EPISODE · Jul 23, 2026 · 1H 15M
Café Bitcoin is BACK | Day 2 of 50: FATF Surveillance Creep, Signal vs. Noise, and The Work That Wins
from The Café Bitcoin Podcast · host Swan Bitcoin
Chapters 00:00 — Day 1 recap: 2,800+ listens, 465 peak concurrent, why this show exists 01:15 — Susie Violet Ward on FATF's fraud roadmap: the Travel Rule comes for Bitcoin 06:15 — "If you're not a baddie, why should you care?" Privacy is normal 08:15 — Signal vs. noise: Cory audits the France wrench-attack narrative live 14:30 — Susie's tangent: capitalism as balance, governments as parasite, and whether science has economics' blind spots 19:00 — Cory defends Einstein, spooky action at a distance, and simulation theory 20:00 — Why Bitcoiners don't need to talk about Bitcoin (the Gjelina story) 22:00 — Fernando Nikolic on Perception, narrative engineers, and data as the AI moat 25:30 — Inside Swan's AI stack: Cygnet, 25 full-time agents, Workforce Intelligence 30:00 — The vibe-coding warning: never go it alone with PII or financial data 33:30 — The Battle for Monetary Independence, Part 2: "The Work That Wins" (the USS Yorktown diary, Ten Million Bitcoiners, The Race to Avoid the War) 39:30 — Swan: 0.5% buy fee, network fees paid on withdrawals, 80%+ of sats in self-custody 41:30 — RBX origin story: Death Row Records and getting out of GBTC without capital gains 43:30 — Shout-outs: Bitcoin Today (Samson Mow tomorrow), Bitcoin Veterans, Danny live at Pubkey Friday 44:30 — Block clock stories: the Sharpie fix and the bearish rocket clock 52:00 — The time P ate a shoe (boiled in chili, five hours) 55:30 — Tatum on self-hosting, media preservation, and "don't trust, verify" beyond your node 59:00 — Susie's retracted BBC investigation and how articles get memory-holed via lawsuits 65:00 — 1984, post-edited movies, and Grayscale's Worldcoin ETF 66:30 — Privacy normalization: phone numbers at the sandwich shop, 23andMe regrets 69:30 — Orange-pill moments: why the system's winners can't hear the signal 73:30 — Wrap: Day 3 tomorrow, 10am ET, 90 minutes
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Day 2 of 50 Days for Freedom. Cory hosts from a bench in Hyde Park, London, after Day 1 pulled 2,800+ listens and a peak of 465 concurrent in the room. Susie Violet Ward (journalist and co-founder of Bitcoin Policy UK) breaks down FATF's new fraud roadmap: how an unelected body's Travel Rule is being extended to Bitcoin under a national security banner, and why identity-linked data honeypots are the real risk. Cory pushes back in real time on the France kidnapping narrative, a live lesson in signal versus noise and why Bitcoiners should verify before they amplify. Fernando Nikolic (Perception) joins to talk narrative engineering, data as a moat, and why no two companies are applying AI the same way, which leads into a look at Swan's own agent stack, including Cygnet. Cory reads Part 2 of his new essay The Battle for Monetary Independence, "The Work That Wins": bull markets get the glory, bear markets do the work. Plus self-hosting and media preservation with Tatum, memory-holed journalism, a Grayscale Worldcoin ETF sighting, and the legend of the eaten shoe.
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Café Bitcoin is BACK | Day 2 of 50: FATF Surveillance Creep, Signal vs. Noise, and The Work That Wins
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