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October 07126: Saying It Out Loud
They're finally admitting inflation is the plan for America's debt. Will the market recognize Bitcoin as the escape hatch before the damage is done?
Episode Links
🎉 Boost from the Web
🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US
🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform
💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning
🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats
💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling
⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans.
Show Notes
BlackRock Says AI Agents May Save in Bitcoin for Long-Term Value Preservation
Jack Mallers Announces Stacks for Strike Savings
Why Bitcoin Dropped $2,000 in 20 Minutes
Charles Schwab Says U.S. Investors Want More Crypto Exposure
Arch Lending Makes the Case for Bitcoin-Backed Loans
U.S. Government Moves $103 Million in Seized Bitcoin and BNB
Russia’s Sberbank Gets Approval to Custody Bitcoin
Robinhood Adds $25 Million in Bitcoin to Its Treasury
Ledger Adds Bitcoin-Backed Loans Through Morpho
Simple Mining Acquires Iowa Bitcoin Mining Site
Fed Officials See Another Rate Hike Coming
Inflation Expectations Rise to Highest Level Since 2023
10-Year Treasury Yield Pulls Back After Strong Bond Auction
Trump Says Inflation Could Pay Down the Debt Rapidly
Higher Inflation Framed as a Way to Reduce U.S. Debt Burden
U.S. Home Foreclosures Surge 42%
Boomers Back Higher Taxes on Younger Workers to Preserve Social Security Benefits
56 min
September 30125: Losing the Plot
Everyone in charge of money lost the plot this week. Bitcoin never had one to lose.
🎉 Boost from the Web
🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US
🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform
💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning
🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats
💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling
⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans.
Show Notes
Bitcoin Core 32 Enters Final Testing
Liquid Network Security Incident Assessment
Block Adds Lightning Payments to x402 for AI Agents
Sparrow Wallet 2.5.5 Released After Security Reviews
BTCPay Server 2.4.4 Blocks New LND Takeover Route
Bitcoin ETF Inflows Leave Institutional Demand Unclear
Bitcoin Tests Long-Term Holder Supply Cluster
Bitcoin Hovers Around $84,000 After Gold Tumbles
Luke Gromen Fades Bitcoin While Staying Bullish on Debasement
PCE Methodology Changes Could Lower Core Inflation
PCE Revision Is Not a Disinflationary Signal
Fed’s Williams Signals Openness to a Pause
Why One Strategist Does Not Fully Buy the Debasement Trade
When Wealth Becomes Money: Why Crypto Matters
Tokenize Everything, but Can You Sell It?
Trump Says He Does Not Know Whether Iran Will Give Up
1 hr 23 min
September 23124: Why Bitcoin Ripped
Bitcoin ripped when the old narratives said it shouldn’t. How we got here and what it means for the four-year cycle.
Episode Links
🎉 Boost from the Web
🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US
🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform
💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning
🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats
💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling
⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans.
Show Notes
Hegseth Confirms Bitcoin as a Strategic Asset
White House Crypto Report: Key Takeaways
Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Executive Order
Bitcoin Absorbs Fed Hike and CLARITY Failure
White House Shifts Bitcoin Rule Push to Regulators
Bitcoin ETFs Take Nearly $1 Billion in a Day
Bitcoin Flashes Signal Linked to Past Bull Markets
Strategy Resumes Bitcoin Buying as Strive Gains More BTC per Share
Tesla’s Bitcoin Holdings Near $1 Billion
Dormant 600 BTC Wallet From 2012 Wakes Up
Calamos Says Bitcoin Is Becoming a Portfolio Allocation
Coinbase’s Post-Quantum Bitcoin Custody Playbook
Post-Quantum Security for the Bitcoin Lightning Network
Quantum-Proof Bitcoin Lightning Network
White-Hat Hackers Move Coldcard Exploit Bitcoin Into Recovery Trust
BlackRock Sees AI Agents Driving Crypto Demand
Grayscale Converts Bitcoin Miners ETF Into AI Compute Fund
Iran Inflation Surges Amid Economic Pressure
52 min
September 16123: No Rescue
The Fed is raising rates into an energy supply shock, just as the AI trade starts sabotaging itself from within.
🎉 Boost from the Web
🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US
🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform
💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning
🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats
💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling
⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans.
