Natalie Brunell's Coin Stories
by Natalie Brunell
Learn about the future of money and how Bitcoin proposes a solution to the problems in our monetary system. Why is wealth concentration growing? Will the U.S. dollar always be the world reserve currency? Is Bitcoin the "internet of money?" Journalist and educator Natalie Brunell shares one-on-one interviews with thought leaders. Whether you're eager to start learning about Bitcoin, or already follow the world of cryptocurrency and its pioneers, this show has something for you to HODL. Join us every week and connect with us at [email protected]. Copyright 2026 | Talking Bitcoin
Episodes
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Jeff Booth: Can Bitcoin Still Deliver on Its Promise?
Are we headed toward a future of abundance and freedom...or control and scarcity? Jeff Booth joins me to revisit The Price of Tomorrow and explore how AI, government control, and a broken financial system are shaping our future—and why he believes Bitcoin offers a way out. In this episode: Can...
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News Block: Bitcoin Falls to $74K, Stocks Bounce Back, Nvidia's CEO Spy Scandal
In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: Stocks rebound after Wall Street's worst day since April 2025 Bitcoin hits its lowest level since August The Nvidia spy…
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Jordi Visser: Is the S&P 500’s Run Over? Where the Next Wealth Boom Is Coming From
Analyst Jordi Visser returns to the show and makes the case for why the next five years will be messy and disruptive, but also full of opportunity for those of us willing to adapt. In this episode: Why Jordi thinks Wall Street's biggest companies could lose their advantage What happens when AI...
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Darius Dale: The American Economy is Rigged. What Society Needs Most Right Now
Darius Dale of 42 Macro says this is a conversation he couldn’t have on Bloomberg. He grew up homeless but now sits in the room with some of the largest portfolios in the world, and he holds nothing back about money, power, and the warning he’s delivering to the people at the top. In this…
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News Block: North Korea’s $6.3B Binance Heist, Bitwise’s $1.6M Bitcoin Call and Saylor’s Record Quarter
In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: How North Korea pulled off the biggest digital heist ever What Binance customers did once withdrawals reopened Strategy's…
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Lyn Alden: The Invisible Rug Pull, Gold's Next Move & Bitcoin in 2036
Is the AI boom a bubble? Could gold be headed for a bigger correction? And what does Lyn Alden see ahead for Bitcoin? Lyn returns to the show with her latest outlook on stocks, gold, housing, and Bitcoin. We get into where she still sees opportunities in the AI trade, why she's more cautious on...
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SPECIAL REPORT: Social Security Is Running Out of Money. What Happens Next?
We've been paying into Social Security our entire working lives. But the retirement trust fund is projected to run dry in 2032, and millions of Americans could face a 22% cut in benefits if Congress doesn't act. So where did all that money go? In this special episode, I break down how Social...
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Nic Carter: What Could Break Bitcoin? AI Hacks, Quantum & Wealth Taxes
Could Bitcoin become a target as governments look for new ways to raise money? Nic Carter explains how AI, rising debt, and growing pressure to tax wealth could change the financial system and what it all means for Bitcoin's future. In this episode: Why California's proposed wealth tax could...
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News Block: Chamath Says Bitcoin Goes to Zero, JPMorgan Calls it the Top Asset
In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: Could Trump Accounts eventually be available to every American under 40? JPMorgan predicts Bitcoin will beat every major asset...
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Sue Ennis: From Bitcoin to AI Robots — Will They Replace Human Connection?
Sue Ennis went from Bitcoin mining to one of the most controversial emerging industries: AI companion robots. After years at Hut 8, Sue is now president of Realbotix and helping shape an industry that raises fascinating questions about technology, loneliness, and the future of human connection.…
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News Block: Hot Inflation Hits Bitcoin Price, Paul Tudor Jones Issues 2027 Warning, Strategy vs. MSCI
In this week’s episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: Why Bitcoin dropped under $80K, and what the American dream costs now Paul Tudor Jones’s warning about 2027 The rule that could...
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Eric Balchunas: Bitcoin’s Crossroads, the 3% Allocation and BlackRock's Inside Story
Eric Balchunas, Senior ETF Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, is back and his new book makes the case that Bitcoin is now a legitimate asset you’d be foolish to ignore -- written by someone who spent years as a skeptic. He walks us through what changed his mind, and where he thinks this all goes...
