"People say 'I believe in vaccines.' Nobody says that about seatbelts."
Aaron Siri is the managing partner of Siri & Glimstad and, by most measures, the most consequential vaccine litigator in America. He's the attorney behind the famous nine-hour deposition of Dr. Stanley Plotkin — the man they call the godfather of vaccines — lead counsel for the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), a 2025 Senate witness, and a central legal figure in the RFK-era reshaping of federal vaccine policy. His new book is Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines — in his words, "a cross-examination in book form."
This one steps outside the show's usual lane, and I want to be upfront: this is not medical advice, I'm not a doctor, and everything Aaron argues here is his own case — where it's contested by public-health bodies, treat it as one side of an open debate. What ties it to this show is the question we always ask: how do you know what's real when you're not allowed to check? From there we go deep — how a custody case led to the legendary Plotkin deposition; the Hepatitis B shot Aaron says was licensed on a trial of 147 kids, five days of monitoring, and no control group; the 1986 law he calls "the original sin" that handed vaccine makers liability immunity; the Ford Pinto and what punitive damages actually do; informed consent versus the right to refuse; whether vaccines really stop transmission; and the measles-mortality data he argues almost no one talks about. A conversation about evidence, incentives, and who gets to audit the people in charge.
Subscribe so you never miss an episode.
🎙️ GUEST 
Aaron Siri — Managing partner of Siri & Glimstad. Lead counsel for the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN). Author of the new book Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines.
Aaron Siri on X → <a href="http://x.com/AaronSiriSG">x.com/AaronSiriSG</a>Website → <a href="http://AaronSiriOfficial.com">AaronSiriOfficial.com</a>
Book — Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines 
Get Informed (ICAN) → <a href="http://icandecide.org">icandecide.org</a>
💰 SPONSORS & DISCOUNTS 
🔑 Stamp Seed — After a week like this, back up your seed somewhere a bug can't reach. Hammer your seed words into solid titanium, fire-resistant to 3,000°F, and pair it with multisig to remove single points of failure. 21% OFF → <a href="http://stampseed.com">stampseed.com</a> | code MATRIX
🐟 Firefish — Don't sell your Bitcoin. Live off it. Non-custodial Bitcoin-backed loans. Your keys stay in 3-of-3 multisig. Rehypothecation is cryptographically impossible. $160M+ facilitated. 27,000+ users across 70 countries. 30% OFF the fees on your first loan → <a href="http://firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX">firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX</a> | code MATRIX
🍊 Club Orange — The location-based social network for Bitcoiners. See the meetups in your city and the real merchants near you who take Bitcoin. Download in the App Store or Google Play → <a href="http://cluborange.org/matrix-podcast">cluborange.org/matrix-podcast</a>
₿ Bitcoin Well — Concierge OTC for serious Bitcoin buys. $50k+ handled one-on-one, from first call to settlement. Global, by application. <a href="http://infinite.bitcoinwell.com/get-qualified/bitcoinmatrix">infinite.bitcoinwell.com/get-qualified/bitcoinmatrix</a>🔐 Unchained — 90,000+ BTC secured in collaborative multisig since 2016. Bitcoin-only. Never lent out a sat. IRAs, loans, inheritance planning. 10% OFF → <a href="http://unchained.com/matrix">unchained.com/matrix</a> | code MATRIX10
💎 River — Buy Bitcoin the right way. Up to $100 FREE Bitcoin. <a href="http://river.com/matrix">river.com/matrix</a>🏥 CrowdHealth — Ditch your fiat health insurance like my family did. Join us at CrowdHealth. <a href="http://joincrowdhealth.com">joincrowdhealth.com</a> | code MATRIX
🛡️ Meanwhile — The world's first Bitcoin life insurance policy. Premiums and payouts in Bitcoin. <a href="http://meanwhile.bm">meanwhile.bm</a> | code YTPFYD
⛏️ Sazmining — You took the red pill on money. Now own the machine that makes it. Mine your own Bitcoin: own the hardware, 100% renewable, non-custodial, coins straight from the network to your wallet. $100 OFF any rig → <a href="http://deals.sazmining.com/bitcoinmatrix">deals.sazmining.com/bitcoinmatrix</a> | code BTCMATRIX
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💜 Venmo → <a href="http://venmo.com/u/bitcoinmatrix">venmo.com/u/bitcoinmatrix</a>
📬 PO Box → The Bitcoin Matrix, P.O. Box 18056, Sarasota, FL 34231
📱 FOLLOW 
🌐 Website → <a href="http://TheBitcoinMatrix.com">TheBitcoinMatrix.com</a>
🐦 Cedric on X → <a href="http://x.com/cedyoungelman">x.com/cedyoungelman</a>
🐦 Show on X → <a href="http://x.com/_bitcoinmatrix">x.com/_bitcoinmatrix</a>
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⚠️ DISCLAIMER 
For entertainment and educational purposes only. Nothing in this episode is medical, legal, financial, or investment advice. The views and claims expressed are the guest's own and are contested by public-health bodies; always talk to your own physician and do your own research.

