Bitcoin Treasury Credit: Scale, Instruments, Ratings
The September 25, 2025 episode of a Bitcoin Magazine podcast features Matt Cole and Jeff Walton explaining why an all-stock Semler transaction can be BTC-per-share accretive.
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Murray Rudd
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Core–Knots Split: Policy Drift, Fees, and Network Reliability
The September 27, 2025 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Samson Mow analyzing the Core vs. Knots split. The discussion centers on mempool policy divergence, OP_RETURN defaults, fee-floor erosion, UTXO growth, and governance trust.
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ETF Regimes, Custody Choices, and Collateral Repricing
The September 27, 2025 episode of the Brandon Gentile Podcast features British HODL arguing that disciplined buying and holding of Bitcoin outperforms most alternatives.
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Bitcoin–Real Estate Bundles: Structure, Risk, Policy
The September 27, 2025 episode of the Robin Seyr Podcast features Grant Cardone arguing that Bitcoin’s liquidity and scarcity complement multifamily real estate’s cash flow and tax treatment.
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Core 30 Relay Policy: Arbitrary Data and Node Liability
On August 30, 2025, Bitcoin Mechanic explained how Core 30’s relay policies may expand the propagation of arbitrary data. He argues this shift weakens plausible deniability for node operators and drives moderation toward miners and service gateways.
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Lightning Liquidity, Policy Frictions, and Scale
The September 26, 2025 episode of the What is Money Show features Jesse Shrader explaining how Lightning scales Bitcoin payments through off-chain channel updates anchored by on-chain enforcement.
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Bitcoin Treasury Scale, Leverage, and Consolidation
The September 26, 2025 episode of Swan Signal features Ben Workman and Jeff Walton analyzing how equity drawdowns, PIPE unlocks, and discounts to NAV are reshaping public Bitcoin-treasury financing.
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OP_RETURN Policy, Knots Defaults, and Node Sovereignty
The September 26, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Way features Justin Bechler explaining why relay policy should prioritize monetary data. He critiques Core v30’s OP_RETURN ceiling as a hidden cost on nodes and presents Bitcoin Knots’ stricter defaults as a remedy.
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Core vs Knots: Relay Policy, Consensus, and Practical Governance
The September 25, 2025 episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast features Michael Tidwell arguing that “Core vs Knots” is a relay-policy dispute rather than a consensus split.
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Protest Tech, Bitcoin Aid, and Digital Legitimacy
The September 23, 2025 episode of Bitcoin Politics features "Hash" explaining how Nepal’s youth-led protests adapted under platform bans and partial connectivity.
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Governance Trade-offs, Spam Policy Limits, Post-Quantum Paths, and the Human Attack Surface
The September 09, 2025 episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast features Jameson Lopp assessing governance choices, fee dynamics, and security priorities. Lopp contrasts policy-layer “filter wars” with consensus stability and argues that social engineering, not broken cryptography, drives the largest losses.
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Fiscal Dominance, Housing, and Bitcoin–Gold Rotation
The September 25, 2025 episode of Coin Stories features Lyn Alden analyzing how fiscal dominance channels liquidity through funding markets more than policy rates.
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