Simon Dixon Hard Talk

PART TWO: Exiting the Battle for Bitcoin Is Not an Option | Simon Dixon x BTC Sessions

Following Part One, we transition into a 33-minute update from me, followed by a 45-minute pre-recorded interview with Nathan from BTC Sessions.

In this part, we perform a vital postmortem on the recent Bitcoin civil war and the failed BIP-110 soft fork, which mined only two blocks and fell more than 700 blocks behind the legacy chain after 99.85% of Bitcoin's hashpower stayed with the legacy chain. I will walk you through the key lessons of policy versus consensus, and why I believe exiting this battle is simply not an option if we want to defend our digital citadel. I’ll also share how I’ll handle the hard fork and what you need to know.

Why you should watch: Wall Street and centralised entities are actively trying to capture Bitcoin through custody and financialization. We will address the recent security attacks on self-custody—including the $100M+ Cold Card entropy exploit, Trezor’s shipping provider data breach, and Tether's historic audit—to show you how we must respond to protect our sovereignty.

Watch Part One: Everyone's Sleepwalking Through the Biggest Event of Our Lives | Simon Dixon & Doomberg https://youtu.be/XpADSidNna4 Watch Full Episode which includes part 1 and 2: WORLD WAR III vs. BITCOIN’S CIVIL WAR: How Wars Are Really Won | Simon Dixon Hard Talk LIVE 🔗https://youtube.com/live/lPhtNYSZwpk

Hey hey sovereign wealth builders,

This is a single, continuous broadcast that connects the physical macro battlegrounds of our global transition with the technological wars of the Bitcoin network. In today's livestream, you can expect a breakdown of the quiet de-dollarisation and sovereign debt doom loop, followed by two critical deep-dive interviews I recently recorded with Doomberg and Nathan from BTC Sessions.

In my view, we are entering a phase of fiscal dominance where traditional sovereign debt is buckling under interest expenses, while our digital citadel is facing unprecedented centralisation pressure from both Wall Street and security exploits. Today's show is divided into two highly connected segments, each featuring an in-depth update from me followed by a pre-recorded interview.

I highly recommend watching both parts in sequence to understand how these macro and micro forces converge.

PART ONE: Everyone's Sleepwalking Through the Biggest Event of Our Lives | Simon Dixon & Doomberg

This first segment begins with a 30-minute macro and geopolitical live update from me, followed by a 1-hour and 50-minute pre-recorded discussion with Doomberg, hosted by BTC Sessions. In this debate, we examine the reality of the "forever wars," why the US is transitioning into a regional power, and how China's growing energy independence is eroding US maritime leverage.

We also clash on the real power of BlackRock, market efficiency, and why global savers are quietly abandoning US debt for gold. Why you should watch: In my view, the mainstream media acts as a mouthpiece for the financial industrial complex, keeping you distracted.

This segment exposes the structural shifts in the global reserve system that most are sleepwalking right through.

Make sure to watch Part Two: Exiting the Battle for Bitcoin Is Not an Option | Simon Dixon x BTC Sessions

Following Part One, we transition into a 33-minute update from me, followed by a 45-minute pre-recorded interview with Nathan from BTC Sessions. In this part, we perform a vital postmortem on the recent Bitcoin civil war and the failed BIP-110 soft fork, which mined only two blocks and fell more than 700 blocks behind the legacy chain after 99.85% of Bitcoin's hashpower stayed with the legacy chain. I will walk you through the key lessons of policy versus consensus, and why I believe exiting this battle is simply not an option if we want to defend our digital citadel.

I’ll also share how I’ll handle the hard fork and what you need to know. Why you should watch: Wall Street and centralised entities are actively trying to capture Bitcoin through custody and financialization. We will address the recent security attacks on self-custody—including the $100M+ Cold Card entropy exploit, Trezor’s shipping provider data breach, and Tether's historic audit—to show you how we must respond to protect our sovereignty.

Watch the full episode which includes part 1 and 2: WORLD WAR III vs. BITCOIN’S CIVIL WAR: How Wars Are Really Won | Simon Dixon Hard Talk LIVE 🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPhtNYSZwpk

This is a single, continuous broadcast that connects the physical macro battlegrounds of our global transition with the technological wars of the Bitcoin network.

In today's livestream, you can expect a breakdown of the quiet de-dollarisation and sovereign debt doom loop, followed by two critical deep-dive interviews I recently recorded with Doomberg and Nathan from BTC Sessions. In my view, we are entering a phase of fiscal dominance where traditional sovereign debt is buckling under interest expenses, while our digital citadel is facing unprecedented centralisation pressure from both Wall Street and security exploits.

