"If I were the devil, I would promote a system where money, the lifeblood of an economy, is controlled not by tangible assets, but by mere promises and the whims of policymakers." In this bonus episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , I adapted " If I Were the Devil" -- a 1965 radio broadcast by Paul Harvey. If you like this sort of short-form bonus episode, share it with your friends, family, and strangers on the internet (and tag me). ***** If you enjoy THE Bitcoin Podcast you can help support the sho...
Jul 19, 2024•6 min
"The sim swappers don't care if they can spend 20 minutes and take $3 ,000 from you. That's a pretty good payoff. But at this point with all these data breaches, it's made it so easy that everybody's become a target at this point." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Mark Kreitzman , General Manager of Efani Secure Mobile . EFANI : Protect yourself from SIM swap attacks – go to https://www.efani.com/walker and it’ll automatically apply the promo code WALKER get...
Jul 17, 2024•1 hr 23 min
"There's no excuse anymore to not help someone who's suffering on the other part of the world because Bitcoin connects you and the only disconnection is actually in your mind and your heart and in your intent. So that's what's beautiful. Bitcoin actually gives us the choice to do good." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with "MetaMick" -- cofounder and CEO of Geyser. DONATE TO GAZA PROJECT You can support THE Bitcoin Podcast on Geyser here: https://geyser.fund/pro...
Jul 15, 2024•1 hr 17 min
"Bitcoin is such an incredible thing, because if you don't have Bitcoin, what is your hope about the future?" On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Alex Gladstein , Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation. ***** THE Bitcoin Podcast Partners -- use promo code WALKER for… > > bitbox.swiss/walker -- 5% off the Bitcoin-only Bitbox02 hardware wallet. > Check out BitcoinConsulting.us > Cloaked Wireless : 25% OFF eSIM or physical SIM cards and...
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 48 min
" If I didn't know who I'd be, how would I feel about Bitcoin? I could wake up tomorrow to be Michael Saylor. I could wake up to be a Venezuelan farmer. I could be a dissident journalist in Russia. I could be Julian Assange recently out of prison." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Andrew Bailey , an interdisciplinary professor at at Yale-NUS College (Singapore) and scholar whose work spans philosophy, politics, and economics. Andrew, together with fellow phi...
Jun 25, 2024•1 hr 46 min
"I needed Bitcoin to defend myself against the State. Bitcoin is so powerful that it actually leveled the playing field between myself and the national election authority." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Carlos Toriello (aka Carliño) about Simple Proof and using Bitcoin + OpenTimeStamps to safeguard election integrity, which was exactly what happened in the 2023 national elections in Guatemala, where the government became the first in the world to impleme...
Jun 23, 2024•1 hr 58 min
Bram Kanstein , host of Bitcoin for Millennials , joins Walker , host of T HE Bitcoin Podcast , for a Bitcoin Podcast Inception episode. ***** THE Bitcoin Podcast Partners -- use promo code WALKER for… bitbox.swiss/walker -- 5% off the Bitcoin-only Bitbox02 hardware wallet. NEW PARTNER : Check out BitcoinConsulting.us Cloaked Wireless : 25% OFF eSIM or physical SIM cards and protect yourself from SIM swap attacks. ***** BRAM’S LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@bramk https://x.com/bramk ***** If yo...
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 51 min
"How would you rebuild computers if you started today with our values?" On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Anjan and Tristan of Daylight Computer , a healthier, distraction-free, minimalist, and sovereign computer. Daylight features a reflective screen technology that doesn't produce blue light and can be used outside in the sun. ***** THE Bitcoin Podcast Partners -- use promo code WALKER for… bitbox.swiss/walker -- 5% off the Bitcoin-only Bitbox02 hardware w...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 50 min
"When your morals can be bought, you are not a patriot – you are a sell out." On this Bitcoin Out Loud episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker reads ORANGE MAN GOOD: SELLING OUT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL by L0LA L33TZ THE Bitcoin Podcast Partners -- use promo code WALKER for… bitbox.swiss/walker -- 5% off the Bitcoin-only Bitbox02 hardware wallet. NEW PARTNER : Check out BitcoinConsulting.us Cloaked Wireless : 25% OFF eSIM or physical SIM cards and protect yourself from SIM swap attacks. ***** L0LA's...
Jun 12, 2024•23 min
"History shows us that when empires fall , there's going to be this old guard that's clawing for power that will use as much force and coercion as it can to sustain its life because t he only thing they have to offer the world is debt and death. And when we are now those people that are trusted with this new parallel economy because of the money that we are adopting." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with the Shane Hazel. We talk about homeschooling, education v...
