One last roundtable to close out the year. From Quantum fears to the Samourai Wallet case, we spiral into the biggest controversies of 2025.
Alongside the usual team - nostr:nprofile1qqsqlk5pjxkwgjh4x9gxj990vm5ewrqw0qmrwyst05wh5hexduvvt4cpzamhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2un9d3shjtnrdakj7tqpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuargv4ekzmt9vdshgtnfdu7e24gs , nostr:nprofile1qqs8fl79rnpsz5x00xmvkvtd8g2u7ve2k2dr3lkfadyy4v24r4k3s4sppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcv0c66w and nostr:nprofile1qqswex0dc4t8uq5pt7c4qgpgtch6swgfx88d7kwg844m930kac2npwgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7rz3pdz - we discuss UK crackdowns, jury trials, and the "sly roundabout way" to victory.
Watch and listen to Roundtable_016 - From Keonne to Quantum and Building the Sly Roundabout Way on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/FVUNJdHsD6IH7opwKd1B
Youtube: https://youtu.be/oSIED6oPj9o
https://blossom.primal.net/1d6033330c69d0987b6a62e94061d84ee4976342fb3f548bad7646bfae62d8ef.mp4
“Even the spammers know this is spam… nobody thinks it’s monetary… we all know it’s not the purpose of Bitcoin… this isn’t what Bitcoin is for… it’s not even morally bad, it’s technically bad for the network.”
~ The Shitcoin Insider
Listen to Chat_154 - Unpacking "The Cat" with The Shitcoin Insider
on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/OG6byzLNkLEfE1SjKikB
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/LPgjzysZ1V0
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v73cd1a-re-upload-chat-154-unpacking-the-cat-with-the-shitcoin-insider.html
https://blossom.primal.net/508ebd19887fb9a6b714773c85b6140661a9691e7d8ce48c57c5a7bccfe5346a.mp4
What happens to Bitcoin culture when ETFs, politics, and financialization enter the picture?
In this conversation with Ben Kaufman, we explore the four‑year cycle, Lightning as default rails, and what real sovereignty looks like in practice.
Listen to Chat_155 - Where We Are, Where We've Been, & Where We're Going with nostr:npub1lkt97dfwg8ll45kx6yzghdmylh09z3ku609mu96tdkruathfcamslkh0ff on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/arKvuqvrU5yrE648NNNn
YouTube: https://youtu.be/6Jzb-ZvlIWA
https://blossom.primal.net/a09b0f36917982ad2c432db0bec4374bc8fbc41b229e75b52f0f29056ff66175.mp4
"The big, big stab that we're going to be making - the thing that could make PPQ go from kind of like a small community of users to like a gorilla website with millions of users - is this creator monetization program where we allow outsiders to create some cool new image model or a new AI tool, serve it up on PPQ, and then also allow us to distribute their model on other websites that are orders of magnitude larger than us.
And then we do it all with lightning payments."
~ Matt Ahlborg
Listen to Chat_153 - Welcome to Subscription Hell with Matt Ahlborg of nostr:npub16g4umvwj2pduqc8kt2rv6heq2vhvtulyrsr2a20d4suldwnkl4hquekv4h on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/qkhGo0St9goMlokMRHw7
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/OGosO0EJeLY
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v72x5zi-chat-153-welcome-to-subscription-hell-with-matt-ahlborg.html
https://blossom.primal.net/f777620e00108e9fede7876ba267e1e6cce7bf0db4264e17da0eae76913db77d.mp4
Can sats stay fungible when markets try to make them something else? 🐱
In this conversation with The Shitcoin Insider, we explore CAT, ordinals, mailing list politics, and the strange overlap between devs, spammers, and AI-powered creativity.
Bitcoin, culture, and governance collide.
Listen to Chat_154 - Unpacking "The Cat" with the Shitcoin Insider on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/OG6byzLNkLEfE1SjKikB
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/LPgjzysZ1V0
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v73cd1a-re-upload-chat-154-unpacking-the-cat-with-the-shitcoin-insider.html
https://blossom.primal.net/b777c9382919fccaa8826d1be0d4b058832ad934b2a16cd7c72a18097d1bef40.mp4
"Our primary payment methods are crypto. Lightning is actually about 50% of all deposits on our platform. The pay per use, the extremely small fees, the final settlement of Lightning, is huge.
And so I think that if we were to fast forward ten years, I think that subscriptions are going to be used less in ten years than they are now. And companies like PPQ that are offering it all in one place, on a per use model, are going to win."
- Matt Ahlborg
Listen to Chat_153 - Welcome to Subscription Hell with Matt Ahlborg https://x.com/mattahlborg on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/qkhGo0St9goMlokMRHw7
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/OGosO0EJeLY
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v72x5zi-chat-153-welcome-to-subscription-hell-with-matt-ahlborg.html
https://blossom.primal.net/018c945f3f7d57ef22f36f839c4bb99dd720c7285ea6c740aa71853fd4c0e275.mp4
How close are we to a world where self‑custody is treated like a crime?
