Chat_179 – Back to What Matters with Cory Klippsten
***”The dollar is going to continue to lose purchasing power. Bitcoin is going to continue to gain purchasing power. It’s going to keep on happening over the rest of the century. We will at some point have enough people that have most of their wealth in bitcoin that they don’t have anything else to spend […]
Chat_178 – Our Burden To Carry with American HODL, Erik Cason, and Brandon Quittem
***”In the early days, the average user could probably use a Coldcard and know the amount of entropy required. The average Bitcoin user today, no clue. And so the times have changed, our message should have changed. And where I come down to is essentially what you said HODL, you should custody your bitcoin at […]
Chat_177 – Security Is Just a Hard Problem with Lloyd Fournier
***”I think that self custody is not going to be dead. I think that there is going to have to be a group, a vanguard of people that do this and take it seriously. The revolution won’t work without that. Everything under the spectrum is acceptable. But if you know what you’re here for, you […]
Chat_176 – Is Every Conspiracy True? with Talip
***”Today can you also use Coinbase to sell your coin? Yes. But can you guarantee that if Coinbase disappears, your funds will be with you? No. Because, it is, at the end of the day, their custody. Whereas in statechains, a really cool perspective is, if the server or the custodian, disappears, because of the […]
Chat_175 – Building in the AI Era with Luís Novo & Matt Ahlborg
***”It’s going faster than most people thought. We thought that these models would be useful, but not extremely useful, for a while. Now you look at this and you feel [that] if I’m not using this the entire day, I’m losing on something, I’m staying behind, I have to keep running this like crazy. But […]
Chat_174 – Preparing Bitcoin for an Unknown Future with Hunter Beast
***”I’m almost 99% certain that [BIP] 110 will activate. And not only that, I think there will be a capitulation after October, where if the month of October passes and [BIP] 110 is still not merged by Core devs, it essentially reflects that they are no longer relevant because they failed to be good stewards […]
Chat_173 – The Time Has Come for Privacy on Bitcoin with Dan Gould
***”I think I got kind of orange-pilled and privacy-pilled in this way when Snowden exposed all this surveillance that was happening by default through every system you’ve ever touched. That’s when I started treating all digital infrastructure as inherently recording devices. They’re trying to take information and, even if someone doesn’t really want or intend […]
Chat_172 – Sovereign Devices in a Subscription World with Harald Schäfer
“comma develops open source ADAS software. You can call it self-driving software, but currently what we ship is something where the user is supposed to pay attention all the time.” “We want the software to be open source so that people have full control. The hardware is something you have root on. We don’t have […]
Chat_171 – Building Instant Fiat-to-Bitcoin Bridges with Gustavo Flores
***”We’re entering the Bitcoin golden era with all the new technologies we’re discovering because for the first decade Bitcoin was still very, at least for the first five, six years, there was so little capital in the industry that not a lot was getting built. Plus Bitcoin still had all these early on issues. Now […]
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.
Guest Links
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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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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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.
Guest Links
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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