Michael Goldstein is the co-host of the Noded Podcast and President of the Nakamoto Institute. In this interview, we discuss the re-launch of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, ending the fed, libertarianism, monetary economics, and preserving generational Bitcoin values. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/why-bitcoin-takes-all This …

Michael Malice is an anarchist, author, and podcaster. In this interview, we discuss US & UK elections, Warren’s corruption, Trump’s legal case and whether Texas will secede from the United States. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-dysfunctional-state This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitc…

niftynei is a CoreLN contributor and a Bitcoin educator. In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin education, Lightning development, sovereignty, ecash, ossification, covenants, time-locks, tokens, and zero-knowledge tech. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-truth-about-bitcoin-scaling This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining…

Lyn Alden is a macroeconomist and investment strategist. In this interview, we discuss the role of the Fed and central banks, fractional reserve vs free banking, how bitcoin could change these dynamics and if we should actually end the Federal Reserve System. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/will-bitcoin-end-central-banking-lyn-…

Casey Rodarmor is a bitcoin developer and the creator of the ordinals, inscriptions, and runes protocols. In this interview, we discuss ordinal theory & inscriptions, the purpose of runes and why these projects have received so much backlash. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/breaking-bitcoin-with-casey-rodarmor This episode’s sp…

Marty Bent is a Venture Partner at Ten31 and founder of the Bitcoin-focused media company TFTC.io. In this interview, we discuss the state of corporate media, how the deep state is fighting bitcoin and the game theory of Bitcoin. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-bitcoin-white-pill This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mini…

Erik Voorhees is the founder of Satoshi Dice, ShapeShift & Venice.ai. In this interview, we discuss the size and role of government, the growth of Bitcoin & how it can help restrain the power of the state as well as Venice AI and the future of artificial intelligence. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/erik-voorhees-on-bitcoin-ai …

Natalie Smolenski founded and leads the Texas Bitcoin Foundation. In this interview, we discuss AI and its progression towards artificial general intelligence, the implications of AI in warfare, issues of censorship and governance, and the potential for misuse of AI in the future. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-ai-threat-t…

Derrick Broze is an investigative journalist, author, documentary filmmaker, and activist. In this interview, we discuss Trump & Bitcoin, the Ross Ulbricht case, the rise of the technocratic state, surveillance & privacy and the AI digital arms race. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-technocratic-state This episode’s sponsors…

Tuur Demeester is a Bitcoin investor and economist. In this interview, we discuss government corruption and the spending spiral, the creep of communism, the need to embrace volatility, if we can salvage democracy in a humble revolution, and why 2024 is the year of Bitcoin mass adoption. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-bitco…

Zack Voell is the Director of Marketing and Communications at Botanix Labs and Willem Schroe is Co-Founder and CEO at Botanix Labs and the Inventor of the Spiderchain. In this interview, we discuss how and why Botanix are bringing an Ethereum Virtual Machine to Bitcoin, the culture clash and building on Bitcoin. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoi…

Parker Lewis is a Bitcoin writer and educator and Head of Business Development at Zaprite. In this interview, we discuss scaling self-sovereignty vs sound money, code-changes, covenants, and risks in the regulatory, ETF, mining, and social layers. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoins-economic-incentives This episode’s spons…

Avik Roy is president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity think tank and a policy Editor at Forbes. In this interview, we discuss why Trump is supporting Bitcoin & crypto, the power of the growing Bitcoin voter base, and the coming fight with regulators. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-back-on-the-ballot…

Ben Carman is a co-founder of The Bitcoin Company and contributes to many projects in Bitcoin, and Tony Giorgio is the co-founder and CEO of Mutiny Wallet. In this interview, we discuss the regulatory pressures on bitcoin developers, fighting for inalienable rights, sovereignty and building a robust ecash future. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitco…

Michael Saylor is the CEO of MicroStrategy. In this interview, we discuss ossification, user rights, sovereignty, funding Bitcoin development, the political war over digital asset regulation, and the sly roundabout revolution. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-is-forever-money This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Minin…

Matt Corallo is a Bitcoin Core developer and ​​open-source engineer at Block/Spiral. In this interview, we discuss wallet software, money laundering, and government, decentralisation and privacy, Bitcoin’s big design challenges, and the path forward. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/an-existential-threat-to-bitcoin This episode’…

Junseth is an OG Bitcoiner and the former co-host of Bitcoin Uncensored. In this show we dissect what started as a scam phishing call to Junseth and turned into an interview of the scammer, how people are vulnerable to scams, and how to protect yourself. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-bitcoin-scammer-uncensored This episod…

