Rabbit Hole Recap
Rabbit Hole Recap
ODELL and Marty Bent
RABBIT HOLE RECAP #373: BITCOIN IS THE BEST MONEY
1 hour 36 minutes Posted Sep 5, 2025 at 12:10 am.
Intro
Primal streaming
Dashboard
China is preparing
Trump truthing about China
Global reserves
OP_DEBATE
Strategy S&P
Electricity prices
Maple
Wasabi update
HRF Story of the week
Boosts
PBS and sportzball
Show Intro
Apologies for Being Late
Primal Apps Streaming Video Support
iOS App Bug
How Streaming on Nostr Works
The Best Way to Interact With the Hosts is Through Primal
Zap Us As Much As Possible
Content Creators Have Been Grandfathered Into the Tax
Seth Zapped Us 5,600 Sats!
Primal is Leaning into Nostr!
You Can Minimize The Video!
Chroma Zapped 21,000 Sats!
Bug Report Live Chat In Firefox Is Not Automatically Updating
What Is Red Light?
Red Light Saunas
We're Testing In Prod This Week and It's Working!
RHR Was Always Just A Humble Audio-Only In-Person Show
We Do Have Our Luddite Tendencies
We Need to Approach Somebody Like Aiden Ross
Kick Came Out of Nowhere
Our Live Viewers Number Is Really Low
Soapminer Zap 21,000 Sats
Soapminer Helps Get a Closer Shave
Bitcoin Price Statistics
Palindrome Stats Per Cuck Buck At 909 Stats Per Cuck Buck
We're Currently At Block Height
Multiple Stats That Circulate
5.4% Upwards Difficulty Adjustment
Clark Teeny Mempool
House Thermometer Just Sitting In the Living Room
This Chart Shocked Me
China is Prepping For Something
China Has Been Accumulating Gold Since the Early 2010s
A Public Flex
Dollar Competitor Coming Out Of China Backed By Gold
Bitcoin is Simply A Much Better Money
Theory From Mel Madison About the Yuan
If You Read Mandibles, You Wouldn't Be Surprised By This Development
How Quickly They've Registered Their Gold on Warren
Military Parade
Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Geopolitical Jujitsu Positioning
Coinbase Sponsor Their Parade
They Hot Mic of Them Talking About Organ Transplants to Live
Steel Banning It
Take Yuan Risk
Taking Delivery Of The Gold
Skip the Step and Just Use Bitcoin
Beauty of Noster
The Highs of Nostr
China is Going To Eat Our Lunch?
Plot Their Life Path
China Prepping for Something
Trump Truth Social Post
The Big Question to Be Answered
Warmest Regards To Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un
Clear Global Economic Reordering
Get To A Table and Figure Out This Global Economic Reordering
Staggering Chart Showing Global Reserves
Foreign Reserves Held In Gold
Foreign Holdings of US Treasuries
Walking Towards the Edge
Gold Has Been Pumping Pretty Hard in Price
Will Flip Gold
A Fun Fall
The Infighting Is Going To Result In Bitcoin Dying
Similarities To 2017
What Your Node Is Running
Current Debate is Over Policy Rules
Miners Can Compete
Can Be Mined Anyway
More Implementations Out There
Read the Tweet Yourself
Bitcoin Is Going To Die
I Support Everyone's Decision To Say What They Want
Amazing Capability
More People Should Run Nodes
Bike Shedding Leads To Demoralization Of People
Neil Woodfine Had a Great Take On This Matter Yesterday
Cool Part Is You Can't Even Say Basic Very Benign Technical Things Without Being Immediately Called a Spook
Bitcoin Is So Important As Bitcoin
We Won't Really Have Any Kind of Major Consensus Changes Unless There's Some Kind of Hard Fork Scenario
Take Agency Over Your Life
It Can Easily Be Used Against Bitcoiners In the Future
Big Problems
I Support Everyone's Decision To Say What They Want
All this Other Shit Is That, As Far As I'm Concerned, Is Straight Bullshit
New Found Respect For The Idea
More Options Available
People Should Run Nodes
Biggest Worry Is The Bike Shedding
Don't Make This Your Whole Identity
More Civility Is Needed
Open Relay Network In Mempool
Take Agency Over Your Life
Stay Open
More Implementations Out There
A Lot of Distractions Out There
Everything We Focus On Is Trying To Make It a More Robust Money
Focus On Bitcoin Is The Best Money In the World
How Can We Make This Transition As Best As Possible
The People Putting JPEGs on Chain
Esthetically Terrible
Completely Ideological
Give Credit in the Primal Live Chat
They Have to Get Boosted For Me To Read Em!
Primal Is Better Because It Enlarges
Electricity Curve
This Chart Blew My Mind
AI Stuff
Bullish On Nostr
Everything Is Cross-Compatible
Maple Launches Proxy Service
Tony & Marks
Coinbase Sponsoring There Parade
Chinese Models
Corrupt It
Chinese Characteristics
Private Security
Deep Seek On Maples
Marx Loves Feedback
We Openly Scan
Don't Blindly Trust
Everything Is Cross-Compatible
Wasabi 2.7
Layer Of Centralization
Verifying
Tor Bundled Into Coordinator Package
Coordinator A Central Point
They've Got There
User Experience
There's A Guide There On How To Verify It
Good Job
We Are in the Same Boat
The Human Rights Report
Drive Food Out Of Reach
Sad Story
I Get It
I'm Checking
You Go To
No Threshold
Did What
More Choice
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Show notes
https://rhr.tv/stream
- China Is Prepping For Something https://primal.net/marty/china-is-prepping-for-something
- The dollar’s share of global reserves has plunged to 42% https://x.com/TFTC21/status/1962551281081569654
- MSTR to be added to S&P tomorrow?
- Maple launches proxy service https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs0wkhgplenzzruh8c5twvht6pngrunlag3eqhp2mlm0c3tm2uhesge9lluy
- Primal launches video streaming on web and android https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsvyutpuc56wtmnh3esvzfme8nq5wkl2zwey4n8wqccdxfusuwxdgss7qkk9
- Wasabi v2.7 https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs82rly47uqu8uqjwxc25hjw0lrrskcv4ffmfeprmuh8k4ngc2m66czj2e2k
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