What Bitcoin Did
What Bitcoin Did unpacks Bitcoin’s role in reshaping money, freedom, and the future of finance.
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Bitcoin’s Parallel Economy Is Starting | Brian De Mint
<p>“The alpha is still in Bitcoin. But it’s just by treating Bitcoin as money.” </p> <p>Brian De Mint is the head of marketing for Club Orange, a real-world social network for Bitcoiners. </p> <p>In this episode, we discuss why Bitcoin’s next phase may not just be holding the asset, but building a real economy around it: Bitcoin meetups, IRL community, the case for spending sats, merchant adoption, Lightning payments, Bitcoin mining as a free-market energy solution, and why treating Bitcoin as money can create stronger economic relationships between Bitcoiners. </p> <p>We also get into food and...
The Bitcoin Treasury Machine | Harry Sudock & Rory Murray
<p>Harry Sudock and Rory Murray from CleanSpark join the show to explain how Bitcoin miners are building entirely new treasury strategy around Bitcoin. </p> <p>Instead of simply mining Bitcoin and selling it for cash, companies like CleanSpark are now borrowing against it, generating yield from it, using it as collateral, and turning their Bitcoin balance sheet into a tool for expansion. </p> <p>We get into why Bitcoin may become the best collateral in global markets, how miners are using treasury strategies like covered calls and basis trades to increase returns, why Bitcoin backed lending markets are rapidly...
The Future of Owning Bitcoin | Jonathan Pollock
<p>Jonathan Pollock is Product Lead for Bitkey. </p> <p>In this episode, we get into wrench attacks, why physical coercion is a structural weakness of private key ownership, why seed phrases may be creating more risk than they solve, and why most self custody setups rely too heavily on users never making a mistake. </p> <p>We talk about the trade offs between security, privacy, recovery, inheritance, and ease of use, alongside BitKey’s new hardware update and the company’s plans to build time delayed vaults designed to protect users during violent attacks. We also get into collaborative cust...
Jack Mallers | Wall Street Is Rebuilding Around Bitcoin
<p>“Bitcoin can change the world because the world can’t change Bitcoin.” </p> <p>Jack Mallers is back on the show to break down his vision for 21, Strike, and the next phase of Bitcoin’s monetisation. </p> <p>Jack explains why he doesn’t want to build another pure Bitcoin treasury company or another crypto casino, but a full-stack Bitcoin business: financial services, lending, custody, infrastructure, mining, capital markets, and a balance sheet built around Bitcoin. We get into the proposed acquisition of Strike, Bitcoin-backed lending, proof of reserves, why profitability matters, and why he thinks the best Bitcoin company wo...
The Biggest Lie in Economics | Allen Farrington & Sacha Meyers
<p>“If your system can’t survive without inflation, the problem isn’t deflation.” </p> <p>Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers return to the show to break down one of the most misunderstood ideas in economics: deflation. </p> <p>Allen & Sacha are the authors of Bitcoin is Venice, in this episode they get into their latest essay, Number Go Down, where they challenge the core assumptions behind modern macroeconomics. They argue that the idea inflation is necessary for a healthy economy is not grounded in reality, but in flawed models, bad incentives, and a fundamental misunderstanding of how growth actually happens...
The Financial System Is Moving to Bitcoin | David Marcus
<p>“Money on the internet is still broken.” </p> <p>David Marcus returns to the show to break down why moving money globally is still slow, fragmented, and expensive and how Bitcoin could fix it. </p> <p>David explains how the current system is built on disconnected networks that extract fees, delay payments, and capture data. His solution is a new kind of global account built on Bitcoin infrastructure that unifies dollars, Bitcoin, and stablecoins into a single system that works instantly across borders. </p> <p>We get into why platforms like Uber and YouTube could become financial hubs, how stab...
Can Bitcoin Save The West? | American HODL & Peter McCormack
<p>“There’s a reality here that you guys are all asleep to… we are the only alternative path.” </p> <p>American HODL & Peter McCormack join the show to break down the growing divide across the West, the collapse of trust in institutions, and whether the current political system is already failing. </p> <p>We’re moving from a high trust to a low trust society, where incentives are broken, democracy is increasingly unstable, and the middle ground between left and right is disappearing. As countries like the UK decline economically and culturally, the risk isn’t just stagnation, it’s escalation...
AI Is Coming for Bitcoin’s Energy | Michael Dunworth
<p>“Bitcoin has a chance of losing the energy conversation.” </p> <p>Michael Dunworth joins the show to break down what happens when AI and Bitcoin collide over the world’s most important resource: energy. </p> <p>Michael argues that as AI demand explodes, governments and corporations will prioritise data centres over Bitcoin mining, potentially rationing energy and pushing Bitcoin to the margins. At the same time, AI is set to drive massive job displacement, reshape global infrastructure, and concentrate power into a handful of dominant players. </p> <p>We get into whether this is an existential threat to Bitcoin or a h...
Should Satoshi’s Coins Be Frozen? | Rob Hamilton
<p>“Bitcoin’s values are easy to defend until they become inconvenient.” </p> <p>Rob Hamilton returns to the show to get into Bitcoin as a hero’s journey, and why its next great test may already be here. </p> <p>Rob explains how Bitcoin evolved from a cypherpunk rebellion into an institutional asset, and why that shift is creating a new fault line inside the network. As more Bitcoin moves into ETFs and corporate treasuries, the question is no longer just whether Bitcoin succeeds, but who defines what it is. </p> <p>We get into the debate around quantum computin...
This Is The End Of The Dollar System | Jeff Ross
<p>"The days of imperial America as the global hegemon will be drawing to a close." </p> <p>Dr. Jeff Ross returns to the show to break down why the dollar system is ending and what comes next. </p> <p>Jeff argues we're already living through the collapse of the post-war financial order, the petrodollar is dying, oil is being traded in yuan, gold, and Bitcoin for the first time since the 1970s, and the US is entering a new era of yield curve control and structural inflation. We get into his three burners framework, why he thinks we're in...
