The Daily Stack

Wes Kaplan, the former CEO of Cointelegraph and now CEO of G-Knot, joins hosts Avi and Jody on 21 Rates Live to explain G-Knot's finger vein secured cold wallet and how biometric multisig aims to eliminate wrench attacks. The conversation also covers $BTC dropping below 100K on liquidations and leverage, AI bubble fears, Fed guidance, Bitcoin treasury company risk, US crypto regulation, and w...

Henry Herbert, the Bitcoin Chef from a fifth-generation Bristol bakery family, explains how he started six-course supper clubs and began accepting Bitcoin, which now makes up between 5 and 10% of his sales. He describes hosting two sold-out dinners with Andrew Webley, CEO of the Smarter Web Company, and how UK Bitcoin culture gathers around the dinner table rather than conferences. He also covers...

Boyd Cohen, chief strategy officer of Arcadia₿, joins Jody and Brian Rothenberg on Treasury Talks to explain how Mexico's longest running Bitcoin fintech is becoming the country's first Bitcoin treasury company. They discuss Mexico's trapped capital and tax arbitrage, synergies between Arcadia₿'s brokerage, custody and Bitcoin-backed lending business and its treasury strategy,...

Natalie Brunell, host of Coin Stories and author of Bitcoin Is For Everyone, joins The Bitcoin Economy to talk about her book, her path from news reporter to Bitcoin educator, and why money printing and runaway debt push people toward hard assets. With the hosts, including Jody, she discusses interviewing Michael Saylor, her board seat at Semler Scientific and its merger with Strive, Mark Moss&#x2...

Retail investor MC Khristina (@mc_khristina) returns to Treasury Talks with Jody and community guest Brian Rothenberg. She gives a candid look at holding MetaPlanet ($MTPLF), Smarter Web and Strategy through the Bitcoin treasury company drawdown, covering PIPE unlocks, MetaPlanet's international offering, mNAV and transparency, and why institutions have stayed away. She also discusses managem...

Mathieu Agee, founder of Odyssey21 (O21 Solutions) and a former ExxonMobil and Amazon Web Services professional, joins Avi to explain why energy companies should pay attention to Bitcoin and what he calls the money transition. They cover global energy demand, the energy footprint of data centers and Bitcoin, mining flare gas and stranded energy, the Stone Ridge Energy deal with ConocoPhillips ($CO...

Jaime Leverton, CEO of ReserveOne, and Sebastian Bea, its president and investment chief, join hosts Jody and Avi on Treasury Talks to explain $RONE, a planned diversified digital asset treasury. ReserveOne raised a $750 million PIPE and plans to allocate about 80% to Bitcoin and 20% to Ethereum, Solana, Cardano and XRP, seek yield on its holdings, and keep the option to put up to 10% into venture...

Eric Jackson joins host Avi Mash and guest host Drew Nagda, a Southern California house flipper, to lay out his bull case for Opendoor ($OPEN). Jackson explains his research showing that director share purchases predict outperformance, walks through the Carvana insider buying case study, and covers Opendoor's iBuying model, its post 2021 struggles, the new leadership with Keith Rabois and Eri...

Halston Valencia, a recent business economics graduate who works in marketing at Bitcoin Well, shares how Lyn Alden's Broken Money orange pilled her in 2023. She explains why Gen Z should care about Bitcoin, how it differs from founder-led crypto tokens like XRP, and how she moved from Strike and River to non-custodial buying and cold storage. The conversation also covers treasury companies a...

Bitcoin treasury analyst Adrian Morris joins Avi, Ryan and Brian (Rothy) on Treasury Talks to explain why $MSTR has diverged from Bitcoin. He attributes the gap to market attention moving to AI and Bitcoin miner stocks rather than to the ATM, and argues that markets move on sentiment first, liquidity second and fundamentals last. The conversation also covers $MSTR earnings and FASB accounting, mNA...

Vaultz Capital CEO Eric Benz and COO Aleks Nowak explain how their company, listed on the UK's Aquis Growth Market, is building a Bitcoin treasury. The interview covers UK listing rules and RNS disclosures, capital raising and corporate treasury adoption, and why a Bitcoin mining operation is meant to cover operating expenses so treasury holdings do not have to be sold in downturns. They also...

Brian Brookshire, Head of Bitcoin Strategy at Sweden's H100 Group, joins Treasury Talks with hosts including Avi Mash, Jody Flournoy and Sean as Bitcoin returns to $121,000. They cover why Bitcoin treasury companies should trade above 1x mNAV, Sweden's interest rate advantage, H100's Bitcoin-denominated convertible bonds with Stokr, and Strategy ($MSTR) moving from converts to prefe...

