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  Bitcoin news and economic news update. Today I cover questions around Fed independence, Japan’s growing demand for alternative assets like bitcoin and gold, New Hampshire’s rejected bitcoin reserve proposal, MARA’s Texas mining expansion, and new regulatory developments affecting privacy and digital assets. This episode covers bitcoin news, macro news, bitcoin regulation, financial news, an...

  Bitcoin news and bitcoin regulation update. Today I cover Bull Bitcoin’s legal challenge to France’s DAC8 data reporting rules, what pricing U.S. homes in bitcoin says about the dollar, the EU’s planned MiCA revision, Sony’s move toward a U.S. stablecoin trust bank, Kraken’s $22 million arbitration win, and a brutal $1 million phishing loss. Privacy, regulation, money, and wallet security a...

  Bitcoin news and bitcoin regulation update. Today I cover Bitcoin falling as renewed U.S.-Iran tensions push oil higher, Polymarket adding instant Lightning deposits through Spark, Strike’s new no-margin-call Bitcoin-backed loans, Radar Chat combining encrypted messaging with self-custodial Lightning payments, Vanguard hiring a digital assets chief, the SEC’s coming crypto safe harbor, Nige...

Bitcoin news and bitcoin regulation update. Today I cover the interagency fight over control of the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, President Trump’s openness to Bitcoin in Trump Accounts, the CLARITY Act deadline in Congress, and a New York lawsuit targeting 39,069 dormant Bitcoin wallets. I also get into Coinbase’s UK expansion, USDT returning to Bitcoin through RGB and Lightning, and the latest...

Bitcoin news and financial news update. Today I cover Strategy selling 3,588 bitcoin to fund preferred dividends, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s push to restrict elected officials and their spouses from issuing or promoting meme coins, Russia’s September digital ruble rollout, Jeff Booth’s case for Bitcoin as a monetary protocol, record stablecoin transaction volume, and central banker warnings abou...

  Today I replay an early Bitcoin And episode on signed Bitcoin transactions over Morse code, radio as a peripheral Bitcoin network, mycorrhizal fungi, soil intelligence, plant communication, and the strange way natural systems keep rhyming with digital networks.  This one connects Bitcoin, permaculture, mushrooms, mycelium, commerce, information flow, and the very stubborn reality that...

  Today I replay my interview with Texas Slim on the Rancher Storefront in Canyon, Texas, the Beef Initiative, Texas Panhandle fires, EPA water rules, domestic beef, and the broader food supply shift.  This conversation gets into local ranchers, microprocessing centers, imported beef, regulatory pressure, food intelligence, and why shaking your rancher’s hand is more than a slogan. ...

  Today I replay my interview with Untapped Growth on regenerative agriculture, cattle, soil health, food resilience, low-time-preference ranching, and how Bitcoin thinking connects with real-world production.  This conversation gets into animal wealth, leased land, decentralized grazing co-ops, heritage cattle genetics, food supply fragility, and why Bitcoiners keep finding their way ba...

  Bitcoin And archive replay. Today’s selection steps into practical permaculture, backyard problem solving, bamboo propagation, shade design, water capture, and using natural systems to make a brutal West Texas patio usable again. This one is less about bitcoin news and more about the “and” side of the show: useful work, local context, and solving real problems without throwing money at bad...

Forest Walker | Bitcoin Guest Appearance Today I’m sharing a Bitcoin And archive replay from Once Bitten with Daniel Prince and myself, digging into the Forest Walker concept, wood gasification, Bitcoin mining, forest management, wildfire fuel loads, autonomous robotics, and why strange Bitcoin ideas sometimes deserve a serious engineering pass. This one sits at the intersection of Bitcoin technol...

  Bitcoin analysis and economics of bitcoin update. Today’s replay continues the Cathedral series with brewing biology, compost tea, biochar, subsoil injection, foliar spraying, endophytes, soil microbes, and the idea that fertility should become infrastructure instead of another input bought in a bag. This one connects Bitcoin to long-term land resilience, food production, and the practical...

  Bitcoin analysis and economics of bitcoin update. Today’s replay continues the Cathedral series with the Life Raft system, a moving silvopasture model built around cattle, chickens, biochar, compost tea, cover crops, soil carbon, and the long-term land management that better money makes easier to imagine.  Topics for today:   Cathedral Part 4 and the Life Raft idea  &nbs...

  Today’s replay continues the Cathedral series with grazing lanes, rotational grazing, leader-follower livestock systems, chickens behind cattle, soil carbon, water retention, tree fodder, and the strange but useful geometry of a thousand-year land project. This one connects Bitcoin to long time horizons, better money, food production, and the practical systems that keep civilization alive.&...