Daniel Roberts is the co-founder of IREN. In this interview, we discuss surging demand vs power scarcity chokepoints, balance sheet strategies, changing AI & Bitcoin energy use narratives, mining in a bull-run and a multi-decade outlook. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-ai-power-scarcity This episode’s sponsors: IREN - B…

Macro Alf is the founder of The Macro Compass, an investment strategy firm. In this interview, we discuss QE & debt in Japan, instability from artificial stability, if a recession is imminent, and the globally managed fiat decline. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-vs-the-fiat-decline This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitco…

NVK is the founder of Coinkite and a board member at OpenSats. In this interview, we discuss new incentives with increasing attacks on privacy, oppressive vs small government, market stoicism, and how entrepreneurs change the world. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/how-bitcoin-changes-the-world-with-nvk This episode’s sponsors: …

Lawrence Lepard is an Investment Manager and Austrian Economist and Quoth The Raven is an independent financial researcher. In this interview, we discuss how the dollar could fall, signals in the bond market, what central banks can do, and the debt spiral unwinding. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-fiat-apocalypse This episo…

Gloria Zhao is a Bitcoin Core maintainer. In this interview, we discuss upgrading Bitcoin vs ossifying the protocol, ordinals and mempool “spam”, and the theory & ‘power’ of core developers. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-power-of-bitcoin This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitcoin - Inve…

Jack Mallers is the Founder & CEO of Strike, American HODL is a Bitcoin Educator, Alex Thorn is the Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy and Calle is a Bitcoin developer working on Cashu. In this interview, we discuss why no one understands Bitcoin, ETFs & centralisation threats and the importance of funding development. – Show notes: https://www.wh…

Harry Sudock is the Chief Strategy Officer at Griid, Will Roberts is the Co-CEO at IREN, Erik Hersman is the CEO of Gridless, Thomas Pacchia is a Board Member of Stronghold, & Dennis Porter is the CEO of Satoshi Action Fund. In this interview, they discuss bitcoin mining sustainability, accessing stranded energy and the halving. – Show notes: https…

Seth for Privacy is a privacy advocate and Head of Strategy and Marketing at Foundation and Bitcoin Q+A is a Bitcoin educator and Head of Customer Experience at Foundation. In this interview, we discuss the recent indictment against the founders of Samourai Wallet. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/first-they-came-for-samourai Th…

Andrew Bailey, Bradley Rettler and Craig Warmke are all professors of Philosophy, Allen Farrington is an investor and author of Bitcoin is Venice. In this interview, they discuss Bitcoin in academia, the Resistance Money thesis and the philosophy of money and Bitcoin. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-is-resistance-money …

Lyn Alden is a macroeconomist, Natalie Brunell is the host of the Coin Stories Podcast, Alex Thorn is the Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy, Thomas Pacchia is co-owner of Pubkey, and Christopher Gordon from Bridge2Bitcoin. In this interview, they discuss how Bitcoin wins, and the CheatCode for business. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.co…

Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and Natalie Smolenski founded and leads the Texas Bitcoin Foundation. In this interview, they discuss how Bitcoin is a cheat code for human rights, privacy, sovereignty and the reciprocal loss of trust. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-human-righ…

Lyn Alden is a macroeconomist, Preston Pysh is a founder of The Investor Podcast Network, Allen Farrington is the author of Bitcoin Is Venice & Max Hillebrand is an economist & entrepreneur. In this interview, they discuss Bitcoin vs fiat, inflation and why Bitcoin is the best money. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-economic…

In this episode, we have a panel from the recent CheatCode conference. This panel was titled A CheatCode for Payments, and was hosted by Natalie Brunell, with Calle (Cashu), Obi Nwosu (Fedi) & Ben Arc (LNBits). They discussed the past & present of Ecash, the power of lightning and the future of payments. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com…

In this interview, American HODL, Preston Pysh, Harry Sudock and Jeff Booth join us from the recent CheatCode conference. We discuss why bitcoin matters, the paradigm shift in money and the transition to a new system. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/a-paradigm-shift-in-money This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done …

Oscar Merry is the Founder of Fountain podcasts. In this interview, we discuss how the subscription model on the internet is changing and the power of value for value Bitcoin payments. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-bitcoin-value-for-value-thesis This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitcoi…

Freddie New is the Head of Policy at Bitcoin Policy UK. In this interview, we discuss current and proposed legislation affecting Bitcoin and why it often backfires, changing minds on Bitcoin, UK Bitcoin allies and how we win. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/defeating-the-regulators This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining…