John Glover, Chief Investment Officer at Ledn, joins hosts Jody and Sean Risal to explain how Ledn's risk management and credit underwriting helped it avoid the 2022 and 2023 collapses of Celsius, BlockFi, Voyager and Three Arrows Capital. The conversation covers what retail Bitcoin borrowers should ask lenders about their collateral, the B2X product, LTV and liquidation levels, profitability...

Strive Chairman and CEO Matt Cole explains the acquisition of Semler Scientific, coming one week after Strive's reverse merger with Asset Entities, along with Strive's debt-free balance sheet, perpetual preferred equity plans, the True North acquisition, and his macro outlook. George Mekhail, Managing Director of Bitcoin Magazine and head of Bitcoin For Corporations, then covers sentimen...

Tad Smith, former CEO of Sotheby's and Madison Square Garden Group and a partner at 50T Funds, joins host Avi in Hong Kong to discuss how art, NFTs and ordinals respond to liquidity much like Bitcoin. They cover Bitcoin treasury companies such as Strategy and Metaplanet, the Lindy effect, why Smith treats Bitcoin as his hurdle rate, and his long term view of the dollar, stablecoins and pricin...

Former Goldman Sachs and Vanguard professional Christina (MC Khristina on X) explains how day trading $MSTR led her to Bitcoin and to a concentrated position in Metaplanet ($MTPLF), which she says will become the largest company in Japan. She covers her $1,000 bet with British HODL that Metaplanet will be the number two public Bitcoin holder, Japan's tax angle, Bitcoin treasury companies as t...

Thanks to our Sponsor at Ledn (BTC Lending); If you're looking to make cash without selling your bitcoin, learn more here. Bitcoin isn’t just about number go up . It’s about ripping out the old rails of finance and rebuilding them on-chain. In this episode of the Bitcoin Economy , Avi sits down with Jeremy Allman, CEO of PayStand —a company you’ve probably never heard of, yet it’s quietly powering...

Jeff Walton, VP of Bitcoin Strategy at Strive and co-host of the True North podcast, joins The Bitcoin Economy live at Bitcoin Asia in Hong Kong to explain what his new role involves and why Bitcoin treasury companies can add value beyond holding BTC directly. He covers Strategy's ($MSTR) use of ATMs on its preferred instruments, Strive's $750 million equity raise with zero debt, perpetu...

Bitcoin mining is more than mining — it’s an energy business. Hut 8 CEO Asher Genoot explains how energy infrastructure meets Bitcoin strategy, and why American Bitcoin (with Eric Trump on the team) represents a new approach to accumulation. 00:00 – Introduction to Bitcoin Mining 00:54 – HUT8's Business Model and Vision 01:30 – Sponsorship Message from Leadin 01:52 – Interview with Asher Nu: Backg...

This podcast is brought to you by Ledn. Ledn is the global leader in Bitcoin-backed loans, issuing over $9 billion in loans since 2018, and they were the first to offer proof of reserves. Learn more about how Ledn is shaping the future of bitcoin lending here: http://bit.ly/4m13UGJ In this episode, we sit down with Alexandre Laizet, Director of Bitcoin Strategy at capital B, live from Bitcoin Asia...

Special thanks to our sponsor @Ledn ; our trusted partners for Bitcoin Lending: In this episode we speak with John Deaton, SEC drops Ripple case: XRP officially ruled a digital commodity, not a security. Trump's Bitcoin reserve plan: A budget-neutral push to stockpile more BTC. Wall Street giants like Goldman Sachs and Bank of America gearing up for crypto custody. Stablecoins poised for 10x g...

Ben Justman, owner of Peony Lane Wine, joins The Bitcoin Economy to share how he took out a personal loan from a family member to buy bitcoin ($BTC) about a week before the 69K top, then rode out a year-long bear market and put his last dollars in at 16K. He explains running a seasonal wine business that accepts bitcoin, why being a forced seller is stressful, and why he now wants to get out of de...

Thank you to : Need cash without selling your Bitcoin? LEDN On this episode we speak with John Hoffman, Managing Director of Grayscale. We discuss: 1. ETFs as a Gateway to Crypto Adoption How spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs open a bridge for traditional investors to enter the digital asset market without direct custody. The role of ETFs in normalizing Bitcoin within regulated investment products, maki...

Looking to get cash for your bitcoin without selling? Check out Ledn today: https://shorturl.at/0aA11 In this episode of the Bitcoin Economy Podcast, recorded live from Strategy World in Orlando, we sit down with Eric, Chairman of Semler Scientific, to discuss Bitcoin adoption for corporations. Eric shares his journey of steering his company towards a Bitcoin treasury strategy inspired by Michael...

Jody talks with Joe Consorti, head of growth at Horizon, about the $35 trillion of mostly idle US home equity and Horizon's goal of building a bridge from the $370 trillion global real estate market into Bitcoin. Consorti explains how Horizon's home equity investment structure works, with no monthly payments, no term limits and no Bitcoin upside taken, and compares it with HELOCs and rev...