Monetary Deflation, Node Sovereignty, and Bitcoin Governance Risk
The June 28, 2026 episode of The Robin Seyr Podcast features Jeff Booth framing deflation as the free market's natural state, distorted by debt-based fiat money.
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Nodes
Analysis of Bitcoin nodes, client diversity, network rules, governance debates, and long-term resilience
The BIP-110 Choice: A Map of the Communities Behind Bitcoin's Data War
A proposal with vocal grassroots support is entering its August signaling window with minimal miner support. The reason is not that Bitcoiners have stopped
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BIP-110, Spam, and Bitcoin Governance
The February 23, 2026 episode of the Bitcoin Infinity Show features Hodlonaut reflecting on his brief public support for BIP-110 and why he withdrew it.
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Bitcoin Awareness, Calendars, and Real Ownership
The February 20, 2026 episode of The Bitcoin Way features TC explaining how his Timechain Calendar project visualizes Bitcoin’s blocks, difficulty adjustments, and supply dynamics.
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Bitcoin Spam, BIP110, and the Politics of Blockspace
The February 21, 2026 episode of the Stephan Livera Podcast features Charlie Spears dissecting ongoing battles over so-called Bitcoin spam, ordinals, and the proposed BIP110 soft fork.
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Bitcoin Governance, Ossification, and the Politics of Soft Forks
The February 06, 2026 episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast features Jimmy Song arguing that Bitcoin’s long-term risks stem less from price crashes and more from governance errors at the consensus layer.
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Bitcoin’s Monetary Purpose vs Nonmonetary Data
The February 02, 2026 episode of the Bitcoin Infinity Show features Conza arguing that Bitcoin should be understood and evaluated as money rather than as a general-purpose database.
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Quantum Preparedness Meets Relay Policy Debates
The January 26, 2026 episode of the Bitcoin Infinity Show features Hunter Beast arguing that Bitcoin’s long-run security depends as much on social coordination and policy defaults as on cryptographic engineering.
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Innovation, Fees, and Governance Stress in Bitcoin’s Next Phase
The December 16, 2025 episode of the Supply Shock podcast features Jameson Lopp arguing that Bitcoin’s institutional turn is reshaping market cycles and weakening the historical link between price action and on-chain fee demand.
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Bitcoin’s Legal Crisis, Network Liability Narratives, & Node War
The December 02, 2025 episode of Supply Shock features Joakim Book, Aaron van Wirdum, and Shinobi analyzing Nick Szabo’s claim that Bitcoin is merely “trust-minimized” and increasingly exposed to legal risk from arbitrary data.
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Nigeria’s Bitcoin Policy, Energy Integration, and Governance
The May 05, 2025 episode of the Final Settlement Podcast features Abubakar Nur Khalil analyzing Nigeria’s new rules that place Bitcoin within a securities-style framework while outlawing Ponzi schemes.
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Reigniting Bitcoin’s Utility: Fees, Governance, and Competitive Layer-2s
The October 21, 2025 episode of Supply Shock features Paul Sztorc arguing that durable security requires fee-backed usage, not custodial abstractions or marketing narratives.
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