The Bitcoin Breakout

Today I am solo and am simply going to cover a variety of Bitcoin topics including some current events, looking at the future of bitcoin and how we really still are at the very beginning of the opportunity and story that is bitcoin. Join Me Today to Discuss… Remember the cycle is constant and we are still about 13 months from the next halving Why DCA is the way with Bitcoin for 99% of people...

Today I am joined by Moses Sahontatoken to discuss a plant that I have talked about many times.  Azolla a floating aquatic fern that can fix nitrogen from the air eliminating the need for nitrogen fertilizers, feed livestock and be grown rapidly enough to be a valid energy source when converted into dry pellets. A true miracle plant. Moses Sahontatoken is a Métis Bitcoin advocate and anarchist fro...

Trent Dudenhoeffer is a Certified Financial Planner focused on the convergence of traditional finance and bitcoin. He is one of the cofounders of the Kansas City Bitcoin Meetup. Trent is in a unique position to assist clients with traditional financial planning advice, while also educating and onboarding new bitcoiners. Trent feels there is still too many financial advisors that don’t mainta...

John Bush is one of Bitcoin’s true OGs, proceeding even myself into the Bitcoin space.  He even once drove “The Bitcoin Bus” across the country living on Bitcoin long before most people even knew what it was.  So I asked him to join me for this episode to discuss Bitcoins path though 2022 and were we are going in 2023. Join John and I Today as we Discuss… The Greater Reset 4 and What it has...

Texas Slim is the founder of The Beef Initiative, a trade group dedicated to improving the quality of our food via direct market access and sound money. Slim was born and raised in the Texas Panhandle, where his grandfather stewarded the land he grew up on. He resides on the Llano Estacado, the Caprock of the Texas Panhandle, The Desert High Plains, and the end of the breadbasket. His ancestral fa...

The entire point of bitcoin is that you can self custody your bitcoin.  In fact while many seem to think “be your own bank” means run your own node, it is really all about self custody.  Think about why we have banks in the first place.  Banking as we know it (international banking) goes back to the times of The Knights Templar. In this time people would make pilgrimages to the holy la...

Jonathan Kohn is a Venezuelan born Energy professional with experience in Land and BIS management for the oil and gas industry. Prior to founding BitPetro, Jonathan served as VP for Balanced Energy LLC, where he was responsible for the development and capitalization of over 70 drilling projects in Texas. BitPetro was founded in 2014, it focuses on the use of data science to provide land research a...

Robert Breedlove is a digitally fluent finance and operations executive (CEO/CFO/COO/CIO) with broad spectrum leadership experience across the enterprise tech, consumer tech, corporate finance, international M&A, tax strategy, wealth management, Bitcoin, and cryptoasset domains. Robert holds a Bachelors of Science in Accounting and Finance and a Master’s Degree in Accounting from the Universit...

Has the bottom hit for the current cycle?  The truth is that I don’t know.  Further the truth is math never lies and hence it doesn’t matter.  I actually called the bottom once the cycles top was established at 14,400 and I say yes, we have hit bottom.  Yet when I say, “never be this easy again” I am referring to the next 2 years leading up to the next halving.  There are so many ways to stack rig...

Gabriel Custodiet is host of The Watchman Privacy Podcast and the author of a bestselling privacy guide on Amazon. He has published many episodes on the use and accumulation of private/sovereign Bitcoin, and produces a Bitcoin privacy course that describes the process of owning, using, and acquiring Bitcoin in a radical way. Gabriel is currently writing a book on the basics of Bitcoin, re-explaini...

Parker Lewis, an Austin native, is a veteran of the banking and asset management industries. After coming to the conclusion that bitcoin would become the global reserve currency, Parker joined Unchained Capital, helping build the company into one of the most trusted technology and financial services brands in bitcoin. Parker is also the author of the renowned Gradually, Then Suddenly Blog Series o...

Today I am joined by Gary Leland founder of Bit Block Boom and host of “The Bitcoin Boomer” podcast. Gary is also one of the original gangster podcasters going back so long in his podcasting that he is one of the few current podcasters that have actually been in the game longer than me. Honestly Gary is a legend in the podcast industry and in the world of the internet as a whole.  Havi...

