The Bitcoin Podcast

Corey Petty, Demetrick Ferguson, Jessie Santiago
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The Bitcoin Podcast is a show that discusses Bitcoin and Crypto topics in a laid back nature. From deep and technical topics, to laid back and philosophical topics...the gang, Demetrick, Corey and Jessie are just 3 guys looking to relax and talk about bitcoin. Established in 2015, one of the oldest crypto shows in the game.

  1. 2d ago

    The Bitcoin Podcast: Forking Satoshi and Phat Nodes

    Demetrick, Dr. Corey Petty, and Jesse for an episode about two forks, a fat node, and what happens when three guys who have been doing this for eleven years start asking whether the system can fix itself. Satoshi is about to get forked. The community is talking about it like it is optional. Corey is not so sure. If it has to happen, it has to happen, and the guys break down what that actually means for a protocol that was supposed to be set in stone. Meanwhile Ethereum is heading toward its own fork, and the guys translate the spec into plain English: the nodes are getting fat. Pretty hot and tempting, sure, but also a meaningful shift in what running infrastructure on the network looks like. The middle of the show goes off the rails in the best way. Demetrick got promoted to the AI integration lead at his firm and is now putting vibe coded tools straight into client production environments, replacing the Excel sheets nobody under thirty knows how to maintain. Corey explains why the real bottleneck in AI right now is not the model. It is the human attention required to write a good specification. The guys riff on what it would take to shrink that interface down to something you could actually scale. Then the gloves come off on the economy. Demetrick offers a working definition (an economy gives the most to the most), Corey calls the premise faulty under crony capitalism, and Jesse holds the line that you cannot use the system to fix the system. The takeaway lands on tax fairness, who actually uses the infrastructure, and why disruption has to come from outside. Plus Jesse pitches a sponsorship ask to Colossus Pay, the L2 looking to gut payment processor fees on point of sale terminals, because he is actively building gym software trying to do exactly that. Drop questions in the YouTube comments. Join the Discord.

    56 min
  2. Flashback The Bitcoin Podcast #72-The Broader Economy

    3d ago

    Flashback The Bitcoin Podcast #72-The Broader Economy

    Things aren’t looking good. Currencies everywhere are in dire straits. The credit agency offering credit restoration services in Vegas, Fitch sees potential catastrophe for the EU if the Italian banking system fails. China is crash landing their economy. Right now the argument that bitcoin will die is very difficult to make based on past experiences. We tackle how bitcoin navigated in a world where massive currency crises are the norm. Who better to join us, right as the halvening hits, than Andreas Antonopoulos, who is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become one of the most well-known and well-respected figures in bitcoin. The next halvening is on July, 2020. See you there!

    1h 5m
  3. Flashback: The Bitcoin Podcast #46- The Fundamental Conflict

    Jun 22

    Flashback: The Bitcoin Podcast #46- The Fundamental Conflict

    This is a Flashback Episode, we are going back to March 2016 in which our Guest Emin Gün Sirer makes his first of seven appearances on The Bitcoin Podcast Network. The boys compare bitcoin to the Animatrix and we invite Emin, a professor at Cornell University to talk a bit about how he has worked to improve Bitcoin in various ways during these, oh so troubling times. In the past, he’s worked on peer-to-peer systems of various kinds. He was behind Karma, the first peer-to-peer currency with a distributed mint, and he also built Credence, a peer-to-peer reputation scheme that counteracted spam and mislabeled files. Emin has also built many other academic peer-to-peer systems, and has worked to defend some of the most popular ones in court. As we near episode 50, we hope you continue to find these discussions of distributed systems, operating systems and systems engineering to be thought provoking. Let’s get into it!

    1h 17m
  4. Flashback:The Bitcoin Podcast #361-Erik Voorhees Founder of Shapeshift

    Jun 22

    Flashback:The Bitcoin Podcast #361-Erik Voorhees Founder of Shapeshift

    This is a Flashback Episode of Erick Voorhees in 2021. Jessie, Corey, and Dee in our Roundtable gets into the weeds of building systems that actually help people seek financial freedom. The interview is with Erik Voorhees on the decentralzation ofShape Shift and the complexity of making a company into a DAO.

    1h 56m

  5. Jun 16

    The Bitcoin Podcast: AI + Crypto = Meh

    The full crew is back (Demetrick, Dr. Corey Petty, and Jesse) for an episode that earns its title. AI plus crypto equals meh, and the guys are not pretending otherwise. The headline: Corey is selling a chunk of his crypto. And this time it is different. Every previous sell signal from him has been triggered by the market getting too frothy. This one is not. He is selling because Bitcoin is officially boring. The technology is not delivering the kind of utility that justifies sitting on a speculative asset for another cycle, and the Petty House Index is flashing (he is not buying a house, he is buying a workshop the size of one). The guys debate Hodl Plus versus loans against collateral, and whether the upside math still works when nothing exciting is shipping. From there it gets spicy. SpaceX needs exit liquidity. The AI IPO musical chairs game is in full swing. The guys break down the theory that Elon needs the SpaceX listing to succeed so he can eventually merge it with a Tesla that cannot survive on its own. Then the real fight starts. Demetrick argues AI is a weapon, the military is already three to seven years ahead of what the public sees, and every CEO with a leather jacket walks into the Pentagon before they ship. Corey pushes back hard on the logistics: the chips did not exist until recently, the power capacity did not exist, and you cannot conjure frontier models out of thin air no matter how big the black budget is. Jesse plays referee. Nobody fully agrees, and the conversation gets cut short on purpose to pick up next week. Plus: Corey's book teaser on the death of institutions, why democratized information speed means all gas no brakes, and a callback to last week's conversation with Joe about whether crypto is only ever about the trade. Drop questions in the YouTube comments or Spotify comments. Join the Discord.

