“I think we’ll just get to prices from a million to 10 million at some point, and then Bitcoin is going to be such a big currency that it just becomes a better currency than the US dollar obviously…that will also be a gradual transition.”— The Rational Root 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. - - - - This...

“These guys are probably better than you, and they’re here to take your money, so I think that’s important to remember that Wall St. is here to take your money and they’re bloody good at it.”— Checkmate 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. - - - - This episode’s sponsors:IREN -...

“The free market is this release valve…the next wave of adoption comes, and bitcoin users and demand increases by 10x or more, are the companies going to be ready for it? I’m not sure, but that’s going to create opportunities for someone if they’re not to relieve that pressure.”— Grant Gilliam 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. - - -...

“There’s no reason why gold should be $40 an ounce higher in Shanghai then it is London. It is, which means some sophisticated player somewhere is getting free money, and free money doesn’t last forever.”— Doomberg Doomberg is an anonymous collective producing the world’s most popular financial substack. In this interview, we discuss why 2024 could be bullish for gold, global monetary warfare, the role of Bitcoin and the chaos of the election year. - - - - This episode’s sponsors:IREN -...

“If it doesn’t have privacy then it’s not worth using, and if it’s not easy to use then people aren’t going to use it, and so we won’t need scale.”— John Light John Light is a bitcoin researcher working on product at Sovryn and previously the ZK-Rollup Research Fellow at the Human Rights Foundation. In this interview, we discuss rollups on Bitcoin, privacy & scaling and scaling bitcoin in a self sovereign way. - - - - This episode’s sponsors:IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Swan...

“We’ve never really seen before true transmission of instantly-settled bearer-value…that will be the dominant apex-predator way of transacting ultimately, so every business, every economic interaction is going to have to respond to that in some way.”— John Arnold John Arnold is a Principal at Ten31. In this interview, we compare tradfi to bitcoin, discuss Bitcoin’s total addressable market, why bitcoin is a paradigm shift for businesses and how Bitcoin is eating the world. - - - - This...

“Bitcoin might be outside politics, Bitcoin might be outside government, but you are not…and so they can still enact laws that go after us as individuals.”— Dennis Porter Dennis Porter is the CEO & co-founder of the Satoshi Action Fund. In this interview, we discuss Satoshi Action Fund’s mission, the importance of self custody, working with regulators and the challenges of pushing pro-bitcoin regulation. - - - - This episode’s sponsors:IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Swan Bitcoin...

“For the system to really collapse you actually need first the dollar to get stronger and effectively to suck everything into a black hole until it can implode.”— Macro Alf Macro Alf is the founder of The Macro Compass, an investment strategy firm. In this interview, we discuss government spending, debt & deficits as well as the death of the dollar and the role of Bitcoin in the macroeconomic environment. - - - - This episode’s sponsors:IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Swan...

“If we stop changing Bitcoin right now there is no way that even 1% of 1% of the planet will be able to afford to actually hold their own keys, to actually sovereignly control their own bitcoin, and everybody else it’s just pick your custodian, pick who you trust to hold your bitcoin for you.” — Shinobi Shinobi is a pseudonymous Bitcoin educator and the technical editor at Bitcoin Magazine. In this interview, we discuss scaling bitcoin in a self-sovereign way, covenants, OP_CAT and Bitcoin...

“What happens when the bid gets bigger? What happens when 5 million pissed off Occupy Wall St, Gamestop, WallStreetBets…combined with the 2 million people that are still walking around with Ron Paul signs like I am, what happens when all those people join together and join the Bitcoin network?”— Quoth The Raven Quoth The Raven is an independent financial researcher. In this interview, we discuss why he was sceptical about Bitcoin, his distrust in the traditional system, inflation &...

“Whatever this new financial system is…ultimately is about trying to enable BlackRock to continue its massive expansion to own essentially everything with as little risk to them as possible.”— Whitney Webb Whitney Webb is an independent investigative journalist and founder of Unlimited Hangout & Mark Goodwin is Editor in Chief at Bitcoin Magazine. In this interview, we discuss the BlackRock ETF, their plans for a new financial system, media psy-ops & tokenizing everything. - - - -...

“It doesn’t matter, in any of these nation states, who you vote for; ultimately, I think until we actually re-align the incentives in society by separating money and state we will not have a system that actually supports the individual.”— Seb Bunney Seb Bunney is the co-founder of Looking Glass Education and author of The Hidden Cost of Money. In this interview, we discuss what money is, the effect that broken money has on society, fiat incentives and how Bitcoin fixes this. - - - - This...

“All of the different sub communities in Bitcoin are really starting to ask themselves and the other sub communities ‘why are you here? Are we sacrificing everything for number-go-up?’ Well number-go-up is kind of the whole thing if you want actual outsized influence over the system that is leaving everyone scrambling for anything.”— Colin Harper Colin Harper is Head of Research and Content at Luxor Technology. In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin adoption, media FUD, the impact of the...

