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  • #655 Turning ASICs Into Smart Home Heating with Tyler Stevens
    Aug 27 2025

    Marty sits down with Tyler Stevens, CEO of Exergy, to discuss how Bitcoin mining heat can revolutionize residential heating systems by replacing expensive propane and heating oil while generating cryptocurrency rebates and massively distributing hashrate.

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    1 h et 8 min
  • Bitcoin Mining Pool (de)Centralization | Mark Artymko, Center of Hash E004
    Aug 26 2025

    Mark Artymko, President and Co-Founder of Ocean, discusses his nearly two decade career in the power industry as an electrical engineer, how Ocean is helping to reverse the trend of bitcoin mining pool centralization, what the key differences are between Ocean and more traditional mining pools and why bitcoin miners more directly controlling their own hash rate is important to bitcoin decentralization and aligning incentives between pools and miners.

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    1 h et 41 min
  • #654: The Fed Has Painted Itself Into a Corner with Michael Howell
    Aug 25 2025

    Marty sits down with Michael Howell to discuss the Fed's predicament at Jackson Hole, global liquidity cycles, the structural shift toward collateral-dependent lending, and how mounting debt refinancing pressures alongside AI capital expenditures are creating conditions that favor monetary inflation hedges like Bitcoin and gold.

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    1 h et 2 min
  • #653: Building the Open Internet with Miljan Braticevic
    Aug 23 2025

    Marty sits down with Miljan Braticevic to discuss the growing importance of open protocols like Nostr in the face of increasing censorship and authoritarian pressures, the unique advantages of decentralized social networks over closed platforms, and how Primal is building tools to enable content creators to monetize high-signal long-form content while maintaining user sovereignty.

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    1 h et 19 min
  • Fed Independence Under Fire as SBR Plans Continue | Bitcoin Alpha E010
    Aug 22 2025

    Trump publicly humiliates Fed Chair Powell on live television, demanding lower interest rates while criticizing Federal Reserve building renovations. The administration continues consolidating Fed-Treasury power as Trump calls for Lisa Cook's resignation and nominates Stephen Myron to the Fed Board. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve plans remain uncertain despite Scott Bessent's conflicting statements about government Bitcoin holdings. Harvard Endowment reveals over $100 million Bitcoin ETF position, signaling major institutional adoption. Gold revaluation discussions emerge alongside potential Intel nationalization as wartime economy policies expand. Crypto IPOs from Bullish and Gemini show mixed results while Block unveils revolutionary Bitcoin mining hardware "The Rig" to challenge Bitmain's monopoly. The episode explores monetary policy theatrics, Bitcoin's growing institutional acceptance, and innovation breaking centralized control systems.

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    1 h et 29 min
  • 21 million is Non-Negotiable | Phil Geiger, Center of Hash E004
    Aug 19 2025

    Phil Geiger discusses the economic incentives of the bitcoin network, why there is (and always will be) an incentive for someone to profitably sell power to the network, what mechanisms make bitcoin unique as the only demand for power in the world that removes counterparty risk and how the non-negotiable nature of bitcoin’s fixed supply enables it all.

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    1 h et 30 min
  • #652: How To Position For The Bitcoin Boom with Tuur Demeester
    Aug 18 2025

    Marty sits down with Tuur Demeester to discuss his updated Adamant Capital report that revises his bullish Bitcoin thesis given new developments like ETFs, treasury companies, nation-state adoption, and persistent inflation while exploring why this cycle may be fundamentally different with longer duration and higher price targets.

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    1 h et 39 min
  • #651: Bitcoin-Backed Independent Film Funding with Forager
    Aug 13 2025

    Marty sits down with Ali Webb and Carlos Flores from Forager to discuss how they're using Bitcoin-backed funding to enable independent filmmakers to create original content without traditional studio interference or investor pressure.

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    1 h et 2 min