The Juan Galt Show

Justin Hodl made a twit a few weeks ago that blew my mind. If asics are basically at peak performance, and going from 3 to 2 nanometer chips is only a marginal improvement in mining power, then are we upon the commoditization of Bitcoin asics? Maybe mass production of good enough asic chips is upon us? Skot9000 , founder of the Bitaxe project, which has backwards engineered asic Bitcoin mining chi...

We had an amazing conversation moments after the new Bitcoin all time high was reached this Tuesday. Tone Vays, Dr. Jeff Ross, Simon Dixon and Joe Carlasare joined in to share their thoughts on where we are in the market, where we are going in 2024 and what’s driving Bitcoin price today. We also discussed Gold and the US Dollar macro environment, that’s leading in part to this massive Bitcoin rall...

Top entrepreneurs from the Bitcoin industry join us to discuss the challenges and benefits of running a Bitcoin company. Original spaces with links to all the guests here . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.juangalt.com

This is one of the most popular conversations we have had so far. A debate between a legacy economist, Fred Kruger who is also a Bitcoiner, and a self custody maximalist and cyber security expert Tony Yazbeck of TheBitcoinWay.com. The debate explored questions around the Bitcoin ETF vs Self Custody and whether Bitcoiners are Troyan horsing Wallstreet or whether Wallstreet is Troyan horsing us! I w...

Today we explore the world of Nostr, from the various reservations I have about the project, to the incredible applications being built on it that are not related to social media! Nostr as a protocol is the machine to machine communication protocol of Bitcoin and might have a big role uniting the liquidity of P2P markets in the future, as well as expanding the liquidity of various coinjoin protoco...

From one of the oldest mining pools in the game, Kristian held ground on the many concerns and general FUD about Bitcoin mining centralization. Sure, you could argue that as a mining pool they have an incentive to not worry too much, but I really threw pretty much every piece of FUD I hear at Kristian and other miners who joined this show and well, I’ll let you judge for your self how they handled...

The couple of gentlemen that joined us for this conversation are next level brilliant, true wizards of the Bitcoin arts. And I made sure to squeeze every drop of knowledge and wisdom from them I could. We did a full tour of the lightning network, one of Bitcoin’s most popular scaling solutions. From the very basics of it’s structure and use cases, to it’s governance and future, Keags and Kaloudis...

Hey everyone! Happy new year! I’ve been traveling all month and it is good to be back home now, ready to get back to work! I’ve been a bit late on publishing the shows but expect them to come out steady every week going forward. This is one of may amazing conversations we’ve had over the past few weeks and guess what! you can now listen to them on Spotify . I you are a Spotify enjoyer please drop...

On this conversation we navigated a variety of self custody related topics with quite a panel of experts, including Tony from TheBitcoinWay and the creator for Coldcard himself, Mr. NVK!We specifically navigated points I made about self custody on my speech about self custody at Adopting Bitcoin including the controversial dilemas I brought up about using a passphrase on your seed, or the 25th wor...

As Colombia’s furthest left president in my life time, Petro’s interest in Bitcoin was not only surprising, but unorthodox. The problems he was looking to solve with Bitcoin are not what people usually associate with the distributed network, yet I agree, are very powerful posibilities. Primarily, the public auditability of critical government money flows. Petro wants to use Bitcoin to publicly tim...

Alex Jones got back on twitter, which resulted in a pretty epic X spaces with quite a crew. I’ll edit it later and clean it up. If you want to listen to it on better app than X right now, here you go. Also, did you know you can listen to this show AND earn sats?? I know. It’s wild. Check out my podcast at https://fountain.fm/ and earn some sats! All the best. Juan Galt This is a public episode. If...

Ian Major from Joltz Rewards joins us to discuss Taproot assets, a new technology layer on top of Bitcoin that will allow the dollar to be Bitcoinized. No longer will you need to buy a random poop coin like Tron or Ethereum for that matter to move Dollars around and hedge volatility the inflation of your local peso. That’s what is being worked on at Lightning Labs anyway, one of the three developm...

Smart contracts on Bitcoin without a soft fork? Robin Linus and Supertestnet join us to discuss Bitvm, a new Bitcoin technology with incredible potential to help scale Bitcoin and extend it’s programmability. SHOWNOTES:  Did you know you can listen to this show AND earn sats?? I know. It’s wild. Check out my podcast at https://fountain.fm/ and earn some sats! This is a public episode. If you would...

