Plebchain Radio

Paul Keating and DirectorHodl come on the show to talk about Hummingbird, the documentary they just released on IndeeHub. The film started life as a small video idea for Bitcoin Jungle and grew over a couple of years into a feature-length meditation on indigenous prophecy, the fiat system, and the strange gravitational pull of one small town in Costa Rica. The philosophical spine of the film is th...

Joe Martin finally made it onto Sunday Brunch after a few months of being impossible to pin down, which turns out to be a good problem – his new album Alone in Valentine came out in May and he just wrapped an eight-date UK tour to go with it. The album was recorded in Nashville at Glen Campbell's old house with Cal Campbell and Cornelius Webb producing, cut in about a week of 12-hour days with mos...

Philip Charter, fiction writer, prose editor, the man behind totallyhumanwriter.com and the editor of the 21 Futures Bitcoin fiction anthologies, joins Avi for a conversation about storytelling, the slow craft of prose, and the gap between the two that most people don't see until they try to cross it. The thread that runs through the hour: Bitcoin is not the story. People don't care about Bitcoin,...

What does it mean to be human online? In an age of AI agents posting, interacting, and transacting across the network, the question has stopped being philosophical and started being structural. Avi is joined by David Strayhorn (Brainstorm) and Nathan Day to dig into proof of personhood and why your social graph might be the most non-intrusive way to solve it. On Nostr, bots are first-class citizen...

A man who travelled to 42 countries was asked to then go as far as he could travel. He found the farthest journey was the one within himself. Paco of Run with Bitcoin returns after two years off the grid to talk about where he disappeared to. After finishing his 42-country journey at the end of 2023, the road ran out. An ankle injury ended his running. The conference circuit blurred into late nigh...

Henrik Flyman joins Sunday Brunch for a wide-ranging conversation on his musical journey from Sweden to Denmark, the highs and hardships of life in bands, and the evolution of his solo “shadow music” project. Along the way, he and Avi dig into awakening, sovereignty, creativity, and the strange beauty of becoming who you really are, with Henrik sharing a set of songs that reflect both darkness and...

Guest host Aaron of Essex takes the Sunday Brunch wheel again and welcomes Nat Cole for a lively, music-first conversation about building a “new music economy” on a Bitcoin standard. Nat frames the idea carefully: not just another platform or “ecosystem,” but a permissionless economic layer where artists can participate without gatekeepers, own more of their rails, and connect more directly with l...

Episode 157 opens with Avi’s sermon “The Forgotten Forge,” a meditation on what happens when a civilization outsources the making of the things that keep it alive. The frame is applied directly to Bitcoin: early on, acquiring BTC and producing it were effectively the same act, but convenience split buyers from builders, and the network has been living with that fracture ever since. Kent Halliburto...

Sunday Brunch #11 is a relaxed, music-first decompression chamber with Buttercup Roberts at the table: coffee poured, no sermon, no script, and the Value-for-Value house rule intact, where 90% of sats streamed during songs goes directly to the artist. Buttercup brings a playlist built through deep dives on WaveLake and Nostr, using the episode to reflect on how direct zaps can create a real feelin...

Plebchain Radio Ep. 156 is part sermon, part game-theory lab, part cultural weather report. Avi opens with “The Price of a Voice,” using Primal’s new zap polls to explore a bigger idea: when voting has a real cost, consensus stops being cheap theater and starts becoming an economy of conviction. In the context of Maxi Madness, that means last-minute snipes, whale zaps, coalition strategy, and a ge...

Sunday Brunch #10 is a classic “table, coffee, record player” decompression chamber with Aza (Şelale, “waterfall”) as guest-DJ, running on the Value-for-Value house rule: stream during songs and 90% goes straight to the artist; boost during conversation and you’re buying a round for the table. Aza shares updates on her newest culture node, Amplified Tunes: a European-leaning hub designed to connec...

Episode 155 opens with Avi’s sermon “Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls”: permissionless networks don’t remove gravity. They remove gatekeepers and then demand competence: slow proof-of-work, deep roots, and the brutal honesty of output. UTXO the Webmaster returns and the convo starts in familiar territory: why the most recent “politician + Wall Street” Bitcoin cycle felt dirty, and why Bitcoin can’t...

Sunday Brunch #9 is a classic “coffee + record player” decompression session with Budtender (Hash Power Music) as guest-DJ, running on the house rule: 90% of sats streamed during songs goes straight to the artist, and boosts during conversation keep the table stocked. Budtender shares how a chain of Nostr serendipities pulled him from a “silent Bitcoiner” life into hands-on music onboarding. He re...

