Relay Policy, Consensus, and Bitcoin’s Governance
The October 17, 2025 episode of What is Money features Jameson Lopp examining how relay-policy disputes intersect with consensus rules and governance.
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OP_RETURN Policy and Node Costs on Bitcoin
The October 01, 2025 episode of What is Money features Justin Bechler assessing whether Core 30’s permissive OP_RETURN and relay defaults shift Bitcoin’s base layer away from money-first settlement.
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Lightning Liquidity, Policy Frictions, and Scale
The September 26, 2025 episode of the What is Money Show features Jesse Shrader explaining how Lightning scales Bitcoin payments through off-chain channel updates anchored by on-chain enforcement.
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Value, Action, and Bitcoin’s Quality Framework (a critique of Robert Breedlove's interview with Sevilla King)
I critique the September 01, 2025 episode of the What is Money podcast that features Sevilla King exploring Robert Pirsig’s ideas on the Metaphysics of Quality with Robert Breedlove.
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Lightning Scaling, Routing Yields, and Bitcoin’s Governance Challenges
The September 05, 2025 episode of What is Money features Graham Krizek explaining how Lightning extends Bitcoin’s capacity through peer-to-peer payment channels, routing economics, and stablecoin integration.
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Bitcoin Mining as an Energy Market Solution
The August 16, 2025 episode of the What is Money podcast features David Branscum explaining how Bitcoin mining stabilizes energy grids and monetizes wasted resources.
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Bitcoin’s Deflationary Discipline
The April 23 2025 episode of What Is Money? pairs host Robert Breedlove with Jeff Booth to dissect why technological deflation cannot coexist with fiat’s inflationary debt spiral.
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Historical Insights and Bitcoin's Digital Transformation
The February 07, 2023 episode of The Bitcoin Standard featured Sir Niall Ferguson delving into the contingencies of World War One, war finance mechanisms, and the evolution from the gold standard to modern digital money.
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Bitcoin’s Engineered Evolution: From Gold to Reserve
The April 11, 2025 episode of What is Money Show features CJ Konstantinos discussing Bitcoin’s engineered design as a transformative monetary tool. The conversation explains how rising production costs, decentralization, and strategic reserves could redefine fiscal policies and economic stability.
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Macroeconomic Policy & Bitcoin Valuation Dynamics
The March 28, 2025 episode of What Bitcoin Did with Nik Bhatia examines the FED’s shift from aggressive quantitative tightening to a moderated approach that may lead to quantitative easing, affecting liquidity and asset prices—especially Bitcoin.
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AI Decentralization & Bitcoin’s Future
On March 28, 2025, the What is Money Show with Matt McDonagh examined how advanced AI - from deep and reinforcement learning to decentralized architectures - can transform healthcare, finance, and Bitcoin’s protocol.
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Bitcoin’s Decentralized Future in a Shifting Monetary Landscape
The March 25, 2025 episode of What is Money featuring Mel Mattison speculates about the imminent collapse of the fiat system and Bitcoin’s emerging role as a decentralized store of value.
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