Bitcoin Well Podcast

Bitcoin Well
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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. 8h ago

    Reads: Your Bank Account Is a Flock Camera

    There is a camera on a pole near you right now, and it is photographing every car that passes. Adam O'Brien's essay "Jump Out of the Pot" turns that camera around and points it at your bank account: the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act that made banks informants, the 1976 Supreme Court ruling that made your financial records the bank's property instead of yours, and the 257 Canadian accounts frozen in hours for a perfectly legal donation. Financial privacy isn't about hiding bad things. It's protection against a government that changes the definition of bad things after the fact. The code already protects your coins. Only your habits protect the rest. FinancialPrivacy #Surveillance #FlockSafety Buy Bitcoin straight to your own wallet at bitcoinwell.com. New accounts use code PODCAST.

    Reads: Your Bank Account Is a Flock Camera

  2. 3d ago

    Guest: Bitcoin Won't Defeat Wall Street. It Will Absorb It | Nolan Bauerle (CountBTC)

    Q sits down with Nolan Bauerle (CountBTC) for a conversation that goes way past the price chart. Nolan's frame: the Iran war was decided the day Lloyds of London pulled war insurance, because the real fight was between physical energy delivery and the paper version of it (Brent, futures, risk premiums). Fiat is words. And the world is shifting toward something more symbolic, simpler, and physical. From there it gets spicy. Politics as kayfabe, the Whitfield Diffie story about America being imperial and revolutionary at the same time, why Quebec is quietly what MAGA wants, and where the two of them part ways on Israel, lawfare, and whether Trump runs again. The through-line is Nolan's uncomfortable thesis for Bitcoiners who see themselves as pure revolutionaries: you don't beat Wall Street by nagging it into self-custody. You infect it, redefine its incentives, and separate money from state at the level of taxation and collateral. Disagreement, history, and a lot of laughs. Buy Bitcoin the only way that ends with the keys in your hands. bitcoinwell.com, promo code PODCAST. For larger purchases, meet a Bitcoin advisor at bitcoinwell.com/infinite. Follow Nolan: CountBTC on X, Nolan Bauerle on YouTube and Rumble.

  3. 5d ago

    Guest: Bitcoin Well's CEO: 'Your Bank Account Is a Surveillance Camera

    There's a camera on a pole near you right now, tracking every car that passes. Your city bought it to catch stolen vehicles. It's already been used to track romantic partners, reach into immigration cases, and build a national database that runs warrant-free searches across tens of thousands of cameras. Your bank account is the same machine. It's just older, and nobody built a satirical Darth Vader bit about it yet. Adam O'Brien, CEO of Bitcoin Well, joins us to make that case in full. We get into why surveillance infrastructure never stays limited to its stated purpose, what actually happened during Canada's 2022 trucker convoy account freezes (257 accounts, no court order, a ruling that took four years to arrive), why Elizabeth Warren's crypto AML bill targets law-abiding self-custody users while stablecoins account for the vast majority of actual illicit crypto volume, and why Adam believes a modern-day Executive Order 6102 wouldn't need to touch Bitcoin's code at all — just a letter to five custodians and a database query. We also talk about the darkest part of this: how KYC databases and physical wrench attacks are connected, why a data breach today is a home address that doesn't expire, and what it actually looks like to build a private Bitcoin stack in a way that's completely legal. Watch the full clips referenced in this episode: Adam's blog posts: https://bitcoinwell.com/blog/jump-out-of-the-pot Darth Vader at San Diego City Council: https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/darth-vader-san-diego-city-council/ Sign up for Bitcoin Well: https://bitcoinwell.com/signup Learn about Bitcoin Well Infinite: http://bitcoinwell.com/infinite Follow Adam O'Brien: https://x.com/adamobrien Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, financial privacy, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money. Bitcoin #FinancialPrivacy #BitcoinWellPodcast 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)

  4. Aug 26

    Guests: Bitcoin Just Pumped $15K and Almost Nobody Told the Real Story | GMONEY & Rod Palmer

    Bitcoin ran from $64K to $79K-plus in a single week, hashrate hit an all-time high near 1,020 EH/s, and fees stayed cheap — and almost none of the mainstream coverage mentioned any of that. It was the same ETF-flows, institutional-buying, short-squeeze story on repeat. GMONEY (Bitcoin self-custody consultant, host of "Bitcoin is Digital 1776") and Rod Palmer (Bugle News, media and culture) join us to tell the story that actually got missed this week — what a $15K move means for the network versus what it means for the price, whether the CLARITY Act's September 15 Senate vote is a win for Bitcoin sovereignty or the start of its domestication, and whether the ColdCard fallout is pushing people toward real self-custody or straight into ETFs. We close on the big question: does GMONEY's "Bitcoin as Digital 1776" thesis still hold up now that BlackRock has a balance sheet position and Washington is writing the rulebook — or is that exactly how the revolution wins? Sign up for Bitcoin Well: https://bitcoinwell.com/signup Learn about Bitcoin Well Infinite: http://bitcoinwell.com/infinite Follow GMONEY: https://x.com/GMONEYPEPE Follow Rod Palmer: https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, market analysis, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money. Bitcoin #BitcoinWellPodcast

