Bitcoin Well Podcast

He was quietly cashing in while everyone else got rugged. On episode 1 of the Bitcoin Well Podcast, we sit down with Tatum Turn Up — yes, the guy behind Between Two ASICs — to break down what's really going on with Trump, crypto rug pulls, and what it means for bitcoiners. We also get into the mining side of things, since that's Tatum's actual day job — expect real insider perspective on where tha...

Kevin Warsh chaired his first FOMC meeting on June 17th, 2026. By the time it was over, every rate cut penciled in for 2026 was gone. Bitcoin fell from 66K to 62K. Gold — the safe haven — was also bleeding. And the headlines did what they always do: screamed volatility. Zach reads his original piece connecting June 17th to Frederick Hayek's knowledge problem and the difference between money run by...

Bitcoin Well Explains: The Dangers of Bitcoin Exchanges "Can't I just leave it on the exchange?" Every Bitcoin beginner asks this. This video answers it directly and permanently. Mt. Gox lost 850,000 Bitcoin. FTX vaporized $8 billion overnight. Bybit lost $1.4 billion in a single hack last year — the largest theft in crypto history. Different decades, different countries, different excuses. Same o...

Illinois quietly slipped a 20 basis point tax on all Bitcoin on-chain transactions into a bill overnight — no industry input, no debate, signed into law. Every Bitcoin transaction in the state: sending to yourself, to others, to an exchange, from an exchange. All taxed. Q hosts an emergency Spaces to break down what the law actually says, why it matters even if you're not in Illinois, and what the...

Bitcoin just dropped $18,000 in 10 days. Strategy sold for the first time since 2022. The headlines are screaming capitulation. Zach reads two pieces back to back: Adam O'Brien's "What Gives Money Its Value" — a clear-eyed dismantling of the "Bitcoin isn't backed by anything" crowd (spoiler: neither is the dollar, and it's not gold either) — followed by a primer on dollar cost averaging, because w...

Bitcoin Well Reads: The Unbanked Already Know What the Rest of Us Are Starting to Figure Out Texas just pulled its $10 million Bitcoin reserve out of BlackRock's iBit and moved it into direct custody. The second biggest economy in the US looked at a custodial ETF and said not good enough. They want the actual coins on their own infrastructure protected by their own keys. First they laugh at you. T...

Bitcoin Well Explains: Explains: Hardware Wallet Setup, Transactions, and the Rules That Keep You Safe Bitcoin Well Explains: Hardware Wallets The theory is one thing. Actually doing it is something else entirely. If you're a beginner, the thought of buying a hardware wallet, moving your Bitcoin off an exchange, and sending your first transaction probably gives you an anxiety attack. The first few...

Bitcoin Well Reads: Bitcoin: The Next Chapter of Humanity Every time humanity has taken a major step forward, something fundamental changed beneath it. Not just a new invention — a new foundation. Agriculture changed how we lived. Electricity changed how we built. The internet changed how we communicate. Bitcoin belongs in that same category. Most people still see it as something financial. What's...

75% of all Bitcoin transactions never touch the blockchain. 33% of all Bitcoin is held at Coinbase. Only 12 to 15% of new Bitcoiners self-custody their coins. Those numbers are depressing. This conversation is about why — and what to do about it. In this Bitcoin Well Spaces, Konrad and Zach sit down with Roberto Rios (The Peruvian Bull), Niko from Simply Bitcoin, Kyle Huber (filmmaker, We Are Sato...

Bitcoin Well Reads: The Great Decoupling: From the Reformation of Heaven to the Reformation of Money The most powerful institutions in history all share one trait — they make themselves indispensable. The medieval Church taught that you needed a priest to reach God. The modern central bank teaches that you need a custodian to store value. Both monopolies look natural until somebody opens the door....

The yen has lost a third of its purchasing power in five years against the dollar. The Bank of Japan now owns half of its own bond market. And every other reserve currency appears to be on the same trajectory. In this May 14th Bitcoin Well Spaces, Zach sits down with Roberto Rios (The Peruvian Bull) and macro analyst Robert of Infra for one of the most comprehensive macro conversations the show ha...

Bitcoin Well Reads: Banks Vs Bitcoin - Why the Alternative Is Becoming the Obvious Choice In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach reads an original article on the structural differences between Bitcoin and the banking system — not the surface level talking points, but the things that actually matter for your financial future. BitcoinVsBanks #FractionalReserve #NotYourKeysNotYour...