“The technology is forcing their hand, and every single time they have to centralise more, and more, and more; and, what they’re trying to build now is one unified ledger that connects all the CBDCs around the world.”— Sam Callahan Sam Callahan is the Senior Analyst at Swan Bitcoin and host of Swan Signal. In this interview, we discuss hyperbitcoinisation, the Bank for International Settlement, and the threat of central bank digital currencies. - - - - This episode’s sponsors:Iris Energy -...

“Don’t read the comments but you have to because your job is to address those comments, that’s your work…right now it’s like 30 people doing customer service for the entire Bitcoin population and it’s not scalable.”— Carla Kirk-Cohen Carla Kirk-Cohen is a software engineer working on the Lightning Network at Chaincode Labs & a Board Member at Btrust. In this interview, we discuss bitcoin development & how it is currently funded, development culture & the state of the Lightning...

“All of our quality of life is better when resources are better utilised, and Bitcoin is going to bring that to energy markets in a dynamic and urgent way with very, very little gatekeeping.”— Harry Sudock Harry Sudock is the Chief Strategy Officer at Griid. In this interview, we discuss the importance of Bitcoin third places, censorship, ETFs & adoption, bitcoin mining and whether Bitcoin has just crossed the Chasm. - - - - This episode’s sponsors:Iris Energy - Bitcoin Mining. Done...

“What’s going to be really hard for people, especially people that are naysayers and think that this is just all hocus pocus money is once the price gets to about $500,000, now you need about a 10% position size to protect yourself from Bitcoin taking over.”— Preston Pysh Preston Pysh is a co-founder of The Investor Podcast Network and Nico Lechuga is a General Partner at Ego Death Capital. In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin’s compound growth, how to gauge bitcoin adoption and how bitcoin...

“I don’t like the idea of blindly trusting when I can have something verified to me, and the whole ethos of Bitcoin is verify and don’t trust… if we build a massive financial ecosystem on top of these ETF products then we need to with absolute certainty know that that spot Bitcoin, the thing it’s backed against, exists and it’s there.”— Sam Abbassi Sam Abbassi is the founder and CEO of Hoseki and Xander Carpousis is Chief Revenue Officer at Hoseki. In this interview, we discuss the launch of...

“The trend that we’ve seen where there is the shuttering of functional nuclear power is one of the most significant crimes against humanity, and crimes against our future children, than any legislative decision that’s happened anywhere in the world.”— Harry Sudock Marty Bent is a Venture Partner at Ten31 and founder of the Bitcoin-focused media company TFTC.io, Harry Sudock is Chief Strategy Officer at Griid and Parker Lewis is a Bitcoin writer and educator and Head of Business Development at...

“We’re opening up the valve…for Bitcoin to just trojan horse onto the asset side…and all of a sudden it’s not just speculators in trouble when Bitcoin crashes, it’s systemic. And so, we’re obviously not there, not even close to there; but, Bitcoin taking fiat liquidity and going up against this massive pile of unpayable liabilities, that’s the story.”— Dylan LeClair Dylan LeClair is a Bitcoin and macro analyst working for Bitcoin Magazine. In this interview, we discuss the pros and cons of...

“We have to reach a technological supremacy; Bitcoin maximalism can’t stay as an ideology… because the goal is to ultimately subsume everything that is possible with cryptocurrencies into the network for the benefit of people who own Bitcoin.”— Pete Rizzo Pete Rizzo is the editor of Bitcoin Magazine, and one of Bitcoin’s leading journalists. In this interview, we discuss the role of Ordinals, Inscriptions and BRC20 tokens, whether they are a positive or negative for Bitcoin and the growing...

“What you hope is that something like Bitcoin gets so mainstreamed that it’s too late for them to really be able to do anything about.”— Dave Smith Dave Smith is a comedian and host of ‘Part Of The Problem Podcast’. In this interview, we discuss libertarianism, government responses to COVID and the political climate in the UK and US. We also reflect on economic challenges facing individuals, particularly the younger generation's struggle with housing affordability, whilst critiquing...

“The world is going to change, we’re not at the end of what humans can do…the current thing has only been around for 50 years and currently has a lot of stress…and I think it’s incredibly exciting and meaningful that people in the Bitcoin space and for us, get to be part of proposing a solution.”— Hunter Horsley Hunter Horsley is the Co-founder and CEO of Bitwise. In this interview, we discuss the launch of the Bitcoin ETFs, including the impact on investors and the investment market, and the...

“How good are governments at maintaining their own little fiat bubble against the constant push of Bitcoin?…Whether you look at it as a very very large monetary asset globally or virtually the only one…that’s all still quite a bit out, but I have pretty high ambitions for what bitcoin can do.”— Lyn Alden Lyn Alden is a macroeconomist and investment strategist. In this interview, we discuss the challenges of promoting Bitcoin and its growing acceptance in mainstream media and finance. We delve...

“You’re in the game now, this thing isn’t valuable if it’s not able to be used in a self-custodied manner, that’s the innovation, that’s the core innovation...we and the issuers got to take the story of Bitcoin’s true value out, that’s how they’re going to do it, that’s how they’re marketing it…we got to tell that story.”— Alex Thorn James Seyffart is an analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence covering ETFs, and Alex Thorn is the Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy. In this interview, we explore...