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Are you looking to escape your fiat job? $ BTC 83,159 Block Height 961,185 James of Arc joins the show to discuss the importance of physical world infrastructure, the role of Bitcoin accelerators in emerging markets like Sri Lanka, and jurisdictional strategies for individuals and businesses. Key Topics: The growth and importance of Bitcoin accelerator hubs Jurisdictional arbitrage and the 'governance gap' The role of energy abundance in economic prosperity Strategic value of building in emerging markets like Sri Lanka Fostering entrepreneurship and talent matching within the Bitcoin space The necessity of self-custody and personal responsibility Find James here: www.arc.lk/fulgur @JamesofArc Check out my book ‘Choose Life' - https://bit.ly/4gGYqRE Pleb Service Announcements: Join 20 thousand Bitcoiners on @cluborange https://signup.cluborange.org/co/princey CONFERENCES: https://bitfest.uk/ Use code BITTEN for 21% discount - 21 tickets only! Shills and Mench's: BITBOX - SELF CUSTODY YOUR BITCOIN - www.bitbox.swiss/bitten Use Code BITTEN THE MEETUP BREAKDWON - BITCOIN EVENTS UK - https://www.themeetupbreakdown.com/ SWAN BITCOIN - www.swan.com/bitten HODL EYEWEAR - Avoid Blue light! https://hodleyewear.com/partner/3/ PLEBEIAN MARKET - BUY AND SELL STUFF FOR SATS; https://plebeian.market/ @PlebeianMarket SATSBACK - Shop online and earn back sats! https://satsback.com/register/5AxjyPRZV8PNJGlM ALL FURTHER LINKS HERE - FOR DISCOUNTS AND OFFERS - https://vida.page/princey - https://linktr.ee/princey21m

Mentor Sessions Ep 099: Dave Collum on the AI bubble bursting, the bond market at 6%, boomer asset liquidation, and why gold and Bitcoin win as valuations regress.The AI bubble has the life expectancy of a soufflé, the 30-year Treasury is being drawn to 6% like a magnet, and Dave Collum thinks the whole thing reprices within a year. This is the macro conversation most people are too polite to have.In this episode, chemistry professor and macro commentator Dave Collum breaks down why the decades-long credit cycle is over, why the inverse correlation between gold and interest rates is about to break, and why boomer asset liquidation guarantees a repricing no dip-buyer can stop. You'll learn why he calls Jensen Huang's share buybacks a bell-ringing top, why he puts the AI capex build-out on a one-year clock, and why he thinks a rare double bear market in bonds AND equities is teeing up — the setup where 60/40 offers no protection. You'll also hear his contrarian take that AI will make the world worse without destroying civilization, plus his read on Warsh, the Fed, and why gold and Bitcoiners could be the ones left standing.⏱️ Timestamps:0:00 - Intro0:50 - Gold Silver Recent Price Action1:27 - End of the Long Credit Cycle1:49 - Central Bankers Driving Rates to Zero4:50 - Treasury Rates Pulled Toward Six Percent6:32 - Seven Percent Mortgages Housing Trap9:46 - Kevin Warsh Rate Hikes and Collapse11:55 - Economy Needs Real Assets Not Data Centers12:48 - Jensen Huang Nvidia Buyback Signal14:17 - AI Threat to Civilization Examined17:46 - Sneaky Behaviors Observed in AI20:48 - Bitcoin Proof of Work Constrains AI25:59 - Nuclear Risks Middle East Conflict27:47 - Putin Iran Restraint in Geopolitics40:52 - Israel Palestine Historical Context45:11 - Iran Nuclear Strike Questions Raised50:40 - Yen Carry Trade Stability Analysis59:06 - Boomers Driving Boom and Bust59:33 - Median Boomer Retirement Savings Shortfall1:03:19 - Boomer Wealth Transfer Needs Repricing1:08:08 - Lindsay Clancy Case Maternal Tracking2:01:32 - System Collapse Worse Than Historical2:03:16 - AI Bubble in Fifteenth Inning2:04:31 - Market Regression Eighty Five Percent Drop2:36:45 - Nasdaq Rollover Sudden Bid Support2:39:15 - Gamma Squeeze Pushing Markets Higher2:42:07 - Potential Correction Impact on Saylor

Kein Thema, volles Rohr: Calso, Chris, Thorsten, Jan-Paul, Zetti und Martin springen live durch Politik, Technik und Bitcoin-Philosophie – von der Kritik an Co-Pierre Georgs KYC-Forderungen und einem Zero-Knowledge-Gegenentwurf für anonyme Bitcoin-Zahlungen, über die hitzige Haltefrist-Debatte und den Blick nach Madeira, wo Community-Sats ein Fab Lab für Nostr-Hardware wie „Totems" ermöglicht haben, bis zu neuen Agenten-Tools wie Hermes und Goop. Der Aufreger der Folge: Darf man sich „Bitcoiner" nennen ohne eigene Keys und Node? Jan-Paul sagt klar Nein – „dann ist Bitcoin nichts für dich" – Martin hält dagegen, dass jede Generation ihren eigenen Weg finden darf. Braucht Bitcoin mehr toxischen Maximalismus, um die Basics nicht zu verlieren?Von und mit: Calso, Chris⚡SHA256, Thorsten ⚡️, actionslave, zettizettler, MartinProduzent: Thorsten ⚡️Hier könnt ihr uns eine Spende über Lightning da lassen: ⚡️nodesignal@getalby.comZusätzlich haben wir auch einen Silent Payment Link: sp1qq0a2rles9y32ffmj0eawvjglgqsgj7hq99ers580l98k42a7rh9szq3sa50fh2e5lwf22fxcjy0qw88u72vlj328qr39da245sq4nrskuqvvv5l4Neben dem Podcast findet ihr uns auch auf YouTubeFür Feedback und weitergehenden Diskussionen kommt gerne in die Telegramgruppe von Nodesignal und bewertet uns bei Spotify und Apple Podcasts, das hilft uns sehr. Folgt uns auch gerne bei Nostr:npub1n0devk3h2l3rx6vmt24a3lz4hsxp7j8rn3x44jkx6daj7j8jzc0q2u02cy und X(Twitter).Blockzeit: ca. 968.599

Not your keys not your coins. $ BTC 81,490 Block Height 967,962 Seed, the creator of SeedSigner, joins the podcast to discuss the vital importance of open-source self-custody and the best practices for secure Bitcoin storage. Key Topics: Self-custody and trustless entropy generation Security risks of commercial hardware wallets The SeedSigner DIY project ethos and development Air-gapped transaction signing and QR code security Navigating the current AI-driven phishing and hacking environment Decentralising the hardware wallet industry Connect with Seed: @sesitheman @SeedSigner https://seedsigner.com/ Check out my book ‘Choose Life' - https://bit.ly/4gGYqRE Pleb Service Announcements: Join 20 thousand Bitcoiners on @cluborange https://signup.cluborange.org/co/princey CONFERENCES: BTC HEL - 25th - 26th September 2026. - Helsinki https://btchel.com/ Use code BITTEN for - 10% My First Bitcoin. https://myfirstbitcoin.org/ Shills and Mench's: BITBOX - SELF CUSTODY YOUR BITCOIN - www.bitbox.swiss/bitten Use Code BITTEN THE MEETUP BREAKDWON - BITCOIN EVENTS UK - https://www.themeetupbreakdown.com/ SWAN BITCOIN - www.swan.com/bitten HODL EYEWEAR - Avoid Blue light! https://hodleyewear.com/partner/3/ PLEBEIAN MARKET - BUY AND SELL STUFF FOR SATS; https://plebeian.market/ @PlebeianMarket SATSBACK - Shop online and earn back sats! https://satsback.com/register/5AxjyPRZV8PNJGlM ALL FURTHER LINKS HERE - FOR DISCOUNTS AND OFFERS - https://vida.page/princey - https://linktr.ee/princey21m

Ben Justman is the founder of Peony Lane Wine, a Colorado winemaker, farmer, Bitcoiner, and one of the most entertaining voices in the Bitcoin space. In this episode, Walker sits down with Ben to discuss the very real story of bears destroying his vineyard's grape crop, the harsh economics and uncertainty of small-scale farming, and why building a business around real products changes your perspective on money, risk, and time preference. Ben explains why independent farmers face far more than weather risk—from frost and wildlife to thin margins and broken incentives—and why supporting local producers matters. The conversation also explores Bitcoin adoption, dollar-cost averaging, monetary debasement, Bitcoin versus stocks, and why Bitcoin can improve a person's life long before it delivers the financial outcome they originally expected. This is a conversation about resilience, sovereignty, entrepreneurship, agriculture, Bitcoin conviction, and continuing to build through difficult cycles. Follow Ben Justman and support Peony Lane Wine: Website: https://peonylanewine.com X: https://x.com/BenJustman & https://x.com/peonylanewine Nostr: https://primal.net/benjustman PARTNERS & DISCOUNTS: LEDN: Bitcoin-backed lending. Go to ledn.io/walker and unlock liquidity WITHOUT selling your bitcoin. BLOCKSTREAM JADE: BLOCKSTREAM JADE HARDWARE WALLET: Head to https://store.blockstream.com/ and use coupon code WALKER for 10% off! CASA MULTI SIG COLLABORATIVE CUSTODY: Get 3 FREE MONTHS off your membership when you use my referral link to sign up for your Casa membership: https://casa.io/pricing?ref=311d0b0f or use my code at checkout: 311d0b0f MINING: Own Bitcoin Miners. Keep 100% Of The Bitcoin. Get 1st month of free hosting with https://abundantmines.com/walker Buy Bitcoin with River: http://partner.river.com/walker GET FOLD ($10 in bitcoin): https://use.foldapp.com/r/WALKER If you enjoy THE Bitcoin Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following: FOLLOW ME (Walker) on @WalkerAmerica on X | @TitcoinPodcast on X | Nostr Personal (walker) | Nostr Podcast (Titcoin) | Instagram | YouTube | Everywhere else

Would you put your kids in public schools in El Salvador, 40 to a class and no English spoken, to give them a future you couldn't see in Canada? Charity Hagenaars did. Her family of five lives on $3,000 to $3,500 a month, and if you've searched cost of living in El Salvador you've probably seen her videos on living in El Salvador. What you can't see from a video is whether rent in El Salvador comes with a stove, or whether a public school takes report cards printed in Ontario.I sat down with Charity, a retired Canadian government worker, former foster parent, and YouTuber who moved her family from Ontario to Lourdes in August 2024. Her $850 house has four bedrooms and sits in a complex with pools and soccer fields, where six families of expats living in El Salvador have built a small community. Getting there meant Marketplace listings that were photos of posters on telephone poles, and leases where leaving early costs the full year.Car shopping took a friend, a mechanic, and seven phone numbers, because the Chivo ATM caps withdrawals at $1,000 a day per number and she needed $7,000 in cash for a car she ended up passing on. Opening a bank account took a residency card and an hour in the waiting room, and then Banco Agrícola made her wait three months before YouTube could wire her a dollar. Bitcoin and Wise carried the family's money down instead. She'll also tell you what happened at Dollar City when the cashier skipped Lightning.The school story is the honest one. Her daughter got the same classmates two years running, was bullied, and stopped learning, so she's in a homeschool hub now. Her older son is out too, halfway through grade 11. Charity funded the school's parking lot and paint through her channel anyway. Then there's the spare bedroom. Two months ago Maria, the grandmother of two boys from Charity's Saturday English class, lost her home, and Charity offered the room. The boys swim every day.Her WhatsApp group grew to almost 200 members, about 30% already here, four more arriving this week. Some came to retire in El Salvador on a pension, and young families came because they couldn't see a future where they were. If you want an expat El Salvador group that screens out the salesmen, she runs one. Charity describes what it costs a foreigner to live here so nobody arrives with the wrong picture, then chose to stay and put eight people under one roof. That's what belief in this country looks like! If you're weighing moving to El Salvador with kids or a pension, listen to this one.—Bitcoin Beach TeamLearn more about Charity Hagenaars:X: https://x.com/HagenaarsFamilyWhatsApp: 503-7291-1480Website: https://hagenaars.com/Email Address: YouTube@Hagenaars.comYouTube Channel(Main): https://www.youtube.com/@HagenaarsFamilyYouTube Channel(2nd): https://www.youtube.com/MakingItInElSalvadorSupport and follow Bitcoin Beach:X: https://www.twitter.com/BitcoinBeach IG: https://www.instagram.com/bitcoinbeach_sv TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livefrombitcoinbeach Web: https://www.bitcoinbeach.com STAY AT BITCOIN BEACH: https://www.stayatbitcoinbeach.com/punta-mango-villasBrowse through this quick guide to learn more about the episode:00:00 Intro02:53 Why are Bitcoiners moving to El Salvador from Canada?07:23 Is Canada safe for Bitcoiners after frozen bank accounts and the trucker convoy?09:10 How to rent a house in El Salvador as a foreigner12:47 Where do expats live in El Salvador: Lourdes, the beach, or San Salvador?15:47 How to buy a used car in El Salvador and what to check first25:40 How do expats move money into El Salvador with Bitcoin, Chivo ATM, Wise, and banks?35:46 How much does it cost to live in El Salvador for a family of five?42:15 What is life like for an expat family in El Salvador?48:15 Are public schools in El Salvador good for expat kids, or is homeschooling better? Live From Bitcoin Beach

