Love & Hard Money

Brian

Love & Hard Money is a weekly podcast that explores the intersection of Bitcoin, ethics, and business strategy. Each episode features deep dives into sound money principles, monetary history, and how Bitcoin fits into a principled business approach. Hosted by Brian Bundy, founder of Satoshi General, the podcast is designed for business leaders, CFOs, and entrepreneurs who want to understand Bitcoin beyond the hype—grounded in economics, ethics, and practical business experience.

  1. Aug 4

    Love and Honest Money: Scaling Trust

    Episode 26 — How to Love a Stranger Love & Hard Money with Brian  Episode Description There's a hard ceiling on how many people your brain can actually trust — anthropologist Robin Dunbar put the number at 150. Past that, everyone is a stranger. So how did civilization ever get built? How do cities function, trade routes span oceans, supply chains span continents — all coordinated by people who will never meet, never know each other's names? The answer is money — not as a convenience, but as the technology that let human trust scale past biology. In this episode, Brian traces that idea from Dunbar's Number through the slow corruption of that trust by monetary debasement, into Bitcoin as a rebuild of the signal from the ground up. Then he asks the bigger question: if gold — heavy, slow, easily captured — was still enough to help spark the Renaissance, what does honest money that moves at the speed of the internet make possible now, with everything else we've already built? And who's standing in the way of that future, and why. Underneath it all is the question this show keeps coming back to: how do you love a stranger? In This Episode Dunbar's Number and the hard limit of trust running on biology aloneWhy money is the technology that let cooperation scale past the tribeHow debasement corrupts the signal — and quietly taxes without a voteBitcoin as a rebuild of that signal, enforced by math instead of restraintGold, the Renaissance, and what honest money makes possible paired with today's toolsThe incumbents with every incentive to keep the old system running — and why the win isn't an argument, it's a refusalConnect Stack sats. Live free. Love your neighbor — and the stranger you'll never meet. New episodes every week. www.satoshigeneral.com linkedin.com/in/brian-bundy-b30a529

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Love & Hard Money is a weekly podcast that explores the intersection of Bitcoin, ethics, and business strategy. Each episode features deep dives into sound money principles, monetary history, and how Bitcoin fits into a principled business approach. Hosted by Brian Bundy, founder of Satoshi General, the podcast is designed for business leaders, CFOs, and entrepreneurs who want to understand Bitcoin beyond the hype—grounded in economics, ethics, and practical business experience.