Relay Policy, Node Power, and Fork Risk in Bitcoin
The September 11, 2025 episode of the Supply Shock podcast features Shinobi explaining how the Core–Knots dispute hinges on relay policy versus consensus rules.
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Murray Rudd
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.
Treasuries Driving Lightning Liquidity and Payments Scale
The September 09, 2025 episode of the Archie Podcast features Jesse Schrader explaining how Bitcoin treasury holdings can be converted into Lightning Network liquidity to strengthen Bitcoin’s role as a medium of exchange.
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Core vs Knots, Nigeria Policy, and Africa’s Bitcoin Developer Pipeline
The September 11, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Source features Abubakar Nur Khalil explaining how Bitcoin’s day-to-day utility intersects with Nigeria’s policy shift and Africa’s scaling developer base.
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Value, Action, and Bitcoin’s Quality Framework (a critique of Robert Breedlove's interview with Sevilla King)
I critique the September 01, 2025 episode of the What is Money podcast that features Sevilla King exploring Robert Pirsig’s ideas on the Metaphysics of Quality with Robert Breedlove.
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Bitcoin’s Internal Threat Vector: Pools, Nodes, and Governance
The September 08, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Edge with Paula features Bob Burnett explaining how mining pools, node relay policies, and institutional adoption are reshaping Bitcoin’s internal threat landscape.
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Private Money, Stablecoins, and the Genius Act
The August 07, 2025 episode of ARK Invest features Dr. Art Laffer and Paolo Ardoino discussing how stablecoins operationalize private money alongside Bitcoin.
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Broken Money, Dedollarization, and the AI–Energy Shift
The September 08, 2025 episode of Magsplaining features Lyn Alden explaining how centralized ledgers created “broken money” by allowing debasement and surveillance once communications outpaced settlement.
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Bitcoin’s Infinite Game: Deflation, Incentives, and Governance Risks
The September 01, 2025 episode of the Bitcoin Infinity Show features Jeff Booth explaining why Bitcoin represents an “infinite game” distinct from the zero-sum dynamics of fiat and gold.
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Bitcoin Fee Markets, Fork Risk, and Relay Policy
The August 07, 2025 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Pete Rizzo analyzing renewed disputes over arbitrary data on Bitcoin’s base layer. He frames these tensions as a continuation of the 2017 block size wars.
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AI Polytheism, Bitcoin Reserves, and the State–Network Divide
The August 29, 2025 episode of the Peter H. Diamandis Podcast features Balaji Srinivasan explaining how AI, Bitcoin, and geopolitical realignments are reshaping global structures.
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Superintelligence Governance, Digital Minds, and Cosmic Risks
The August 22, 2025 episode of Wes and Dylan features philosopher Nick Bostrom outlining four central challenges for superintelligence: technical alignment, governance, moral status of digital minds, and relations with a possible cosmic host.
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Treasuries, ETFs, and the $200K Supply Squeeze
The August 06, 2025 episode of Blockstream Talk features Matt Hougan outlining how institutional adoption of Bitcoin has shifted from technical barriers to behavioral ones such as anchoring bias.
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