Motivating The Math

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2025-12-03 17:43:34 UTC

https://fountain.fm/episode/fPQFUxql8xWiuFx1C4ev
Bitcoin has a lot to learn from Phish and their fans and how they built a resilient culture on the internet .
Phish as a lot to learn from Bitcoin for obvious reasons.
We’re on a collision course with Destiny (Unbound) as we get close to Vegas and Bitcoin 26

2025-09-27 12:13:45 UTC

Absolutely beautiful opening statement. I really gotta make time to deep dive into this book. Stillwell comes across as a wonderful writer
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/b84448b94f959d7f77c2ad32ca1d96c463e7999d783c71c1f87cc2e7521bcfd7/a058d34e2e4403a92b9262f2def8ba02ec3f2082198d06a6e14bc76010114638.webp
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/b84448b94f959d7f77c2ad32ca1d96c463e7999d783c71c1f87cc2e7521bcfd7/fd8716847f40cad6ac85a73044e5472692cc6d664fc5fb62c816b4ab27ed8838.webp

2025-08-31 12:06:55 UTC

The math is officially motivated!!
#nevent1q…wydn

2025-08-29 21:08:24 UTC

https://fountain.fm/episode/ef7QKzzxcZYJyfXgzu1L

2025-07-30 10:57:59 UTC

https://fountain.fm/episode/wtbFnpbnWE7CWfW4gARX

2025-05-25 10:45:59 UTC

Motivate the Math ep17
DahLIAS: We Tried
https://fountain.fm/episode/YtbgIxoRqbe5RSrC1fym

2025-05-24 19:31:39 UTC

https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/b84448b94f959d7f77c2ad32ca1d96c463e7999d783c71c1f87cc2e7521bcfd7/30ceaa0ed9e6f8b95cd331426f054d908e06a0aa3ca4451fb22e0a634876cffe.webp

2025-05-17 00:38:55 UTC

@npub1ysx…zld9 wanted to thank you for the boosts and the definition of a Cauchy sequence: We appreciate you!
@npub160t…yjc9

2025-04-24 20:59:22 UTC

https://fountain.fm/episode/waQbY96vVMcDaQMrJOmO

2025-04-22 22:51:18 UTC

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I’m gonna go out in a limb and say that anything resembling Austrian economics in the math world will be much clearer than this.
This comes off as super pretentious and alienating.
Programming Bitcoin was a unifying textbook that helped to demystify the math. That’s the book I anchor to for value.

2025-04-09 11:23:21 UTC

https://fountain.fm/episode/8yuqor06ZWbZWxm4k8xC

2025-04-08 19:22:47 UTC

https://fountain.fm/episode/8yuqor06ZWbZWxm4k8xC

2025-04-03 13:27:46 UTC

I’ll have to check this book out!
#nevent1q…7gq5

2025-04-02 17:33:37 UTC

COMING SOON:
Office Hours. Are you a listener of the Motivate the Math podcast and have questions you want to work through? Maybe you don’t know what to ask? Maybe you’re just lonely
I’m gonna host a space, likely on HiveTalk
In the meantime, check out the community on satellite.earth where I host supplementary videos.

2025-03-26 17:28:38 UTC

Video games are harder and far more pointless than pure mathematics

2025-03-26 11:46:44 UTC

https://fountain.fm/episode/VxnhSNvM3GWLpL7hZ2pm

2025-03-21 15:00:30 UTC

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We’ll find the balance.
Appreciate the boosts of course - but we won’t let the show get too derailed.
Eye on the prize!! We have big things to build!

2025-03-21 11:45:43 UTC

https://fountain.fm/episode/wcDCaoF48HBUe1LQg0au
@npub160t…yjc9 and @npub12em…y99g were boosted and schooled by @npub16ds…h6vy but they rose to the challenge.
This would have gone badly 10 weeks ago. Our progress is evident.

2025-03-20 13:34:56 UTC

Applying math is how a person internalizes the math they learn. It’s just a means to an end. It’s not the end itself.
Learn for learning sake. Apply to strengthen the learning.

2025-03-19 18:45:12 UTC

Every math student needs sound coffee!
#nevent1q…eqzc

2025-03-18 18:16:14 UTC

We spent the entire episode today on your boosts from episodes 1-5. Tried 6 but we had to abort because we had a time issue.
We’ll finish them next week.
@npub16ds…h6vy has become the de facto producer of the podcast. Congrats.
#nevent1q…klyu

2025-03-17 11:52:41 UTC

It needs to be said
@npub16ds…h6vy is a math motivating madman! We can’t wait to read your boosts tomorrow and figure out how to do our show around it
@npub160t…yjc9

2025-03-13 12:03:25 UTC

https://fountain.fm/episode/Z9z0H1YAY9Bv4vDZpBRt

2025-03-09 13:15:05 UTC

Number Theory is an incredible rabbit hole. There’s no way to master cryptography without uprooting your life to master it for however long the journey lasts.
You will still be visible in the world but your mind will live in the glorious world for as long as it wants.
While in that rabbit hole, the Chinese Remainder Theorem is a side quest that might make you invisible to the world. It’s a world within itself loaded with wondrous discoveries.
These are like multi-year video games except finishing them makes you a superhuman.