Show Notes
Fed rate decision September 2026: Rates rise to 3.75%-4%
Here are five key takeaways from Wednesday's Fed rate hike
CLARITY Act Fails Senate Cloture Vote
CLARITY Act Falls Short in the Senate
Digital Asset Market Clarity Act Text
Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bill Heads to House Committee
American Reserve Modernization Act of 2026
House Financial Services Committee on Digital Asset Legislation
Bitcoin ETFs Record $450 Million Outflow
Bessent Bond Plan Details Emerge
Bessent Dismisses Treasury Buyback Concerns
What Treasury’s Buyback Surprise Says About the Bond Market
10-Year Treasury Yield Tops 5%
What a 5% 10-Year Treasury Yield Means
S&P 500 Could Fall 30% as AI Bubble Enters Late Stages
Altman Says AI Could Create the Greatest Business Boom
Bitcoin Policy Institute Head of Research Testifies Before Congress on Foreign Influence Campaign Targeting American AI
1 hr 5 min
September 09122: Weakest Links
The legacy system is breaking down as Bitcoin infrastructure builds up. From bond-market stress to Liquid’s 4,000 BTC crisis, the weakest links are showing.
Episode Links
🎉 Boost from the Web
🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US
🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform
💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning
🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats
💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling
⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans.
Show Notes
Liquid Network Exploit Drains 4,000 BTC From Federation Reserves
Liquid Network Hit by $320 Million Exploit
Liquid Rangeproof Bug: Nobody Broke the Math
Liquid Network Incident Technical Report
Elements Fixes Rangeproof Cache Validation Bug
Liquid Incident Working Theory
Block Applies to Establish Builders Bank
Block Seeks Bank Charter to Custody Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s Overlooked Promise: Freedom
Dan Morehead Says Bitcoin Will Massively Outperform Gold
Failed Bond-Market Move Lights a Fire Under Bitcoin
Dan Morehead Calls Bessent’s Bond Buyback a Mistake
The 60/40 Portfolio and a Changing Monetary System
Bond-Market Stress Spooks Investors
Global Investors Sound the Alarm on Debt
What Would a Fiscal Crisis Look Like?
Warsh and Bessent Clash Over the Fed and Bond Market
56 min
September 02121: No Going Back
A structural shift is taking hold across markets, institutions, and Bitcoin. And this week, it suddenly felt a lot more permanent.
Episode Links
🎉 Boost from the Web
🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US
🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform
💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning
🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats
💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling
⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans.
Show Notes
OCEAN and Luke Dashjr Joint Statement
Crypto Misses the Macro Trade
Bitcoin, Gold and Fed Liquidity
The AI Mid-Cycle Slowdown
Bitcoin to Hit $82,000 in September: Kalshi
Capital B Raises €7.6M From Adam Back To Another Bitcoin Buy
9/11 Families File Claim Over US Bitcoin Holdings
Trump's Crypto Push and Bessent's Treasury Moves
Bessent Bets on Stablecoins for Treasury Demand
PACTs: Protecting Bitcoin From a Quantum Sunset
All Property Becomes Cryptography
From Fiat Information to Cryptoinformation
De-Dollarization Is Really De-Fiatization
The Global Shift From Dollars to Gold
The Case for Bitcoin at $1.3 Million
Bitcoin's First Quantum-Safe Transaction
What Bitcoin's First Quantum-Safe Transaction Means
A Treasury Showdown With the Bond Market
51 min
August 26120: You Can’t Print Credibility
As the AI trade cools and Washington leans harder on the bond market, Bitcoin and hard assets are reminding investors that credibility is the one thing you can’t print.
Episode Links
🎉 Boost from the Web
🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US
🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform
💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning
🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats
💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling
⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans.
Show Notes
Bessent’s Treasury Buybacks Could Exceed $4 Billion
Druckenmiller Slams Bessent’s Bond Buybacks
Druckenmiller Calls Treasury Bond Buying a Mistake
Citi Economist Says Bessent’s Bond Plan Won’t Work
Citi: US Fiscal Position Is Absolutely Out of Control
Dollar Debasement Talk Returns
Bessent’s Buyback Revives the Debasement Thesis
Bessent’s Bond Rescue Worked Better for Bitcoin
Bessent Kicks Bitcoin’s Debasement Trade Into Another Gear
Bitcoin Posts Best Week in Three Years
Bitcoin and Gold: It’s Difficult to Be Bearish
Should Investors Be Bullish on Bitcoin’s Latest Surge?
