About this episode

This episode features a year-end recap discussing various challenges and narratives surrounding Bitcoin with multiple expert guests.

In this end-of-year recap, our guests: Adam Back, Peter Todd, John Carvalho, Jameson Lopp, Rockstar Dev, Martti Malmi, Trace Mayer, Alex B, Pierre Rochard, Jimmy Song, Jack Kruse, Mike Peterson, Nicolas Burtey, Willy Woo, Ben Perrin, Abubakar Nur Khalil, Jeff Booth, Derek Ross, and Max Kei challenge the narratives. We unpack what actually made Bitcoin launch, explain mining, explore how Bitcoin scales beyond Lightning, and examine the real risks facing Bitcoin Core, stablecoins, and censorship resistance. From Nostr and digital identity to government failure and capital fleeing broken systems, El Salvador’s frustrations, environmentalism exposed, the challenges and realities behind gold verification, and why building Bitcoin businesses remains the toughest industry of all. This episode captures the uncomfortable truths of 2025 and much more, carrying us forward into the new year. Thank you for being with us this year! Here’s to many more great episodes to come next year. A small New Year’s favor: please subscribe and hit the bell. It really helps us push the conversation further, reach new audiences, share the message of Bitcoin, and gives us the motivation to keep going, keep…

People in this episode

Host: CK

Guests: Adam Back, Peter Todd, John Carvalho, Jameson Lopp, Rockstar Dev, Martti Malmi, Trace Mayer, Alex B, Pierre Rochard, Jimmy Song, Jack Kruse, Mike Peterson, Nicolas Burtey, Willy Woo, Ben Perrin, Abubakar Nur Khalil, Jeff Booth, Derek Ross, Max Kei

Topics covered

• Bitcoin launch
• mining
• scaling Bitcoin
• risks to Bitcoin Core
• censorship resistance
• digital identity
• environmentalism

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• mining
• scaling
• censorship resistance
• digital identity
• environmentalism
• stablecoins
• Nostr
• El Salvador
• gold verification

Sponsors

Bitbox

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bitbox

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