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Sep 28, 2026 · 10:42
In this Take, I break down why the biggest AI labs, while deeply unprofitable sitting on massive future compute obligations, are racing toward trillion-dollar valuations. I…
Sep 23, 2026 · 1:26:09
***"The dollar is going to continue to lose purchasing power. Bitcoin is going to continue to gain purchasing power. It's going to keep on happening over the rest of the century.…
Sep 18, 2026 · 37:52
In this Take episode, I break down the “Great Hackening” ripping through Bitcoin right now – from Coldcard’s catastrophic entropy bug to Liquid’s recent 4,000 BTC exploit,…
Sep 10, 2026 · 19:27
In this third Coldcard Q&A, I tackle entropy, device trust, DIY signers, and why I’m leaning harder than ever on multi-sig. I walk through why understanding encryption must…
Sep 8, 2026 · 2:06:19
The roundtable is back, but we're missing a familiar face. Mechanic has officially stepped down from Ocean, so it’s just Jeff, Steve and I digging into the aftermath of BIP110,…
Sep 6, 2026 · 19:57
In this episode I continue unpacking the Coldcard RNG disaster, wrestling with whether it was malicious or just shockingly incompetent design and attitude. I walk through how…
Sep 3, 2026 · 22:10
In this Guy's Take, I walk through listener questions and comments on the Coldcard random number generation failure and what it really means for Bitcoin self-custody. We dig into…
Sep 1, 2026 · 2:16:03
***"In the early days, the average user could probably use a Coldcard and know the amount of entropy required. The average Bitcoin user today, no clue. And so the times have…
Aug 28, 2026 · 16:26
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,…
Aug 25, 2026 · 2:03:02
***"I think that self custody is not going to be dead. I think that there is going to have to be a group, a vanguard of people that do this and take it seriously. The revolution…
Aug 20, 2026 · 11:49
In this episode, I unpack the claim that BIP110’s failure proves corporate miners and suitcoiners now control Bitcoin. I walk through the real dynamics between miners and…
Aug 18, 2026 · 1:40:05
***"Today can you also use Coinbase to sell your coin? Yes. But can you guarantee that if Coinbase disappears, your funds will be with you? No. Because, it is, at the end of the…
Aug 12, 2026 · 1:23:45
***"It's going faster than most people thought. We thought that these models would be useful, but not extremely useful, for a while. Now you look at this and you feel [that] if…
Aug 4, 2026 · 1:55:53
In this episode, Steve, Jeff, and I walk through the catastrophic Coldcard entropy failure, how a trusted hardware wallet ended up generating weak keys, and how attackers are now…
Jul 31, 2026 · 29:25
This is an emergency episode to warn everyone of the catastrophic Coldcard entropy bug that’s letting attackers regenerate users’ keys and drain wallets without device access. I…
Jul 30, 2026 · 22:38
There is a massive miscommunication tearing Bitcoiners apart right now. Instead of arguing over specific code like BIP 110, I want to ask a much harder question in this solo…
Jul 28, 2026 · 48:30
"Your savings represent hours you worked, risks you accepted, businesses you built, time spent away from people you love, and consumption you postponed for the sake of the…
Jul 24, 2026 · 15:54
I walk through the global push for Central Bank Digital Currencies, why voluntary rollouts have mostly flopped, and what governments really gain from programmable, fully…
Jul 19, 2026 · 2:17:45
***"I'm almost 99% certain that [BIP] 110 will activate. And not only that, I think there will be a capitulation after October, where if the month of October passes and [BIP] 110…
Jul 16, 2026 · 15:22
What is the most important project in Bitcoin? It isn't BIP 110 or some shiny new payment protocol. We actually have a massive security vulnerability sitting at the base layer:…
Jul 10, 2026 · 1:55:49
***"I think I got kind of orange-pilled and privacy-pilled in this way when Snowden exposed all this surveillance that was happening by default through every system you've ever…
Jul 5, 2026 · 12:16
The extreme left often claims to follow logic and "the science". But I've noticed a glaring pattern that contradicts this. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. In this Take,…
Jul 2, 2026 · 1:59:05
The sentiment lately has been total garbage. We’re deep in a bear market, the red candles are stacking up, and people are getting nervous. So, I got the guys back around the…
Jun 29, 2026 · 41:30
"In this X post, I said I don't know the consequences of BIP-110. Plenty of people called that incompetent, cowardly, or both. Others praised it as humility. It's neither. It's…
Jun 29, 2026 · 1:36:53
"comma develops open source ADAS software. You can call it self-driving software, but currently what we ship is something where the user is supposed to pay attention all the…
Jun 27, 2026 · 11:03
