mcintosh
McIntosh

Host of the Satoshi's Plebs podcast! Pleb miner.

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2026-03-29 03:56:38 UTC

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Thanks!! You’re the best!

2026-03-25 07:21:01 UTC

From google research earlier today on X. …
Introducing TurboQuant: Our new compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speedup, all with zero accuracy loss, redefining AI efficiency. Read the blog to learn how it achieves these results: goo.gle/4bsq2qI
It’s possible that it makes its much easier to run models locally..

2026-03-24 00:20:49 UTC

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Behind door number three .. how about no spying ??

2026-03-22 15:09:16 UTC

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I currently have six. I’m building two specifically for my podcast, I’m building some for coding. Experimenting and learning.

2026-03-13 04:41:46 UTC

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Great job! The podcast is already out but that’s my fault. @npub10xx…pcjl

2026-03-10 13:39:28 UTC

Overnight block 940,073 was mined. This block includes the 20,000,000th bitcoin. Only 1,000,000 to go. True provable scarcity.

2026-03-06 05:29:57 UTC

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I’m so proud of you of @npub10xx…pcjl . It was his first song pick ever and it was a banger!!!!

2026-02-23 18:03:28 UTC

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That’s funny … right????

2026-02-20 17:57:37 UTC

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Maybe I should play this at the end of next weeks episode of Satoshi’s Plebs … 🤔

2026-02-12 20:30:41 UTC

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I normally don’t make fun of people .. but how does he have enough brain cells to walk around? Seriously..

2026-02-12 18:43:57 UTC

Sounds like a good way to keep the population poor….
The lengths that politicians will go to in order to extract value from their constituents (slaves. ..) continually amazes me.
#nevent1q…glm2

2026-02-11 19:34:54 UTC

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I believe this is the Bitcoin precept that is probably the most difficult for people to really both understand AND accept as true.

2026-02-11 19:19:15 UTC

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Maybe three out of four days? That’s 75%!!

2026-02-09 03:48:17 UTC

@npub10xx…pcjl interesting take …
#note12ll…7atw

2026-02-05 16:42:54 UTC

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I think it was us 😭. I have restored service but it may take a bit to get things operating smoothly.

2026-01-28 22:39:36 UTC

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@npub10xx…pcjl 🤪

2026-01-28 22:39:21 UTC

We run the network!!!

2026-01-26 18:17:52 UTC

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Two or three weeks ago Jack Mallers said on his podcast that 80$ was the top. Not sure what lines on charts you all are seeing or if this is some “gut feeling” or maybe you have insider info.. but I’m going to go with it continuing up for now.

2026-01-26 02:23:18 UTC

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You always have the best posts!!!

2026-01-26 02:22:56 UTC

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Silver!!!! The new gold!!!!

2026-01-22 20:40:40 UTC

I am 100% certain that @npub10xx…pcjl and I did not talk about Davos at all. Because we are out building things and talking about Bitcoin instead of worrying about what a group of people who have no interest in you have to say.
Satoshi’s Plebs episode 241 is out by the way!!
Grab it on your favorite podcast app and give it a listen.

2026-01-10 21:49:07 UTC

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That is SWEET!!!

2026-01-10 17:56:28 UTC

One of the few heros I have in my life!!
#note14fm…apcj

2026-01-03 22:27:49 UTC

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What an absolute charade.
#nevent1q…47r3

2025-12-16 18:39:14 UTC

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One of the few “hero” moments in my life is when I shook Phil Z.’s hand at the 2024 conference in Nashville.

2025-12-15 20:02:04 UTC

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Interesting

2025-12-12 22:34:13 UTC

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I have a solution- stack sats. I’m not sure what books on money than they read but I have never read that it’s a political institution. What a joke.

2025-12-09 03:04:26 UTC

Love this !!
Not to mention it’s none of your blankety-blank business!!
#note1sj9…rn90

2025-12-08 22:10:15 UTC

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I feel like it’s been slipping as well. I don’t understand how that works ..

2025-11-26 06:28:46 UTC

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@nprofile…83hj check it out!!

2025-11-26 06:26:56 UTC

Episode 234 of Satoshi’s Plebs is posted. And here is the new Ubuntu-based Ardour DAW…
So far it’s gone pretty smoothly.
https://blossom.primal.net/3dbd8514e4420b2241dc32a9b6c5f7b573f10181e187004bb04a97ca6cdadf07.jpg

2025-11-24 15:41:42 UTC

Clearly @npub1qg8…24kw listened to our recent episode on quantum computing and Bitcoin. Right @npub10xx…pcjl ???
It’s right here - block height included:
https://satoshis-plebs.com/episodes/episode-232/
#note1qfe…v7qv

2025-11-22 21:48:45 UTC

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Because that won’t drive their inflation numbers up … I feel sorry for Japan. For decades they had been caught between a rock and a hard place. Unfortunately the rock is getting heavier.