Today's show is divided into two highly connected segments, each featuring an in-depth update from me followed by a pre-recorded interview. I highly recommend watching both parts in sequence to understand how these macro and micro forces converge.

The Two Segments of Today's Show

PART ONE: Everyone's Sleepwalking Through the Biggest Event of Our Lives | Simon Dixon & Doomberg

This first segment begins with a 30-minute macro and geopolitical live update from me, followed by a 1-hour and 50-minute pre-recorded discussion with Doomberg, hosted by BTC Sessions. In this debate, we examine the reality of the "forever wars," why the US is transitioning into a regional power, and how China's growing energy independence is eroding US maritime leverage. We also clash on the real power of BlackRock, market efficiency, and why global savers are quietly abandoning US debt for gold. Why you should watch: In my view, the mainstream media acts as a mouthpiece for the financial industrial complex, keeping you distracted. This segment exposes the structural shifts in the global reserve system that most are sleepwalking right through.

PART TWO: Exiting the Battle for Bitcoin Is Not an Option | Simon Dixon x BTC Sessions

Following Part One, we transition into a 33-minute update from me, followed by a 45-minute pre-recorded interview with Nathan from BTC Sessions. In this part, we perform a vital postmortem on the recent Bitcoin civil war and the failed BIP-110 soft fork, which mined only two blocks and fell more than 700 blocks behind the legacy chain after 99.85% of Bitcoin's hashpower stayed with the legacy chain.

I will walk you through the key lessons of policy versus consensus, and why I believe exiting this battle is simply not an option if we want to defend our digital citadel.

I’ll also share how I’ll handle the hard fork and what you need to know. Why you should watch: Wall Street and centralised entities are actively trying to capture Bitcoin through custody and financialization.

We will address the recent security attacks on self-custody—including the $100M+ Cold Card entropy exploit, Trezor’s shipping provider data breach, and Tether's historic audit—to show you how we must respond to protect our sovereignty.

Timestamp:

0:00 Intro
1:29 Update by Simon Dixon
30:33 Part 1 Everyone's Sleepwalking Through the Biggest Event of Our Lives Simon Dixon and Doomberg
2:20:02 Simon Dixon opening remarks before part 2
2:52:53 Part 2 Exiting the Battle for Bitcoin Is Not an Option

In this comprehensive interview recorded on 13 August 2026, host Michael Howe (The Bitcoin Guide) sits down with investor, author, and financial analyst Simon Dixon on the Bitcoin Majlis YouTube channel for a 2-hour and 13-minute deep dive into the intersection of Islamic finance principles, global monetary architecture, and Bitcoin’s role as a tool for financial sovereignty.

Drawing from his 26-year journey in traditional finance and investment banking, Simon Dixon breaks down how the current fiat monetary system is structurally dependent on riba (interest) and debt creation. He explains how this debt-based paradigm drives wealth extraction, centralisation, and global conflicts, contrasting secular economic theory—such as Adam Smith’s "Invisible Hand"—with the moral accountability and ethical trade traditions of the "Open Hand" found in Islamic economics.

Throughout the discussion, Dixon frames Bitcoin as a technological realization of sound money principles that aligned with the Golden Age of Islam. However, he issues a stark warning regarding ongoing efforts by the Financial Industrial Complex (FIC) and Technical Industrial Complex (TIC) to co-opt Bitcoin through centralized custodians, ETFs, and paper derivatives.

The key message of the interview emphasizes the necessity of a "Digital Hijra" and strict self-custody ("holding your own keys") as an essential act of digital resistance and sovereignty.

Simon Dixon will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming Muslim Bitcoin Summit in London on 10 October 2026.

To find out more and register, visit: https://mslmbtcsummit.com/

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"Immediately following the live show, we are broadcasting my recent 44-minute interview with Anthony Fatseas on WTFinance, recorded on 13 August 2026. This discussion took place just one week before this week's global bond market blowout, demonstrating our long-term thesis playing out in real time.

In this segment, we go deep into how the decline of the US world reserve system historically mirrors the structural collapses of the Dutch and British empires. I believe the Strait of Hormuz will be to the American Empire what the Suez Canal was to the British Empire—a defining point of geopolitical reset. We will also expose the reality of the digital control grid, explore the 'real war' of centralization versus decentralization, and discuss the launch of my new book, The Game of Money."