In der heutigen Folge spricht zettizettler mit Dennis und Too Bit To Fail darüber, ob die „Sinus-Milieus“ als Erklärungsmuster dafür taugen, ob man zum Bitcoiner wird oder nicht. Dazu wird das Konzept zunächst theoretisch vorgestellt und anschließend anhand einzelner Milieus überprüft, ob diese ein positives Umfeld dafür sein können, den Weg zu Bitcoin zu finden.Von und mit: zettizettler, Dennis, Too Bit To FailProduzent: zettizettlerHier könnt ihr uns eine Spende über Lightning da lassen: ⚡️nodesignal@getalby.comZusätzlich haben wir auch einen Silent Payment Link: sp1qq0a2rles9y32ffmj0eawvjglgqsgj7hq99ers580l98k42a7rh9szq3sa50fh2e5lwf22fxcjy0qw88u72vlj328qr39da245sq4nrskuqvvv5l4Neben dem Podcast findet ihr uns auch auf YouTubeFür Feedback und weitergehenden Diskussionen kommt gerne in die Telegramgruppe von Nodesignal und bewertet uns bei Spotify und Apple Podcasts, das hilft uns sehr. Folgt uns auch gerne bei Nostr:npub1n0devk3h2l3rx6vmt24a3lz4hsxp7j8rn3x44jkx6daj7j8jzc0q2u02cy und X(Twitter).Blockzeit: 965065Homepage des Sinus Instituts (inkl. "Kartoffelgrafik")Wikipediaeintrag zu den Sinus Milieus (inkl. "Kartoffelgrafik")Folge aus dem Einstieg mit Chris und Dennis (E285)Folge zu Bourdieu mit zettizettler, Martin und DennisTimestamps:01:01 Einleitung: Warum Soziologie für das Verständnis von Bitcoin wichtig ist02:55 Was sind Sinus-Milieus und warum sind sie relevant?05:49 Gesellschaftliche Schichten, Klassen und das Milieu-Modell08:18 Das Konzept des Habitus und seine Bedeutung für Bitcoin10:35 Praktische Anwendung der Milieus auf die Bitcoin-Community11:53 Grenzen und kritische Betrachtung des Milieumodells12:21 Einleitung: Warum das Mindset bei Bitcoin entscheidend ist12:22 Einleitung und Themenüberblick14:44 Gesellschaftliche Milieus und ihre Einstellungen zu Bitcoin16:09 Das prekäre Milieu: Herausforderungen und Chancen30:38 Traditionelles Milieu: Sicherheit und Wandel36:00 Oberschicht: Verantwortung und Potenzial für Bitcoin39:21 Die adaptive Mitte: Flexibilität und Nutzenorientierung47:24 Postmaterielles Milieu: Bildung, Kritik und Gesellschaft52:16 Persönliche Entwicklung: Der kritische Geist und seine Wurzeln55:39 Gesellschaftliche Prägung durch Jugendkultur57:28 Entwicklung der persönlichen Einstellungen01:00:44 Autoritätsprobleme und Rebellion01:04:06 Gesellschaftliches Umfeld und Milieus01:08:55 Milieus und Bitcoin-Affinität01:10:10 neoökoloische Milieu01:14:36 Energieversorgung und gesellschaftliche Strukturen01:17:25 Expeditives Milieu01:19:35 Milieu der Performer01:23:56 Zoom out01:28:51 Kommunikation und emotionale Ansprache01:31:54 Abschluss und Reflexionen

Mentor Sessions Ep 096: Zack Shapiro explains AI existential risk, AI regulation, the Clarity Act, Samurai Wallet, and open source AI policy for Bitcoin.The Clarity Act just failed on the Senate floor, and the fight over whether writing Bitcoin code can be treated as a crime is now heading to 70-year-old federal judges. Zack Shapiro breaks down what that means for self-custody, open source software, and the Samurai Wallet developers still behind bars.In this conversation you'll learn why Zack separates AI existential risk (recursive self-improvement, the orthogonality thesis, instrumental convergence) from the ordinary risks of AI — job displacement, regulatory capture by frontier labs, and cyber attacks like the Cold Card hack. You'll see why he thinks open source AI is not the existential threat, why the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA) matters more than most Bitcoiners realize, and how the 'two clocks' of AI capability vs enterprise adoption will define the next decade. You'll also get the legal reality behind white hat recovery of hacked Bitcoin, why the liquid hacker is in a bad spot, and what happened when the Clarity Act died on the vine.⏱️ Timestamps:0:00 - Intro0:51 - Amodei, Musk and Altman urge AI slowdown1:38 - Ordinary risks versus existential AI threats2:26 - Politics warping the AI safety debate3:20 - Bostrom, AGI and intelligence explosion risks5:01 - Orthogonality thesis and instrumental convergence5:59 - Hugging Face attack shows AI covering tracks6:58 - No easy policy fixes for AI risks8:08 - Can't stop AI progress or open source China9:32 - Separating x-risk concerns from anti-AI populism12:22 - Regulatory capture and Anthropic IPO timing14:21 - Keeping open source AI legal and available16:39 - Trezor self-custody sponsor read17:43 - One shot parallel between Bitcoin and AI19:37 - Where real AI productivity gains appear20:47 - Two Clocks: capability versus enterprise adoption24:22 - Is AI coming for your job?25:28 - Electrification analogy and 30-year lag28:34 - Jevons Paradox and future of work30:42 - White hat recovery of Cold Card hacked funds34:02 - Legal precedent for white hat bounties36:56 - Why the Liquid hacker faces trouble38:55 - What's actually in the Clarity Act43:46 - Money transmitter law and the Samurai case45:20 - Tornado Cash, FinCEN and frying pan argument47:31 - Why this could ban using Bitcoin49:33 - BRCA criminal protections and court battles53:42 - Clarity Act fails to pass what happened55:24 - Senator Lummis stood on principle56:50 - Where to follow Zack ShapiroGuest: Zack Shapiro — lawyer and AI-native law firm builder covering crypto policy, AI regulation, and Bitcoin legal defense.

If you're not sure about Bitcoin, this is the episode for you. Not putting everything into it like the maniacs. Just why it deserves a small place in your long term portfolio and your pension, in ten minutes flat.And if you've already got some Bitcoin, stick around too, because there's a door that opened eight days ago that most Bitcoiners haven't clocked yet.In this episode:Why the richest people in the world got there through concentration, not diversification, and where Bitcoin fits into thatThe debasement trade nearly everyone secretly agrees with, and why your pension is built entirely on the currency it's happening toThe Bitcoin pension news from eight days ago that almost nobody has told you about, and what it means for your tax billI built a free calculator that shows exactly what consistent monthly Bitcoin investing could do to your wealth over 5, 10 or 20 years. It's called the Steady Stack Calculator — punch in what you can afford to put in each month and see what the numbers actually look like at the other end. Most people are genuinely surprised. You can also download the 10 Bitcoin Mistakes to Avoid document completely free at the same link.Steady Stack Calculator and 10 Bitcoin Mistakes Document — click here to grab both for freeHit follow, so you never miss the latest insights on money, finance, invest and build wealth - plus clear guidance on cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, and Bit Coin for today's serious investors.

BTC Gus, a Bitcoiner and small business owner, joins to discuss my new Consensus tool, the mess of ideas among BTC, BLAKE2B, eCash Sztorc Vision (ECX), and how to align all Bitcoiners. Enjoy, and please share your thoughts in the comments below.Links:Gus: https://twitter.com/Scavacini777Consensus.cash: https://www.consensus.cash/Episode slides:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hcm7jFEFpo2UvormLKtBR4tzKyGnPN0F/Donations:bitcoincash:zzctnxux5gwluldcykqlxeses73gcsxpavury7n2mrSponsors:- Thank you very much to our FundMe.Cash contributors: https://fundme.cash/campaign/149- BCH BULL: https://bchbull.com Be the bull & leverage or hedge with Bitcoin Cash - Non-custodial, permissionless, fully collateralized DeFiSocials:Website: https://www.bitcoincashpodcast.comTimestamps:00:00 Video starts00:37 Intro & market update02:12 Gus27:35 Consensus.cash1:04:00 Community comment of the week1:06:32 BTC captured?1:34:09 Bitcoin BLAKE2B1:43:27 eCash Sztorc Vision ECX1:55:57 Meme of the week1:59:15 Message to the community2:00:23 Podcast supporter appreciation2:01:42 Closing shout-outs2:06:59 Outro song#bitcoin #bitcoincash #bch #btc #crypto #cryptocurrency #cbdc #blockchain #cryptonews▪️

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How long does Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador have to work before the press admits it worked? Kevin Rivera has been covering this country since the Bitcoin Law passed, and he'll tell you the people writing the obituaries are measuring adoption with a broken clock. He grew up in Chiltiupán, the municipality El Zonte sits under, about 15 to 20 minutes up the road from Bitcoin Beach. He was 20. He heard people down at the beach were taking some kind of digital payment, Googled it, hit the words decentralized technology, and bounced off it completely.He landed at Diario El Salvador covering the economy with zero background in economics, right as the country was about to pass the Bitcoin Law, so he picked up The Bitcoin Standard and started hunting interviews. Max Keiser is the one who took him down the rabbit hole. Kevin saw a tweet saying Max was in the country, cold messaged him, showed up, and got him explaining how Bitcoin works and the role it plays in the financial ecosystem, coming at it from a traditional finance background.Then came Cubo Plus, and this is the part most Bitcoiners outside El Salvador still sleep on. The economics track starts with money itself, how we ended up trading with gold, and how the financial system really works, and only then moves into cypherpunk philosophy and cryptography. Pierre Rochard explains the mining side and Giacomo Zucco is the main teacher, through Plan B Network, which links Cubo Plus El Salvador to students in Lugano and around the world. Kevin says around 1,000 students have come through the program. What they walk out with is the switch from asking how do I survive to asking what can I build. That switch is why he launched TH3 Labs the day we recorded. They build platforms for digital asset service providers, handle asset tokenization on Liquid and Taproot Assets for the new capital markets forming on Bitcoin, and Kevin gets into how L402 Lightning opens the network to AI agents so agentic payments can happen between them without payment server errors breaking the process. His read is that El Salvador's economy will grow through technology and innovation, especially once the small businesses that make up 90 percent of the businesses here get tools to export.Kevin also wants to bring something back to Chiltiupan, which still has poverty in some areas while the rest of the country runs ahead. That part stuck with me. He's trying to be the guy kids in his hometown can point at. If this one hits, subscribe and send it to the friend who still calls Bitcoin a Ponzi at family dinners. Then drop a comment telling us what you'd build if you had legal clarity, two solid devs, and a government that wanted you to ship. Kevin's already building, so the clock's running.—Bitcoin Beach TeamLearn more about Kevin Rivera:X: https://x.com/kealrive22X: https://x.com/th3labssvWeb: https://www.th3labs.com/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kevinrivera_tokenSupport and follow Bitcoin Beach:X: https://www.twitter.com/BitcoinBeach IG: https://www.instagram.com/bitcoinbeach_sv TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livefrombitcoinbeach Web: https://www.bitcoinbeach.com STAY AT BITCOIN BEACH: https://www.stayatbitcoinbeach.com/punta-mango-villasBrowse through this quick guide to learn more about the episode:00:00 Intro02:58 What did locals think when Bitcoin Beach started in El Zonte?07:55 How to learn Bitcoin from zero without a finance background?10:59 What did Max Keiser teach a Salvadoran journalist about Bitcoin?15:14 What is Cubo Plus and what do you learn in the program?21:47 What is the Plan B Network and what do they teach in Lugano?25:58 How Bitcoin changed the builder mindset in El Salvador29:11 How to start an AI and Bitcoin company in El Salvador?34:58 What is L402 and how do AI agents pay each other on Lightning?42:58 Is Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador actually working? Live From Bitcoin Beach

Antidote accelerates founders from zero to seed over 6 months, providing office space, legal support, dev resources, mentorship and talent matching. $ BTC 77,013 Block Height 966,495 Ben Cousins joins the show to discuss his transition from traditional finance in Mergers and Acquisitions and Venture Capital to his current role at ZBD and his work founding Antidote, a London-based Bitcoin hub and accelerator. Key Topics: The transition from traditional finance to the Bitcoin industry The mission and structure of Antidote, a London-based Bitcoin accelerator Current trends in Bitcoin entrepreneurship and building 'real' businesses Addressing the need for better, user-friendly Bitcoin hardware and software security Reflections on recent Bitcoin community challenges and security issues - The importance of IRL networking for Bitcoin founders and community building Check out my book ‘Choose Life' - https://bit.ly/4gGYqRE Pleb Service Announcements: Join 20 thousand Bitcoiners on @cluborange https://signup.cluborange.org/co/princey CONFERENCES: BTC HEL - 25th - 26th September 2026. - Helsinki https://btchel.com/ Use code BITTEN for - 10% My First Bitcoin. https://myfirstbitcoin.org/ Shills and Mench's: BITBOX - SELF CUSTODY YOUR BITCOIN - www.bitbox.swiss/bitten Use Code BITTEN THE MEETUP BREAKDWON - BITCOIN EVENTS UK - https://www.themeetupbreakdown.com/ SWAN BITCOIN - www.swan.com/bitten HODL EYEWEAR - Avoid Blue light! https://hodleyewear.com/partner/3/ PLEBEIAN MARKET - BUY AND SELL STUFF FOR SATS; https://plebeian.market/ @PlebeianMarket SATSBACK - Shop online and earn back sats! https://satsback.com/register/5AxjyPRZV8PNJGlM ALL FURTHER LINKS HERE - FOR DISCOUNTS AND OFFERS - https://vida.page/princey - https://linktr.ee/princey21m

Recent attacks exposed how even large, educated Bitcoin holders remained exposed through single-vendor setups. The core lesson is that self-custody alone does not remove single points of failure; deliberate design is required.Dhruv Bansal, co-founder and CISO of Unchained, joins to examine these incidents and the practical barriers that keep most hardware wallet users on single sig despite years of warnings.The conversation covers the gap between theoretical multisig knowledge and actual adoption, the trade-offs between anonymity and regulated inheritance paths, why newer layers attract attacks first, and the need for human review of AI-generated code at Bitcoin firms.Bansal argues that cryptographic hardware will become ordinary infrastructure for everyone in an AI-driven internet, not a niche Bitcoin tool, and that mature risk systems rely on fractal networks rather than centralized controls.Timestamps:01:42 — No Single Points of Failure Allowed05:34 — Even Large Holders Skip Multisig?09:14 — You Could Be Your Own Failure Point13:35 — Anonymity vs KYC16:27 — Don't Half-Ass Your Bitcoin Security21:23 — One Wallet, True Multi-Vendor Security24:24 — Single Sig Can Still Lose Everything30:26 — Why Everyone Will Need Hardware Wallets32:06 — Why Attackers Hit Bitcoin L2s First36:32 — Bitcoin Firms Must Human-Review AI Code40:05 — Bitcoin as Humanity's AI Defense System42:59 — Remove Single Points of Failure Forever45:25 — Hardware Wallets at Every Gas Station47:34 — Bitcoiners and Key EntropyLinks: https://x.com/dhruvbansalhttps://x.com/unchainedhttps://www.unchained.com/Stephan Livera links:Follow me on X: @stephanliveraSubscribe to the podcastSubscribe to Substack

