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Episode 275: "Off The Rails"
Podcasting 2.0 October 16th 2026 Episode 275 - "Off The Rails"
What is the future of independent Podcast apps. OR any apps for the matter? Adam and Dave don't agree
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01 - đď¸ THE ROBOT GOES ON PNWR â "I DON'T SEE THE NECESSITY FOR PODCAST APPS" (summary, no clips)
Podnews Weekly Review, 16 Oct â "Adam Curry's AI Podcast Future" (1h29m; Adam, 4:00â53:45)
Sam's setup: on our last show Adam "changed Dave Jones' mind⌠from a skeptic to a believer". Adam: "I went back and listenedâŚÂ the first thing that Dave went to was advertisin...
Episode 274: "Vibe Cloning"
Podcasting 2.0 October 9th 2026 Episode 274 - "Vibe Cloning"
The Future is here! And so is the risk of spinning out. Adam & Dave go deep
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00 - đ 1,088 LINES DOWN TO 168 â THE INDEX GETS NEW TERMS OF SERVICE
Dave, 5 Oct: "Podcast Index terms of service updated (finally)⌠The old v1.x terms were 90% boilerplate legalese that never accurately reflected what we wanted. I get emails weekly asking for clarification." ¡ "The old terms of service were 1088 lines. The new ones are 168 lines. It's a 2-3 minute r...
Episode 273: "Advertising is the Horse and Buggies of Podcasting"
Podcasting 2.0 October 2nd 2026 Episode 273 - "Advertising is The Horse and Buggies of Podcasting"
One topic only today - Big changes coming to podcast discovery!
05 - đ¤ PODCAST ROBOT â ADAM'S MCP SERVER FOR THE INDEX
Discovery
New Tag adoption
podroll trailer peson location etc
AEO - Ask Engine Optimization
AI Assistants - Robots - Muse
podcastindexrobot.com â Podcast Robot, part of Podcast Index
What it says it is: "Podcast Robot is a plug-in for AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT or your own age...
Episode 272: "Is this Y'all?"
Podcasting 2.0 September 25th 2026 Episode 272 - "Is this Y'all?"
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00 - đď¸ THE SCHEMA IS LIVE â AND THEN THE AGGREGATORS PICKED A FIGHT
Dave has already told us this one is his: "Will explain in the board meeting tomorrow."
Mon 22 Sep â the cutover lands: "#api All api endpoints are now live with the new database schema. Bug reports welcome. I'm tired. đ "
@dave â all endpoints live on the new schema
Tue 23 Sep â and now the real work: "Now comes the post-deploy quality testing of...
Episode 271: Foot Terminal
Podcasting 2.0 Episode 271 - "Foot Terminal"
Adam & Dave have their SCBA's on and go deep into index refactoring and ad loads!
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00 - đĽ STEP TWO OF THE SCARY STUFF â THE ENDPOINTS FLIP TO THE IDENTITY LAYER
Last week the table went in. This week the API started using it â one endpoint at a time, four days running.
Sat 12 Sep: "#api I'm running a script to sync up podcasts.id and newsfeeds.id so that when a new feed is born they are in...
Episode 270: YOLO Guy
Podcasting 2.0 September 11th 2026 Episode 270 - "YOLO Guy
Dave waves the whitflag on agentic coding and podcasting beneifts!Â
01 - đ THE PODCAST RIG ATE ITSELF â AND IS NOW RUNNING OMARCHY
Sunday 6 Sep: "My Umbrel docker containers did not survive the OS upgrade from Ubuntu 20 to 24 on my podcast rig. This is why I never upgrade anything. I still have some Ubuntu 12 and 18 servers running." â a sentence that should be on a T-shirt at Podcast Movement.
Tuesday, the diagnosis, and he takes it on the chin: "It was a...
Episode 269: Verbal Pollution
Podcasting 2.0 August 28th 2026 Episode 269 - "Verbal Pollution"
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00 - DATABASE SURGERY WEEK â AND THE THIRD EMERGENCY OF THE MONTH
The lead, and it's Dave's: Saturday 22 Aug â "#api I'm in the middle of a big refactor with the Podcast Index database schema. If I do my job right, nobody will notice it. But, the side effect will be an overall huge increase in the consistency of the data (duplicates, url change lag, etc)."
