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https://youtu.be/Vp5k4K94hv8

"I cannot tell you how important it is for people to start thinking about self-custody and getting their own Bitcoin, getting it off exchanges, holding it yourself, becoming a sovereign individual, memorizing 12 words. And when the world goes to sh*t, you can just go across any border, take all your wealth with you." -George Bodine

Description:

Artist and Ex-Navy fighter pilot George “Jethroe” Bodine joins Walker America again on THE Bitcoin Podcast for a fiery and unfiltered conversation about the future of money, power, and freedom. From liquidating everything to go all-in on Bitcoin, to warning about the coming convergence of global cycles, George explains why the next 3–5 years will be absolute chaos — and why Bitcoin is the only real way out.

We dive deep into:

• Why conviction matters more than DCA in the long run

• The danger of Bitcoin treasury companies and paper Bitcoin

• The Fourth Turning, Kondratiev waves, and repeating historical cycles

• How central banks, Cantillon insiders, and fiat collapse mirror empires of the past

• Why self-custody, sovereignty, and running your own node are non-negotiable

• Bitcoin, AI, and the greatest wealth transfer in human history

This episode is about conviction, cycles, and survival in a world that’s breaking apart.

chapters

00:00 -- IN THIS EPISODE...

02:45 – George back from Prague, painting & conference vibes

04:30 – Real Bitcoiners vs treasury companies

08:00 – Still early: adoption numbers & the Croesus chart

09:45 – George’s smash-buy journey: liquidating everything for sats

12:00 – DCA vs smash buying, conviction, and sleepless nights

15:40 – Walker on conviction, drawdowns, and psychology of markets

18:20 – Book talk: Jesse Livermore & markets as psychology

20:30 – Paper Bitcoin fears vs reality

22:20 – Self-custody, sovereignty, and crossing borders with Bitcoin

23:50 – Bitcoin treasury companies: inevitable but risky

31:30 – What makes a treasury company succeed (conviction, 100% BTC, transparency)

34:00 – MNAV, premiums, and reflexive risks

39:00 – Trading mistakes & lessons from MicroStrategy

41:00 – Bitcoin as savings vs fiat & gold

42:30 – The Fourth Turning, secular inflation, and cycles converging

45:30 – Fiat debasement, gold bugs, and Cantillon insiders

48:30 – Insider trading in Congress & the Fed

50:00 – Spain’s gold inflows and parallels to US fiat

52:40 – Cantillon Effect explained through COVID money printing

53:30 – Central banks stockpiling gold vs US treasuries

55:30 – Why Bitcoin is better than gold as neutral reserve asset

59:00 – Settlement layers, SDRs, and game theory

01:03:40 – Convergence of cycles, AI, and Bitcoin

01:07:00 – US vs China AI arms race

01:10:40 – History, Assyrians, Scythian warrior women

01:14:00 – Why running a node matters & Bitcoin Knots

01:19:30 – Mining centralization, pools, and sovereignty

01:23:30 – Consensus, nodes, and Bitcoin’s immune system

01:26:30 – Hostile actors, Core v30, and sovereignty

01:32:00 – George’s art, Bitcoin paintings, and sats only

01:35:00 – Final message: stack like a smart psychopath, hodl through the storm