Futures Insight Research
Timely notes on emerging research, policy, and technological change.
The August 14, 2025 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Rare Scrilla recounting the evolution of Bitcoin-native art from Rare Pepes on Counterparty to the launch of Fake Rares and early Ordinals inscriptions.
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The August 12, 2025 episode of Supply Shock features Adrian Morris arguing that Bitcoin’s historic four-year cycle may be giving way to a slower, stair-step rise driven by ETF adoption, corporate treasuries, and reduced volatility.
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The August 13, 2025 episode of the Archie Podcast features Dominic Frisby explaining how Bitcoin and gold operate as complementary hedges against fiat debasement.
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The August 09, 2025 episode of Simply Bitcoin IRL features CJ Konstantinos explaining how institutional futures shorting creates “paper Bitcoin” that can dampen spot market gains, and why proof-of-reserves is essential to protect market integrity.
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The August 12, 2025 episode of The Mining Pod features Beau Turner explaining how low-cost hydro power in the Pacific Northwest contrasts with restrictive Bonneville Power Administration rate structures and a legacy of strained utility relations.
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The July 21, 2025 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Thomas Pacchia examining how Bitcoin’s increasing integration with corporate treasuries, ETFs, and Wall Street narratives could erode its founding ethos of privacy, self-sovereignty, and “freedom money.”
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The August 12, 2025 episode of the TFTC podcast features Chris Alfano explaining how 360 Energy deploys Bitcoin mining to monetize stranded and undervalued natural gas.
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The July 25, 2025 episode of the Robin Seyr Podcast features market analyst Joe Consorti explaining why global real‑estate values will erode relative to Bitcoin.
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The July 26, 2025 episode of the Mr. M Podcast features Bitcoin advocate Rajat Soni and content‑creator Kaspa Silver debating competing proof‑of‑work designs. They contrast Bitcoin’s fee‑driven security model with Kaspa’s high‑throughput, pruning‑based GhostDAG architecture.
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The July 23, 2025 episode of This Past Weekend features Sam Altman outlining how frontier AI could surpass human cognition while straining energy grids and reshaping wealth distribution.
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In a July 10, 2025 Real Vision episode, macro investor Jordi Visser and host Raoul Pal argue that rapidly proliferating AI agents - hungry for chips and electricity - will displace mid-tier white-collar jobs and redirect trillions toward data-center infrastructure.
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The July 09, 2025 episode of Bitcoin Fundamentals features NVK exploring whether fee growth and price appreciation can replace shrinking block subsidies. He contends that a policy clash over the 83-byte OP_RETURN cap exposes how Bitcoin Core’s dominance shapes unwritten governance rules.
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