0:00 - Disclaimer

0:24 - Larry Fink is bullish

8:28 - Ross free

16:54 - Energy policy

25:06 - Crypto policy

34:27 - Meme coins

50:19 - State SBR bills

58:05 - Dollar Index and Gromen analysis

1:15:04 - Coinbase lending

1:28:44 - NYDIG

1:32:38 - Corporate treasuries

1:43:51 - Repeal of SAB-121

1:46:02 - 2025 predictions

Marty sits down with Tuur Demeester to discuss his visit to the South African city of Orania.

Tuur on Twitter: https://x.com/TuurDemeester

0:36 - Why Tuur went to Orania

8:02 - State-proof cities dealing with crime

14:29 - Orania's origins

19:24 - Fold & Bitkey

21:19 - Population growth and businesses

26:21 - South Africa is devolving

29:54 - Unchained

30:54 - Sentiment toward Orania

32:15 - Scaling Orania’s model

34:49 - Diversity and conflict

43:50 - Bitcoin fixes this, not MAGA

50:44 - Narrowing focus to weather the storm

1:00:54 - Cultural conflict makes family pairings difficult

1:05:45 - Meme coins

1:12:06 - Ethereum delenda est

1:17:28 - Bitcoin market and Bessent

1:23:10 - Tariffs and eliminating IRS

1:28:07 - Glass half full

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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 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://pubky.org/

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/

0:00 - Intro 0:36 - Here to be orange pilled 4:35 - Don’t F up the money 11:03 - Unchained 12:04 - Early bitcoin and basic value prop 17:07 - Inflation lies 25:09 - How we got to the modern system 31:19 - Zaprite & SOTE 32:52 - Bitcoin’s good for everyone and everything’s good for bitcoin 40:27 - Bitcoin, not blockchain 47:30 - Monetization & Triffin dilemma 50:21 - Mining, energy and the halving 56:52 - Fixing the money 1:00:38 - What miners and nodes do 1:10:42 - Emergent organization and early internet 1:15:01 - Bitcoin storage and risks of bank custody 1:24:32 - Big banks are far more criminal than bitcoin users 1:28:11 - The financial system is a web of lies 1:38:31 - Bitcoin is the white pill, it’s never too late 1:51:19 - F you money beats censorship 1:59:13 - The only winning move is to play 2:07:30 - Volatility - Weimar gold 2:09:11 - Bitcoin lending and regulatory attack 2:16:27 - China ban and Texas energy 2:21:41 - Q 2:23:54 - Divine intervention 2:28:52 - Conspiracy theories 2:34:49 - Freeing the enslaved American people

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