THE Bitcoin Podcast

“The wave hasn't even come… we're just kind of like on the beach and the wave's kind of creeping up, but it's still so much liquidity that's going to come in.” On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Sam Callahan. Sam is a macro analyst who recently worked on a report with Lyn Alden called Bitcoin: A Global Liquidity Barometer, and we dig deep into this report today...

“If you want to change the world, you start with the kids.” On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Jonny Vance, co-creator and writer of Tuttle Twins TV. If you’re not familiar with Tuttle Twins, it’s an educational animated children’s TV show that teaches kids principles of freedom, Austrian economics, and Bitcoin, all while being incredibly hilarious. Tuttle Twin...

“It seemed like a risky thing. But the more I did understand it, the more I was like NOT having bitcoin is the real risk. OK, the price goes up and down. But at the end of the day, even there in the worst of the bear markets, I'd be like, has anything really changed other than the price? Nothing has changed fundamentally. So why would my belief in this change?” On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE...

“For an artist or a writer or creator of any type, you suddenly have the potential to have a worldwide audience, a connection worldwide with anybody and if any of those people choose to support you they can do so instantly and those funds are in your wallet and you can go spend them… It really is magical, and that sounds cheesy, but it truly is.” On this Bitcoin Talk (and Nostr Talk) episode of TH...

"Prosperity happens because you have good money and you have a community that trades. Government is the opposite of that. It is literally cancer. The fiat system is cancer. We have cancer. And you cannot fix cancer. You cannot just get radiation every week. You have to cut it out." In this RANDOM RANT, Walker and Guy Swann discuss FEMA, Hurricane Helene, government corruption, the illusion of owne...

"They have to create wars . They have to create chaos in order to bring about a new world order . It's that simple. And anyone that thinks that this is a conspiracy theory, go f***ing do the work!" On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Efrat Fenigson . Efrat is an independent journalist, a Bitcoin and freedom maximalist, and the host of Your The Voice Podcast. Thi...

"Everyone just gets gravity. Everyone gets the protocol and we all live within that. And that's a rule without rulers. And I think Bitcoin is like gravity where it's just everyone gets free and open source money. Everyone gets programmable money, programmed and designed to maintain its purchasing power. And that's a rule." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Ada...

"Bitcoin implicates the First Amendment. As a system for collecting and communicating information ranging from payment data to art, bitcoin is speech. As a statement of protest against the government’s monopoly over money, bitcoin is expressive conduct. And as a collection of individuals that share bitcoin’s hard-coded principles of individual liberty, anti-censorship, and anti-debasement, bitcoin...

"What is lacking in order to make the developing countries as prosperous as the United States is only one thing. Capital. And, of course, the freedom to employ it under the discipline of the market and not the discipline of the government." In this Austrian Audible episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker reads Lecture 5: FOREIGN INVESTMENT , from Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow by...

"We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money. Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fel...

“The only barrier that you would not join Nostr right now is because the other platforms have more users and they can use that as leverage today. But that's not going to be the case in many years… those who are starting to get their followers already on Nostr are taking a significant advantage over everybody else because they're to grow faster. And we all know how network effects happen. It just s...

“What if Bitcoin were to monetize to reach some parity with gold in the next five, 10, 15 years… How should the United States make decisions now to maximize its advantage relative to its adversaries if that scenario were to pass?” On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Matthew Pines. We explore the potential future of Bitcoin, particularly its possible parity with...

"When you look at the historical track record of fiat currencies, if you run out the clock long enough, they all go to zero. And that may be what's happening here. Bitcoin is demonetizing arbitrary process. And that's its promise to me." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Bill Miller IV, Chief Investment Officer of Miller Value Partners. The conversation explor...

With Peter McCormack closing down What Bitcoin Did , you may be feeling lost, unsure of what Bitcoin podcast to fill the gaping void left by Peter’s absence… Look no further than THE Bitcoin Podcast , a show for newcomers and seasoned psychopaths alike. Subscribe to THE Bitcoin Podcast (and leave a review) on Fountain | Apple Podcasts | YouTube | Spotify | HIGHLIGHTER | EVERYWHERE ELSE Follow me (...

"When Cypherpunks wrote that privacy is necessary in order to establish democratic society in digital age, that's a profound statement, because you do look at states in which people do not have privacy, they can't have freedom in the digital age." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with UNCLE ROCKSTAR. We discuss the political landscape, the importance of privacy in...

"One in seven Americans hold [Bitcoin]. They're in every district. They're in every congressional district. They are in every party. They are part of every political ideology. We're everywhere. We are everywhere and we are many in number." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Troy Cross. Troy is a Professor of Philosophy at Reed College and a FUD-busting Bitcoine...

“If Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and the big banks decided to gang up on Proton, they can still do the same thing to us today, right? So from that moment to today, I think I've always been the advocate of how can we get this powerful concept [Bitcoin] that enabled Proton to survive 10 years ago and make it more widespread and make it more common? Because I think the future of business, democracy, fre...

"The best way to fight tyranny is through comedy… The most effective way to fight these people is actually not through brute force but to laugh these people out of relevancy." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Alex Strenger about White Dudes for Kamala, going viral at the DNC, mocking the establishment into oblivion, how to troll, the power of satire, right an...

"If someone wants to change Bitcoin in a way that is detrimental to even a minority of the Bitcoin users, they're probably going to be unsuccessful because there's going to be vehement pushback." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with MURCH . Murch is a computer scientist, engineer at Chaincode labs, co-host of Bitdevs and the Chaincode Podcast, and moderator of th...

"When you make it as a Bitcoiner, you deserve it because you took the risk that most other people don't take because they're too afraid." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with The Coin Dad , creator of the Bitcoin Mining Museum . We get into how the museum got started, walk through the history of bitcoin mining, talk about mining centralization risks, small-town A...

“Coming out of a bear market, everyone who's been daily DCAing, everyone who's just been using Bitcoin as their savings and they save regularly, when they're all in the green, I think that that is a signal. That's a signal that the bull market's starting again .” On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker Wicked Smart Bitcoin Bitcoin data visualization, about HODL waves, why doll...

"I will sell every Bitcoin I ever own, and I will invest every dollar back into the industry that helps the world the most." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Gary Cardone about why he donated 12.8 bitcoin to Donald Trump , censorship, why Bitcoin needs better marketing, decreasing the size of the government, the digital transformation, the 2024 election, and...

"The goal of the government should be to leverage the fiat system as it is to protect American lives and American prosperity as much as it can while hedging bets on what I think the future will be, which will be Bitcoin , because we all know that the fiat dollar won't be around forever." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Samuel Armes about lobbying against CBD...

"If we take care to build good stuff in an honest, transparent way–and this is also why open source is so incredibly important–then we can build a new financial system that actually scales without compromising on the core values." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks STADICUS. Stadicus is an IT engineer and the Product Lead at BitBox. We cover a range of topics around...

"it's literal magic… We're doing magic with magic internet money using free and open protocols that a bunch of weirdo and cypherpunk hackers built because they cared about financial privacy. They cared about being able to do peer-to-peer stuff. It exists, and it's here." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with NiftyNei (aka Lisa). Lisa is a a developer, Bitcoin and...