"People say 'I believe in vaccines.' Nobody says that about seatbelts." Aaron Siri is the managing partner of Siri & Glimstad and, by most measures, the most consequential vaccine litigator in America. He's the attorney behind the famous nine-hour deposition of Dr. Stanley Plotkin — the man they call the godfather of vaccines — lead counsel for the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), a 2025 Senate witness, and a central legal figure in the RFK-era reshaping of federal vaccine policy. His new book is Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines — in his words, "a cross-examination in book form." This one steps outside the show's usual lane, and I want to be upfront: this is not medical advice, I'm not a doctor, and everything Aaron argues here is his own case — where it's contested by public-health bodies, treat it as one side of an open debate. What ties it to this show is the question we always ask: how do you know what's real when you're not allowed to check? From there we go deep — how a custody case led to the legendary Plotkin deposition; the Hepatitis B shot Aaron says was licensed on a trial of 147 kids, five days of monitoring, and no control group; the 1986 law he calls "the original sin" that handed vaccine makers liability immunity; the Ford Pinto and what punitive damages actually do; informed consent versus the right to refuse; whether vaccines really stop transmission; and the measles-mortality data he argues almost no one talks about. A conversation about evidence, incentives, and who gets to audit the people in charge. Subscribe so you never miss an episode. 🎙️ GUEST Aaron Siri — Managing partner of Siri & Glimstad. Lead counsel for the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN). Author of the new book Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines. Aaron Siri on X → x.com/AaronSiriSGWebsite → AaronSiriOfficial.com Book — Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines Get Informed (ICAN) → icandecide.org 💰 SPONSORS & DISCOUNTS 🔑 Stamp Seed — After a week like this, back up your seed somewhere a bug can't reach. Hammer your seed words into solid titanium, fire-resistant to 3,000°F, and pair it with multisig to remove single points of failure. 21% OFF → stampseed.com | code MATRIX 🐟 Firefish — Don't sell your Bitcoin. Live off it. Non-custodial Bitcoin-backed loans. Your keys stay in 3-of-3 multisig. Rehypothecation is cryptographically impossible. $160M+ facilitated. 27,000+ users across 70 countries. 30% OFF the fees on your first loan → firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX | code MATRIX 🍊 Club Orange — The location-based social network for Bitcoiners. See the meetups in your city and the real merchants near you who take Bitcoin. Download in the App Store or Google Play → cluborange.org/matrix-podcast ₿ Bitcoin Well — Concierge OTC for serious Bitcoin buys. $50k+ handled one-on-one, from first call to settlement. Global, by application. infinite.bitcoinwell.com/get-qualified/bitcoinmatrix🔐 Unchained — 90,000+ BTC secured in collaborative multisig since 2016. Bitcoin-only. Never lent out a sat. IRAs, loans, inheritance planning. 10% OFF → unchained.com/matrix | code MATRIX10 💎 River — Buy Bitcoin the right way. Up to $100 FREE Bitcoin. river.com/matrix🏥 CrowdHealth — Ditch your fiat health insurance like my family did. Join us at CrowdHealth. joincrowdhealth.com | code MATRIX 🛡️ Meanwhile — The world's first Bitcoin life insurance policy. Premiums and payouts in Bitcoin. meanwhile.bm | code YTPFYD ⛏️ Sazmining — You took the red pill on money. Now own the machine that makes it. Mine your own Bitcoin: own the hardware, 100% renewable, non-custodial, coins straight from the network to your wallet. $100 OFF any rig → deals.sazmining.com/bitcoinmatrix | code BTCMATRIX 🙏 SUPPORT THE SHOW ⚡ Strike → BitcoinMatrix@strike.me 💵 PayPal → paypal.biz/BitcoinMatrix 💚 Cash App → cash.app/$BitcoinMatrix 💜 Venmo → venmo.com/u/bitcoinmatrix 📬 PO Box → The Bitcoin Matrix, P.O. Box 18056, Sarasota, FL 34231 📱 FOLLOW 🌐 Website → TheBitcoinMatrix.com 🐦 Cedric on X → x.com/cedyoungelman 🐦 Show on X → x.com/_bitcoinmatrix 🟣 Nostr → npub12tq9jxmt707gd5vnce3tqllpm67ktr0mqskcvy58qqa4d074pz9s4ukdcs ⚠️ DISCLAIMER For entertainment and educational purposes only. Nothing in this episode is medical, legal, financial, or investment advice. The views and claims expressed are the guest's own and are contested by public-health bodies; always talk to your own physician and do your own research.