This conversation covered the Bitcoin entrepreneur. A very special species of entrepreneur, which I expect we will see a whole lot more in the coming years. The most important question discussed on this show? Probably the fact that Bitcoin startups are actually very investable, EVEN when compared to the opportunity cost of just buying BTC. SHOWNOTES:  Did you know you can listen to this show AND e...

Hello everybody! This conversation is the best deep dive into the Craig Wright saga that I am aware of. Arthur Van Pelt is an encyclopedia of knowledge about fake Satoshi, and we go through the whole story from Genesis to today, where Craig's fate seems to have peaked, and the end of fake Satoshi is near. Let me know what you think! All the best, Juan GaltSponsored by: beaverbitcoin.com , the easi...

Katie The Russian joins us for a light chat about the rebirth of the American dream, and the Bitcoiner family life style. Enjoy! Sponsored by: beaverbitcoin.com , the easiest way to buy Bitcoin in Canada! DCA and automatically withdraw straight to your cold storage. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.juanga...

n this conversation with Svetski, entrepreneur and author, we discuss the current state of Artificial intelligence. Svetski is the founder of Spirit of Satoshi , an AI model being trained on a select set of works, designed to echo the voice of Satoshi Nakamoto and be an orange pilling chat bot. Svetski, despite his deep and personal experience with the cutting edge of Artificial Intelligence has a...

Writer and technologist Peter Rizzo joins us to discuss Bitcoin culture. Has Bitcoin Toxic Maximalism begun to interfere with the network’s ability to expand? Can Maximalism become a dominant cultural force, or is it doomed to be a defensive ideology of the most technical and dedicated Bitcoiners? Will Silicon Valley VC’s stop launching pump and dump ICO style coins, and start building long term B...

Tomer Strolight, film maker and Editor-in-chief at Swan.com joins us today to discuss the future under a sound money standard, a Bitcoin future. Without imagination it is hard to know what is possible, and Tomer does a great job at paying a picture, in particular with his short Bitcoin inspired films. Here’s one of them, feel free to binge watch his productions, great stuff. Finally, here’s some d...

From economic facts about Argentina’s economic woes, to the unavoidable hyperinflation of their Peso. In this episode of the Juan Galt podcast, we do a full tour of the presidential campaign that is posed to change latino America, and which will be getting settled in only a few weeks! The campaign of the self described Anarcho Capitalist, Javier Milei. This show as a lesson in political strategy a...

Had the pleasure of discussing Javier Milei with non other than David Puell, investment analyst at ARK Invest. As well as Adam Dub, investment analyst at Ichi Fibonacci. All while tumbling down the rabbit hole of the anarcho capitalist presidential front runner in Argentina. We discussed the good, the bad and the ugly of Mr. Milei, including what most are not likely to see as his greatest vulnerab...

Hello everyone! I had the pleasure of talking to Tuur Demeester recently, market analyst and philosopher, who I have been following for nearly a decade now. We had a great conversation on the ethics of fraud under a libertarian mindset, the systemic risks of the US markets and how they are much worse than 2008, and why Tuur is soo freaking bullish on Bitcoin. You won’t want to miss this one. Here’...

Hello everyone! In today’s episode we talk to Tone Vays and Joe Carlasare . We go deep into the XRP vs SEC lawsuit. Discussed the various takes on the Blackrock ETF, the depeg of USDT/USD pair on Binance a few weeks ago, poker as the best game, and the essentials of financial literacy. Tone also convinced us to go to Unconfiscatable this December, we we will be in Vegas to end the year. You can jo...

Hello everybody! Got a new episode of the podcast for you all. This one is with Professor Peter St. Onge, a libertarian academic who is well versed in the world of Bitcoin. The conversation covered a variety of important macro topics including: -El Salvador and it’s Bitcoin adoption challenges -Bricks and the gold standard rising in the east. -The Economic fallout of CBDCs -Heritage, Misses, & the...

This episode of The Juan Galt Show with Jameson Lopp now stands firmly in the legendary box, in my totally unbiased opinion. :)But seriously, check it out for your self. We walk through every question of self custody that I’ve had to deal with in my consulting, from why take self custody at all, to the cutting edges of Cashu and Fedi style collaborative custody. I’ve never heard a deep dive like t...