@dave â the big schema refactor (22 Aug)
Wednesday night...
Episode 268: Dead Hanging Safari
Podcasting 2.0 August 21st 2026 Episode 268 - "Dead Hanging Safari"
It's always DNS or CORS - and how your right brain is gating bad robots
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00 - THE LOCATION TAG â SPEC TO DATASET TO GLOBE IN 48 HOURS
The lead, and it's yours: Wednesday afternoon Dave posted â "There is a new locations data set on the public datasets page... The db tables are still back-filling since I updated the db and aggregators to support the new tag format. After a couple of days it shou...
Episode 267: Chocolove
Podcasting 2.0 August 14th 2026 Episode 267 - "Chocolove"
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00 - THE SPOTIFY "SKIP AHEAD" BUTTON â THE BIG ONE
What it is: Spotify is testing a button that appears on the playback screen the moment it thinks you'd want to skip â an intro, a sponsorship message, or an entire ad break. It is bigger than everything else on screen. One tap drops you at the end of the break, back in the show. Premium subscribers only, selected markets including US and UK, and only when the app is in the foreground.
Episode 266: Research Velocity
Podcasting 2.0 July 24th 2026 Episode 266 - "Research Velocity"
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đ FROM PREP.md â Adam's PC20 items
Pod News â podcast app revenue (source for 'cut the apps into the money')
Pod News â the ad-skipping player
Board Q (Adam): "If you go to another chapter, is that a new play?" â for the AMP play=30s definition.
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00 - DAVE'S WORLD: THE ALTERNATE ENCLOSURE FINALLY GETS PICKED UP + HLS-IN-RSS SURGE
Take the lap: Podbean and Buzzsprout are now testing/supporting the alternate e...
Episode 265: Jihobbyist
Podcasting 2.0 July 17th 2026 Episode 265 - "Jihobbyist"
Slop or Not! Lightning or Frightening! Adam and Dave go deep with the Boardroom after a 2 week break
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00 - PODPING GOSSIP-WRITER â PRODUCTION + INDEX PLUMBING
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01 - THE OPEN INDEX TURNS UP INSIDE AN AI SCRAPER (SUNO)
@js flagged it: a hack at Suno reveals the AI music generator used PodcastIndex to do its targeting â "with the help of an online tool called PodcastIndex, Suno identified 420,000 different podcasts that had at least five 30-minute epis...
Episode 264: Podcast Plebicide
Podcasting 2.0 June 19th 2026 Episode 264 - "Podcast Plebicide"
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Justin Jackson's post: We Have A Communication Problem
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00 - PODPING.ALPHA STABLE + INDEX / PV-ALPHA HYGIENE
Milestone: Dave â "I think we can safely say that podping.alpha is stable now. It's been many weeks of 100% uptime." Lead the boardroom with the win.
PV-alpha 500s: @mitch + Dave debugging the "get a list of feeds that have updates over the last X" endpoint throwing 500s; @mitch adding a delay between paginated re...
Episode 263: Chat is Dead
Podcasting 2.0 June 12th 2026 Episode 263 - "Chat is Dead"
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DG Editor - Building an idiot proof recording system for Bridge Church
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00 - THE USER-AGENT WAR â SPOOF vs. SIGN
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01 - THE PODCAST DATA COLLECTIVE (PCDC) â and Pod News reacts
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02 - MEASUREMENT RECKONING â AMP's 30-SECOND "PLAY"
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03 - PODCAST STANDARDS PROJECT vs 2.0 â and Index hygiene
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04 - APPLE WWDC â VIDEO PODCASTS EVERYWHERE
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05 - AI BUBBLE â FINANCIAL ENGINEERING...
Episode 262: Podcleanse
Podcasting 2.0 June 5th 2026 Episode 262 - "Podcleanse"
Dave and Adam are joined by John Spurlock and throw a big idea into the boardroom: The Podcast Data Collective
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John Spurlock - Guest
The man behind op3.dev and Livewire.io - From the Great State of New Jersey!