    1h 3m

  6. Jun 7

    The Bitcoin Podcast: Paper Hands Micro Strategy, Bitcoin Bear is Chomping, SpaceX, AI IPO here?

    Demetrick and Jesse hold down the fort (Corey ditched the show to chase what turned out to be a cardinal in North Carolina) for an episode about cracks forming in every direction at once. Michael Saylor just sold Bitcoin. Only thirty two coins, but the symbolism is louder than the size. The diamond hands era of MicroStrategy may be ending, and the bear is getting cozy on the couch. Meanwhile the AI IPO machine is sucking the life out of every other market. SpaceX is reportedly skipping the traditional IPO path and getting listed directly into the S&P 500, which would route retirement and 401k money straight into the company. The guys break down why that looks less like innovation and more like a setup for a future bailout, and what xAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI hitting the public markets at the same time means for liquidity everywhere else. From there it gets real. Demetrick's algorithm has stopped showing him reverse seared filet mignon and started feeding him cheese crusted liver and gourmet PB&J recipes. His luxury car uncle just posted a Hyundai Sonata. The Great Depression cosplay is in full swing, and the guys compare rice and bean stockpiles. Plus Corey calls in to explain the Y2K38 bug from first principles, with Demetrick finally understanding binary after a lifetime of bad teachers, and a fully unhinged closing segment about why Black Widow is secretly a wildcard and why Avengers Doomsday is going to print money. Drop questions in the YouTube comments. Join the Discord.

    49 min

  7. May 27

    The Bitcoin Podcast: The New Hype Cycle

    Demetrick, Dr. Corey Petty, and Jesse are joined by founder and investor Joe for a conversation that cuts through sixteen years of crypto noise with one provocative thesis: crypto is only about trading. Joe walks the guys through all five hype cycles, from Silk Road to Mt. Gox to the 2017 ICO mania to NFTs to today, and shows how the top of every cycle has been defined by a single dominant trading narrative. Everything else, he argues, is undercurrent. The conversation traces how he arrived at this conclusion after the chaos of ETHDenver 2023 sent him back to first principles, including the poker code buried in the original Bitcoin commit. From there the guys get into where the next hype cycle is forming. Joe demos a tap trading app he is building that strips away every chart, button, and knob until trading feels closer to a mobile game than a Bloomberg terminal. Green for good, red for bad, prediction markets baked in. The crew riffs on PVP tournaments, head to head trading streams on Twitch and Kick, and why apps optimized for volatility win when traditional markets get quiet. Plus: Anatoly's legendary bag working of Hyperliquid on Solana, why a normal person will never love a candlestick chart, and Corey announces he is winding down Archivist and open sourcing the IP. Drop questions in the YouTube comments. Join the Discord. The Pope conversation got pushed to next week.

    1h 3m

  8. May 10

    The Bitcoin Podcast: Laws and Such

    Demetrick and Dr. Corey Petty fly solo this week (Jesse missed the memo) to break down the regulatory squeeze tightening around crypto. The new U.S. ruling banning native yield on stablecoins is the headline. The guys unpack what it actually means: stablecoins are getting institutionalized, the barrier to entry just got a lot taller, and only players with deep legal benches will route around the rules. Surveillance, control, or both? Corey explains how USDC dependency quietly de-decentralized DAI, and Demetrick raises the bigger question: with foreign nations buying less U.S. Treasury debt, stablecoin issuers are stepping into that role. What happens when crypto companies become the dollar's biggest buyers? Also covered: Stripe's new agentic wallet infrastructure for AI agents, the latest bill targeting crypto payment rails, and why the no middlemen dream keeps colliding with human nature. Plus Demetrick's weekend speaking to financial advisors who are finally opening up to crypto. Eleven years of The Bitcoin Podcast in three weeks. Over one thousand episodes. Thanks for sticking around. Drop questions in the YouTube comments. Join the Discord (QR in the video). No financial advice. Just the conversation.

    40 min
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The Bitcoin Podcast is a show that discusses Bitcoin and Crypto topics in a laid back nature. From deep and technical topics, to laid back and philosophical topics...the gang, Demetrick, Corey and Jessie are just 3 guys looking to relax and talk about bitcoin. Established in 2015, one of the oldest crypto shows in the game.

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  • Creator
    Corey Petty, Demetrick Ferguson, Jessie Santiago
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2026
  • Episodes
    1K
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Corey Petty, Demetrick Ferguson, Jessie Santiago
  • Show Website
    The Bitcoin Podcast

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