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This Week in Bitcoin is an independent, investigative podcast covering Bitcoin. A high-signal news podcast focused on analysis you'll find valuable.

  1. hace 9 h

    113: The August Trap

    Markets cheer cooler CPI and rate-cut hopes as another energy shock builds beneath them. Meanwhile, BIP-110’s August 8 signaling deadline brings Bitcoin closer to a possible chain split. Episode Links 🎉 Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform 💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes Bitcoin Rallies on Cooler Inflation Bitcoin Recovery Needs Fundamentals Bitcoin ETFs Lose $4.5 Billion in 2026 Bitcoin Eyes a $63.3K Breakout BIP-110 Could Fork or Miss Activation Bitcoin Debates BIP-110 Activation Bitcoin Node Surge Raises Manipulation Claims White House Plans CLARITY Act Meeting Fed Races to Release Stablecoin Rules Bitcoin Standard Treasury Merger Update Warsh Rejects Crypto Bailouts June CPI Comes in Surprisingly Cool Warsh Responds to Cooler CPI Warsh and Inflation Set the July Fed Tone Alternative Inflation Signals Facing the Fed Why Warsh Prefers Trimmed-Mean Inflation Fed Rate Fight Could Drag On Five Takeaways From Warsh’s Testimony Warsh Promises a Fed Policy Regime Change Warsh Calls for New Thinking at the Fed Warsh Says the Fed Has No Inflation Tolerance Warsh’s Monetary Policy Testimony Warsh House Testimony Coverage Watch Warsh’s House Testimony Lawmakers Question Warsh on Inflation Warsh’s Written Senate Responses Waters Criticizes Trump’s Federal Reserve Warsh Says He Won’t Do Trump’s Bidding Inflation Reports Set Up a Busy Week Economy Slows as Rate Hikes Take Hold Oil Surges as U.S.–Iran Attacks Escalate Trump Reimposes the Iran Blockade Trump Announces Strait of Hormuz Toll Strategic Petroleum Reserve Nears Breaking Point U.S. Crude Inventories Fall 1.7 Million Barrels Bitdeer Plans Nevada Manufacturing Facility Ethereum Foundation Shakeup Timeline Fed Governor Barr on AI and Labor Warsh Says AI Is Reshaping the Economy Is the AI Boom Misallocating Capital? Music: Rules Without Rulers By: Richard

  2. 8 jul

    112: The Saylor Test

    Bitcoin passes The Saylor Test as Strategy sells and the market shrugs, while weak jobs, energy shocks, Fed risk, and BIP-110 politics turn one green week into a bigger stress test. Episode Links 🎉 Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform 💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike Show Notes Blockstream Q2 2026 Update Bitwise on STRC, MSTR, and Cycle Dynamics Oil Jumps as Trump Says Iran Deal Is Over SpaceX Moves Bitcoin Wallet Funds Bitcoin Sees Relief From ETF Inflows Ordinals Adds BIP-110 Support OpenAI Proposes U.S. Government Stake OpenAI in Talks Over Trump Administration Stake Bitcoin Pressured as U.S.-Iran Tensions Lift Oil JPMorgan Warns on Strategy Bitcoin Sales Can Strategy Selling Bitcoin Boost Shares? Lyn Alden on Bitcoin’s Bear Market Satoshi Radio Podcast VanEck on Bitcoin’s Mid-Cycle Sellers VanEck Bitcoin ChainCheck: March 2026 Bitcoin and Ethereum Empirical Analysis CENTCOM Announces Additional Iran Strikes Iran Accuses U.S. of Violating Peace Deal U.S. Rescinds Iran Oil Sales Waiver U.S. Revokes Iran Oil Waivers Trump Says Iran Ceasefire May Be Over Trump Says Iran Ceasefire Is Over Michael Saylor Rage Quits Interview NIST Finalizes Post-Quantum Standards Blockstream’s Post-Quantum Bitcoin Opcode Saylor on Bitcoin Volatility Saylor’s Past Strategy Sale Claims Saylor Says Quantum Threat Is 10+ Years Away Saylor Dismisses Quantum Bitcoin Fears OCEAN Enables BIP-110 Signal by Default Ordinals BIP-110 Envelope Parser Robert Allen on BIP-110 Music: Off The Chain By: Neonrooks

