Age of Abundance

Money/Intelligence/Energy/Humanity

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episodes

Every episode, freshest first.

  1. EP 050

    "So what should we actually DO?"

    A practical framework episode that turns the abundance thesis inward – from watching the transition to acting inside it.

    Jul 29, 2026
  2. EP 049

    It's not you, it's the money.

    This episode turns yesterday's counterfactual around: instead of asking what abundance will feel like, it asks what scarcity does feel like right now, and traces the ambient anxiety of 2026 back to the qualities of debt-based money itself.

    Jul 28, 2026
  3. EP 048

    What Will Abundance Feel Like? (You Won't Feel It.)

    Sets up a distinction the abundance thesis usually collapses: the mechanical story of how goods and services trend toward zero marginal cost, versus the psychological experience of living through that transition.

    Jul 27, 2026
  4. EP 047

    Memes, Markets & Money, Part 2 (with Keith D)

    A peer-level conversation with a fellow creator who has done the crypto rounds and is now working through the standard objections to Bitcoin in real time.

    Jul 24, 2026
  5. EP 046

    Could the Bitcoin transition happen TOO FAST?

    An episode that inverts the usual urgency framing – instead of asking how to accelerate Bitcoin adoption, it takes seriously a listener's question of whether the transition could arrive too quickly.

    Jul 23, 2026
  6. EP 045

    The true forces shaping the new world.

    A meditation on the human substrate beneath the technology story – trust, reputation, and community as the ancient forces that money has always tried to approximate.

    Jul 22, 2026
  7. EP 044

    Twin reflections from this weekend.

    A more personal episode built around two weekend reflections — attending the World Cup final and an AI model quietly disproving an 87-year-old mathematical conjecture — used to surface a single underlying tension: what happens when the middleman layer between human beings briefly disappears, and what long-held "truths" are set to fall next.

    Jul 21, 2026
  8. EP 043

    Friday BIP-110 hang out

    This episode uses another Bitcoiner's public skepticism of BIP-110 as a mirror – not to argue him down, but to slow the conversation and separate the memetic warfare on X from the private choice each node runner is actually making.

    Jul 17, 2026
  9. EP 042

    Bitcoin puts physics on your side.

    A first-principles reframing of Bitcoin as the first form of property in human history where physics defends rather than attacks.

    Jul 16, 2026
  10. EP 041

    Breaking down the launch of ORANGE JUICE

    A live translation of a newly-launched capital vehicle that positions itself as a Bitcoin-native alternative to leveraged financial engineering.

    Jul 15, 2026
  11. EP 040

    AI Takes Our Jobs. What Comes Next?

    This episode uses AI's displacement of cognitive labor as a wedge into the deeper question: what kind of money sits underneath the coming transition.

    Jul 14, 2026
  12. EP 039

    Proof-of-work at the human level (with Kyle Huber)

    This conversation with filmmaker Kyle Huber holds a frame up to the show's central thesis — that adoption is not a global event to wait for, but a choice being made now, one life at a time.

    Jul 13, 2026
  13. EP 038

    Friday hang out stream (BIP-110 etc.)

    A Friday hangout stream that sits with the discomfort of watching Bitcoin's governance play out in real time.

    Jul 10, 2026
  14. EP 037

    What is your activation threshold?

    This episode reframes Bitcoin adoption through the lens of activation thresholds — the internal point at which any individual moves from bystander to participant in a change.

    Jul 9, 2026
  15. EP 036

    What Is BIP-110? The Fight for Bitcoin's Future

    Opens a series-long look at Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110, framing the summer 2026 debate not as a call to pick sides but as a live test of whether nodes – the individuals running Bitcoin's default software – can act as an immune response when a monetary network's development gets captured.

    Jul 8, 2026
  16. EP 035

    Why Bitcoin, Not "Crypto"...

    A first-principles walk through why the money problem converges to Bitcoin alone, not to the wider category of "crypto." The episode sets up a filter — credible neutrality, decentralized origin, proof of work — and uses it to separate a one-time zero-to-one event from the infinite copies that followed.

    Jul 7, 2026
  17. EP 034

    Memes, Markets, and Money (with Ben Leavitt)

    What if you agree money is broken but still aren't sure bitcoin is the answer?

    Jul 6, 2026
  18. EP 033

    Will this be a MESSY transition? (Reacting to Jeff Booth, Natalie Brunell, Jimmy Song)

    Is today's abundance real, or just the illusion of choice inside a system built to control you?

    Jul 3, 2026
  19. EP 032

    In Bitcoin, wealth ≠ power

    Debt-based money quietly fuses your buying power with the power to write the rules everyone lives by.

    Jul 2, 2026
  20. EP 031

    AI shenanigans are getting out of hand...

    A government pulled an AI model days after launch, and that says more about money than about tech.

    Jul 1, 2026
  21. EP 030

    The greatest force in human history you've never heard of.

    Fiat money became the last incumbent standing in the way of the progress it can't stop.

