In January 2026, US forces seized Nicolás Maduro and announced they'd run Venezuela through a transition. The stated prize was the oil. Nobody pretended otherwise. Zach reads his original piece pulling the thread from Nixon closing the gold window to the petrodollar handshake to Venezuela, Libya, Iran — and the uncomfortable possibility that the Strait of Hormuz closing was the planned outcome, not the disaster. Plus: what if the great power rivalry is, at the altitude where real money moves, less of a cage match and more of a script? And what you can actually do about it.

Documented facts first. Tinfoil hats firmly resting in cold hard truth.

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Michael Saylor built the biggest corporate bitcoin bet in history. Now the charts are red and the questions are getting louder. On this episode of the Bitcoin Well Podcast, we sit down with Chris Alaimo (Strategic Advisor at Simple Bitcoin) and Joe Consorti (Horizon) to dig into what's actually happening with Saylor's position, whether "forced seller" fears are real or overblown, and what it could mean for the rest of the market if they play out.

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Bitcoin Well Reads: Your House Is a Savings Account but It Just Stopped Paying.

Florida home prices are technically up 1.8%. Inflation ran 4.2%. That's a real loss most owners will never feel — and that's exactly the point. Zach reads his original piece on housing demonetization: the quiet, drift-based process by which the monetary premium stacked on top of shelter starts migrating away — not in a crash, but one flat year at a time. Henry Hazlitt, Ludwig von Mises, 170,000 Florida listings, and why Bitcoin was built for exactly the job your house was never designed to do.

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Bitcoin Well Reads: The KIDS Act Was Never About Kids. It's About Control.

On June 29th, 2026 the House passed the Kids Act — an omnibus bill sold as protecting children online. Almost nobody covered the part that actually matters: the slow construction of an internet where the price of admission is your government ID. Zach reads his original piece connecting the Kids Act to KYC, the UK Online Safety Act, Texas's ID for Content Law, the EU's cracked age verification app, and why this is ultimately the same fight as sound money. The permissioned internet and the permissioned bank account are branches of the same tree.

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He was quietly cashing in while everyone else got rugged. On episode 1 of the Bitcoin Well Podcast, we sit down with Tatum Turn Up — yes, the guy behind Between Two ASICs — to break down what's really going on with Trump, crypto rug pulls, and what it means for bitcoiners. We also get into the mining side of things, since that's Tatum's actual day job — expect real insider perspective on where that industry is headed.

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Kevin Warsh chaired his first FOMC meeting on June 17th, 2026. By the time it was over, every rate cut penciled in for 2026 was gone. Bitcoin fell from 66K to 62K. Gold — the safe haven — was also bleeding. And the headlines did what they always do: screamed volatility.

Zach reads his original piece connecting June 17th to Frederick Hayek's knowledge problem and the difference between money run by rules and money run by a person. The uncomfortable mirror: if you're anxious about who the next Fed chair will be, you've already admitted the problem.

Bitcoin Well Explains: The Dangers of Bitcoin Exchanges

"Can't I just leave it on the exchange?" Every Bitcoin beginner asks this. This video answers it directly and permanently. Mt. Gox lost 850,000 Bitcoin. FTX vaporized $8 billion overnight. Bybit lost $1.4 billion in a single hack last year — the largest theft in crypto history. Different decades, different countries, different excuses. Same outcome every time. The people who held their own keys were safe. Everyone else learned a painful lesson.

This video covers paper Bitcoin, rehypothecation, altcoin contagion, regulatory freezes, social engineering attacks, the withdrawal pause signal, and why Bitcoin Well's non-custodial model sidesteps every single one of them.

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Illinois quietly slipped a 20 basis point tax on all Bitcoin on-chain transactions into a bill overnight — no industry input, no debate, signed into law. Every Bitcoin transaction in the state: sending to yourself, to others, to an exchange, from an exchange. All taxed. Q hosts an emergency Spaces to break down what the law actually says, why it matters even if you're not in Illinois, and what the Bitcoin community's response should be.

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Q (@q_liketheletter) — Bitcoin Well, host

Ilya (@ilyaXindy) — CEO, Megawatthq

Jon Gordon (@thebitcoinyogi) — Co-founder, SOUND; Bitcoin and Nostr in healthcare

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Andrew Tilmann (@AndrewTilmann) — President, Bitcoin Scholarship Foundation

Tim Niemeyer (@tim_niemeyer_) — President, Illinois Bitcoin Council; Author, HistEchoBTC

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Midwest Bitcoin Summit (@MWBTCSummit) — Columbus, OH (Sept 23-24, 2026)

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Bitcoin just dropped $18,000 in 10 days. Strategy sold for the first time since 2022. The headlines are screaming capitulation. Zach reads two pieces back to back: Adam O'Brien's "What Gives Money Its Value" — a clear-eyed dismantling of the "Bitcoin isn't backed by anything" crowd (spoiler: neither is the dollar, and it's not gold either) — followed by a primer on dollar cost averaging, because weeks like this one are exactly why DCA exists. This one's for Uncle Mark.

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Bitcoin Well Reads: The Unbanked Already Know What the Rest of Us Are Starting to Figure Out

Texas just pulled its $10 million Bitcoin reserve out of BlackRock's iBit and moved it into direct custody. The second biggest economy in the US looked at a custodial ETF and said not good enough. They want the actual coins on their own infrastructure protected by their own keys.

First they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then they buy the ETF. Then they take self-custody.

Here's what gets Zach: Texas figured this out from a position of total financial privilege. Now imagine being one of 1.4 billion adults on earth right now with no bank account at all.

In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach reads his original article "The Unbanked Already Know What the Rest of Us Are Starting to Figure Out" — a piece about who the unbanked actually are, why the legacy system was never designed to serve them, and why Bitcoin is not a better version of the old system but a fundamentally different one.

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