In this second highly-anticipated interview on the WTFinance podcast, host Anthony Fatseas sits down with Simon Dixon—Investor, Financial & Geopolitical Analyst, Author, Entrepreneur, and Bitcoin OG—for an in-depth conversation on the accelerating cracks in the global financial system. Following wild yield breakouts in the bond market, Simon explains how central banks are choosing to "run the economy hot" and strategically sacrifice the US dollar's status as the global reserve currency to inflate assets and roll over unsustainable sovereign debt.

From shifting power dynamics in the Middle East and China's role as the central broker in West Asia, to the rise of programmable money, CBDCs, and an AI-driven "control grid," this episode maps out the sobering realities of the multipolar reset. Most importantly, Simon shares his personal playbook for maintaining individual sovereignty, building local resilience, and escaping centralization through physical gold, self-custodied Bitcoin, and localized food and community networks.

"The strategy is sacrifice the dollar as world reserve currency, or you allow for a depression which breaks everything." "The real battle is between centralization and decentralization. That's the battle." ["They want you to believe there is no hope... you need to increase your time frame because that's how you escape." 

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Hey hey sovereign wealth builders,

In my view, we are entering the next stage of an internal Bitcoin "civil war" between corporate centralising forces and sovereign node operators. As of today, miner signaling for BIP 110 sits at just 2.6%, but tomorrow we must reach a 55% threshold to ensure an uninterrupted, peaceful activation path. If we remain below this threshold, the miners will have rejected the rules of the nodes, and we could enter a contentious split scenario where exchanges pause trading, transaction confirmations are delayed, and Lightning Network channels face disruption.

Alongside this protocol battle, we are tracking the major hardware wallet exploit unique to Cold Card. If you hold funds on a Cold Card wallet, you need to move your funds immediately to a secure environment, as the wallet drains are actively continuing. 

In my view, the timing of this exploit—just days before this critical node-signaling weekend—is highly suspicious and may be a coordinated campaign designed to discourage self-custody and drive users back into Wall Street's institutional custody vaults.

This critical protocol struggle is happening against the backdrop of a massive macro transition where traditional financial plumbing is buckling under its own debt. The 10-year US Treasury has pushed deeper into the danger zone at 4.67%, while the 30-year bond has reached 5.24%. 

In my view, we are entering a phase of fiscal dominance where the cost of refinancing sovereign debt is ballooning out of control, squeezing citizens while stock markets are propped up near all-time highs by managed liquidity flows. We are watching a highly coordinated, managed transition of the global monetary order.

In today’s livestream, we will break down exactly how these macro developments intersect with your personal financial sovereignty.

This week, the Bank of Japan’s move toward increasing interest rates sent shockwaves through the global financial architecture, putting severe stress on the historic Japan carry trade. For decades, cheap yen has provided critical liquidity to prop up Western equity markets. In what I believe is a highly unusual maneuver to protect the US Treasury market, authorities reportedly intervened by selling Euros to buy Yen—avoiding direct dollar weakness while putting selling pressure on European bondholders. At the same time, the petrodollar continues its quiet unwind, marked by Saudi Arabia’s new 43-country maritime defense coalition and Iran’s draft proposals to settle oil in Yuan or Bitcoin.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin's custody battle is intensifying. Following the Cold Card exploit, I believe there is an active, coordinated push by the Financial Industrial Complex (FIC) to discourage self-custody and drive users into Wall Street’s institutional vaults. We see the largest corporate Bitcoin holders speaking out against BIP 110, asking node operators to stand down. They want you to put your Bitcoin in a public company so they can issue you a security, and then BlackRock wants to tokenize it so you will "own nothing and be happy".

In today’s livestream, we will break down the game theory behind tomorrow’s BIP 110 threshold, what a potential chain split means for your assets, and why running your own node remains our ultimate tool of resistance against corporate capture.

WATCH PART ONE ON YOUTUBE

READ THE BLOG: BIP-110 Lost. Bitcoin Worked. Here Is What I Learned.

Hey hey sovereign wealth builders,

In my view, we are entering the next stage of an internal Bitcoin "civil war" between corporate centralising forces and sovereign node operators. As of today, miner signaling for BIP 110 sits at just 2.6%, but tomorrow we must reach a 55% threshold to ensure an uninterrupted, peaceful activation path. If we remain below this threshold, the miners will have rejected the rules of the nodes, and we could enter a contentious split scenario where exchanges pause trading, transaction confirmations are delayed, and Lightning Network channels face disruption.

Alongside this protocol battle, we are tracking the major hardware wallet exploit unique to Cold Card. If you hold funds on a Cold Card wallet, you need to move your funds immediately to a secure environment, as the wallet drains are actively continuing. 

In my view, the timing of this exploit—just days before this critical node-signaling weekend—is highly suspicious and may be a coordinated campaign designed to discourage self-custody and drive users back into Wall Street's institutional custody vaults.

