Is Bitcoin’s Lightning Network A Success?
While Lightning functions technically and has achieved notable adoption milestones, the we discuss why user experience remains challenging and if we can address persistent issues like channel liquidity management and offline reception problems.
Tricking Solana Degens into Stacking Sats
Lemondrop Finance CEO Janusz joins the podcast!
Bitcoin By The Numbers in 2025
Institutions are hoovering up your Bitcoin!
We break down the 2024 River Financial Report. What countries are buying? Which funds are buying? What does the average Bitcoin user look like? And what the heck is up with Lightning these days?
Diving Even Deeper on Quantum Bitcoin w/ Hunter Beast
A lot has happened since our last conversation with Hunter just 3 months ago. The Bitcoin developer mailing list has been popping off and now everyone’s talking about Quantum Bitcoin. But what’s changed? What new debates have kicked off & what are their implications? And should we confiscate Satoshi’s coins if they get quantum hacked?
Solving Bitcoin Memecoins with Bob Bodily
Bob Bodily explains how Odin.fun hides all the complexities of Bitcoin so the users get straight to doing what they want: trading tokens fast
The Six Bitcoin Stakeholder Groups w/ Lyn Alden
Lyn Alden’s recent report on Bitcoin Consensus provides a helpful rubric for defining Bitcoin stakeholder groups, their power dynamics, and the game theory of forks.
The Crazy Satoshi Theory About Jack Dorsey
There’s a new theory that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is Satoshi Nakamoto. We dive into the crazy (yes, it’s truly crazy) rabbithole that is the Dorsey x Nakamoto conspiracy.
Going Public With Bitcoin App Fold
Most Americans struggle to save even $1000, Fold app is taking their company public on the thesis that Bitcoin fixes this.
What You Didn’t Know About Wrapped Bitcoin
Matt Luongo from Thesis helps us “wrap” our heads around what it means to take your bitcoin cross-chain. What are the trust assumptions? What are the differences between different wrapped Bitcoin products?
Operation Chokepoint 2.0 Gets Choked Out
It’s now openly acknowledged that the crypto industry has been targeted for years by the previous administration’s Operation Chokepoint 2.0 scheme.