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Mexicans watched their banks get nationalized, their deposits frozen and the peso lose half its value overnight, so they keep their wealth in bricks. Liam sits down with Gustavo Flores Echaiz, co-founder and CEO of Aureo, on why the country's wealthy are now turning to Bitcoin. Guest: Gustavo Flores Echaiz, co-founder and CEO of Aureo and writer for Bitcoin Optech: X: https://x.com/gustavojfe...

Through Dec 31: $100/month (or $1,000/year) for your first year of Multi-Institution Custody, normally $2,400. Open a vault, set up a recurring buy, and use code TLT at onrampbitcoin.com. Discounted pricing covers vaults holding up to 25 BTC. JPMorgan just put a number on Bitcoin for the first time: 10% a year for the next decade, the highest of any asset in its long-term outlook. Jackson, Michael...

Elon Musk says he will give a SpaceX share to every kid in America next year, about $10B of stock, and the table splits on generosity versus strategy. Also on the clock: 5% Treasury yields and a $2 trillion deficit, CoreWeave default insurance spiking, JPMorgan ranking Bitcoin its top long-run asset, and Germany's Sparkassen opening Bitcoin trading. Where's the signal, and where's the...

AI agents won't barter, and Michael argues they will coalesce around Bitcoin faster than anyone expects. Plus Schwab turns on Bitcoin trading, Deutsche Bank and Stifel move in, and an OpenAI model spends testnet ETH it never owned. BOOK A CONSULTATION Holding Bitcoin for decades raises two questions: who protects it, and how it reaches your family. Onramp answers both. Three institutions prote...

A traditional VPN sends your entire internet history through one company that also has your name, address and payment details. Liam sits down with Carl Dong, founder of Obscura VPN and former Bitcoin Core developer, on why two hops beat one and why AI makes privacy urgent. Guest: Carl Dong, founder of Obscura VPN and former Bitcoin Core developer: X: https://x.com/obscuravpn Website: https://obscu...

Through Dec 31: $100/month (or $1,000/year) for your first year of Multi-Institution Custody, normally $2,400. Open a vault, set up a recurring buy, and use code TLT at onrampbitcoin.com. Discounted pricing covers vaults holding up to 25 BTC. Everyone wants Bitcoin to fix money, but nobody has shown how most people should actually hold it. Jackson, Michael and Brian dig into Ledger's roughly $...

The Ledger reseller attack, where tampered hardware wallets reached unsuspecting buyers, has the industry rethinking how people hold Bitcoin, and the table makes the case for a third way. Also on the clock: record money into gold ETFs, home sales at a 2020 low, and Anthropic's warning that AI agents could copy themselves onto smart devices. Where's the signal, and where's the noise? OP...

Stocks, bonds and cash are all moving onto digital rails, and Michael lays out why that faster money needs Bitcoin as its sponge. Plus the $86M Ledger reseller attack, and why one point of failure can knock you out of the game. BOOK A CONSULTATION Holding Bitcoin for decades raises two questions: who protects it, and how it reaches your family. Onramp answers both. Three institutions protect it, a...

Where flaring is limited, an oil company can't produce oil unless it can sell the gas, and Steve Barbour built Upstream Data to turn that gas into Bitcoin. Liam sits down with him on why mining belongs at the power plant and what AI does to that endgame. Guest: Steve Barbour, founder of Upstream Data. https://x.com/upstreamdatainc BOOK A CONSULTATION Holding Bitcoin for decades raises two ques...

Zach Herbert has been building Bitcoin hardware since 2020, and Foundation no longer calls its device a hardware wallet. Cam Stromme sits down with the Foundation CEO on open source, why self-custody is still early, and why your most important keys belong off your phone in an age of AI agents. Guest: Zach Herbert, CEO and co-founder of Foundation, maker of Passport Prime. X: https://x.com/zherbert...

Trump told Time that certain levels of inflation will pay off the debt very rapidly. Jackson, Michael and Brian explain why that makes Bitcoin's bull case, then take on a lopsided S&P 500, the AI funding frenzy, FinCEN's retreat and BitGo's custody bet. JOIN US IN MINNEAPOLIS Onramp After Hours: a happy hour with Cam Stromme at Pryes Brewing in Minneapolis on October 28. Save your...

Trump says inflation will pay off the debt "very rapidly" while his own economic advisor says no way, and he is promising $5,000 checks heading into the midterms. Also on the clock: France now paying more than Italy to borrow, McDonald's sued over AI menu pricing, and the New York Fed reviewing banks' private credit exposure. Where's the signal, and where's the noise? OPE...