Nicholas Bowick is a systems engineer in the aerospace industry. In this interview, we discuss emergent behaviors in complex systems, positive and negative feedback loops and chaos vs systemic antifragility. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/why-bitcoins-design-fixes-money This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sust…

Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. In this interview, we discuss the ultimate bitcoin use cases. How it is used in commerce, for freedom and how it fundamentally changes energy systems. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-ultimate-bitcoin-use-cases This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mi…

James Lavish is a macro analyst, and Eric Yakes is the author of The 7th Property. In this interview, we discuss Wall Street’s arrival into Bitcoin, why TradFi struggles to understand it and how Bitcoin is a new paradigm for investors. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/wall-street-embraces-bitcoin This episode’s sponsors: IREN - …

American HODL is an OG Bitcoin investor. In this interview, we discuss ordinals & ‘spam’, why bitcoin makes for a better world, if Wall Street will attempt to change Bitcoin and why we are still so, so early. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-were-still-early This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainabl…

Vortex is a developer and OG Bitcoin podcaster. In this interview, we look back at the blocksize wars, talk about the challenges upgrading Bitcoin, the dangers of ossification and get into covenants and LNHance. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/why-we-must-upgrade-bitcoin This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sust…

Mark Moss is a serial entrepreneur, author, speaker and host of The Mark Moss Show. In this interview, we discuss how to play the game of money, using debt and inflation to your advantage and how to retire off Bitcoin. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/how-to-play-the-money-game This episode’s sponsors: Iren - Bitcoin Mining. Don…

Bitcoin Mechanic is a Bitcoin educator and Chief Boiling Officer at OCEAN. In this interview, we discuss the issues with arbitrary data on the Bitcoin blockchain, if filters can work as well as OCEAN mining pool and the need for greater decentralisation in mining. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-battle-for-bitcoin-with-bitc…

Andy Edstrom is a financial advisor, and the author of Why Buy Bitcoin.Bitcoin. In this interview, we discuss Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin strategy, Bitcoin vs gold & real estate as well as demand, adoption and the four year cycle. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/michael-saylors-bitcoin-moonshot-revisited This episode’s sponsors: I…

David Seroy is a ZK rollup researcher. In this interview, we discuss the tradeoffs when scaling Bitcoin, the reality of ZK rollups in theory vs in practice as well as, the fee market and MEV on Bitcoin. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-challenge-of-scaling-bitcoin This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustaina…

Nik Bhatia is the founder of ‘The Bitcoin Layer’ & author of ‘Layered Money’. In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin as an optimal base layer for the financial system, how the largest economic actors may be allocating to Bitcoin, and where the price could go. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-etfs-have-changed-the-game Thi…

Grant McCarty is the Co-Executive Director of the Bitcoin Policy Institute. In this interview, we discuss evangelism and the Bitcoin revolution, why BPI is a crucial resource, flawed incentives in the education system, journalism and the shifting perception of Bitcoin. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-maturing-bitcoin-narrat…

Raphael Zagury is a CIO at Swan Bitcoin. In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin adoption, how the ETFs changed everything, Bitcoin vs real estate and Bitcoin portfolio allocation. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-perfect-bitcoin-allocation This episode’s sponsors: Iren - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitcoin - Invest…

Dhruv Bansal is a co-founder of Unchained Capital. In this interview, we discuss how Satoshi approached creating Bitcoin, Bitcoin’s deep relationship with time, how markets drive decentralisation, and scaling vs ossification. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-satoshis-vision This episode’s sponsors: Iren - Bitcoin Mining.…

Samson Mow is the CEO at JAN3, the developer of Aqua Bitcoin, architect of Bitcoin Bonds and CEO at PixelMatic. In this interview, we discuss orange pilling nation states, scaling bitcoin to billions with Liquid and AQUA, and why he thinks Bitcoin could reach $1 million by 2025. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-case-for-1-mi…

The Rational Root is a Bitcoin on-chain & cycle analyst. In this interview, we discuss the pace of the current bull market, the impact of spot ETFs, what we can expect post-halving, and changing dynamics in the market. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoins-biggest-bull-run This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done…

Checkmate is Glassnode’s Lead On-chain Analyst and creator of checkonchain. In this interview, we discuss the validity of on-chain data, the different phases of the market, the impact of spot Bitcoin ETFs & how Wall St are coming for your Bitcoin. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-wall-street-bull-market This episode’s sponso…

Grant Gilliam is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Ten31. In this interview, we discuss the state of venture capital in Bitcoin, the importance of sats flow, and Bitcoin treasury strategies. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-bitcoin-strategy This episode’s sponsors: Iris Energy - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Swan Bit…