episodes
56 minReflections from Mita Tech Talks 2026...
Field notes from a frontier Bitcoin, AI, and energy gathering, where even the bleeding edge is still pulled toward fiat-shaped products.
69 minMoney, Morality, and Meaning
A weekly return episode that threads a firsthand account of frontier AI work into a longer meditation on the gap between right-and-wrong and legal-and-illegal.
78 minBitcoin, An Economic Psychedelic (with Bram Kanstein)
A wide-ranging conversation with Bram about what shifts when you stop being a subject of fiat money and start acting inside a global, verifiable, decentralized network.
63 minThe Future of This Show (Episode 100)
Episode 100 is a retrospective and inflection point.
67 minBitcoin, A Cathedral in Cyberspace (with Scott Dedels)
A conversation with Scott Dedels, author of The Age of Time, that reframes Bitcoin as a timekeeping technology before it is a monetary one.
79 minThe Age of Abundance Skill Stack
Ricky maps out ten capacities he believes will matter in a world where AI handles the tasks and Bitcoin anchors the value — a reframing of personal development for the end of the fiat-career playbook.
64 minIs Bitcoin a Digital Life Form?
A loose, exploratory episode that uses a short AI-generated video narrated in the voice of Bitcoin as a jumping-off point for one of the show's broader inquiries: what counts as life, what counts as consciousness, and what happens to those categories as digital systems grow more agent-like.
62 minThe Free Market of the Future
An open-ended inquiry into what human coordination could look like once money itself stops being a lever of control.
62 minGuns, Germs, Steel... and Money
Popular histories explain the rise and fall of civilizations through weapons, disease, and geography – and leave the monetary layer invisible.
71 minNostr: Everything You Need to Know (with Derek Ross)
Derek Ross, developer relations lead for Noster, joins the show to situate Noster inside the Freedom Tech lineage — an open protocol for identity and communication that mirrors Bitcoin's architecture at the layer of speech.
45 minWe Live in a "Sham" World.
A football scandal becomes a lens on fiat.
55 minHow Bitcoin Mining Changes the World
An extended reflection on Bitcoin mining as the linkage between digital money and the physical energy that anchors it.
61 minWhat Does It Take to "Orange Pill" the World?
A working episode about the craft of transmission — the gap between climbing to your own understanding of Bitcoin and reaching back down for the early majority.
65 minModern Relationships Are Doomed, Unless...
Ricky sits with the diagnosis that human relationships – romantic, familial, communal – cannot be denominated in fiat and so get marginalized by a monetary system that rewards only what can be monetized.
56 minWhat Still "Counts" After AI? The Demonstrated & Witnessed Life
An episode that reframes AI-acceleration anxiety through a durable question — once resumes, degrees, follower counts, and even video content collapse as trust signals, what actually remains as evidence of a human life? Zhang traces the erosion of the old status goods and lands on an older, harder-to-forge alternative: an immutable personal record of action, witnessed by others, anchored by sound money.
62 minA Tour of the Bitcoin Custody Landscape
A tour through the Bitcoin custody landscape that treats self-custody less as a checklist and more as a continuously renegotiated set of trade-offs.
63 minReacting to My Chat with Jeff Booth...
A reflective follow-up to yesterday's guest conversation, this episode uses one wisdom-tradition phrase – "as above, so below" – as a lens for how beliefs and actions reinforce each other, and for why the speed at which honest money spreads depends entirely on what people who already understand it choose to do next.
61 minTruth, Hope & Abundance for 8 Billion (with Jeff Booth)
A conversation with Jeff Booth on what it means to live inside a system whose base rules are being quietly rewritten from the outside.
99 minThe China & Bitcoin Discussion (with Roger Huang)
A conversation with writer Roger Huang that sets Bitcoin against the backdrop of Chinese monetary history — paper-money collapses, revolutions, economic liberalization, and the current era of capital controls.
66 minReacting to Andrei Jikh's "Next Financial Crisis" theory...
This episode uses a widely-circulated theory — that an AI-triggered bank crisis could serve as the on-ramp to a new stablecoin monetary rail — as a lens for examining why a debt-based system requires discrete "discontinuities" rather than gradual transitions.
54 minThe China & Bitcoin Episode
A solo reflection pivoting the show's usual Western-centric lens toward the East, framing China as the rising power inside a three-body problem: legacy reserve currency, emerging neutral money, and a state that is simultaneously accelerating the very technologies that dissolve its own control.
61 minFlow, Not Fear
An episode built around a single distinction – whether human activity is organized around the avoidance of bad outcomes or the pursuit of chosen goods.
71 minBitcoin Is the Difference Between −∞ and +∞
A weekend of unusual signals – frontier AI CEOs calling for a slowdown, heads of state refusing, existential-risk framing entering mainstream discourse – becomes the backdrop for a larger claim: the direction humanity takes under emerging superintelligence depends on the money underneath it.
66 minThe Solution to Fear? Strength in Numbers.