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr 49 min
"Your red guy, your blue guy, they both represent the same systems of organizational violence that want to rob you of power. And we have a new system and means to achieve something different and we must do it. If we do not do this, we will end up in a world with centralized digital currencies that are used to control everyone." - Erik Cason On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with the Erik Cason about Bitcoin, sovereignty, anarchy, the State, the Law, CBDCs, Totali...
May 31, 2024•1 hr 48 min
"Being based is someone that knows the truth, has verified the truth, understands the truth to be real, seeks more truth, and then tells as many people as possible. On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with the @GetBasedTV crew (Julian, Isabella, and Adam). ***** THE Bitcoin Podcast Partners -- use promo code WALKER for… bitbox.swiss/walker -- 5% off the Bitcoin-only Bitbox02 hardware wallet. Cloaked Wireless : 25% OFF eSIM or physical SIM cards and protect yourself...
May 23, 2024•2 hr 10 min
"When a government increases the quantity of paper money , the result is that the purchasing power of the monetary unit begins to drop , and so prices rise. T his is called inflation. "- Ludwig von Mises In this Austrian Audible episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker reads Lecture 4: INFLATION , from Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow by Ludwig von Mises, AKA Mises Six Lessons Each of the six Mises lectures will be released as it's own episode in the coming weeks. Make sure to sub...
May 17, 2024•44 min
" Government, the State, doesn't have to be the way it is right now… the world doesn't have to be the way that it is right now." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Maya Parbhoe. Maya is an entrepreneur, a Bitcoiner, and she's running for president in Suriname. Support THE Bitcoin Podcast on HIGHLIGHTER ***** THE Bitcoin Podcast Partners -- use promo code WALKER for… bitbox.swiss/walker -- 5% off the Bitcoin-only Bitbox02 hardware wallet. Cloaked Wireless : 25...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 38 min
"if you put the requisite time and energy into creating a culture that self-enforces ethics, you don't need violence in the first place. And you can escape that loop, in theory, at least. That's my hot take." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Allen Farrington, General Partner at Axiom Venture Partners, and the co-author of the book Bitcoin is Venice. Allen and I had a great conversation that meanders all over the place from Apple to lite beer to MMT to capit...
May 13, 2024•1 hr 47 min
"The demand response or the Bitcoin mining component is a key piece in the economic and thermodynamic puzzle and electrical puzzle of our novel plant ship designs." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Nathaniel Harmon, CEO of OceanBit. They’re building Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion ( or OTEC) technology to deliver 24/7 baseload power across the world. Bitcoin mining is also a key part of their technology stack. Support THE Bitcoin Podcast on HIGHLIGHTER ****...
May 09, 2024•1 hr 44 min
"Even if you might not consciously be aware of how you're hurting yourself in the act of using fiat , once you stop doing it, you realize quite quickly of how devastating this actually was." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Max Hillebrand Support THE Bitcoin Podcast on HIGHLIGHTER ***** THE Bitcoin Podcast Partners -- use promo code WALKER for… bitbox.swiss/walker -- 5% off the Bitcoin-only Bitbox02 hardware wallet. Cloaked Wireless : 25% OFF eSIM or physic...
May 05, 2024•1 hr 36 min
"we're an unruly people. We're supposed to be unruly and free and dirty and unwashed and crass. That is the American ethic and ethos. Live free, baby, or die. " To celebrate episode #69 of THE Bitcoin Podcast, today's episode features not one but TWO guests: Preston Pysh and American Hodl . These are two of my favorite people I've met through Bitcoin, and both have been on this show before. So I figured what better way to celebrate episode #69 than with a double whammy. You're going to love this...
May 03, 2024•1 hr 46 min
"The isolated interference brought about a condition which, from the point of view of the government, is even more undesirable than the previous state of affairs which the government wanted to alter. And as the government goes farther and farther, it will finally arrive at a point where all prices, all wage rates, all interest rates, in short, everything in the whole economic system, is determined by the government . And this, clearly, is socialism." - Ludwig von Mises In this Austrian Audible e...
Apr 28, 2024•40 min
"If you are running a human-rights group and your bank account hasn’t yet been frozen, flagged, or compromised, it likely will sooner rather than later." -- Alex Gladstein On this BONUS episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker reads How to Dictator-Proof Your Money, by Alex Gladstein , CSO at the Human Rights Foundation. SUBSCRIBE to "THE Bitcoin Podcast" wherever you watch/listen: https://bitcoinpodcast.net/podcast Alex on Nostr: npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu Ale...
