Bitcoin Well Podcast

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Under the Bitcoin Well Podcast banner are different shows including Answers, Explains and Reads. All shows that will help expand people's understanding of Bitcoin, both from a beginner and a veteran's perspective. With a strong focus on self-custody, self sovereignty, personal freedom and empowerment.

  1. Reads: What Can You Actually Use Bitcoin For?

    16H AGO

    Reads: What Can You Actually Use Bitcoin For?

    Send us Fan Mail Reads: Seven ways Bitcoin is used today Most people dismissing Bitcoin haven't seen it in use. They see a price chart and miss the system underneath. In this episode, Zach reads "7 Ways Bitcoin Is Used Today" by Ulysses Alfaro — a breakdown of how Bitcoin is already solving real problems for real people all over the world. This is a great episode to share with anyone who still asks "but what can you actually use Bitcoin for?"  Questions? z.addair@bitcoinwell.com  #Bitcoin #SoundMoney #BitcoinEducation #LightningNetwork #BitcoinWell Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:59 7 Ways Bitcoin Is Used Today 4:01 #1 Hard Money and Store of Value 6:27 #2 Settlement Layer and Method of Exchange 8:44 #3 Borderless Money and Remittances 10:50 #4 Commercial Infrastructure and Point of Sale 12:34 #5 Freedom Money and Censorship Resistance 14:17 #6 Energy Network and Mining 16:23 #7 Bitcoin as Financial Instrument 18:49 Conclusion RESOURCES & LINKS: 🚀 Buy Bitcoin/Freedom: https://bitcoinwell.com 📧 Join the Mission (Newsletter): https://bitcoinwell.com/newsletter 📊 Take the Bitcoin Survey: https://bitcoinwell.com/survey 📈 Investor Relations: https://bitcoinwell.com/investors CONNECT WITH US: 🕊️ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwell 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebitcoinwell ⚡ Nostr: npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 (https://bitcoinwell.com/nostr)

    20 min
  2. Bitcoin Well Is Launching Carbon Neutral Bitcoin Purchasing (APRIL FOOLS)

    3D AGO

    Bitcoin Well Is Launching Carbon Neutral Bitcoin Purchasing (APRIL FOOLS)

    Send us Fan Mail After months of internal conversations, working groups, and a lot of soul searching, Bitcoin Well is announcing carbon neutral Bitcoin purchasing.  In this episode, Zach reads the full press release — because it speaks for itself.  Optional at checkout. No mandates. No government program. Just individuals choosing to do more with what they have.  Personal responsibility. Voluntary action. That's what this is.  Learn more at bitcoinwell.com/ESG  Questions? z.addair@bitcoinwell.com  #Bitcoin #BitcoinWell #CarbonNeutral #ESG #BitcoinMining

    5 min
  3. Explains: The Difficulty Adjustment and the Halving

    4D AGO

    Explains: The Difficulty Adjustment and the Halving

    Send us Fan Mail The Difficulty Adjustment and the Halving Explained - Why Bitcoin Is the Hardest Money Ever Created   Mining is a global guessing game. Computers race to find a winning number, the winner writes the next page of the ledger, and gets paid in brand new Bitcoin. Clean. Simple. Elegant. But here's where most explanations stop and the really interesting questions start. What stops every computer on Earth from switching to Bitcoin mining at once? What stops Bitcoin from being mined out of new supply in a matter of weeks? What stops the supply from exploding like every other commodity in history? The answer is two pieces of code Satoshi Nakamoto quietly baked into the protocol from day one. In this video we break down both: the difficulty adjustment — Bitcoin's built-in thermostat that keeps block times at exactly 10 minutes no matter how much computing power enters the network — and the halving — the programmed supply schedule that makes Bitcoin the hardest money ever created by mathematical certainty. We also address the death spiral objection head-on, explain Bitcoin's stock-to-flow ratio, and end with the question the next video answers: if miners have all that power, what stops them from rewriting the code and giving themselves unlimited Bitcoin? 📩 z.addair@bitcoinwell.com Chapters:  00:00 Intro — Mining Difficulty Drops 7.76%  01:05 Today's Topic  02:20 Mining Is a Global Guessing Game  02:47 What Stops Bitcoin From Being Mined Out?  03:23 The $1 Million Thought Experiment  04:13 Why 10 Minutes?  04:49 The Difficulty Adjustment  05:33 65 Million Times More Powerful  06:05 Bitcoin Manages Itself  06:15 The 21 Million Cap and the Halving  07:12 The Halving Timeline  08:00 Bitcoin vs. Gold on Supply  09:00 Stock-to-Flow  09:03 The Death Spiral Myth  10:03 What Pays Miners After the Reward Hits Zero?  11:03 Difficulty Adjustment + Halving Together  11:46 Mises and the Regression Theorem  12:05 Next Up: Nodes and the Blocksize War  #Bitcoin #BitcoinHalving #ProofOfWork #SoundMoney #BitcoinEducation RESOURCES & LINKS: 🚀 Buy Bitcoin/Freedom: https://bitcoinwell.com 📧 Join the Mission (Newsletter): https://bitcoinwell.com/newsletter 📊 Take the Bitcoin Survey: https://bitcoinwell.com/survey 📈 Investor Relations: https://bitcoinwell.com/investors CONNECT WITH US: 🕊️ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwell 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebitcoinwell ⚡ Nostr: npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 (https://bitcoinwell.com/nostr)