The last day. Brady opened with the count, 37 shows in 50 days, and the campaign's frame: political independence 250 years ago, monetary independence now. Yan Pritzker, Frank Corva, Suze and Alec on stage; Unseen Finance returned at the end.The Liquid hack, plainly. On Sunday somebody sent 4,000 L-BTC to SideSwap's peg-out and the Liquid Federation paid out real Bitcoin. The L-BTC had been created from nothing. Blockstream paused the sidechain and 3,400 Bitcoin came back Monday.⭐ Yan on what broke: a caching bug, not anyone's keys. "The only two hard problems in computer science are naming and cache invalidation." Two transactions shared one cache key, so validators mistook a fake for one already checked.Why it is not Bitcoin. Yan: Liquid is an 11-of-15 federation of companies with its own database and rules. "This is a separate thing, this is not Bitcoin itself." Lightning is built on Bitcoin script; Liquid is not.⭐ Frank on the 15%. The hackers returned 85% and kept about 600 Bitcoin. His question: will anyone be made whole, and if they keep it, "they're surely not white hats." A Bitcoin Policy Institute lawyer offered to talk.Yan's verdict on the hat color: gray. Taking everything to beat a black hat is arguable. Keeping a cut is not. "You don't just return a wallet and take a bunch of stuff out of it."Suze's question: Bitcoiners are ruthless about added trust assumptions, so why did Liquid get a pass? "Were we discerning enough?" Leave the base layer and you take on another code base and another set of failure points.⭐ Yan on open source in the AI era: it stays because every open project gets red-teamed by the whole internet. Closed systems get hacked too, "we just don't hear about them." The base chain is "the ultimate boss" nobody has beaten.Yan's bank numbers, read live from the Identity Theft Resource Center: 3,332 reported data compromises in 2025 affecting 280 million people, 739 of them in financial services. "Bank-grade security" is not a standard anyone actually meets.⭐ Frank's hard question: must the layers be as bulletproof as Bitcoin? Yan: nothing is, and the only path is slow growth. Bitcoin was attacked at $1, then $10,000, then a billion. Early adopters carry the risk.Yan's rocket-ship rule. Bitcoin Core engineering is closer to launching a spacecraft than shipping web software. "Years of careful review, study, simulations on other chains." Test new tech on other coins for two years first.Suze asked whether ossification risks losing the skills to change Bitcoin in 50 years. Frank and Yan: no. Ossification is no new features, not no developers, and AI has widened who can work on cryptography and game theory.Yan on open-weight versus hosted AI: the same debate as open source versus closed, and open source won the internet. His advice to companies: externalize memory, skills and harness so you can swap models. Swan built its own.Unseen Finance returned with a proposal: these incidents are a credibility problem for the services on top of Bitcoin, not for Bitcoin. His fix, borrowed from banking: a self-regulatory body plus an insurance pool that service providers pay into.Brady's tally at the close: Cory, Yan, Steve, Alec, Isaiah, Matt and Brandon from Swan; Larry Lepard three times; Parker Lewis, Daniel Batten, Tom and Callum, Guy Swann, Ryan MacLeod, Alana, Bob Burnett, Roxana. Suze made 35 of 37.The close. "We have the tools, we have the knowledge, we have the culture, we have the determination." The half-price buy fee ends today; limit orders placed today keep it. Yan's last word: take security seriously, "go play with AI."

The January 2019 Zack Voell crossover (he was hosting The Coin Pod) is now remastered: featuring opt-in money, gridlock as a feature, FDR's gold grab, Russia rumors & dating as a Bitcoiner in NYC. The audio has been enhanced too! Time stamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:46 - Remaster Notes: This Show Was Almost Called "Bitcoin & Politics" 2:12 - Sponsor Shoutout: Helen's Pizza in Jersey City 3:30 - The Crossover Episode Zack Never Published 4:41 - The Original Recording: January 2019 5:42 - Bitcoin as a Tool of International Affairs 7:49 - Bitcoin Obituaries, Silk Road Curiosity & Getting Rekt 11:39 - The Opt-In Economy: Voting With Your Money 13:26 - "You Only Ever Experience One Bear Market: Your First" 16:54 - The US Dollar's Outlaw Origins 17:55 - Colonial Currency Disasters & Tobacco Money 20:27 - Thirty Years of Failed Internet Money 21:51 - Gridlock Is a Feature: Congress & Nakamoto Consensus 22:37 - Bitcoin: A Very American Invention 24:47 - Why Americans Seem to Own the Narrative 27:18 - The White Paper's American Pedigree 30:44 - Could Bitcoin Have Come Out of China or Russia? 31:35 - Liberty Arbitrage & the Two Foundational Freedoms 35:15 - FDR's Gold Confiscation 37:43 - Jefferson, Madison & the Hard Money Founders 39:10 - Voltaire's Zero & the Fiat Inertia 43:08 - Rousseau, Property & Money as a Token of Trust 48:02 - Rational Ignorance: The Questions We Never Ask 50:55 - The Bitcoin Crash Course & Why Money Creates Community 55:36 - The Bitcoin Noob Moniker 58:52 - Dating as a Bitcoiner in New York City 1:02:58 - "But That's Not Real Money" 1:04:15 - Paying Your Half of the Date in Bitcoin (2017 Edition) 1:09:48 - The Russia Bitcoin Reserve Rumor 1:13:48 - Bernie Madoff Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto 1:17:19 - Who Adopts First: The Unbanked or the Privileged? 1:20:18 - Deplatforming, Gab, Patreon & Money as Speech 1:23:07 - The Four Freedoms of Money 1:26:05 - The Inconvenience of Freedom 1:29:20 - Your Own Single Point of Failure 1:31:09 - If You're Glad, Then I'm Vlad

Why is the US Cattle Herd at a 75 year low? $ BTC 81,288 Block Height 965,472 Texas Slim joins the Once Bitten Podcast to discuss the state of the U.S. cattle industry, the push for food sovereignty, and the impact of technocratic control on our food supply. Key Topics: The 75-year low of the national cattle herd Technocratic control and centralisation of the food supply Project Nimbus and data surveillance in agriculture The 100-year cattle cycle and financialisation Gut microbiome health and its link to food quality The Beef Initiative and decentralised food distribution Connect with Slim on X - @modernTman https://substack.com/@iamtexasslim LINKS FROM SLIM: https://youtu.be/4PXAINxLcK0?si=oca7-2H8Pj9QGHbf https://youtu.be/p2vcBFok3bU?si=g1aiR0iQ1phcmbVR https://youtu.be/4Jstm__qbCk?si=UscUBk2-YB2KJ_Uq https://youtu.be/sWdKzAlcZJ8?si=G0-LobxQbo-dJU37 https://youtu.be/9QkLc5cALR0?si=WHTMCKrDg4dSKT45 Check out my book ‘Choose Life' - https://bit.ly/4gGYqRE Pleb Service Announcements: Join 20 thousand Bitcoiners on @cluborange https://signup.cluborange.org/co/princey CONFERENCES: BTC HEL - 25th - 26th September 2026. - Helsinki https://btchel.com/ Use code BITTEN for - 10% My First Bitcoin. https://myfirstbitcoin.org/ Shills and Mench's: BITBOX - SELF CUSTODY YOUR BITCOIN - www.bitbox.swiss/bitten Use Code BITTEN THE MEETUP BREAKDWON - BITCOIN EVENTS UK - https://www.themeetupbreakdown.com/ SWAN BITCOIN - www.swan.com/bitten HODL EYEWEAR - Avoid Blue light! https://hodleyewear.com/partner/3/ PLEBEIAN MARKET - BUY AND SELL STUFF FOR SATS; https://plebeian.market/ @PlebeianMarket SATSBACK - Shop online and earn back sats! https://satsback.com/register/5AxjyPRZV8PNJGlM ALL FURTHER LINKS HERE - FOR DISCOUNTS AND OFFERS - https://vida.page/princey - https://linktr.ee/princey21m

A Friday hang that took a turn. Tomer Strolight, Suze, Swan Private's Alec and Matt, then Brandon Quittem and Dirty Coin director Alana. The surprise came from the audience: an anonymous 40-year IMF and central-bank veteran, @UnseenFinance.Brady opened on a viral Instagram video, described on air and unverified at air time: Meta AI's suggested questions on a mother's post surfaced her child's name, her location and a deleted photo. "Breadcrumbs for stalkers laid out nice and neat."Tomer called it the new reality and a double-edged sword: the panopticon that erodes privacy also finds a missing child after an Amber Alert. Every recorded word now has "perfect recall," which he called "a metaphysical change in how reality works."Brady's frame: decades of data on a public network, then phones with microphones and cameras, then AI to stitch it together. "Orwell was right. Maybe it didn't play out exactly the same way, but we all opted into it."Suze went further: worse than Orwell, who never predicted programmable money. Her point was aggregation, a phone number, an employer, a public record: "once data gets copied, leaked, sold and ends up on the dark web, it is impossible to claw back."⭐ The surprise guest: 40 years across the IMF, development banks and central banks, "what often Bitcoiners call the enemy." KYC scope creep brought him to Bitcoin: rules for big criminals now "attacking single mothers. How dare you brought in $300?"Alana argued most people don't value privacy. Her rule, from a Spanish saying: closed mouths, flies don't fly in. Her forecast: "it's going to get worse before it gets worse," then regulation arrives "for the safety of the children."⭐ Tomer pushed back on the doom: technology is unstoppable, so use it morally and defend yourself with it. Embracing coal led to gas and electricity; fearing nuclear for 70 to 80 years left the world with worse energy and worse governments.⭐⭐ Suze asked the ex-IMF guest whether institutions understand the surveillance they build. His answer: the people at the top are excellent and well-intentioned; the damage happens in the "telephone game" downward, ending with a bank clerk blocking a payment from fear.Suze quoted Carstens on CBDC control; the guest said central banks "100%" believe CBDCs expand access and reduce poverty. Brady disagreed: security, poverty and children are window dressing; the Patriot Act and KYC/AML show how narrow mandates become mass surveillance.Brady's hope story: Snowden broke his faith in government; Bitcoin and the cypherpunks restored it. His ask now: Bitcoiners should learn open-weight AI models the way they learned nodes and wallets, as personal defence against deep fakes and scrapers.⭐ Brandon brought Kevin Kelly's What Technology Wants: technology is an extension of evolution and every technology carries a bias. A CBDC wants control and reduced privacy; Bitcoin wants individual sovereignty. One panelist's summary: Promethean versus Faustian technology.Brandon raised Gladstein's structural-adjustment critique. From the inside, the guest said, "that's not true": governments come to the IMF, then blame it for the conditions while "the IMF sits back and takes that black eye." Brandon: bad outcomes, bad program.Tomer's reconciliation: there is no parallel universe to test the counterfactual, so fallible people with incentives argue over outcomes. Technology's biases compound objectively; human biases compound with incentives. He credited Erik Cason's "oath of the machines" from Cryptosovereignty.The guest closed on a "eulogy for Bitcoin" he published in January: too much price pumping and Wall Street, contrary to self-sovereignty. Tomer's counter: the players who exploited fiat are arriving, but "bailouts are still impossible in Bitcoin."Close: no show Monday, the finale is Tuesday, September 8, the last day of the half-price buy fee. Brady thanked the surprise guest: "it's fun when we do these spaces to get surprises like that from the audience."

Mentor Sessions 092: Michael Sullivan explains Bitcoin sentiment analysis, emotional cohort signals, OG optimism, narrative shifts, and why the data may point to a bottom.Bitcoin sentiment just did something it rarely does after a 22% rip: it stayed calm. No euphoria, no desire spike, no retail flooding back — and that gap between the price move and the emotional data is where the real signal lives.Michael Sullivan — an engineer and fiction writer turned Bitcoin sentiment analyst — breaks down how he tracks 14 distinct emotions across cohorts of Bitcoiners, from OGs and technologists to MSTR treasury speculators. You'll learn why he cohorts the crowd instead of scraping social media, why the Fear & Greed Index misses all the nuance, and why he reads OG optimism as one of the most reliable early signals that positive things are on the horizon. You'll see why 'desire' language sits inversely correlated with price, why the near-total absence of a new narrative can be wildly bullish near a bottom, and how the BIP-110 debate produced algorithmic engagement patterns that looked artificially farmed. He also lays out the AI-bubble-to-Bitcoin thesis and why he's personally bearish by instinct but bullish on the data.⏱️ Timestamps:0:00 - Intro0:38 - Why this rally feels like disbelief1:09 - Massive sentiment phase shift after crash2:01 - Rally lacks expected euphoria levels3:05 - Tracking caring language in ColdCard event3:58 - Technologists impressed most during crisis5:12 - Studying Saylor's four Bitcoin cohorts6:33 - MSTR shareholders as conviction outlier7:18 - OG optimism as reliable bullish signal7:59 - Are OGs turning optimistic now9:56 - Emotions linked to time and excitement11:40 - Downturn negative language uniquely severe12:40 - Desire language at market tops and bottoms16:52 - How language analysis became his focus19:11 - BIP-110 debate through psychology lens21:09 - Algorithmic engagement that felt farmed26:55 - AI bots distorting sentiment data29:47 - Spotting leaders and narrative first movers32:56 - Narratives shaping markets and price34:37 - Absence of narrative as bullish signal36:42 - Does price or emotion move first40:03 - AI deflation versus Bitcoin scarcity thesis40:30 - Euphoria missing at prior all-time high45:17 - Bitcoiners versus treasury company speculators50:07 - Conviction language versus hedging explained54:03 - Denoising sarcasm with cohort analysis59:31 - Signals needed to confirm bearish view1:00:06 - Data pointing bullish over coming months1:02:10 - Where to follow Michael's latest workMichael writes deep analysis on Bitcoin sentiment and shares it on X and Substack — links below.