2025-11-22 21:47:14 UTC

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Love it!!!

2025-11-22 17:04:38 UTC

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That’s awesome!!

2025-11-21 14:42:52 UTC

Well bottoms in boys. Time for new ATH!! 😂😂
#note1hcw…4ffe

2025-11-16 03:19:30 UTC

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Thanks Mike! Good to hear from you!!

2025-11-14 06:24:27 UTC

No podcast today. I’m sorry but Mediacom has really dropped the ball and I have been without Internet for four days now. I was told tonight by Mediacom support that it could be up to 10 more days for the needed maintenance to be done.
This is what a lack of competition does - creates regulation backed ineptitude that we have to suffer through.

2025-11-14 03:39:36 UTC

Don’t understand what’s going on with the world’s economies?
Let me ask you something. If all the previous major innovations that mankind has had ( fire, agriculture, the printing press, Industrial Revolution, the integrated circuit, the internet for example ) have succeeded in making mankind more prosperous and productive and should ( and has ) lead to cheaper and better products and services - then why do the Keynesian economists fear deflation ( ie - my computer now is both cheaper and far more powerful than the Commodore 64 I had in the early 80’s allowing me to be exponentially more productive). Why the fear?
Tug at that thread in the tapestry and see where it goes …

2025-10-31 14:44:08 UTC

👋 GM Nostr, the 231st episode of Satoshi’s Plebs podcast is out now!
Episode 231: Where Do We Go From Here?
In this episode of Satoshi's Plebs, @Kenshin 🥷 & @mcintosh have an honest conversation about the podcast's sustainability and future direction. After over four years of producing content, they discuss the challenges of maintaining a value-for-value podcast and share their plans to improve the show through better audio quality, enhanced content, and potentially bringing in sponsors while maintaining their ethical standards.
The hosts outline their timeline and goals for growth, ask for listener feedback on proposed improvements, and emphasize their commitment to serving the Bitcoin community. They also cover the current Bitcoin price sitting at $106,885 and revisit the discussion about market cycles and potential patterns that may indicate where we are in the current cycle.
🔊 Listen and boost us on Fountain: https://fountain.fm/show/Ad0jCESW2B7R17uDQ1ki
🎧 Listen on your favourite app: https://episodes.fm/1582341312
📜 See our back catalogue: satoshis-plebs.com/episodes
Resources:
https://bullishmarket.onrender.com
@nevent1q:qs2du4vw
https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/
Nodes distribution:
https://bitref.com/nodes/
Bitcoin Price at Time of Recording
October 30th, 2025: $106,885 USD | 92,200 euro
Block Height at Time of Recording
921,516
Episode Page
https://satoshis-plebs.com/episode-231
Music Credits
Joe Martin - The Jetsons
#Bitcoin #podcast #v4v #value4value #GM #Nostr #plebchain #plebs #grownostr #satoshisplebs

2025-10-31 06:38:17 UTC

Happy White Paper Day to all the Plebs!!!
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
For the clowns in the room who think the Bitcoin network is for dumping your garbage on …
I direct you to the first sentence of the abstract of the white paper …
“Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online
payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a
financial institution. “

2025-10-23 18:42:52 UTC

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I’m almost sure there is a project already? I’ll try and poke around after the fiat mining is done to see if I’m smoking something good or there actually is one.
I would love to see three or four new implementations. Centralized software is just as bad as centralized services.

2025-10-03 23:06:24 UTC

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Not trying to get zaps. We will zap you for posting a question for next weeks podcast !!

2025-10-03 22:54:55 UTC

I can’t believe we have so little response to our zapathon!! What’s going on nostr land ??!?
#zapathon #zap #nostr #
#note1p9z…hqdf

2025-10-03 15:11:55 UTC

Episode 228 is out and our quarterly #zapathon is in progress!
#note1p9z…hqdf

2025-10-02 16:11:05 UTC

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Oh it’s on here. Maybe not following the right people 🤪??

2025-10-02 01:37:50 UTC

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But what she said was very clear and straightforward. She wasn’t drunk nor tricked into the question. As a developer she doesn’t care about jpegs et al being on the main net block chain.
It’s really that simple.
This isn’t about her programming abilities. It’s about her understanding / view of what Bitcoin is and where it should be going because as a “Core Developer” she has more control over that than the average pleb.

2025-09-27 06:50:25 UTC

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Politics doesn’t have to make sense - it just has to generate more votes than the other parties.

2025-09-26 01:40:49 UTC

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Yes and that’s why we are so passionate about it

2025-09-24 06:10:05 UTC

Heard this today -
We are becoming the have Yachts and have Nots…
That’s not a good thing.

