:with no middleman.
Speaker:Think about this.
Speaker:I mean it's so powerful.
Speaker:Yeah, again completely eliminate it does parasites.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So unique listeners so far when I checked 2930
Speaker:and they check the IP address, then that's the
Speaker:thing, it's no personal data, information was taken.
Speaker:But where you are listing, how you're listing
Speaker:where from all time downloads is 5506. Nice.
Speaker:And we are maybe a record month, maybe if we look back
Speaker:in the future when we talk next time, if we got that.
Speaker:But if it gets to 400, we are
Speaker:around 390 right now at this point.
Speaker:Downloads today, the other month well hit 400 so far.
Speaker:The latest 28 days a month is now
Speaker:USA, Argentina, Czech, Venezuela, Spain, Sweden for some
Speaker:reason, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany and Netherlands.
Speaker:So think about this mix.
Speaker:It's pretty interesting, the
Speaker:latest period, the month here.
Speaker:So I'm thinking, so maybe we should reach out or get
Speaker:some guests from South America or figure out the new listeners
Speaker:is coming from this part of the world, for example.
Speaker:So that's interesting.
Speaker:But also other places in Europe and USA we
Speaker:want to have on the top of a list.
Speaker:Personally I think that's a big market and should
Speaker:be canada should be there also, I think.
Speaker:And if you go to the all
Speaker:time list, then it's USA top ten.
Speaker:Here India, Sweden, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia,
Speaker:the Netherlands, Norway, Argentina and Uruguay. Wow.
Speaker:Now we have 80 countries and I have listened.
Speaker:That's great.
Speaker:So we're worldwide to a certain site.
Speaker:Do you want us to mention any future guests that we are
Speaker:planned or having in mind or should that be a secret?
Speaker:Well, right now Bosch Fawstin, he wants to be back
Speaker:on the show and we would love to have him.
Speaker:He's an objectivist artist and I have solidified Professor Stephen
Speaker:Hill and we're going to discuss his book Explaining Postmodernism
Speaker:and that's in September and those are the only two
Speaker:that I want to mention at this time.
Speaker:But others are still up in the air.
Speaker:Yeah, and we are planning it forward.
Speaker:So I could say the first name then
Speaker:so you know that if you listen. So. Ken.
Speaker:Brian Leopold.
Speaker:We will be in touch. That's correct. Oh yeah.
Speaker:I wanted to talk to those three for sure. Yeah.
Speaker:All right, listen, I've got to run.
Speaker:Yes, so thanks for your time, Blair,
Speaker:and talk to you soon again. That's correct.
Speaker:Martin, thank you so much for all you do.
Speaker:And let's touch base this week.
