"$100,000 is nothing. It's nothing in the grand scheme of things. And it's also being measured in a frame of reference that is attached to the big red button. So you measure it in dollars, the more people that opt in to Bitcoin and opt out of the Fiatelos, the more Fiatelos he has to print. Bitcoin's going up forever… It's going to eat the entire world." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Joe Bryan. Joe just released an incredible video called “What’s the Pro...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 31 min
"If you believe, like I do, that Bitcoin in the course of the next century--and probably much, much sooner--becomes the base layer of all money, then access to that base layer becomes existential to your viability as a nation." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Bob Burnett, Founder/CEO at Barefoot Mining. They discuss Bitcoin mining centralization risks, why Nation-States will be forced to mine Bitcoin, home mining, mining pools and block templates, the pres...
Jan 24, 2025•1 hr 52 min
"Everybody now has to go through the logical concourse of understanding that Bitcoin's the premier and final asset that you want, and that destroys the dollar unequivocally." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with American Hodl & Erik Cason. They discuss America, Trump, Bitcoin's game theory, Bitcoiners as an emergent political force, the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, the end of the dollar, Ross Ulbricht, nation-state adoption, how to NOT be an NPC, and a whole ...
Jan 21, 2025•1 hr 58 min
"Much like the companies that were early adopters out of necessity. I think we'll see nation states clamor in out of necessity as well." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Eric Weiss. Eric is the CEO of Bitcoin Investment Group, and the man who orange pilled Michael Saylor. We talk about corporate and nation-state bitcoin adoption, the strategic bitcoin reserve, orange pilling, and a whole lot more. FOLLOW ERIC ON X: https://x.com/Eric_BIGfund ***** THE Bitco...
Jan 17, 2025•1 hr 7 min
"The free market will vastly outperform anything the government can do." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Dave Bradley about the legitimacy of the state, why the modern State cannot go on much longer, why decentralization beats centralization, what the State looks like on a Bitcoin standard, the law, property rights, and why a minimal government approach would lead to better outcomes than the collectivist models of the past century. DAVE's LINKS: X: https:/...
Jan 15, 2025•1 hr 41 min
"The fourth American republic, the bright orange future, the next first turning, whatever you want to call it, will be on a Bitcoin Standard." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Brandon Quitem. Brandon and Walker dig deep into the Fourth Turning, where we’re at in the cycle, what comes next societal and cultural shifts, how Bitcoin fits into all of this, Anacyclosis, parenting, and a whole lot more. BRANDON'S LINKS: X: https://x.com/Bquittem NOSTR: https://pr...
Jan 10, 2025•1 hr 53 min
“Now we've strengthened the dollar system. We've weakened the dollar. We've made American industry more competitive. We've driven inflation and nominal growth. And we have provided the world a neutral reserve asset that is now big enough to recycle their dollar surpluses into where they stop buying all of our stuff.” On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Luke Gromen, Founder & President of Forest for the Trees (FFTT). We dig into a bunch of topics today incl...
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 32 min
“Bitcoin over the last five years has returned 55% CAGR. If you get a 10th of a Bitcoin right now, just sit on a 10th of a Bitcoin… You go 20 years… That's $64 f***ing million dollars.” On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with George Bodine. George is a Bitcoiner and artist, but he’s also been an oil field worker, cab driver, miner, cop, Navy fighter pilot, Top Gun graduate, and airline Captain… needless to say he’s a fascinating guy. We get into a bunch of topics ...
Dec 21, 2024•1 hr 46 min
"That's why Bitcoin is so brilliant… it removes humans from the monetary system for the first time in all history." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Julian Figueroa and Peruvian Bull. Julian and Peruvian have a documentary coming out on December 23 about Jekyll Island and the Federal Reserve, which they worked on with Isabella Santos and Ian Carroll. We go deep into the dark history of the federal reserve’s creation on Jekyll Island, the immediate aftermath...
Dec 19, 2024•1 hr 47 min
"We are attempting to speed up hyperbitcoinization. That's it in a nutshell. Hyperbitcoinization is happening whether you like it or not. All money will tend to one , but we are just trying to facilitate it and make the experience as smooth and as quick as possible. That's our mission." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Princ Filip Karađorđević (Prince Philip Karageorgevitch), Hereditary Prince of Serbia and Yugoslavia and Chief Strategy Officer of Jan3. The...