2025-09-24 03:37:58 UTC

@npub10xx…pcjl
#note19zh…4vxd

2025-09-22 21:44:25 UTC

Interesting angle that I don’t recall hearing before…
#note184r…fgc5

2025-09-19 20:14:24 UTC

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Wow. Not always a fan of the Senator but proud of him for standing up to the FCC - which really means he stood up to Trump…

2025-09-19 04:05:12 UTC

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Do you post your music V4v? Would love to have it on my podcast for a few weeks as the closing music and stream some sats your way!

2025-09-17 01:59:37 UTC

Well said. Dovetails nicely with a recent point I made on the Satoshi’s Plebs podcast. Gen Z have a tool to break the financial chains that Gen X didn’t have …
USE IT!!!!
#note1lt8…gx4c

2025-09-14 19:29:52 UTC

I have loved music since I was a kid. One of my distinct memories is lying on the floor in front of one of the speakers of my dad’s stereo system and listening to albums we had checked out of the library.
Anyways, music has changed for sure. Some of it for the better and some of it not. I was looking for new music for the Satoshi’s Plebs podcast - we play v4v music every week at the end of the show and any sats streamed or boosted during the song go to the artist.
I thought I found a new artist and started listening. Really nice - over-engineered but that’s normal these days. Great voice - almost too great.
Then I looked at the artwork and the picture of the artist. Hmmm that doesn’t look right.
Wait .. is this all ai generated? From all the artwork and such I would almost bet on it. After listening to the music for a while I do think it was all ai.
I try not to be that grumpy old man. Really. But I’m not sure how I feel about this..
In the one hand it takes talent to do this type of work. But it seems deceptive to me. And live music has always been part of the music experience. Certainly won’t be happening in this case..
What are your thoughts? Should I even consider putting something like this as a v4v show ending segment for our podcast?

2025-09-14 15:45:33 UTC

I have two or three s19jpro used for sale . They are my original miner ms and had been in service about 2.5 years. No issues just retired.
Any suggestions on how I could sell? I’m asking 3$ a terrahash.

2025-09-13 21:48:39 UTC

Pretty sad that we now have people just discounting instances of knots because …. wait for it … it’s running on aws.
I run knots on my desktop as well as electrs for my wallet usage.
I run knots on a vps because I need it for my lightning node ( also on that vps ).
Maybe I am not the average pleb. I feel like I am.
The “core defenders” are sounding desperate.

2025-09-12 22:36:56 UTC

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It’s not actually hard. I don’t currently do it but I spun one up and played with it a year or so ago. Just like lightning nodes the normies aren’t going to do it and that’s ok.

2025-09-12 20:20:46 UTC

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My cohost @npub10xx…pcjl and I use ( and I dare say promote) nostr regularly. We have a podcast Satoshi’s Plebs that’s been going for four years now I think.

2025-09-12 00:18:21 UTC

I’m so confused.. this isn’t hard people.
The first line of the abstract paragraph of the Bitcoin white paper is this ..
“A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online
payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.“
Satoshi wrote this in October of 2008.

2025-09-12 00:05:36 UTC

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Literally the first line of the abstract of the bitcoin white paper …
“A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online
payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. “

2025-09-08 01:21:18 UTC

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Amusing coming from ordinals degenerate who will be enriched by the change going through. It’s soooooo transparent.

2025-09-06 23:45:06 UTC

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You literally invested in the company. If you did that without expectation of returns I have no words. But you know you didn’t. Ergo it is reasonable to assume that your interest in Citrea’s success ( and your future reward for that success ) might possibly color your view of this matter. There is no doubt that Citrea would benefit from a more open protocol. So let’s be honest in that in fact Citrea might have a part in your motives.
So saying “Citrea doesn’t pay me” while technically correct doesn’t even come close to telling the full story.

2025-09-04 03:57:35 UTC

With all this talk about Bitcoin podcasts .. don’t worry !
In the depths of the next bear market half of those podcasts won’t even be around. 😂🤪

2025-09-01 20:00:16 UTC

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The only world where China is a democracy is a fantasy world.

2025-08-30 06:16:51 UTC

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Nice!!!

2025-08-29 20:12:55 UTC

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I’ll give it a try. We use zap.stream for our podcast so this would be natural fit. Already have lnd running as well.

2025-08-29 02:30:32 UTC

Sorry life is happening. No podcast this week. We will see you next week!!

2025-08-27 21:37:32 UTC

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If you are talking about OS? Linux. Pick your flavor.
And I run knots. It’s not a fight - I haven’t swung a fist since fourth grade. It’s open source software and I choose to run it.
You do you boo. 👻

2025-08-25 02:11:52 UTC

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That looks great

2025-08-23 19:11:04 UTC

The debasement of your money will continue until morale improves -
Bitcoin fixes this

2025-08-17 16:43:36 UTC

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2 million fiat dollars of the hardest money on earth

2025-08-17 16:42:59 UTC

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Pretty sure that’s the bip-39 list ?

