The Bitcoin Matrix

NVK is the Co-Founder & CEO of Coinkite, the company behind uber-popular Bitcoin hardware products like the Coldcard, OpenDime, BlockClock & several other dope ass pieces of hardware that allow users to engage in Bitcoin safely & conveniently. We discuss: - The origins of Coinkite, Coldcard Wallet, Opendime & the BlockClock Mini - How Bitcoin products are pinatas for security - What sets the Coldc...

In this wide-ranging chat with Phil Gibson aka Mr Pseu the host of podcast A Boy Named Pseu, we wax philosophically about music, culture & freedom in society today, our love for musical earworms, music as a universal language, his Bitcoin rabbit hole story & how Bitcoin is a beautiful & poetic response to the 2008 crisis & not just a random occurence & so much more in this free-flowing conversatio...

In this engaging conversation, Brady Swenson the Head of Education at Swan Bitcoin & fellow Bitcoin podcaster joins me to discuss: - The significance of Satoshi's disappearance - Bitcoin as pushback against fiat - How civilization doesn't work without money - Lessons learned from the Roman Empire - Bitcoin as the future foundation for the empowerment of individual expression - His experience in th...

In this deep & wide ranging chat, David Bailey the CEO of Bitcoin Magazine & I discuss going from a hodler to a builder, what keeps him up at night, challenges that force you to figure out who you are, the Bitcoin 2021 conference, piles of Venezuelan cash to take home, Sumo wrestling for Taproot activation, his rabbit hole story, replacing the monetary system with one that is free & open to all, t...

In this fresh & timely chat, Flip from Bitcoin Magazine & I discuss: - A very exciting day in Bitcoin, $10k candles & Elon Musk - Bitcoin 2021 FOMO, surprises & anticipation - Bitcoin as a ubiquitous data layer - Proof of existence, decentralized identity & sparse data - How Bitcoin is really a global database for deriving truth - Working at a media company squarely in the middle of a financial re...

In this insightful & endearing conversation with Mir Liponi, the Godmother of Italy's Bitcoin Community, co-founder of the BHB Network & former CEO of Satoshi Design, we discuss her article Bitcoin & Motherhood, the history of the Bitcoin scene in Europe, the Milan Protocol, always doing the best thing for Bitcoin, how Bitcoin is for normal people & what a better future for our children in a Bitco...

Nick Neuman & Jameson Lopp, CEO & CTO of Casa join me to talk about the world of multi-signature, hardware wallets, personal security & more. We discuss: - The dos & don'ts of Bitcoin key management & security - The differences between wallet types - The spectrum of security options - The tradeoffs between security & convenience - Hardware wallets, paper wallets, multi-sig, seeds vs seedless, deco...

Justin Rhedrick is best known as the Bitcoin Vegan & a Bitcoin Educator. After getting released from prison, Justin was tired of running the rat race, the seemingly never-ending paycheck to paycheck cycle & that’s when he decided to learn about Bitcoin. We discuss: - His opportunities & plans coming out of prison - Breaking cycles - Mindset of an early adopter - How to stop caring about obstacles...

Erik Cason is a crypto-anarchist, makarismos, & iconoclast thinker writing about the social ramifications of bitcoin & the Director of Client Services at Unchained Capital. We discuss: - The place of law in society - Who gets to create the exception - How Bitcoin creates a new social contract - The perpetual & exceptional state of emergency since WW2 - Bitcoin as the base layer for a new kind of c...

Greg Foss has over 30 years experience in high-yield credit trading & capital structure arbitrage. We sit down to discuss: - High yield trading, credit default swaps & Bitcoin as the Anti-Fiat - Why Bitcoin is extremely cheap default insurance & the best asymmetric trade - The wholesale transfer of risk to government - If the next financial crisis is the last - How there is no other buyer of last...

Knut Svanholm author of Sovereignty through Mathematics, Independence Reimagined, Everything There is Divided by 21 Million Bitcoin & Bitcoin & the Separation of Money & State calls in to discuss: - Bitcoin is a mathematical battery & positive force for humanity - The connection between central banking, statism & nationalism - The State as a network in the way that Cancer is a network - How someth...

Gigi, author of 21 Lessons, What I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole, Bitcoin is Time & Proof of Life sits down to discuss: - Bitcoin as a force away from a centralized structure - perfect error correction in the digital world - Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment as the magic sauce - can privacy be reclaimed - Bitcoin as a form of speech - how speech is inherently linked to value -...

