EPISODE · Jul 21, 2026 · 1H 16M
Café Bitcoin is Back | 1 of 50
from The Café Bitcoin Podcast · host Swan Bitcoin
Cafe Bitcoin returns for 50 Days for Bitcoin — Day 1 of 50. Cory Klippsten reboots the daily Cafe Bitcoin show to kick off Swan's 50 Days for Bitcoin campaign: 50 basis point buy fees for 50 days (July 21 to September 8), daily weekday Spaces at 10:00 AM ET, and a return to the education-first roots that built the Bitcoin community on Clubhouse in 2020-2021. In this episode: 50 Days for Bitcoin launch: Swan cuts its buy fee in half to 50 bps for 50 days, the lowest-cost way to buy Bitcoin into self-custody in the US. Over 80% of the Bitcoin ever bought on Swan is in self-custody. "The Battle for Monetary Independence": Cory's new essay, woven around his grandfather's war journal from the USS Yorktown in the Pacific Theater. Political independence was the founders' great work; monetary independence is ours. Read it at swan.com/battle. The Clubhouse origin story: how Cafe Bitcoin started, the invite tree that flooded Clubhouse with thousands of Bitcoiners, how Swan Private and Anchor Watch grew out of those rooms. The freedom backslide: UK under-16 social media ban, the Utah VPN ban, age verification for AI chatbots, EU chat control, and the digital euro. Why the counter to all of it is self-custody. Dollar merchants: how stablecoins turned more than half the industry into dollar salesmen, and why the dollar is not a gateway drug to Bitcoin. Saifedean's cocktail party problem: why socialism is winning arguments right now, and why the answer is opting out of politics entirely and building on Bitcoin. Self-custody, the full stack: free auto-withdrawal with locally derived addresses, Swan Sovereign guided self-custody, Swan Vault collaborative custody, and Swan Safe segregated custody. Community: Pacific Bitcoin memories, BIP-47 paynyms explained, Bobby Burnett's new show for the older generation, the no-BIP-fights house rule, and the Snow Crash reading club pick. Stack sats with the Swan App - Create an account and start buying Bitcoin in just a few minutes. No fees on your first $10,000 of Bitcoin buys. "Welcome to Bitcoin" A FREE 1-hour course hosted by Natalie Brunell, perfect for helping you to orange-pill family members over the holidays at https://Swan.com/welcome Swan Team Members:Brady Swenson: https://twitter.com/citizenbitcoinP: https://x.com/phjlljp/Download the Swan app!iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swan-bitcoin/id1576287352 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.swanbitcoin.android&pli=1 Swan Private guides corporations and high net worth individuals toward building generational wealth with Bitcoin. Find out more at https://swan.com/private Connect with Swan on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Swan
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Cafe Bitcoin is back. On day one of Swan's 50 Days for Bitcoin campaign, Cory Klippsten relaunches the daily show that began on Clubhouse in 2020 and helped shape a generation of Bitcoin education. He opens with the campaign's rallying cry: Swan has cut its buy fee in half to 50 basis points for all 50 days, running from July 21 through September 8, with daily Spaces, collaborations, and a renewed push to get every listener into self-custody. Cory also introduces his new essay, "The Battle for Monetary Independence" (swan.com/battle), built around his grandfather Philip Klippsten's WWII journal from the USS Yorktown, and reads a passage connecting the founders' fight for political independence to our generation's unfinished work: monetary independence. The conversation ranges from the rise of age verification laws, VPN bans, and chat control across the US, UK, and EU, to why stablecoins have turned much of the industry into "dollar merchants," to why self-custody is the real answer to the encroachment on financial freedom. Longtime community members including Terrance, Humble, Tao, Yellow, Bobby Burnett, and Cortek join to reminisce about the Clubhouse era, ask whether Pacific Bitcoin returns, and set the tone for the next 50 days: education first, adoption first, no Bitcoiner-on-Bitcoiner infighting, and memes. Lots of memes.
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