Café Bitcoin | Jeff Ross on Energy Money, Why Abundance Still Needs Scarcity, and Study Before You Stack | Day 20 of 50

The theme was looking forward After two brutal weeks the room turned to what comes next, set up by a listener's observation that the philosophical Bitcoin conversation which drew people in around 2020 had gone quiet for years and is audibly back
Why the guard dropped Phillip framed Coldcard as a psychic blow because it was the standard for personal sovereignty, and the harder question is why the surrounding behavior got a pass. Isaiah added that a friendly administration lulled people into "we've arrived" and a foot off the gas
Suz's line is the sharpest in the episode "I don't tell people to buy Bitcoin anymore. I tell them to study it," because only genuine understanding stops someone panic-selling an eighty percent drawdown
And she named the drift Keep Bitcoin separate from the leverage games and financial engineering, and drop the hero worship and Wall Street cheerleading, particularly among people who pride themselves on critical thinking
Dice rolls may not be the destination Swan engineer Steve is unconvinced that rolling your own entropy is the paradigm going forward, citing Luke Childs' time-locked proposal as proof that one week of focused attention already produced something worth exploring
Jeff Ross on why he came back He left in 2024 at what he called peak clown world and returned because the Overton window moved and macro conversation had vanished from Bitcoin rooms. He was emphatic that nobody should follow him and that nothing he says is advice
Energy money, his signature thesis The dollar began as commodity money redeemable for gold, and Bitcoin is commodity money whose commodity is energy itself. Tesla, Ford and Buckminster Fuller all reached for the same idea, and proof of work is what makes it real
He rejects the abundance argument flatly Told money may not matter within fifteen years, he called that top-of-hype-cycle talk most often heard during fundraising. Sunlight is free but panels, batteries and rare earths are not, and economics will always be economics
Cory on the only real asymmetry Strategy is legible to him and operations are not, but cryptography is the one thing genuinely on our side: the ability to make something unbreakable by an adversary with millions of times more power. His conclusion is that early-nineties cypherpunks may turn out to be the pivotal figures
How both guests actually cope Jeff sees an eerie replay of the 1930s and admits a libertarian may not fit where this is heading. Brandon Quittem urged empathy for those with no stake in the system, citing Naval that societies coordinate by free market or by force. Both landed on going outside and thinking local

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Café Bitcoin | The Nuclear Bitcoiner on Mining with Small Modular Reactors, and the Paper He Is Taking to a Nuclear Conference | Day 29 of 50

Ryan MacLeod, who posts as The Nuclear Bitcoiner, works at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories and has spent almost eleven years in the industry as a laboratory technologist. He compares his facility to Ida...

19 Aug 1h 26min

Café Bitcoin | John Haar Returns for Macro and Mining, 55 Years Off Gold | Day 28 of 50

John Haar, back for his first Café appearance since leaving Swan for Blockware, opens on the 55th anniversary of the Nixon Shock. His argument: gold's own physical properties, the time, trust, and arm...

18 Aug 1h 25min

Café Bitcoin | Yan Pritzker on Bitcoin Fork History, the September 1 Hard Fork, and Why Doing Nothing Is the Safest Move | Day 27 of 50

Yan Pritzker, Swan's cofounder and CTO, walks his new essay on Bitcoin fork history, from the 2015 block size debates through the hard fork scheduled for September 1. Published on the Swan blog and po...

17 Aug 1h 20min

Café Bitcoin | Orwellian Overreach, the Museum of Civil Liberties, and the Freedom Tech Field Guide | Day 24 of 50

A museum for things that aren't gone yet. Roxana Nasoi of Logos walks through the Museum of Civil Liberties: five halls, twenty major events, a record kept where it can't be quietly edited. Phase one ...

14 Aug 1h 19min

Café Bitcoin | Self-Custody with Nick Neuman, Money Without Permission and Debanking | Day 23 of 50

Suze takes us inside the UK's debanking inquiry. A director and co-founder of Bitcoin Policy UK, she's submitting evidence to Parliament's cross-party inquiry this week, and explains what an APPG can ...

13 Aug 1h 23min

Greg Foss on Bitcoin as Insurance, Credit Signals in the AI Boom, and Do the Math | 50 Days for Freedom, Day 22

Greg Foss is back. After stepping away from Twitter and spending time on Nostr, the veteran credit analyst explains what pulled him back: young people reaching for socialism, and credit markets he see...

12 Aug 1h 15min

Café Bitcoin | Larry Lepard and Greg Foss on Japan as the Seminal Event, Credit as the Warning, and Why Timing Beats Everyone | Day 21 of 50

Cory's argument about narratives. Journalists and bankers keep asking what the catalyst will be, but narrative follows price rather than causing it. Something moves because sellers are exhausted, and ...

11 Aug 1h 31min