"People say 'I believe in vaccines.' Nobody says that about seatbelts."
Aaron Siri is the managing partner of Siri &amp; Glimstad and, by most measures, the most consequential vaccine litigator in America. He's the attorney behind the famous nine-hour deposition of Dr. Stanley Plotkin — the man they call the godfather of vaccines — lead counsel for the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), a 2025 Senate witness, and a central legal figure in the RFK-era reshaping of federal vaccine policy. His new book is Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines — in his words, "a cross-examination in book form."
This one steps outside the show's usual lane, and I want to be upfront: this is not medical advice, I'm not a doctor, and everything Aaron argues here is his own case — where it's contested by public-health bodies, treat it as one side of an open debate. What ties it to this show is the question we always ask: how do you know what's real when you're not allowed to check? From there we go deep — how a custody case led to the legendary Plotkin deposition; the Hepatitis B shot Aaron says was licensed on a trial of 147 kids, five days of monitoring, and no control group; the 1986 law he calls "the original sin" that handed vaccine makers liability immunity; the Ford Pinto and what punitive damages actually do; informed consent versus the right to refuse; whether vaccines really stop transmission; and the measles-mortality data he argues almost no one talks about. A conversation about evidence, incentives, and who gets to audit the people in charge.
Subscribe so you never miss an episode.
🎙️ GUEST 
Aaron Siri — Managing partner of Siri &amp; Glimstad. Lead counsel for the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN). Author of the new book Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines.
Aaron Siri on X → <a href="http://x.com/AaronSiriSG" rel="noopener noreferrer">x.com/AaronSiriSG</a>Website → <a href="http://AaronSiriOfficial.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">AaronSiriOfficial.com</a>
Book — Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines 
Get Informed (ICAN) → <a href="http://icandecide.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">icandecide.org</a>
💰 SPONSORS &amp; DISCOUNTS 
🔑 Stamp Seed — After a week like this, back up your seed somewhere a bug can't reach. Hammer your seed words into solid titanium, fire-resistant to 3,000°F, and pair it with multisig to remove single points of failure. 21% OFF → <a href="http://stampseed.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">stampseed.com</a> | code MATRIX
🐟 Firefish — Don't sell your Bitcoin. Live off it. Non-custodial Bitcoin-backed loans. Your keys stay in 3-of-3 multisig. Rehypothecation is cryptographically impossible. $160M+ facilitated. 27,000+ users across 70 countries. 30% OFF the fees on your first loan → <a href="http://firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX" rel="noopener noreferrer">firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX</a> | code MATRIX
🍊 Club Orange — The location-based social network for Bitcoiners. See the meetups in your city and the real merchants near you who take Bitcoin. Download in the App Store or Google Play → <a href="http://cluborange.org/matrix-podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer">cluborange.org/matrix-podcast</a>
₿ Bitcoin Well — Concierge OTC for serious Bitcoin buys. $50k+ handled one-on-one, from first call to settlement. Global, by application. <a href="http://infinite.bitcoinwell.com/get-qualified/bitcoinmatrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">infinite.bitcoinwell.com/get-qualified/bitcoinmatrix</a>🔐 Unchained — 90,000+ BTC secured in collaborative multisig since 2016. Bitcoin-only. Never lent out a sat. IRAs, loans, inheritance planning. 10% OFF → <a href="http://unchained.com/matrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">unchained.com/matrix</a> | code MATRIX10
💎 River — Buy Bitcoin the right way. Up to $100 FREE Bitcoin. <a href="http://river.com/matrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">river.com/matrix</a>🏥 CrowdHealth — Ditch your fiat health insurance like my family did. Join us at CrowdHealth. <a href="http://joincrowdhealth.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">joincrowdhealth.com</a> | code MATRIX
🛡️ Meanwhile — The world's first Bitcoin life insurance policy. Premiums and payouts in Bitcoin. <a href="http://meanwhile.bm" rel="noopener noreferrer">meanwhile.bm</a> | code YTPFYD
⛏️ Sazmining — You took the red pill on money. Now own the machine that makes it. Mine your own Bitcoin: own the hardware, 100% renewable, non-custodial, coins straight from the network to your wallet. $100 OFF any rig → <a href="http://deals.sazmining.com/bitcoinmatrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">deals.sazmining.com/bitcoinmatrix</a> | code BTCMATRIX
🙏 SUPPORT THE SHOW 
⚡ Strike → <a href="mailto:BitcoinMatrix@strike.me" rel="noopener noreferrer">BitcoinMatrix@strike.me</a>
💵 PayPal → <a href="http://paypal.biz/BitcoinMatrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">paypal.biz/BitcoinMatrix</a>
💚 Cash App → cash.app/$BitcoinMatrix 
💜 Venmo → <a href="http://venmo.com/u/bitcoinmatrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">venmo.com/u/bitcoinmatrix</a>
📬 PO Box → The Bitcoin Matrix, P.O. Box 18056, Sarasota, FL 34231
📱 FOLLOW 
🌐 Website → <a href="http://TheBitcoinMatrix.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">TheBitcoinMatrix.com</a>
🐦 Cedric on X → <a href="http://x.com/cedyoungelman" rel="noopener noreferrer">x.com/cedyoungelman</a>
🐦 Show on X → <a href="http://x.com/_bitcoinmatrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">x.com/_bitcoinmatrix</a>
🟣 Nostr → npub12tq9jxmt707gd5vnce3tqllpm67ktr0mqskcvy58qqa4d074pz9s4ukdcs
⚠️ DISCLAIMER 
For entertainment and educational purposes only. Nothing in this episode is medical, legal, financial, or investment advice. The views and claims expressed are the guest's own and are contested by public-health bodies; always talk to your own physician and do your own research.