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01 - THE IMPRESSION HEIST â AMP TASK FORCE RATIFIES 4 EXPOSURE DEFINITIONS, NO DISSENTING VOTES
Podnews press release Jun 4: AMP Task Force Introduces Cross-Platform Alternative to the Podcast "Download" â "unified impression guidance for audio and...
Episode 261: Podhemian Grove
Podcasting 2.0 May 29th 2026 Episode 261 - "Podhemian Grove"
Podcasting 2.0 May 29th 2026 Episode 261 - "Podhemian Grove"
Mike Dell joined the board room to help Adam and Dave with the solution to the Secret Pdcast Group's Problems.
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01 - ALLIANCE FOR MEASUREMENT IN PODCASTING â
Podnews press release this morning: Alliance fo...
Episode 260: Tennessee Trickshot
Podcasting 2.0 May 15th 2026 Episode 260 - "Tennessee Trickshot"
Podcasting 2.0 May 15th 2026 Episode 260 - "Tennessee Trickshot"
Adam & Dave Predict The Winter. That's all you need to know!
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01 - NGINX Rift: Achieving NGINX Remote Code Execution via an 18-Year-Old Vulnerability
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02 - ROB GREENLEE'S LLM-GHOSTWRITTEN "...
Episode 259: SlopJacked
Podcasting 2.0 May 1st 2026 Episode 259 - "SlopJacked"
Dave ships first-party data at the app level - the new /upload/followcounts endpoint changes everything. Plus the podcast:contact; proposal, RSS.com's Alberto Betella on AI disclosure as enforcement substrate
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Bloomberg article we discussed about podslop, featuring the chicken guy from Alabama
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Episode 258: Perceptron
Podcasting 2.0 April 24th 2026 Episode 258 - "Perceptron"
Dave and Adam walk through the entire technical process of building an industry resource for auto-flagging spam and slop podcasts. It's a doozy!
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Booking Tag
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DeepSeek V4 Released â Open Source AI From China
DeepSeek V4 released April 24 â two variants: V4-Pro (1.6T params) and V4-Flash (284B params, 13B active)
Open-weight MIT license, 1 million token context window
Trained on domestic Chinese chips (Huawei Ascend, Cambricon) â not Nvidia
V4-Flash: $0.14/M input...
Episode 257: Slop Factory
Podcasting 2.0 April 17th 2026 Episode 257 - Slop Factory
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CI/CD Prompt Injection â Claude Code, Gemini CLI Credential Theft
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Fountain Flooding the API â 1.5 Million Hits in 24 Hours
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Feed Cloning Epidemic â Spam Flavor of the Moment
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Episode 256: Master of Disaster
Podcasting 2.0 April 3rd 2026 Episode 256: "Master of Disaster"
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Index API Under Bot Attack
Â"Lyra" bots destroying API. OpenClaw scrapers (creator hired by OpenAI). Steno.fm 500 req/min. Dave: "Now I'm just angry."
@dave on Lyra bots
@dave on reflypod/OpenClaw
OpenClaw Drama
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Podping Alpha - Dave 6 Releases This Week
v0.4.0-v0.4.5: swarm health metrics, peer announcements, gossip-listener hang fix. @suorcd contributing PRs.
Podping alpha releases
"Dave did SIX podping releases this week. At this rate, podping wi...
Episode 255: Snark Week
Podcasting 2.0 March 27th 2026 Episode 255: "Snark Week"
Adam & Dave Are joined by Nathan Gathright to discuss his latest project and writing
Nathan Gathright Pod.Link The Standards Innovation ParadoxEpisode 254: Pop a TTermy!
Podcasting 2.0 March 20th 2026 Episode 254: "Pop a TTermy!"
Adam & Dave discuss chapter formats, who controls the final creative output and we dodge The Criddler!
