Altcoin Glut Underscores Bitcoin’s Scarcity Edge
The April 24, 2025 episode of the Bitcoin for Millennials podcast features Jesse Myers explaining why Bitcoin’s fixed 21 million-coin limit makes it the lone digitally scarce asset.
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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.
Lightning-Driven Satellite Concert Model
The April 24 2025 episode of Ungovernable Misfits features Boo Bury outlining how remote “Satellite Spotlight” concerts use Podcasting 2.0 tags and Lightning splits to pay artists, crews, and developers in real time.
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Bitcoin-Powered Agrivoltaics for Rural Resilience
The April 24, 2025 episode of the Leather Lounge features Joshua Phelps and Mark Smith explaining how their Carbon Country pilot fuses community solar, biochar, and Bitcoin mining on a 74-acre Maryland farm.
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Self-Custody and Canada’s Banking Concentration
The April 24 2025 episode of Building on Bitcoin features Adam O’Brien outlining how repeated debanking pushed him to build a nationwide non-custodial ATM and portal network.
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Bitcoin’s Trojan-Horse Pivot
The April 24, 2025 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Alex Gladstein explaining how institutional and nation-state embrace of Bitcoin accelerates its mission to separate money from government control.
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Bitcoin as Corporate Hedge in an AI-Volatile World
The April 24, 2025 episode of the Ark Invest podcast features Cathie Wood and an industry panel examining how firms should integrate Bitcoin into treasury policy.
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Altcoin Proliferation Versus Bitcoin Scarcity
The April 24, 2025 episode of the Mr. M Podcast features Jordi Visser outlining why 37 million altcoins underscore Bitcoin’s unique scarcity. He shows that Bitcoin’s market share rises once stablecoins and illiquid “zombie” tokens are stripped from dominance metrics.
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Election Fork: Bitcoin’s Canadian Crossroads
The April 25, 2025 episode of Building on Bitcoin features Brad Mills warning that Canada’s upcoming election could either unlock or suppress Bitcoin’s economic potential.
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Bitcoin’s Equity Standard vs. the Fiat Debt Pyramid
The April 24, 2025 episode of You Are the Voice features wealth-manager Peter Dunworth arguing that Bitcoin’s fixed-supply equity layer offers the only durable escape from an inverted fiat debt system.
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Bitcoin-Enhanced FIRE: Compressing Time-to-Retirement
The April 24, 2025 episode of the Robin Seyr Podcast features Trey Sellers outlining how a modest Bitcoin allocation sharpens FIRE strategies by capitalizing on volatility and fixed-supply upside.
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One-Click Federated Custody with Fedimint 0.7
The April 24, 2025 episode of the Stephan Livera Podcast features Fedimint creators Eric Sirion and Joschi explaining how version 0.7 slashes deployment friction through Iroh networking, LNURL support, and a single-binary release.
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Restoring Balance: Bessent’s Speech on an IMF & World Bank Reset
The April 23, 2025 IIF Global Outlook Forum featured Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent outlining a back-to-basics reform plan for the IMF and World Bank. He links persistent trade deficits and multilateral “mission creep” to systemic risk and pledges conditional U.S. engagement.
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