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Mar 4
The AI-Pentagon War That Every Bitcoiner Needs to Understand
In this episode, Nik welcomes back Yaël Ossowski, Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, to break down the escalating standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon. They examine how Claude was reportedly used in the Venezuela raid, why Anthropic is drawing a hard line against warr ... Show More
28m 52s
Feb 28
Claude Eclipses Trump as the Most Important Force in Global Macro
In this episode, Nik breaks down why Anthropic's Claude has displaced Donald Trump as the single most important force driving global macro and financial markets, walking through the system-level evidence including IBM dropping 12% on a single AI headline, Block cutting 40% of its ... Show More
44m 57s
Feb 24
Individual Ownership Peaked in 2024 and What Comes Next for Bitcoin
In this episode, Nik sits down with Sam Baker, Research at River, to break down River's second annual Bitcoin adoption report, covering how institutional ownership, registered investment advisors, sovereign holdings, and small business adoption all accelerated in 2025 despite pri ... Show More
39m 54s
May 2020
SLP171 PlanB & Saifedean Ammous – Bitcoin S2FX, S2F, and Evolution From Collectible to Financial Asset
<p>PlanB (pseudonymous Bitcoin quant) & Saifedean (Bitcoin economist) rejoin me to talk about PlanB’s latest work on S2FX, and some of the debates being had on S2F modelling as well as addressing some of the criticism. We will also talk about Bitcoin as it g ... Show More
1h 36m
Sep 2024
Bitcoin's Path To $3 Million Dollars | Matthew Sigel
This interview with Matthew Sigel explores the bull case for bitcoin, its future as a reserve asset, and the economics of bitcoin miners. We also discuss miners pivoting to data centers, stablecoins, crypto regulation and much more. This interview is paid sponsorship on behalf of ... Show More
1h 21m
May 2019
SLP73 Tamas Blummer - Rust-Bitcoin, Threats to Bitcoin & Bitcoin Data Science
<p>Tamas Blummer, Bitcoin developer and entrepreneur with a long and respected background in Bitcoin joins me in this must-listen, wide ranging episode to talk about: </p>
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<li>Rust-Bitcoin projects</li>
<li>Threats to bitcoin:</li>
<li>Soft fork threats and protocol ... Show More
58 m
Jan 2022
825: CRYPTO ANALYST MAKES MASSIVE 2022 BITCOIN PREDICTION, SAYS BTC CRASH SETTING BULL RUN FOUNDATION!!
Crypto analyst Nicholas Merten projects Bitcoin (BTC) could rally nearly 7x by the end of the year despite current market conditions.
"If Bitcoin can hold here, at $600 billion, that’s going to set the foundation for Bitcoin to spring up over the next coming months.”
As for price ... Show More
24m 16s
Nov 2024
Russia Passes Landmark Crypto Tax Bill, Boyaa Converts Ethereum to Bitcoin, Trump Fuels Bitcoin ETF Hopes, Bern Embraces Bitcoin Mining, and more...
(0:10): <a href="https://www.brief.news/%0Astories/2024/11/28/russia-introduces-new-crypto-taxes?utm_source=brief-podcast&utm_medium=episode-description">Russia's Landmark Crypto Tax Bill Passes, Aims to Boost Public Finances Amid Bitcoin Surge</a><br><br>(2:24): <a href="htt ... Show More
11m 47s
Jun 2021
SLP281 Cory Klippsten - Bitcoin Is For Everyone, Swan Bitcoin $1B run rate, Bitcoiner Ventures, Elon’s mistakes
57m 32s
Feb 2024
ROLLUP: BTC $1T Market Cap | More ETH ETF Filings | $STRK Airdrop Pushback?
1h 5m
Oct 2022
ROLLUP: Is SBF Killing DeFi?? | Aptos Launch Down Bad | Ethereum Censorship Heats Up | Reddit Onboarding Millions
1h 34m
Oct 2025
Michael Saylor: The Bitcoin Treasury Endgame
An interview with Michael Saylor like never before. On the future of global credit markets with bitcoin at their core.Michael lays out a vision of how bitcoin will disrupt capital, redefine corporate balance sheets, and become the foundation of 21st-century economics. From the ri ... Show More
1h 29m
May 2024
ROLLUP: $EIGEN Token Launch | CZ Going to Jail | Stripe Crypto Support | Market Bottom In?
1h 27m
In this episode, Nik walks through our TBL proprietary liquidity index, explaining why the red signal flagged in late December and confirmed in January preceded Bitcoin's sharp decline below $70,000. He breaks down the four inputs driving the current liquidity contraction, with focus on dollar volatility and bond stress, the US-Japan currency relationship, a ... Show More
<p>Cory Klippsten, CEO and Founder of Swan Bitcoin joins me to talk about various topics:</p>
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<li>Working in the bitcoin space</li>
<li>Teaching newcoiners</li>
<li>Growing the auto-stacking movement</li>
<li>The latest with Bitcoin Ventures</li>
<li>Elon Musk’s mist ... Show More
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