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News Block: Spy Chips in Ledger Wallets, a Gold Bug Joins Treasury, and the Fight Over Bitcoin’s $1 Million Future
In this week’s episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: A well-known researcher says AI could crack the math behind your Bitcoin address, should you be worried? $100 million drained...
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Mike Selig: The CFTC's New Rules for Crypto
CFTC Chairman Mike Selig joins me in his first long-form interview since his agency proposed major new rules for crypto exchanges this week. With the Clarity Act dead in Congress, they're building the framework anyway, and he explains what it covers, what it doesn't, and why he thinks it outlasts...
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Cem Karsan: The Big Print Is Coming and the Government Will Buy Stocks
Cem Karsan is back with some big calls. He thinks the U.S. has boxed itself in so badly that the only way out is for the government to start printing money and buying stocks directly, and he doesn't think we're waiting years for it. He also walks through why a market crash has to come first, when...
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News Block: The Fed Hiked on Bad Data, Crypto Mom Signs Off, and a Sovereign Fund Trades Gold for Bitcoin
In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: The Fed hiked on bad jobs data: 60,000 jobs just vanished from the record The $6 billion experiment: the Treasury is buying its...
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Paula Pendley: Major Victory for Bitcoin
My guest this week is Paula Pendley, a partner at Nelson Mullins who defends data centers and Bitcoin miners in court, and she joins us as the fight over where these facilities get built is spreading across the country. Towns are passing moratoriums, politicians are campaigning on power bills…
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Why Everything Costs More and Gets Worse
Why does everything cost more while the quality keeps getting worse? That's the question behind this episode. We look at why your paycheck doesn't stretch as far, why buying a home is so much harder, and why so many things cost more while giving you less. From shrinkflation and CEO incentives to...
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News Block: Bond Yields Hit a 20-Year High, Mortgages Break 7%, and Bitcoin Price Held Anyway
The government hasn't paid this much to borrow since 2007, mortgages just broke 7 percent, and the most conventional financial advisor in America is telling clients to put 10 percent in Bitcoin. This is what a week looks like when the old playbook stops working. Bond yields hit a 20-year high and...
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Simon Dixon: The Game of Money and What Would Make Him Sell All His Bitcoin
In this new in-depth interview, Bitcoin OG, author, and angel investor Simon Dixon breaks down the transition from the American empire to a multi-node global financial order. Simon pulls back the curtain on how transnational power structures operate, why the $40 trillion national debt is being...
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Phong Le: Inside Strategy's Bigger Vision for Bitcoin and Wall Street
Strategy CEO Phong Le joins Natalie Brunell for an in-depth conversation about the future of the world's largest corporate Bitcoin treasury. From STRC's recovery and Strategy's growing cash reserves to the outlook for MSTR shareholders, Phong explains the company's evolving approach to Bitcoin…
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News Block: Bitcoin Price Hits 8-Month High, Homes Just Got Harder to Afford, and CLARITY Act Fails
In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: The Fed hiked, and the same house now costs twice as much per month as in 2021 The CLARITY Act failed in the Senate, is the…
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Jordi Visser: Why Bitcoin Sentiment Collapsed, What Brings It Back and Why the AI Warnings are Wrong
Jordi Visser is back by popular demand. I shared something I've been noticing all year — that Bitcoin sentiment feels different this cycle, less like a movement to fix a broken system and more like a line item in a portfolio. He pushed back harder than I expected. His argument is that the old...
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Danielle DiMartino Booth: The Fed's First Rate Hike in Three Years and Where the Economy is Breaking
In this rapid-fire episode of Coin Stories, Natalie Brunell sits down with former Federal Reserve insider Danielle DiMartino Booth immediately following the Fed's latest interest rate hike. Danielle breaks down the hidden contraction underneath official data, including surging delinquencies,...
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Rapha Zagury: Tether's Bitcoin Empire, Taking Over XXI and What Comes Next
When Jack Mallers stepped down from Twenty One Capital (XXI), Rapha Zagury stepped in as CEO. A Wall Street veteran who ran trading desks at Merrill Lynch, Rapha later co-founded Elektron, the Tether-backed Bitcoin mining operation that grew into one of the largest mining companies in the world....