Aaron Siri: The One Product You Can't Sue in America

"Bitcoin secures over a trillion dollars in value. It has no security team."
Luke de Wolf is a cybersecurity professional and author of Defending Bitcoin. Luke spent his career defending critical infrastructure, the control systems behind power grids and gas pipelines. His claim: Bitcoin is the world's first decentralized critical infrastructure, and it should be defended with the same risk-management frameworks that protect the physical world. A trillion-dollar network with no security team. And Luke is a former BIP-110 skeptic who flipped to supporting it making him a moderate who pisses off both sides.
We get into the CIA triad and why availability is the whole game, people as the weakest link and the Stuxnet lesson, the real cost of running a node over time, spam as a DDoS and the hidden tax on Bitcoin, the two CVEs behind inscriptions, and the full BIP-110 fight. We discuss why he flipped, the game theory of activation, soft fork vs hard fork, the intolerant minority, and whether BIP-110 even has a failed state. This is the defender's case for Bitcoin, and the fight is happening right now.
Subscribe so you never miss an episode.
🎙️ GUEST Luke DeWolf — cybersecurity / critical-infrastructure professional. Co-host of the Freedom Footprint Show (with Knut Svanholm). Organizer of BTC Helsinki. 
Defending Bitcoin (book) → <a href="http://defendingbitcoin.com">defendingbitcoin.com</a> — free companion material and a threat-model worksheet. Pay in Bitcoin via the Bitcoin Infinity Store. Also on Amazon. 
Endorsements: 
Jeff Booth — "the cybersecurity book Bitcoin has been waiting for." 
Larry Lepard — "Read it before you need it." 
Luke on X → <a href="http://x.com/LukeDeWolf">x.com/LukeDeWolf</a> 
Conference → <a href="http://BTCHel.com">BTCHel.com</a> (Helsinki, Finland)
💰 SPONSORS & DISCOUNTS 
🐟 Firefish — Don't sell your Bitcoin. Live off it. Non-custodial Bitcoin-backed loans. Your keys stay in 3-of-3 multisig. Rehypothecation is cryptographically impossible. $160M+ facilitated. 27,000+ users across 70 countries. 30% OFF the fees on your first loan → <a href="http://firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX">firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX</a> | code MATRIX 
🔑 Stamp Seed — Between 3-6 million Bitcoin are lost forever. Most of it paper. Hammer your seed words into solid titanium — fire-resistant to 3,000°F. 15% OFF → <a href="http://stampseed.com">stampseed.com</a> | code MATRIX 
🟠 Club Orange — The location-based social network built for the Bitcoin community. Find Bitcoiners, meetups, and merchants near you. Download in the App Store or Google Play. <a href="http://cluborange.org/matrix-podcast">cluborange.org/matrix-podcast</a> 
₿ Bitcoin Well — Concierge OTC for serious Bitcoin buys. $50k+ handled one-on-one, from first call to settlement. Global, by application. <a href="http://infinite.bitcoinwell.com/get-qualified/bitcoinmatrix">infinite.bitcoinwell.com/get-qualified/bitcoinmatrix</a> 
🟧 The Bitcoin Way — Bitcoin, cybersecurity & Plan B services. Become a sovereign individual — self-custody setup and security done with you, one-on-one. <a href="http://thebitcoinway.com">thebitcoinway.com</a> 
🔐 Unchained — 90,000+ BTC secured in collaborative multisig since 2016. Bitcoin-only. Never lent out a sat. IRAs, loans, inheritance planning. 10% OFF → <a href="http://unchained.com/matrix">unchained.com/matrix</a> | code MATRIX10 
💎 River — Buy Bitcoin the right way. Up to $100 FREE Bitcoin. <a href="http://river.com/matrix">river.com/matrix</a> 
🏥 CrowdHealth — Ditch your fiat health insurance like my family did. Join us at CrowdHealth. <a href="http://joincrowdhealth.com">joincrowdhealth.com</a> | code MATRIX 
🛡️ Meanwhile — The world's first Bitcoin life insurance policy. Premiums and payouts in Bitcoin. <a href="http://meanwhile.bm">meanwhile.bm</a> | code YTPFYD 
⛏️ Sazmining — You took the red pill on money. Now own the machine that makes it. Mine your own Bitcoin: own the hardware, 100% renewable, non-custodial, coins straight from the network to your wallet. No intermediary ever holds them. $100 OFF any rig → <a href="http://deals.sazmining.com/bitcoinmatrix">deals.sazmining.com/bitcoinmatrix</a> | code BTCMATRIX
🙏 SUPPORT THE SHOW 
⚡ Strike → <a href="mailto:BitcoinMatrix@strike.me">BitcoinMatrix@strike.me</a> 
💵 PayPal → <a href="http://paypal.biz/BitcoinMatrix">paypal.biz/BitcoinMatrix</a> 
💚 Cash App → cash.app/$BitcoinMatrix 
💜 Venmo → <a href="http://venmo.com/u/bitcoinmatrix">venmo.com/u/bitcoinmatrix</a> 
📬 PO Box → The Bitcoin Matrix, P.O. Box 18056, Sarasota, FL 34231
📱 FOLLOW 
🌐 Website → <a href="http://TheBitcoinMatrix.com">TheBitcoinMatrix.com</a> 
🐦 Cedric on X → <a href="http://x.com/cedyoungelman">x.com/cedyoungelman</a> 
🐦 Show on X → <a href="http://x.com/_bitcoinmatrix">x.com/_bitcoinmatrix</a> 
🟣 Nostr → npub12tq9jxmt707gd5vnce3tqllpm67ktr0mqskcvy58qqa4d074pz9s4ukdcs
⚠️ DISCLAIMER For entertainment and educational purposes only. Not financial, legal, or investment advice. Always do your own research.

