"The demand response or the Bitcoin mining component is a key piece in the economic and thermodynamic puzzle and electrical puzzle of our novel plant ship designs." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Nathaniel Harmon, CEO of OceanBit. They’re building Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion ( or OTEC) technology to deliver 24/7 baseload power across the world. Bitcoin mining is also a key part of their technology stack. Support THE Bitcoin Podcast on...

"Even if you might not consciously be aware of how you're hurting yourself in the act of using fiat, once you stop doing it, you realize quite quickly of how devastating this actually was." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Max Hillebrand Support THE Bitcoin Podcast on HIGHLIGHTER ***** THE Bitcoin Podcast Partners -- use promo code WALKER for... bitbox.swiss/walker -- 5% off the Bitcoin-only Bitbox02 hardware wallet. Cloaked Wireless: 25% OFF eSIM or...

"we're an unruly people. We're supposed to be unruly and free and dirty and unwashed and crass. That is the American ethic and ethos. Live free, baby, or die." To celebrate episode #69 of THE Bitcoin Podcast, today's episode features not one but TWO guests: Preston Pysh and American Hodl. These are two of my favorite people I've met through Bitcoin, and both have been on this show before. So I figured what better way to celebrate episode #69 than with a double whammy. You're going to love...

"The isolated interference brought about a condition which, from the point of view of the government, is even more undesirable than the previous state of affairs which the government wanted to alter. And as the government goes farther and farther, it will finally arrive at a point where all prices, all wage rates, all interest rates, in short, everything in the whole economic system, is determined by the government. And this, clearly, is socialism." - Ludwig von Mises In this Austrian Audible...

"If you are running a human-rights group and your bank account hasn’t yet been frozen, flagged, or compromised, it likely will sooner rather than later." -- Alex Gladstein On this BONUS episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker reads How to Dictator-Proof Your Money, by Alex Gladstein, CSO at the Human Rights Foundation. SUBSCRIBE to "THE Bitcoin Podcast" wherever you watch/listen: https://bitcoinpodcast.net/podcast Alex on Nostr:...

"In socialist countries, it is not the seller who has to be grateful. It is the buyer. The citizen is not the boss. The boss is the central committee, the central office. Those socialist committees and leaders and dictators are supreme, and the people simply have to obey them." In this Austrian Audible episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker reads Lecture 2: SOCIALISM, from Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow by Ludwig von Mises, AKA Mises Six Lessons Each of the six Mises...

"If we look upon the history of the world, especially upon the history of England since 1865, we realize that Marx was wrong in every respect. There is no Western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way. All these improvements of the last 80 or 90 years were made in spite of the prognostications of Karl Marx." In this Austrian Audible episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker reads Lecture 1: CAPITALISM, from Economic Policy: Thoughts...

"if you come through the Bitcoin rabbit hole, the first mind blowing thing from the Austrian perspective is the fact, hey, you actually don't need to be printing money all the time. Money can work even if the supply is fixed, believe it or not." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Saifedean Ammous Support THE Bitcoin Podcast on HIGHLIGHTER ***** THE Bitcoin Podcast Partners -- use promo code WALKER for... bitbox.swiss/walker -- 5% off the Bitcoin-only...

"Some cases in life, one side is wrong and the other side is right. And I'm very clear on this. The arguments upon which it's based that Bitcoin is bad for the environment, it is fundamentally wrong." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Daniel Batten Support THE Bitcoin Podcast on HIGHLIGHTER ***** THE Bitcoin Podcast Partners -- use promo code WALKER for... bitbox.swiss/walker -- 5% off the Bitcoin-only Bitbox02 hardware wallet. Cloaked Wireless: 25% OFF...

"It's an economic war, and we've got to be richer than them. That's it. We need the Bitcoiners the richest, and all the people who got in early rich, but that's not really the prize. The prize is to decimate the job of Wall Street. It's to destroy the financial engineer." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Nolan Bauerle Support THE Bitcoin Podcast on HIGHLIGHTER ***** THE Bitcoin Podcast Partners -- use promo code WALKER for... bitbox.swiss/walker -- 5% off...

"As Bitcoiners, we're supposed to have this long-term perspective. We're supposed to envision this world where things could be different. Value systems could be a realigned. We could shift the balance of power... we all want that, but it doesn't come by being passive. It only comes through building and it's up to us, up to you and I, up to the Bitcoiners listening to this show to go do that." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Mark Moss. Support THE Bitcoin...

"I don't show Bitcoin and Nostr to anybody that listens... I think we need to focus on the people that have the most impact. The people that matter the most, which is the productive people." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with PabloF7Z, and open source developer currently building on Nostr. Pablo's npub: Npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft https://primal.net/ https://damus.io/ ***** THE Bitcoin Podcast Partners: BitBox02 Hardware...