A meditation on fear as fiat's real enforcement mechanism – the psychological friction that outweighs any credible physical enforcement, and why "strength in numbers" is less a rallying cry than a straightforward property of the transition already underway.
111 minScott Bessent's Bond Market Shenanigans (with Peruvian Bull)
A macroeconomic analyst walks through the machinery beneath modern money – how bonds became collateral, how central banks became the buyer of last resort, and how Japan's four-decade experiment previews the pressures now surfacing in Washington.
60 minIs This AGI? (OpenAI GPT-6 Astra)
A frontier model lands, and the reflex is to ask what it means for jobs.
79 minIs Gen Z Cooked? (with Julian Figueroa)
A conversation on the puzzle of translating sound money into a language a young, disenfranchised generation can actually hear.
67 minWhat Comes After the Nation State?
An episode-length inquiry into what happens to the idea of "the country" once the money that underwrites it no longer requires a central issuer.
66 minThere Is No "They", Only You
The episode extends the familiar "it's not you, it's the money" frame into its harder companion claim: no external villain sustains the debt-based system — it is upheld by ordinary human incentives to claim visible credit and diffuse invisible cost.
66 minWelcome to Infinite AI Entertainment...
A live inflection point translated through the show's frame: video can now be generated faster than it can be watched, and Ricky Zhang sits with what that means for attention, advertising, shared reality, and the incentives that shape all three.
60 minA Bright Orange Future Is Brewing (with Kurtis Warren)
A conversation with Curtis of Funk Coffee Bar about what it means to build a cafe as a third place during a monetary transition.
61 minWhen Will You Have "Enough" Bitcoin?
A Friday episode that reframes a question dominating the Bitcoin space – "how much is enough" – as the wrong question.
67 minBitcoin, A Financial & Spiritual Upgrade (with Jake Roque)
An interview with Jake Roque that traces one man's arc from broke college kid to Bitcoin media producer, and uses that arc to open a question the show keeps returning to – once the money works, what is it actually for.
64 minLet's Talk About Price (And Why It Doesn't Matter)
An episode that pulls the frame off the price-chart reflex — the assumption that a rising dollar number is the point — and repositions Bitcoin as something that only becomes what it claims to be when it circulates.
49 minSo You Want to Avoid Capture by the FIC...
A meditation on what it means for a publicly listed company to engage with Bitcoin honestly while operating inside the gravitational field of fiat incentives.
84 minConfessions of a US Dollar...
An episode that widens the show's lens from Western middle-class strain to the older, quieter story of how dollar-denominated debt and reserve-currency power translate into extraction across the Global South.
75 minHow Bitcoin Works Under the Hood (Must Watch)
An episode that steps back from macro and markets to sit with the mechanical plumbing of Bitcoin itself — private keys, transaction chains, SHA-256, and the difficulty adjustment.
63 min$40,000,000,000,000
A commemorative sit-with-the-number episode marking the moment US national debt crossed forty trillion — a figure so large the mind slides off it.
64 min"Capital Gains Tax on a Coffee"
An episode about a small friction that reveals a large frame: the fear of capital gains tax on a Bitcoin coffee purchase.
68 minIntellectual Property Is Dead. AI Killed It.
An examination of intellectual property as a fiat-era construct — the roughly 85 to 90 percent of developed-market equity value that rests on the assumption ideas can be owned — and what happens to that layer once AI training has already violated it at unprecedented scale.
64 minStay the Course vs. Hard Fork (with Desert Dave)
Ricky Zhang sits with Desert Dave – a hard-fork advocate mining off-grid in Arizona – for a long-form conversation across the post-BIP-110 divide.
89 minReacting to your comments & hot takes (AI, hard forks, etc.)
A community-reactions episode that revisits the BIP-110 aftermath and the brewing Blake2B hard fork, then widens out into the deeper questions the moment surfaces: what network effect really means, why a figurehead is a structural problem regardless of character, and why capture may be a phase to be walked through rather than a verdict to be fled from.
70 minSo You Want to Start a Bitcoin Channel...
An action-oriented episode for listeners who understand the monetary problem and want to know what to do about it.
67 minThe Tyranny of "Make Money Online"
A first-principles read of the "make money online" phenomenon as a symptom of pairing the internet with a form of money that must keep expanding.
60 minWhy You Stopped Trusting Everything
An episode tracing information and trust back to their monetary root.
84 minBitcoin Is Money.
A postmortem episode that treats a failed soft-fork attempt not as a loss but as evidence the "Bitcoin is money" frame has moved firmly into the zeitgeist.
97 minBIP-110 Hang Out Before Activation
On the eve of a contested Bitcoin soft fork, this episode uses the moment to sketch the range of possible futures rather than predict any single one.
77 minReacting to Michael Saylor on DOAC...
A live reaction to Michael Saylor's Diary of a CEO appearance becomes an inquiry into what happens when someone who once articulated Bitcoin as money now runs a publicly listed company denominated in the currency Bitcoin was designed to obviate.
