Bitcoin Audible

When authoritarian regimes double down on financial surveillance and criminalize basic crypto activity, can new freedom tech offer a lifeline—or is the deck still stacked against dissent, privacy, and...

5 Aug 20251h 12min

Why does this Bitcoin cycle feel… different? In this Roundtable, I sat down with Simple Steve, Bitcoin Mechanic, and my brother Jeff Swann for a deep dive into what’s really driving the current phase ...

31 Jul 20252h 21min

"A myopic focus on personal freedom — the nights out, the "me time", the money saved — is a spiritual mirage: You think you want the paradise of nothing ever being asked of you, but it turns out to be...

30 Jul 202549min

**"You can delete your Lightning transactions. **So unlike a blockchain, a blockchain's an append-only database and every transaction that gets stored in a blockchain is stored there forever. Lightnin...

24 Jul 20252h 5min

"Privacy is not a bunker. It’s not cutting every wire, ghosting every friend, and hoping the grid forgets you exist. That’s fantasy. Romanticized exile for people who don’t understand surveillance cap...

21 Jul 202545min

"Either you don't have a fiat currency or you don't have a democracy. But the two things together, and this has been proven, cannot coexist happily without the complete erosion of purchasing power of ...

16 Jul 20251h 44min

Human innovation knows no limits, and our first assumptions regarding what is possible with the tools at our disposal, are almost invariably found to be wrong. Today we dive into Kiara Bickers’ piece ...

15 Jul 202550min

"In order for something to be used as ubiquitous money, the spender has to already have it, and the recipient has to want to hold it. Notably, people usually want to receive more of what they already ...

11 Jul 20251h 42min