EPISODE · Jul 27, 2026 · 1H 17M
Café Bitcoin | Day 4 of 50: Bitcoin Season Goes to the NBA, the BitChat Ban, and Don't Trust, Verify
from The Café Bitcoin Podcast · host Swan Bitcoin
The main event: Mike Nicoll, director of Bitcoin Season, on going from USC Film School and Netflix's At All Costs to documenting the first Bitcoin-only deals with an NBA franchise and Klutch Sports — "come for the sexy basketball world, stay for the financial revolution." 100,000 views in the first week, free on YouTube, and Swan will buy the pizza and beer for your watch party. King closes with a credit-desk teardown of Strategy's STRC: why coupon-divided-by-price is the wrong math, what an 85 price actually implies, and why the Bitcoin price — not the coupon — is what brings Stretch back to par. Cory adds the house view: these are institutional products; keep 80%+ of your exposure in real on-chain Bitcoin you control. Homework: Vijay Boyapati's The Bullish Case for Bitcoin and Stephan Livera episode 71. And Dom's legendary full-gear, no-warm-up swish gets the retelling it deserves.
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Cory Klippsten hosts Day 4 of 50 Days for Freedom: Bitcoin Season director Mike Nicoll on taking Bitcoin into the NBA with the Compton Magic, Klutch Sports, and the Cleveland Cavaliers; India bans BitChat and proves the point of freedom tech; an English court decides whether it can order payment in 7.8 Bitcoin; a 25-year credit veteran rebuilds the valuation of Strategy's STRC from first principles; and Mike Novogratz says Bitcoin runs on trust, which is exactly backwards. Don't trust, verify.
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