Marty sits down with Alex Bergeron to discuss Ark Labs.

Alex on Twitter: https://x.com/bergealex4

Ark Labs: https://arklabs.to/

0:00 - Intro

0:36 - Will the strategic reserve stop soft forks?

15:50 - Unchained

16:50 - Ark

25:10 - Zaprite & SOTE

26:43 - How Ark works

1:03:57 - Product market fit

1:13:31- Things take time to build

1:20:31 - Meta protocols

1:26:35 - Wrap up

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Marty sits down with John Carvalho to discuss his BIP on bitcoin units and an update on Pubky.

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0:00 - Intro

0:36 - John's BIP

10:16 - Millisats

14:30 - Unchained

15:30 - Optimizing against govt controlled btc

22:30 - OP_VAULT and fork consensus

36:53 - Zaprite & SOTE

38:26 - Pubky

45:21 - Government digital ID

54:10 - Nostr's vs X vs Bluesky

1:00:00 - Why Nostr needs an ID solution

1:03:13 - Atomic Economy

1:08:08 - Tether

1:12:15 - Bitfinex stolen coins

1:14:13 - MSTR

1:21:20 - Core dev incentives

1:25:39 - John's hot take history

1:29:29 - Bluesky culture

1:33:15 - Giving people what they don’t know they want

1:35:52 - Wrapup

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Marty and Will Cole sit down to orange pill Bill and Spud from WAR MODE.

WAR MODE: https://warmode.libsyn.com/

0:00 - Intro 0:36 - Here to be orange pilled 4:35 - Don’t F up the money 11:03 - Unchained 12:04 - Early bitcoin and basic value prop 17:07 - Inflation lies 25:09 - How we got to the modern system 31:19 - Zaprite & SOTE 32:52 - Bitcoin’s good for everyone and everything’s good for bitcoin 40:27 - Bitcoin, not blockchain 47:30 - Monetization & Triffin dilemma 50:21 - Mining, energy and the halving 56:52 - Fixing the money 1:00:38 - What miners and nodes do 1:10:42 - Emergent organization and early internet 1:15:01 - Bitcoin storage and risks of bank custody 1:24:32 - Big banks are far more criminal than bitcoin users 1:28:11 - The financial system is a web of lies 1:38:31 - Bitcoin is the white pill, it’s never too late 1:51:19 - F you money beats censorship 1:59:13 - The only winning move is to play 2:07:30 - Volatility - Weimar gold 2:09:11 - Bitcoin lending and regulatory attack 2:16:27 - China ban and Texas energy 2:21:41 - Q 2:23:54 - Divine intervention 2:28:52 - Conspiracy theories 2:34:49 - Freeing the enslaved American people

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The Ten31 crew sit down with Matt Corallo to talk about Google's Willow quantum chip.

0:00 - Disclaimer

0:24 - Matt Corallo addresses the quantum chip scare

34:19 - Expected value calculation in quantum scenario

45:34 - Bitcoin MENA and nation state adoption

56:45 - Bitcoinization of finance

1:02:18 - MSTR

1:11:00 - Yield is a scary word in bitcoin

1:17:35 - 100k milestone

Marty sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q3 2024 monetary base update.

Matthew on Twitter: https://x.com/1basemoney

Porkopolis Economics: https://www.porkopolis.io/

0:00 - Intro

0:36- ATH, 4 currencies left in the way

4:50 - The Trump wave

10:44 - chart - Getting gold/btc on Fed balance sheet

24:20 - Unchained

25:11 - Optimally acquiring strategic reserve

30:38 - Zaprite & SOTE

32:11 - Triffin Dilemma and spending cuts

38:55 - How hard money helps central banks

43:23 - Yield curve/Fed policy mismatch

49:22 - Russian bitcoin

54:26 - Trump's cabinet and Scott Bessent

58:16 - Supercycle?

1:05:51 - Power curve

1:08:55 - Saylor's convertible notes

1:1545 - Base money

1:25:29 - Breton Woods 2.0?

1:42:30 - Fiat money exponential growth

1:46:44 - Job market

1:52:39 - Bitcoin Lindy effect

2:01:00 - Wrap up

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Marty sits down at PubKey with Andrew Hohns to discuss Battery Finance.

