Café Bitcoin | Larry Lepard on the Debasement Trade, Global Bond Yields, and the Big Print | Day 41 of 50
Larry Lepard's third appearance, and his position has sharpened each time. Days 6 and 21 asked whether the Big Print was coming. This one was about the mechanism, and his answer is the bond market. H...
31 Aug 1h 11min
Café Bitcoin | The Lightning Fire Drill, Quantum-Proof Transactions, and Defeating the Surveillance State | Day 37 of 50
The Core Lightning security story, told responsibly. Maintainers found critical vulnerabilities and told CLN operators to shut down until the emergency release. No reported loss of funds, patch within...
28 Aug 1h 22min
Lyn Alden on Café Bitcoin | Bessent vs Druckenmiller, the Bull Market Question, and Why She Writes Science Fiction | Day 35 of 50
Her read on the Treasury story: the market was orderly and the interventions premature. The selloff was rational, the curve is not even steep, and surprise announcements draw attention to a controlled...
25 Aug 1h 18min
Café Bitcoin | Sticking the Landing, Answering the Maximalism Eulogy, and One Money in a Free Market | Day 34 of 50
Bitcoin pushed into the high $70,000s and held there. Friday closed near $78,300 and the room watched it cross $79,900 live. Cory's read on why it stuck: the move was spot driven, not leveraged. The ...
24 Aug 2h 1min
Café Bitcoin | Bitcoin Rips 23% on the Week, Privacy in the AI Era, Palantir and Government Capture | Day 31 of 50
Bitcoin around $77,200, up almost 8% on the day and 23% on the week, and the show opens on the mood rather than the chart. Cory, joining from Istanbul: "the shitposting is just completely off the char...
21 Aug 1h 29min
Parker Lewis on the 12% Day, Hank Paulson's "Break the Glass," and Why Spending Bitcoin Is a Saving Question | Day 30 of 50
Bitcoin ran about 12% in 24 hours, from roughly $66,000 to $72,000, and the show opens on it. Parker spends the hour on what produced it rather than the number itself: the long end of the Treasury cur...
20 Aug 1h 23min
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