    112: The Saylor Test
  3. 1 jul

    111: Death of the Debasement Trade

    King Dollar is back, the debasement trade is supposedly dead, and Bitcoin is left testing the one question that matters: what happens when Saylor stops buying? Episode Links ⚡ Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform ⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling Show Notes Fiscal Dominance: A Primer This Is The End Of The Dollar System | Jeff Ross Stanford Wiki Vocabulary Dataset Strategy Opens Door to Bitcoin Sales as Treasury Model Faces Stress Test Strategy: Bitcoin As A Treasury Model Faces Stress Test Michael Saylor Breaks Silence as Strategy Stock Sinks Michael Saylor Fires Back: “I Never Said The Company Wouldn’t Sell Bitcoin” Canaan’s Bitcoin Mining Heat Greenhouse Initiative Mining Bitcoin, Growing Tomatoes Bitcoin Mining Heat Tested to Warm Canadian Greenhouses Bitcoin Mining Gets Greener as Canaan Recycles Heat for Agriculture Adding Bitcoin to a Corporate Treasury Why Bitcoin Treasury Companies Are Taking Off Cryptocurrency or Fiat Currency? Volatility or Debasement? A Closer Look at Bitcoin’s Volatility Economic Mobility and the American Dream Breaking the Logic of “Us Against Them” Most Bitcoin Investors Are Officially Underwater Bitcoin as an Aspirational Store of Value Revisited Bitcoin’s Volatility Is Dampening Music: Legs Broken by Mishkin Fitzgerald

    111: Death of the Debasement Trade
  4. 24 jun

    110: Fork Risk Rising

    Bitcoin gets dragged back into the fiat casino as the AI capex bubble starts to crack, while BIP-110 shifts from internet drama to a real fork-risk countdown. Episode Links ⚡ Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform ⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling Show Notes Trump Quantum Executive Orders Trump EO Signing Remarks Trump Executive Orders, 2025 Jack Mallers Bitcoin Speech Arthur Hayes on AI Crash and Bitcoin BIP 110 and the Future of Soft Forks Knotzi Death March Countdown BIP 110 Forking Dynamics Start9 on BIP 110 All the Fork Risk of BIP 110 State of Transaction Privacy Work in Bitcoin Fed Requests Comment on Stablecoin Issuer ID Rules Lummis Says CLARITY Act Is Moving in July Caitlin Long on Bitcoin and Banking Risk Strategy Drops as Bitcoin Falls Tech Sell-Off Grips Global Stocks Trump and Vance Sign US-Iran Agreement Tom Lee on SpaceX IPO Market Top Fears SpaceX IPO Forces Wall Street to Reorganize SpaceX Stock Falls as It Seeks Debt Raise SpaceX Stock Tumbles After IPO Gains Jamie Dimon Rips Coinbase CEO Jamie Dimon Blasts Coinbase Tyler Residents Raise Bitcoin Mining Concerns Developer Addresses Tyler Bitcoin Mining Concerns Trump Signs Quantum Computing Orders Trump Orders Push to Supercharge Quantum Computing Music: Through the Fire By: Nope