Coinbase Institutional Weekly Market Commentary
BlackRock IBIT SEC Filing
Bitcoin Halving and Supply
Lightning Labs Taproot Assets v0.8
Bitcoin, ETFs and the Crypto Short Squeeze
Major Rotation Hits the Bull Market
The Biggest Tech Trend We’ve Ever Seen
Scott Bessent Plants the Seeds for a Crack-Up
US Treasury Fiscal Data
Treasury Disrupts Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Financial Network
Treasury Broadens Sanctions Against Iran
Bessent Expands Iran Sanctions Against Chinese Firms
Treasury Launches Operation Economic Outcast
Bessent Warns Countries to Cut Financial Ties With Iran
Treasury’s New Approach to Iranian Sanctions Evasion
The Double-Edged Sword of Dollar Sanctions
Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
1 hr 3 min
August 19119: Debt Always Wins
Washington reaches for Hamiltonian economics, the bond market pushes back, and Bitcoin rips for exactly the reasons Bitcoiners warned about.
Episode Links
🎉 Boost from the Web
🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US
🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform
💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning
🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats
💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling
⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans.
Show Notes
BIP-110 Post Mortem
Luke Dashjr Proposes BLAKE2b Bitcoin Hard Fork
Monetary Nodes: A Spam-Free Bitcoin Without a Fork
Lyn Alden on Bitcoin Fee-Based Security
Bitcoin ETF Inflows Hit $137 Million
Treasury Doubles Long-Term Bond Buybacks
Treasury Steps In as Long-Bond Yields Surge
Critical Takes on Treasury's Bond Buyback Intervention
Why Bessent Is Playing With the Treasury Market
US Debt Forces Investors to Demand Higher Returns
Global Bond Rout Puts Governments on Notice
30-Year Treasury Yield Hits Highest Since 2007
Foreign Holdings of US Treasuries Fall
Dollar Drops After Treasury Expands Bond Buybacks
Gold Surges as Treasury Buybacks Hit Yields and Dollar
Fed Minutes Show Growing Inflation Concerns
Oil and Debt Fears Drive Global Borrowing Costs Higher
Oil Above $90 Revives US Inflation Fears
Soft US Data Keeps Pressure on the Dollar
Metaplanet Commits 2,100 BTC to US Treasury Venture
BlackRock Reaffirms Bitcoin Investment Case
Citi Plans Bitcoin Custody Alongside Stocks and Bonds
Large Holders Pour $2.75 Billion Into Bitcoin
Bitwise Sees Bitcoin Substantially Higher by Year-End
JD Vance and the Dollar's Reserve Currency Role
JD Vance Is Right
Can the Dollar Maintain Its Exorbitant Privilege?
Electrum 4.8.1 Released With Security Fixes
BitBox Warns Users About Severe Vulnerability
BitBox 08.2026 Dixence Update
Hunting Down the Coldcard Hacker
Zeus Security Incident Post-Mortem
DOJ Developer Exemptions
World Gold Council CEO Says Bitcoin Will Go to Zero
CNBC on the CLARITY Act and White House Meeting
Bitwise Says Crypto Can Grow Without the CLARITY Act
1 hr 2 min
August 12Why BIP-110 Failed
Why BIP 110 failed, what its three block fork revealed about Bitcoin consensus, and the push for a proof of work change, plus weakening jobs and NVIDIA’s new AI asset class that could become an even bigger liquidity vacuum for Bitcoin.
Episode Links
🎉 Boost from the Web
🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US
🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform
💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning
🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats
💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling
⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans.
Show Notes
Absolutely. I removed the duplicates, stripped tracking/query cruft where possible, tightened the titles, and grouped the Bitcoin/security stories first, followed by macro/jobs and then the miscellaneous research links.
ZEUS Goes Offline After Cybersecurity Incident
BTCPay Server 2.4.2 Security Advisory
COLDCARD Entropy Failure: Technical Autopsy
COLDCARD Attackers Begin Laundering Stolen Bitcoin
Bitcoin Red Team Expands Ecosystem Security Audit
Bitcoin Red Team Reports Thousands of Findings
Blockstream Announces Swaps
Floresta 2026 Node Roadmap
Libbitcoin Is Coming
Anthropic Signs $9.1 Billion Deal With Bitcoin Miner Riot
BIP-110 Fork Stalls After Mining Two Blocks
BIP-110 Attracts Just 0.15% of Bitcoin Hashpower
OCEAN Says BIP-110 Is on Track to Fail
What Is the BIP-110 Upgrade?
