Podcast · 145 episodes
What Bitcoin Did, page 5
by Danny Knowles · English
What Bitcoin Did unpacks Bitcoin’s role in reshaping money, freedom, and the future of finance.
All episodes, page 5
Bitcoin, AI & the Coming Surveillance State | Mark SumanPrivacy risks of AI and surveillance; how big AI companies monetize user data; Bitcoin “don’t trust, verify” ethos as a model for resisting data capture; job disruption and potential need for income…21 Nov 2025 · 1 h 16 min · 30 chapters
Bitcoin, Gold & the Coming Liquidity Pivot | Lyn AldenMacro pivot toward the end of Fed quantitative tightening and what it means for liquidity, inflation, and asset prices—especially Bitcoin versus gold.18 Nov 2025 · 1 h 19 min · 27 chapters
Is BIP444 An Attack on Bitcoin? | Rob HamiltonDebate over whether BIP444 (proposed by Dathan Ohm, associated with Luke Dasher/Luke Jr.) is an “attack on Bitcoin.” The episode argues that Bitcoin’s consensus rules, not node operators’…14 Nov 2025 · 1 h 23 min · 26 chapters
What It Really Means to Be Sovereign | SeedSignerWhat “sovereignty” means for Bitcoin self-custody—security as an ongoing process, skepticism toward “easy button” hardware/firmware trust, and why cold-storage design (paper, single-sig, multi-sig)…12 Nov 2025 · 1 h 49 min · 36 chapters
Bitcoin Power Law: The End of Exponential Growth | Matthew MezinskisMatthew Mezinskis argues Bitcoin’s long-run price follows a power curve (power-law) rather than TradFi-style exponential growth.10 Nov 2025 · 1 h 40 min · 27 chapters
Why Bitcoin’s Bull Market Isn’t Over | Rational RootWhether Bitcoin’s bull market is over after a drop from ~$100k, and why the speaker argues the correction is more like distribution/“IPO moment” than a full bear market.6 Nov 2025 · 1 h 1 min · 21 chapters
Don’t Lose Your Bitcoin Generational Wealth | BTC SessionsBitcoin generational wealth and self-custody—how families can access Bitcoin after someone dies, plus a practical “zero to secure” path using hot wallets, hardware wallets, and inheritance tools.4 Nov 2025 · 1 h 12 min · 29 chapters
The Spiritual War for Bitcoin | American HODL, Erik Cason & Marty BentBitcoin’s “spiritual war” against fiat/state control, and how to message Bitcoin beyond “number go up.” Guests argue Bitcoin’s technical purpose is uncensorable, self-custodied money; the real fight…31 Oct 2025 · 1 h 33 min · 41 chapters
Rebuilding the World’s Financial System with Bitcoin | Obi NwosuThe episode argues that Bitcoin’s biggest near-term adoption worldwide is as a store of value (and wealth-building), while true “freedom money” requires private, uncensorable transactions.29 Oct 2025 · 2 h 10 min · 52 chapters
Bitcoin and the End of Financial Repression | Alex GladsteinAlex Gladstein argues that Bitcoin is “freedom money” because it resists financial repression: governments and corporations can spy on people, debank and censor critics, and devalue or confiscate…27 Oct 2025 · 1 h 2 min · 21 chapters
Bitcoin & The Coming Liquidity Boom | Nik BhatiaNik Bhatia argues that dysfunction in the repo market signals tightening reserve liquidity, which could force the Fed to end QT and expand the balance sheet (possibly via a “GDP-denominated” approach…24 Oct 2025 · 1 h 16 min · 32 chapters
Jailed by a Dictator, Fighting Back with Bitcoin | Leopoldo LópezLeopoldo López, a Venezuelan opposition leader, describes his rise as mayor of Caracas, his disqualification from elections, years of imprisonment (including four years in solitary confinement at…22 Oct 2025 · 1 h 37 min · 36 chapters
Bitcoin Is Rebuilding the Financial System | Andrew HohnsAndrew Hohns explains Battery Finance’s Bitcoin-backed commercial real estate lending model, arguing Bitcoin can “rebuild the financial system” by countering inflation and avoiding mark-to-market…20 Oct 2025 · 1 h 44 min · 37 chapters
Why Bitcoin Must Win | Matt OdellThe episode argues that Bitcoin should “win” as the foundation for a post-truth world, and that the internet’s current surveillance/adiction model is not the only path.17 Oct 2025 · 1 h 50 min · 41 chapters
Has the Debt Spiral Started? | Luke GromenWhether the US is on the verge of a “debt spiral” driven by structural deficits, bond-market constraints, and potential monetization/financial repression; how rate cuts and “growing out of debt”…15 Oct 2025 · 1 h 20 min · 24 chapters
Market Chaos: Is the Bitcoin Bull Run Over? | CheckmateA major crypto deleveraging event after a macro shock (tariff-related headlines) triggered leveraged liquidations and “market maker” pullbacks, especially in altcoins.13 Oct 2025 · 1 h 11 min · 26 chapters
The AI Revolution That Ends Humanity | Roman YampolskiyAI safety and existential risk from “superintelligence,” arguing that once AI becomes agentic and uncontrollable, it could cause humanity-wide harm with no “undo button.” The episode also covers AGI…9 Oct 2025 · 1 h 5 min · 27 chapters
Bitcoin Core v30 Explained: Spam, Filters & the Knots Debate | Antoine PoinsotBitcoin Core v30 policy changes and the “Bitcoin Core vs Notts” debate, focused on spam/data relay, OP_RETURN limits, mempool/relay incentives, and concerns about censorship resistance and node…7 Oct 2025 · 1 h 24 min · 31 chapters
Bitcoin is Generational Wealth | Peter DunworthBitcoin as “generational wealth” and as the future foundation of global collateral markets; how to plan for inheritance and custody; why Bitcoin should integrate into credit markets (e.g.,…2 Oct 2025 · 1 h 9 min · 28 chapters
The End of Fed Control? Bitcoin & Macro Outlook | Checkmate, Joe Carlasare, Matthew PinesWhether Bitcoin’s “four-year cycle” narrative is overstated, and how macro policy (Fed rate cuts, balance sheet runoff, fiscal dominance) plus AI and geopolitics could reshape inflation, GDP…30 Sep 2025 · 1 h 42 min · 41 chapters
The Fight For Bitcoin’s Future | Samson MowSamson Mow argues that the Bitcoin Core vs “Knots” (not) conflict over Op_Return limits and “spam” is really a governance/trust crisis and a fight over Bitcoin’s purpose: money vs arbitrary data.27 Sep 2025 · 1 h 11 min · 24 chapters
The Fourth Turning is Here: Bitcoin vs Crisis | Brandon QuittemThe “Fourth Turning” (from Strauss & Howe) and how generational cycles predict social mood and institutional breakdown. Brandon argues the U.S.25 Sep 2025 · 1 h 20 min · 32 chapters
The Big Print, Inflation & The End Of The Dollar | Lawrence LepardThe “big print” as a coming shift in U.S. monetary policy toward inflationary credit expansion, potentially via yield curve control / fiscal dominance, and how that could lead to currency failure.22 Sep 2025 · 1 h 19 min · 31 chapters
Is Bitcoin Culture Dead? | Pete RizzoWhether “Bitcoin culture” is shifting from the 2021 freedom/self-custody era toward an institutional, financialized model (“Bitcoin treasuries” and stablecoin-driven mainstreaming).19 Sep 2025 · 1 h 30 min · 32 chapters