EPISODE · Jul 27, 2026 · 1H 12M
Café Bitcoin | Day 3 of 50: The Battle of the Bears Begins, The Consortium, and Independence Must Be Won
from The Café Bitcoin Podcast · host Swan Bitcoin
Chapters: 00:00 — Wicked: from trader to Bitcoin-only, sats per dollar, save don't trade 04:30 — Satoshi's Bride: a Bitcoin tip at a fine-dining shift 11:00 — Scott: the echo-chamber reality check and a self-custody challenge to the Bitcoin-only companies 18:00 — C Hoddle: Bitcoin treasure hunts and the Buena Vista circular economy → Midwest Bitcoin Summit 21:30 — The unblocking amnesty: blocked in the '23–'24 squabbles? DM to get unblocked 31:00 — The Consortium: nine companies pledge Bitcoin developer funding, starting with quantum 33:30 — Cory on path dependence: Coinbase, Jesse Powell, and why every Bitcoin fintech converges on the full product set 41:30 — THE BATTLE OF THE BEARS: fifty days, fifty basis points, one mission 43:30 — The narrative machine: how Wall Street picks the story after the price moves 49:00 — "Money is only as good as the story you can tell about it" 55:30 — The Battle for Monetary Independence, Part 3: "Independence Must Be Won" (read live) 63:00 — Why everyone with a mic owes their audience the canon; swan.com/canon 70:30 — Wrap: 90 minutes without the price; Part 4 tomorrow
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Day 3 of 50 Days for Freedom, and the Battle of the Bears begins. Cory unveils the campaign poster and the math behind it: fifty days, fifty basis points, one mission. Wicked opens with the case for saving in Bitcoin instead of trading it, Satoshi's Bride shares a Bitcoin origin story involving a seared-tuna tip, and Dana calls in quietly from her bridal shop life in Kona, Hawaii. Scott issues a friendly challenge to the Bitcoin-only companies: collaborate on keeping supply in self-custody, not just in ETFs and treasuries. C Hoddle brings the answer in miniature: Bitcoin treasure hunts seeding circular economies from Buena Vista, Colorado to the Midwest Bitcoin Summit in Columbus. The room dissects the new nine-company Consortium funding Bitcoin developers (starting with quantum) with healthy skepticism, Cory delivers a nuanced defense of path-dependent exchanges and a not-so-nuanced history of how Wall Street took over Silicon Valley, and Susie Violet Ward recalls covering the Craig Wright trial. Cory reads Part 3 of The Battle for Monetary Independence, "Independence Must Be Won," and closes with a challenge: if you have a mic and an audience, curation is your responsibility. Start at swan.com/canon. Ninety minutes, and the price never came up.
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