Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell

Darius Dale of 42 Macro says this is a conversation he couldn’t have on Bloomberg. He grew up homeless but now sits in the room with some of the largest portfolios in the world, and he holds nothing back about money, power, and the warning he’s delivering to the people at the top. In this episode: Why he believes your vote stopped mattering decades ago, and why he says it was no accident The dange...

In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn , we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance:  How North Korea pulled off the biggest digital heist ever  What Binance customers did once withdrawals reopened  Strategy's record quarter and the stock's surprising reaction  Bitwise's new decade-long Bitcoi...

Is the AI boom a bubble? Could gold be headed for a bigger correction? And what does Lyn Alden see ahead for Bitcoin? Lyn returns to the show with her latest outlook on stocks, gold, housing, and Bitcoin. We get into where she still sees opportunities in the AI trade, why she's more cautious on some of the biggest tech companies, and what investors may be missing: We discuss: Is the AI boom sustai...

We've been paying into Social Security our entire working lives. But the retirement trust fund is projected to run dry in 2032, and millions of Americans could face a 22% cut in benefits if Congress doesn't act. So where did all that money go? In this special episode, I break down how Social Security really works, why it's running short on money, and how Washington ended up making trillions in pro...

Could Bitcoin become a target as governments look for new ways to raise money? Nic Carter explains how AI, rising debt, and growing pressure to tax wealth could change the financial system and what it all means for Bitcoin's future. In this episode: Why California's proposed wealth tax could backfire and whether Bitcoin holders could be next Why younger generations are falling behind and what it m...

In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn , we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance:  Could Trump Accounts eventually be available to every American under 40? JPMorgan predicts Bitcoin will beat every major asset over the next decade. So why won't it recommend buying it? Fidelity reveals a surprising new sou...

Sue Ennis went from Bitcoin mining to one of the most controversial emerging industries: AI companion robots.  After years at Hut 8, Sue is now president of Realbotix and helping shape an industry that raises fascinating questions about technology, loneliness, and the future of human connection. The people buying these companions might surprise you... We discuss: Why Sue left Bitcoin mining f...

In this week’s episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn , we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: Why Bitcoin dropped under $80K, and what the American dream costs now Paul Tudor Jones’s warning about 2027 The rule that could push Strategy & Metaplanet out of a major index Strive’s new 15 percent dividend preferred stock:...

Eric Balchunas, Senior ETF Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, is back and his new book makes the case that Bitcoin is now a legitimate asset you’d be foolish to ignore -- written by someone who spent years as a skeptic. He walks us through what changed his mind, and where he thinks this all goes next. We cover: Why the Bitcoin ETFs are outperforming nearly everything in Q3 What happened two hours...

In this week’s episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn , we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: A well-known researcher says AI could crack the math behind your Bitcoin address, should you be worried? $100 million drained from Ledger wallets that were tampered with before they ever reached the buyer, and what I do with my o...

CFTC Chairman Mike Selig joins me in his first long-form interview since his agency proposed major new rules for crypto exchanges this week. With the Clarity Act dead in Congress, they're building the framework anyway, and he explains what it covers, what it doesn't, and why he thinks it outlasts this administration. Topics: What the new rules actually change for anyone who owns or trades digital...

Cem Karsan is back with some big calls. He thinks the U.S. has boxed itself in so badly that the only way out is for the government to start printing money and buying stocks directly, and he doesn't think we're waiting years for it. He also walks through why a market crash has to come first, when he expects it, and where Bitcoin lands in all of this. How a handful of stocks hold up the entire S&am...

In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn , we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: The Fed hiked on bad jobs data: 60,000 jobs just vanished from the record The $6 billion experiment: the Treasury is buying its own debt to push rates down, and rates went up anyway "Crypto Mom" signs off: nine years, a hundred d...

My guest this week is Paula Pendley, a partner at Nelson Mullins who defends data centers and Bitcoin miners in court, and she joins us as the fight over where these facilities get built is spreading across the country. Towns are passing moratoriums, politicians are campaigning on power bills, and the coverage so far has mostly come from one direction. She brings a case she couldn't fully discuss...

Why does everything cost more while the quality keeps getting worse? That's the question behind this episode. We look at why your paycheck doesn't stretch as far, why buying a home is so much harder, and why so many things cost more while giving you less. From shrinkflation and CEO incentives to bailouts and crony capitalism, the bigger story is about the rules and incentives underneath the econom...

The government hasn't paid this much to borrow since 2007, mortgages just broke 7 percent, and the most conventional financial advisor in America is telling clients to put 10 percent in Bitcoin. This is what a week looks like when the old playbook stops working. Bond yields hit a 20-year high and Bitcoin held anyway. Here's what the buyers know Ric Edelman went from 1% to a 10% Bitcoin floor. Why...

In this new in-depth interview, Bitcoin OG, author, and angel investor Simon Dixon breaks down the transition from the American empire to a multi-node global financial order. Simon pulls back the curtain on how transnational power structures operate, why the $40 trillion national debt is being leveraged against ordinary citizens, and how individuals can escape debt slavery by adopting a low time p...

Strategy CEO Phong Le joins Natalie Brunell for an in-depth conversation about the future of the world's largest corporate Bitcoin treasury. From STRC's recovery and Strategy's growing cash reserves to the outlook for MSTR shareholders, Phong explains the company's evolving approach to Bitcoin and capital markets. Plus, why Strategy is prioritizing share buybacks over higher dividends, how it plan...

In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn , we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: The Fed hiked, and the same house now costs twice as much per month as in 2021 The CLARITY Act failed in the Senate, is the issue the Trump family's crypto gains? The SEC clears the way for tokenized stocks in the U.S. Bitcoin wa...

Jordi Visser is back by popular demand. I shared something I've been noticing all year — that Bitcoin sentiment feels different this cycle, less like a movement to fix a broken system and more like a line item in a portfolio. He pushed back harder than I expected. His argument is that the old financial system is breaking in front of us, a new one is forming faster than people think, and Bitcoin is...

In this rapid-fire episode of Coin Stories, Natalie Brunell sits down with former Federal Reserve insider Danielle DiMartino Booth immediately following the Fed's latest interest rate hike. Danielle breaks down the hidden contraction underneath official data, including surging delinquencies, shuttering small businesses, and where the economy is struggling. We cover: Whether the Fed hikes again bef...

When Jack Mallers stepped down from Twenty One Capital (XXI), Rapha Zagury stepped in as CEO. A Wall Street veteran who ran trading desks at Merrill Lynch, Rapha later co-founded Elektron, the Tether-backed Bitcoin mining operation that grew into one of the largest mining companies in the world. Now he joins me to explain what comes next for XXI — and to answer some of the biggest questions surrou...

In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn , we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: The CEOs of multiple leading AI companies say the industry needs to slow down. We break down the major AI news story that broke over the weekend. Why a Fed rate hike now looks all but certain, and the tiny inflation number that s...

Natalie Brunell sits down with Vik Sharma, founder and CEO of Radar Chat, Cake Wallet and an active angel investor in the Bitcoin space. Vik spent decades in the steel industry in Pittsburgh before Bitcoin pulled him in, and he's now one of the most prolific builders and angel investors in the space. We discuss: The purchase that got him banned from Coinbase Sending money the same way you send a t...

BitGo has been the vault behind institutional Bitcoin for over a decade — holding coins for funds, businesses, and today some of the largest Bitcoin ETFs. Regular people were never invited...until now. Mike Belshe, co-founder and CEO of BitGo, joins the show to announce that anyone can open an account. No minimums. No account fees. The same product institutions have been using for years. Get a fre...