    110: Fork Risk Rising
  5. 17 jun

    109: Market Forced Peace

    Everyone expected energy markets to explode. Instead, the Iran deal exposed a deeper signal: oil, debt, inflation, and the Fed now define the limits of American power. Bitcoiners can’t afford to look away. Episode Links ⚡ Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform ⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling Show Notes Consumer Inflation Up Over 4% Annual CPI Inflation Surges to 4.2% Consumer Price Index Summary: May 2026 Consumer Debt Rises Amid Worsening K-Shaped Divide Explaining the K-Shaped Economy Bitcoin Bulls Eye Yield-Curve Control Surging Dollar Revives Plaza Accord Talk Bitcoin’s War Rally Challenges the Digital Gold Narrative Bitcoin Steadies as Iran War Worries Ease Bitcoin as Hard Money Backed by Energy BlackRock’s BITA and Institutional Bitcoin Demand BlackRock Reveals New Income ETF BlackRock Expands Bitcoin Premium Income ETF Offering Erica Downs Testimony Energy Stockpiling as a China Strategic Warning Indicator Michael Saylor Faces Market Revolt as Bitcoin Premium Sinks Why the World Didn’t Have an Oil Crisis Trump Secretly Approved Qatar-Iran Cash Deal Five Takeaways from Kevin Warsh’s First Fed Meeting Chairman Warsh Abstains from Rate Forecast June Fed Meeting Statement Changes SpaceX Stock Loses Momentum After Rally Markets React to Kevin Warsh’s First Fed Meeting Iran to Define Hormuz Future with Oman and Gulf States Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Set for Major Downward Adjustment SpaceX Joins Public Bitcoin Leaderboard with 18,712 BTC Alby Hub 1.23: Ark Backend, JIT Channels, Cards Page Music: No Shot By: John Trainum

    109: Market Forced Peace
  6. 10 jun

    108: The Hard Bet

    IPO mania is pulling capital into the biggest promises in the market, just as inflation, energy, and the Fed make every bet harder. This week, why Bitcoin may be the harder long-term bet worth making. Episode Links ⚡ Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform ⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling Show Notes CPI inflation report May 2026: Prices rose 4.2% annually Consumer prices rose 4.2% annually in May, highest in three years - YouTube You can’t print molecules Bitcoin’s Worst Week Since FTX Crash Signals More Pain Ahead The SpaceX IPO could lead to 8% of America’s current-account deficit being refinanced in a single day - MarketWatch US inflation tops 4% for first time in three years as oil prices jump | CNN Business Bitcoin Treasuries Shed $62B in Deepening Crypto Rout - YouTube Will Bitcoin Keep Crashing?! - YouTube Treasury Market Signals Rates Need to Be Higher - YouTube sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Thune and Senate Democratic Leader Schumer signed by 160 former national security, intelligence, and law enforcement professionals in support of the Clarity Act. | 1/ Today, we’re sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Thune and Senate Democratic Leader Schumer signed by 160 former national security, intelligence, and law enforcement professionals in support of the Clarity Act. America’s Data Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule - WSJ Jeff Currie thinks we are sleepwalking into one of the biggest commodity shocks since Covid and the market is still pricing it like a headline risk instead of a physical crisis May jobs report stronger than expected, Fed unlikely to cut interest rates - YouTube May jobs report comes as inflation squeezes economy - NBC News Tulip King explains why he is becoming bearish on $ZEC after the devs fixed a "double-spend" bug Zcash plummets 38% as Shielded Labs reveals a major bug that … There's little tech explanation on this Zcash vulnerability, very serious stuff The prompt that found an exploit in a 10 billion dollar protocol Music Tragedy By Irf Kat

