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Dr. Murray Rudd is an applied environmental economist and policy researcher. His full attention is now on the economic, social, technical, and environmental impacts and potential of emerging technologies.
The January 22, 2026 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Larry Lepard arguing that the Federal Reserve has already pivoted away from tightening through so-called reserve management purchases.
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The January 21, 2026 episode of The Bitcoin Layer features Brian McCarthy arguing that China’s manufacturing dominance depends on sustained credit expansion that increasingly fails to generate serviceable cash flows.
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The January 21, 2026 episode of the Brandon Gentile Show features Matt Prusak explaining why Bitcoin adoption accelerates through social preference cascades rather than single political or market catalysts.
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The January 12, 2026 episode of Bitcoin for Millennials features Vijay Boyapati arguing that many observers misread Bitcoin because they start with the wrong definition of money.
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The January 20, 2026 episode of the Coin Stories podcast features Luke Gromen arguing that the dollar-based system is entering a higher-volatility phase where geopolitics, energy constraints, and sovereign debt interact in unstable ways.
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The January 18, 2026 episode of Unchained features Alex Pruden arguing that a cryptographically relevant quantum computer could enable private-key recovery from exposed public keys, creating a hard security deadline for Bitcoin.
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The January 17, 2026 episode of the Abundant Mines podcast features Murray Rudd examining Bitcoin mining through energy economics, grid behavior, and methane mitigation.
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The January 20, 2026 episode of the What Bitcoin Did podcast features Cory Klippsten arguing that 2025 was structurally positive for Bitcoin despite weak price performance.
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The January 12, 2026 episode of the What Bitcoin Did podcast features Michael Saylor discussing the evolution of Bitcoin treasury strategies and the growing focus on credit markets rather than short-term price action.
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The January 11, 2026 episode of the Brandon Gentile Podcast features Tony Yazbeck arguing that recurring fraud and political churn reflect a fiat system sliding from service provision into extraction.
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The debate over stablecoins and Bitcoin is often framed as a technical argument about speed, fees, or volatility. What is really at stake is not payments technology, but which monetary worldview policymakers are trying to preserve.
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The January 09, 2026 episode of the Robin Seyr Podcast features Julian Liniger explaining how Bitcoin adoption shifts as firms move from startup experimentation to regulated scale across Europe.
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