John reads Warsh's Jackson Hole speech as a nothing burger for Bitcoiners: a Fed chair must talk tough on inflation because signaling anything else would send inflation expectations and yields higher, while the long-run path of financial repression stays the same Warsh reported that 54% of PCE basket components rose more than 3% over the past year, called 4.1% unemployment full employment, and framed inflation as squarely the Fed's problem to solve Markets read the speech as hawkish anyway: the two-year yield rose about 12 basis points while gold and Bitcoin each gave back roughly 3.5% On last week's expanded Treasury buybacks, John points to two signals: a 30-year yield near 5.3% is clearly bothering policymakers, and the Fed has never meaningfully reduced its holdings of 10-year-plus Treasuries even during quantitative tightening, evidence that natural buyers of long-dated government paper are scarce The hosts revisit the shallowest bear market thesis they developed together on this show: a roughly 52% drawdown against 77% to 90%-plus in prior cycles, with the June low of $58,000 sitting just below the 200-week moving average before price rocketed back through it John explains why he believes the June low will hold, while framing the 50-week moving average near $82,000 as the level the market is watching to declare a new bull market Glassnode data shows 1.05 million Bitcoin of long-term holder supply with a cost basis between $83,000 and $86,000, the first heavy resistance shelf above spot, and the hosts discuss how cost basis shapes market psychology The debasement trade is back in ETF volumes, with GLD and IBIT both in the top ten most traded funds, and the Bitcoin-to-gold ratio breaking its year-long downtrend after gold's 2025 outperformance Bitcoin's long correlation with software stocks broke down in June, and John argues it was always the wrong frame, a point Lyn Alden's Wall Street Journal essay makes at length: Bitcoin is a protocol of value, not another technology stock A broad Treasury ETF has returned roughly negative 18% after inflation over fifteen years while the supply of government debt keeps expanding, the picture John says is quietly ending the era of Treasuries as the world's default store of value ► For high-net-worth individuals and corporations seeking to build generational wealth with Bitcoin, Swan Private is your guide ✔ https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private?utm_campaign=private&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_source=podcast&utm_content=swan_signal_live ► Secure your bright orange future with the Swan IRA today! Real Bitcoin, no taxes ✔ https://www.swanbitcoin.com/ira?utm_campaign=ira&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_source=podcast&utm_content=swan_signal_live ► Secure your Bitcoin with Swan Vault ✔ https://www.swanbitcoin.com/vault?utm_campaign=vault&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_source=podcast&utm_content=swan_signal_live ► Download the all-new Swan Bitcoin App ✔ https://www.swanbitcoin.com/app?utm_campaign=app&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_source=podcast&utm_content=swan_signal_live ► Want to learn more about Bitcoin? Check out Welcome To Bitcoin a FREE Introductory course. Learn about Bitcoin in under 1 hour! ✔ https://www.swanbitcoin.com/welcome?utm_campaign=welcome_to_bitcoin&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_source=podcast&utm_content=swan_signal_live ► Connect with Swan Bitcoin: ✔ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Swan ✔ Instagram: https://instagram.com/SwanBitcoin ✔ LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/swanbitcoin ✔ Threads: https://www.threads.com/@swanbitcoin ✔ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SwanBitcoin/ ✔ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realswanbitcoin

Would you trust two brothers with zero aviation experience to run El Salvador's helicopter tours, plane charters, and Bitcoin travel experiences? Thousands of Bitcoiners already have. Today on Live From Bitcoin Beach, I sit down with Mauricio and Diego Villeda, founders of Bitcoin Life, the Bitcoin tourism and concierge service company that convinced El Salvador's Minister of Defense to lend them Air Force helicopters. I wanted the full story of how two guys orange-pilled by a $5K Bitcoin client built the most Bitcoin-native travel operation on the planet, and they didn't hold back.It all started with a free Notion page built to help Bitcoiners travel El Salvador, covering transportation, places to stay, and spots that accept Bitcoin over the Lightning Network. Three days after launch, Stacy Herbert retweeted it, and strangers at the Adopting Bitcoin conference were showing the brothers their own guide without knowing who made it. That one retweet turned a side project into a company, and it proved something maxis have said for years, that proof of work beats marketing budgets.These days the brothers run helicopter tours to places most tourists never see, including Lake Ilopango, a lake that had zero tourism when gangs controlled the area. They fly clients beyond El Zonte, land in soccer fields, and pay the local caretakers in sats to clear the space. For Bitcoiners flying in from abroad, they also run VIP airport pickups that take you from immigration straight to a helicopter, plane charters connecting El Salvador with Próspera in Honduras for around $3,000 per group, and real estate guidance for investors front-running the nation-state adoption wave. Every booking, vendor, and ticket runs on Bitcoin, feeding the Bitcoin circular economy that fiat skeptics love to claim doesn't exist.Their biggest project is still ahead, a Bitcoin Street in the Centro Histórico of San Salvador where every business accepts Bitcoin, complete with an academy, an art gallery, and rooftop coffee shops. The brothers are raising from investors before Bitcoin Histórico this November, and I love their case for it. A district that was too dangerous to visit a few years ago deserves a permanent Bitcoin landmark, and low time preference built this country's turnaround.If you've ever wanted to see El Salvador from a military helicopter while paying in sats, these are your guys. Subscribe for more stories from the ground, share this with your favorite nocoiner, and drop a comment telling me which tour you'd book first.—Bitcoin Beach TeamLearn more about The Bitcoin Life:X: https://x.com/thebitcoinlife_ X (Diego Villeda): https://x.com/DiegoVilledaa   X (Mauricio Villeda): https://x.com/itsMauriVilleda Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebitcoinlife_ Website: https://www.bitcoinlife.sv/ WhatsApp: +503-6865-6540Support and follow Bitcoin Beach:X: https://www.twitter.com/BitcoinBeach IG: https://www.instagram.com/bitcoinbeach_sv TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livefrombitcoinbeach Web: https://www.bitcoinbeach.com STAY AT BITCOIN BEACH: https://www.stayatbitcoinbeach.com/punta-mango-villasBrowse through this quick guide to learn more about the episode:00:00 Intro01:36 How to get started with Bitcoin as an entrepreneur in El Salvador?04:36 What was the first Bitcoin meetup in San Salvador like?07:48 How to build a Bitcoin travel guide that goes viral?11:42 How to book a helicopter tour in El Salvador with Bitcoin?14:20 Is Lake Ilopango safe to visit now?19:27 How does VIP airport pickup work in El Salvador?21:31 How much does a private flight from El Salvador to Próspera cost?23:24 What is Bitcoin Street in San Salvador?29:51 Where can you spend Bitcoin in El Salvador? Live From Bitcoin Beach

Thousands of careful Bitcoiners just got wiped out by a Coldcard entropy bug, and I use this episode to push back hard on the idea that self-custody is dead, and "don't trust, verify" failed us. I walk through the brutal history of centralized custodial failures, explain why "holding your own keys is still orders of magnitude safer, and extract three real lessons from this recent disaster. This is about keeping perspective, learning the right lessons from pain, and making Bitcoin self-custody stronger, not weaker. Chapters (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:41) - Is self custody pointless (00:03:07) - Only tradeoffs exist (00:05:16) - History of exchange hacks (00:08:27) - Custodial total losses (00:08:27) - Not your keys (00:09:35) - Coldcard loss in context (00:10:55) - Bitcoin as antifragile (00:11:46) - Open vs source available (00:12:39) - Audits and entropy Affiliate Links Become sovereign, hold your keys, be censorship resistant with the Bitbox hardware wallet. Get 5% off everything in the store with code GUY (Link: https://bitbox.swiss/guy/) Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from The Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1) Host Links ⁠Guy on Nostr ⁠(Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xc96ney) ⁠Guy on X ⁠(Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann) Guy on Instagram (Link: https://www.instagram.com/theguyswann) Guy on TikTok (Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@theguyswann) Guy's Takes on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@GuysTake) Guy Swann on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@theguyswann) ⁠Bitcoin Audible on X⁠ (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible) The Guy Swann Network Broadcast Room on Keet (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3na6v839) References from the episode Forbes: https://urlfy.org/RDRfIkQ Bitcoin Magazine: https://urlfy.org/mcBm04r Crypto Briefing: https://urlfy.org/wmWw1di X: https://urlfy.org/9iTPaOL Okumaru Goro: https://urlfy.org/KJW9ATL Crypto Briefing: https://urlfy.org/13bbT8t Coldcard Hack Tracker: https://urlfy.org/9CIZMk8 Coinkite Blog: https://urlfy.org/4OAm8cd Bitcoin Stack Exchange: https://urlfy.org/Yn4V8o8 Technology Innovators: https://urlfy.org/YU4yHhe NVK.wtf: https://urlfy.org/e6FRNTR DanB Blog: https://urlfy.org/WqQKqCm BitBox Blog: https://urlfy.org/mlJe2ct Bitcoin Well: https://urlfy.org/jyosFLM Lopp Blog: https://urlfy.org/UQGBXZP Crypto University: https://urlfy.org/DoHZ1ca OneKey: https://urlfy.org/nBMCpX0 Spark Money: https://urlfy.org/c1WCJBu Spiral Substack: https://urlfy.org/Pdm0e5a GitHub: https://urlfy.org/P3mkfhF BBC: https://urlfy.org/OVg8W2B Reuters: https://urlfy.org/oir88KO The Independent: https://urlfy.org/Smd5e7W CoinDesk: https://urlfy.org/1EGotje YouTube: https://urlfy.org/0yjQMzO

Canada has sent billions to Ukraine. Now, new anti-corruption raids and warnings of a “systemic crisis of governance” are reigniting the question: how long should Ottawa keep writing cheques while healthcare, education, policing and affordability remain under pressure at home?Joey and Len unpack the Ukraine story, then head into full Canadian clown world: an alleged $6,000 Brampton dating-app extortion, a Toronto sexual-assault sentencing case where immigration consequences entered the calculation, the political argument over deporting criminal non-citizens, the UK's immigration pamphlets, Shaun Chen's municipal comeback, and Hamilton vs. Brampton—featuring a Honda, a machete and 36 damaged vehicles.Where should Canada's priorities be? Drop your take below.Canadian Bitcoiners PodcastWebsite: https://canadianbitcoiners.comSubscribe and turn on notifications — new episodes live Monday nights.CHAPTERS00:00 Bitcoin Mentor and self-custody00:37 Ukraine corruption reports03:59 Canada's “bottomless pit”05:16 Is this Canada's war?08:08 China, Russia and proxy conflict10:05 Brampton's $6,000 dating trap11:49 Sentencing, immigration and deportation18:41 The issue voters actually feel20:32 The UK's immigration pamphlets22:15 Shaun Chen returns to Toronto politics23:42 Why people loved Rob Ford25:37 256 Heat26:59 Hamilton vs. Brampton28:16 The 36-car machete spree30:28 “Parking lot samurai”32:09 Outro————————————————————————————————SPONSORS

Trump hit Canada with 50% tariffs on $20 billion in goods after trade talks collapsed an hour before the deadline. Mark Carney says Canada is "at war" and retaliates September 8. Bitcoin doesn't need a deal.The tariffs came through Section 338 of the 1930 Tariff Act - a statute that had never once been used to impose a tariff in 96 years. It needs no vote in Congress, carries no expiry date, and applies to CUSMA-compliant goods anyway. Two days earlier Trump posted that the two countries "have a DEAL." Sunday morning he was back to calling Canada a state that wants the benefits without the membership. Joey and Len break down what a permanent, unreviewable tariff power means for a country whose entire economy runs through one border - and why every story in this episode points at the same thing: the rules can change overnight when your money answers to somebody else.In this episode of the Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast:50% Section 338 tariffs hit $20B of Canadian goods, roughly 5% of everything Canada ships southCarney's "you're at war when you get attacked" press conference and the September 8 dollar-for-dollar retaliation listWhy the trucks fight, not dairy, is what actually blew up the deal at Oakville and OshawaTrump revives the 51st state line hours after the tariffs landNew Hampshire caps Bitcoin ATM buys at $2,000 a day - and the cap follows residents to kiosks in every other stateThe SEC proposes Regulation Crypto Assets: $75M/year retail token sales, self-certified exits, zero dissents on a commission with no dissenters leftMetaplanet drops 2,100 BTC into a $5M Nasdaq shell four days after MSCI threatens to delete it from global indexesBitcoin and ether ETFs pull $2.6 billion in the strongest inflow week since OctoberCanadian Bitcoiners PodcastWebsite: https://canadianbitcoiners.comSubscribe and turn on notifications - new episodes live Monday nightsA tariff with no expiry date and no congressional vote is the same lesson as a bail rule that sorts by bank balance and an ATM cap that follows you across state lines: permission you were granted can be withdrawn. Bitcoin is the only part of this episode nobody has to ask for.Sources: The Globe and Mail, CBC, CNN, Reuters, CP24, Bitcoin Magazine, The Block, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, New Hampshire Union Leader, SEC.gov, Angus Reid Institute————————————————————————————————SPONSORSThis week's episode is about what happens when the rules change without your consent. Our sponsors are the people who built the opposite.

How does one ride with the wrong passenger turn an ordinary driver into a Bitcoin entrepreneur in El Salvador? I sat down with Pierre Valiente to find out, and his car rentals, airport transfers, and 14-room Bitcoin Casa guest house in San Salvador all accept Bitcoin, which makes life awkward for every critic who keeps telling me locals don't use it. The passenger was Sandy Wade, headed to the Adopting Bitcoin conference back in 2023. She tried to pay him with a $20 bill he couldn't break, he told her to keep it, and she invited him to the conference instead. Two days later he walked out understanding self custody, cold wallets, and why holding your own keys beats trusting a bank.The backstory alone is worth the listen. Pierre was born in Santa Ana, spent 22 years in Los Angeles, and taught English to special forces at a military camp in Dubai for four years before coming home to open his school near Metrocentro. That entrepreneurial streak is exactly what Bitcoin rewarded once he found it.His transportation business started with a single car after he noticed Bitcoiners landing at the airport with no good way to get around. Today the fleet runs from a Jeep Compass at $45 a day up to a brand new 4x4 at $60 to $65, insurance included, no hidden fees, every rental payable in Bitcoin. Anyone spending less than six months a year in the country should hear our rent-versus-buy conversation before letting a car rot through a wet season, and I speak from moldy experience.Bitcoin Casa is the hospitality side of the equation, a 14-room guest house seven minutes from the historic center that he built with his German partner for Bitcoiners who arrive with two suitcases and a plan. Short-term rentals run $35 a night, monthly stays run $500, and the rooms come with standing desks, Starlink, and a Bitcoin ATM in the lobby for anyone who wants to stack on arrival. He's already scouting Antiguo Cuscatlán and San Benito for location number two.Pierre's take on the adoption question might be the most honest one I've heard from a Salvadoran entrepreneur. Older folks sold their Chivo wallet bitcoin for fiat because nobody taught them what they were holding, and the younger generation grew up watching that mistake, so they want control of their own money. He calls himself part of the first wave, and he's hiring locals so the opportunity stays in the country. If this episode makes you want to land here with two suitcases of your own, subscribe, share it with the friend who still calls it magic internet money, and tell us in the comments: would you take the ride or keep the $20?—Bitcoin Beach TeamLearn more about Pierre Valiente:WhatsApp: +503 7557 7261Web: https://www.bitcoincasasv.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitcoincasasvTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bitcoin.casaFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61584549045182Support and follow Bitcoin Beach:X: https://www.twitter.com/BitcoinBeach IG: https://www.instagram.com/bitcoinbeach_sv TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livefrombitcoinbeach Web: https://www.bitcoinbeach.com STAY AT BITCOIN BEACH: https://www.stayatbitcoinbeach.com/punta-mango-villasBrowse through this quick guide to learn more about the episode:00:00 Intro01:42 Who is Pierre Valiente from Bitcoin Casa El Salvador?02:45 What is it like growing up between El Salvador and Los Angeles?08:42 How do you start an English school in El Salvador?09:24 How do people in El Salvador get into Bitcoin?12:28 Do Salvadorans actually use Bitcoin?17:22 How much does it cost to rent a car in El Salvador?20:36 Should you rent or buy a car in El Salvador?28:02 Where do Bitcoiners stay in San Salvador?35:04 How do you book a Bitcoin friendly Airbnb in El Salvador?Live From Bitcoin Beach

