Bitcoin, Gold, and Reserve Strategy
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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Paper Bitcoin Risks, Proof-of-Reserves, and Treasury Strategy Pitfalls
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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Pacific Northwest Bitcoin Mining Constraints and Growth Paths
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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Scaling Bitcoin-Backed Credit and Capital Resilience
The August 01, 2025 episode of Bitcoin Magazine podcast features a panel discussion examining corporate Bitcoin concentration risks, the cooperative expansion of public Bitcoin treasury companies, and the scaling of Bitcoin-backed credit markets.
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Balancing Bitcoin’s Cultural Roots with Financialization Pressures
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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Bitcoin Mining as a Strategic Solution for Stranded Natural Gas
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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Real Estate’s Diminishing Premium in a Bitcoin World
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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Proof‑of‑Work Security and Scaling Trade‑offs
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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Bitcoin‑Backed Preferreds Challenge T‑Bills
The July 23, 2025 episode of MSTR True North explains MicroStrategy could withstand an 88% Bitcoin drawdown while expanding its 67,770‑coin treasury. STRC is a new zero‑duration preferred, positioning it as a rival to short‑dated Treasuries.
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Scaling AI: Energy, Privacy, Equity
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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Bitcoin Outperforms Bricks: Asset-Allocation Shake-Up
The July 09, 2025 episode of the Mr. M Podcast features Daniel Sempere Pico explaining why Bitcoin’s liquidity, portability, and five-year returns eclipse residential property.
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AI Agents, Energy Bottlenecks, and Bitcoin Rails
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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