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
Café Bitcoin | Yan Pritzker on Bitcoin Fork History, the September 1 Hard Fork, and Why Doing Nothing Is the Safest Move | Day 27 of 50
Yan Pritzker, Swan's cofounder and CTO, walks his new essay on Bitcoin fork history, from the 2015 block size debates through the hard fork scheduled for September 1. Published on the Swan blog and po...
17 Aug 1h 20min
Café Bitcoin | Orwellian Overreach, the Museum of Civil Liberties, and the Freedom Tech Field Guide | Day 24 of 50
A museum for things that aren't gone yet. Roxana Nasoi of Logos walks through the Museum of Civil Liberties: five halls, twenty major events, a record kept where it can't be quietly edited. Phase one ...
14 Aug 1h 19min
Café Bitcoin | Self-Custody with Nick Neuman, Money Without Permission and Debanking | Day 23 of 50
Suze takes us inside the UK's debanking inquiry. A director and co-founder of Bitcoin Policy UK, she's submitting evidence to Parliament's cross-party inquiry this week, and explains what an APPG can ...
13 Aug 1h 23min
Greg Foss on Bitcoin as Insurance, Credit Signals in the AI Boom, and Do the Math | 50 Days for Freedom, Day 22
Greg Foss is back. After stepping away from Twitter and spending time on Nostr, the veteran credit analyst explains what pulled him back: young people reaching for socialism, and credit markets he see...
12 Aug 1h 15min