Bitcoin around $77,200, up almost 8% on the day and 23% on the week, and the show opens on the mood rather than the chart. Cory, joining from Istanbul: "the shitposting is just completely off the charts. We're back. We're so back." Brandon's read on the turn: "we needed this one. It was a rough couple months." ⭐ Adam Livingston makes the pragmatic case for sovereign accumulation, and grounds it in incentives rather than ideology: governments are made of people, and those people face the same pull Bitcoiners do to accumulate and hold. "I think the sovereigns will end up having to move in size because they're going to be following the same incentives that humans do." He frames the whole thing as owning the denominator. Asked how to allocate capital rationally into an AI boom with equities at high multiples, his answer is to own the hardest asset instead: "I want to own the denominator... how do you argue against sound money, a sound denominator, when things are just starting to get crazy?" ⭐ Brandon Quittem on the K-shaped recovery as the simplest description of the moment: Main Street squeezed while financial assets rise, and when that gap becomes the whole story, "we can call that populism." His warning is blunt about where it goes if the band doesn't tighten, and he names rising socialism and political violence as the risk rather than a slogan. The pairing that makes the macro section unusual: institutions are being asked to respond to two exponential shocks at once, the failure of fiat money and the arrival of AI, and "our institutions don't have the capacity to respond to the speed at which things are happening." ⭐⭐ Robert Baggs of Cointelegraph brings reporting that has not been on this show before. MoD systems engineers speaking anonymously to the outlet The Nerve dismantle the government's own reassurance that Britain retains ownership of its data. One engineer's line: "whether or not the UK technically owns the data is almost irrelevant. That's like reading a secret love letter and then saying the secrets in it are safe because you promised not to copy it down word for word." ⭐ And the concept that makes the Palantir story land for anyone, not just privacy people: the mosaic effect. Baggs got it from Professor Daniel Solove, the most cited privacy lawyer in history: individually innocuous pieces of data mean nothing alone, and combined they give away a great deal. Which is why a government retaining formal ownership changes nothing if the vendor can still read it. Suze's framing sits underneath it: the question is not who owns the data, it is who has the leverage. Her Forbes piece on Palantir's expanding role in Britain's digital state is the spine of the segment, including Parliament having already called that role an unacceptable point of weakness. ⭐⭐ Guy Swann turns the privacy conversation from complaint into construction. He is building peer-to-peer file sharing and has released the underlying engine, with the drive itself still unreleased: "it's entirely peer to peer, and there's nobody in the middle of this. It is mine and we built it." His diagnosis of why privacy keeps losing is economic, not technical: "if they're providing something for free that costs a lot, they're going to milk it for everything it's worth... and the only way you get around that is if you make desktop computers cool again. Get off of iCloud and build your own tools to run your own stuff." And the line that reframes the whole build-your-own objection: "thank God we have AI to actually do that." The tools that made surveillance cheap also made self-hosting achievable for people who are not developers. His product standard, worth stealing: "If it's not fun to use, if it doesn't work like you want it to work, then we're just not done." ⭐ Adam closes on Bitcoin against gold rather than against dollars. The gold ratio has recovered sharply off the February low, and his framing: "gold is hard money, but Bitcoin is the apex predator."

Ryan MacLeod, who posts as The Nuclear Bitcoiner, works at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories and has spent almost eleven years in the industry as a laboratory technologist. He compares his facility to Idaho National Lab, Oak Ridge, or Savannah River in the US, and Sellafield in the UK. The order of his conversion is the opposite of what you would guess: he did not become a nuclear advocate until after he became a Bitcoiner. Working in the industry, he only started making the public case once he saw where mining could solve problems nuclear could not solve on its own. ⭐ The centerpiece: he has written a paper he will present at a nuclear industry conference in October, titled "A Transitional Offtake Model for SMR Deployment Using Proof-of-Work Digital Asset Mining." It grew out of a study his employer conducted with Ontario Power Generation, which concluded that small reactors could eliminate diesel dependency in remote regions but would deliver the highest cost of energy of any option. The problem the paper solves is a timing mismatch, and he states it cleanly: size a reactor for demand on the day it switches on and you constrain the community's growth; size it for demand twenty years out and most of that capacity sits idle in the meantime. Neither option is financeable. ⭐ His proposal is Bitcoin mining as a "transitional offtaker" that buys the otherwise-wasted output, then recedes. In his words, it operates as a subordinate residual load and "temporarily bridges the phase between the commissioning of the plant and the maturation of the regional demand." ⭐⭐ And the framework he builds it on is Brandon Quittem's own "Pioneer Species" essay, which Ryan notes he has rarely heard discussed. A pioneer species occupies an environment before more complex life can establish, creates the conditions that let a later ecosystem develop, and then declines in importance as higher-order entities arrive. Ryan proposes miners as a "transitional pioneer load" on exactly that model. Answering Suze's question about how modular these reactors really are: in the one to ten megawatt range the entire unit can fit inside a tractor trailer and ship whole. Larger designs ship as components for on-site assembly. He points to Vogtle as a warning, where modular construction was attempted and some modules did not fit the larger reactor specs. Five small reactors have recently sustained a first critical reaction, among them Oklo, Halo, Antares, and Deployable Energy. Their next milestone is generating power, then commercial operation. Site selection to operating reactor should run about five years, against ten to twenty for conventional large builds. The use case he cares most about is northern Canada, where diesel must be shipped in year-round at high cost. A five to ten megawatt reactor carrying ten years of fuel eliminates the resupply problem entirely, and frees that diesel for uses better than burning it for heat and power. ⭐ Tomer Strolight asked the hardest question of the show: AI data centers can pay more for power than miners can, hashrate has been falling for months, so is this a problem for Bitcoin mining? Ryan's answer is that it is the pioneer species story repeating. Miners cultivated and learned to finance energy infrastructure, a wealthier customer arrived, and miners now move further out to the edge and do it again, acting as the anchor that develops energy systems to attract higher-order clients. ⭐ His most falsifiable claim, and worth revisiting later: because the best mining sites are now occupied by AI, he does not expect difficulty to follow a significant Bitcoin price rise as closely as it has historically. The power simply is not as widely available as it was during the migration out of China. Reading and listening he recommended: Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which he says every Bitcoiner should read for its account of paradigm shifts and why Keynesians cannot see what Bitcoiners see; Earth is a Nuclear Planet; and the Decoupled podcast, including its four-part breakdown of what went wrong at Vogtle.

The committee nobody watches just opened the paperwork on Michael Saylor. MSCI is consulting on whether "non-operating companies" belong in its indexes — run the screen and exactly three names get deleted: Strategy, Metaplanet, and a uranium fund. Up to $8.8 billion in passive money would be forced to sell on a calendar date, decision October 16. We break down the mechanics, who's actually exposed, and why Norway's sovereign wealth fund is at record Strategy exposure at the worst possible moment.Also tonight: the BIP-110 crowd picked BLAKE2b out of a hat in a Discord and scheduled a September 1 hard fork to fire every miner on earth. Trezor's shipping partner leaked 13,689 home addresses — the wrench-attack mailing list writes itself. And in Clown World North: B.C. spends $101,000 a month housing one man in a 110-room hotel, the Ontario Line quietly triples to $34 billion, and a Toronto cop gets shot by a man who was already wanted in two other regions — 29 days after the new bail law took force.Drop your questions and comments in the live chat.— Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast

In this episode, we dug into the latest fallout around Ocean Mining and Luke Dashjr's departure as CTO, along with the broader controversy around BIP 110 and the so-called “LukeCoin” proof-of-work fork. We talked through why the messaging around that fork is so misleading, how term redefinition keeps confusing newer Bitcoiners, and why simply changing mining algorithms does not magically solve centralization. We also explored the technical choices behind the proposed proof-of-work change, why existing ASIC availability matters, and how these alt-fork experiments often reveal more about incentives and market structure than about any real path forward for Bitcoin.We also spent time on the 256 Foundation's latest work, including red-team analysis of closed-source mining firmware and why these opaque systems create serious operational and even grid-level risks. From there, we highlighted the upside of open-source firmware through Riot's new solar-responsive mining product built on Mujina, which shows what becomes possible when miners can actually control their hardware. We wrapped with updates on the Buzz relay for agent-assisted collaboration, thoughts on making it easier for home miners to run their own low-cost nodes, and some early findings from reverse engineering a WhatsMiner M64 that suggest just how far manufacturers are going to lock users out of their own machines.

The committee nobody watches just opened the paperwork on Michael Saylor. MSCI is consulting on whether "non-operating companies" belong in its indexes — run the screen and exactly three names get deleted: Strategy, Metaplanet, and a uranium fund. Up to $8.8 billion in passive money would be forced to sell on a calendar date, decision October 16. We break down the mechanics, who's actually exposed, and why Norway's sovereign wealth fund is at record Strategy exposure at the worst possible moment.Also tonight: the BIP-110 crowd picked BLAKE2b out of a hat in a Discord and scheduled a September 1 hard fork to fire every miner on earth. Trezor's shipping partner leaked 13,689 home addresses — the wrench-attack mailing list writes itself. And in Clown World North: B.C. spends $101,000 a month housing one man in a 110-room hotel, the Ontario Line quietly triples to $34 billion, and a Toronto cop gets shot by a man who was already wanted in two other regions — 29 days after the new bail law took force.Drop your questions and comments in the live chat.— Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast

Why do most expats moving to El Salvador pack up and fly home within three years, even after selling everything for their relocation dream of living abroad in Bitcoin country? Jenn Satterfeld ( @jeniarilagringasalvadorena ) has watched it happen over and over, and she says the ones who make it have something the others don't. I've got Jenn back in the studio, and she's the founder of Living Like a Local, one of the first immigration support and relocation companies in El Salvador. Oh, and she became a Salvadoran citizen the day before we recorded this.Jenn's own path started with world schooling her kids through Central America after her divorce, and she landed here before the Bitcoin Law even passed. Like most gringos, she figured Costa Rica was the place, until corruption, an impounded camper van, and four frustrating months sent her back to the one country that felt different. Then the Régimen de Excepción turned El Salvador into one of the safest countries in the world, her YouTube channel blew up overnight, and her subscribers became her first relocation clients.We get into how a lot of early Bitcoiners got themselves into trouble moving overseas, jumping in without due diligence and signing rental contracts they couldn't read in a legal system that works nothing like the one back home. Jenn explains why you can't sue your way out of a bad lease in El Salvador, why the cheapest lawyer ends up costing you more, and why the gringo tax exists but the folks who feel scammed usually just misread the culture. If you've got kids, you'll want to hear why El Salvador schooling comes before house hunting, and why she thinks educational sovereignty is the next wave coming after the Bitcoiners and the Canadians. Her investigation tour even sets off fireworks outside your hotel at midnight on purpose, because you'd better find out now if this country is for you.What I love most is Jenn's heart for community integration. She's watched the expat community wear out its welcome in Panama and Mexico by living in bubbles instead of becoming part of the neighborhood, and she's determined to keep that from happening here. Her service club, Darlo Mejor para El Salvador, connects expat mentors with Salvadoran youth, including an 87 year old Canadian engineer who answered Pres.  @nayibbukele 's call and now speaks to university students about futures they never imagined possible.If this episode made you want to pack your bags, or at least dodge a few lane splitting motorcycles, subscribe to the channel, share it with that friend who won't stop posting about leaving Canada, and tell us in the comments whether you'd survive fireworks outside your window at midnight.—Bitcoin Beach TeamLearn more about Jenn Satterfeld:Website: https://www.livinlikealocal.comYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@jeniarilagringasalvadorenaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/_jeni_ari_/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@_jeni_ari_FB: facebook.com/LivinLikeALocalSVSupport and follow Bitcoin Beach:X: https://www.twitter.com/BitcoinBeach IG: https://www.instagram.com/bitcoinbeach_sv TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livefrombitcoinbeach Web: https://www.bitcoinbeach.com STAY AT BITCOIN BEACH: https://www.stayatbitcoinbeach.com/punta-mango-villasBrowse through this quick guide to learn more about the episode:00:00 Intro02:33 What is it like moving to El Salvador as a single mom with kids?04:58 Why are expats leaving Costa Rica for El Salvador?08:43 What does a relocation company in El Salvador actually do?13:56 What legal mistakes do foreigners make when moving to El Salvador?16:57 Should you visit El Salvador before moving there?22:15 Why do most expats move back home after two or three years?24:37 What are the best school options in El Salvador for expat families?28:43 Why are Canadians moving to El Salvador?35:21 How can expats give back and integrate into El Salvador?44:57 Is the gringo tax real or are expats just misreading the culture?46:50 How do you get Salvadoran citizenship as a foreigner? Live From Bitcoin Beach

A museum for things that aren't gone yet. Roxana Nasoi of Logos walks through the Museum of Civil Liberties: five halls, twenty major events, a record kept where it can't be quietly edited. Phase one of a past, present, and future campaign. "Liberties, not rights." Roxana explains the word choice: rights imply something that can be granted and revoked. The halls cover control of money, the surveillance state, censorship, the failure of voice, and systems of control. The timing writes itself. The show aired August 14. The museum's centerpiece entry is August 15, 1971, when Nixon suspended the convertibility of the dollar into gold: fifty-five years ago, to the day after recording. Why a civil liberties project starts with money. Quoting Logos cofounder Jarrad Hope: the state offers money, property, law, identity, and governance. Bitcoin fixed the money. The other four are still hanging. Suze's Euston station moment. Talk of the surveillance state stayed abstract until a delayed train left her people-watching under what felt like hundreds of cameras. The room digs into why invisible threats only become real through shocks. KYC that doesn't stop crime. Suze lays out her case: by the Chainalysis figures she cites, under 1% of illicit activity moves through "crypto" and just 0.14% through Bitcoin, while illicit flows in traditional finance hold at 2 to 5% of global GDP, unchanged across decades of FATF rules. A rare rollback. The room welcomes this week's Treasury move to permanently end Corporate Transparency Act ownership reporting for US companies and delete the filed data: the opposite ending from the breached Liechtenstein register discussed yesterday. The freedom tech field guide. Roxana's practical stack: Umbrel home servers, mesh networks like Meshtastic that carried protests through internet shutdowns in India, mixnets like Nym versus VPNs, Faraday bags, offline second devices, and local AI. A chess app as a philosophy lesson. She built one in a weekend on Logos: Stockfish engine, real-time play, and an ephemeral chat that leaves no record anywhere once the game ends. Private by architecture, not by promise. Who adopts freedom tech before it's necessary? Brandon Quittem returns to his Myers-Briggs survey: analysts are ten times overrepresented among Bitcoiners, and maybe everyone wired to get obsessed is already here. The next wave joins by social consensus, not rabbit holes.