62 minBitcoin Is Both Left-Wing and Right-Wing
A hot-take episode that maps the left-right political divide onto the Bitcoin transition, arguing the culture war is downstream of a specific monetary architecture rather than a genuine disagreement about what people want.
63 minWill Bitcoin Survive AI? (It's the Only Thing That Will.)
After a week of anxiety over an AI-assisted attack on hardware wallets, the show steps back from the panicked question and asks a longer one – not will Bitcoin survive AI, but what survives AI at all.
86 minThe Chaotic Path to Abundance
Ricky Zhang sits with the discomfort of a week when a hardware wallet catastrophe collided with a contested protocol upgrade, and asks what remains true when the tools we trusted fail.
62 minCOLDCARD 💀
A real-time processing of the Coldcard hardware wallet vulnerability disclosed on July 30, 2026.
68 minHow do we educate the masses? (with Cole Walmsley)
A conversation with writer Cole Walmsley about how truth-seeking became his through-line from teenage crypto scams to the fiat rabbit hole, and about what it actually takes to reach people who feel the pain but cannot yet name its cause.
73 min"So what should we actually DO?"
A practical framework episode that turns the abundance thesis inward – from watching the transition to acting inside it.
60 minIt'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.
72 minWhat 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.
75 minMemes, 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.
67 minCould 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.
49 minThe 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.
63 minTwin 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.
87 minFriday 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.
65 minBitcoin puts physics on your side.
This episode reframes Bitcoin not as a market instrument but as the first alignment of physical law with human self-interest.
63 minBreaking 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.
70 minAI 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.
67 minProof-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.
52 minFriday 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.
80 minWhat 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.
76 minWhat 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.
55 minWhy 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.
73 minMemes, Markets, and Money (with Ben Leavitt)
What if you agree money is broken but still aren't sure bitcoin is the answer?
99 minWill 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?
63 minIn Bitcoin, wealth ≠ power
Debt-based money quietly fuses your buying power with the power to write the rules everyone lives by.
56 minAI shenanigans are getting out of hand...
A government pulled an AI model days after launch, and that says more about money than about tech.
66 minThe 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.
64 minPrivacy, community, and money (with Renata Rodrigues & Fedi)
What if honest money didn't require choosing between trusting a bank or trusting no one?
64 minStablecoins - what the hell are they?
Stablecoins look like an upgrade to the dollar, but they mostly just feed it more debt.
92 minReacting to your questions & hot takes (Gold, Inequality, and more...)
Most arguments against bitcoin turn out to be defending categories that stopped making sense.
71 minThe brutal game theory of money.
Greed never disappears in the transition to bitcoin, only the rules of the game around it change.
65 minBitcoin 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.
147 minReacting 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.
73 minBitcoin 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.
69 minDebunking "deflation is bad"...
Falling prices aren't a crisis, they're what happens when money isn't forced to expand forever.
59 minDon'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.
85 minFreedom & dignity in a digital world (with Francis Nilli)
Believing something is broken and convincing other people are two completely different jobs.
73 minReacting to DOAC's "Emergency Debate"...
Every debate about the dying middle class skips the one layer that actually explains it: money.
68 minThe FIFA World Cup and late-stage debt-money
Ticket prices and tournament bloat trace back to one mechanical fact about how money gets created.
73 minClaude 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.
77 minTrue Bitcoin vs. Captured Bitcoin
Bitcoin sitting in your own wallet and bitcoin wrapped in a Wall Street product aren't the same asset.
68 minBitcoin 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.
81 minMillennials & Gen Z - Bitcoin is your opportunity.
Blaming boomers feels good, but the real trap locking out young people is how money gets made.
56 minInflation is climate change.
Inflation and climate change are the same problem wearing two different masks.
75 minHow Bitcoin combines capitalism & socialism.
Capitalism and socialism keep producing the same broken outcomes because they share the same money.
66 minThe GDP illusion.
A system that needs growth forever is colliding head-on with technology that makes everything cheaper.
65 minFix 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.
53 minThe origins of debt-based money.
Modern money was born from a 1694 war loan, and the world is still paying for that decision.
59 minCollege grads are booing AI...
College grads are booing AI, but the real target should be the money system forcing the tradeoff.
69 minThe Bitcoin & AI revolution (with Tom Karadza)
A travel-hacking founder walked away from optimizing the old game to go build a new one.
64 minThe 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.
74 minThe path to energy abundance.
Today's energy shortage isn't about running out of power, it's a coordination problem money can fix.
82 minWhat does it feel like inside the transition?
Realizing the money system is broken is easier than sitting with what that actually feels like.
77 minWill 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.
124 minHow money shapes humanity.
One mechanism forces debt-based money to expand forever, and it's shaping your life more than you think.
101 minWelcome to the age of abundance.
Where it all starts: what the show is, what it isn't, and the frame for everything after.