Episode 154 opens with Avi’s sermon “Weaponized Escapism”: in an attention-extraction world, the urge to flee is rational, but the kind of escape matters. Numbing out through feeds, outrage, and dopamine loops keeps you tethered to the machine. The real exit is constructive escapism: retreat into craft, build tools, make art, write code, and turn flight into creation. Sourcenode returns and immedi...

Avi is joined by Mark Suman (CEO of Maple AI, former Apple engineer) for a technical dive into the intersection of AI privacy, confidential computing, and Web-of-Trust as the internet shifts toward an agentic future. Mark explains Maple’s core design: privacy-first by default, where each user starts with a private encryption key, data is encrypted locally, and then processed in the cloud using sec...

Avi’s guest in this serving of Sunday Brunch is Ivy Lumi, a singer-songwriter and Bitcoin-industry native who began writing songs in late 2023 and spent about a year and a half getting her first five tracks produced, eventually releasing under the Ivy Lumi name starting May 2025. Ivy shares her creative process: she “hears” melodies first and uses a mobile songwriting app (Demo) to quickly capture...

Episode 153 opens with Avi’s sermon “Fix Yourself to Fix the World” : Bitcoin can be a flawless instrument, but it doesn’t magically heal the operator. The call is to audit the inner ledger with the same seriousness we bring to the timechain, because sovereign networks demand sovereign people. Red Tail Hawk then shares a raw origin story shaped by the 2008 financial crisis . After graduating with...

Avi opens the episode with a sermon on “the compromised substrate” : when public idols crack, the scavengers try to smear the entire network with the sins of a few. Bitcoin is not its loudest humans , and the protocol shouldn’t inherit anyone’s moral debt by association. Then Ben Justman returns, bringing it back to earth with the reality of shipping bottles, licensing, and the awkward border wher...

Guest host Aaron of Essex takes the Sunday Brunch wheel and welcomes Longy for a laid-back, music-first hang: five Longy tracks get spun, boosted, and dissected in real time, with the chat and sats flowing as part of the show’s “participation layer.” Between songs, Longy rewinds the tape to his early influences (from childhood sparks to teenage band chaos) and makes the case for live performance a...

In episode 3 of Say Wot?, guest host David Strayhorn sits down with Matthias DeBernardini, a software developer and “agentic engineering” tinkerer who’s just joined NosFabrica to help build open-source Web of Trust tooling on Nostr. They trace Matthias’ path from materials engineering into Bitcoin (including an early “$90 BTC is too expensive” family moment), then into graph theory, Lightning expe...

Ryan Cooper from Bitcoin Ranch joins Avi for a boots-on-the-ground conversation about rebuilding real-world resilience: food, trade, and community. Ryan shares his path from Detroit childhood roots and a fiercely independent, homeschool-led upbringing to managing a Chevy dealership, then getting “pandemic orange-pilled” into realizing how fragile modern supply chains really are. That wake-up call...

Guest host OpenMike takes the wheel for a laid-back, music-first Sunday Brunch with Tatum Turn Up, kicking off with some classic Nostr “we’re live … are we live?” chaos across Primal/Damus before settling into the vibe of Value for Value radio: sats flow to artists during tracks, and to the show during the chat. Tatum shares an origin story that feels like pure internet destiny: getting orange-pil...

In episode 150, Avi Burra welcomes Auggie from the “Meshtadel” world to talk regenerative farming, circular Bitcoin economies, and what it looks like to build a parallel system from the dirt up. Avi opens with a “soil is the original protocol” sermon: real resilience comes from base layers (trust, attention, relationships, values), not glossy interfaces or top-of-stack hype. Auggie, a DevOps engin...

Avi hosts the fifth serving of Sunday Brunch as a proper decompression chamber: coffee on the table, records on the turntable, and a strict Value-for-Value house rule where 90% of sats streamed during each song goes straight to the artist. This week’s guest-DJ is DJ Valerie B LOVE, who rolls in with “curve balls and lightning rods and heart openers” and a playlist designed to surprise. Between tra...

In this episode, Avi talks with Stirling Forge about building a decentralized rideshare alternative on Nostr, sparked by the brutal economics of driving for Uber and Lyft today. Stirling shares his background: former weather forecaster turned rideshare driver who stacked sats hard when payouts were better, then watched driver take-home shrink dramatically in recent years (with platforms extracting...