Chat_154 - Unpacking "The Cat" with the Shitcoin Insider

"The images are hacks in the first place, and it's not
like Bitcoin had like a 'please put your NFT here' sign, so
hackers found weird ways to do it. And if you stop them from
using that weird way, they'll just do it some other weird way.
And so the CAT kind of understands that and says, fine, we can't
stop you from making these things and we're not going to try to
stop you from making these things. Instead, we're going to
disrupt your markets, disrupt the trust in your markets and
remove all financial incentive to do this in the first
place."


~ The Shitcoin Insider


In this Chat episode with the Shitcoin Insider, we dive straight
into the wild world of AI tooling, vibe coding, Bitcoin protocol
design, and the new CAT proposal that has everyone fired up. We
explore whether spam is actually a threat, what this new proposal
would do to ordinal markets, and why the social layer of Bitcoin
governance matters more than people admit. I ask what truly
counts as an exploit, and whether sats can stay fungible when the
market tries to make them something else.


We talk about censorship, mailing list politics, and why shutting
down discussion only breeds distrust. Along the way we wander
into AI powered creativity, distributed databases, and the
strange overlap between developers and spammers. This one is part
technical deep dive, part culture critique, and part nostalgia
for the Shitcoin Insider days.


If you want to hear a conversation that asks uncomfortable
questions and laughs at the absurdity of it all, this episode is
for you.


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