Bitcoin Well Podcast

61:11

Guest: Your Bitcoin IRA Is Not a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free...

Bitcoin Well Podcast ·

2026/10/05

Adam O'Brien has spent thirteen years trying to subtract counterparties from his life: the bank, the exchange, the custodian, anyone who could freeze, lend out, or lose his bitcoin. This summer proved that subtraction has a floor. The ColdCard entropy failure drained $116 million from people who did everything right, generating their own seed on a trusted device. The Liquid Network lost $320 million without a single key being stolen. Neither failure involved a custodian. In this episode, Adam

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57:24

Guest: Dr. Jeff Ross: Bitcoin Is the Separation of...

Bitcoin Well Podcast ·

2026/09/30

Bitcoin is sitting near $84,000 heading into this conversation, 892 days past the halving, with sentiment firmly in greed and ETF demand still described as accumulating. Dr. Jeff Ross joins the podcast to explain why none of those numbers are the real story. Jeff argues that the separation of money and state is the next necessary evolution in a long historical pattern, the same kind of institutional unbundling that happened when church and state split centuries ago. He walks through where we are

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21:57

Reads: What Canada Couldn't Freeze: Freeland, the...

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2026/09/20

In February 2022, Chrystia Freeland told Canada's banks they could freeze accounts without a judge, and they froze 257 of them. Two courts have since ruled it unconstitutional. The Rhodes Trust, founded by Cecil Rhodes as (in his own words) a secret society to place its people where the levers are, made her CEO anyway. Zach reads his essay on what the state could reach and what it couldn't: the bank accounts it took in hours, the 14.6 Bitcoin hand-delivered to truckers in envelopes with handwritten

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60:30

Guest: Why a Fed Rate Hike Might Not Crash Bitcoin...

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2026/09/16

Today's FOMC decision carries real weight: markets are pricing an 87% probability of a 25 basis point hike, the first since 2023, after the Fed held in July on a divided 9-3 vote. Core inflation is running at 3.3%, the labor market is still warm, and Bitcoin is sitting around $77-79K heading into the announcement. Ansel Lindner (Bitcoin & Markets) joins us to break down what actually matters here: whether 25 bps is a real policy shift or mostly signaling, what a hike does to that 9-3 dissent, and

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19:11

Reads: The Rabbit Hole Has an Exit: 25 Years of 9/11...

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2026/09/11

In 2008, Zach sat down to read the official story of 9/11 so he could stop thinking about it. That was 18 years ago. This Reads episode walks the record, not the theories: Operation Northwoods and its 35-year classification, the Gulf of Tonkin attack that never happened, Colin Powell's vial, the 567-page Commission report that never mentions Building 7, and NIST conceding 2.25 seconds of freefall. Then it applies Rothbard's cui bono method to the whole quarter century and asks the question that

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11:00

Reads: Your Bank Account Is a Flock Camera

Bitcoin Well Podcast ·

2026/09/09

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

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2:25

Reads: Your Bank Account Is a Flock Camera

Bitcoin Well Podcast ·

2026/09/06

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

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69:05

Guest: Bitcoin Won't Defeat Wall Street. It Will...

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2026/09/03

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

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54:33

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

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2026/09/01

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

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65:58

Guests: Bitcoin Just Pumped $15K and Almost Nobody...

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2026/08/26

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

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20:54

Reads: The Bull Market Nobody Is Positioned For

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2026/08/20

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

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61:47

It Wasn't Just ColdCard: AI Is Finding Bugs in Every...

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2026/08/14

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

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67:28

Bitcoin Lost $116M. Then $853M Ran to ETFs Instead

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2026/08/12

$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

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190:39

Back the Fork Off - The BIP110 Post Mortem

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2026/08/10

The BIP-110 activation weekend came and went with almost zero miner support. Now the Bitcoin Knots camp is talking about a proof-of-work change to fire the miners entirely. Q hosts the post-mortem Spaces with Hodl, Otto, Wicked, and guests to break down what actually happened, what a POW change would mean in practice, why the 51% attack risk on the new chain is enormous under SHA-256, and whether the Bitcoin Knots fork can hold the name "Bitcoin." Coldcard hack fallout also covered — Bitcoin Well is

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260:02

The BIP110 Bitcoin Debate | Gary Cardone vs. BIP110

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2026/08/08

Q wanted a place where Bitcoiners could disagree without it turning toxic. This four-hour Spaces — featuring Hodlonaut, Knut Svanholm, and a rotating cast of guests — is what that actually looks like. The BIP-110 debate, ordinals as spam vs. legitimate fee market activity, whether this moment is worse or better than the Block Size Wars, Craig Wright threatening to sue Bitcoin Magazine, the 2032 halving and miner fee revenue, Mimblewimble extension blocks for privacy, and why creating enemies when

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64:08

$130 Million Just Vanished From 'Safe' Bitcoin...

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2026/08/05

$130 million. That's how much Bitcoin has vanished from "self-custody" wallets since a firmware flaw in Coldcard hardware wallets was disclosed — one of the largest security failures in Bitcoin's history, and it happened to people who did everything right by taking their coins off exchanges. This week we're joined by Pete Rizzo — Bitcoin historian, former Bitcoin Magazine and CoinDesk editor — to put this moment in context. We trace the history of self-custody, why collaborative custody exists

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70:24

Korea Crashed 30% Overnight. Japan Is Next. The Fed...

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2026/08/02

Bitcoin is at $64K USD. The Korean stock market just dropped 30% in a day. Asian markets are flashing red from Japan to Taiwan. The Fed is about to hike rates. And Galaxy Research dropped a $5M bet that quantum computers will break Bitcoin before the ecosystem can respond. Q, Riley, and Zach cover all of it: why every global stock market is a cousin of the US market, what the S&P priced in gold actually shows since 2000, the Galaxy quantum bet and whether it's signal or noise, the Clarity Act

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28:21

500 Cold Wallets Drained Overnight: What you can do...

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2026/07/31

This is not a drill. On July 30th, 594 Bitcoin — roughly $38 million — was swept from 500 wallets in about 25 minutes. Nobody was phished. Nobody's device was touched. A firmware bug in Coldcard meant the random numbers generating people's seed phrases weren't actually random. A predictable seed is a math problem an attacker can solve. Zach — who owns a Mark III — breaks format to give you the immediate action steps first, then walks through the full timeline, the entropy failure explained simply,

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57:20

China's 190,000 Bitcoin Problem

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2026/07/23

Bitcoin just crashed from a $122K all-time high to $63K, and this week alone brought five separate bombshells. Trump accused China of stealing 220 million US voter files and Bitcoin dropped within hours. The US struck 80+ Iranian military targets. Russia's Duma just legalized Bitcoin for cross-border trade. Treasury and Commerce are in an open turf war over who controls the government's 300,000+ BTC reserve. And Michael Saylor, the guy who said "you do not sell your Bitcoin", sold Bitcoin. This

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20:01

They Knew the Strait Would Close. That Was the Point.

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2026/07/18

In January 2026, US forces seized Nicolás Maduro and announced they'd run Venezuela through a transition. The stated prize was the oil. Nobody pretended otherwise. Zach reads his original piece pulling the thread from Nixon closing the gold window to the petrodollar handshake to Venezuela, Libya, Iran — and the uncomfortable possibility that the Strait of Hormuz closing was the planned outcome, not the disaster. Plus: what if the great power rivalry is, at the altitude where real money moves, less

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