"What Bitcoiners share is a willingness and a desire to investigate the truth for themselves." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Steven Lubka. ***** GET YOUR BITCOIN OFF EXCHANGES: Go to bitbox.swiss/walker and use promo code WALKER for 5% off the Bitbox02 Bitcoin-only hardware wallet.Go to https://www.cloakedwireless.com/ and use promo code WALKER for 25% OFF eSIM or physical SIM cards and protect yourself from SIM swap attacks.***** STEVEN'S LINKS X:...

"look what we have now, it's like literally death. The US dollar is like extremely toxic, right? It bombs countries every time it needs a pump. So you know like just moving from like you know bomb based monetary system to like you know voluntary based imperfect system, it's already like again a million times win." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with NVK. ***** GET YOUR BITCOIN OFF EXCHANGES: Go to bitbox.swiss/walker and use promo code WALKER for 5% off the...

“The one main difference, between El Salvador and any other country I've seen is the optimism. There's optimism here. People are looking into the future with hope, with plans, with visions… this country has regained its collective identity. They are proud to show their country.” - Lina Seiche On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Lina Seiche, creator of The Little Hodler. ***** GET YOUR BITCOIN OFF EXCHANGES: Go to bitbox.swiss/walker and use promo code WALKER...

"Become a crazy person. If people in your life are not showing you active disdain, you're not stacking hard enough. If you're still invited to family Thanksgiving, you're not stacking hard enough. If people are not making fun of you for brown bagging your lunch, you're not stacking hard enough. If your car is younger than Bitcoin, you're not stacking hard enough, okay? If you don't have a second job, you're not stacking hard enough. You're just not stacking hard enough..." - AMERICAN HODL On...

"really the people at the root cause of these carbon emissions, it's Keynesians, right? It's the people who want to print money and who have violated the institutional trust and the credibility that historically helped governments." - Pierre Rochard On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Pierre Rochard, VP of Research at Riot Platforms. ***** GET YOUR BITCOIN OFF EXCHANGES: Go to bitbox.swiss/walker and use promo code WALKER for 5% off the Bitbox02...

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Calle, an open-source developer currently building Cashu, an open-source Ecash protocol for Bitcoin ***** Go to bitbox.swiss/walker and use promo code WALKER for 5% off the Bitbox02 Bitcoin-only hardware wallet. ***** CALLE & ECASH LINKS: Calle on Nostr: https://primal.net/calle Calle on X: https://twitter.com/callebtc Cashu: https://cashu.space Cashu wallets: https://docs.cashu.space/wallets DONATE TO CASHU...

"if you go on Twitter today, you will see a lot of people yelling about different things and most of them are solutions to problems that do not exist. And a lot of the development that I've seen come out of African nations are solutions to problems I didn't know existed. And that's the key difference." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Tatum Turn Up. ***** Go to bitbox.swiss/walker and use promo code WALKER for 5% off the Bitbox02 Bitcoin-only hardware...

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Ben Justman (of Peony Lane Wine) Ben shares his journey of becoming a Bitcoiner/winemaker and the unique process of making wine in Colorado. He discusses the parallels between making wine and Bitcoin, the importance of low time preference, and making wine the natural way. ***** Go to bitbox.swiss/walker and use promo code WALKER for 5% off the Bitbox02 Bitcoin-only hardware wallet. ***** BEN'S LINKS: Nostr:...

"Machankura is a result of that bank account account being frozen... Do I spend time figuring out and getting my account unfrozen, or do I build something else?" On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Kgothatso Ngako, the creator of Machankura. Machankura is a solution that allows anyone with a feature phone to use Bitcoin; no internet connection required. Go to bitbox.swiss/walker and use promo code WALKER for 5% off the Bitbox02 Bitcoin-only hardware...

"Money is a technology for measuring f*cks given." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Devon Eriksen, software engineer turned Sci-Fi author, who just released his first novel, Theft of Fire. Walker and Devon go deep down multiple rabbit holes, discussing Science Fiction, culture and law, communism vs capitalism, artificial intelligence, Bitcoin vs fiat, the "F*ck Theory of Value," and a whole lot more. ***** Go to bitbox.swiss/walker and use promo code...

“Everything under $1 million is going to be a rounding error in the future… If you get in at this point, you can be the next superpower of the world.” On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Samson Mow, CEO of Jan3. ***** Go to bitbox.swiss/walker and use promo code WALKER for 5% off the Bitbox02 Bitcoin-only hardware wallet. ***** SAMSON’S LINKS X: https://twitter.com/Excellion  Nostr: https://primal.net/excellion AQUA: https://twitter.com/AquaBitcoin  JAN3:...

“The biggest mistake you can possibly make today is not changing your denominator to Bitcoin. If you're measuring everything in the US dollar, the euro, any other cryptocurrency, you're doing it wrong because Bitcoin is the signal. And outperforming Bitcoin is nearly impossible at this point.” On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Phil Geiger, VP of Product Marketing at Unchained. ***** Go to bitbox.swiss/walker and use promo code WALKER for 5% off the...