Marty sits down with Calle to discuss Cashu.

Cashu: https://cashu.space/

Calle on Nostr: https://primal.net/calle

0:00 - Intro

0:36 - Programming is art

5:36 - Zooming out on the struggle for freedom

10:23 - Dealing with the pace of change

14:20 - Unchained & Fold

16:13 - Financial privacy

20:43 - Chaumian ecash history

33:34 - Zaprite & SOTE

35:06 - Ecash on bitcoin

42:55 - Hash pools

48:45 - Interoperable systems

52:11 - We need more privacy and more devs

55:24 - Narrative and communication

1:00:45 - Magic stuff that just works

1:10:19 - Nostr as a gateway to bitcoin

1:17:21 - Wrap up

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Marty sits down with Joe Bryan to discuss his presentation of the problem of fiat currency.

Joe on Twitter: https://x.com/satmojoe

SatsVsFiat: https://x.com/SatsVsFiat

What's The Problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtFOxNbmD38&t

0:00 - Intro

0:36 - Joe’s background

9:53 - Borrowing on bitcoin stabilizes the market

13:02 - Unchained

14:49 - Educating on the problem with money

18:57 - The origin of Joe’s story

24:00 - Zaprite & SOTE

25:33 -The power of storytelling

32:34 - Outlining the Fiatello story

51:45 - Response to the presentation

58:39 - Preparing for 2025

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Marty kicks off the new year with Parker Lewis.

Parker on Twitter: https://x.com/parkeralewis

0:00 - Intro

0:36 - Crossfit

2:27 - Recapping the debt problem

17:23 - Unchained & Fold

19:16 - Yield curve discrepancy

23:21 - DOGE can’t help much

30:00 - Zaprite & SOTE

31:32 - Trump’s plans and the Fed

48:40 - Bitcoin and inflation are insufficiently understood

1:10:29 - H1B psyop and Sam Hyde

1:15:25 - Silicon Valley mindset

1:21:08 - We’re gonna get Shane Gillis

1:30:04 - Countering Tucker’s CIA arguments

1:40:03 - Quantum tangent

1:42:59 - Crypto bananas

1:47:16 - Manifesting victory

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Marty sits down with Nik Bhatia to discuss his upcoming book and bitcoin's unprecedented setup in the macro environment.

Nik on Twitter: https://x.com/timevalueofbtc

Bitcoin Age: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQK2RQ5J

Bitcoin Layer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDAFY8rx-Kg

0:00 - Intro

0:36 - Strategic reserve

8:45 - Does bitcoin threaten the dollar?

12:51 - Bitcoin began more open than the internet did

16:40 - Unchained

17:41 - Strengthening America

21:31 - MSTR, buying bitcoin with new money

35:18 - - Zaprite & Sote

36:51 The investor-initiated chain

44:31 - How sustainable is the bond strategy?

52:31 - Bitcoin inside of sovereign bond structure

57:10 - Critics don’t see the wider context

1:03:31 - Bitcoin is the best survival tool

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Marty sits down with Alex Bergeron to discuss Ark Labs.

Alex on Twitter: https://x.com/bergealex4

Ark Labs: https://arklabs.to/

0:00 - Intro

0:36 - Will the strategic reserve stop soft forks?

15:50 - Unchained

16:50 - Ark

25:10 - Zaprite & SOTE

26:43 - How Ark works

1:03:57 - Product market fit

1:13:31- Things take time to build

1:20:31 - Meta protocols

1:26:35 - Wrap up

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Marty sits down with John Carvalho to discuss his BIP on bitcoin units and an update on Pubky.

Links:

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https://x.com/BitcoinErrorLog

0:00 - Intro

0:36 - John's BIP

10:16 - Millisats

14:30 - Unchained

15:30 - Optimizing against govt controlled btc

22:30 - OP_VAULT and fork consensus

36:53 - Zaprite & SOTE

38:26 - Pubky

45:21 - Government digital ID

54:10 - Nostr's vs X vs Bluesky

1:00:00 - Why Nostr needs an ID solution

1:03:13 - Atomic Economy

1:08:08 - Tether

1:12:15 - Bitfinex stolen coins

1:14:13 - MSTR

1:21:20 - Core dev incentives

1:25:39 - John's hot take history

1:29:29 - Bluesky culture

1:33:15 - Giving people what they don’t know they want

1:35:52 - Wrapup

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Marty and Will Cole sit down to orange pill Bill and Spud from WAR MODE.

WAR MODE: https://warmode.libsyn.com/

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The Ten31 crew sit down with Matt Corallo to talk about Google's Willow quantum chip.

0:00 - Disclaimer

0:24 - Matt Corallo addresses the quantum chip scare

34:19 - Expected value calculation in quantum scenario

45:34 - Bitcoin MENA and nation state adoption

56:45 - Bitcoinization of finance

1:02:18 - MSTR

1:11:00 - Yield is a scary word in bitcoin

1:17:35 - 100k milestone

Marty sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q3 2024 monetary base update.

Matthew on Twitter: https://x.com/1basemoney

Porkopolis Economics: https://www.porkopolis.io/

0:00 - Intro

0:36- ATH, 4 currencies left in the way

4:50 - The Trump wave

10:44 - chart - Getting gold/btc on Fed balance sheet

24:20 - Unchained

25:11 - Optimally acquiring strategic reserve

30:38 - Zaprite & SOTE

32:11 - Triffin Dilemma and spending cuts

38:55 - How hard money helps central banks

43:23 - Yield curve/Fed policy mismatch

49:22 - Russian bitcoin

54:26 - Trump's cabinet and Scott Bessent

58:16 - Supercycle?

1:05:51 - Power curve

1:08:55 - Saylor's convertible notes

1:1545 - Base money

1:25:29 - Breton Woods 2.0?

1:42:30 - Fiat money exponential growth

1:46:44 - Job market

1:52:39 - Bitcoin Lindy effect

2:01:00 - Wrap up

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Marty sits down at PubKey with Andrew Hohns to discuss Battery Finance.

0:00 - Intro

0:36 - Squawk Box

4:27 - Why Andrew caught onto bitcoin

10:39 - Unchained

11:29 - Saylor’s dematerialization idea

15:45 - Supercharging real estate

25:09 - Zaprite & SOTE

26:42 - Adoptions cycles for borrowers

31:31 - Duration curve

38:24 - Bitcoin will be critical as other assets demonetize

40:50 - Loans result in long term hodl

46:23 - 100k significance & price prediction

54:39 - Custody question

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