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.
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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.
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.
Energy DCA: How Small Daily Actions Compound Bitcoin Adoption
The April 23, 2025 episode of the Bitcoin Nova Podcast features Thomas Hamilton explaining how disciplined “energy DCA” links daily dollar-cost averaging with incremental running.