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News Block: Dario's AI Warning, Trump's $5,000 Promise and Will Fed Hike Rates?
In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: The CEOs of multiple leading AI companies say the industry needs to slow down. We break down the major AI news story that broke...
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Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends Bitcoin
Natalie Brunell sits down with Vik Sharma, founder and CEO of Radar Chat, Cake Wallet and an active angel investor in the Bitcoin space. Vik spent decades in the steel industry in Pittsburgh before Bitcoin pulled him in, and he's now one of the most prolific builders and angel investors in the...
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Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs Do
BitGo has been the vault behind institutional Bitcoin for over a decade — holding coins for funds, businesses, and today some of the largest Bitcoin ETFs. Regular people were never invited...until now. Mike Belshe, co-founder and CEO of BitGo, joins the show to announce that anyone can open an...
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News Block: Jobs Shock Rocks the Fed Debate, Metaplanet Under Fire and the $319M Bitcoin Hack on Liquid
In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: The jobs report comes in 3x stronger than expected Why this week's inflation numbers could decide the Fed's next move The old...
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News Block: Fed Turns Hawkish as Bitcoin Heads Into Its Biggest September Test
In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: Why Kevin Warsh just put a September rate hike back in play Treasury bond buybacks and the growing $40 trillion debt problem...
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Clay Garrett: Why Bitkey Has No Seed Phrase & How It Keeps Your Bitcoin Safe
Natalie Brunell sits down with Clay Garrett, Bitkey Lead at Block, to break down the massive Coldcard hack — including how his team found clues that may help law enforcement identify who was behind the attack. Then we go inside Bitkey itself: how it works, why it doesn't use a traditional seed...
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Is the AI Buildout the Next Debt Crisis Trigger to Usher in The Big Print?
AI is the latest technology that will change the world. That doesn't mean every dollar poured into building it will pay off. Nearly $3 trillion is expected to be spent on data centers between 2025 and 2028, and roughly half of it is borrowed -- financed on the assumption that demand keeps...
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News Block: Bitcoin's Best Week in 2+ Years, Treasury Buybacks Explained, and Druckenmiller's WSJ Op-Ed Challenges Bessent
In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: Why Bitcoin suddenly surged more than 20% after months of silence The U.S. Treasury doubled its bond buybacks - what that…
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Jonathan Goodman: Losing $1.6 Million in ColdCard Hack, Why He Isn't Angry and the Bigger Lesson Learned
Jonathan Goodman did everything the Bitcoin experts tell you to do: Multiple hardware wallets, backups stored in separate places and a seed phrase stamped into metal. But last month he opened his cold storage set-up and found his Bitcoin gone. In this deeply personal episode of Coin Stories,...
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Alex Leishman: Institutions Are Buying What Retail Sells — Plus How to Keep Your Bitcoin Safe
Natalie Brunell sits down with Alex Leishman, Founder, CEO & CTO of River. Alex shares what River's own client data reveals about who is buying and selling Bitcoin right now — and why big institutions are quietly accumulating during this downturn while everyday investors sell. In this episode: Is...
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News Block: Bitcoin Price Surges on Surprise Treasury Move, Washington's Big Crypto Week, and Tether's First-Ever Audit
In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: Bitcoin jumps to nearly $70K after a surprise move by the U.S. Treasury Trump hosts crypto CEOs at the White House as a...
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Michael Saylor & Phong Le: MSTR Dilution Fears, Buybacks and Strategy as the "J.P. Morgan of Digital Assets"
Michael Saylor and Phong Le sat down with Natalie Brunell to take questions directly from Strategy investors — including some pointed concerns about MSTR's sharp drawdown, dilution and whether common shareholders are still the company's top priority. One investor said he put $73,000 into MSTR for...
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Mark Moss: "Retire Off Bitcoin" Strategy and How to Build Wealth in Any Market
Can you really retire off Bitcoin — even if the price drops 50%? Mark Moss returns to Coin Stories to explain why he believes you can, what most people misunderstand about volatility, and why becoming a forced seller can be more dangerous than a falling market. He also opens up about what…
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Alex Thorn: Tracking the Stolen Bitcoin and the "Red Team" Racing to Find More Bug
More than 1,700 bitcoins have been drained from Coldcard wallets belonging to people who did everything right when it comes to self-custody. Alex Thorn, Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy Digital, has been tracing those coins on-chain since the second day of the attack, working directly with...