"Bitcoin secures over a trillion dollars in value. It has no security team." Luke de Wolf is a cybersecurity professional and author of Defending Bitcoin. Luke spent his career defending critical infrastructure, the control systems behind power grids and gas pipelines. His claim: Bitcoin is the world's first decentralized critical infrastructure, and it should be defended with the same risk-management frameworks that protect the physical world. A trillion-dollar network with no security team. And Luke is a former BIP-110 skeptic who flipped to supporting it making him a moderate who pisses off both sides. We get into the CIA triad and why availability is the whole game, people as the weakest link and the Stuxnet lesson, the real cost of running a node over time, spam as a DDoS and the hidden tax on Bitcoin, the two CVEs behind inscriptions, and the full BIP-110 fight. We discuss why he flipped, the game theory of activation, soft fork vs hard fork, the intolerant minority, and whether BIP-110 even has a failed state. This is the defender's case for Bitcoin, and the fight is happening right now. Subscribe so you never miss an episode. 🎙️ GUEST Luke DeWolf — cybersecurity / critical-infrastructure professional. Co-host of the Freedom Footprint Show (with Knut Svanholm). Organizer of BTC Helsinki. Defending Bitcoin (book) → defendingbitcoin.com — free companion material and a threat-model worksheet. Pay in Bitcoin via the Bitcoin Infinity Store. Also on Amazon. Endorsements: Jeff Booth — "the cybersecurity book Bitcoin has been waiting for." Larry Lepard — "Read it before you need it." Luke on X → x.com/LukeDeWolf Conference → BTCHel.com (Helsinki, Finland) 💰 SPONSORS & DISCOUNTS 🐟 Firefish — Don't sell your Bitcoin. Live off it. Non-custodial Bitcoin-backed loans. Your keys stay in 3-of-3 multisig. Rehypothecation is cryptographically impossible. $160M+ facilitated. 27,000+ users across 70 countries. 30% OFF the fees on your first loan → firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX | code MATRIX 🔑 Stamp Seed — Between 3-6 million Bitcoin are lost forever. Most of it paper. Hammer your seed words into solid titanium — fire-resistant to 3,000°F. 15% OFF → stampseed.com | code MATRIX 🟠 Club Orange — The location-based social network built for the Bitcoin community. Find Bitcoiners, meetups, and merchants near you. Download in the App Store or Google Play. cluborange.org/matrix-podcast ₿ Bitcoin Well — Concierge OTC for serious Bitcoin buys. $50k+ handled one-on-one, from first call to settlement. Global, by application. infinite.bitcoinwell.com/get-qualified/bitcoinmatrix 🟧 The Bitcoin Way — Bitcoin, cybersecurity & Plan B services. Become a sovereign individual — self-custody setup and security done with you, one-on-one. thebitcoinway.com 🔐 Unchained — 90,000+ BTC secured in collaborative multisig since 2016. Bitcoin-only. Never lent out a sat. IRAs, loans, inheritance planning. 10% OFF → unchained.com/matrix | code MATRIX10 💎 River — Buy Bitcoin the right way. Up to $100 FREE Bitcoin. river.com/matrix 🏥 CrowdHealth — Ditch your fiat health insurance like my family did. Join us at CrowdHealth. joincrowdhealth.com | code MATRIX 🛡️ Meanwhile — The world's first Bitcoin life insurance policy. Premiums and payouts in Bitcoin. meanwhile.bm | code YTPFYD ⛏️ Sazmining — You took the red pill on money. Now own the machine that makes it. Mine your own Bitcoin: own the hardware, 100% renewable, non-custodial, coins straight from the network to your wallet. No intermediary ever holds them. $100 OFF any rig → deals.sazmining.com/bitcoinmatrix | code BTCMATRIX 🙏 SUPPORT THE SHOW ⚡ Strike → BitcoinMatrix@strike.me 💵 PayPal → paypal.biz/BitcoinMatrix 💚 Cash App → cash.app/$BitcoinMatrix 💜 Venmo → venmo.com/u/bitcoinmatrix 📬 PO Box → The Bitcoin Matrix, P.O. Box 18056, Sarasota, FL 34231 📱 FOLLOW 🌐 Website → TheBitcoinMatrix.com 🐦 Cedric on X → x.com/cedyoungelman 🐦 Show on X → x.com/_bitcoinmatrix 🟣 Nostr → npub12tq9jxmt707gd5vnce3tqllpm67ktr0mqskcvy58qqa4d074pz9s4ukdcs ⚠️ DISCLAIMER For entertainment and educational purposes only. Not financial, legal, or investment advice. Always do your own research.

"Bitcoin secures over a trillion dollars in value. It has no security team."
Luke de Wolf is a cybersecurity professional and author of Defending Bitcoin. Luke spent his career defending critical infrastructure, the control systems behind power grids and gas pipelines. His claim: Bitcoin is the world's first decentralized critical infrastructure, and it should be defended with the same risk-management frameworks that protect the physical world. A trillion-dollar network with no security team. And Luke is a former BIP-110 skeptic who flipped to supporting it making him a moderate who pisses off both sides.
We get into the CIA triad and why availability is the whole game, people as the weakest link and the Stuxnet lesson, the real cost of running a node over time, spam as a DDoS and the hidden tax on Bitcoin, the two CVEs behind inscriptions, and the full BIP-110 fight. We discuss why he flipped, the game theory of activation, soft fork vs hard fork, the intolerant minority, and whether BIP-110 even has a failed state. This is the defender's case for Bitcoin, and the fight is happening right now.
Subscribe so you never miss an episode.
🎙️ GUEST Luke DeWolf — cybersecurity / critical-infrastructure professional. Co-host of the Freedom Footprint Show (with Knut Svanholm). Organizer of BTC Helsinki. 
Defending Bitcoin (book) → <a href="http://defendingbitcoin.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">defendingbitcoin.com</a> — free companion material and a threat-model worksheet. Pay in Bitcoin via the Bitcoin Infinity Store. Also on Amazon. 
Endorsements: 
Jeff Booth — "the cybersecurity book Bitcoin has been waiting for." 
Larry Lepard — "Read it before you need it." 
Luke on X → <a href="http://x.com/LukeDeWolf" rel="noopener noreferrer">x.com/LukeDeWolf</a> 
Conference → <a href="http://BTCHel.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">BTCHel.com</a> (Helsinki, Finland)
💰 SPONSORS &amp; DISCOUNTS 
🐟 Firefish — Don't sell your Bitcoin. Live off it. Non-custodial Bitcoin-backed loans. Your keys stay in 3-of-3 multisig. Rehypothecation is cryptographically impossible. $160M+ facilitated. 27,000+ users across 70 countries. 30% OFF the fees on your first loan → <a href="http://firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX" rel="noopener noreferrer">firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX</a> | code MATRIX 
🔑 Stamp Seed — Between 3-6 million Bitcoin are lost forever. Most of it paper. Hammer your seed words into solid titanium — fire-resistant to 3,000°F. 15% OFF → <a href="http://stampseed.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">stampseed.com</a> | code MATRIX 
🟠 Club Orange — The location-based social network built for the Bitcoin community. Find Bitcoiners, meetups, and merchants near you. Download in the App Store or Google Play. <a href="http://cluborange.org/matrix-podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer">cluborange.org/matrix-podcast</a> 
₿ Bitcoin Well — Concierge OTC for serious Bitcoin buys. $50k+ handled one-on-one, from first call to settlement. Global, by application. <a href="http://infinite.bitcoinwell.com/get-qualified/bitcoinmatrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">infinite.bitcoinwell.com/get-qualified/bitcoinmatrix</a> 
🟧 The Bitcoin Way — Bitcoin, cybersecurity &amp; Plan B services. Become a sovereign individual — self-custody setup and security done with you, one-on-one. <a href="http://thebitcoinway.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">thebitcoinway.com</a> 
🔐 Unchained — 90,000+ BTC secured in collaborative multisig since 2016. Bitcoin-only. Never lent out a sat. IRAs, loans, inheritance planning. 10% OFF → <a href="http://unchained.com/matrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">unchained.com/matrix</a> | code MATRIX10 
💎 River — Buy Bitcoin the right way. Up to $100 FREE Bitcoin. <a href="http://river.com/matrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">river.com/matrix</a> 
🏥 CrowdHealth — Ditch your fiat health insurance like my family did. Join us at CrowdHealth. <a href="http://joincrowdhealth.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">joincrowdhealth.com</a> | code MATRIX 
🛡️ Meanwhile — The world's first Bitcoin life insurance policy. Premiums and payouts in Bitcoin. <a href="http://meanwhile.bm" rel="noopener noreferrer">meanwhile.bm</a> | code YTPFYD 
⛏️ Sazmining — You took the red pill on money. Now own the machine that makes it. Mine your own Bitcoin: own the hardware, 100% renewable, non-custodial, coins straight from the network to your wallet. No intermediary ever holds them. $100 OFF any rig → <a href="http://deals.sazmining.com/bitcoinmatrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">deals.sazmining.com/bitcoinmatrix</a> | code BTCMATRIX
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Bitcoin Secures $1 Trillion and Has No Security Team | Luke de Wolf

