The TRUTH about Iran’s “Bitcoin” seizure
I break down the Treasury’s claim that it seized $1B of Iran’s “crypto” and explain why this was actually Tether, not Bitcoin – and why that distinction matters. I digs into how stablecoins, ETFs, and exchanges recreate the same centralized, confiscable banking system, contrasted with true Bitcoin self-custody. When you consider Iran, Russia, and Afghanistan […]
Chat_170 – Can Anything be Secured in the Digital Age? with Luke de Wolf
“Keeping Bitcoin running is the primary concern here. Making sure that Bitcoin is available to be used as money by everyday people, any actor who wants to come onto Bitcoin and send one UTXO from one to another. That’s the most important piece for me when thinking about defending Bitcoin.And the biggest difference, of course, is that this is a decentralised system. There is no central controller. There’s no central control room giving out commands and saying ‘this has to change, you must do this.’We are a decentralised group of individuals who are acting on the network. And so the defence of the system is not down to, say, the CEO dictating that everyone has to have their password be 64 characters and change it every three months, which is bad practise, by the way. It’s everyone working together to do their part. So that’s the biggest difference.”
~ Luke de Wolf
I sat down with Luke de Wolf to talk about the real security risks facing Bitcoin today. Luke has spent his career protecting critical industrial control systems like oil pipelines and electrical grids. Now, he is taking that hardcore cybersecurity mindset and applying it to the Bitcoin network in his brand new book, *Defending Bitcoin*. And trust me, it is a conversation you need to hear.
We spent a lot of time debating the heated topic of arbitrary data and the drama surrounding BIP 110. Should we enforce strict rules to keep the blockchain pure, or is trying to force a chain split a bigger threat to Bitcoin’s integrity as money? Luke actually changed his mind on this recently, and he lays out exactly why the stakes could be too high to play games with consensus. His perspective really cuts through the noise and challenges the tribal thinking happening on both sides.
But we didn’t just stop there. We also get into mining centralization, selfish mining attacks, and why we need to view Bitcoin as high-stakes critical infrastructure. The decisions we make now could determine if this network survives long-term.
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Luke on X (Link: https://twitter.com/lukedewolf)
BTCHel’s Website (Link: https://btchel.com/)
Defending Bitcoin’s Website (Link: https://defendingbitcoin.com/)
Bitcoin Infinity Show on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@BitcoinInfinityShow)
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Roundtable_021 – The Fight is Never Over
The whole crew is back for another roundtable, and things get wild right out of the gate. I sat down with Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff to talk through the absolute mess that is the current state of things. Jeff shares an update on his Canadian immigration purgatory, which spirals into a bigger conversation about living like an outlaw and whether any of us are truly free from the system.
But we couldn’t ignore the recent news. We talk about the crazy story of a guy who used Claude to brute-force a lost Bitcoin wallet from eleven years ago. It really makes you rethink how safe your standard passphrases actually are, and we share some wild visual memory tricks to secure your setup. We also rip into the current hype around ETF inflows and outflows. People track these numbers like they are predicting the future, but we explain why they really just tell you exactly what the market already did.
And of course, we had to get into the technical fights that never seem to end. Steve brings some fresh data exposing the true bimodal distribution of network users right now. We spend a good amount of time arguing about Taproot, chain bloat, and the massive confusion between true censorship and simply stopping spam. Mechanic lays out his latest case for BIP 110 and makes a really compelling point about why the healthiest participants for the network are actually the ones willing to mine at a complete technical loss. It sounds completely backward, but it makes total sense once you hear his breakdown.
We wrap things up by looking at the broader picture of decentralised movements. From Occupy Wall Street falling apart to the current crop of hijacked political factions, we ask if it is even possible to build a movement without a vulnerable central leader. Plus, we drop some thoughts on local LLMs and the ongoing Prime Trust bankruptcy drama.
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Steve Simple Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3s6a8yn8)
Steve Simple on X (Link: https://x.com/stevesimple)
Bitcoin Mechanic Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2tm827ut)
Bitcoin Mechanic on X (Link: https://x.com/GrassFedBitcoin)
Jeff Swann Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3sjc3bcp)
Jeff Swann on X (Link: https://x.com/agoristview)
Jeff Swann’s petition (Link: https://www.change.org/p/help-us-home)
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Chat_169 – Bitcoin Proving its Case with Walker America
“Bitcoin is being embraced by the U.S. and the U.S. financial system and it is it being embraced by Iran and the Iranian regime at the exact same time and both of them know that they can use it without the other one threatening it. And that puts it in an insanely unique place in a world where there are no monies that work like that anymore.”