This critical protocol struggle is happening against the backdrop of a massive macro transition where traditional financial plumbing is buckling under its own debt. The 10-year US Treasury has pushed deeper into the danger zone at 4.67%, while the 30-year bond has reached 5.24%. 

In my view, we are entering a phase of fiscal dominance where the cost of refinancing sovereign debt is ballooning out of control, squeezing citizens while stock markets are propped up near all-time highs by managed liquidity flows. We are watching a highly coordinated, managed transition of the global monetary order.

In today’s livestream, we will break down exactly how these macro developments intersect with your personal financial sovereignty.

This week, the Bank of Japan’s move toward increasing interest rates sent shockwaves through the global financial architecture, putting severe stress on the historic Japan carry trade. For decades, cheap yen has provided critical liquidity to prop up Western equity markets. In what I believe is a highly unusual maneuver to protect the US Treasury market, authorities reportedly intervened by selling Euros to buy Yen—avoiding direct dollar weakness while putting selling pressure on European bondholders. At the same time, the petrodollar continues its quiet unwind, marked by Saudi Arabia’s new 43-country maritime defense coalition and Iran’s draft proposals to settle oil in Yuan or Bitcoin.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin's custody battle is intensifying. Following the Cold Card exploit, I believe there is an active, coordinated push by the Financial Industrial Complex (FIC) to discourage self-custody and drive users into Wall Street’s institutional vaults. We see the largest corporate Bitcoin holders speaking out against BIP 110, asking node operators to stand down. They want you to put your Bitcoin in a public company so they can issue you a security, and then BlackRock wants to tokenize it so you will "own nothing and be happy".

In today’s livestream, we will break down the game theory behind tomorrow’s BIP 110 threshold, what a potential chain split means for your assets, and why running your own node remains our ultimate tool of resistance against corporate capture.

[CLICK HERE TO WATCH PART ONE ON YOUTUBE]

Immediately following the live broadcast of Part One, we are transitioning to a deeply strategic pre-recorded interview with Daniel Estulin. In this discussion, we move completely beyond the daily political drama and examine the raw, underlying structures of global power. In my view, modern democracies have largely become a facade, with selected politicians operating as "paid-for-rent prostitutes" for financial, technical, big pharma, and military power—creating a narrative to make you think they work for the people.

We will explore how the post-World War II European model is being systematically restructured rather than simply failing, hollowing out sovereign wealth to feed the US stock market. We also delve into the Tech Industrial Complex's push to build a global technocratic control grid—using AI, digital IDs, and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) to manage the population while capital is concentrated at the very top.

Important: This interview is a separate premiere scheduled on my YouTube channel. Once the live broadcast of Part One concludes, the stream will not automatically transition. You must click the link below to jump over to the premiere and join us for Part Two.

[CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE]

Weekly Updates:

Part One is the live broadcast, and Part Two is the Daniel Estulin interview premiere immediately following. I highly encourage you to watch both back-to-back to get the full macro-to-micro picture of how this transition is being managed.

[CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE FULL EPISODE ON YOUTUBE]

Measure your wealth in Bitcoin, stay sovereign, and I will see you on the livestream.

Peace.

Simon Dixon

Hey hey sovereign wealth builders, Simon Dixon here.

I am premiering a deeply personal and intensive interview I recently did for The Enlightenment Podcast, hosted by Shamim Sarif and Hanan Kattan, author of Palestine Revealed.

In this interview, I open up about my 26-year journey—from my father’s loss of his life savings in the dot-com crash, to my battle to build a non-fractional bank outside the Bank of England cartel and how the Palestinian laboratory is the technology being tested to use back home in the West.

We go deep for over 2 hours, covering the hidden structures of our world and how we can reclaim our sovereignty.

In my view, the world is ruled not by a single country, but by a systemic web of incentives controlled by three interlocking complexes—the Financial Industrial Complex (FIC), Military Industrial Complex (MIC), and Technical Industrial Complex (TIC)—which privatise profits and socialise losses, turning war, debt, and inflation into a massive wealth transfer mechanism.

My analysis of how military and surveillance technologies are beta-tested under occupation before allegedly being imported to the West to build a global control grid.

Why I believe the Western empire is in an asset-stripping phase, and how the rising power of China and Gulf sovereign wealth funds will reshape the global order and the eventual rebuild of Palestine.

Why I believe voting won't save us, and why our real power lies in "choking the system" through how we spend, save, and invest, alongside digital resistance using decentralized tech, Bitcoin, and open-source AI.

