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Back to SearchBitcoin & Islamic Finance
Allen Farrington and Harris Irfa explain their seminal paper "Bitcoin, Fiat and Islamic Finance." They dive into why Islamic banking is an oxymoron, how riba (interest/usury) connects to fractional r…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Did Jack Dorsey Fix The Bitcoin Merchant Problem?
We break down Jack Dorsey's massive Bitcoin rollout across Cash App and Square—4M merchants can now accept BTC payments via Lightning and mainnet. We explore how Bitcoin rails are undercutting Visa/A…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
$120K Bitcoin Call, Stablecoins, and 2026 BTC Market w/ Galaxy Research Alex Thorn
Alex Thorn, Head of Research at Galaxy Digital, joins us to talk about why Galaxy revised their Bitcoin end-of-year target from $185K to $120K, the competitive headwinds from gold (up 57% vs Bitcoin'…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The 7 Indicators Saying The Bull Market Isn't Over
We dive deep into Coinglass's Bull Market Peak Indicators showing zero out of 30 signals flashing bear market warnings. Despite recent price drops and worst jobs data in 22 years, Bitcoin dominance s…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Inside Russia's Secret Bitcoin Mining Industry
Anna Baydakova, Senior Reporter at CoinDesk joins us to talk about Russia's complex relationship with Bitcoin. From Putin's surprising embrace of crypto mining to the grey market of mining rig distri…
Published on 2 months ago
Gold Investors Are Taking A Victory Lap
Gold Investors Are Taking A Victory Lap! Colin explains how Boomer goldbugs finally get to take a victory lap as Bitcoin gets beaten out by gold in 2025. Were Bitcoiners wrong about the debasement tr…
Published on 2 months ago
The Insanity of Bitcoin's Newest Soft Fork
Rob Hamilton from AnchorWatch joins us to talk about the explosive BIP 444 proposal that could fork Bitcoin. We break down PortlandHodl's original 520-byte output limit idea, LukeDashjr's controversi…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Did The CIA Create Bitcoin?
Tucker Carlson says the CIA probably created Bitcoin. We go back to the very beginning – to Gavin Andresen and the 1996 NSA paper on digital cash. The rabbithole goes very deep! (And we explain why i…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
What we know about the FTX insolvency 3 years later
Investigative reporters Jonathan & Sophie dive much deeper into what happened *after* SBF was ousted. Hundreds of thousands of individual customers became creditors, getting paid in dollar values fro…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Bitcoin "Dusting" Attack You Didn't Know About W/ Galaxy Digital
Zach Pokorny from Galaxy Digital joins us to discuss their deep investigation into the mysterious 80,000 Bitcoin whale that moved last summer. The report uncovers a massive dusting campaign targeting…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago