When Bitcoin Privacy Becomes a Crime: The Samurai Wallet Prosecution
The December 09, 2025 episode of TFTC features Keonne Rodriguez explaining how the Samurai Wallet prosecution reframes U.S. attitudes toward non-custodial Bitcoin privacy tools.
Privacy
Analysis of Bitcoin privacy practices, wallet models, surveillance risks, and emerging techniques for stronger on-chain and network-level privacy.
Escaping Fiat Thinking: The Big Bitcoin Measurement Error
The December 01, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Edge with Paula features Jeff Booth explaining why most people, including many Bitcoin holders, remain trapped in fiat thinking by measuring everything in dollars.
Privacy, Decentralization, and Federated E-Cash
The November 20, 2025 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Obi Nwosu explaining why privacy is essential to Bitcoin’s cypherpunk foundations and how federated e-cash mints operationalize that principle.
America’s Bitcoin Strategy, Surveillance, and Non-Custodial Freedom
The November 19, 2025 episode of TFTC features Kyle Olney outlining how U.S. financial surveillance and bank fragility are shaping America’s emerging Bitcoin strategy.
Bitcoin, Financial Repression, and Permissionless Payments
The October 27, 2025 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Alex Gladstein examining where banking access and monetary stability break down. Gladstein argues that permissionless payments enable activists, merchants, and households to operate beyond censorship and debasement.
Permissionless Money, Custody Risk, and the Economics of Control
The October 08, 2025 episode of You’re the Voice features Knut Svanholm arguing that Bitcoin restores property rights by removing permissioned chokepoints.
Financial Surveillance, Civil Society, and Bitcoin’s Operational Role
The September 29, 2025 episode of the Bitcoin Infinity Show features Lyudmyla Kozlovska detailing how financial surveillance and cross-border data sharing are weaponized against lawful civic actors.