The Bitcoin Podcast

Demetrick, Dr. Corey Petty, and Jesse for an episode about two forks, a fat node, and what happens when three guys who have been doing this for eleven years start asking whether the system can fix itself.Satoshi is about to get forked. The community is talking about it like it is optional. Corey is not so sure. If it has to happen, it has to happen, and the guys break down what that actually means for a protocol that was supposed to be set in stone.Meanwhile Ethereum is heading toward its own fork, and the guys translate the spec into plain English: the nodes are getting fat. Pretty hot and tempting, sure, but also a meaningful shift in what running infrastructure on the network looks like.The middle of the show goes off the rails in the best way. Demetrick got promoted to the AI integration lead at his firm and is now putting vibe coded tools straight into client production environments, replacing the Excel sheets nobody under thirty knows how to maintain. Corey explains why the real bottleneck in AI right now is not the model. It is the human attention required to write a good specification. The guys riff on what it would take to shrink that interface down to something you could actually scale.Then the gloves come off on the economy. Demetrick offers a working definition (an economy gives the most to the most), Corey calls the premise faulty under crony capitalism, and Jesse holds the line that you cannot use the system to fix the system. The takeaway lands on tax fairness, who actually uses the infrastructure, and why disruption has to come from outside.Plus Jesse pitches a sponsorship ask to Colossus Pay, the L2 looking to gut payment processor fees on point of sale terminals, because he is actively building gym software trying to do exactly that.Drop questions in the YouTube comments. Join the Discord.

This is a Flashback Episode, we are going back to March 2016 in which our Guest Emin Gün Sirer makes his first of seven appearances on The Bitcoin Podcast Network. The boys compare bitcoin to the Animatrix and we invite Emin, a professor at Cornell University to talk a bit about how he has worked to improve Bitcoin in various ways during these, oh so troubling times. In the past, he’s worked on peer-to-peer systems of various kinds. He was behind Karma, the first peer-to-peer currency with a distributed mint, and he also built Credence, a peer-to-peer reputation scheme that counteracted spam and mislabeled files. Emin has also built many other academic peer-to-peer systems, and has worked to defend some of the most popular ones in court. As we near episode 50, we hope you continue to find these discussions of distributed systems, operating systems and systems engineering to be thought provoking. Let’s get into it!

The full crew is back (Demetrick, Dr. Corey Petty, and Jesse) for an episode that earns its title. AI plus crypto equals meh, and the guys are not pretending otherwise.The headline: Corey is selling a chunk of his crypto. And this time it is different. Every previous sell signal from him has been triggered by the market getting too frothy. This one is not. He is selling because Bitcoin is officially boring. The technology is not delivering the kind of utility that justifies sitting on a speculative asset for another cycle, and the Petty House Index is flashing (he is not buying a house, he is buying a workshop the size of one). The guys debate Hodl Plus versus loans against collateral, and whether the upside math still works when nothing exciting is shipping.From there it gets spicy. SpaceX needs exit liquidity. The AI IPO musical chairs game is in full swing. The guys break down the theory that Elon needs the SpaceX listing to succeed so he can eventually merge it with a Tesla that cannot survive on its own.Then the real fight starts. Demetrick argues AI is a weapon, the military is already three to seven years ahead of what the public sees, and every CEO with a leather jacket walks into the Pentagon before they ship. Corey pushes back hard on the logistics: the chips did not exist until recently, the power capacity did not exist, and you cannot conjure frontier models out of thin air no matter how big the black budget is. Jesse plays referee. Nobody fully agrees, and the conversation gets cut short on purpose to pick up next week.Plus: Corey's book teaser on the death of institutions, why democratized information speed means all gas no brakes, and a callback to last week's conversation with Joe about whether crypto is only ever about the trade.Drop questions in the YouTube comments or Spotify comments. Join the Discord.

Bitcoin drops, ZCash pops, Synthetic stables lose their peg.

We're going to talk about Fusaka...ohhhhh yeah!

The gang talks hacks, ZCash, and Air Fryers.

This week, the crypto landscape witnessed significant developments: Circle's $1.05 billion IPO signals growing institutional interest; the SEC's appointment of Jamie Selway hints at potential regulatory shifts; and India's forthcoming crypto regulation paper marks a pivotal step in global digital asset governance. Meanwhile, Bitcoin maintains its position above $100,000, and Ethereum shows resilience amid market fluctuations