Let’s guard our minds and build our freedom together.

To your financial freedom,

Simon Dixon

Hey hey sovereign wealth builders,

This week delivered a convergence of many structural shifts, alongside some urgent breaking news in the Bitcoin self-custody space. The Fed held rates while delivering a hawkish tone, which sent Treasury yields surging and triggered a severe AI stock sell-off, liquidating an over-leveraged $25 billion AI infrastructure hedge fund. 

Meanwhile, Bitcoin decoupled from the AI equities correction, and geopolitically, the Middle East continues its strategic realignment as the U.S. footprint adjusts. I believe we are witnessing the shift from the forever war model toward a financially driven regional framework.

All of this demands a closer look, and we will unpack exactly what it means for your sovereign wealth plan in today's livestream.

In the live show, I will be breaking down the mechanics behind this week's AI market correction. In the aftermath of the leveraged hedge fund liquidation, institutional players like Citadel stepped in to scoop up distressed assets, including shares of the newly public Celsius spin-off, Ionic Digital. I believe we must ask whether this is simply a short-term leverage unwind, a market-making operation, or a fundamental accumulation of AI infrastructure by the Financial Industrial Complex.

In the geopolitical arena, we are tracking the ongoing realignment in the Middle East following Netanyahu's White House visit. In my view, we are witnessing the dismantling of proxy militant groups to pave the way for a new regional security framework, driven by Gulf capital and Chinese energy security. I will explain why the maritime chokepoints of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab are the key indicators to watch as the Financial Industrial Complex (FIC) negotiates with the Military Industrial Complex (MIC).

https://youtube.com/live/s1Hwh2dqec8 

Hey hey sovereign wealth builders,

This week delivered a convergence of many structural shifts, alongside some urgent breaking news in the Bitcoin self-custody space. The Fed held rates while delivering a hawkish tone, which sent Treasury yields surging and triggered a severe AI stock sell-off, liquidating an over-leveraged $25 billion AI infrastructure hedge fund. 

Meanwhile, Bitcoin decoupled from the AI equities correction, and geopolitically, the Middle East continues its strategic realignment as the U.S. footprint adjusts. I believe we are witnessing the shift from the forever war model toward a financially driven regional framework.

All of this demands a closer look, and we will unpack exactly what it means for your sovereign wealth plan in today's livestream.

In the live show, I will be breaking down the mechanics behind this week's AI market correction. In the aftermath of the leveraged hedge fund liquidation, institutional players like Citadel stepped in to scoop up distressed assets, including shares of the newly public Celsius spin-off, Ionic Digital. I believe we must ask whether this is simply a short-term leverage unwind, a market-making operation, or a fundamental accumulation of AI infrastructure by the Financial Industrial Complex.

In the geopolitical arena, we are tracking the ongoing realignment in the Middle East following Netanyahu's White House visit. In my view, we are witnessing the dismantling of proxy militant groups to pave the way for a new regional security framework, driven by Gulf capital and Chinese energy security. I will explain why the maritime chokepoints of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab are the key indicators to watch as the Financial Industrial Complex (FIC) negotiates with the Military Industrial Complex (MIC).

https://youtube.com/live/s1Hwh2dqec8 

I will also be dedicating a segment to the recent Bitcoin wallet hacks, which is an urgent matter for those utilizing hardware wallets. A specific seed generation entropy flaw has compromised certain Coldcard wallets. I want to be entirely clear: Bitcoin did not get hacked; this is a specific hardware implementation issue. I will explain exactly what happened, who is affected, and the concrete steps you must take to review your self-custody setup calmly and safely—including updating firmware, understanding key generation, and considering multi-signature setups. 

We will also cover the approaching BIP110 signaling deadline around August 7th and what to watch for and what happens if miners reach the 55% threshold.

Immediately following Part One, we will be premiering a pre-recorded interview I did with media veteran James Delingpole on 7 July 2026. Please note: This interview is scheduled to premiere as a separate video on my YouTube channel. You will need to click the link provided in the newsletter, the live chat, or on the image of Part Two to jump over to the interview once the livestream ends.

During this conversation, I detail my framework for understanding the Financial Industrial Complex (FIC), the Military Industrial Complex (MIC), and the rising Technical Industrial Complex (TIC). We explore the mechanisms of how politicians are groomed, compromised, and ultimately serve as "paid-for-rent prostitutes" for these transnational power structures.

We also discuss the historical evolution of central banking, the true agenda behind the programmable surveillance state, and why building wealth outside the system is the only viable way to protect yourself and step off the spectrum of subordination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqp5VKhzgrY