    13 min

  4. 5D AGO

    Bitcoin Well 2025 Year-End Review - $133M Revenue, Bitcoin Treasury Strategy, and What's Coming in 2026

    Send us Fan Mail $133 million in revenue. 47% growth year over year. During a bear market.  In this special edition of the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach sits down with founder and CEO Adam O'Brien and capital markets expert Halston for a full breakdown of what Bitcoin Well accomplished in 2025 — and where the company is headed in 2026.  Topics covered: how Bitcoin Well's three business units performed (Bitcoin ATMs, the Portal, and Bitcoin Well Infinite), why Bitcoin Well Infinite became the primary growth driver, the white glove service for high net worth individuals on a Bitcoin journey, the vision for a legitimate Bitcoin treasury company — hold Bitcoin, generate real operating profits, be genuinely embedded in the Bitcoin industry, how the company took its private placement partially paid in Bitcoin, why Canadian Bitcoiners are more cypherpunk than their American counterparts, Bitcoin Well's US expansion and the challenges of the American payment rail landscape, how AI is being deployed to improve operations, the ATMs as a privacy and marketing engine for the Portal, and what a sub-6x ROAS on paid ads signals about product-market fit.  Adam's closing thesis: Bitcoin is the only asset you can trade your time for and launch into the future. The only asset that's reasonable to self-custody. And Bitcoin Well is on a mission to enable independence through it.  🔗 bitcoinwell.com/investors   Chapters:  00:00 Intro — Bitcoin Well 2025 Year-End Review  01:42 Adam's One-Word Summary for 2025: "Set Up"  03:58 Revenue Breakdown — Where Did the 47% Growth Come From?  04:21 The Three Business Units Explained 07:10 Bitcoin Well Infinite — Who Are the Customers?  10:17 US Expansion — Hurdles and the Self-Custody Culture Gap  13:40 Bitcoin Well's Bitcoin Treasury — 6 Bitcoin and Growing  14:53 What a Legitimate Bitcoin Treasury Company Actually Looks Like  17:26 The Private Placement Paid in Bitcoin  20:52 GNA Was Down Despite Revenue Growth — Why?  22:00 AI and the Shift Toward Marketing Spend  24:04 What's Actually Working in Marketing  26:02 The ATM Segment — Stable Revenue, Bigger Role  27:00 ATMs as a Privacy and Marketing Engine, Not Just Revenue  28:56 The Mission: Enabling Financial Independence  30:28 Closing Thoughts and How to Follow Bitcoin Well  #Bitcoin #BitcoinWell #BitcoinTreasury #SelfCustody #BitcoinEducation

