The Bitcoin Collective

Two days at the Business Show in London talking Bitcoin with UK business owners, and almost nobody asked about the price. Jordan, Alex and Jez look back on exhibiting at ExCeL London: the business owner weighing up whether to close, the 85-year-old who walked up and asked how to buy Bitcoin, and why the people who already hold it are the ones you never hear from on X. They also cover why adoption...

Jordan, Alex and Jez, the team behind The Bitcoin Collective and the UK Bitcoin Business Network, sit down for a new unscripted format. Each brings one thing that caught their eye this week, and they talk it through: what Bitcoin Beach and Tooting Market reveal about merchant adoption, how Tether is quietly stacking Bitcoin with US Treasury interest, whether Coinbase has lost its Bitcoin focus, an...

The pound is designed to lose value. That’s not a conspiracy theory - it’s called an inflation target, and it’s built into the system. Cameron Parry, CEO and founder of Tally Money, joins Jordan at Antidote in London to talk about what sound money actually looks like, why gold and Bitcoin are solving the same problem from different angles, and what it means to hold your savings in something nobody...

Private equity buys a business, loads it with debt, and sells it within five years. Orange Juice wants to buy the business, keep the owner in place, and never sell it at all. Nico Lechuga is a founding partner at Ego Death Capital, a Bitcoin venture fund with around $137 million under management. Alongside fellow Ego Death partners Lyn Alden, Jeff Booth and Andi Pitt, he co-founded Orange Juice, a...

Pumphreys Coffee was founded in the 1750s. It has been in Stuart's family since 1979, four generations have worked in it, and his first Bitcoin transaction is framed on the wall downstairs. Jordan Walker travelled up to Blaydon, just outside Newcastle, to see the roastery, watch beans go through an open flame, and talk to Stuart about what it takes to build something that outlives you. ☕️ Che...

Fernando left his job as VP of Marketing at Blockstream to build a product on his own. Seven months later, still in beta, it was profitable. He has no employees, no investors and no board. Just a fleet of agents and a very clear view of where all this is heading. He joins Jordan Walker to talk about what building actually looks like now, why the hardest part is no longer the code, and what happens...

14.3 million people in the UK hold premium bonds and have never won a single prize. Not £25. Not once. That stat sent Jordan down a rabbit hole this week, and what he found underneath it is worse. 23 million people hold £135 billion in premium bonds, making it the UK's most popular savings product — while the average prize winner is sitting on around £23,400 and 94% of £1 million jackpot winne...

Nic Cary reckons there is still up to £2m of Bitcoin buried in geocaches across Yorkshire. He hid it himself, more than thirteen years ago. He first heard about Bitcoin in 2011, on a small fishing boat on the Long Island Sound. A few years later he moved from the United States to York with a backpack and helped build the first block explorer for Bitcoin out of a two-bedroom flat near the racecours...

The pound has lost 95% of its purchasing power since 1971. Bitcoin is down 50% from its highs and the mood online is grim. Richard Byworth thinks the bottom is already in, and he's got the receipts to back it up. Jordan sits down with returning guest Richard Byworth to unpack why he believes the market is showing classic seller exhaustion, why family offices are quietly moving into bitcoin, an...

Bitcoin is down around 50% from its all-time high and the sentiment is brutal. So is this the bottom? Ben, an analyst at Keyrock, thinks there are real signs it might already be in — and that what comes next is bigger than most people realise. In one of the most detailed conversations the podcast has hosted, Ben joins Jordan to explain why the current drawdown may mark a bottom, why volatility is...

The mood right now is identical to late 2022. The headlines are the same. The panic is the same. But the world around bitcoin looks nothing like it did back then. Jordan's back after six weeks off the tools — not because things have calmed down, but because this moment feels too familiar to ignore. This solo episode walks through why the current sentiment mirrors the last bear market bottom, w...

Nicholas Dickinson bought his first significant Bitcoin stack on the all-time high. Three months later he was 40% underwater. He didn't panic. He read more books and bought more. Nicholas is a hotelier with 40 years in the industry — currently running a 50-acre country house hotel in Norfolk. He's also one of the newest, and arguably fastest-moving, members of the Bitcoin Business Network....

The pound has lost 95% of its purchasing power since 1971. Every fiat currency in history has eventually gone to zero. Bitcoin might be the first money that actually holds its value — and building the financial services around it is what Piotr, Product Manager at Xapo Bank, has spent years working on. In this episode, Jordan sits down with Piotr to explore: How Piotr Bedkowski went from ING Bank s...

