Podcast Episodes

Chat_148 - It Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test with Jimmy Song

"If you have this disconnect between Core devs that value one thing and the users that value something else, something's got to give at some point, right? Either you get developers that are more in l…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Read_908 - The Utility of Bitcoin

"Payments are the camcorders of our age, the next technology whose time has passed. The new age that is just beginning will feel qualitatively different, like the moment Dorothy steps out of her blac…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Chat_147 - Insuring the Uninsurable with Rob Hamilton

"One of the founding tenets of anarcho-capitalism [is] that in a world without a government, you would have insurance contracts as the means for negotiating, disputing things. This actually goes into…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Read_907 - Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money

In this episode, I read and explore “Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money” by the Human Rights Foundation, written by Alex Gladstein - a powerful look at how Bitcoin is quietly reshaping the fight for human …

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Chat_146 - Building for Sovereignty with Craig Raw

"When you hold the Bitcoin yourself, you already have the control over it that you don't get with any other custodial financial instrument. And I think that people need to think about that more becau…

Published on 2 months ago

Read_906 - The Censorship Tsunami is Building [FFR 91]

They call it “financial inclusion,” but it’s anything but. Whether's it's Vietnam’s mass bank-account purge, India’s new censorship engine, or Lagarde's demands to "accelerate" control before democra…

Published on 2 months ago

Roundtable_013 - From 1 Zetahash to the Patriot Act with Guy's Roundtable

We are back with the roundtable and today we tackle news from the privacy war frontlines, new and old surveillance laws, stablecoins on Bitcoin, a precedent for failed CBDCs, is Luke actually plannin…

Published on 2 months ago

Read_905 - The Cost of Self Custody

Is layered self-custody really secure in a future of rising Bitcoin fees, or are we all just living in a gray area of trust and compromise? I dive into Shinobi’s article and unravel the hidden mechan…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Chat_145 - Trust Scales Where Bitcoin Can't with John Carvalho

"The atomic economy and Synonym's mission is to research, design and ship a working free market society. So not just a free market economy, but a free market society. /CUT/ So it replaces government,…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

2Sats - Why is Bitcoin Mining Even a Thing?

Bitcoin mining is both one of the coolest and most unique aspects of the Bitcoin system, and it's also one of the most deeply misunderstood parts of it.

In my effort to make this crazy thing make som…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago