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July 31116: Coldcard Wallets Compromised
An urgent warning for COLDCARD users: Coinkite says funds tied to seeds generated on some Mk3 devices may be at risk, and we examine why other hardware wallets could be next.
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
Mk3 Security Advisory | COINKITE Blog
Bitcoin News on X: "BITCOIN CORE DEVELOPER: “SORRY, THIS IS THE TIME TO PANIC”
Nick Neuman on X: "It sounds like Mk4, Q, and Mk5 are also vulnerable in a different way than Mk3.
Zero-Knowledge Goof (Loop master general) on X: "MK4s are vulnerable but are millions of times harder to steal from.
14 min
July 29115: Before Satoshi
Bitcoin did not emerge from a vacuum. We trace the decades of ideas that made it possible, and revisit the early days when it all came together.
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
David Chaum demonstrates electronic cash at the first World Wide Web Conference (1994)
David Chaum and Adam Back reflect on DigiCash, Hashcash, and the crypto wars
Adam Back explains Hashcash and its original anti-spam purpose
Nick Szabo discusses cypherpunks, bit gold, and Bitcoin's predecessors
Adam Back: Hashcash — A Denial of Service Counter-Measure
Wei Dai: b-money
Nick Szabo: Bit gold
Hal Finney: Reusable Proofs of Work
Satoshi's correspondence with Adam Back and Wei Dai
Satoshi Nakamoto: Bitcoin — A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Plan B
BETA | Plan B 1
Just Getting Started | Plan B 2
Flight of the Butterfly | Plan B 3
Inside BitVegas | Plan B 4
To Mine or Not to Mine? | Plan B 5
Spending Your Coins | Plan B 6
Amir Taaki and Bitcoin 2013 Wrap-Up | Plan B 7
Then They Fight You | Plan B 8
Bitcoin Will Disrupt Big Media | Plan B 9
90 Days or Bust | Plan B 10
Be Your Own Bitcoin Exchange | Plan B 11
Bitcoin vs. the Banks | Plan B 12
Blame It on Mt. Gox | Plan B 13
Winklevoss Woes | Plan B 14
Bitcoin Must Comply | Plan B 15
Summer of Bitcoin | Plan B 16
Regulation Dooms Bitcoin? | Plan B 17
The Big-Picture Perspective | Plan B 18
U.S. vs. the Bitcoin Revolution | Plan B 19
Bitcoin Is Legal-ish | Plan B 20
34 min
July 22114: Hard Money Wins
Open source AI is shaking the capex boom, energy inflation is tightening liquidity, and gold’s old weaknesses are back in focus, while BlackRock and even gold bugs keep making the case 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
Foundry Asks Miners to Vote on BIP-110
BIP-110 Deadline Nears With Zero Miner Support
What Is BIP-110?
Michael Saylor Opposes BIP-110
Bitcoin Core on Transaction Relay Policy
Bitcoin Macro Strategy
Lyn Alden Launches Bitcoin-Backed Investment Firm
Orange Juice Raises $40 Million for Bitcoin Treasury Strategy
Lyn Alden’s June 2026 Newsletter
Trump Presses Senators on the CLARITY Act
CLARITY Act Faces Make-or-Break Moment
Trump’s Crypto Legislation Push Gains Steam
Warner Pushes Senate Crypto Bill
Warner Calls Senate Negotiations “Crypto Hell”
Warren Demands Ethics Rules in Crypto Legislation
Luke Gromen on Gold, Energy, and the Monetary System
Luke Gromen Debates a Global Monetary Reset
Energy Markets Brace for Prolonged Hormuz Disruption
Oil Hits a One-Month High
Hormuz Oil Flows Fall Sharply
Goldman Flags Further Oil Price Risk
Moonshot’s New AI Model Rattles Tech Markets
SpaceX Stock Falls Below Its IPO Price
Falling California Rents and AI Wealth
Haters Will Say He Was Just Luckey
Music:
Cool Summer By: Tony Salomone
1 hr 20 min
July 15113: The August Trap
Markets cheer cooler CPI and rate-cut hopes as another energy shock builds beneath them. Meanwhile, BIP-110’s August 8 signaling deadline brings Bitcoin closer to a possible chain split.
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
Bitcoin Rallies on Cooler Inflation
Bitcoin Recovery Needs Fundamentals
Bitcoin ETFs Lose $4.5 Billion in 2026
Bitcoin Eyes a $63.3K Breakout
BIP-110 Could Fork or Miss Activation
Bitcoin Debates BIP-110 Activation
Bitcoin Node Surge Raises Manipulation Claims
White House Plans CLARITY Act Meeting
Fed Races to Release Stablecoin Rules
Bitcoin Standard Treasury Merger Update
Warsh Rejects Crypto Bailouts
June CPI Comes in Surprisingly Cool
Warsh Responds to Cooler CPI
Warsh and Inflation Set the July Fed Tone
Alternative Inflation Signals Facing the Fed
Why Warsh Prefers Trimmed-Mean Inflation
Fed Rate Fight Could Drag On
Five Takeaways From Warsh’s Testimony
Warsh Promises a Fed Policy Regime Change
Warsh Calls for New Thinking at the Fed
Warsh Says the Fed Has No Inflation Tolerance
Warsh’s Monetary Policy Testimony
Warsh House Testimony Coverage
Watch Warsh’s House Testimony
Lawmakers Question Warsh on Inflation
Warsh’s Written Senate Responses
Waters Criticizes Trump’s Federal Reserve
Warsh Says He Won’t Do Trump’s Bidding
Inflation Reports Set Up a Busy Week
Economy Slows as Rate Hikes Take Hold
Oil Surges as U.S.–Iran Attacks Escalate
Trump Reimposes the Iran Blockade
Trump Announces Strait of Hormuz Toll
Strategic Petroleum Reserve Nears Breaking Point
U.S. Crude Inventories Fall 1.7 Million Barrels
Bitdeer Plans Nevada Manufacturing Facility
Ethereum Foundation Shakeup Timeline
Fed Governor Barr on AI and Labor
Warsh Says AI Is Reshaping the Economy
Is the AI Boom Misallocating Capital?
Music:
Rules Without Rulers By: Richard
59 min
July 08112: The Saylor Test
Bitcoin passes The Saylor Test as Strategy sells and the market shrugs, while weak jobs, energy shocks, Fed risk, and BIP-110 politics turn one green week into a bigger stress test.
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
Show Notes
Blockstream Q2 2026 Update
Bitwise on STRC, MSTR, and Cycle Dynamics
Oil Jumps as Trump Says Iran Deal Is Over
SpaceX Moves Bitcoin Wallet Funds
Bitcoin Sees Relief From ETF Inflows
Ordinals Adds BIP-110 Support
OpenAI Proposes U.S. Government Stake
OpenAI in Talks Over Trump Administration Stake
Bitcoin Pressured as U.S.-Iran Tensions Lift Oil
JPMorgan Warns on Strategy Bitcoin Sales
Can Strategy Selling Bitcoin Boost Shares?
Lyn Alden on Bitcoin’s Bear Market
Satoshi Radio Podcast
VanEck on Bitcoin’s Mid-Cycle Sellers
VanEck Bitcoin ChainCheck: March 2026
Bitcoin and Ethereum Empirical Analysis
CENTCOM Announces Additional Iran Strikes
Iran Accuses U.S. of Violating Peace Deal
U.S. Rescinds Iran Oil Sales Waiver
U.S. Revokes Iran Oil Waivers
Trump Says Iran Ceasefire May Be Over
Trump Says Iran Ceasefire Is Over
Michael Saylor Rage Quits Interview
NIST Finalizes Post-Quantum Standards
Blockstream’s Post-Quantum Bitcoin Opcode
Saylor on Bitcoin Volatility
Saylor’s Past Strategy Sale Claims
Saylor Says Quantum Threat Is 10+ Years Away
Saylor Dismisses Quantum Bitcoin Fears
OCEAN Enables BIP-110 Signal by Default
Ordinals BIP-110 Envelope Parser
Robert Allen on BIP-110
Music:
Off The Chain By: Neonrooks
1 hr 17 min
July 01111: Death of the Debasement Trade
King Dollar is back, the debasement trade is supposedly dead, and Bitcoin is left testing the one question that matters: what happens when Saylor stops buying?
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
Show Notes
Fiscal Dominance: A Primer
This Is The End Of The Dollar System | Jeff Ross
Stanford Wiki Vocabulary Dataset
Strategy Opens Door to Bitcoin Sales as Treasury Model Faces Stress Test
Strategy: Bitcoin As A Treasury Model Faces Stress Test
Michael Saylor Breaks Silence as Strategy Stock Sinks
Michael Saylor Fires Back: “I Never Said The Company Wouldn’t Sell Bitcoin”
Canaan’s Bitcoin Mining Heat Greenhouse Initiative
Mining Bitcoin, Growing Tomatoes
Bitcoin Mining Heat Tested to Warm Canadian Greenhouses
Bitcoin Mining Gets Greener as Canaan Recycles Heat for Agriculture
Adding Bitcoin to a Corporate Treasury
Why Bitcoin Treasury Companies Are Taking Off
Cryptocurrency or Fiat Currency? Volatility or Debasement?
A Closer Look at Bitcoin’s Volatility
Economic Mobility and the American Dream
Breaking the Logic of “Us Against Them”
Most Bitcoin Investors Are Officially Underwater
Bitcoin as an Aspirational Store of Value Revisited
Bitcoin’s Volatility Is Dampening
Music:
Legs Broken by Mishkin Fitzgerald
1 hr 12 min
June 24110: Fork Risk Rising
Bitcoin gets dragged back into the fiat casino as the AI capex bubble starts to crack, while BIP-110 shifts from internet drama to a real fork-risk countdown.
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
Show Notes
Trump Quantum Executive Orders
Trump EO Signing Remarks
Trump Executive Orders, 2025
Jack Mallers Bitcoin Speech
Arthur Hayes on AI Crash and Bitcoin
BIP 110 and the Future of Soft Forks
Knotzi Death March Countdown
BIP 110 Forking Dynamics
Start9 on BIP 110
All the Fork Risk of BIP 110
State of Transaction Privacy Work in Bitcoin
Fed Requests Comment on Stablecoin Issuer ID Rules
Lummis Says CLARITY Act Is Moving in July
Caitlin Long on Bitcoin and Banking Risk
Strategy Drops as Bitcoin Falls
Tech Sell-Off Grips Global Stocks
Trump and Vance Sign US-Iran Agreement
Tom Lee on SpaceX IPO Market Top Fears
SpaceX IPO Forces Wall Street to Reorganize
SpaceX Stock Falls as It Seeks Debt Raise
SpaceX Stock Tumbles After IPO Gains
Jamie Dimon Rips Coinbase CEO
Jamie Dimon Blasts Coinbase
Tyler Residents Raise Bitcoin Mining Concerns
Developer Addresses Tyler Bitcoin Mining Concerns
Trump Signs Quantum Computing Orders
Trump Orders Push to Supercharge Quantum Computing
Music:
Through the Fire By: Nope
1 hr 1 min
June 17109: Market Forced Peace
Everyone expected energy markets to explode. Instead, the Iran deal exposed a deeper signal: oil, debt, inflation, and the Fed now define the limits of American power. Bitcoiners can’t afford to look away.
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
Show Notes
Consumer Inflation Up Over 4%
Annual CPI Inflation Surges to 4.2%
Consumer Price Index Summary: May 2026
Consumer Debt Rises Amid Worsening K-Shaped Divide
Explaining the K-Shaped Economy
Bitcoin Bulls Eye Yield-Curve Control
Surging Dollar Revives Plaza Accord Talk
Bitcoin’s War Rally Challenges the Digital Gold Narrative
Bitcoin Steadies as Iran War Worries Ease
Bitcoin as Hard Money Backed by Energy
BlackRock’s BITA and Institutional Bitcoin Demand
BlackRock Reveals New Income ETF
BlackRock Expands Bitcoin Premium Income ETF Offering
Erica Downs Testimony
Energy Stockpiling as a China Strategic Warning Indicator
Michael Saylor Faces Market Revolt as Bitcoin Premium Sinks
Why the World Didn’t Have an Oil Crisis
Trump Secretly Approved Qatar-Iran Cash Deal
Five Takeaways from Kevin Warsh’s First Fed Meeting
Chairman Warsh Abstains from Rate Forecast
June Fed Meeting Statement Changes
SpaceX Stock Loses Momentum After Rally
Markets React to Kevin Warsh’s First Fed Meeting
Iran to Define Hormuz Future with Oman and Gulf States
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Set for Major Downward Adjustment
SpaceX Joins Public Bitcoin Leaderboard with 18,712 BTC
Alby Hub 1.23: Ark Backend, JIT Channels, Cards Page
Music:
No Shot By: John Trainum
1 hr 4 min
June 10108: The Hard Bet
IPO mania is pulling capital into the biggest promises in the market, just as inflation, energy, and the Fed make every bet harder. This week, why Bitcoin may be the harder long-term bet worth making.