"Most of the money problems we talk about with Bitcoin — they're not money problems. They're time problems."
Scott Dedels — founder of Block Rewards and author of The Age of Time — says the clock is a technology. It was invented about 600 years ago, and somewhere along the way we forgot it was ever invented at all. His claim: the problem of time is upstream of the problem of money. Fiat was downstream of a civilization that had already agreed to be ruled by a machine that only moves forward, in the direction of consumption. We went from asking what is time to only ever asking what time is it. We get into the Prague Orloj and the birth of mechanical time, the 1944 essay that turned time into a commodity, Saturn as civilization's invisible operating system, why we stopped building 300-year cathedrals, AI and the information hyperstream — and Bitcoin as a ten-minute heartbeat no one controls.
Subscribe so you never miss an episode.
🎙️ GUEST 
Scott Dedels — Block Rewards, Bitcoin payroll. US waitlist now open. 
The Age of Time (book) → <a href="http://theageoftime.com">theageoftime.com</a> — autographed copies, pay in Bitcoin. Also on Amazon. 
Scott on X → <a href="http://x.com/LanternBitcoin">x.com/LanternBitcoin</a>Also author of The Dao of Bitcoin
💰 SPONSORS & DISCOUNTS 
🐟 Firefish — Don't sell your Bitcoin. Live off it. Non-custodial Bitcoin-backed loans. Your keys stay in 3-of-3 multisig. Rehypothecation is cryptographically impossible. $160M+ facilitated. 27,000+ users across 70 countries. <a href="http://firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX">firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX</a> | code MATRIX 
🔑 Stamp Seed — Between 3-6 million Bitcoin are lost forever. Most of it paper. Hammer your seed words into solid titanium — fire-resistant to 3,000°F. 15% OFF → <a href="http://stampseed.com">stampseed.com</a> | code MATRIX 
🟠 Club Orange — The location-based social network built for the Bitcoin community. Find Bitcoiners, meetups, and merchants near you. Download in the App Store or Google Play. <a href="http://cluborange.org/matrix-podcast">cluborange.org/matrix-podcast</a>₿ Bitcoin Well — Concierge OTC for serious Bitcoin buys. $50k+ handled one-on-one, from first call to settlement. Global, by application. <a href="http://infinite.bitcoinwell.com/get-qualified/bitcoinmatrix">infinite.bitcoinwell.com/get-qualified/bitcoinmatrix</a>🟧 The Bitcoin Way — Bitcoin, cybersecurity & Plan B services. Become a sovereign individual — self-custody setup and security done with you, one-on-one. <a href="http://thebitcoinway.com">thebitcoinway.com</a>🔐 Unchained — 90,000+ BTC secured in collaborative multisig since 2016. Bitcoin-only. Never lent out a sat. IRAs, loans, inheritance planning. 10% OFF → <a href="http://unchained.com/matrix">unchained.com/matrix</a> | code MATRIX10 
💎 River — Buy Bitcoin the right way. Up to $100 FREE Bitcoin. <a href="http://river.com/matrix">river.com/matrix</a>🏥 CrowdHealth — Ditch your fiat health insurance like my family did. Join us at CrowdHealth. <a href="http://joincrowdhealth.com">joincrowdhealth.com</a> | code MATRIX 
🛡️ Meanwhile — The world's first Bitcoin life insurance policy. Premiums and payouts in Bitcoin. <a href="http://meanwhile.bm">meanwhile.bm</a> | code YTPFYD 
⛏️ Sazmining — You took the red pill on money. Now own the machine that makes it. Mine your own Bitcoin: own the hardware, 100% renewable, non-custodial, coins straight from the network to your wallet. No intermediary ever holds them. $100 OFF any rig → <a href="http://deals.sazmining.com/bitcoinmatrix">deals.sazmining.com/bitcoinmatrix</a> | code BTCMATRIX
🙏 SUPPORT THE SHOW 
⚡ Strike → <a href="mailto:BitcoinMatrix@strike.me">BitcoinMatrix@strike.me</a>💵 PayPal → <a href="http://paypal.biz/BitcoinMatrix">paypal.biz/BitcoinMatrix</a>💚 Cash App → cash.app/$BitcoinMatrix 
💜 Venmo → <a href="http://venmo.com/u/bitcoinmatrix">venmo.com/u/bitcoinmatrix</a>📬 PO Box → The Bitcoin Matrix, P.O. Box 18056, Sarasota, FL 34231
📱 FOLLOW 
🌐 Website → <a href="http://TheBitcoinMatrix.com">TheBitcoinMatrix.com</a>🐦 Cedric on X → <a href="http://x.com/cedyoungelman">x.com/cedyoungelman</a>🐦 Show on X → <a href="http://x.com/_bitcoinmatrix">x.com/_bitcoinmatrix</a>🟣 Nostr → npub12tq9jxmt707gd5vnce3tqllpm67ktr0mqskcvy58qqa4d074pz9s4ukdcs
⚠️ DISCLAIMER For entertainment and educational purposes only. Not financial, legal, or investment advice. Always do your own research.