2025-03-08 22:35:26 UTC

We’ve created a mathematical monster!!
Only took 8 episodes!
Get on the bus - it’s much easier than you think and now we’re supporting the podcast with videos!
#note162w…5w2h

2025-03-07 02:43:02 UTC

Part 2 posted to the Community. Use sattelite.earth or nostrudel.ninja to access.
#note18rw…vn3q

2025-03-06 14:56:56 UTC

https://episodes.fm/1790329241/episode/MzZiNTMzZWMtOTE1YS00MzkyLWJlOWYtMzdmNjhkN2M4NjQy

2025-03-06 02:44:38 UTC

There is now a community for the Motivate The Math podcast.
Use a web app like satellite.earth or nostrudel.ninja to access it and participate.
#note1xla…w2wm

2025-03-02 16:31:41 UTC

Homeschoolers. How can I help teach you and your children math?
I know you want to learn and I want to teach it - but how do we really come together?
I need to understand your pain and struggles. Please share with me here.

2025-02-12 12:07:46 UTC

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Thank you. I’m going through proof (of its existence) involving projective geometry and it’s removing all ability to discuss this with other humans.
Thank you kindly for that beautiful economy of words that eludes me.

2025-02-11 12:31:39 UTC

Did you know that the points on an elliptic curve form an Abelian group?
Now I’m glad we suffered through 2 podcasts to explain what groups are and how we don’t know why but it’s important to know something is a group!
We (on this podcast) still don’t know why this fact matters for elliptic curves yet - but it seems plausible in the context of what we discussed that we like:
1) closure under point addition (adding any two points gives us a point that is definitely on the curve)
2) infinity point is the identity (always wondered what that point meant in the coding books like @npub10vl…sp42 Programming Bitcoin)
3) order of addition doesn’t matter (P1+P2) = (P2+P1)
So the points being an abelian group makes all of the arithmetic around adding points nice. VERY NICE!

2025-02-10 13:44:30 UTC

EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW IS RIGGED TO LOOK A CERTAIN WAY THROUGH A CAREFULLY CONTROLLED MEDIUM.
EXCEPT MATH
They can’t rig math. They can rig how it’s used and what it says and they can demoralize you into not learning it or seeing for yourself what is knowable. They can co-opt its applications.
But they cannot undo Euclid, Euler, or Gauss.
Learn math and learn who these men were if you want to have a fighting chance against those who can rig everything you think you know.

2025-02-10 11:58:05 UTC

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Based on that thinking - I might say that the ability to be a tyrant and deprive people of their basic necessities of life only to raise their marginal value to them when you benevolently trade it back to them is the most valuable ability.
Bitcoin protects you and your descendants from this tyranny. Not completely obviously - but relative to he who has none.
Always having the basic necessities without needing the state apparatus is therefore the most valuable thing an individual can acquire.
Without bitcoin, this is only possible through debt and wage slavery.

2025-02-06 22:57:24 UTC

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Math just needs motivating. It’s not hard if you put in the work.

2025-01-27 16:00:45 UTC

I cannot stress enough the importance of modular arithmetic - the math where we divide and focus only on remainders
Take any number N (preferably a prime - let’s use N= 5)
(Here = is congruence )
1(mod5) = 1
2(mod5) = 2
3(mod5) = 3
4(mod5) = 4
5(mod5) = 0
6(mod5) = 1
7(mod5) = 2
8(mod5) = 3
9(mod5) = 4
10(mod5) = 0
You seeing it?
3483638(mod5) = 3
Being good at this is SO IMPORTANT to learning cryptography. You have to be just as comfortable with these operations as nerds are with the other usual ones (addition, multiplication, etc)

2025-01-25 23:54:23 UTC

https://fountain.fm/episode/LNxnprHhlWSBh4n5b0eS
This is a bonus episode. Made by AI - we released it because it does such a great job of explaining the 1st 2 episodes to laypeople.

2025-01-23 22:56:44 UTC

Thanks brother! You move yet?
#note1ah9…75yl

2025-01-23 14:04:42 UTC

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I see a lot of potential to use Nostr for this project. Appreciate that you’re with us for this ride.

2025-01-23 13:40:53 UTC

https://fountain.fm/episode/4QeQ1s9TraV0XEj5nlXz
@npub12em…y99g and @npub160t…yjc9 go pretty deep in Episode 2.
You might want to check the supporting video.
We talk about Groups (seriously - who does that?)
I’ve pinned a note on noStrudel exposing a mistake I already know I made - nothing horrible.

2025-01-23 11:58:26 UTC

@npub12em…y99g and @npub160t…yjc9 are committed to motivating Bitcoiners to study math and demystifying the majority of it.
Mistakes will be made as none of us are professionals. We will always hold ourselves accountable - the listeners trust in our signal is paramount.
#note1qzf…72gf