Marty Bent, Editor in Chief of Marty’s Bent, Host of Tales from the Crypt & bringing market to molecule at Great American Mining sits down to discuss: - Harvesting organic waste fuels while securing the world’s first engineered monetary network aka Bitcoin - The moralization of energy cosumption - Government overreach - The amount of energy it takes to secure the US Dollar - Bitcoin, Covid, Dave P...

Mark Yusko, Founder, CEO & CIO of Morgan Creek Capital & the Managing Partner of Morgan Creek Digital Assets sits down to discuss: - the difference between price & value - hanging out with the bad guys - the importance of conviction - cash as an investment - the mathematics of loss - the 3:15 train problem- the fads, the frauds & the phonies - demographics as destiny - in & out politics - how mone...

In this episode, I sit down with Max Hillebrand, the Rothbardian Crypto Anarchist, Sound Money Agorist, Free software entrepreneur building Bitcoin defensive weapons of war at Wasabi Wallet to discuss: - What the State Is Not - What the State Is - How the State Preserves Itself - Is Science the New God of the State - How the State Transcends Its Limits - The Use of Intellectuals by the State - Wha...

In this episode, Cedric sits down with Isaiah Jackson, author of Bitcoin & Black America to discuss: - the effects of the Federal Reserve & inflation on the Black middle class - the relationship between Black America & the media - the Golden Age of Black businesses & entrepreneurship - the circulation of the Black dollar - the state of household wealth in black america - how the Black community sh...

In this special episode, Cedric sits down with Vijay Boyapati to discuss his seminal piece, The Bullish Case for Bitcoin. We discuss: - digital scarcity & how to value monetary goods - why do humans value scarcity - how money evolves through four stages - path dependence, Gartner hype cycles & the standard S curve - is this the final cycle - the real threats to Bitcoin - the future value of Bitcoi...

Race car driver and former professional baseball pitcher C.J. Wilson zooms in to discuss: - Dealing with setbacks and playing through pain - Life as a game and a series of calculated bets - Not letting anything get in your way - His Bitcoin rabbit hole story (of course) - 10 ways to be an All Star Bitcoiner - and much more Need to starting stacking sats or looking for the best place to DCA. Here's...

Kiara Bickers, author of Bitcoin Clairity: The Complete Beginners Guide to Understanding Bitcoin sits down with Cedric to discuss: - the challenges to understanding Bitcoin - separating technical concepts from industry jargon - finding the signal in the noise - control loops & feedback - the magic of double entry accounting & double think - how full nodes & miners are similar to the manager worker...

Stephan Livera sits down with Ced to explore Austrian Economics from the Bitcoiners Perspective. We discuss: - How did government intervention make money what it is today - Is the government drinking your milkshake - How does number go up technology really work - Does fiat remove the future consequences of our bad decisions - How does soft money cut against the role of the family & community - Wha...

Ced sits down with Jordan Bush, co-author of Thank God For Bitcoin to explore the ways in which the current monetary system is broken & what can be done to fix it. We look at how Bitcoin is redeeming the ills of society & how the ongoing transition to sound money is a source of hope for a broken world.

In this deep & wide ranging conversation with John Vallis, the host of the Bitcoin Rapid Fire podcast we sit down to discuss the most important virtues in his life: truth, freedom, curiosity, possibility & how after an unforgettable year, he's most bullish on Bitcoiners. John Vallis is cool as fuck and this chat with him was such a blast. Just fuck me already Bitcoin.

In this wide ranging chat with Christopher Gimmer, the co-founder of Bitbo.io & Snappa.com we discuss how to turn your life into a giant flywheel and: - Why Snappa is holding Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset - Why it pays to play the long game - Building a great team - Scaling to $1M ARR with a marketing flywheel - Purchasing the Snappa.com domain for $40,000 - Co-founding Snappa: from idea to...

Author of Grokking Bitcoin, Kalle Rosenbaum joins Ced to discuss: - How does the Bitcoin network prevent cheating - What is a cryptographic function & is it a defensive weapon of war - Will government punish their people harshly for using Bitcoin & how bloody and violent will it get - How cyptographic tools & encryption are the only ways to maintain privacy and security during the age of big broth...

Cedric sits down with @Bitstein, founder of the Nakamoto Institute, co-host of Noded podcast & the meme lord himself to discuss: - How to meme Bitcoin to the moon - Who wants to scam your Bitcoin - Why we relish the Federal Reserve's absurd actions - Praxeology and rejecting certain forms of activism for pragmatic reasons - How to reframe, agree and amplify and then completely dominate it on socia...