What if every executive recruiter on the planet became a Bitcoiner? That's not a thought experiment, it's Scott Ellam's actual plan. Scott is back on the show six months after taking XCE public. He breaks down how XCE is solving the three biggest problems facing private recruitment companies — cash leakage, scaling headcount, and the near-impossible exit — by structuring the entire bus...

The UK has the talent, the capital, and the financial infrastructure. So why are Bitcoin founders still hesitating? Ben Cousens — Chief Strategy Officer at ZBD, co-founder of Antidote, and one of the few people who’s been backing Bitcoin businesses from inside venture capital — joins Jordan on the rooftop at Antidote’s Hatton Garden space to get into it. 🇬🇧 Join the UK Bitcoin Business Network her...

A fast food chain integrated Bitcoin payments in a matter of weeks, and same-store sales went up 10%. That’s not a marketing stunt. That’s the flywheel starting to turn. Will Reeves, CEO of Fold, joins Jordan to break down what Bitcoin adoption actually looks like for businesses right now — and why the companies moving early are building advantages that will be almost impossible to close later. 🇬🇧...

A nonprofit in West London is accepting Bitcoin donations to fund the next generation of entrepreneurs — and it all started with one conversation at a judging panel. Sheela Sharma is CEO of Portobello Business Centre, a 30-year-old nonprofit that helps underserved entrepreneurs — 70% of them women — start and grow their own businesses. Before that, she spent 14 years in investment banking, includi...

Andrew Webley is back for episode three. Since we last spoke in July, Smarter Web Company has achieved its London Stock Exchange main market listing, entered the FTSE All Share and FTSE Small Cap indices, grown its Bitcoin stack to nearly 2,700 BTC, and completed an acquisition that has grown revenue by roughly 10x. Not bad for a bear market. Jordan sits back down with Andrew to find out what'...

The UK says it wants to be a global crypto hub. But banks are still closing accounts for anyone who touches Bitcoin, stablecoin holding caps are being proposed, and a Bitcoin ETN U-turn is threatening to force retail investors to lock in losses. So is the UK actually serious, or just saying the right things? Keith Grose, CEO of Coinbase UK, joins Jordan Walker to give his honest take on where the...

Most Bitcoin treasury companies are sitting on their Bitcoin and paying custody fees. But there's a way to make that Bitcoin work, earning native yield on the Lightning Network, without giving up your keys or taking on counterparty risk. Dave Lund, co-founder of FlowRate, joins Jordan Walker to break down one of the most underexplored business models in Bitcoin right now, and why treasury comp...

CJ, part of the Bitcoin team at Strategy, joins Jordan to explain what’s really happening behind the company’s new preferred equities — and why Stretch is becoming a headline product. 🇬🇧 Join the UK Bitcoin Business Network: https://bitcoincollective.co/bbn/ CONTACT JORDAN: X: https://x.com/JayW132 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-walker-293955106/ Email: hello@bitcoincollective.co CON...

Jeff Booth, entrepreneur and author of The Price of Tomorrow , joins Jordan to discuss what AI and Bitcoin mean for business owners trying to stay resilient through rapid change. They explore why AI is still in its earliest stages, how exponential technology is already collapsing costs and changing execution, and why businesses that fail to adapt may struggle to survive. Jeff also explains why Bit...

Sam Roberts, Bitcoin treasury adviser at Cartwright, joins Jordan to unpack what’s really happening behind the scenes of workplace pensions, and why more institutions are starting to think seriously about resilience. 🇬🇧 Join the UK Bitcoin Business Network: https://bitcoincollective.co/bbn/ CONTACT JORDAN: X: https://x.com/JayW132 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-walker-293955106/ Emai...

Ben Berry, Managing Director at English Lakes Hotels and Low Bay Resort and Spa, joins Jordan to discuss what it really takes to integrate Bitcoin into a UK hospitality business. They cover how you build a true resort experience in the Lake District, where AI tools like ChatGPT are already improving marketing and operations, and why hospitality still relies on people even as automation accelerates...

Joe, Scott and Jez join Jordan to reflect on what changed in the UK Bitcoin landscape over 2025, and what that signals for 2026. They discuss how conversations are shifting from price talk to the deeper issues of living standards, broken incentives, and why more people now sense that something in the system is failing. They explore the “debasement trade”, the renewed attention on gold and silver,...