"Most of the money problems we talk about with Bitcoin — they're not money problems. They're time problems." Scott Dedels — founder of Block Rewards and author of The Age of Time — says the clock is a technology. It was invented about 600 years ago, and somewhere along the way we forgot it was ever invented at all. His claim: the problem of time is upstream of the problem of money. Fiat was downstream of a civilization that had already agreed to be ruled by a machine that only moves forward, in the direction of consumption. We went from asking what is time to only ever asking what time is it. We get into the Prague Orloj and the birth of mechanical time, the 1944 essay that turned time into a commodity, Saturn as civilization's invisible operating system, why we stopped building 300-year cathedrals, AI and the information hyperstream — and Bitcoin as a ten-minute heartbeat no one controls. Subscribe so you never miss an episode. 🎙️ GUEST Scott Dedels — Block Rewards, Bitcoin payroll. US waitlist now open. The Age of Time (book) → theageoftime.com — autographed copies, pay in Bitcoin. Also on Amazon. Scott on X → x.com/LanternBitcoinAlso author of The Dao of Bitcoin 💰 SPONSORS & DISCOUNTS 🐟 Firefish — Don't sell your Bitcoin. Live off it. Non-custodial Bitcoin-backed loans. Your keys stay in 3-of-3 multisig. Rehypothecation is cryptographically impossible. $160M+ facilitated. 27,000+ users across 70 countries. firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX | code MATRIX 🔑 Stamp Seed — Between 3-6 million Bitcoin are lost forever. Most of it paper. Hammer your seed words into solid titanium — fire-resistant to 3,000°F. 15% OFF → stampseed.com | code MATRIX 🟠 Club Orange — The location-based social network built for the Bitcoin community. Find Bitcoiners, meetups, and merchants near you. Download in the App Store or Google Play. cluborange.org/matrix-podcast₿ Bitcoin Well — Concierge OTC for serious Bitcoin buys. $50k+ handled one-on-one, from first call to settlement. Global, by application. infinite.bitcoinwell.com/get-qualified/bitcoinmatrix🟧 The Bitcoin Way — Bitcoin, cybersecurity & Plan B services. Become a sovereign individual — self-custody setup and security done with you, one-on-one. thebitcoinway.com🔐 Unchained — 90,000+ BTC secured in collaborative multisig since 2016. Bitcoin-only. Never lent out a sat. IRAs, loans, inheritance planning. 10% OFF → unchained.com/matrix | code MATRIX10 💎 River — Buy Bitcoin the right way. Up to $100 FREE Bitcoin. river.com/matrix🏥 CrowdHealth — Ditch your fiat health insurance like my family did. Join us at CrowdHealth. joincrowdhealth.com | code MATRIX 🛡️ Meanwhile — The world's first Bitcoin life insurance policy. Premiums and payouts in Bitcoin. meanwhile.bm | code YTPFYD ⛏️ Sazmining — You took the red pill on money. Now own the machine that makes it. Mine your own Bitcoin: own the hardware, 100% renewable, non-custodial, coins straight from the network to your wallet. No intermediary ever holds them. $100 OFF any rig → deals.sazmining.com/bitcoinmatrix | code BTCMATRIX 🙏 SUPPORT THE SHOW ⚡ Strike → BitcoinMatrix@strike.me💵 PayPal → paypal.biz/BitcoinMatrix💚 Cash App → cash.app/$BitcoinMatrix 💜 Venmo → venmo.com/u/bitcoinmatrix📬 PO Box → The Bitcoin Matrix, P.O. Box 18056, Sarasota, FL 34231 📱 FOLLOW 🌐 Website → TheBitcoinMatrix.com🐦 Cedric on X → x.com/cedyoungelman🐦 Show on X → x.com/_bitcoinmatrix🟣 Nostr → npub12tq9jxmt707gd5vnce3tqllpm67ktr0mqskcvy58qqa4d074pz9s4ukdcs ⚠️ DISCLAIMER For entertainment and educational purposes only. Not financial, legal, or investment advice. Always do your own research.