0:00 - Intro

0:36 - Squawk Box

4:27 - Why Andrew caught onto bitcoin

10:39 - Unchained

11:29 - Saylor’s dematerialization idea

15:45 - Supercharging real estate

25:09 - Zaprite & SOTE

26:42 - Adoptions cycles for borrowers

31:31 - Duration curve

38:24 - Bitcoin will be critical as other assets demonetize

40:50 - Loans result in long term hodl

46:23 - 100k significance & price prediction

54:39 - Custody question

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Marty sits down with Trey Sellers to discuss how Unchained will be moving forward in light of the recent $100k breakthrough.

Trey on Twitter: https://x.com/ts_hodl

0:00 - Intro

0:36 - Marty on Tucker and Andrew Hohns on CNBC

3:59 - Guiding hodlers and pioneering collab custody

14:04 - Unchained

14:54 - 100k changes the frame

17:46 - Where does Unchained go next?

21:27 - Zaprite & SOTE

23:00 - Large capital bringing in the supercycle

26:57 - FIRE framework

41:30 - Signature white glove service

47:01 - The bitcoin rabbit hole cascade

49:15 - Lloyd Blankfein on bitcoin in geopolitics

52:43 - Bitcoin credit products

55:00 - Unchained event

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Marty sits down with Miljan Braticevic to discuss Primal 2.0.

Miljan on Primal: https://primal.net/miljan

0:00 - Intro

0:36 - Nostr is more than social media

10:04 - Why Nostr is better

20:50 - Bitkey & Coinkite

23:10 - Building Primal with open source ethos

27:52 - Power user functionality

37:08 - Doomscroll algo vs custom feeds

44:53 - Zaprite & SOTE

46:26 - Nostr in the context of Elon’s site

51:23 - Nostr/bitcoin symbiosis and snowball adoption

1:02:00 - Fountain/Primal and how Nostr promotes cooperation

1:07:09 - Why openness will outcompete centralization

1:12:48 - Bitcoiners are the best set of users for Nostr to start on

1:21:10 - What will bring the suddenly moment?

1:26:21 - Get your legend status

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Marty sits down to discuss how Trump may plan to wield bitcoin and an altered Federal Reserve to compete with BRICS.

Mel on Twitter: https://x.com/MelMattison1

Mel's Website: https://www.melmattison.com/

0:00 - Intro

0:36 - Scott Bessent

7:42 - History of the Fed

12:59 - Unchained & Coinkite

15:18 - Trump indicates plans to change Fed

29:10 - Zaprite & SOTE

30:43 - Does BRICS need to play both bitcoin and gold?

39:35 - How gold and bitcoin could coexist

43:49 - How will the new policy be implemented?

53:18 - Sparking volatility and spinning the story

1:02:21 - We may be entering a new American Renaissance

1:14:49 - Preparing before the inauguration

1:16:41 - Plugs

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Marty sits down with Matt Cole from Strive to discuss the tidal shift in America driven by bitcoin.

Matt on Twitter: https://x.com/colemacro

Strive: https://strive.com/

0:00 - Intro

0:36 - ESG/DEI disaster isn’t quite over yet

13:52 - Unchained & Coinkite

16:12 - Matt’s background and framing bitcoin for pensions

25:04 - Career risk of missing bitcoin

28:52 - Moving the Overton window and helping clients with bitcoin

33:12 - Zaprite & SOTE

34:45 - Making the most of bitcoin

43:07 - How using bitcoin changes your understanding

48:48 - AI machine payments, regulations and altcoins

56:34 - Trump admin stepping out of America’s way

1:03:21 - America has centuries left

1:13:33 - Wrapup

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The Ten31 team sits down with Rob Hamilton and Becca Rubenfield from AnchorWatch to discuss becoming a Lloyd's of London Coverholder.

0:00 - Disclaimer

0:24 - What Anchorwatch offers

5:26 - Leveraging bitcoin and Miniscript

12:52 - What makes Anchorwatch different

19:43 - More on what Miniscript offers

29:39 -Smart contracts

36:56 - Early Anchorwatch

42:38 - Good UX without compromise

47:31 - Possibilities and future plans

59:59 - Risk appetite at Lloyd’s

1:13:01 - How bitcoin helps the insurance industry

1:22:45 - Wrap up