Luke de Wolf joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about his upcoming book Defending Bitcoin: Industrial-Grade Cybersecurity for the Monetary Grid, the cybersecurity case for treating Bitcoin as critical infrastructure, and why arbitrary data on Bitcoin should be considered a textbook availability vulnerability. The conversation covers Luke's reversal on…
Erik Aronesty joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about his role in BIP 148 and the User-Activated Soft Fork that reshaped the block size wars, and why he eventually traded his big-block stance for a small-block one rooted in bandwidth and node decentralization. He shares hard-earned lessons on Bitcoin…
Pierre Corbin joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about why most corporate Bitcoin reserves might be paper Bitcoin, how AI is accelerating the collapse of fiat currencies, and why Bitcoin is the only asset built to survive a world where everything trends toward zero. They also dig into copyright…
Unhosted Marcellus joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about how any Bitcoiner can now rent hash power for as little as $1 per day and run their own mining pool through Ocean's Datum Gateway. The conversation covers BIP 110 as a grassroots response to Bitcoin Core's controversial mempool policy…
Samson Mow and Jimmy Song join the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about ProductionReady, their new nonprofit funding a conservative third Bitcoin node client designed to preserve Bitcoin's monetary properties and break Core's monopoly on the reference implementation. The conversation covers the dangers of developer-driven feature creep, the inflation bug…
Ed Juline joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about whether Bitcoin treasury companies are a necessary bridge to mass adoption or a dangerous recreation of fiat financial engineering on top of Bitcoin. Drawing on his experience as former Director of Bitcoin Advocacy at Strategy and years of organizing Bitcoin…
Nick Hudson joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about how billionaire bankers spent 150 years building the institutional framework of socialism to centralize control of assets, his personal persecution by professional bodies and intelligence assets for questioning the COVID narrative, and why extreme fragmentation of ownership through stock markets…
Jon Atack joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about his years-long insider experience as a Bitcoin Core contributor, revealing how DEI-influenced selection criteria, centralized developer pipelines at Chaincode Labs, and social power dynamics reshaped the culture of Bitcoin's most important open source project. The conversation covers how hand-picked developers…
Giacomo Zucco joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about why he opposes BIP-110 despite being firmly anti-spam, arguing that a controversial soft fork without overwhelming consensus sets a dangerous precedent for future Bitcoin rule changes. The conversation covers the security budget debate, whether stablecoins on Lightning help or harm…
Zuby joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about what COVID revealed about human nature, why most people failed the compliance test, and how the authoritarian instinct in 20-30% of the population should terrify everyone. He explains why he left UK democracy for a UAE monarchy, why he judges governments…
Stephan Kinsella joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about why praxeology is the hardest science in economics, how Austrian theory explains Bitcoin's unique monetary properties, and whether you can truly own a Bitcoin or merely act as if you do. The conversation covers the foundations of property rights and…
Hodlonaut joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about his controversial decision to first support and then withdraw support for BIP 110, the proposed soft fork targeting spam and data abuse on Bitcoin. The conversation covers Bitcoin Core's uncapping of OP_RETURN, the "wokification" of Core development, lessons from the block…
Daniel Batten joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about how fiat money and psychological manipulation created the overconsumption crisis destroying the environment, why Bitcoin mining on landfills turns pollution into cheap decentralized power, and how most Bitcoiners are failing to orange pill skeptics by talking instead of listening. He…
Chris Guida joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about his rebuttal to Murch's earlier appearance on the show, arguing that Bitcoin Core devs are making the spam problem worse by removing mempool filters that Satoshi built in from the beginning, and that filtering transactions is fundamentally not censorship but…
Conza joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about the praxeological foundations of money, explaining why Bitcoin is a rivalrous digital commodity on an open source monetary network rather than a database for storing arbitrary data. The conversation covers the two problems money solves, why economic literacy among Bitcoin developers…
Hunter Beast joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about BIP 360 and making Bitcoin quantum-resistant, the philosophical question of whether Bitcoin can truly be owned, and how mempool policy debates like the CAT fork reflect deeper questions about Bitcoin's social consensus. The conversation ranges from Austrian economics and property…
Julian Figueroa joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about his journey from early Bitcoin investing to founding GetBased media and producing high-production Bitcoin content like Exit Manual, focusing on making Bitcoin concepts accessible through humor, metaphors, and real-world visuals. They discuss YouTube strategies for growth in the niche, the…
Matteo Pellegrini joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about the rebrand of Orange Pill App to Club Orange, the challenges of building a location-based social network for Bitcoiners, and how features like tap zaps, geo zaps, and group chats foster real-world connections. He explains the app's paywall to eliminate…
Knut and Luke review the Bitcoin Infinity Show 2025, and look ahead to 2026. From 16+ conferences, re-releasing Praxeology, starting the Bitcoin Infinity Academy, putting on BTC HEL in Helsinki, all while making the Bitcoin Infinity Show each week, 2025 was a hugely exciting year! We also look ahead to…
Walker joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about the absurdity of modern politics, free speech battles on platforms like X against EU bureaucrats, and how Bitcoin enables true agency by breaking fiat's victim mentality. They explore European vs. national identities, the American dream as universal empowerment through hard work…
Murch joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about Bitcoin Core's approach to mempool policies, OP_RETURN limits, and the practical challenges of fighting non-monetary data like inscriptions on the blockchain. He explains why harm reduction through flexible scripting and miner incentives may be more effective than strict enforcement, while pushing…
This episode of the Bitcoin Infinity Academy summarizes Independence Reimagined and looks forward to the future courses. Join the academy at our Geyser page: https://geyser.fund/project/infinity The Bitcoin Infinity Academy is an educational project built around Knut Svanholm’s books about Bitcoin and Austrian Economics. Each week, a whole chapter from one…
Pierre Rochard joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about Bitcoin's financial evolution, from his early Lightning Network innovations to defending miners against political attacks and now leading the charge on corporate treasury companies like MicroStrategy and Riot. They dive into the debate over self-custody versus financialized Bitcoin products, the…
This episode of the Bitcoin Infinity Academy cover Bitcoin: Independence Reimagined Chapter 13: Laws and Effects Read the chapter on Nostr: https://primal.net/infinity/independence-reimagined-chapter-13-laws-and-effects Join the academy at our Geyser page: https://geyser.fund/project/infinity The Bitcoin Infinity Academy is an educational project built around Knut Svanholm’s books about Bitcoin and Austrian Economics. Each week,…