2025-08-16 02:20:58 UTC

Had a great interview with Seedsigner from the Seedsigner project.

2025-08-14 20:57:52 UTC

Without privacy democracy is dead.
Read that again.
Ponder it if you need to do so..

2025-08-14 16:35:03 UTC

One last thing about Proto..
Here is the link to the live demo this morning:
https://www.youtube.com/live/yJbalP0R3zE

2025-08-14 16:26:59 UTC

Here is the Proto homepage. Looks very innovative. An example would be the website says to immerse it you just remove the fans. Slick. Open source firmware!!!
I hope they make a hydro model soon.
https://proto.xyz

2025-08-14 16:13:00 UTC

Real innovation happening in Bitcoin mining space.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/block-launches-modular-bitcoin-miner-and-free-open-source-mining-software

2025-08-13 04:40:18 UTC

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I used a screenshot from @npub1art…6l9m that they posted earlier. Thanks you for your amazing reporting!

2025-08-13 03:48:10 UTC

A nice book end to yesterday’s post about the debasement of fiat. This is the total m2 global money supply. I would say it strongly correlates with the dollar debasement. It’s a simple argument - “printing money” - creating fiat backed by nothing but debt ( and weaponry) creates inflation. But hey I’m just a pleb - what do I know?
https://blossom.primal.net/60107332ca32ee52ec05e230b26d5e2dfe01dc62234bbf662aa3dbb8eead721b.jpg

2025-08-12 01:45:32 UTC

I think this is one of the most important charts in economics. Keynesian economics is a complete, udder and abject failure. There is no other explanation.
Fixing this begins with sound money.
https://image.nostr.build/7f85943600f8e3fbedd95c903142eae8e540361a1607305d3b809a6194a8a5ec.jpg

2025-08-09 21:57:56 UTC

Be careful out there folks. I am pretty sure someone was trying to pull a fast one in me. Not exactly sure how but if you get that “feeling” you should probably listen to it. It’s kept me out of trouble more than once..

2025-08-09 03:22:13 UTC

Ok the fact that the Nostr client picks up my music from Apple Music and places the current song as a header or whatever on top of my note … am I the only one that thinks that is kinda creepy? I mean I’m old enough to not care what you think about my listening to The Bee Gees .. but really?

2025-08-09 02:58:14 UTC

I have a 30 day goal. I’m not going to post on X during this 30 days. I’m only going to post on Nostr. It has to be at least once a day and one or more of those posts will be original and not just a repost.
Another words, at least one original post a day.

2025-08-01 10:36:33 UTC

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Looks good! Love the content!

2025-07-30 09:34:31 UTC

He couldn’t just keep bashing BTC because he was looking so silly. I don’t even like using the word “boomer” but Dave embodies it in the spirit that young people use the word. And technically I think he actually is a boomer by age. I don’t know if has any real concept of what’s going on ( he doesn’t seem to .. ) but he will definitely fade into irrelevance over the next ten years .
#note18nf…uxg5

2025-07-24 04:58:20 UTC

Debian 13 scheduled for release August 9th. I would say I can’t wait … but I didn’t wait. I put it on our new backend server for the Satoshi’s Plebs podcast a month ago.

2025-07-23 22:22:52 UTC

Replace the Fed with a difficulty adjustment

2025-07-23 17:14:57 UTC

Say it isn’t so Jim
#note1zlp…knxq

2025-07-18 16:35:10 UTC

Things Bitcoin doesn’t need:
A CEO
A premine
A foundation
A marketing budget
What does your “crypto” need?

2025-07-18 03:54:10 UTC

I missed @npub10xx…pcjl but we must soldier on..
#note193r…3uhx

2025-07-16 03:03:40 UTC

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Please keep us posted on progress. I would love to do something like this for LOTR 5e

2025-07-14 19:51:02 UTC

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Suppose to be large amounts in space ( asteroids I suppose ). If Elon executes his vision then space travel will be very common in less than 100 years and you know they will be mining it until it’s no longer profitable.. which means it would be a lot cheaper than now. Of course this is hypothetical but still plausible.

2025-07-14 17:32:36 UTC

This ….
#note17hj…grxu

2025-07-13 15:45:26 UTC

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I’m ok with being wrong about 120 being the top for now.

2025-07-12 02:44:52 UTC

Man .. we getting rich @npub10xx…pcjl …
#note1l7q…uq48

2025-07-10 00:43:48 UTC

Interesting……
#note1ml2…4nfj

2025-07-05 16:37:22 UTC

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He has. I saw a news article recently that he had stopped trying.

2025-07-03 19:58:25 UTC

Or as we like to say. ….. money printer go “brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”
#note1c4d…yxxc