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Oct 17, 2025 1 hr 49 min

Why Bitcoin Must Win | Matt Odell

from What Bitcoin Did

Matt Odell is host of Citadel Dispatch, co-host of Rabbit Hole Recap, managing partner at Ten31 and co-founder of OpenSats & Bitcoin Park. In this episode, we dive into the rise of surveillance capitalism, why freedom tech is the only path forward, and what a truly sovereign digital society could look like. We explore how Nostr and Bitcoin together create an open foundation for speech, identity, and money. A new digital commons built on permissionless code, not corporate control. Odell also gives his take on the wave of Bitcoin treasury companies and why some have drifted from Bitcoin’s core ethics, and why real, profitable businesses saving in Bitcoin will thrive. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: IREN RIVER ANCHORWATCH BLOCKWARE LEDN BITKEY Follow: Danny Knowles: https://x.com/_DannyKnowles or https://primal.net/danny Matt Odell: https://primal.net/odell

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  1. 0:00 Fix the Money, Fix the World
  2. 2:10 Odell on Regretting Leaving Twitter
  3. 4:03 Unhealthy Relationships with Devices
  4. 8:39 Building Primal and Nostr
  5. 13:34 People Are Getting Radicalized on the Internet
  6. 16:17 Nostr: An Open, Verifiable, Permissionless Protocol
  7. 22:39 Realistic Expectations for Bitcoin
  8. 31:14 Bitcoin and Noster: Open APIs for the World
  9. 42:16 Treasury Companies
  10. 44:52 Bitcoin Is Truth
  11. 1:15:52 Bitcoin's Ethical Compass
  12. 1:20:35 Follow the Incentives All the Way Down
  13. 1:28:57 What is the Price of a Dollar?
  14. 1:39:15 Radicalization and Controls

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