From DIY hardware to Cashew Ecash, this Read episode explores the shrinking space for financial freedom, and what tools still work.
Listen to Read_920 - Criminalized Self-Custody by nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqprfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuer0vajx7emzv93kktnrdakslup9uc on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/XFy5YObrRgJeLXRx6JYN
Ever wondered what society would look like without merchants, traders, or platforms? In The Unseen Role of Intermediaries, Bastiat had thoughts - and Bitcoin might have answers.
Listen to Read_919 - Frédéric Bastiat: The Unseen Role of Intermediaries by Ulrich Fromy on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/vHPE1DFNKBaKqHOhaf3v
From cluttered subscriptions to seamless micropayments, in this Chat episode, Matt Ahlborg of PPQ AI maps a future where UX + Lightning unlocks new creator avenues.
We discuss tradeoffs, costs, and adoption hurdles.
Listen to Chat_153 - Welcome to Subscription Hell with Matt Ahlborg of nostr:nprofile1qqsdy27dk8f9qk7qvrm94pkdtus9xtk970jpcp4w48k6cw0khfm06mspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtc6lxtrl on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/qkhGo0St9goMlokMRHw7
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/OGosO0EJeLY
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v72x5zi-chat-153-welcome-to-subscription-hell-with-matt-ahlborg.html
https://blossom.primal.net/8da7a3af0342ce222d143f4212b1db8df1c2afe3a5a1a1108498e0b909239b6a.mp4
"It's almost certain [CSW] holds the record for the most number of forgeries submitted to a UK trial, a UK court case. There is nothing in any written records that exceeds the number of forgeries attributed to him. There is no written records anywhere of anyone coming close to him in terms of one person being responsible for so many forgeries, so he is almost certainly a record holder in that respect. If you think if he put that much effort into doing good in the world, think of the amount of good he could have done."
~ Mark Hunter
Listen to Chat_152 - Forging Satoshi with Mark Hunter and
Arthur van Pelt on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/gdV0WGKCh2b9iuBarUbr
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/LT8cC0AGOUg
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v72dh4o-chat-152-forging-satoshi-with-mark-hunter-and-arthur-van-pelt.html
https://blossom.primal.net/bf3bba2d507c6fae7dc2e0df4de9bb6a6d82bf323583bb79340a5e234c272996.mp4
"I don't understand. And I'll never understand why people are so desperate to believe him when it is. so he puts his foot in it so many times, like again and again and again. He'll say something or do something that completely undermines something that he's previously said or done, and they for some reason, refuse to let it register. And I mean, this is something that when this whole saga, however this whole thing finishes, it's going to be the one enduring thing for me is how do people still believe him after all the lies, and why are they so determined to believe him."
~ Arthur Van Pelt
Listen to Chat_152 - Forging Satoshi with Mark Hunter and Arthur Van Pelt on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/gdV0WGKCh2b9iuBarUbr
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/LT8cC0AGOUg
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v72dh4o-chat-152-forging-satoshi-with-mark-hunter-and-arthur-van-pelt.html
https://blossom.primal.net/5f913b168ca7036b2bae600a2c7eea3ebfd5abbb8355d02e331cbe1a1c41ab62.mp4
Is Bitcoin a lie? Or does Bitcoin solve the very failures critics accuse it of creating? 🤔
I break down Mike Brock’s critique to explore whether Bitcoin really breeds cruelty or reveals a deeper layer of cooperation we’ve overlooked.
Listen to Read_918 - Bitcoin is a Lie by Mike Brock on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/fg6q3sozjpIu2AVEAjrQ
I’m revisiting one of my most-shared videos: What Does $6 Trillion Mean? $6T sounds abstract , until you translate it into real human time and sacrifice.
Money created from nothing doesn’t vanish… it erases value, warps incentives, and steals the weight of our decisions.
Listen to 2Sats - What Does $6 Trillion Mean on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/WquD65gz3me42OJh2L2E
Bitcoin might be the best collateral humanity has ever invented.
Instantly verifiable, instantly transferable, never freezes, never defaults:
👉🏻 Houses take months
👉🏻 Stocks have restrictions
👉🏻 Gold needs trust
... Maybe we’re still thinking way too small about Bitcoin.
In today’s episode, we break down a powerful chapter from Bitcoin is The Ultimate Collateral to explore why Bitcoin’s perfect digital scarcity, portability, uptime, and auditability make it fundamentally different from every legacy form of collateral.
Listen to Read 917 - The Ultimate Collateral by Martin Connor on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/RQ2X7qS5w9q5rNTTtQjD
"As far as I can tell, yes, there might be a little more OP_RETURN used with a policy that's more lenient, but any bytes that go into OP_RETURN are probably bytes that don't go towards inscriptions. Those are the main competitors.
I think their payments are pretty small. They have more economic density per weight, in my opinion. They will price out this spam. If you look at the prices for this stuff, they're down 30x from the top.