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News Block #152: Bitcoin's Red Team Fights Back, the BIP-110 Moment of Truth Arrives, CLARITY Punted to September
In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: Bitcoin's Red Team audits 390 projects in record time, and what they found will surprise you Rob Hamilton says OpenAI blocked…
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Matt Kratter: Inside Bitcoin's Civil War Over BIP-110
BIP 110 has divided the Bitcoin community more than anything I've covered in years, and a lot of the argument has played out as people shouting past each other online. Matt Kratter of Bitcoin University, one of the proposal's most vocal supporters, joins me to break down Bitcoin's civil war. Matt...
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Dylan LeClair: Why Bitcoin Treasury Companies Sold Off and What Comes Next
In 2026, Bitcoin treasury stocks have taken a much bigger beating than Bitcoin itself. Dylan LeClair, Director of Bitcoin Strategy at Metaplanet, joins me from to explain why he thinks the bears got carried away. In this episode: Why treasury company stocks fell so much further than Bitcoin did…
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News Block #151: ColdCard Hack Explained - First Self-Custody Breach at Scale, Strategy Makes First STRC Buyback, Fed's Most Hawkish Dissent in Decade
In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: The COLDCARD hack explained — the first time a major self-custody device has been compromised at scale, and what you need to…
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Parker Lewis: Digital Credit, Bitcoin Treasury Companies, and Where We Disagree
Parker Lewis, Head of Business Development at Zaprite and author of Gradually, Then Suddenly, has been one of the clearest writers on Bitcoin as money for years. Lately he's been vocal about the Bitcoin treasury companies and the yield products built on them. I wanted to hear him out, but I also...
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COLDCARD Attack Explained Simply with Rob Hamilton
In this urgent PSA episode of Coin Stories, Natalie Brunell sits down with Rob Hamilton, co-founder and CEO of AnchorWatch and one of the first people to analyze the ColdCard seed hack on-chain, to explain what happened and what ColdCard users need to do right now. We cover: Which ColdCard models...
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Jack Mallers on Failure, Integrity, and Walking Away from 21
In his first unrestricted one-on-one interview since stepping down as CEO of XXI, Jack Mallers joins Coin Stories to set the record straight on his departure and why he chose principles over a fortune on Wall Street. We discuss: Why he walked away from Twenty One Capital, and the disagreement…
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Nico Lechuga: Berkshire Hathaway for Main Street Bitcoiners
Private equity has earned a reputation for loading companies with debt, cutting costs, and putting short-term returns ahead of the businesses themselves. But what if successful owners had another option? Nico Lechuga is a Bitcoin entrepreneur, a founding partner of Bitcoin venture capital firm…
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News Block #150: Is This Bear Market Almost Over? "Big Bitcoin" Unites to Defend Network, Strategy Makes Its First STRC Buyback
In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: What the wave of Bitcoin company closures and bankruptcies tells us about where we are in the bear market 84% of Bitcoin is now...
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Fred Thiel: Why Bitcoin Miners Are Pivoting to AI
What does the future of Bitcoin mining actually look like? This week, Fred Thiel joins Coin Stories for a candid, wide-ranging conversation. Fred runs MARA (formerly Marathon Digital Holdings), one of the biggest public Bitcoin miners in the world. We get into why so many miners are pivoting to…
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News Block: CLARITY Act Faces Critical Test, Saylor Shares 110 Reasons Why BIP-110 Is a Bad Idea, Lyn Alden & Jeff Booth Launch $40M Bitcoin Company
In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: The CLARITY Act faces its make-or-break moment, but odds of passage have collapsed to 32% Saylor publishes 110 reasons why...
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Learn about the future of money and how Bitcoin proposes a solution to the problems in our monetary system. Why is wealth concentration growing? Will the U.S. dollar always be the world reserve currency? Is Bitcoin the "internet of money?" Journalist and educator Natalie Brunell shares one-on-one interviews with thought leaders. Whether you're eager to start learning about Bitcoin, or already follow the world of cryptocurrency and its pioneers, this show has something for you to HODL. Join us every week and connect with us at [email protected]. Copyright 2026 | Talking Bitcoin
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