Bitcoin is the life raft for a K-shaped economy that keeps rewarding the people already at the top, says Peter St. Onge. Jackson sits down with the Heritage Foundation economist on why AI is a bubble that's only at 1997, why the jobs panic is wrong, and who actually gets rich. Guest: Peter St. Onge, Senior Economist at The Heritage Foundation X: https://x.com/profstonge Newsletter / Website: h...

Bitcoin just posted its highest weekly close since January, up 43% on the quarter and roughly 50% off the bottom. Jackson, Michael and Brian make the bull case, then take on Ari Paul's Coinbase allegations and what they mean for custody concentration. BOOK A CONSULTATION Holding Bitcoin for decades raises two questions: who protects it, and how it reaches your family. Onramp answers both. Thre...

Gold and silver just shed over a trillion dollars in a day as the 10-year yield hit a 19-year high, and the math on gold's $18 trillion run says Bitcoin could move faster than anyone expects. Also on the clock: OpenAI shelving GPT-6.1 Astra, Apollo's warning about an agentic bank run, and Ari Paul's hack allegations against Coinbase. Where's the signal, and where's the noise? O...

One chart from Epoch AI shows the cost of AI falling about 47% a quarter since 2023, faster than any technology in history, and it exposes the math under the AI trade. Michael, Liam and Brian on why cheap intelligence competes away profit, and why Bitcoin is the scarce unit left. BOOK A CONSULTATION Holding Bitcoin for decades raises two questions: who protects it, and how it reaches your family....

AI just bailed out Bitcoin's public miners, and Bob Burnett says that is the healthiest thing to happen to mining in years. Liam sits down with the Ocean executive chairman on falling hash rate, who builds Bitcoin's blocks, and what the BIP-110 fork proved. Guest: Bob Burnett, CEO of Barefoot Mining and executive chairman of Ocean. https://www.barefootmining.com/ BOOK A CONSULTATION Holdin...

Brandon Quittem helped build Swan from a Bitcoin gifting app into a full service firm, and he thinks custody is the piece Bitcoin still needs before it grows 10x. Cam Stromme sits down with him on meetups, DCA, multisig and protecting your Bitcoin as if it were already worth ten times more. Guest: Brandon Quittem, VP of Client Experience at Swan Bitcoin and founder of the Minneapolis Bitcoin meetu...

AI's $3.1 trillion in off balance sheet commitments can end two ways, and both end with the printer running. Jackson, Michael and Brian make the case for Bitcoin, from the biggest ETF inflow day of 2026 to Howard Marks's new memo and BlackRock's AI research. BOOK A CONSULTATION Holding Bitcoin for decades raises two questions: who protects it, and how it reaches your family. Onramp ans...

The average Bitcoin ETF holder is back in profit for the first time since January, and the data says most of them held through the whole drawdown. Also on the clock: SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic out-valuing 45 years of US tech IPOs, Meta's Muse agent matching ChatGPT's launch, and wash trading allegations at Kalshi. Where's the signal, and where's the noise? OPEN A FREE ONRAMP FINA...

Meta shipped Muse to a user base measured in billions, and within days Amazon blocked it from shopping on Amazon.com. Michael, Liam and Brian on why autonomous agents will need a settlement unit, and why that is the clearest path yet to Bitcoin becoming ordinary money. BOOK A CONSULTATION Holding Bitcoin for decades raises two questions: who protects it, and how it reaches your family. Onramp answ...

The Fed just hiked for the first time since 2023, and Gary Brode's answer is that it changed nothing at all. Jackson sits down with the Deep Knowledge Investing founder on why the Fed is now irrelevant, and why he spent a month paying for lunch in Bitcoin. Guest: Gary Brode, founder of http://deepknowledgeinvesting.com/ and a former long/short hedge fund manager X: https://x.com/Gary_Brode BOO...

The Clarity Act fell short in the Senate, and the banking lobby's fear of deposit flight looks like the real sticking point. Jackson, Michael and Brian cover why banks keep building anyway, the oil shock squeezing consumers, and Strategy's STRC buybacks. BOOK A CONSULTATION Holding Bitcoin for decades raises two questions: who protects it, and how it reaches your family. Onramp answers bot...

Anthropic's Dario Amodei says AI labs must pace the frontier. Is it safety, or cost control ahead of an IPO? With Cam Stromme sitting in for Michael, four stories on the clock: that slowdown call, a Fed hike priced in with the 10-year above 5%, foreign money picking US stocks over Treasuries, and the bank deposit fight inside the CLARITY Act. Where's the signal, and where's the noise?...

New Clarity Act text dropped overnight ahead of a Senate vote on September 15, with the ethics sunset deleted and the ban broadened. Michael, Liam and Brian on why the institutional money is still on the sidelines waiting to see whether the United States fully commits. BOOK A CONSULTATION Holding Bitcoin for decades raises two questions: who protects it, and how it reaches your family. Onramp answ...