"Most of the money problems we talk about with Bitcoin — they're not money problems. They're time problems."
Scott Dedels — founder of Block Rewards and author of The Age of Time — says the clock is a technology. It was invented about 600 years ago, and somewhere along the way we forgot it was ever invented at all. His claim: the problem of time is upstream of the problem of money. Fiat was downstream of a civilization that had already agreed to be ruled by a machine that only moves forward, in the direction of consumption. We went from asking what is time to only ever asking what time is it. We get into the Prague Orloj and the birth of mechanical time, the 1944 essay that turned time into a commodity, Saturn as civilization's invisible operating system, why we stopped building 300-year cathedrals, AI and the information hyperstream — and Bitcoin as a ten-minute heartbeat no one controls.
Subscribe so you never miss an episode.
🎙️ GUEST 
Scott Dedels — Block Rewards, Bitcoin payroll. US waitlist now open. 
The Age of Time (book) → <a href="http://theageoftime.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">theageoftime.com</a> — autographed copies, pay in Bitcoin. Also on Amazon. 
Scott on X → <a href="http://x.com/LanternBitcoin" rel="noopener noreferrer">x.com/LanternBitcoin</a>Also author of The Dao of Bitcoin
💰 SPONSORS &amp; DISCOUNTS 
🐟 Firefish — Don't sell your Bitcoin. Live off it. Non-custodial Bitcoin-backed loans. Your keys stay in 3-of-3 multisig. Rehypothecation is cryptographically impossible. $160M+ facilitated. 27,000+ users across 70 countries. <a href="http://firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX" rel="noopener noreferrer">firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX</a> | code MATRIX 
🔑 Stamp Seed — Between 3-6 million Bitcoin are lost forever. Most of it paper. Hammer your seed words into solid titanium — fire-resistant to 3,000°F. 15% OFF → <a href="http://stampseed.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">stampseed.com</a> | code MATRIX 
🟠 Club Orange — The location-based social network built for the Bitcoin community. Find Bitcoiners, meetups, and merchants near you. Download in the App Store or Google Play. <a href="http://cluborange.org/matrix-podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer">cluborange.org/matrix-podcast</a>₿ Bitcoin Well — Concierge OTC for serious Bitcoin buys. $50k+ handled one-on-one, from first call to settlement. Global, by application. <a href="http://infinite.bitcoinwell.com/get-qualified/bitcoinmatrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">infinite.bitcoinwell.com/get-qualified/bitcoinmatrix</a>🟧 The Bitcoin Way — Bitcoin, cybersecurity &amp; Plan B services. Become a sovereign individual — self-custody setup and security done with you, one-on-one. <a href="http://thebitcoinway.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">thebitcoinway.com</a>🔐 Unchained — 90,000+ BTC secured in collaborative multisig since 2016. Bitcoin-only. Never lent out a sat. IRAs, loans, inheritance planning. 10% OFF → <a href="http://unchained.com/matrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">unchained.com/matrix</a> | code MATRIX10 
💎 River — Buy Bitcoin the right way. Up to $100 FREE Bitcoin. <a href="http://river.com/matrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">river.com/matrix</a>🏥 CrowdHealth — Ditch your fiat health insurance like my family did. Join us at CrowdHealth. <a href="http://joincrowdhealth.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">joincrowdhealth.com</a> | code MATRIX 
🛡️ Meanwhile — The world's first Bitcoin life insurance policy. Premiums and payouts in Bitcoin. <a href="http://meanwhile.bm" rel="noopener noreferrer">meanwhile.bm</a> | code YTPFYD 
⛏️ Sazmining — You took the red pill on money. Now own the machine that makes it. Mine your own Bitcoin: own the hardware, 100% renewable, non-custodial, coins straight from the network to your wallet. No intermediary ever holds them. $100 OFF any rig → <a href="http://deals.sazmining.com/bitcoinmatrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">deals.sazmining.com/bitcoinmatrix</a> | code BTCMATRIX
🙏 SUPPORT THE SHOW 
⚡ Strike → <a href="mailto:BitcoinMatrix@strike.me" rel="noopener noreferrer">BitcoinMatrix@strike.me</a>💵 PayPal → <a href="http://paypal.biz/BitcoinMatrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">paypal.biz/BitcoinMatrix</a>💚 Cash App → cash.app/$BitcoinMatrix 
💜 Venmo → <a href="http://venmo.com/u/bitcoinmatrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">venmo.com/u/bitcoinmatrix</a>📬 PO Box → The Bitcoin Matrix, P.O. Box 18056, Sarasota, FL 34231
📱 FOLLOW 
🌐 Website → <a href="http://TheBitcoinMatrix.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">TheBitcoinMatrix.com</a>🐦 Cedric on X → <a href="http://x.com/cedyoungelman" rel="noopener noreferrer">x.com/cedyoungelman</a>🐦 Show on X → <a href="http://x.com/_bitcoinmatrix" rel="noopener noreferrer">x.com/_bitcoinmatrix</a>🟣 Nostr → npub12tq9jxmt707gd5vnce3tqllpm67ktr0mqskcvy58qqa4d074pz9s4ukdcs
⚠️ DISCLAIMER For entertainment and educational purposes only. Not financial, legal, or investment advice. Always do your own research.

The Tyranny of the Clock | Scott Dedels, The Age of Time

In this episode, Ali Hamam talks about converting Tahini's Restaurant's cash reserves into Bitcoin. Topics include Ali's Bitcoin journey, leaving Egypt, empowering communuties and an important message for the Muslim community.

In this episode, Ali Hamam talks about converting Tahini's Restaurant's cash reserves into Bitcoin. Topics include Ali's Bitcoin journey, leaving Egypt, empowering communuties and an important message for the Muslim community.

Ali Hamam from Tahinis Restaurants: Going on a Bitcoin Standard, Leaving Egypt & Empowering Communities

In the show's debut, host Cedric Youngelman talks about the world of Bitcoin with renowned expert on the investment case for Bitcoin, Pierre Rochard. Topics include Pierre's origins in the space, the role of technology in reducing the cost of self-defense, Breonna Taylor and more.

In the show's debut, host Cedric Youngelman talks about the world of Bitcoin with renowned expert on the investment case for Bitcoin, Pierre Rochard. Topics include Pierre's origins in the space, the role of technology in reducing the cost of self-defense, Breonna Taylor and more.

Pierre Rochard: Accumulating Bitcoin, Libertarianism & Anarcho-Capitalism

Let's explore Bitcoin, the future of money and the social, cultural, economical and philosophical implications of this new technology. Hosted by Cedric Youngelman.

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