Sunday Brunch 12: Guest Host Aaron of Essex with Nat Cole

Sunday Brunch 12: Guest Host Aaron of Essex with Nat Cole

From Plebchain Radio by Avi Burra and QW

March 29, 2026 · 2h 31m

About this episode

Aaron of Essex hosts a conversation with Nat Cole about building a new music economy on a Bitcoin standard.

Guest host Aaron of Essex takes the Sunday Brunch wheel again and welcomes Nat Cole for a lively, music-first conversation about building a “new music economy” on a Bitcoin standard. Nat frames the idea carefully: not just another platform or “ecosystem,” but a permissionless economic layer where artists can participate without gatekeepers, own more of their rails, and connect more directly with listeners. From there, the episode opens into Nat’s origin story: a childhood split between music and computing , with a Jamaican sound-system lineage on one side, early internet tinkering on the other, and formative years spent around studios, sound engineering, youth projects, pirate-tech curiosity, and anti-establishment energy that made Bitcoin’s freedom ethos click hard once he finally understood it. A big center of gravity is 2140 Music , Nat’s culture-maxi bridge between legacy music and Bitcoin rails. He describes it as part education hub, part events engine, part curation/bookings layer, built to help artists understand the tools, perform live, and find real opportunities in Bitcoin-adjacent spaces rather than just getting dumped into the deep ocean of Spotify-style discovery…

People in this episode

Host: Aaron of Essex

Guest: Nat Cole

Topics covered

  • music economy
  • Bitcoin
  • artist empowerment
  • permissionless economy
  • music industry
  • technology

Keywords

  • Bitcoin
  • music economy
  • 2140 Music
  • artists
  • Spotify
  • permissionless
  • sound engineering
  • music industry

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: 2140 Music

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