"People say 'I believe in vaccines.' Nobody says that about seatbelts." Aaron Siri is the managing partner of Siri & Glimstad and, by most measures, the most consequential vaccine litigator in America. He's the attorney behind the famous nine-hour deposition of Dr. Stanley Plotkin — the man they call the godfather of vaccines — lead counsel for the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), a 2025 Senate witness, and a central legal figure in the RFK-era reshaping of federal vaccine policy. His new book is Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines — in his words, "a cross-examination in book form." This one steps outside the show's usual lane, and I want to be upfront: this is not medical advice, I'm not a doctor, and everything Aaron argues here is his own case — where it's contested by public-health bodies, treat it as one side of an open debate. What ties it to this show is the question we always ask: how do you know what's real when you're not allowed to check? From there we go deep — how a custody case led to the legendary Plotkin deposition; the Hepatitis B shot Aaron says was licensed on a trial of 147 kids, five days of monitoring, and no control group; the 1986 law he calls "the original sin" that handed vaccine makers liability immunity; the Ford Pinto and what punitive damages actually do; informed consent versus the right to refuse; whether vaccines really stop transmission; and the measles-mortality data he argues almost no one talks about. A conversation about evidence, incentives, and who gets to audit the people in charge. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

From bizarre local crime waves to headline-making political shakeups, the Canadian Bitcoiners are straying far off the path this week to break down the cultural zeitgeist.On this episode, we investigate the inexplicable wave of AC units being stolen right off buildings in Atlanta, unpack Conservative MP Larry Brock's sudden resignation and what it means for the caucus, and look at the conversation around Indian gangs making headlines in Canada. Plus, we dive into the debate over Indian folk dancing as a high school credit course, settle the ultimate suburban rivalry of Hamilton Man vs. Brampton Man, track Carney's travels, and tackle whatever else crossed our feeds this week. Grab some popcorn—it's a chaotic one. Let's go!#CanadianBitcoiners #CurrentEvents #HamiltonVsBrampton #LarryBrock #CanadianPolitics #Atlanta #CultureWars————————————————————————————————SPONSORS

It's been an absolute whirlwind in the Bitcoin ecosystem, and the Canadian Bitcoiners are here to make sense of the noise.On this episode, we unpack the widening fallout from the Coldcard vulnerability, dive deep into the contentious BIP-110 proposal and the looming threat of a chain split, and break down why infrastructure providers like Boltz and Zeus had to take services offline following a wave of AI-assisted attacks. Plus, BTCPay Server urges users to upgrade, corporate treasuries like MSTR and MARA make moves on their Bitcoin stacks, and we share our thoughts on what all of this means for the future of self-custody and network security. Grab a drink, tune in, and let's get into it!#Bitcoin #BIP110 #Coldcard #CryptoNews #LightningNetwork #SelfCustody #CanadianBitcoiners————————————————————————————————SPONSORS

I met Yonatan Sompolinsky in Romania during his summer holiday, so we decided to do a roadtrip interview about covenants, the state of Kaspa development, why intents are more interesting than smart contracts & stag hunts. 00:00:54 – Intro: a road trip with Yonatan Sompolinsky 00:01:50 – Life since S16 E41: Oxford Union & the state of Kaspa 00:02:53 – Kaspa shipped covenants while Bitcoin debates OP_CAT 00:04:24 – Sequencing commitments & based apps explained 00:06:48 – Why OP_CAT alone can't do censorship-resistant based rollups 00:07:21 – BitVM & optimistic vs optimistically verified rollups 00:08:05 – ZK was born for privacy but lives for scaling 00:09:18 – "For the record, I'm very bearish on rollups" 00:12:27 – Ethereum quietly abandons the L2 roadmap 00:13:33 – What ZK is actually for: a thin L1 & separation of layers 00:15:05 – Kaspa follows Bitcoin's UTXO design principles 00:16:04 – Ephemeral logic: generalized atomic swaps 00:17:25 – Camera gymnastics & an Aston Martin 00:19:28 – What covenants won't give you: the DeFi Lego box 00:20:05 – One-time logic vs contract deployment 00:23:18 – The use case question & crypto's crisis of utility 00:26:17 – Bitcoin the turtle & the DAGKnight progress report 00:28:17 – DAGKnight: 49% Byzantine resilience, no latency parameter 00:29:50 – Why 100 BPS on GHOSTDAG would 8x confirmation times 00:30:21 – Sponsors: Cake Wallet, LayerTwo Labs, Braiins, Orange Rock & SideShift 00:34:33 – Zcash made a comeback 00:35:19 – The mental map: where Kaspa is unique 00:38:49 – Real-time decentralization: sampling the honest majority 00:39:47 – Solana & Hyperliquid: fast, but led by one 00:42:46 – Only proof of work bundles proposing & content 00:44:35 – A bear market in usage, not just price 00:45:53 – Old-world use case: bridges & oracles 00:47:22 – Tourism break: Bușteni, mascots & ski resorts 00:49:38 – Hit-and-run agents & the agentic economy 00:51:06 – Having your cake and eating it too 00:54:32 – Vlad on Ecash, miner fees & Satoshi's biggest bet 00:56:37 – Sinaia & the royal train station 00:57:38 – "Bitcoin is dead boring to me at this stage" 00:59:50 – Ironwood, verifiable supply & Tachyon 01:00:39 – Driving like six confirmations 01:01:59 – The tectonic shift nobody noticed: verifying the supply 01:03:43 – The bug & Zcash's unfixable history 01:06:04 – Kaspa's pruning vs historical correctness 01:08:12 – How Zcash's rise paves the way for Kaspa 01:09:17 – The Zooko sleeping-in-the-car story 01:10:32 – "Just launch": Zooko one day before the Sapling bug 01:12:05 – Downplaying the bug & the counterfeit scenario 01:14:34 – Peter Todd's demurrage & the Ironwood migration 01:17:25 – Would any other coin survive this? 01:18:55 – Ethereum's identity crisis 01:21:28 – Back to L1: too little, too late; Solana's cohesion 01:22:46 – Oxford Union & political ambitions 01:24:44 – Hayek: true vs false individualism 01:26:04 – The isolated individual: Lopp, Poelstra & early Bitcoiners 01:32:52 – The enthusiastic individualist 01:34:52 – Coordination markets & Project Stag Hunt 01:35:19 – Prisoner's dilemma vs stag hunt 01:36:24 – Moloch, the demon of defection 01:37:18 – Part 2: stag hunt as the optimistic game 01:42:43 – Intents & NEAR Intents 01:44:03 – Intents vs smart contracts 01:45:21 – Part 3: Rousseau's ape men 01:49:45 – Intendos: "if many sign this, consider mine signed" 01:51:44 – Example: migrating a liquidity pool together 01:53:34 – Pack formation & threshold homomorphic encryption 01:55:42 – Actionable but not committed 01:57:18 – The Netflix example: voice for the scattered majority 02:01:36 – Who are the stags we need to hunt? 02:02:11 – Minarchist, anarchist or libertarian? 02:03:32 – Stag = shared utility; escaping Ethereum's L2 mess 02:06:28 – Composable Intendos 02:07:58 – Exiting network effects 02:09:11 – The Kaspa-Ethereum overlap: GHOST & Casper 02:11:55 – "I don't like DAGs": it's just a data structure 02:12:51 – Why DAGKnight survives a world war 02:15:22 – Michael Sutton & the Argent language 02:16:58 – Bypassing the impossibility theorem 02:18:06 – Ahead of his time or poor communicator? 02:19:31 – BPS vs TPS: the shift already happened 02:21:05 – Falling between the cracks 02:23:17 – The next narrative: coordination markets 02:24:26 – Brașov to Bucharest: documenting the trip 02:25:31 – Roles reversed: Yonatan interviews Vlad 02:27:06 – ACTA protests, internet freedom & political science 02:28:53 – Sztorc's party metaphor 02:29:57 – Zcash at $30 & the Coldcard hack 02:31:40 – What Kaspa actually needs: wallets, not exchanges 02:33:56 – Broadening cypherpunk: from protective to positive 02:37:16 – What have we really accomplished? 02:39:33 – Arriving at the Palace of Parliament 02:43:57 – The secret handshake & farewell

Would you sell everything and move to El Salvador, or is that just a Bitcoin fantasy? The founders of Build in El Salvador (@BuildInES) reveal why Bitcoin expats thrive or quit. In this episode, Mike Peterson sits down with Michael Ruiz and Luis Esparragoza, whose community helps startup founders and Bitcoiners relocate, connect, and build businesses in one of the most talked-about emerging markets in the world. Plenty of Bitcoiners arrive full of excitement, and some pack up and leave within months. This conversation digs into why, and what separates the ones who stay.The episode opens with a story most people only saw from the outside. Michael's former business partner at Sovereignty Studios gave up everything to move to El Salvador, hit a wall, and left with a viral rant so heated that President @nayibbukele himself responded. Michael shares what really happened behind that public exit, why he calls it a genuine loss of talent for the country, and how watching a friend rage quit shaped everything he built afterward.That "everything" became Build in El Salvador, which started as a humble Substack where Michael and Luis interviewed local entrepreneurs, including one who changed his name to Papusa, bought a million dollar passport, and now farms avocados in Santa Ana. The writing grew into a community of over 100 entrepreneurs connected through masterminds, roundtables, and a WhatsApp group, a business networking layer for the whole expat scene. When one member sliced his eye with a saw, the local community had a trusted doctor recommendation in his hands within a minute. That kind of support is what keeps talent in the country when things get hard.Michael and Luis are also brutally honest about who should stay home. El Salvador has huge first mover advantages, and it also has rough edges, language barriers, and antiquated systems that will break you if you arrive expecting Dubai. Thriving there takes a specific entrepreneur mindset: a low time preference, a willingness to build through discomfort, and the humility to ask a community for help. If your plan is margaritas on the beach while the opportunity finds you, this episode will probably talk you out of the move, and that might be the most valuable thing it does.The conversation closes with two developments worth knowing about. El Salvador residency rules changed in 2026, and temporary residents now need only 90 days per year in the country instead of nine months, a huge shift for podcasters, founders, and anyone who travels for work. And the guests recap the SovAI Summit, where about 25 Build in El Salvador members attended and Michael interviewed speakers at the National Palace as the country positions itself as a first mover in sovereign AI.If this episode helped you, subscribe, share it with a friend who keeps threatening to move, and tell us in the comments: would you get on the one-way ticket?—Bitcoin Beach TeamLearn more about Build in El Salvador:Website: https://buildinelsalvador.comTwitter/X: https://x.com/BuildInESYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BuildinelsalvadorSubstack: https://buildinelsalvador.substack.comSkool community (free): https://www.skool.com/build-in-el-salvador-2170/aboutSupport and follow Bitcoin Beach:X: https://www.twitter.com/BitcoinBeach IG: https://www.instagram.com/bitcoinbeach_sv TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livefrombitcoinbeach Web: https://www.bitcoinbeach.com STAY AT BITCOIN BEACH: https://www.stayatbitcoinbeach.com/punta-mango-villasBrowse through this quick guide to learn more about the episode:00:00 Intro01:21 What happened to Sovereignty Studios in El Salvador?03:38 Why do Bitcoiners leave El Salvador and did Bukele really respond to that viral rant?08:01 Should I move to El Salvador or is it overhyped?09:20 What is Build in El Salvador and how do I join the community?14:00 What is it like moving to El Salvador as a Latin American Bitcoiner?17:16 How do Bitcoin entrepreneurs find their tribe in El Salvador?22:19 How does the expat community in El Salvador help when things go wrong?27:07 What changed about El Salvador residency rules in 2026?33:53 What happened at the SovAI Summit at the National Palace? Live From Bitcoin Beach

VAERS stands for the 'Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System.' $ BTC 63,961 Block Height 961,091 Today's guest is Dr. Jessica Rose, PhD, MSc, BSc. Jessica is a Senior Fellow specializing in Computational Biology from Canada. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in applied mathematics and a master's degree in Immunology from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a PhD in Computational Biology from Bar Ilan University. Dr. Rose has completed two post-doctoral degrees in Molecular Biology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in Biochemistry from the Technion Institute of Technology. She is best known for her contributions to public health and safety related to the COVID-19 injectable products, and her analyses of pharmacovigilance databases like VAERS. She joined me to discuss her analysis of the VAERS database and her critiques of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and broader public health narratives. Key Topics: Analysis of the Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System (VAERS) Criticisms of COVID-19 mRNA injection data and safety Mechanisms of autoimmunity and potential side effects Data censorship and manipulation in scientific literature Historical context of vaccine liability and regulatory failures Strategies for immune optimization and health freedom Follow Jessica below. X- @JesslovesMJK https://jessicar.substack.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9091-4425 A huge thank you to Jessica for coming on the show! Check out my book ‘Choose Life' - https://bit.ly/4gGYqRE Pleb Service Announcements: Join 20 thousand Bitcoiners on @cluborange https://signup.cluborange.org/co/princey CONFERENCES: BTC HEL - 25th - 26th September 2026. - Helsinki https://btchel.com/ Use code BITTEN for - 10% My First Bitcoin. https://myfirstbitcoin.org/ Shills and Mench's: BITBOX - SELF CUSTODY YOUR BITCOIN - www.bitbox.swiss/bitten Use Code BITTEN THE MEETUP BREAKDWON - BITCOIN EVENTS UK - https://www.themeetupbreakdown.com/ SWAN BITCOIN - www.swan.com/bitten HODL EYEWEAR - Avoid Blue light! https://hodleyewear.com/partner/3/ PLEBEIAN MARKET - BUY AND SELL STUFF FOR SATS; https://plebeian.market/ @PlebeianMarket SATSBACK - Shop online and earn back sats! https://satsback.com/register/5AxjyPRZV8PNJGlM ALL FURTHER LINKS HERE - FOR DISCOUNTS AND OFFERS - https://vida.page/princey - https://linktr.ee/princey21m