  Episode 1146 of Bitcoin And . . . is back in the feed from the Bitcoin And archive.  Bitcoin analysis and economics of bitcoin update. Today’s replay steps outside the normal bitcoin news cycle and continues the Cathedral project, a thousand-year silvopasture idea built around land, fertility, long-term productivity, and the kind of time preference that only starts to make sense when t...

The Cathedral project is a long-term model for regenerative silvopasture, cattle grazing, tree lanes, soil fertility, and Bitcoin time preference applied to land. This episode covers the economics of bitcoin, Fiat agriculture, multi-generation planning, and what a thousand-acre productive system could look like when fertility, food, animals, trees, and revenue streams are designed together. Topics...

The Forest Is My Mentor | Bitcoin Guest Appearance Topics in this archive selection: - Mycorrhizal fungi, plant roots, and sugar as money - Forest networks, free markets, and Bitcoin node analogies - Cows, ruminants, pasture health, and soil biology - Monocrops, rapeseed, CAFOs, and broken farming incentives This episode originally aired on 22 April 2025. Link to original Once Bitten episode: http...

  Bitcoin news and bitcoin analysis update. Today I bring back a conversation with Jack Spirko about Nostr, Bitcoin, Lightning, relays, public and private keys, and why decentralized communications are critical infrastructure. This archive episode focuses on bitcoin technology, censorship resistance, user-owned identity, and the rough edges that come with building open protocols in real time....

  Bitcoin news and economic news update. Today I cover the Fed holding interest rates steady while signaling a more hawkish policy stance, Bitcoin dropping under $64,000 after the announcement, Oman launching a mandatory national Bitcoin mining pool, and Binance facing new MiCA trouble in Greece. This episode also touches on bitcoin regulation, macro news, quantum encryption, AI agent identit...

  Bitcoin news and bitcoin regulation update. Today I cover the Senate pushback against an SBF pardon, a housing bill deal with a CBDC ban through 2030, Binance’s reported MiCA trouble in Europe, Christine Lagarde’s digital euro argument, stablecoin risk warnings from the IMF, Illinois’ new crypto transaction tax, and a Bitcoin, AI, and energy summit in Mexico. This one leans heavy into bitco...

  Bitcoin news and financial news update. Today I cover Kraken’s CFTC-regulated bitcoin perpetual futures launch, Michael Saylor’s argument that Bitcoin does not need Ethereum-style yield, Bitcoin’s reaction to the Bank of Japan rate hike, BlackRock’s new bitcoin income fund, Strive’s latest BTC purchase, Ledn’s bitcoin-backed lending forecast, and Coinbase and AWS bringing x402 payments to A...

  Bitcoin news and economic news update. Today I cover the market reaction to the reported U.S.-Iran breakthrough, Fed risk staying in focus, SpaceX joining the Bitcoin treasury leaderboard, failed tokenized SpaceX share offerings, Strategy adding more bitcoin, and the CFTC’s fight with New Mexico over prediction market regulation. This episode also touches on bitcoin investing, financial new...

A look back at the very first episode of Bitcoin And from 2018. This “blast from the past” rerun goes back to the beginning, with David laying out the original idea for the show: Bitcoin, permaculture, rural education, game engines, ranchers, and the strange connections that started pulling it all together. Get Your Free Comfrey Owner's Manual Here: https://www.bitcoinandshow.com/the-comfrey-owner...

  Bitcoin news and economic news update. Today I cover Bitcoin’s rebound as war-risk pressure eases, Gary Gensler backing states in the prediction market regulation fight, Metaplanet buying Siiibo Securities, Poland’s latest MiCA veto, El Salvador’s tax pitch for Bitcoin holders, Sam Bankman-Fried losing another FTX appeal, Microsoft’s AI labor warning, and BitGo bringing institutional bitcoi...

  Bitcoin news and financial news update. Today I cover Japan’s crypto bill that could open a path to ETFs and lower tax treatment, Morgan Stanley’s bitcoin education problem, BlackRock and Fidelity’s growing control of spot bitcoin ETF flows, Citi’s move into tokenized private-company shares, IMF pressure around Nepal’s crypto ban, the community bank fight over stablecoin reward language in...

  Bitcoin news and economic news update. Today I cover Ross Ulbricht/DoJ threat pardon politics, Fold Holdings’ $45 million bitcoin move, Botanix shutting down its Bitcoin scaling platform, bitcoin price action as inflation hits a three-year high, SpaceX IPO demand, Strategy share-sale debate, Kalshi safeguards, and a new CFTC proposal for prediction markets. This episode touches on bitcoin r...