ShowNotes
We are LIT
opencode
currycaster
rodecaster pipewire
Booking code - Alex Sanfillipo - podmatch.com
Transcript format reduction
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Last Modified 03/20/2026 14:16:52 by Freedom Controller ÂEpisode 253: Dirty Fix
Podcasting 2.0 March 13th 2026 Episode 253: "Dirty Fix"
Adam & Dave are joined by Brendan from Podpage and they firs up the new podping gossip watcher
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Brendan Mulligan - Podpage
open-claw sucks
Running the podping gossip listener
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Last Modified 03/13/2026 14:20:09 by Freedom Controller ÂEpisode 252: Joy Robber
Podcasting 2.0 March 6th 2026 Episode 252: "Joy Robber"
Adam & Dave say one man's slop is another man's pr0n. A discussion ensues
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We are LIT
AI Tag - rss.com
Apple Music launches AI transparency tags â but only if labels and distributors declare them
Investigate deprecation and removal of XSLT [435623334] - Chromium
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Last Modified 03/06/2026 14:19:19 by Freedom Controller ÂEpisode 251: Pod Snuggle
Podcasting 2.0 February 27th 2026 Episode 251: "Pod Snuggle"
Adam & Dave Discuss the future of Broadcast vs Podcasting, Apple Video and a new PodPing Architecture
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Podcast apps doing promos and previews
Apple Video - Curse or Blessing for RSS?
Podcasts Lead AM/FM in Spoken-Word Listening, Marking a First - Edison Research at SSRS
GitHub - n0-computer/iroh-docs
Chris LAS TWIB - NOT our decision! Builder matter
Runway from James
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Episode 251: Pod Snuggle
Podcasting 2.0 February 27th 2026 Episode 251: "Pod Snuggle"
Adam & Dave Discuss the future of Broadcast vs Podcasting, Apple Video and a new PodPing Architecture
ShowNotes
We are LIT
Podcast apps doing promos and previews
Apple Video - Curse or Blessing for RSS?
Podcasts Lead AM/FM in Spoken-Word Listening, Marking a First - Edison Research at SSRS
GitHub - n0-computer/iroh-docs
Chris LAS TWIB - NOT our decision! Builder matter
Runway from James
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Episode 250: Dopaminergic
Podcasting 2.0 February 13th 2026 Episode 250: "Dopaminergic"
Adam & Dave discuss the latest podcast index stats dashboard, slop identifier and cool new recording software
The Only Boardroom that won't stop for slop
I'm Adam Curry in the Heart of the Texas Hill Country
And in Alabama- the man who is using AI to fight AI... Say hello to my Friend on the other End - Dave Jones!
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Episode 249: Put More Cheese On It!
Podcasting 2.0 January 30th 2026 Episode 249: "Put More Cheese On It!"
Adam & Dave Try out the new Linux based podcast rig Needs work :-)
ShowNotes
We are LIT
Vibe Coding the playout system for Rodecaster
Rodecaster Pipewire config
Rodecaster integration
The Playout System
Clawdbot
PI-Monitor
Congrats to Sam on closing his funding round
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Last Modified 01/30/2026 13:54:57 by Fre...Episode 248: Thingamajigger
Podcasting 2.0 January 23d 2026 Episode 248: "Thingamajigger"
Adam & Dave talk re-decentralization, MCP's and Slop
ShowNotes
We are LIT
Vibe Coding the playout system for Rodecaster
Rodecaster integration
The Playout System
PI-Monitor
Congrats to Sam on closing his funding round
James' podcast comments
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ast Modified 01/23/2026 14:11:02 by Freedom Controller ÂEpisode 247: Aggy5
Podcasting 2.0 January 9th 2026 Episode 247: "Aggy5"
Adam & Dave Discuss the V4V model for the PodcastIndex and launch the brand new PI-Monitor app!
ShowNotes
We are LIT
Video in the iHeartRadio app will use the power of open RSS
V4V to Keep this running
PSP 14 members $700/month
The Road to Cairo
Alt Enclosure
Podcast Verified through PCI
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...Episode 246: Crap Trap
Podcasting 2.0 January 2nd 2026 Episode 246: "Crap Trap"
Adam & Dave are joined by Mitch and Archie of Podverse fame
ShowNotes
We are LIT
From The New Podverse Web Alpha and Podverse Legacy:
Mitch and Archie!