Dec 17, 2024•1 hr 46 min
"This is something that could be really beneficial to all Americans, American businesses and America on a geopolitical stage. And I think that this was a real warning shot to everybody in Washington that they should pay attention to this, because Bitcoiners are certainly paying attention." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Thomas Pacchia. Thomas is a Bitcoin entrepreneur who you may know as the founder and the co-owner of Pubkey, a Bitcoin bar in New York Ci...
Dec 13, 2024•1 hr 7 min
"If Bitcoin didn't exist, I probably would just be at a fiat job and depressed and just like slugging away. And I don't know. So it really gave me a new perspective on life and on what I should be spending my time on," On this Nostr Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with jb55 , AKA Will Casarin. Will is the developer behind Damus, an iOS client for Nostr. Today we dig into what’s new with Damus and Nostr more broadly, Will’s latest project Notedeck, Open source development on No...
Dec 10, 2024•1 hr 47 min
“Nostr is ideal for becoming THE global town square, THE place where ideas get debated… The network is the feature." On this Nostr Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Miljan, creator of the Nostr client Primal. Primal is releasing Primal 2.0 , a massive upgrade on their mobile application. Miljan and I get into all the details of today, including their new advanced search, upgraded explore page with new discovery features, the feed marketplace, long-form nostr reads tab, and ...
Nov 21, 2024•1 hr 47 min
“I interviewed people from Western countries, USA, Sweden, Canada, but then Jamaica, double digit inflation, Argentina, triple digit inflation. Venezuela, quadruple-digit inflation. And all of this culminates in the understanding that this is what happens to money. You think in the U.S. that it's not going to get like this, but it will get like this… this has happened to every money in human history… It's just because they're printing more money, right?… If inflation is just because of money pri...
Nov 19, 2024•1 hr 45 min
"What happens when the unstoppable force of infinite fiat demand meets the immovable object of absolute scarcity, absolute finite Bitcoin supply of 21 million? Obviously, the fiat price is going to go up." On this Bitcoin News Roundup episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker breaks down the massive Microstrategy Bitcoin buy announced by Michael Saylor, MARA and other companies raising money to buy more bitcoin, Nation-state bitcoin adoption and game theory, the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve, Number G...
Nov 18, 2024•59 min
"One bitcoin from a self-custody investor is basically infinitely more valuable in setting the price than thousands of bitcoin held elsewhere if they aren't able to sell that fork… that's one of the positive findings from our paper is that's actually a rather anti-fragile aspect of the network: that some of the most committed and smaller entities actually have kind of a disproportionate impact compared to some of those larger entities." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walke...
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr 42 min
"Fix the money, fix the world. Yes, that's one thing. But if we want to starve the beast, we can't keep feeding it our kids, hearts, minds and souls because it's not going to work. It can't just be that one thing. We've got to separate education from state and we've got to bring the family back to the family unit." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Daniel Prince, host of the Once Bitten Podcast. We talk about the separation of money and State, but we focus m...
Nov 15, 2024•2 hr 4 min
“All of us matter because we are Bitcoin. We're defending it. We're building the path forward so it's used as a medium of exchange. We are the network.” On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Jeff Booth and Uncle Rockstar. This was an impromptu Nostr-only live stream and if you want to watch this show live, you can only do that on Nostr. It’s also the first time Rockstar and Jeff have ever done a recorded conversation together, and I’m honored that I was able to ...
Nov 14, 2024•1 hr 39 min
A BUNCH OF CRAZY BITCOINERS RANTING FOR TWO HOURS WHILE DRINKING HEAVILY. Today’s episode is Titcoin Talk, where I bring together friends for an impromptu livestream on Nostr and talk about whatever the heck we feel like. Today, those guests are my wife, Carla, and my friends Derek Ross and Tatum Turnup. We also had the one and only Uncle Rockstar surprise us by joining, and even taking his shirt off after a few minutes. We talk about Nostr, about Bitcoin, about video games, about life, about lo...
Nov 11, 2024•2 hr 23 min
"Fuck this fiat bullshit, fuck CBDCs… it's time for us to really start rebuilding in a meaningful and thoughtful way on top of a Bitcoin standard because that's really an American standard." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Bitcoin OG legends American Hodl and Erik Cason. They discuss Trump winning the 2024 election and what it means for America and Bitcoin. They also dig into Bitcoiners as an emergent political force, a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve, Ross Ulbr...
