Michael Saylor built the biggest corporate bitcoin bet in history. Now the charts are red and the questions are getting louder. On this episode of the Bitcoin Well Podcast, we sit down with Chris Alaimo (Strategic Advisor at Simple Bitcoin) and Joe Consorti (Horizon) to dig into what's actually happening with Saylor's position, whether "forced seller" fears are real or overblown, and what it could mean for the rest of the market if...

Bitcoin Well Reads: Your House Is a Savings Account but It Just Stopped Paying.

Florida home prices are technically up 1.8%. Inflation ran 4.2%. That's a real loss most owners will never feel — and that's exactly the point. Zach reads his original piece on housing demonetization: the quiet, drift-based process by which the monetary premium stacked on top of shelter starts migrating away — not in a crash, but one flat...

Bitcoin Well Reads: The KIDS Act Was Never About Kids. It's About Control.

On June 29th, 2026 the House passed the Kids Act — an omnibus bill sold as protecting children online. Almost nobody covered the part that actually matters: the slow construction of an internet where the price of admission is your government ID. Zach reads his original piece connecting the Kids Act to KYC, the UK Online Safety Act, Texas's ID for Co...

He was quietly cashing in while everyone else got rugged. On episode 1 of the Bitcoin Well Podcast, we sit down with Tatum Turn Up — yes, the guy behind Between Two ASICs — to break down what's really going on with Trump, crypto rug pulls, and what it means for bitcoiners. We also get into the mining side of things, since that's Tatum's actual day job — expect real insider perspective on where that industry is hea...

Kevin Warsh chaired his first FOMC meeting on June 17th, 2026. By the time it was over, every rate cut penciled in for 2026 was gone. Bitcoin fell from 66K to 62K. Gold — the safe haven — was also bleeding. And the headlines did what they always do: screamed volatility.

Zach reads his original piece connecting June 17th to Frederick Hayek's knowledge problem and the difference between money run by rules and money run by...

Bitcoin Well Explains: The Dangers of Bitcoin Exchanges

"Can't I just leave it on the exchange?" Every Bitcoin beginner asks this. This video answers it directly and permanently. Mt. Gox lost 850,000 Bitcoin. FTX vaporized $8 billion overnight. Bybit lost $1.4 billion in a single hack last year — the largest theft in crypto history. Different decades, different countries, different excuses. Same outcome every time. The peo...

Illinois quietly slipped a 20 basis point tax on all Bitcoin on-chain transactions into a bill overnight — no industry input, no debate, signed into law. Every Bitcoin transaction in the state: sending to yourself, to others, to an exchange, from an exchange. All taxed. Q hosts an emergency Spaces to break down what the law actually says, why it matters even if you're not in Illinois, and what the Bitcoin community's response...

Bitcoin just dropped $18,000 in 10 days. Strategy sold for the first time since 2022. The headlines are screaming capitulation. Zach reads two pieces back to back: Adam O'Brien's "What Gives Money Its Value" — a clear-eyed dismantling of the "Bitcoin isn't backed by anything" crowd (spoiler: neither is the dollar, and it's not gold either) — followed by a primer on dollar cost averaging, because weeks like this one are ...

Bitcoin Well Reads: The Unbanked Already Know What the Rest of Us Are Starting to Figure Out

Texas just pulled its $10 million Bitcoin reserve out of BlackRock's iBit and moved it into direct custody. The second biggest economy in the US looked at a custodial ETF and said not good enough. They want the actual coins on their own infrastructure protected by their own keys.

First they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then they...

Bitcoin Well Explains: Explains: Hardware Wallet Setup, Transactions, and the Rules That Keep You Safe

Bitcoin Well Explains: Hardware Wallets

The theory is one thing. Actually doing it is something else entirely.

If you're a beginner, the thought of buying a hardware wallet, moving your Bitcoin off an exchange, and sending your first transaction probably gives you an anxiety attack. The first few times Zach sent Bitcoin, ...

Bitcoin Well Reads: Bitcoin: The Next Chapter of Humanity

Every time humanity has taken a major step forward, something fundamental changed beneath it. Not just a new invention — a new foundation. Agriculture changed how we lived. Electricity changed how we built. The internet changed how we communicate. Bitcoin belongs in that same category. Most people still see it as something financial. What's happening underneath is m...

75% of all Bitcoin transactions never touch the blockchain. 33% of all Bitcoin is held at Coinbase. Only 12 to 15% of new Bitcoiners self-custody their coins.

Those numbers are depressing. This conversation is about why — and what to do about it.

In this Bitcoin Well Spaces, Konrad and Zach sit down with Roberto Rios (The Peruvian Bull), Niko from Simply Bitcoin, Kyle Huber (filmmaker, We Are Satoshi podcast), and Dr. T...

Bitcoin Well Reads: The Great Decoupling: From the Reformation of Heaven to the Reformation of Money

The most powerful institutions in history all share one trait — they make themselves indispensable.

The medieval Church taught that you needed a priest to reach God. The modern central bank teaches that you need a custodian to store value. Both monopolies look natural until somebody opens the door.

In this episode, we...

The yen has lost a third of its purchasing power in five years against the dollar. The Bank of Japan now owns half of its own bond market. And every other reserve currency appears to be on the same trajectory.

In this May 14th Bitcoin Well Spaces, Zach sits down with Roberto Rios (The Peruvian Bull) and macro analyst Robert of Infra for one of the most comprehensive macro conversations the show has run. Simon Dixon — Bitco...

Bitcoin Well Reads: Banks Vs Bitcoin - Why the Alternative Is Becoming the Obvious Choice

In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach reads an original article on the structural differences between Bitcoin and the banking system — not the surface level talking points, but the things that actually matter for your financial future.

BitcoinV...

Bitcoin Well Explains: Hot vs Cold Bitcoin Wallets

Your seed phrase can never touch the internet. But Bitcoin is a digital network. So how do you actually use it?

That contradiction trips up almost every Bitcoin beginner. This video solves it.

In this episode of the Bitcoin Well 101 series, Zach breaks down the full spectrum of Bitcoin custody — from exchange accounts to hot wallets to cold storage hardware wallets &...

Bitcoin Well Reads: When Rules Don't Need Rulers

Every rule system you've ever lived inside had someone behind it. A lawmaker who wrote it. A judge who interpreted it. An authority ready to enforce it — and if necessary, to back that enforcement with something harder than words.

That's just how rules work. Or so we assumed.

In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach reads "When Rules Don't Need Rulers...

You've done the work. You understand fiat. You understand miners, nodes, and private keys. And then you open an exchange and get hit with 20,000 other cryptocurrencies — coins named after dogs, coins promising to be a world computer, coins claiming to be faster, cheaper, smarter, and better than Bitcoin in every measurable way.

It's a fair question. And how you answer it will determine whether you protect your purchasing p...

Bitcoin Well Reads: Wake Up America, Bitcoin or Bust

Owning Bitcoin isn't enough. How you hold it determines whether you're actually free.

In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach reads two original articles back to back. The first, written by Zach, makes the case for Bitcoin as the ultimate savings technology — and explains why no other money, crypto, or financial instrument comes close. The second, w...