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.
Privacy
Analysis of Bitcoin privacy practices, wallet models, surveillance risks, and emerging techniques for stronger on-chain and network-level privacy.
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.
Bitcoin Privacy, Resistance, and Decentralized Protocols
The September 16, 2025 episode of the You're the Voice podcast features Max Hillebrand explaining how Bitcoin and privacy tools reshape resistance to coercion and inflation
Payments Friction, Custody Risk, and the Nostr Parallel
The September 16, 2025 episode of the Archie Podcast features Martti Malmi outlining how early trades anchored Bitcoin’s price discovery and how Nostr mirrors Bitcoin’s permissionless design for communications.
Censorship Risk, Fee Markets, and Practical Privacy in Bitcoin
The July 30, 2024 episode of Ungovernable Misfits features Max Tannahill examining miner filtering, fee dynamics from ordinals, and user privacy stacks. Tannahill argues that normalizing the exclusion of inscriptions sets a precedent for broader policy lists as mining centralizes.