Bitcoin Is Not Changed by Proof of Node
Mechanic on Why Not Changing Proof of Work Was a Mistake
Bitcoin Cash Precedent for BIP-110
A Critical BIP-110 Take
Motion to Remove Luke Dashjr From BIP Editors
Pull Request to Remove Luke Dashjr From BIP Editors
BIP-110 Code Review Takeaways
Bitcoin Cash
Bitcoin Cash Block-Time Discussion
Strategy Says Selling Bitcoin Demonstrated Treasury Resilience
Strategy Q1 2026 Earnings Transcript
Strategy’s Bitcoin Treasury Model
Senate Crypto Bill Faces Another Setback
U.S. Economy Lost 23,000 Jobs in July
July Jobs Report Market Reaction
Private Payrolls Added Just 44,000 Jobs in July
July Payrolls Preview: Job Growth Expected to Stay Weak
Stocks Jump After Surprise Jobs Decline
Weak Jobs Report Pushes Rate-Hike Odds Lower
Incarcerated Person Access to News Media
Constraints and Opportunities in Interview Transcription
Music:
The Jetsons By: Joe Martin
1 hr 31 min
August 05117: Coldcard Fallout
We unpack the widening Coldcard fallout, the uncomfortable lessons Bitcoiners need to face, and a major macro intervention that reveals just how trapped the financial system has become.
Episode Links
🎉 Boost from the Web
🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US
🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform
💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning
🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats
💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling
⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans.
Show Notes
COLDCARD Mk3 Seed Generation Warning
COLDCARD Entropy Issue: Technical Background
Predictable RNG Fallback in COLDCARD Firmware
COLDCARD Entropy and Nonce Analysis
COLDCARD TRNG Recovery Fix
When random.bytes() Runs but Doesn’t Work
COLDCARD’s Random Numbers Weren’t
Everything to Know About the COLDCARD Hack
How COLDCARD Wallets Lost $70 Million
COLDCARD Exploit Shakes Faith in Self-Custody
COLDCARD Wallet Attack Drains Up to $89 Million
COLDCARD Flaw Linked to $70 Million Theft
COLDCARD Attacker Stole $30 Million in 10 Minutes
COLDCARD Firmware Bug Drained $38 Million
COLDCARD Firmware Bug Bypassed RNG for Five Years
Hackers Target Bitcoin’s Safest Hiding Place
COLDCARD Attack Pushes Bitcoin Toward Exchanges
$38 Million Swept Through Weak Seed Entropy
More Details on COLDCARD Bricking
COLDCARD Incident Victim Intake
How Blockstream Jade Generates Recovery Phrases
BlockSlop: BIP-110 Chainstate Validation Gap
Bitcoin Developer Revives PoW-Change Code for BIP-110
BIP-110 and Who Decides Bitcoin’s Future
BIP-110 Falls Flat With Zero Miner Support
Did IBM’s Quantum Timeline Spook Jim Cramer?
Jim Cramer Rethinks Bitcoin Over Quantum Risk
Lummis Says CLARITY Act Delay Could Kill the Bill
Lummis Presses CLARITY Act Holdouts
Warren’s Opening Remarks on the CLARITY Act
Warren Warns About Crypto Money Laundering
Fed Holds Rates Steady as Warsh Fights Inflation
Warsh’s Quieter Fed Communication Strategy
A Quieter Fed Could Mean More Volatile Markets
Warsh Says the Fed Has No Tolerance for Inflation
Warsh Reiterates the Fed’s Inflation Pledge
June 2026 FOMC Statement
U.S. Treasury Signals Possible Yen Intervention
Why the U.S. Stepped In to Support the Yen
Why Trump Is Propping Up Japan’s Currency
Bessent Says the Japanese Yen Looks Undervalued
Delayed BOJ Hike Adds Pressure on the Yen
Lessons From the Plaza Accord
The Real Lessons From the Plaza and Louvre Accords
Music:
Empty Passenger Seat by Joe Martin
1 hr 30 min

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