Apr 27, 2024•12 min
"In socialist countries, it is not the seller who has to be grateful. It is the buyer. The citizen is not the boss. The boss is the central committee, the central office. Those socialist committees and leaders and dictators are supreme, and the people simply have to obey them. " In this Austrian Audible episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker reads Lecture 2: SOCIALISM , from Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow by Ludwig von Mises, AKA Mises Six Lessons Each of the six Mises lecture...
Apr 24, 2024•45 min
"If we look upon the history of the world, especially upon the history of England since 1865, we realize that Marx was wrong in every respect. There is no Western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way. All these improvements of the last 80 or 90 years were made in spite of the prognostications of Karl Marx." In this Austrian Audible episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker reads Lecture 1: CAPITALISM , from Economic Policy: Thoughts ...
Apr 21, 2024•46 min
"if you come through the Bitcoin rabbit hole, the first mind blowing thing from the Austrian perspective is the fact, hey, you actually don't need to be printing money all the time. Money can work even if the supply is fixed , believe it or not." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Saifedean Ammous Support THE Bitcoin Podcast on HIGHLIGHTER ***** THE Bitcoin Podcast Partners -- use promo code WALKER for… bitbox.swiss/walker -- 5% off the Bitcoin-only Bitbox02 ...
Apr 18, 2024•2 hr 4 min
"Some cases in life, one side is wrong and the other side is right. And I'm very clear on this. The arguments upon which it's based that Bitcoin is bad for the environment, it is fundamentally wrong." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Daniel Batten Support THE Bitcoin Podcast on HIGHLIGHTER ***** THE Bitcoin Podcast Partners -- use promo code WALKER for… bitbox.swiss/walker -- 5% off the Bitcoin-only Bitbox02 hardware wallet. Cloaked Wireless : 25% OFF eSIM ...
Apr 16, 2024•1 hr 41 min
"It's an economic war, and we've got to be richer than them. That's it. We need the Bitcoiners the richest, and all the people who got in early rich, but that's not really the prize. The prize is to decimate the job of Wall Street. It's to destroy the financial engineer." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Nolan Bauerle Support THE Bitcoin Podcast on HIGHLIGHTER ***** THE Bitcoin Podcast Partners -- use promo code WALKER for… bitbox.swiss/walker -- 5% off the...
Apr 14, 2024•1 hr 51 min
"As Bitcoiners, we're supposed to have this long-term perspective. We're supposed to envision this world where things could be different. Value systems could be a realigned. We could shift the balance of power… we all want that, but it doesn't come by being passive. It only comes through building and it's up to us, up to you and I, up to the Bitcoiners listening to this show to go do that." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Mark Moss. Support THE Bitcoin Pod...
Apr 11, 2024•1 hr 36 min
"I don't show Bitcoin and Nostr to anybody that listens… I think we need to focus on the people that have the most impact. The people that matter the most, which is the productive people." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with PabloF7Z, and open source developer currently building on Nostr . Pablo's npub: Npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft https://primal.net/ https://damus.io/ ***** THE Bitcoin Podcast Partners: BitBox02 Hardware Wal...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 45 min
"What Bitcoiners share is a willingness and a desire to investigate the truth for themselves." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Steven Lubka . ***** GET YOUR BITCOIN OFF EXCHANGES: Go to bitbox.swiss/walker and use promo code WALKER for 5% off the Bitbox02 Bitcoin-only hardware wallet. Go to https://www.cloakedwireless.com/ and use promo code WALKER for 25% OFF eSIM or physical SIM cards and protect yourself from SIM swap attacks. ***** STEVEN'S LINKS X: ht...
Mar 26, 2024•1 hr 57 min
"look what we have now, it's like literally death. The US dollar is like extremely toxic, right? It bombs countries every time it needs a pump. So you know like just moving from like you know bomb based monetary system to like you know voluntary based imperfect system, it's already like again a million times win." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with NVK . ***** GET YOUR BITCOIN OFF EXCHANGES: Go to bitbox.swiss/walker and use promo code WALKER for 5% off the B...
Mar 17, 2024•1 hr 20 min
“The one main difference, between El Salvador and any other country I've seen is the optimism. There's optimism here. People are looking into the future with hope, with plans, with visions… this country has regained its collective identity. They are proud to show their country.” - Lina Seiche On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Lina Seiche , creator of The Little Hodler. ***** GET YOUR BITCOIN OFF EXCHANGES: Go to bitbox.swiss/walker and use promo code WALKER ...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr 33 min