Over 10.5 million Bitcoin are currently underwater. Everyone is panicking about a grueling bear market, but I see things differently. In today's Take, I explain why this recent…
Jun 24, 2026 · 13:52
Elon Musk is officially a trillionaire. Naturally, people are calling it yet another failure of capitalism, and I'm calling BS. I compared his wealth to Andrew Carnegie’s…
Jun 22, 2026 · 1:29:04
***"We're entering the Bitcoin golden era with all the new technologies we're discovering because for the first decade Bitcoin was still very, at least for the first five, six…
Jun 18, 2026 · 9:29
I break down the Treasury’s claim that it seized $1B of Iran’s "crypto" and explain why this was actually Tether, not Bitcoin – and why that distinction matters. I digs into how…
Jun 14, 2026 · 1:59:24
**"Keeping Bitcoin running is the primary concern here. Making sure that Bitcoin is available to be used as money by everyday people, any actor who wants to come onto Bitcoin and…
Jun 9, 2026 · 1:55:05
The whole crew is back for another roundtable, and things get wild right out of the gate. I sat down with Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff to talk through the absolute mess that is the…
Jun 2, 2026 · 1:06:23
"Bitcoin is being embraced by the U.S. and the U.S. financial system and it is it being embraced by Iran and the Iranian regime at the exact same time and both of them know that…
May 31, 2026 · 44:20
"Generation X and the millennials both tried to do everything right, according to what the boomers told them was the path forward: save money, study hard, get a ‘job’. At every…
May 27, 2026 · 55:48
"The peso scam is around a thousand times larger than the Libra scam, and its victims are the poorest, about 95% of Argentines. " ~ Saifedean Ammous Javier Milei swore he'd burn…
May 21, 2026 · 1:54:03
***"Our little home controller, building controller, it knows our electric rate, it knows the way that electric rate changes based on the time of day. It knows the PV flux, the…
May 14, 2026 · 2:14:24
"If you think of River or Gemini or Coinbase or whatever, think of all of those as silos and how people custody Bitcoin. If some sort of compromise were to come into the Bitcoin…
May 13, 2026 · 41:08
"It's often discussed that arbitrarily lowering interest rates and the zero interest rate policy era leads to massive recklessness and unethical and irresponsible behavior. But…
May 10, 2026 · 35:46
"If your money isn't sound, it is not reflecting any proof of work. It is not reflecting anything about who should be able to consume, or how much there is available to consume.…
May 8, 2026 · 25:47
"It is not markets that made money possible. It is collectibles, which we now call money, that make markets possible." ~ Nick Szabo What if everything we've been told about how…
May 6, 2026 · 2:26:30
In this roundtable, we sit down with Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff, and honestly, we struggle to stay on Bitcoin for half of it. Our catch-up quickly turns into a rant about LLMs…
May 3, 2026 · 41:38
"They say the ruler is bent, then use the bent ruler to measure the table. They say the clock is broken, then solemnly read out the hour. They say the instrument is false, then…
May 1, 2026 · 47:06
"When you really dig into the heart of how finance, how our monetary system and how our political system work, and how deeply married they are, you begin to see something that's…
Apr 27, 2026 · 1:03:52
"The whole point of libertarianism is that we should recognise that we don't know how to plan the world. We don't know what the solution is going to be. You can't have a central…
Apr 23, 2026 · 46:10
"The idea that some authority can deduce the correct level of this balance is not merely wrong, it is not even wrong, it is methodologically incoherent. Asking for the 'correct'…
Apr 21, 2026 · 1:03:08
"The fiat economist universally chooses to set the printing press to brrrrrrrrrr. While the enlightened elite watch their stock portfolios moon and their debts disappear, the…
Apr 19, 2026 · 39:04
**_“what matters now is not belief, but endurance. __bitcoin does not promise comfort. it does not promise justice. it does not promise to save anyone. it offers one thing only:…
Apr 16, 2026 · 2:00:45
"I think there will come a point where you get excessive, you swing too far on the individual side of the spectrum, and then it becomes advantageous to group together again, and…
Apr 15, 2026 · 47:48
“This piece is my attempt to finally map the terrain I'd been circling for years: Bitcoin's hardness, its fragility, its human governance, and its uneasy relationship with a…
Apr 9, 2026 · 2:53:02
"We are trying to make it possible for people to use computers as simple of a statement as this: use computers, without intermediaries and custodians. The more they do, the more…
Apr 6, 2026 · 40:04
"Residents withdrew over 1.6 trillion rubles, or $19.7 billion in January, desperately turning to cash amid increased state controls." As governments push CBDCs to clamp down on…
Apr 2, 2026 · 2:21:01
