Bitcoin Well Podcast

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.

Speakers:

Q (@q_liketheletter) — Bitcoin Well, host

Ilya (@ilyaXindy) — CEO, Megawatthq

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

Tatum (@tatumturnup) — Terahash Tatum, Bitcoin mining

Reils (@BTCombs11) — Bitcoin Well OTC

Bitcoin News (@BitcoinNewsCom)

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

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

GMONEY (@GMONEYPEPE) — Bitcoin is Digital 1776

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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Bitcoin Well Explains: Explains: Hardware Wallet Setup, Transactions, and the Rules That Keep You Safe

Bitcoin Well Explains: Hardware Wallets

The theory is one thing. Actually doing it is something else entirely.

If you're a beginner, the thought of buying a hardware wallet, moving your Bitcoin off an exchange, and sending your first transaction probably gives you an anxiety attack. The first few times Zach sent Bitcoin, it scared him too. The fear is completely normal. It's also the main thing standing between you and genuine financial sovereignty.

This video takes the training wheels off.

In this episode of the Bitcoin Well 101 series, Zach delivers a practical step-by-step deep dive into actually using a hardware wallet — which devices to buy, how to set them up without getting scammed, how to send and receive your first Bitcoin transaction, and what to do when the moments that will make your stomach drop inevitably happen.

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Bitcoin Well Reads: Bitcoin: The Next Chapter of Humanity

Every time humanity has taken a major step forward, something fundamental changed beneath it. Not just a new invention — a new foundation. Agriculture changed how we lived. Electricity changed how we built. The internet changed how we communicate. Bitcoin belongs in that same category. Most people still see it as something financial. What's happening underneath is much deeper.

In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach reads "Bitcoin: The Next Chapter of Humanity" by Ulises Alfaro — a piece that steps back from price cycles, headlines, and market noise to ask a quieter and more important question: what does Bitcoin change at the base layer of human civilization?

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75% of all Bitcoin transactions never touch the blockchain. 33% of all Bitcoin is held at Coinbase. Only 12 to 15% of new Bitcoiners self-custody their coins.

Those numbers are depressing. This conversation is about why — and what to do about it.

In this Bitcoin Well Spaces, Konrad and Zach sit down with Roberto Rios (The Peruvian Bull), Niko from Simply Bitcoin, Kyle Huber (filmmaker, We Are Satoshi podcast), and Dr. Troy to dig into one of the most important unsolved problems in Bitcoin: why, despite everything we know about self-custody, the vast majority of Bitcoiners still leave their coins on exchanges.

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Bitcoin Well Reads: The Great Decoupling: From the Reformation of Heaven to the Reformation of Money

The most powerful institutions in history all share one trait — they make themselves indispensable.

The medieval Church taught that you needed a priest to reach God. The modern central bank teaches that you need a custodian to store value. Both monopolies look natural until somebody opens the door.

In this episode, we read Konrad Fitzpatrick's piece The Great Decoupling: From the Reformation of Heaven to the Reformation of Money. Konrad draws a clean line between two technical documents written five centuries apart — Martin Luther's 95 Theses and Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper — and lays out the structural rhyme between them. Both were calls to fire the middleman. Both were marketed through a new printing technology. Both produced an explosion of human sovereignty that the old institutions never recovered from.

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The yen has lost a third of its purchasing power in five years against the dollar. The Bank of Japan now owns half of its own bond market. And every other reserve currency appears to be on the same trajectory.

In this May 14th Bitcoin Well Spaces, Zach sits down with Roberto Rios (The Peruvian Bull) and macro analyst Robert of Infra for one of the most comprehensive macro conversations the show has run. Simon Dixon — Bitcoin OG and respected on-chain analyst — joins midway through for additional perspective.

Guests:

Roberto Rios (The Peruvian Bull) — macroeconomist, author of The Dollar Endgame

Robert of Infra — macro analyst, TradingView chart annotations

Simon Dixon — Bitcoin OG analyst

Host: Zach, Bitcoin Well

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Bitcoin Well Reads: Banks Vs Bitcoin - Why the Alternative Is Becoming the Obvious Choice

In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach reads an original article on the structural differences between Bitcoin and the banking system — not the surface level talking points, but the things that actually matter for your financial future.

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