~ Guy Swann
We live in a world where global money printers are silently bleeding your savings out the back door. But the real threat isn’t only the U.S. dollar. China’s money supply is huge right now, and nobody asked your permission before letting international policy dilute the value of your hard work. We are watching an incredible shift happen in real-time. Powerhouse nations and heavily sanctioned regimes are suddenly eyeing the exact same monetary network, proving that true, neutral money works whether you are allies or sworn enemies.
I recently sat down with Walker America to pull the curtain back on this whole financial illusion. We talked about the completely made-up nonsense of the Federal Reserve’s inflation targets, and how the legacy system lets financial giants buy up the world with free fiat, just so they can rent it back to us. But the biggest paradox we explored is why the United States dollar actually cannot hyperinflate right now. A total currency collapse requires a giant release valve, and you might be surprised by what has to happen to the Bitcoin network before that pressure can finally escape.
A huge thank you to Walker for hosting this conversation on RoxomTV. We had such a great back-and-forth about our breaking financial system that I had to drop this episode straight into your feed.
Guest Links
Walker on X (Link: https://twitter.com/WalkerAmerica)
Walker on Nostr (Link: https://primal.net/walker)
Walker’s YouTube channel (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@walkeramerica)
The Bitcoin Podcast’s Website (Link: https://bitcoinpodcast.net/podcast)
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Read_946 – When the Experimenter Fails the Marshmallow Test
“Generation X and the millennials both tried to do everything right, according to what the boomers told them was the path forward: save money, study hard, get a ‘job’. At every stage we got rugpulled. Most of us have nothing to show for any of that.
Zoomers looked at what happened to Gen-X and the millennials and said, quite rationally, fuck that.”
~ John Carter
What happens when you raise an entire generation on the promise of a second marshmallow – and never deliver? John Carter’s piece reframes the tired boomer/zoomer spending war through the lens of the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment, and the implications are genuinely devastating. Is high time preference a moral failing, or the only rational response to a system that has been lying to young people their entire lives? And if broken social trust is the real disease, can sound money actually cure it – or is some of the damage already permanent?
Check out the original article: When the Experimenter Fails the Marshmallow Test by John Carter (Link: https://barsoom.substack.com/p/when-the-experimenter-fails-the-marshmallow)
References from the episode
Number Go Down by Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers – this read fits hand in glove with today’s piece, and if this episode hit for you, that one will too (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/fLqds61ds9YbsnqGOkE8)
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“The only two ways to coordinate human societies at scale are free markets and physical power. Any ideology rejecting free markets is just advocating for power. Socialism, communism, and fascism all converge to the same endpoint–rule by the biggest thug.”~ Naval Ravikant
Read_945 – Milei’s Austrian Scam by the Numbers
“The peso scam is around a thousand times larger than the Libra scam, and its victims are the poorest, about 95% of Argentines.”
~ Saifedean Ammous
Javier Milei swore he’d burn down Argentina’s central bank and dollarize the economy. Two and a half years later, the money supply has quadrupled, the debt has ballooned, and a quarter-trillion-dollar carry trade is hollowing out the nation. Is the self-proclaimed Rothbardian actually running one of the most inflationary presidencies in Argentine history? And what does it mean for Austrian economics when its loudest political champion looks more like just another Latin American demagogue?
Check out the original article: Milei’s Austrian Scam by the Numbers by Saifedean Ammous (Link: https://x.com/saifedean/status/2056436088944631996)
References from the episode
Safedean’s previous piece on the Argentine carry trade (Link: https://saifedean.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-the-milei-ponzi)
Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s work, since the Mises Institute apparently parted ways with him (Link: https://hanshoppe.com/)
Anything by Murray N. Rothbard if you want the real Austrian foundation (Link: https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard)
The story of Cincinnatus if you’ve never read it, it’s worth your time
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“Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to d…
Chat_168 – Hashing for Heat with Tyler Stevens
“Our little home controller, building controller, it knows our electric rate, it knows the way that electric rate changes based on the time of day. It knows the PV flux, the solar flux from the solar panels. So it knows if there’s excess power that the building’s not using.It also knows our natural gas rate. It also knows the Bitcoin price and the network difficulty. This is all just in our software.And in real time, our building can choose, it can flip between heating with gas or with hashrate to save you the most money.”