"We need Bitcoiners to fight for Bitcoin. If no one fights for Bitcoin, Bitcoin will very soon be dead." Hodlonaut is a Bitcoin citizen journalist, the founder of the Citadel21 zine, the man behind the 2019 Lightning Torch, and the person who told the simple truth about Craig Wright and then stood in the fire for five years over it. Most recently he is the author of the Capture series, a deep investigation into how informal power over Bitcoin Core was assembled, exercised, and defended. We recorded this on August 2, 2026, in the middle of the ColdCard fallout, and the grief of that moment runs underneath the whole conversation. From there we go all the way back: how he found Bitcoin in 2013, the Pirate Bay ethos, Citadel21, and the birth of Hodlonaut and the Space Cat. We get into the Lightning Torch as a three-month experiment in trust, the Craig Wright war and how stoicism carried him through it, and then the heart of it: the Capture series, the "priesthood" narrative around Core, the OP_RETURN uncap, the DEI and "extractive" playbook used to shut down criticism, why every line of code must serve monetary sovereignty, and his return to fully supporting BIP-110. This is a conversation about the human layer of Bitcoin, and why we have to fight for it. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Dice rolls are now confirmed safe. Portland HODL published a full verification, independently cross-checked by James O'Beirne, Block's engineering team and Rob Hamilton: the Coldcard did use dice entropy rather than falling back to the pseudo-random generator. Fifty or more rolls was sufficient. Still rotate anyway. The prevailing view on the show was that dice-generated seeds are safe but worth rotating as hygiene. Separately, no other hardware wallet firmware vulnerability has surfaced yet from the red-team sweep. The red team is scaling. Rob Hamilton's group, now joined by other Bitcoin developers, is pointing Kimi K3 and other frontier models at repos across the ecosystem. Critical vulnerabilities have been found and responsibly disclosed, none in hardware wallets so far. Cory rejects the "always more to learn" framing. He argued that line doesn't apply here: the entire point of code securing assets is that there can be no mistakes that put those assets at risk. He gave two press interviews on the exploit. The custody spectrum, with a chart in the nest. Cory laid out five positions: solo self-custody, guided self-custody via Swan Sovereign at $25 a month, collaborative multisig, delegated custody with OCC-chartered custodians, and multi-institutional custody, which Swan has been building since December. The real gap is knowing how to use your wallet. Alec, who spent the weekend on client calls, found people holding large amounts in setups they could not operate. Getting Bitcoin off an exchange is not enough. Practice moving it more than once. Jason on the false binary. People have been taught there is one right way to hold Bitcoin, and that it's the most esoteric one. His question: what is self-custody worth if you cannot move your coins in an emergency? Zach Herbert of Foundation. Self-custody is not dead, and he framed this as negligence by a single vendor rather than an indictment of every maker. His takeaway is free and open source software, shared libraries and engagement with auditors. He calls it the worst event for committed Bitcoiners since Mt. Gox. Boltz went dark. The Lightning swap provider shut down entirely, hit by automated attacks faster than a small team could patch, taking swaps in Zeus, Aqua and Blockstream's app with it. No user funds lost. Brady drew the line from Kimi K3's release through Coldcard to this. The AI incentive argument. Phillip's case: calls to regulate AI harder are moat-building, not safety, and defenders keep having to reach for open-weight models because the US frontier models refuse legitimate security work. Steve noted five figures a day in tokens is not a sustainable audit model.

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Would you trust Bitcoin and a Lightning Network digital wallet to rebuild your life in El Salvador after COVID destroyed your business and the banks turned away? Kevin Ayala (@KevinAyala24) did, and that choice runs through his whole story. He grew up training as a violinist in El Salvador's national orchestra, and he first heard about Bitcoin in 2009 from a high school teacher. He didn't have a credit card or access to an exchange, so he walked away from it more than once over the next decade, a reminder of how much friction used to stand between a person and true self-custody.Then COVID hit. Kevin had just opened a computer and phone repair shop backed by a $30,000 family bank loan, and the lockdown shut it down within three months. He talks openly about carrying that debt with no income coming in, and about his parents refusing to make him feel guilty for it. The traditional financial system had given him a loan, but no way to keep earning against it once the doors closed.Bitcoin is what got him back on his feet, and it happened outside the banking system entirely. Kevin started earning small amounts through freelance design and repair work, paid directly over the Lightning Network. He found the Bitcoin Beach Wallet, ran his own Lightning node, and built a habit of stacking sats one gig at a time in El Zonte, the town where this circular economy took root before most of the world had heard of it. A digital wallet with no bank attached became his entire income, and a crash course in financial literacy along the way.From there, Kevin gets into teaching at the House of Bitcoin, co-founding Asobitcoin, and joining 40 Acres, an OTC desk for businesses named after a broken 19th century government promise. The 40 acres and a mule were taken back from the people who earned them. Bitcoin can't be taken back the same way. He talks about financial literacy spreading through El Zonte neighbor to neighbor, and how that kind of grassroots community building is the actual mechanism behind a working circular Bitcoin economy.The episode closes with Kevin's current role as CEO of Blink Wallet for El Salvador, and this is where it gets uncomfortable for anyone who assumes legal tender status solved everything. He explains why Blink got debanked, what Stablesats actually is under the hood, and why regulators keep confusing sound tech innovation built on Bitcoin with the kind of risk they're used to policing. Kevin's stacking, building, and helping the next person do the same in a country where the banks still haven't caught up to the law. Subscribe, share this with someone who thinks they missed their window, and tell us in the comments, would you have trusted your parents' credit card with $10 of Bitcoin back in 2011?—Bitcoin Beach TeamLearn more about Kevin Ayala:X: https://x.com/KevinAyala24X: https://x.com/40acres_svX: https://x.com/blinkbtcWeb: https://www.40acres.pro/Web: https://www.blink.sv/Support and follow Bitcoin Beach:X: https://www.twitter.com/BitcoinBeach IG: https://www.instagram.com/bitcoinbeach_sv TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livefrombitcoinbeach Web: https://www.bitcoinbeach.com STAY AT BITCOIN BEACH:  https://www.stayatbitcoinbeach.com/punta-mango-villasBrowse through this quick guide to learn more about the episode:00:00 Intro01:38 Why couldn't people buy Bitcoin in 2009 without exchanges or credit cards?05:18 Can you make a living as a musician in El Salvador?07:25 How did COVID lockdowns destroy small businesses in El Salvador?10:20 How to earn Bitcoin online through freelance work instead of buying it?13:31 What is the Bitcoin Beach Wallet and how did it become Blink?19:07 What is the House of Bitcoin and how does Asobitcoin support Bitcoin in El Salvador?27:13 How do Bitcoiners network and find jobs in the Bitcoin industry?32:41 What does 40 acres and a mule have to do with Bitcoin self-custody?39:21 Why do banks close accounts of Bitcoin companies in El Salvador? Live From Bitcoin Beach

Vinny Lingham is a Bitcoin OG who pioneered gift card payments in 2012 with Gyft, served on the board of the Bitcoin Foundation, spearheaded blockchain identity verification with CIvic, and in more recent years moved on to managing risk with Praxos Capital. Thanks to some of his accurate price predictions, Vinny has also received the nickname "The Oracle". In this episode, we talk about his Bitcoin journey and how his views have evolved over the last 14 years. Time stamps: 00:01:06 Intro & sponsors: Vinny Lingham, 15 years in Bitcoin 00:02:04 Gyft: a dozen companies and one gift card problem 00:02:26 Chargebacks, stolen cards & getting attacked by scammers 00:04:13 Why Bitcoin looked like the perfect payment rail 00:04:51 Zero-conf payments and the first-seen rule 00:05:48 The Starbucks and McDonald's signature math 00:06:51 100,000 Bitcoin payments, zero double spends 00:07:13 Civic's Bitcoin patents & the 2017 fee explosion 00:07:37 Blockstream, Adam Back, MIT and the Epstein files 00:08:10 Core keeps pruning dissenting voices 00:08:55 Why Bitcoin still can't be the whitepaper's payment system 00:09:08 Counterparty, Mastercoin & the birth of Ethereum 00:09:34 "Nothing has happened in Bitcoin in five years" 00:10:16 Why he went and backed Solana instead 00:10:23 Sympathy for BIP 110 over Core 00:11:08 Inscriptions can be done many ways 00:12:27 "Lightning will be ready in 18 months" forever 00:13:26 Drivechains, BIP 300 & the Ecash fork paying miners 00:14:44 UX, mainstream users and idiot-proof money 00:15:17 People who don't know you can hold BTC outside an ETF 00:15:27 Is the ETF the real scaling layer? 00:15:37 What Vinny signed up for when he read the whitepaper 00:16:30 Wayne Vaughn in the chat 00:16:48 Saylor's Bitcoin Security Consortium and the $15M 00:17:24 Saylor argues against bigger blocks and covenants 00:17:49 How is this different from the Bitcoin Foundation? 00:18:36 Saylor as systemic risk: crashing the minority fork 00:19:43 Losing SPV and the simplicity of early Bitcoin 00:20:48 When did you last actually use Bitcoin? 00:21:22 Six confirmations vs Apple Pay 00:21:41 Gyft's customers who had no credit cards 00:22:07 Not a store of value: a store of liquidity 00:23:24 So what is a store of value, exactly? 00:26:00 The 100 year test: one ounce of gold buys one suit 00:27:09 Does the whitepaper ever say "digital gold"? 00:27:53 Saylor's redefinition: expensive to move, held by institutions 00:28:08 Privacy, tiny payments and why volume creates stability 00:28:42 Exchanges are layer two, Lightning is layer three 00:29:06 Solana at the World Series of Poker 00:30:07 BSV, Teranode, BCH and who actually handles volume 00:30:58 Does everyone really need to run a node? 00:31:30 Luke Dashjr, 16MB blocks and 50 billion Catholics 00:33:34 Arguing with someone who redefines words 00:34:33 How did Blockstream become so politically powerful? 00:35:40 Reid Hoffman's $20 million 00:36:26 Reading the Epstein files with Bitcoin eyes 00:36:45 Tether won the global south instead 00:37:42 "The community is people who never built anything" 00:38:00 Why Elon Musk walked away from Bitcoin 00:39:07 The ESG excuse & the Bitcoin Mining Council 00:40:05 Elon on bandwidth, latency and second layers 00:41:03 Why Civic started on Bitcoin and left 00:42:05 Multicoin, the Solana seed round & founding Praxos 00:42:29 Why "Civic" and not "Supra" 00:42:46 Nobody wants identity: crypto's actual number one use case 00:44:03 Zcash's comeback, Ironwood & the auditable supply 00:45:34 Delistings and the headwinds facing privacy coins 00:46:06 Why Zcash chose DeFi rails over merchant adoption 00:47:07 How to know you're in a bear market 00:47:25 Elgamarov & how small this world really is 00:48:10 What does Vinny actually hold today? 00:49:27 Praxos: delta neutral, funding rates and volatility 00:51:44 Sponsors: Braiins, Cake Wallet, SideShift, LayerTwo Labs, Orange Rock 00:54:40 Wayne Vaughn's question: will the CLARITY Act pass? 00:56:47 Michael Saylor and the Strategy problem 00:57:14 The GBTC discount scenario 00:58:16 Why August could be a bloodbath 01:01:56 Node counts, sybil attacks and hash rate 01:03:16 The rewritten history of SegWit and SegWit2x 01:04:19 How Bitcoin Cash became the fallback plan 01:04:59 Gavin Andresen and the word "bamboozled" 01:06:00 Was Craig Wright involved at all? 01:08:04 Hal Finney's logs and the Van Nuy, California IP address 01:08:55 GMX, German privacy law and the missing paper trail 01:11:17 Roger Ver, the checksum test and Craig 01:13:00 Asking Claude who Satoshi is 01:14:17 The case for Nick Szabo and the trusted third parties 01:15:31 The counterfactual: what if Bitcoin had scaled? 01:19:35 Tron, USDT and five years of outperforming BTC 01:20:09 Bitcoiners understand supply, not demand 01:20:36 What happens when the block rewards run out 01:21:15 Rentable SHA256 and the state actor attack scenario 01:22:54 Will Vinny claim the August fork airdrops?

