Bitcoin’s Mempool Policy, RBF Dynamics, and Network Resilience
The May 08, 2024 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Gloria Zhao explaining how Bitcoin Core governance is constrained by transparency and reversibility, limiting unilateral authority.
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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.”
Tariffs, AI, and Bitcoin in a De-Globalizing World
The April 28, 2025 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Mark Moss arguing that de-globalization and tariff-driven reshoring shift power toward decentralized money.
Bitcoin’s Trojan-Horse Pivot
The April 24, 2025 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Alex Gladstein explaining how institutional and nation-state embrace of Bitcoin accelerates its mission to separate money from government control.
Freedom‑Money or Regulated Asset? Bitcoin’s Next Decade
The April 22 2025 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Matt Odell warning that Bitcoin could become a regulated asset class unless privacy‑first adoption keeps pace with ETFs and stablecoins.
Mining Centralization Risks Bitcoin’s Decentralization
The April 16, 2025 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Bob Burnett explaining how pool and chip supplier concentration threaten Bitcoin’s decentralized ethos.
Fiscal Turbulence and Digital Transition
On April 12, 2025, the What Bitcoin Did interview with Lawrence Lepard dissected historical bubble dynamics, tariff-induced market shocks, and mounting fiscal pressures undermining the fiat system and enhancing Bitcoin’s appeal as a digital safe haven.