~ Tyler Stevens
I am constantly shocked by how much of our everyday infrastructure is basically begging for a Bitcoin upgrade. Almost half of the world’s energy is used for heat, and a quarter of it is just “comfort heat” to keep our homes and water warm. What if we generated all of that with bitcoin miners instead?
I sat down with Tyler Stevens, a former aerospace thermal engineer who is currently helping spearhead the Hashrate Heatpunks movement. I’ve been running my own hacky miner-heater setup downstairs to survive the winter, but Tyler and the guys at the 256 Foundation are taking this to an entirely different scale. We talked about stripping away our reliance on monopolistic giants like Bitmain and finally building a fully open-source mining stack.
The stakes here are high. If even a fraction of normal households swap their standard electric heating elements for ASIC chips, we’re looking at a huge decentralization shift for the grid and an explosion in Bitcoin’s security budget. We also get into the reality of sovereign smart homes, avoiding creepy cloud-connected thermostats, and why the “energy waste” critics are entirely blind to how thermodynamics actually works. This was an incredibly fun conversation and it proves we are still incredibly early to what home mining will eventually look like.
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Tyler on X (Link: https://twitter.com/tylerkstevens)
Exergy’s Website (Link: https://exergyheat.com/)
256 Foundation’s Website (Link: https://www.256foundation.org/)
Hashrate Heatpunks’ Website (Link: https://heatpunks.org/)
The Space’s Website (Link: https://denver.space/)
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Chat_167 – Why Your Keys Matter with Seed
“If you think of River or Gemini or Coinbase or whatever, think of all of those as silos and how people custody Bitcoin. If some sort of compromise were to come into the Bitcoin ecosystem at the private key generation level, that could create an incident that could set Bitcoin back by 10 or more years because it would be almost indistinguishable from a protocol compromise and that we would be talking about Bitcoin being hacked again and not individual custodians being hacked. So I think we need to decentralise how people do Bitcoin custody as much as possible and what better way by leveraging private freedom preserving open source software.”
~ Seed
In today’s chat, I sat down with Seed, the creator of the SeedSigner project, and his backstory is completely wild.
He told the story of how he got pulled into Bitcoin through a forensic case tied to a local Silk Road user, why he panic sold in 2017, and how that path eventually led him back to the basics and into building one of the most respected DIY signers in the space. But the real tension in this episode is the part most people skip over: what actually keeps your coins safe when things get messy in the real world.
We talk about the grim reality of wrench attacks, what actually happens when law enforcement flips a house upside down with a search warrant, and how a former forensics cop secures his own wealth. If you think a standard hardware wallet hidden in a sock drawer is enough, hearing his threat models might completely rewrite your long-term storage plans. And yes, we got into a few stories that made me think about my own setup a lot differently.
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Seed on X (Link: https://x.com/sesi_the_man)
SeedSigner on X (Link: https://x.com/SeedSigner)
Today in Bitcoin History on X (Link: https://x.com/daily_btc_lore)
SeedSigner’s Website (Link: https://seedsigner.com/)
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Guy’s Take_107 – Free Rent for the Rich
“It’s often discussed that arbitrarily lowering interest rates and the zero interest rate policy era leads to massive recklessness and unethical and irresponsible behavior. But there’s something even more sinister that actually occurs. A lot of people notice how massive corporations are just buying up all of the hard assets and then renting it back to us. […] Zero interest rate policy isn’t merely something that leads to reckless investments. It essentially amounts to free rent for the rich for everything in the economy. If you can rent anything for free, what do you do? You lease everything and then rent it back to the public for a profit.”
~ Guy Swann
Why do massive corporations own everything, while the rest of us are stuck renting our lives back from them? Most people see the trend, but very few understand the actual mechanism driving it. In this episode, I break down how zero interest rate policy isn’t just “reckless investment” – it’s a fraud machine that hands the rich free rent on every productive asset in the economy. What happens when you can borrow anything for less than it’s worth? You buy everything.
