Bitcoin’s Governance Illusions and Block Space Reality
The January 06, 2026 episode of Supply Shock features John Carvalho arguing that many Bitcoin governance disputes mistake social coordination battles for protocol control.
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Bitcoin’s Endgame: Incentives, Custody, and the Fiat Exit
The January 05, 2026 episode of Simply Bitcoin features Knut Svanholm explaining why “everything divided by 21 million” captures Bitcoin’s scarcity logic and long-run purchasing power thesis.
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Wall Street’s Shift From Dismissal to Monetization of Bitcoin
The January 04, 2026 episode of Green Candle podcast features Joe Consorti arguing that major US financial institutions have moved from criticizing Bitcoin to packaging it into mainstream products to capture demand and fees.
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AI-Led Reflation and Bitcoin in a Post-Labor Growth Regime
The January 04, 2026 episode of the Jordi Visser Podcast features Jordi arguing that the global economy is entering an early-cycle reflation regime driven by AI-enabled productivity rather than labor growth.
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AI Agents, Stablecoins, and Bitcoin Positioning for 2026
Summary The January 03, 2026 episode of The Pomp Podcast features Jordi Visser arguing that “AI bubble” fears will recur as a market narrative
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Jeff Booth on Bitcoin, Debt, the Politics of Control (Bitcoin as a Freedom Protocol)
The January 02, 2026 episode of You’re The Voice features Jeff Booth arguing that technology-driven deflation collides with debt-based money, pushing institutions toward coercion, surveillance, and narrative control.
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Bitcoin Treasury Finance, Index Access, and Capital Market Scaling
The December 30, 2025 episode of the Coin Stories podcast features Andrew Kang explaining why Strategy continues to expand its Bitcoin treasury through capital-market engineering rather than operating cash flow.
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Quantum-Resistant Bitcoin: Hash-Based Signatures and Migration Risks
The December 31, 2025 episode of the TFTC podcast features Jonas Nick and Mikhail Komarov explaining how quantum capability could turn exposed public keys into forged signatures and direct coin theft.
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Lightning’s Quiet Shift from Capacity to Reliability
The December 29, 2025 episode of the Stephan Livera Podcast features Nate (“Beeforbacon”) arguing that the Lightning Network’s biggest gains now show up in payment reliability and operational usability rather than in rising public channel capacity.
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Bitcoin Treasury Finance, Yield Products, and Index Rules
The December 23, 2025 episode of Coin Stories features MicroStrategy's Phong Le explaining how a corporate Bitcoin treasury strategy increasingly relies on capital-markets instruments, liquidity reserves, and explicit risk framing rather than simple buy-and-hold messaging.
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Ecash Mints on Bitcoin: Privacy Gains, Trust Costs
The December 27, 2025 episode of The Transformation of Value features Erik Cativo explaining why Bitcoin-denominated ecash mints can make everyday payments feel like sending a message while restoring cash-like privacy.
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Bitcoin’s Anti-Capture Logic: Protocol Use vs Financialization
The December 22, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Matrix features Jeff Booth arguing that Bitcoin’s long-run strength comes from people using it as an open protocol rather than holding it as an intermediated asset.
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