Lessons from a Bank Freeze: Why Self-Custody Matters
The April 25 2025 episode of the Brandon Gentile pod features cyber-security veteran Tony Yazbeck, who lost his fortune when Lebanese banks froze deposits overnight.
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Stories, Bank Runs, and Bitcoin Literacy
The April 25, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Way features author Devin Rose, who shows how thriller fiction can turn digital-bank-run risks and inflationary bailouts into vivid lessons that steer families, schools, and churches toward Bitcoin self-custody.
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Mining Modules Monetize Idle Power
The April 24, 2025 episode of the Abundant Mines pod features Chad Harris outlining how modular sub-20 MW Bitcoin-mining units monetize idle electricity at enterprise data centers.
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Tariffs, Bonds, and Bitcoin’s Liquidity Realignment
The April 25, 2025 episode of the Bitcoin Nova Podcast features mortgage-industry analyst Trey Arch explaining how selective U.S. tariffs, bond-yield turbulence, and extreme tech-stock concentration interact to squeeze housing and destabilize private credit.
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Basis-Trade Risk and Bitcoin’s Institutional Tailwinds
The April 25, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Edge with Paula features hedge-fund veteran James Lavish dissecting how tariff uncertainty, bond-market leverage, and ballooning U.S. deficits threaten liquidity.
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Monetary Reordering and Cross-Asset Dynamics
The April 25, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Layer features Nik Bhatia exploring how a looming “Bretton Woods 3” realignment is shifting capital from dollar assets toward gold and Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin Treasury Strategies for Inflation-Exposed SMEs
The April 25 2025 episode of Once Bitten features guest Brandon Karpeles explaining how persistent inflation and regulatory overhead erode small- and medium-size enterprises.
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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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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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