References from the episode
Read_944 – Proof of Work in the Real Economy: Wyatt’s chapter from The Bitcoinization of Finance (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/4v4LrOxS12vM15dE3tHT)
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (1841) (Link: https://ia800405.us.archive.org/28/items/memoirsofextraor01mack/memoirsofextraor01mack.pdf)
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“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
~ Charles MacKa…
Read_944 – Proof of Work in the Real Economy
“If your money isn’t sound, it is not reflecting any proof of work. It is not reflecting anything about who should be able to consume, or how much there is available to consume. It’s just being corrupted, it’s being defrauded, so that certain people get bad price signals. And this will incentivize them and everyone else to literally make economic decisions that appear to be economically profitable, that are actually destroying the society.”
~ Guy Swann
Why is it that 5,000 years of human civilization built monuments and railroads and cathedrals – and we built WeWork and Quibi?
In this episode, I read Wyatt’s case for a return to proof of work in the real economy, then push it further: sound money isn’t just nice to have. Without it, the market doesn’t break – it never emerges in the first place. And when it loses that property, society rots until it dies.
Check out the original article: The Bitcoinization of Finance by Wyatt O’Rourke (Link: https://braiins.com/books/bitcoinization-of-finance)
References from the episode
The Bitcoinization of Finance by Wyatt O’Rourke – the book this chapter is pulled from, available now (audiobook coming soon, narrated by yours truly) (Link: https://braiins.com/books/bitcoinization-of-finance)
Broken Money by Lynn Alden – referenced in the chapter and one of the best macro reads out there (Link: https://www.lynalden.com/broken-money/)
The Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth – also referenced, and a foundational read on deflation and innovation (Link: https://www.jeffbooth.ca/books)
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises – the original Austrian breakdown of boom-bust cycles (Link: https://mises.org/mises-wire/ludwig-von-misess-human-action-marking-70-years-continuing-relevance)
The previous Read episode on Nick Szabo’s The Fabric of Desires – perfect companion piece to this one (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/ByGugoFYLU0uFDPI6Z2t)
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Read_943 – The Fabric of Desires
“It is not markets that made money possible. It is collectibles, which we now call money, that make markets possible.”
~ Nick Szabo
What if everything we’ve been told about how money emerged is backwards? Nick Szabo’s first article in nearly a decade tells the story of a stolen canoe, a tribal feud, and a string of shells – and uses it to challenge one of the most repeated ideas in economics. Did money come from barter, or did it come from something far older and far more human?
Check out the original article: The Fabric of Desires by Nick Szabo (Link: https://jan3.com/blog/the-fabric-of-desires)
References from the episode
Nick Szabo’s blog, Unenumerated – where so much of his foundational writing lives (Link: https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/)
Aqua Wallet, the superapp by Jan3: Bitcoin, Lightning, and Liquid all in one, with USDT on Liquid too (Link: https://aqua.net/)
The Nakamoto Institute: the best archive there is for Szabo’s work and early Bitcoin thought (Link: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/)
Carl Menger’s On the Origins of Money – worth reading even where I think it falls short (Link: https://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/menger/money.txt)
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“There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in i…
Roundtable_020 – Anything But Bitcoin
In this roundtable, we sit down with Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff, and honestly, we struggle to stay on Bitcoin for half of it. Our catch-up quickly turns into a rant about LLMs acting like corporate yes-men, and the frustrations of running AI locally.
But we do get back to the money. We talk about the St. Louis Fed literally copyrighting Bitcoin price data, France tracking self-hosted wallets, Steve’s update on UTXOracle, and why the quantum computing threat looks a lot more like a funding scam with terrible marketing.
On the technical side, we get into the proposed cluster mempool changes in Bitcoin Core. Mechanic also shares his view on renting hashrate, and how much money giant pools waste by ignoring empty block speedups.
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Steve Simple Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3s6a8yn8)
Steve Simple on X (Link: https://x.com/stevesimple)
Bitcoin Mechanic Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2tm827ut)
Bitcoin Mechanic on X (Link: https://x.com/GrassFedBitcoin)
Jeff Swann Nostr (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3sjc3bcp)
Jeff Swann on X (Link: https://x.com/agoristview)
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