Nov 07, 2024•1 hr 49 min
"My view for the future is that the way that we keep podcasting open and protect the precious medium that we have is to help podcasters get paid with this open payment protocol called Lightning. And also now with Nostr to help listeners and podcasters and whoever's interested in podcasts to share episodes, discover new episodes, have conversations around episodes without that being locked to any one app or platform or service." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks O...
Nov 06, 2024•1 hr 49 min
“The best beefsteak course is the one that speaks to your tongue." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks Awayslice, AKA "The Beefsteak Guy." Awayslice's Beefsteak events are truly legendary, and he’s managed to create an incredible culture around getting people together to eat meat cooked over an open fire with their bare hands. We get into a lot today including the origin of beefsteak, beef, food in general, building community, whether AI will take chef’s jobs, art ...
Oct 31, 2024•1 hr 59 min
“It's not just Suriname… It's a chance to have Bitcoin be the unit of account. It's a chance to actually separate money from State.” On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Suriname Presidential Candidate Maya Parbhoe. Maya is a Bitcoiner and an entrepreneur first, and a politician second. We dig into a lot in this talk including her plans to make Bitcoin legal tender on day one, her vision for the future of Suriname, political corruption, government control, radi...
Oct 27, 2024•1 hr 34 min
"We need to go back to the basic problem is that there is no climate crisis. It's all a crock and nothing that we do. None of this control, all of this money spent, none of it's gonna prevent any bad weather at all in 2075 or ever." On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Tom Nelson. Tom is a climate and energy realist, and producer of “Climate: The Movie.” Tom and I get into a bunch of rabbit holes today from the climate narrative, to government control and CBDCs...
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 29 min
“The thing that you keep in mind while you're stacking sats is, have a dream. I have dreams. I want to accomplish these dreams. And that's what you're working for. We now have a way to save our value and not have it be stolen from us.” On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with SAT, AKA Lightning Goats. I met Sat through Nostr because I stumbled upon his awesome project where he live streams his goats from his off-the-grid homestead and whenever you zap bitcoin to th...
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 57 min
“The great thing about technological innovation like Bitcoin is that regardless of what people are able to do about their local politicians or central banks, they can opt in and use Bitcoin. That is now available to 8 billion people, and that's going to change the world. ” On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Natalie Smolenski. Natalie is an Anthropologist, Executive Director of the Texas Bitcoin Foundation, and a Senior Fellow Bitcoin Policy Institute. SHOW NO...
Oct 22, 2024•1 hr 32 min
“The wave hasn't even come… we're just kind of like on the beach and the wave's kind of creeping up, but it's still so much liquidity that's going to come in.” On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Sam Callahan. Sam is a macro analyst who recently worked on a report with Lyn Alden called Bitcoin: A Global Liquidity Barometer, and we dig deep into this report today. But we also get into the next wave of Bitcoin adoption, the shifting Overton window around bitcoin...
Oct 18, 2024•1 hr 44 min
“If you want to change the world, you start with the kids.” On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Jonny Vance, co-creator and writer of Tuttle Twins TV. If you’re not familiar with Tuttle Twins, it’s an educational animated children’s TV show that teaches kids principles of freedom, Austrian economics, and Bitcoin, all while being incredibly hilarious. Tuttle Twins makes complex topics easy to understand for children (and adults), while teaching them about histo...
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 20 min
“It seemed like a risky thing. But the more I did understand it, the more I was like NOT having bitcoin is the real risk. OK, the price goes up and down. But at the end of the day, even there in the worst of the bear markets, I'd be like, has anything really changed other than the price? Nothing has changed fundamentally. So why would my belief in this change?” On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Mandrik, a Bitcoin OG who started selling Baklava for Bitcoin ba...
Oct 09, 2024•1 hr 50 min
“For an artist or a writer or creator of any type, you suddenly have the potential to have a worldwide audience, a connection worldwide with anybody and if any of those people choose to support you they can do so instantly and those funds are in your wallet and you can go spend them… It really is magical, and that sounds cheesy, but it truly is.” On this Bitcoin Talk (and Nostr Talk) episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks anonymous Nostr memelords Corndalorian and Quiet Warrior, aka Corn ...
Oct 08, 2024•1 hr 56 min