Accepting Bitcoin, HODL Bombing James Martin on TV and Agentic Payments. $ BTC 64,3321 Block Height 960,086 Today's guests are David Parkinson, Ben De Waal, and TV personality Merlin Griffiths who join me to discuss how UK based payments company, Muqet, is utilising AI and Bitcoin to help small businesses reduce costs and modernise operations. Key Topics: Merchant adoption of Bitcoin point-of-sale systems How AI agents are transforming commerce and payments Challenges facing small business owners in the UK The role of Bitcoin as a hedge against fiat currency volatility Operational efficiency through automated EPOS technology Real-world application of agentic commerce and UCP protocols A huge thank you to Musqet and Merlin! Follow Merlin: x - @MerlinFDC4 Insta - @MerlinFDC4 Merlin - https://www.merlingriffiths.com/ The Dog And Gun Pub - https://dogandgunwalton.com/#about_us Ben De Waal Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamindewaal/ X - @Ben_deWaal David Parkinson Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-parkinson-6764441a/ X - @Musqet_David Check out my book ‘Choose Life' - https://bit.ly/4gGYqRE Pleb Service Announcements: Join 20 thousand Bitcoiners on @cluborange https://signup.cluborange.org/co/princey CONFERENCES: BTC HEL - 25th - 26th September 2026. - Helsinki https://btchel.com/ Use code BITTEN for - 10% My First Bitcoin. https://myfirstbitcoin.org/ Shills and Mench's: BITBOX - SELF CUSTODY YOUR BITCOIN - www.bitbox.swiss/bitten Use Code BITTEN THE MEETUP BREAKDWON - BITCOIN EVENTS UK - https://www.themeetupbreakdown.com/ SWAN BITCOIN - www.swan.com/bitten HODL EYEWEAR - Avoid Blue light! https://hodleyewear.com/partner/3/ PLEBEIAN MARKET - BUY AND SELL STUFF FOR SATS; https://plebeian.market/ @PlebeianMarket SATSBACK - Shop online and earn back sats! https://satsback.com/register/5AxjyPRZV8PNJGlM ALL FURTHER LINKS HERE - FOR DISCOUNTS AND OFFERS - https://vida.page/princey - https://linktr.ee/princey21m

Mentor Sessions Ep. 085: Dr. Peter McCullough explains Fauci's diary, COVID-19 lab origins, mRNA vaccine safety, spike protein persistence, and the biopharma complex.600,000 Americans may have died from COVID vaccine complications — more than the virus itself, according to Dr. Peter McCullough — and Fauci just pleaded the Fifth on all of it. This conversation breaks down what the diary revealed, why the lab origin was buried, and where the mRNA platform goes next.Dr. Peter A. McCullough joins BTC Sessions to walk through Fauci's Senate Testimony, 1,100-page diary, the public-vs-private mask and lockdown contradictions, and the nearly million-dollar cash prize Fauci's staff engineered for him. You'll learn why McCullough believes SARS-CoV-2 is an engineered bioweapon, how his foundation found full-length spike protein and mRNA circulating three and a half years after injection, and what that means for the surge in 'turbo cancer.' You'll see the money trail through the biopharmaceutical complex — Gates, BioNTech, CEPI, Event 201, and the captured medical journals that refused to retract the fraudulent 'natural origins' paper. He also lays out the parallel research and wellness system he's building outside captured academia.⏱️ Timestamps:0:00 - Intro0:30 - Fauci Senate Testimony and Diary Release1:30 - 600,000 Vaccine Deaths Compared to COVID2:30 - Fauci's Private Knowledge on Masks and Fatality Rate4:00 - Fauci Staff Engineered Cash Prize Applications7:00 - Fauci's Personal Vaccine Blood Clot Injury8:00 - Ongoing Booster Push and Seventh Dose Campaign11:30 - Journals Suppressed Lab Leak Despite Private Admissions15:30 - Why Wet Market Origin Theory Persists16:00 - Bioweapons Treaty and SARS-CoV-2 Classification18:00 - Laboratory-Engineered Spike Protein Features19:30 - Spike Protein Detected 3.5 Years Post-Vaccination22:30 - Spike Detox Protocol and Treatment Options24:30 - Turbo Cancer Rise and Spike Protein Mechanism26:30 - mRNA Integration into Human Genome Evidence28:00 - Broader mRNA Vaccine Platform Safety Concerns29:30 - Hantavirus Scare and Moderna Vaccine Development31:00 - Anatomy of the Biopharmaceutical Complex34:30 - Gates Foundation Investment in BioNTech38:00 - Journal Advertising and Vaccine Ideology42:30 - Vatican Coin and 300-Year Vaccine Mythology45:00 - Fourth Turning and Parallel Health Systems48:00 - Vindication After Media Attacks on McCullough51:00 - McCullough Foundation Books and Wellness CompanyDr. McCullough references the McCullough Foundation (mcculloughfnd.org), his books 'The Courage to Face COVID-19' and 'Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology, and Reality,' a forthcoming book he says Bitcoiners will love, the Ultimate Spike Detox protocol, and The Wellness Company (twc.health).

Private equity has earned a reputation for loading companies with debt, cutting costs, and putting short-term returns ahead of the businesses themselves. But what if successful owners had another option? Nico Lechuga is a Bitcoin entrepreneur, a founding partner of Bitcoin venture capital firm Ego Death Capital, and co-founder of the newly launched holding company Orange Juice. He joins Coin Stories to explain a new model for acquiring profitable businesses, preserving what makes them valuable, and using their cash flow to build a Bitcoin treasury. In this episode: Why the private equity model can create destructive incentives for otherwise healthy businesses How Orange Juice hopes to offer owners an alternative when they are ready to step back or sell Why profitable "boring businesses" may be among the most overlooked assets in America How Bitcoin could become part of a long-term strategy for preserving and compounding business value What separates a real business opportunity from an idea that simply sounds exciting Follow Nico on X at https://x.com/nico_lechuga  ---- Order Natalie's new book "Bitcoin is For Everyone," a simple introduction to Bitcoin and what's broken in our current financial system: https://amzn.to/3WzFzfU  ---- Speed is my go-to Bitcoin Lightning wallet! Send, receive, or swap stablecoins and digital gold into Bitcoin in one app. Run a business? Speed powers Bitcoin payments for Steak 'n Shake, and it can do the same for you. Download at https://speed.app/natalie  and use code COINSTORIES10 for 5,000 free sats after your first transaction. ---- Ledn is the global leader in Bitcoin-backed loans, issuing over $10 billion in loans since 2018, and they were the first to offer proof of reserves. With Ledn, you get custody loans, no credit checks, no monthly payments, and more. Get .25% off your first loan, learn more at https://www.Ledn.io/natalie  ---- Abundant Mines is a fully-managed Bitcoin mining in the U.S. You own the miners. You keep 100% of the Bitcoin. Voted #1 mining company by peers. Get 1 month of free hosting: AbundantMines.com/Natalie ---- Natalie's Bitcoin Product Partners: Download Bitkey Today and use my promo code STORIES to get 10% off the new Bitkey. This episode has been sponsored by Bitkey: https://bitkey.world/STORIES Master your Bitcoin self-custody with 1-on-1 help and gain peace of mind with the help of The Bitcoin Way: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/natalie  With BitcoinIRA, you can invest in bitcoin 24/7 inside a tax-advantaged IRA. Choose a Traditional IRA to defer taxes, or a Roth IRA for tax-free withdrawals later. Take control of your future with BitcoinIRA: https://www.bitcoinira.com/natalie  Natalie's Upcoming Events: The best time to plan for Bitcoin 2027 is right now. Early bird tickets are live — grab the lowest pricing available and use code HODL for 10% off: https://tickets.b.tc/event/bitcoin-2027?promoCodeTask=apply&promoCodeInput=HODL  Extra Services to Consider: Protect yourself from SIM Swaps that can hack your accounts and steal your Bitcoin. Join America's most secure mobile service, trusted by CEOs, VIPs and top corporations: https://www.efani.com/natalie   Ditch your fiat health insurance like I did four years ago! Join me at CrowdHealth: www.joincrowdhealth.com/natalie ---- This podcast is for educational purposes and should not be construed as official investment advice. Ads in this episode are baked-in and may reference promotions or offers that are no longer available at the time of listening. ---- VALUE FOR VALUE — SUPPORT NATALIE'S SHOWS Strike ID https://strike.me/coinstoriesnat/ Cash App $CoinStories #money #Bitcoin #investing

Soap Miner joins to discuss building a Bitcoin only natural soap business and finding his first customers on Nostr. We get into teaching himself soapmaking, running a Lightning node with Alby Hub, why Bitcoiners are fiercely loyal customers, and refusing to accept dollars. Then we discuss Bitcoin as money, self custody, merchant adoption through Square, ETFs and treasury companies, Camp Nakamoto, BIP 110, personal responsibility, and why anyone with a useful skill can start earning Bitcoin.Soap Miner: https://soapminer.comSoap Miner on Nostr: https://primal.net/SoapMiner Soap Miner on X: https://x.com/soapminer1EPISODE: 210BLOCK: 959994PRICE: 1567 sats per dollarmore info on the show: https://citadeldispatch.comlearn more about me: https://odell.xyzmonitor the situation: https://citadelwire.comten31: https://ten31.xyzopensats: https://opensats.org

Should families in El Zonte, El Salvador who've never owned anything pay their mortgage in Bitcoin, or does charity work better when it's free? New Story bet on the mortgage, and 122 families are about to become homeowners because of it. Mike Peterson sits down with Renato Salazar (@HolaIAmRenato) to talk about the project turning some of the most expensive land in El Salvador into first-time property ownership for families who've been living in shacks and on land they don't own.Renato explains why charging a small mortgage beats giving homes away. Paying every month builds financial education, and once families hit a payment, they start thinking about a motorcycle or a small pupuseria next to the house. The nonprofit has built almost 1,000 homes in El Salvador, and the pattern repeats: homeownership turns new neighbors into a community with its own local economy, and owning land in El Zonte means these families can build generational wealth for the first time.The payment rails are where maxis will lean in. Families scan a QR code from their phone or a K1 Bitcoin ATM and pay using tools built by Salvadoran companies Tianki and Blink, with WhatsApp notifications and a dashboard that shows New Story who's falling behind so they can help. Many of these families are learning to use email for the first time, so the project is driving a digital transformation in a community that started with voice notes.Then the conversation turns to legacy banking in Bitcoin country. A banker told Renato that any company with Bitcoin in its name goes to the blacklist, credit card payments stack up to 12% in fees while the Bitcoin page cost cents to run, and you still can't pay payroll taxes in Bitcoin in the nation that made it legal tender. They close with Stay at Bitcoin Beach, the vacation rentals running on a Bitcoin standard anyway: Punta Mango Villas open seven months and orange-pilling curious guests, plus the new Bitcoin Beach Suites in El Zonte, walking distance from the beach and priced for Bitcoiners who'd rather stack sats than splurge.If this episode made you want to pay a mortgage by scanning a QR code, or at least book a surf trip, subscribe, share it with a friend, and drop a comment. Renato says the tienditas are asking to be paid in Bitcoin now, so the comment section should catch up.—Bitcoin Beach TeamLearn more about Renato Salazar:X: https://x.com/HolaIAmRenatoX: https://x.com/NewStoryHomesWeb: https://www.newstoryhomes.org/Support and follow Bitcoin Beach:X: https://www.twitter.com/BitcoinBeach IG: https://www.instagram.com/bitcoinbeach_sv TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livefrombitcoinbeach Web: https://www.bitcoinbeach.com STAY AT BITCOIN BEACH: https://www.stayatbitcoinbeach.com/punta-mango-villasBrowse through this quick guide to learn more about the episode:00:00 Intro00:57 How did Renato Salazar help launch Strike in El Salvador?03:55 Can you actually build affordable housing on a Bitcoin standard?06:12 How do families pay a mortgage over Lightning with a QR code?09:11 What does a Bitcoin mortgage dashboard look like in the real world?11:46 Does Bitcoin teach financial sovereignty better than charity handouts?13:30 Is Bitcoin adoption pricing locals out of El Zonte or protecting them?17:06 Who are the first families in the world paying mortgages in Bitcoin?21:16 Why does the legacy banking system blacklist Bitcoin businesses in Bitcoin country?27:49 Why pay 12% to credit card rails when Lightning costs cents?Live From Bitcoin Beach

Lyn Alden warns that BIP 110 is unlikely to curb spam and instead mostly rearranges non-monetary data, raising the risk of a minority fork attempt that could split the Bitcoin chain.Lyn Alden is a leading macro analyst and Bitcoiner who examines how fiscal dominance now overrides traditional monetary policy tools.She breaks down why high debt-to-GDP ratios prevent rate hikes from taming inflation, how broad money supply still expands 5-8 percent annually, the limits of semiconductor and AI valuations, and the structure of a new Bitcoin-backed permanent capital vehicle for acquiring cash-flowing businesses.Timestamps:02:14 — BIP 110 Won't Stop Spam04:56 — Bitcoin Faces August Chain Split Risk12:12 — Bitcoin in Bottom Decile of Cycle15:37 — Nothing Stops This Fiscal Train18:04 — Why Volcker Can't Work Today22:02 — Higher Rates Won't Break the System24:44 — Net Issuance Matters, Not Gross Refi27:34 — Fed Balance Sheet Stays Flattish32:56 — Broad Money Grows Despite Flat Fed36:05 — US Money Supply Growth Hits 5-8%38:51 — Fiscal Dominance: Who Wins the Money?41:50 — Why Semiconductors Print Money45:13 — Software Stocks: Value Trap or Opportunity?47:31 — AI Is the New Dot-Com Bubble52:00 — Orange Juice: Bitcoin-Backed Business Buyer57:57 — Permanent Capital Vehicle, Not a Fund59:39 — Founders Keep Equity Upside After SaleLinks:  X: https://x.com/LynAldenContactWebsite: https://www.lynalden.com/0BIP 110 debate ("motte-and-bailey" critique): https://x.com/LynAldenContact/status/2078599151043162159 Stephan Livera links:Follow me on X: @stephanliveraSubscribe to the podcastSubscribe to Substack

$ BTC 65,825 Block Height 956,106 Today's guest on the show is Luke deWolf who joins me to discuss his updated stance on BIP 110 and the evolving landscape of Bitcoin security and governance. Key Topics: BIP 110 activation and risk analysis The role of node runners versus miners in Bitcoin consensus Cybersecurity and self-custody principles Hash rental markets and decentralized mining Governance concerns and the influence of development teams The impact of arbitrary data ('spam') on the UTXO set Follow Luke: https://defendingbitcoin.com/#author NOSTR - npub1fk8h6g8zhftw8c7pga2zjd84p2z949up5lc3qdchm9v4m0q7mwws7jcwld X- @Lukedewolf Check out my book ‘Choose Life' - https://bit.ly/4gGYqRE Pleb Service Announcements: Join 20 thousand Bitcoiners on @cluborange https://signup.cluborange.org/co/princey CONFERENCES: BTC HEL - 25th - 26th September 2026. - Helsinki https://btchel.com/ Use code BITTEN for - 10% My First Bitcoin. https://myfirstbitcoin.org/ Shills and Mench's: BITBOX - SELF CUSTODY YOUR BITCOIN - www.bitbox.swiss/bitten Use Code BITTEN THE MEETUP BREAKDWON - BITCOIN EVENTS UK - https://www.themeetupbreakdown.com/ SWAN BITCOIN - www.swan.com/bitten HODL EYEWEAR - Avoid Blue light! https://hodleyewear.com/partner/3/ PLEBEIAN MARKET - BUY AND SELL STUFF FOR SATS; https://plebeian.market/ @PlebeianMarket SATSBACK - Shop online and earn back sats! https://satsback.com/register/5AxjyPRZV8PNJGlM ALL FURTHER LINKS HERE - FOR DISCOUNTS AND OFFERS - https://vida.page/princey - https://linktr.ee/princey21m