This week, the whole crew is back for another Roundtable. I sat down with Mechanic, Steve, and Jeff to talk about the painful reality of Bitcoin mining today, the chaos of global…
Mar 31, 2026 · 31:18
“The seed phrase has been a barrier to self-custody since day one. It’s what scares normies away from keeping their own bitcoin, and it’s a legitimate reason why people accept…
Mar 26, 2026 · 53:42
"Yes, AI is a big deal, but the conclusion that AI is going to kill the vertical and functional software business model simply makes no sense. The truth is that AI simply isn't…
Mar 26, 2026 · 29:47
Did Jeffrey Epstein secretly hijack Bitcoin during the block size war? Was is all a covert operation by Jeffrey Epstein and shadowy government actors to permanently handicap…
Mar 19, 2026 · 26:11
"When it comes to building in the approach, you have to be taking the approach as utilising the fundamental principles that we see in Bitcoin itself. So having a standard rule…
Mar 12, 2026 · 36:01
"If people are not ready for Bitcoin, just go use USDT as long as you can before dollar hyperinflation. It's like Noah's Ark: it's going to rain, we build the ark. We don't have…
Mar 5, 2026 · 2:16:41
I'm joined by Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff for yet another Roundtable episode, and honestly, the digital world is getting weirder by the minute. Are we even talking to real people…
Mar 4, 2026 · 1:01:20
"The cypherpunk principle that 'cypherpunks write code' takes on revolutionary meaning when writing code no longer requires programming knowledge. Eric Hughes meant that…
Feb 26, 2026 · 53:33
The biggest mistake Bitcoin and sovereignty-focused developers keep making is trying to sell people on why they care instead of building something people actually want to use.…
Feb 24, 2026 · 46:14
"The people who figure that out first won't just ship faster - they'll build things that others can't even spec, because the spec emerges last from a process that only exists in…
Feb 19, 2026 · 2:14:36
"That's the main reason I like doing this Bitcoin stuff so much, because it's connected to the real world. It's proof of work. Like, I can't sit on my computer and come up with a…
Feb 18, 2026 · 1:06:18
"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, 'The world order as it has stood for decades no longer exists', and that we are in a period of 'great power politics.'" "He made clear…
Feb 12, 2026 · 2:15:47
The Roundtable is back, and we are kicking off 2026 with some stories that I definitely didn't have on my bingo card. After catching up on Jeff's frostbite scare and Steve…
Feb 10, 2026 · 36:38
"Bitcoin is a lifeline. It is a money that cannot be shut down. Native money for the internet. But what happens when the internet gets shut off?" Iran's currency collapses 98%,…
Feb 7, 2026 · 34:29
"You can’t open your own private mint moving that kind of liquidity and hope to stay under the regulatory radar." ~ Roy Sheinfeld Stablecoins are booming, but are they building…
Feb 6, 2026 · 2:55:21
"It's a dangerous business to help people out of slavery. But so what? We have to do this. This is a moral obligation, an ethical obligation, as a technical possibility, and a…
Jan 28, 2026 · 1:11:15
"PearDrive is like, how could you make stuff seamless across devices and how can you leverage that device that has a lot of storage to get the most out of the device that has a…
Jan 27, 2026 · 1:02:36
"Imagine the Stanford marshmallow experiment in reverse. Instead of getting a second marshmallow for waiting, the children are told that every fifteen minutes they wait, the…
Jan 22, 2026 · 1:55:47
"Of course, central banking, fiat money is bad, but nevertheless, maybe AI and robotics and this productivity is going to be really beneficial to the global economy, not just the…
Jan 22, 2026 · 1:19:11
"The end of mankind wouldn't even be biological in such an instance. It would be neurological." ~ Copernican What if AI's biggest flaw - training on its own recycled data - isn't…
Jan 18, 2026 · 1:04:56
"To describe what’s coming as “impossibly borked” is charitable. This is going to be an unholy mess of indiscernible media, messaging, photography, and fakery. … “reality fade”…
Jan 16, 2026 · 43:57
"If you are not paying for it, you are the product. And if it is a political system, the product that they are buying is control over you." What if a "free" digital currency from…
Jan 15, 2026 · 2:31:29
"Bitcoin needs to be exciting because it provides a utility that no other technology provides. The value transfer technology needs to be embedded in every application in the…
Jan 8, 2026 · 2:30:11
"My problem with the core side has been what we talked about with the people that are technical and don't have the empathy or understand what it was like before you were…
Jan 7, 2026 · 1:33:10
"Today's the day." ~ Mel Fisher Why does a reinsurance company's annual letter get me this fired up? Ross Stevens weaves together treasure hunting, Bayesian statistics, and the…
Jan 2, 2026 · 2:20:46