    108: The Hard Bet
  7. 3 jun

    107: AI Crash Math

    Bitcoin is still standing while AI sucks the oxygen out of the market. I break down the trillion-dollar capex trap, and why this might be the moment Bitcoin starts telling the truth before the market is ready to hear it. Episode Links 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform ⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling Show Notes BIP-110 expected fork time bitnod.es Strategy Sold 32 Bitcoin… And That's A Good Thing. MSTR News: Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 32 BTC for $2.5 million in late May Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI? Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $2.8B In Record 9-Day Outflow Streak | ZeroHedge AI productivity: not a miracle yet - DWS Markets have overestimated AI-driven productivity gains, says MIT … Inflation data suggests Fed should be hiking rates, not cutting them … Fed's Cook says inflation is moving in the wrong direction, but she's … Morning Briefing - 2022 • Yardeni Research 'Enormously naive': Major US bank leader hits out at Biden's LNG … Bond Markets Are Bullying Japan and the U.K. One Has the Right … The issue with crypto regulation is 'the lack of clarity', says … Coindesk's Emily Parker on crypto's big sell-off Strategy's Michael Saylor says selling bitcoin to fund … Michael Saylor Says Just 2% Bitcoin Growth Covers MicroStrategy's … JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon slams CLARITY Act, signals bank … JPMorgan CEO Goes Nuclear On CLARITY Act, Calling Coinbase's … Senate's crypto drama comes to a head | Semafor Banks Sound Alarm As Senate Pushes High-Stakes Stablecoin Bill … How the US managed to seize $500M of crypto from Iran US Seizes $1 Billion in Cryptocurrency from Iran | Phemex News Strategy CEO: Bitcoin's headwinds turning to tailwinds - FOX One Mark Cuban Sold Bitcoin—Strategy CEO Says He Simply Found … Bitcoin: The Four Year Cycle Is Not Dead : r/intothecryptoverse Bitwise CEO Says Four-Year Crypto Cycle Is Dead : r/CryptoCurrency Bitcoin crash: Bitwise CIO cites 'the four-year cycle' for losses Bitcoin 4-year cycles explained - Fidelity Investments AI Capex Is Propping Up the U.S. Economy — But What Happens … How AI spending is impacting the U.S. economy Ex-CIA official arrested after $40M in gold bars allegedly found … Former CIA official accused of stealing $40M in gold bars - WBAL-TV Music What We Are by The Doerfels

    107: AI Crash Math
  8. 27 may

    106: Bitcoin’s Demand Crisis

    Bitcoin is 232 days from an all-time high, but it feels like everyone else is winning. I dig into the demand crisis, the AI liquidity drain, and why this hold will look easier in hindsight than it feels right now. Episode Links 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform ⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling Show Notes Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs crushed by outflows as bond market stifles interest-rate reduction hopes Bitcoin demand gauge sinks to worst level since December as spot buying weakens Strategy Buys Back $1.5B of Debt at Discount Mined in America Act Would Put Bitcoin Network at Risk Tethered to the Empire - by The Bitcoin Pharaoh Bitcoin options are coming to Nasdaq. Here's what it means for you HYPE funds attract millions as investors dump bitcoin and ether ETFs Vitalik Biterin breaks silence about Ethereum Foundation amid community frustration Bitcoin's bull catalyst could be AI stocks turning 'silly big': Lyn Alden Lyn Alden Says AI Stock Peak Could Boost Bitcoin - Bitbo SpaceX files for $2T IPO, reveals AI and Anthropic deals · PulseAugur AI Boom Prices Out Bitcoin Miners in US Energy Market Shake-Up AI is poaching Bitcoin miners — and this CEO says holders shouldn't … New U.S. Bill Introduced To Codify Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Congressman Nick Begich Leads Legislation to Establish Strategic … Iran's $7.7 billion crypto war chest raises alarm over … US targets Iran's $7.7 billion crypto network tied to regime … Mark Cuban Says He Sold Most of His Bitcoin After It Failed as a … Mark Cuban says he sold most of his Bitcoin, citing its failure as a … Full text of "Financial Times , 1993, UK, English" - Internet Archive ICYMI: Congressman Nick Begich Introduces The BITCOIN Act to … H.R.2032 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): BITCOIN Act of 2025 Mark Cuban: Bitcoin is a 'store of value that is more religion' Mark Cuban: Bitcoin Demand to Outpace Supply, BTC Is a Great … The Real Deal National March 2022 - Calaméo Josh Swihart's Zcash Open Development Lab raises $25 … Zcash Is About to “Burn the Old Model” Non-Profit OUT, Startup IN? Music: GwALT (Instrumental) By Absolut Absolem

    106: Bitcoin’s Demand Crisis

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