    32 min
  5. Reads: Iran is a Creation of Fiat Money

    MAR 28

    Reads: Iran is a Creation of Fiat Money

    Send us Fan Mail Most people analyze the Middle East through religion, ideology, or ethnic conflict. Useful frames — but incomplete ones. If you want to understand why wars never end and why the same regions keep bleeding across decades, follow the printing press. In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach reads his original essay "How Iran Is a Creation of Fiat Money" — a deep dive into the monetary history behind 70 years of engineered conflict. What's covered: the 1953 CIA coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected prime minister for daring to nationalize his country's oil, Nixon's 1971 gold shock and the birth of the petrodollar system, how fiat money funded both sides of the Iran-Iraq War simultaneously, the 2012 Swift sanctions and what happened when Iranians started looking for alternatives, why Iran became a significant Bitcoin mining hub — and why the regime couldn't control it, and why Bitcoin is the only structural solution to monetary coercion. The story of Iran isn't about Islam vs. the West. Those are just the costumes. The underlying play is always the same: centralized control of money enables centralized control of people. Fix the money. Fix the world. Original Article: https://bitcoinwell.com/blog/how-iran-is-a-creation-of-fiat-money 📩 z.addair@bitcoinwell.com Chapters: 00:00 Intro — The US at War, Zach's Personal Connection 02:16 How Iran Is a Creation of Fiat Money 02:55 1953 — The CIA Coup and the Dollar's Need for Oil 05:00 The Dollar vs. Bitcoin: Two Very Different Uses of Energy 05:37 1971-1979 — Nixon, Kissinger, and the Petrodollar Trap 08:07 The Perpetual War Machine — Funding Both Sides 11:01 Fiat Thrives on the Chaos It Creates 09:22 2012 Swift Sanctions — Bitcoin's Most Honest Advertisement 10:15 Iran Becomes a Bitcoin Mining Hub 10:41 The Global War Machine Runs on Dollars 12:35 Bitcoin — Defunding the Global War Theater 13:26 Fix the Money, Fix the World #Bitcoin #FixTheMoneyFixTheWorld #Petrodollar #BitcoinPodcast #FinancialSovereignty RESOURCES & LINKS: 🚀 Buy Bitcoin/Freedom: https://bitcoinwell.com 📧 Join the Mission (Newsletter): https://bitcoinwell.com/newsletter 📊 Take the Bitcoin Survey: https://bitcoinwell.com/survey 📈 Investor Relations: https://bitcoinwell.com/investors CONNECT WITH US: 🕊️ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwell 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebitcoinwell ⚡ Nostr: npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 (https://bitcoinwell.com/nostr)

    15 min
  6. Explains: Bitcoin Mining and Proof of Work

    MAR 24

    Explains: Bitcoin Mining and Proof of Work

    Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Explains: How Bitcoin Works - Mining and Proof of Work Forget the guy in a hoodie with a digital pickaxe. Forget the villain's lair boiling the oceans. Neither image is even close to accurate. Bitcoin mining is network security. It's the mechanism by which every transaction gets written, validated, and locked in permanently - without a bank, government, or central authority telling anyone what to do. In this video we break down exactly how it works: -What miners are actually doing (spoiler: it's a blind, relentless lottery — not calculus) -Why Satoshi designed proof of work this way, and why human greed is the security model -The 51% attack — what it would actually cost, and why it makes no rational sense -Why Bitcoin's energy consumption isn't a scandal — it's the most important feature of the system Why miners are incentivized to use energy nobody else wants And why it's always more profitable to play honestly than to attack. Satoshi weaponized greed to build an impenetrable shield. It's one of the most elegant systems ever designed. Chapters: 00:00 Intro w/ Zach 02:15 The Two Wrong Images of Bitcoin Mining  03:15 What Mining Actually Is  03:42 It's Not Math — It's a Guessing Game  04:12 How the Lottery Works: SHA-256 and Hashing  05:38 Why Does Anyone Do This? The Incentives  06:44 The Coinbase Transaction — How New Bitcoin Is Born  07:47 No Pre-Mine: Why Satoshi's Fairness Matters  08:15 Can Someone Just Attack the Network?  09:23 Why a 51% Attack Makes No Rational Sense  10:47 Satoshi Weaponized Greed  11:16 "Bitcoin Is Boiling the Oceans"  11:42 Security Always Costs Energy  12:23 Bitcoin Makes the Energy Cost Visible  12:45 Unforgeable Costliness — Why the Energy Is the Point  13:25 Miners Chase Wasted Energy  14:07 Summary: How It All Fits Together  14:38 Next Up: Difficulty Adjustments and the Halving  #Bitcoin #ProofOfWork #BitcoinMining #BitcoinEducation #FinancialSovereignty RESOURCES & LINKS: 🚀 Buy Bitcoin/Freedom: https://bitcoinwell.com 📧 Join the Mission (Newsletter): https://bitcoinwell.com/newsletter 📊 Take the Bitcoin Survey: https://bitcoinwell.com/survey 📈 Investor Relations: https://bitcoinwell.com/investors CONNECT WITH US: 🕊️ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwell 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebitcoinwell ⚡ Nostr: npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 (https://bitcoinwell.com/nostr)

    16 min
  7. Reads: Bitcoin Is Fighting With Itself Again - The Great Data War of 2026