In this episode, I’m joined by Simple Steve, Bitcoin Mechanic, and Jeff Swann for a year-end roundtable that starts with the Samourai Wallet case, spirals into quantum fears, and…
Dec 31, 2025 · 47:58
What if prosecuting innovative Bitcoin developers like Rodriguez and Burroughs signals the death of American entrepreneurship? In this episode, I read Beautyon's "American…
Dec 28, 2025 · 1:30:48
“You don’t want money that is not a good store of value. We’re in a very specific point in human history where that exists, but that’s not the default, right? We have to remember…
Dec 25, 2025 · 2:44:06
Merry Christmas! Working with the amazing crew at Braiins, we are happy to share the full audiobook of Bitcoin: The Ultimate Collateral free for all. You can find the ebook as…
Dec 22, 2025 · 52:21
"We have entered a space where we literally own nothing." ~ Guy What happens when 25 years of digital identity vanishes overnight because of a $500 gift card? This jaw-dropping…
Dec 19, 2025 · 1:48:48
"The images are hacks in the first place, and it's not like Bitcoin had like a 'please put your NFT here' sign, so hackers found weird ways to do it. And if you stop them from…
Dec 16, 2025 · 41:45
"The broad point is that only the strong survive was correct. We are entering the endgame of crypto having any reason to exist. My thesis as to why it exists at all is a…
Dec 12, 2025 · 2:11:06
"We cannot master any one particular modality in the way that a company can master that on their own when it's the only thing they do. Basically what we can do at PPQ, is we can…
Dec 10, 2025 · 43:21
“If you think they'll have restraint, I think you're making a grave error.” Can your wallet, your node, or even your hardware become “unlicensed financial activity” overnight? I…
Dec 7, 2025 · 43:52
"What role do intermediaries—such as merchants, distributors, and traders—play in the market? Far from being mere profiteers, these intermediaries play an essential role in the…
Dec 4, 2025 · 2:36:42
What if the future of Bitcoin is decided in the mempool? I sit down with Simple Steve, Bitcoin Mechanic and Jeff Swann for a chaotic, curious roundtable. We riff on conspiracies…
Dec 3, 2025 · 56:34
"Bitcoin will fail. Because it is a lie… Because it claims truths that cannot be. That trust is defect. That property is virtue. That law, shared meaning should not supervene… I…
Dec 2, 2025 · 6:21
In this 2Sats refresh, I revisit one of my most-shared videos - What Does $6 Trillion Mean? It’s a quick but powerful look at what happens when we normalize creating money out of…
Nov 28, 2025 · 2:10:25
"If you can get a court to say you're Satoshi, and you are of this mindset, you can then go ahead and you can sue Bitcoin developers, Bitcoin exchanges, whatever, to say, "look,…
Nov 25, 2025 · 23:48
"The best, simplest, ultimate form of collateral is something that can instantly be claimed and sold at any time when the debtor fails to make their payments. A house can take…
Nov 23, 2025 · 59:30
" This analysis has demonstrated through 30 universal laws, empirically validated across 16 years and $1.83 trillion in market capitalization, that Bitcoin represents a genuine…
Nov 21, 2025 · 2:18:22
"I think that all of the people that I know that are working on Bitcoin Core and other Bitcoin projects are only interested in the monetary use case. But I think that many of…
Nov 19, 2025 · 52:18
I dive into Adam Mastroianni’s piece “Thank You for Being Annoying” and use it as a launchpad to rant about work, love, and why being constantly irritated might be a feature, not…
Nov 15, 2025 · 37:28
Why is the "world's most valuable money" stagnating while everything falls apart around it? With 401k hardship withdrawals at record highs and mortgage delinquencies surpassing…
Nov 13, 2025 · 7:17
Have you ever wished you could pause time - just stop the clock long enough to catch up on all the things you’ve been meaning to do? In this 2SATS, I explore the illusion of…
Nov 12, 2025 · 1:47:41
"Bitcoiners have a spirit. I think the spirit is an ancient spirit. It goes back to the American Revolution. It goes back to the Magna Carta. It goes back to ancient Greece. It…
Nov 11, 2025 · 43:00
Is ARK the missing piece that lets Bitcoin scale without sacrificing sovereignty? Or is it just a confusing mess that you can't make sense of? Hopefully this episode helps as I…
Nov 8, 2025 · 57:30
I dive into the Human Rights Foundation’s look at Bitcoin’s quantum vulnerability - what’s real, what’s hype, and what would it take to truly secure the network. Then I unpack…
Nov 5, 2025 · 2:05:52
Grab your drink and pull up a chair - it’s another Bitcoin Roundtable with Simple Steve, Bitcoin Mechanic, and my brother Jeff Swann. This time we’re diving into the chaos around…
Nov 4, 2025 · 1:03:52
"They’re passing the torch. And the torch is being received by entities who care less about ideology and more about returns. BlackRock doesn’t care about “being your own bank.”…
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