Bitcoin Well Explains: Hot vs Cold Bitcoin Wallets Your seed phrase can never touch the internet. But Bitcoin is a digital network. So how do you actually use it? That contradiction trips up almost every Bitcoin beginner. This video solves it. In this episode of the Bitcoin Well 101 series, Zach breaks down the full spectrum of Bitcoin custody — from exchange accounts to hot wallets to cold storag...

Bitcoin Well Reads: When Rules Don't Need Rulers Every rule system you've ever lived inside had someone behind it. A lawmaker who wrote it. A judge who interpreted it. An authority ready to enforce it — and if necessary, to back that enforcement with something harder than words. That's just how rules work. Or so we assumed. In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach reads "When Rul...

You've done the work. You understand fiat. You understand miners, nodes, and private keys. And then you open an exchange and get hit with 20,000 other cryptocurrencies — coins named after dogs, coins promising to be a world computer, coins claiming to be faster, cheaper, smarter, and better than Bitcoin in every measurable way. It's a fair question. And how you answer it will determine whether you...

Bitcoin Well Reads: Wake Up America, Bitcoin or Bust Owning Bitcoin isn't enough. How you hold it determines whether you're actually free. In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach reads two original articles back to back. The first, written by Zach, makes the case for Bitcoin as the ultimate savings technology — and explains why no other money, crypto, or financial instrument com...

Bitcoin Well Reads: The Engineered Collapse: How the 2026 Iran War Really Started The mainstream narrative says the 2026 Iran conflict was a sudden eruption of ancient hatreds and regional tension. That framing is convenient. It's also wrong. The fuse wasn't lit in the Strait of Hormuz. It was lit months earlier in the halls of the US Treasury, by men in suits wielding spreadsheets. In this episod...

Bitcoin Well Explains: Bitcoin Seed Phrases Your private key is an unreadable 64-character cryptographic string. Mistake one character — misread an 8 as a B, a 0 as an O — and your life savings are gone forever. No password reset. No support ticket. No appeal. In the early days of Bitcoin, people lost real money this way. Bitcoin needed a human upgrade. That upgrade is the seed phrase. In this vid...

47 days into the Iran war, the ceasefire is holding — barely. The US just set up a blockade at the Strait of Hormuz, not to stop Iran, but to collect rent. And Iran is already settling oil trades in Bitcoin. In this Bitcoin Well Spaces session, The Peruvian Bull (Roberto) and Q break down the geopolitics, the military math, and the monetary history behind what's unfolding. Why a US ground invasion...

Bitcoin Well Explains: Public and Private Keys When you buy Bitcoin, what do you actually own? Most people think it works like a digital file — a little coin sitting on their phone or USB drive. That mental model is completely wrong. And as long as you're holding onto it, you don't really understand what you own. In this video we strip away the jargon and explain exactly how Bitcoin ownership work...

Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Reads: The Architecture of Solidarity: How Bitcoin Revives the Lost Art of Mutual Aid You have been lied to about what charity actually is. When crisis hits, we are trained to look up. We wait for the government agency. We wait for the NGO. We wait for the wealthy benefactor. This is vertical charity. It is dependence masquerading as care. But this is not how humans a...

Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Explains: Nodes and Governance In 2017, the biggest mining pools, major exchanges, and venture capital firms signed an agreement to change Bitcoin's rules by force. They controlled over 80% of the network's computing power. They lost. Completely. Embarrassingly. This is the story of the Blocksize War — and the quiet, underappreciated participants who won it: the node...

Send us Fan Mail Reads: Seven ways Bitcoin is used today Most people dismissing Bitcoin haven't seen it in use. They see a price chart and miss the system underneath. In this episode, Zach reads "7 Ways Bitcoin Is Used Today" by Ulysses Alfaro — a breakdown of how Bitcoin is already solving real problems for real people all over the world. This is a great episode to share with anyone who still ask...

Send us Fan Mail After months of internal conversations, working groups, and a lot of soul searching, Bitcoin Well is announcing carbon neutral Bitcoin purchasing. In this episode, Zach reads the full press release — because it speaks for itself. Optional at checkout. No mandates. No government program. Just individuals choosing to do more with what they have. Personal responsibility. Voluntary ac...

Send us Fan Mail The Difficulty Adjustment and the Halving Explained - Why Bitcoin Is the Hardest Money Ever Created Mining is a global guessing game. Computers race to find a winning number, the winner writes the next page of the ledger, and gets paid in brand new Bitcoin. Clean. Simple. Elegant. But here's where most explanations stop and the really interesting questions start. What stops every...