HLS for Audio
Alt Enclosure
Podcast Verified through PCI
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Last Modified 01/02/2026 14:12:43 by Freedom Controller ÂEpisode 245: Grow Your Show!
Podcasting 2.0 December 19th 2025 Episode 245: "Grow Your Show!"
Adam & Dave are joined by Alecks Gates to discuss our Podcast Discovery System
ShowNotes
We are LIT
TTS
What is a podcast and how do we identify it?
Podcast Exclusive Naming Identity Service
Recently added podcasts endpoint
Alecks Gates
Open Aggregator
Alt Enclosure Video
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Last Modified 12/19/2025 14:03:33 by Fr...Episode 244: Open Source Royalty
Podcasting 2.0 December 12th 2025 Episode 244: "Open Source Royalty"
Adam & Dave Introduce a new awards show and dive deep into podcast idenity
The Only Boardroom that does not require an entry fee
I'm Adam Curry in the Heart of the Texas Hill Country
And in Alabama- the man who has the code in his hand and built the land Say hello to my Friend on the other End - Dave Jones!
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Episode 243: Nuts & Logs
Podcasting 2.0 December 5th 2025 Episode 243: "Nuts & Logs"
Adam & Dave poddy training, junie, major dev talk and more!
ShowNotes
We are LIT
NYC?
Alby Hub?
AI stats analysis
Alt Enclosure Video
New aggregatory open build
GitHub - Podcastindex-org/feedparser: The XML parser that converts saved podcast feeds into intermediary files for SQL ingestion.
TTS Podcasts on OP3
Cloudflare Outage
Decentralization
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Episode 242: Poddy Pop Up
Podcasting 2.0 November 21st 2025 Episode 242: "Poddy Pop Up"
Adam & Dave Discuss how the Cloudflare outage affected podcasting and have solutions to the index synch problem
ShowNotes
We are LIT
Alby-Hub spam issue
Cloudflare Outage
Decentralization
RSS.com goes Hyper-Local!
Feed re-directs
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ast Modified 11/21/2025 14:30:08 by Freedom Controller ÂEpisode 241: RSS NutJobs
Podcasting 2.0 November 7th 2025 Episode 241: "RSS NutJobs"
Adam & Dave Celebrate another namespace win and wallets that work!
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We are LIT
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Episode 240: Open Source = People!
Podcasting 2.0 October 31st 2025 Episode 240: "Open Source = People!"
Adam & Dave are joined by ChadF - The Man of Many Wallets!
ShowNotes
We are LIT
Azure
YouTube offers voluntary buyouts as company reorganizes around AI
The Man of Many Wallets - ChadF
ipfspodcasting.net
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Podcasting 2.0 October 24th 2025 Episode 239: "Fuzzing"
Adam & Dave discuss sql stats (nerdy) why number doesn't need to go up and how to measure success
ShowNotes
We are LIT
AWS
ipfspodcasting.net
ChadF breeze wallet demo
Ark Labs launches Arkade public beta as Bitcoin native Layer 2 protocol
Spark And Ark: A Look At Our Newest Bitcoin Layer Twos
PWR
PSP - Funding
Podcastindex vs Namespace
Complaining about the government
Apple is still your daddy
<...Episode 238: Podherpes
Podcasting 2.0 October 17th 2025 Episode 238: "Podherpes"
Adam & Dave are joined by Barry Luijbregts of Podhome.fm and The Podhome app
ShowNotes
We are LIT
Barry Luijbregts - Podhome.fm and app!
Spotify partners with Netflix for video podcast distribution deal
Everything Is Television A theory of culture and attention
Location latest from Index
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Episode 237: FF-P-MEG
Podcasting 2.0 October 10th 2025 Episode 237: "FF-P-MEG"
Adam & Dave are oined by Daniel J Lewis to talk about his hew SAASSY product: Podchapters
ShowNotes
We are LIT
ffmpeg
Daniel J Lewis
Podchapters
LNWallets
Launching the x402 Foundation with Coinbase, and support for x402 transactions
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