Today I am joined by Jonathan Chester, founder and CEO of BitWage.  We will discuss how his service allows anyone to receive all or part of their salary in Bitcoin no matter who they work for with no need to onboard their employer.  Oh and how about Bitcoin in your 401K plan?  Yea we are going to talk about that too! Jonathan Chester is founder/CEO of Bitwage. Jonathan has been in the Bitcoin indu...

Today I am joined by “Kati the Russian” to discuss the concept of Plan B passports.  We discuss Flag Theory, jurisdictional arbitrage, the cost of a second passport, the sovereign individual and a ton more. Katie was born and raised in Russia. as a former pro sailor and national champion, she got a US green card and at the age of 21 she immigrated to the US.  6 years later Katie is a CEO of PlanBp...

Today I wanted to go solo on a variety of bitcoin and lightning network topics I see popping up a lot in listener emails, youtube live chat and especially on Bitcoin Twitter.  There is a lot going on, good news, FUD and some actual misinformation.  You know real “misinformation” not the MSM version of the word. Join Me Today to Discuss… Why do I prefer the Fold Card over somethin...

Today I am joined by Jesse Markowitz to discuss the Start9 Embassy server from a customer’s perspective.  I have had Matt Hill on twice about digital sovereignty via Start9’s technology.  But I thought the perspective of an end user might really bring value to our audience. Jesse is a Computer Enthusiast and programmer for over 35 years. He has an engineering Degree from the Georgia In...

Blake Greiner is the founder of Muskminers who have bitcoin miners hosting sales and operations at Texas and Louisiana. They mine and host on wasted flare gas based energy. The flare gas is otherwise burned off without generating a usable asset. Essentially, muskminers take stranded energy and creates a usable asset known as bitcoin. Right now there are massive amounts of wasted and stranded energ...

Today Nate from Voltage joins me to discuss the lightning network, advances in bitcoin and how Voltage cloud services can allow you to deploy powerful lightning nodes in under 5 minutes. The typical Voltage customer is developing apps and wallets on the lightning network, but the service is very affordable and I have been personally running a Voltage node to learn about the technology for about tw...

As an early(ish) adopter, Jeremy has had his finger on the pulse of the Bitcoin world since 2016. He has helped shape the industry by being a part of several crypto related start-ups, such as Obelisk Inc., Foundation Devices, and most recently as the Customer Service Manager for Fold Inc. Being well versed in a wide variety of topics and best practices, Jeremy has led multiple workshops, both dome...

Mick Morucci is the co-founder of Geyser, a reward-based crowdfunding platform built on Bitcoin’s Lightning network. He built Geyser to help creatives, developers, educators launch their initiatives through the support of their community. By building on Bitcoin’s lightning network Geyser enables what Mick calls “borderless crowdfunding”: crowdfunding that can happen regardl...

The lightning network took a long time to really develop into what we were waiting for.  In fact it is still maturing but it is now to the point where we are building layer three apps on top of Lightning’s layer two.  That is a fancy way of saying, we are using bitcoin to monetize what we commonly call “smart phone apps”. Consider apps like Fountain.fm, Breez, etc that monetize p...

Texas Slim is a 7th generational Texan on a mission to improve the health and security of our local communities. To do so he is expanding market access to quality animal protein by building decentralized networks of value-aligned ranchers, processors, distributors, butchers, grocers, restaurants, and consumers. Slim is focused on providing tools and access to the tools necessary, including bitcoin...

Jeff Vandrew Jr is a licensed attorney and a certified public accountant and financial planner. Jeff is a leading voice in the bitcoin industry on IRAs and tax planning and has featured in Bloomberg Law, CoinDesk, and Bitcoin Magazine. At Unchained Capital, Jeff leads the development of retirement and inheritance services to support Unchained’s clients with their long-term bitcoin savings. Jeff al...

On Episode 10 we are Joined by Brian Harrington of BrianHarrinton.org and ChoiceApp.io to discuss using bitcoin as base money.  We will also discuss funding your retirement with bitcoin, bitcoin vs. fiat, can btc be used without the internet, how to use BTC for community building, localism and a ton more.  If Bitcoin is not usually your topic of choice, trust me you don’t want to miss this one any...

Jesse is a Computer Enthusiast and programmer for over 35 years. He has an engineering Degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an Executive MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He started looking at Bitcoin in 2012 – but not seriously (didn’t keep any). He got back into crypto in 2017, purchasing books online for crypto and learning how it works. In 2019 he was answering questio...