THE Bitcoin Podcast

"The free market will vastly outperform anything the government can do."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Dave Bradley about the legitimacy of the state, why the modern State cannot go on much longer, why decentralization beats centralization, what the State looks like on a Bitcoin standard, the law, property rights, and why a minimal government approach would lead to better outcomes than the co...

"The fourth American republic, the bright orange future, the next first turning, whatever you want to call it, will be on a Bitcoin Standard."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Brandon Quitem. Brandon and Walker dig deep into the Fourth Turning, where we’re at in the cycle, what comes next societal and cultural shifts, how Bitcoin fits into all of this, Anacyclosis, parenting, and a whole lot mor...

“Now we've strengthened the dollar system. We've weakened the dollar. We've made American industry more competitive. We've driven inflation and nominal growth. And we have provided the world a neutral reserve asset that is now big enough to recycle their dollar surpluses into where they stop buying all of our stuff.”

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Luke Gromen, Founder & President of Forest...

“Bitcoin over the last five years has returned 55% CAGR. If you get a 10th of a Bitcoin right now, just sit on a 10th of a Bitcoin… You go 20 years… That's $64 f***ing million dollars.”

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with George Bodine. George is a Bitcoiner and artist, but he’s also been an oil field worker, cab driver, miner, cop, Navy fighter pilot, Top Gun graduate, and airline Captain… needles...

"That's why Bitcoin is so brilliant… it removes humans from the monetary system for the first time in all history."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Julian Figueroa and Peruvian Bull. Julian and Peruvian have a documentary coming out on December 23 about Jekyll Island and the Federal Reserve, which they worked on with Isabella Santos and Ian Carroll. We go deep into the dark history of the feder...

"We are attempting to speed up hyperbitcoinization. That's it in a nutshell. Hyperbitcoinization is happening whether you like it or not. All money will tend to one, but we are just trying to facilitate it and make the experience as smooth and as quick as possible. That's our mission."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Princ Filip Karađorđević (Prince Philip Karageorgevitch), Hereditary Prince of...

"This is something that could be really beneficial to all Americans, American businesses and America on a geopolitical stage. And I think that this was a real warning shot to everybody in Washington that they should pay attention to this, because Bitcoiners are certainly paying attention."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Thomas Pacchia. Thomas is a Bitcoin entrepreneur who you may know as the f...

"If Bitcoin didn't exist, I probably would just be at a fiat job and depressed and just like slugging away. And I don't know. So it really gave me a new perspective on life and on what I should be spending my time on,"

On this Nostr Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with jb55, AKA Will Casarin. Will is the developer behind Damus, an iOS client for Nostr. Today we dig into what’s new with Damus and Nostr more broadly,...

“Nostr is ideal for becoming THE global town square, THE place where ideas get debated… The network is the feature."

On this Nostr Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Miljan, creator of the Nostr client Primal. Primal is releasing Primal 2.0, a massive upgrade on their mobile application. Miljan and I get into all the details of today, including their new advanced search, upgraded explore page with new discovery f...

“I interviewed people from Western countries, USA, Sweden, Canada, but then Jamaica, double digit inflation, Argentina, triple digit inflation. Venezuela, quadruple-digit inflation. And all of this culminates in the understanding that this is what happens to money. You think in the U.S. that it's not going to get like this, but it will get like this… this has happened to every money in human history… It's just because they're print...

"What happens when the unstoppable force of infinite fiat demand meets the immovable object of absolute scarcity, absolute finite Bitcoin supply of 21 million? Obviously, the fiat price is going to go up."

On this Bitcoin News Roundup episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker breaks down the massive Microstrategy Bitcoin buy announced by Michael Saylor, MARA and other companies raising money to buy more bitcoin, Nation-state bitcoin ad...

"One bitcoin from a self-custody investor is basically infinitely more valuable in setting the price than thousands of bitcoin held elsewhere if they aren't able to sell that fork... that's one of the positive findings from our paper is that's actually a rather anti-fragile aspect of the network: that some of the most committed and smaller entities actually have kind of a disproportionate impact compared to some of those larger ent...

"Fix the money, fix the world. Yes, that's one thing. But if we want to starve the beast, we can't keep feeding it our kids, hearts, minds and souls because it's not going to work. It can't just be that one thing. We've got to separate education from state and we've got to bring the family back to the family unit."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Daniel Prince, host of the Once Bitten Podcast. ...

“All of us matter because we are Bitcoin. We're defending it. We're building the path forward so it's used as a medium of exchange. We are the network.”

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Jeff Booth and Uncle Rockstar. This was an impromptu Nostr-only live stream and if you want to watch this show live, you can only do that on Nostr. It’s also the first time Rockstar and Jeff have ever done a reco...

A BUNCH OF CRAZY BITCOINERS RANTING FOR TWO HOURS WHILE DRINKING HEAVILY.

Today’s episode is Titcoin Talk, where I bring together friends for an impromptu livestream on Nostr and talk about whatever the heck we feel like. Today, those guests are my wife, Carla, and my friends Derek Ross and Tatum Turnup. We also had the one and only Uncle Rockstar surprise us by joining, and even taking his shirt off after a few minutes. We talk abo...

"Fuck this fiat bullshit, fuck CBDCs... it's time for us to really start rebuilding in a meaningful and thoughtful way on top of a Bitcoin standard because that's really an American standard."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Bitcoin OG legends American Hodl and Erik Cason. They discuss Trump winning the 2024 election and what it means for America and Bitcoin. They also dig into Bitcoiners as an...

"My view for the future is that the way that we keep podcasting open and protect the precious medium that we have is to help podcasters get paid with this open payment protocol called Lightning. And also now with Nostr to help listeners and podcasters and whoever's interested in podcasts to share episodes, discover new episodes, have conversations around episodes without that being locked to any one app or platform or service."

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“The best beefsteak course is the one that speaks to your tongue."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks Awayslice, AKA "The Beefsteak Guy." Awayslice's Beefsteak events are truly legendary, and he’s managed to create an incredible culture around getting people together to eat meat cooked over an open fire with their bare hands. We get into a lot today including the origin of beefsteak, beef, food in gene...

“It's not just Suriname… It's a chance to have Bitcoin be the unit of account. It's a chance to actually separate money from State.”

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Suriname Presidential Candidate Maya Parbhoe. Maya is a Bitcoiner and an entrepreneur first, and a politician second. We dig into a lot in this talk including her plans to make Bitcoin legal tender on day one, her vision for the fu...