Money/Intelligence/Energy/Humanity
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Every episode, freshest first.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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?
- EP 032
In Bitcoin, wealth ≠ power
Debt-based money quietly fuses your buying power with the power to write the rules everyone lives by.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- EP 027
Stablecoins - what the hell are they?
Stablecoins look like an upgrade to the dollar, but they mostly just feed it more debt.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- EP 022
Debunking "deflation is bad"...
Falling prices aren't a crisis, they're what happens when money isn't forced to expand forever.
- 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.
- EP 020
Freedom & dignity in a digital world (with Francis Nilli)
Believing something is broken and convincing other people are two completely different jobs.
- EP 019
Reacting to DOAC's "Emergency Debate"...
Every debate about the dying middle class skips the one layer that actually explains it: money.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- EP 013
Inflation is climate change.
Inflation and climate change are the same problem wearing two different masks.
- EP 012
How Bitcoin combines capitalism & socialism.
Capitalism and socialism keep producing the same broken outcomes because they share the same money.
- EP 011
The GDP illusion.
A system that needs growth forever is colliding head-on with technology that makes everything cheaper.
- 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.
- 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.
- EP 008
College grads are booing AI...
College grads are booing AI, but the real target should be the money system forcing the tradeoff.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.