Covenants, Culture, and Bitcoin’s Cross-Chain Onboarding
The July 15, 2025 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Udi Wertheimer explaining how Taproot Wizards use ordinals, NFTs, and lore to attract new audiences to Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin Fee Markets, Fork Risk, and Relay Policy
The August 07, 2025 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Pete Rizzo analyzing renewed disputes over arbitrary data on Bitcoin’s base layer. He frames these tensions as a continuation of the 2017 block size wars.
Bitcoin Sovereignty, Centralization Risks, and Adoption
The August 18, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Edge with Paula features Loren B Hodl outlining Bitcoin’s promise alongside risks from apathy, custody concentration, and governance capture.
Bitcoin’s Design Limits, Market Cycles, and Institutional Risks
The August 15, 2025 episode of the Archie Podcast features Adam Back examining Bitcoin’s cypherpunk roots, the failures of early eCash projects, and the resilience of proof-of-work design.
Bitcoin’s Meme Culture, Art Evolution, and On-Chain Music Innovation
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.
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.”
Cryptographic Sovereignty in an Age of Emergency Rule
The April 26, 2025 episode of The Transformation of Value features Erik Cason explaining how Bitcoin’s cryptographic consensus overturns state-centric legitimacy. He links emergency-era lockdowns to Carl Schmitt’s sovereign exception, arguing that crisis rhetoric now normalizes rights suspensions.