  5. Aug 20

    Reads: The Bull Market Nobody Is Positioned For

    Everyone agrees Bitcoin's big returns are gone. That agreement is the trade. In this Reads, Zach walks through why the diminishing returns thesis quietly became the most crowded belief in Bitcoin, how gold and silver just ran a $15 trillion proof of concept that killed the law-of-large-numbers argument, what a $40 trillion national debt does to a central bank that no longer sets its own policy, and why Jeff Booth's deflation thesis is now running on an AI schedule. Four completed cycles is four data points, and everyone drew the comfortable curve through them. Then the part nobody wants to hear. Wall Street solved unit bias at $36 a share, and a share is still a claim, not property. An ETF gives you exposure. Keys give you ownership. Buy real Bitcoin and send it straight to a wallet you control at bitcoinwell.com. SelfCustody #NotYourKeysNotYourCoins #AustrianEconomics

  6. Aug 19

    Guest: Is Bitcoin Mining Being Quietly Captured? | Bob Burnett

    Last week was about custody failing. This week it's about whether the infrastructure underneath Bitcoin — mining itself — is quietly being captured. Bob Burnett sits on OCEAN's board, runs Barefoot Mining, and went on record defending how OCEAN handled the BIP-110 fork after miners demanded leadership be ousted and Adam Back called for docked pay. This is his first real chance to tell the full story — and we're not letting him off easy. We also get into the bigger story pool centralization: Foundry alone controls roughly 31% of global hashrate, four pools control over 70%, and the Nakamoto coefficient sits at just 3 — meaning three pools colluding could hit 51%. OCEAN's answer is DATUM, a system that lets miners control their own block templates. Does BIP-110 actually prove DATUM works, or expose its limits? Bob also breaks down brutal post-halving mining economics (the cost to mine one BTC hit roughly $70K in 2025), what that means for independent operators like his own, and — coming off the ColdCard hack — what he actually tells a 60-year-old who bought a hardware wallet in 2021 and hasn't touched it since. Sign up for Bitcoin Well: https://app.bitcoinwell.com/signup Book a free call with a Bitcoin Advisor: https://bitcoinwell.com/infinite Follow Bob Burnett: https://x.com/boomer_btc Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, mining analysis, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money Bitcoin #BitcoinMining #BitcoinWellPodcast

  7. Aug 14

    Guest: It Wasn't Just ColdCard: AI Is Finding Bugs in Every Bitcoin Wallet | PortlandHODL

    This isn't just a ColdCard story anymore. In this emergency episode, Portland Hodl, Bitcoin Core contributor and creator of Slipstream, reveals that an open-source AI model with none of the safety guardrails of US frontier models is now tearing through the entire hardware wallet industry's code. ColdCard was first. Then BTCPay Server. Then Nunchuk. As of this morning, Trezor too. We get into what to actually do right now if you're on an affected device (priority order matters: some setups need to move funds immediately, others have more time), how Slipstream lets you migrate funds through a private mempool without exposing your multisig's public keys to attackers, and why Portland won't rule out that the ColdCard bug was something more than an accident. We also talk about what this means as a preview for a real quantum computing threat down the road. If you're affected and don't know what to do, Bitcoin Well's support team is taking calls to help you move your funds safely. Sign up for Bitcoin Well: [app.bitcoinwell.com/signup] Book a free call with a Bitcoin Advisor: [bitcoinwell.com/infinite] Follow Portland Hodl: https://twitter.com/PortlandHODL Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, security updates, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money Bitcoin #SelfCustody #BitcoinWellPodcast

  8. Aug 12

    Guest: Bitcoin Lost $116M. Then $853M Ran to ETFs Instead | Eric Yakes and Try Sellers

    $116 million vanished from "self-custody" wallets after a ColdCard firmware bug quietly broke wallet randomness for five years. The response from the market was almost nobody expected: $853 million flowed into Bitcoin ETFs the same week — the most custodial option available. Eric Yakes (author of The 7th Property) and Trey Sellers (Fire BTC) join us for a two-part conversation: what actually happened with ColdCard and what to do about it, why the ETF flows might be Bitcoin's most interesting contradiction right now, the BIP-110 fork that failed in two blocks and what it proves about Bitcoin governance, the CLARITY Act's September 15 Senate vote, and Eric's case for Bitcoin's "7th property" — absolute scarcity. Sign up for Bitcoin Well: [app.bitcoinwell.com/signup] Book a free call with a Bitcoin Advisor: [bitcoinwell.com/infinite] Follow today's guests: Eric Yakes: https://x.com/ericyakes Trey Sellers: https://x.com/ts_hodl Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, market analysis, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money Bitcoin #SelfCustody #BitcoinWellPodcast

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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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