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
Show Notes
CPI inflation report May 2026: Prices rose 4.2% annually
Consumer prices rose 4.2% annually in May, highest in three years - YouTube
You can’t print molecules
Bitcoin’s Worst Week Since FTX Crash Signals More Pain Ahead
The SpaceX IPO could lead to 8% of America’s current-account deficit being refinanced in a single day - MarketWatch
US inflation tops 4% for first time in three years as oil prices jump | CNN Business
Bitcoin Treasuries Shed $62B in Deepening Crypto Rout - YouTube
Will Bitcoin Keep Crashing?! - YouTube
Treasury Market Signals Rates Need to Be Higher - YouTube
sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Thune and Senate Democratic Leader Schumer signed by 160 former national security, intelligence, and law enforcement professionals in support of the Clarity Act. | 1/ Today, we’re sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Thune and Senate Democratic Leader Schumer signed by 160 former national security, intelligence, and law enforcement professionals in support of the Clarity Act.
America’s Data Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule - WSJ
Jeff Currie thinks we are sleepwalking into one of the biggest commodity shocks since Covid and the market is still pricing it like a headline risk instead of a physical crisis
May jobs report stronger than expected, Fed unlikely to cut interest rates - YouTube
May jobs report comes as inflation squeezes economy - NBC News
Tulip King explains why he is becoming bearish on $ZEC after the devs fixed a "double-spend" bug
Zcash plummets 38% as Shielded Labs reveals a major bug that …
There's little tech explanation on this Zcash vulnerability, very serious stuff
The prompt that found an exploit in a 10 billion dollar protocol
Music
Tragedy By Irf Kat
1 hr 11 min
June 03107: AI Crash Math
Bitcoin is still standing while AI sucks the oxygen out of the market. I break down the trillion-dollar capex trap, and why this might be the moment Bitcoin starts telling the truth before the market is ready to hear it.
Episode Links
🇺🇸 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
Show Notes
BIP-110 expected fork time bitnod.es
Strategy Sold 32 Bitcoin… And That's A Good Thing.
MSTR News: Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 32 BTC for $2.5 million in late May
Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $2.8B In Record 9-Day Outflow Streak | ZeroHedge
AI productivity: not a miracle yet - DWS
Markets have overestimated AI-driven productivity gains, says MIT …
Inflation data suggests Fed should be hiking rates, not cutting them …
Fed's Cook says inflation is moving in the wrong direction, but she's …
Morning Briefing - 2022 • Yardeni Research
'Enormously naive': Major US bank leader hits out at Biden's LNG …
Bond Markets Are Bullying Japan and the U.K. One Has the Right …
The issue with crypto regulation is 'the lack of clarity', says …
Coindesk's Emily Parker on crypto's big sell-off
Strategy's Michael Saylor says selling bitcoin to fund …
Michael Saylor Says Just 2% Bitcoin Growth Covers MicroStrategy's …
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon slams CLARITY Act, signals bank …
JPMorgan CEO Goes Nuclear On CLARITY Act, Calling Coinbase's …
Senate's crypto drama comes to a head | Semafor
Banks Sound Alarm As Senate Pushes High-Stakes Stablecoin Bill …
How the US managed to seize $500M of crypto from Iran
US Seizes $1 Billion in Cryptocurrency from Iran | Phemex News
Strategy CEO: Bitcoin's headwinds turning to tailwinds - FOX One
Mark Cuban Sold Bitcoin—Strategy CEO Says He Simply Found …
Bitcoin: The Four Year Cycle Is Not Dead : r/intothecryptoverse
Bitwise CEO Says Four-Year Crypto Cycle Is Dead : r/CryptoCurrency
Bitcoin crash: Bitwise CIO cites 'the four-year cycle' for losses
Bitcoin 4-year cycles explained - Fidelity Investments
AI Capex Is Propping Up the U.S. Economy — But What Happens …
How AI spending is impacting the U.S. economy
Ex-CIA official arrested after $40M in gold bars allegedly found …
Former CIA official accused of stealing $40M in gold bars - WBAL-TV
Music
What We Are by The Doerfels
59 min

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