Bitcoin Mining, Methane Mitigation, and Grid Flexibility
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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Bitcoin’s 2025 Paradox: Adoption Advances, Risks Reprice
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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Bitcoin Treasury Strategies and the Limits of Credit Adoption
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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Self-Custody, Control Systems, and the Fight for Monetary Exit
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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Private Money, Public Power: Stablecoins, Bitcoin, & the U.S. Monetary Worldview
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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Bitcoin Self-Custody at Scale Under European Regulation
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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Transformative AI as a Growth, Labor, and Governance Shock
The January 08, 2026 episode of Alignment of Complex Systems features Anton Korinek's conference keynote outlining how “transformative AI” could move the economy from steady productivity gains toward a faster, feedback-driven growth regime.
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Argentina’s Bitcoin Adoption Under Institutional Distrust
The January 08, 2026 episode of the You're the Voice podcast features Agustin Kassis explaining how Argentina’s history of monetary collapse shapes Bitcoin adoption pathways.
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Bitcoin Mining, AI Compute, and the Power Constraints
The January 8, 2026 episode of the Bitcoin Rails podcast features Fred Thiel explaining how Bitcoin mining and AI infrastructure converge around power, land, and capacity constraints.
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Bitcoin Research Priorities in 2025: Beyond First-Order Effects
This paper presents a 2025 horizon scan that adapts the logic of key questions exercises to Bitcoin-centric long-form podcast and interview discourse, drawing on 2,297 episodes to infer policy-salient research priorities.
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Elon Musk on AI Acceleration, Energy Bottlenecks, and Social Stability
The January 06, 2026 episode of the Peter H. Diamandis Podcast features Elon Musk outlining an accelerated AI and robotics timeline that he expects to disrupt labor markets and public institutions within the next several years.
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Custody, Capital, and Control Risks Around Bitcoin
The January 05, 2026 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Simon Dixon arguing that fiat money creation and regulatory design concentrate power in banks and allied institutions.
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