Overall, the trend is this goes to zero—and then people stop doing it because it's expensive."
~ Murch
Listen to Chat_151 - Bitcoin Technically, Ideologically, and Actually with nostr:nprofile1qqsf2ds69dp2ympzhtpmdd46f3w2cnfkjphtpnaesf5xs8z95vqu2xqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0eep68z on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/Azb62tIysXWUZH785w2M
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/k3VMh_OXni8
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v720cmo-chat-151-bitcoin-technically-ideologically-and-actually-with-murch.html
https://blossom.primal.net/30cc873d2dc2a14edd2416ae70bfec7f84d2ed4b706f9c90a7ee8dc3c0b97691.mp4
"I do not know of anyone contributing to Bitcoin Core that is interested in anything else than just using Bitcoin as money.
But that doesn't mean that it can only be used for money.
And now there's two ways to react to that information. One is "but I only want it to be used for money" and then try to make it so.
And the other one is, “well, how are they doing that and what can we do about it? And is it worth the effort of fighting this? How much harm is it? How much effort would it take to fight it?”
Even if we all want this to be money, just being upset about it without a plan is a lot of energy towards not necessarily a solution."
~ nostr:nprofile1qqsf2ds69dp2ympzhtpmdd46f3w2cnfkjphtpnaesf5xs8z95vqu2xqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuhsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9e3xjarrda5kuetj9eek7cmfv9kz78p08lt
Listen to Chat_151 - Bitcoin Technically, Ideologically, and Actually with Murch on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/Azb62tIysXWUZH785w2M
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/k3VMh_OXni8
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v720cmo-chat-151-bitcoin-technically-ideologically-and-actually-with-murch.html
https://blossom.primal.net/54530102450922b3b8d4ffb00e871d4b27fff6dbb9189adf0128bc42e5cc65ea.mp4
Roundtable_015 is here! 💥
A timely debate on conspiracies, culture rot, BIP444, and replay risks with the usual team - Steve, Mechanic, and Jeff.
Why does the mempool feel like the battleground for Bitcoin’s future..?
Listen to Roundtable_015 - Conspiracies, Culture rot, Replay Attacks and the Future of Bitcoin with nostr:nprofile1qqsqlk5pjxkwgjh4x9gxj990vm5ewrqw0qmrwyst05wh5hexduvvt4cpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumr9vd682unfveujumn9wsq3jamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3ww35x2umpd4jkxct59e5k7ft6gfq , nostr:nprofile1qqs8fl79rnpsz5x00xmvkvtd8g2u7ve2k2dr3lkfadyy4v24r4k3s4spz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz8nhwden5te0dehhxarj94c82c3wwajkcmr0wfjx2u3wdejhgtcysa20h and nostr:nprofile1qqswex0dc4t8uq5pt7c4qgpgtch6swgfx88d7kwg844m930kac2npwgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tct3l50l on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/H7UlIfdqiA6biGSaY113
🔗 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RJSXhhW-xU
https://blossom.primal.net/2a03f08b61c3deb4176b19cdfa83f5b62a433e7e8a9584424b4483be008a00c6.mp4
Every previous money needed trust:
• Trust the king
• Trust the bank
• Trust the institution
• Trust the ledger-keeper
Bitcoin flips it:
Legitimacy comes from thermodynamic cost, not authority.
Guys, you'll enjoy this Read as much as I did 🔥
Listen to Read 916 - The Thermodynamic Monetary Transition by Shanaka Anslem Parera on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain:
https://fountain.fm/episode/4rOS9cWPXvJkFB36VIMy
What’s stopping another FTX collapse? The answer starts with Proof of Reserves. 🧾
Learn what what they are, why they are so important, and how easy it is to verify it yourself using the full PoR lending platform - Ledn. 🛡️
Check out my latest 2Sats - Proof Of Reserves now on:
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/DJ-mAd7StMQ
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v72h7f6-2sats-proof-of-reserves.html
Massive shoutout to the sponsor of this video - Ledn.
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Bitcoin meets true crime. 🕵️♂️
From tax scams and forged docs to courtroom chaos, Mark Hunter & Arthur Van Pelt join me in Chat_152 to dissect the unbelievable rise and fall of "FakeToshi".
Listen to nostr:nprofile1qqstnem9g6aqv3tw6vqaneftcj06frns56lj9q470gdww228vysz8hqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucm4wfex2mn59en8j6gpramhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0v3jhyatwdejhyuewdejhgam0wf4s2762st with Mark Hunter & Arthur Van Pelt in Chat_152 on Bitcoin Audible, available on all major platforms:
🔗 Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/gdV0WGKCh2b9iuBarUbr
🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/LT8cC0AGOUg
🔗 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v72dh4o-chat-152-forging-satoshi-with-mark-hunter-and-arthur-van-pelt.html
https://blossom.primal.net/5588855b318dc5f6b67fafba7adefa734381a93c260ab72419a74560e70f1421.mp4