    Jun 30, 2026
  22. EP 029

    Privacy, community, and money (with Renata Rodrigues & Fedi)

    What if honest money didn't require choosing between trusting a bank or trusting no one?

    Jun 29, 2026
  23. EP 027

    Stablecoins - what the hell are they?

    Stablecoins look like an upgrade to the dollar, but they mostly just feed it more debt.

    Jun 27, 2026
  24. EP 028

    Reacting to your questions & hot takes (Gold, Inequality, and more...)

    Most arguments against bitcoin turn out to be defending categories that stopped making sense.

    Jun 26, 2026
  25. EP 026

    The brutal game theory of money.

    Greed never disappears in the transition to bitcoin, only the rules of the game around it change.

    Jun 23, 2026
  26. EP 025

    Bitcoin is energy flowing through us (with Daniel Batten)

    The world may embrace bitcoin's energy story long before it admits that money itself is broken.

    Jun 22, 2026
  27. EP 024

    Reacting to "Jeff Booth vs. Simon Dixon: Abundant Future vs. Dystopian Nightmare"...

    A prison and an open door can't coexist forever, so where you spend your attention matters most.

    Jun 19, 2026
  28. EP 023

    Bitcoin treasury companies (MSTR, STRC, etc.) and Bitcoin are NOT the same.

    MicroStrategy and STRC aren't bitcoin, they're the old financial system's last costume.

    Jun 18, 2026
  29. EP 022

    Debunking "deflation is bad"...

    Falling prices aren't a crisis, they're what happens when money isn't forced to expand forever.

    Jun 17, 2026
  30. EP 021

    Don't hate the trillionaire, hate what he has a trillion of.

    Don't blame the first trillionaire, ask what kind of dollar makes a trillion even possible.

    Jun 16, 2026
  31. EP 020

    Freedom & dignity in a digital world (with Francis Nilli)

    Believing something is broken and convincing other people are two completely different jobs.

    Jun 15, 2026
  32. EP 019

    Reacting to DOAC's "Emergency Debate"...

    Every debate about the dying middle class skips the one layer that actually explains it: money.

    Jun 12, 2026
  33. EP 018

    The FIFA World Cup and late-stage debt-money

    Ticket prices and tournament bloat trace back to one mechanical fact about how money gets created.

    Jun 11, 2026
  34. EP 017

    Claude Fable 5: The tech is real, the money isn't.

    The AI is real and getting better fast, the money paying for it was never built to keep up.

    Jun 10, 2026
  35. EP 016

    True Bitcoin vs. Captured Bitcoin

    Bitcoin sitting in your own wallet and bitcoin wrapped in a Wall Street product aren't the same asset.

    Jun 9, 2026
  36. EP 015

    Bitcoin emerges from our actions (with Anthony Molinaro)

    After five years testing both, one investor decided real estate is a hack and bitcoin is the exit.

    Jun 7, 2026
  37. EP 014

    Millennials & Gen Z - Bitcoin is your opportunity.

    Blaming boomers feels good, but the real trap locking out young people is how money gets made.

    Jun 5, 2026
  38. EP 013

    Inflation is climate change.

    Inflation and climate change are the same problem wearing two different masks.

    Jun 3, 2026
  39. EP 012

    How Bitcoin combines capitalism & socialism.

    Capitalism and socialism keep producing the same broken outcomes because they share the same money.

    Jun 1, 2026
  40. EP 011

    The GDP illusion.

    A system that needs growth forever is colliding head-on with technology that makes everything cheaper.

    May 29, 2026
  41. EP 010

    Fix the money, fix the world.

    Bitcoin isn't another asset to chase, it's the thing that changes what everyone else is incentivized to do.

    May 28, 2026
  42. EP 009

    The origins of debt-based money.

    Modern money was born from a 1694 war loan, and the world is still paying for that decision.

    May 27, 2026
  43. EP 008

    College grads are booing AI...

    College grads are booing AI, but the real target should be the money system forcing the tradeoff.

    May 26, 2026
  44. EP 007

    The Bitcoin & AI revolution (with Tom Karadza)

    A travel-hacking founder walked away from optimizing the old game to go build a new one.

    May 25, 2026
  45. EP 006

    The natural state of the free market is deflation.

    Left alone, free markets make prices fall, it's debt-based money that can't tolerate that.

    May 22, 2026
  46. EP 005

    The path to energy abundance.

    Today's energy shortage isn't about running out of power, it's a coordination problem money can fix.

    May 19, 2026
  47. EP 004

    What does it feel like inside the transition?

    Realizing the money system is broken is easier than sitting with what that actually feels like.

    May 18, 2026
  48. EP 003

    Will AI serve us or control us?

    Whether AI serves you or controls you depends less on the tech and more on the money underneath it.

    May 15, 2026
  49. EP 002

    How money shapes humanity.

    One mechanism forces debt-based money to expand forever, and it's shaping your life more than you think.

    May 14, 2026
  50. EP 001

    Welcome to the age of abundance.

    Where it all starts: what the show is, what it isn't, and the frame for everything after.

    May 13, 2026