    MAR 21

    Reads: Bitcoin Is Fighting With Itself Again - The Great Data War of 2026

    Send us Fan Mail The Great Data War of 2026: Why Bitcoin's "Civil War" Is Actually Proof It's Working Bitcoin is having another one of its famous arguments. And if you're new here, you might think the sky has fallen. It isn't. What's being called the Data War is the latest flashpoint in a debate that's been simmering since Casey Rodarmor launched the Ordinals project in 2023, essentially using a loophole opened by Taproot to inscribe arbitrary data directly onto individual satoshis. That gave us Bitcoin NFTs, BRC-20 tokens, and a community-wide argument about what Bitcoin is actually for. Bitcoin Well Reads: The Great Data War of 2026: Why Bitcoin's "Civil War" Is Actually Proof It's Working Now in 2026, those opinions have hardened into two camps: Bitcoin Knots and Bitcoin Core. In this episode, Zach breaks down both sides without taking one, explains why this isn't like 2017, and makes the case that Bitcoin's resistance to change isn't a bug; it's the most important feature. Topics covered: Ordinals and inscriptions explained, BIP110 soft fork proposal, Bitcoin Knots vs Bitcoin Core, why the 2026 debate is structurally different from the block size wars, the philosophical tension between permissionlessness and monetary purity, and what being your own bank actually looks like. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro — America, Iran, and why Zach holds Bitcoin 1:03 What is the Data War? 2:31 The two sides: Purists vs Neutralists 3:37 Bitcoin Knots and BIP110 explained 4:18 Bitcoin Core's counterargument 5:02 Why this isn't like 2017 6:04 Soft fork vs hard fork — the structural difference 7:10 The philosophical tension nobody talks about enough 8:17 Are inscriptions just a fad? 9:06 Bitcoin has survived everything — and gotten stronger 9:46 What this debate actually proves about decentralization 10:08 Run your node. Know your client. This is what sovereignty looks like. #Bitcoin #BitcoinOrdinals #BitcoinKnots #BitcoinEducation #BitcoinPodcast RESOURCES & LINKS: 🚀 Buy Bitcoin/Freedom: https://bitcoinwell.com 📧 Join the Mission (Newsletter): https://bitcoinwell.com/newsletter 📊 Take the Bitcoin Survey: https://bitcoinwell.com/survey 📈 Investor Relations: https://bitcoinwell.com/investors CONNECT WITH US: 🕊️ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwell 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebitcoinwell ⚡ Nostr: npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 (https://bitcoinwell.com/nostr)

    11 min

  8. MAR 19

    Spaces: Iran, Hyperinflation, and Stablecoins - Has The Dollar Endgame Begun?

    Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin has touched $76,000 as the global landscape shifts under our feet. With the US and Israel at war and the energy markets in haywire due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, we are at a structural inflection point for the global financial system.  In this session, Zach and the Peruvian Bull dive into why the "flight to safety" isn't leading to gold, but to Bitcoin. We discuss the massive influx of Iranian buyers using Bitcoin as an exit ramp from a weaponized SWIFT system and hyperinflation.  The panel also tackles the rising threat of stablecoins—framing them as a "Central Bank Digital Currency" in disguise that governments will use to maintain relevance while banning true self-custody . We explore the "Spend and Replace" journey, why we need to meet Gen Z and women where they are with simple education, and the deep moral argument that Bitcoin is the only way to protest a system that prints money to fund endless war.  With only 1 million Bitcoin left to be mined for the rest of time, the question is no longer "is it a bubble," but "how do we reclaim our sovereignty?".  00:00 Intro — Bitcoin Between 71K-76K, Iran War, 20 Millionth Bitcoin Mined  01:50 Panel Introductions  02:00 Peruvian Bull: Bitcoin Up While Gold and Silver Dump  05:00 Iranian Citizens Buying Bitcoin as an Exit Ramp  07:36 Kyle: Bitcoin as a Protest Against War Funding  10:18 The Privacy Debate — Is Bitcoin a Surveillance Trap?  16:25 Adam on Silent Payments and Bitcoin's Programmable Privacy  19:37 Fedemint and the Satoshi vs. Elon Privacy Analogy  21:50 Alex's Wrench: Will Stablecoins Eat Bitcoin's Market?  27:00 Stablecoins vs. Bitcoin — Different Assets or Real Competition?  31:00 Bitcoin Puts Governments in Competition With Each Other  34:00 Gresham's Law and Why Bitcoiners Don't Spend Their Bitcoin  38:00 Who's Actually Using Bitcoin Day to Day?  45:00 Lindsay: Two Types of Bitcoiners and the Journey Mindset  49:00 What Is STRC and How Does It Fit In?  50:30 Plug: The Adam O'Brien Show  56:00 How Do We Onboard Gen Z and Women?  1:02:00 Short Form vs. Long Form — What Actually Converts People?  1:13:00 Bitcoin Is a Moral Issue, Not Just a Financial One  1:16:00 Wrap Up  #BitcoinGeopolitics #SoundMoney #FinancialSovereignty #BitcoinStandard #IranWar2026

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Under the Bitcoin Well Podcast banner are different shows including Answers, Explains and Reads. All shows that will help expand people's understanding of Bitcoin, both from a beginner and a veteran's perspective. With a strong focus on self-custody, self sovereignty, personal freedom and empowerment.

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