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Off the Record on the Rocks
by Mike Toner & Ankarino Lara
Mike Toner and Ankarino Lara discuss breaking news and trends in all things Crypto: from Bitcoin to ETH & Altcoins, from DeFi to NFTs, and of course the burgeoning Metaverse. Subscribe today and prepare yourself for a better tomorrow!
Episodes
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E143: Have You Been Involved with GTA6 Leaks, Anthropic's AGI Drop, and the Death of Open Source?
Michael Saylor apparently caught his sturgeon at Jackson Hole and is already back to buying — 4% of all the Bitcoin that will ever exist, timed to land right before the September 15th Clarity vote. Meanwhile John Ternus just took over Apple from Tim Cook, and the "designed in America" pitch is...
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E140: Have You Been Involved with the Government Shutting Down AI Before It Hacks the Dollar?
America’s 250th birthday is coming in hot—and apparently everybody brought their own version of the dollar. BlackRock is plugging a synthetic dollar into its $20 trillion Aladdin platform, Stripe and Visa are lining up stablecoins, and CBDCs are quietly waiting offstage like they never left. Real...
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E139: Have You Been Involved with the Pope Regulating AI While Robots Build a Bitcoin Moon Base?
The Pope says touch grass. The astronauts say look up. Meanwhile, humanoid robots are preparing to unzip themselves onto the lunar surface and build Moon Base Twenty-Eight before the humans arrive.This week, Toner and BTC Ankarino connect NASA, SpaceX, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the...
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E138: Have You Been Involved with MasterCard Going to the Moon in a Bitcoin Space Suit Made by Kubrick?
MasterCard just picked a side. Bitcoin is moving from retail toy to institutional plumbing, and Visa isn't sleeping either. This week, Toner and BTC Ankarino dig into what it actually means when legacy finance decides crypto is no longer optional — and who's quietly stacking sats while everyone...
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E137: Have You Been Involved with GameStop Buying eBay with Pokémon Cards and Vibes?
Meta’s back in the money business—just don’t call it Libra, and definitely don’t call it a bank. This week, Toner and BTC Ankarino unpack Zuckerberg quietly rolling out USDC creator payouts in Colombia and the Philippines, Stripe handling the tax receipts, and why the creator economy may be…
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E136: Have You Been Involved with Blowing a Hairdryer on the Truth Layer?
Coinbase becomes a movie studio, Apple shows you the crew behind the commercial, and suddenly every brand is breaking the fourth wall just to prove the magic trick is real. This week, Toner and BTC Ankarino follow the signal through Finding Satoshi, gray-box AI, shiny Brian Armstrong stages, and...
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E135: Have You Been Involved with AI Movies, GTA Wallets & Ibogaine for Robots?
Bitcoin is everywhere now: at Cannes, in the New York Times, in the Strait of Hormuz, inside banking conferences, and possibly hiding in a gray box with Casey Affleck. This week, Toner and BTC Ankarino chase the signal through AI-generated movies about Satoshi Nakamoto, Polymarket bets on GTA 6,...
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E134: Have You Been Involved with Truth ETFs & Programmable Markets?
From Tulum cenotes to faulty toilets in space, Toner and BTC Ankarino return from spring break staring directly into the next great American asset class: betting on whatever happens next. Kalshi gets sued, Polymarket heats up after March Madness, nobody knows how to file taxes on…
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E133: Have You Been Involved with Polymarket Gambling Bars & Tokenized Oil on Tax Day?
Coming off SXSW and rolling straight into Blockchain Week in Washington, D.C., Toner and BTC Ankarino find the cherry blossoms blooming, the Clarity Act stalling, and Polymarket setting up a prediction-market situation room in the middle of March Madness. Because nothing says “serious financial...
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Have You Been Involved with SXSW 2026… LIVE from Austin?
We’re coming to you LIVE from Austin, Texas at SXSW 2026—and the signal is loud.This isn’t a recap. This is boots-on-the-ground, drinks-in-hand, real-time pattern recognition from the front lines of AI, blockchain, and the future of data. From NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab to former CIA leadership,...
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E131: Have You Been Involved with Kraken Getting Fed Access While the Money Machine Goes Brrr?
Winter’s thawing, DC is heating up, and suddenly the “boring” plumbing of global finance looks like the main event. In this episode, Toner and BTC Ankarino connect the dots between Kraken’s access to the Fed, the Clarity Act drumbeat, stablecoin legislation, and a wartime money machine that may…
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E130: Have You Been Involved with the Fire Horse Reset While AI Buys the Outcome?
February isn’t sleepy—it’s ceremonial. Lunar New Year collides with Fat Tuesday, Ramadan, Ash Wednesday, and an eclipse for good measure… and suddenly the vibe shifts. The Year of the Fire Horse kicks off just as the SEC and CFTC quietly announce they’re holding hands, the Clarity Act looms, and...
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E129:Have You Been Involved with the Banks Screaming “Stablecoin Yield” While Washington Tokenizes Everything?
It’s the pre-Valentine’s Day thaw in Washington, and the ABA is back in the White House like a jilted ex—demanding the government define stablecoin yield before community banks get replaced by a Coinbase login and a vibes-based APR.In this episode of Off the Record, On the Rocks, Toner and BTC...
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E128: Have You Been Involved with Elon Buying Elon During a Raccoon Moon?
It’s official: Elon Musk just bought himself—SpaceX acquires xAI for $1.25 trillion, and the moon isn’t the only thing full this February. In this episode of Off the Record, On the Rocks, Toner and BTC Ankarino dig into what might be the most self-referential acquisition in history, and why it...
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E127: Have You Been Involved with Blockchain Diplomacy at Davos and Creating the 24/7 NYSE Casino?
Davos is hot—literally and geopolitically—and Brian Armstrong didn’t bring enough SPF for the regulatory crossfire. In this episode of Off the Record, On the Rocks, Toner and BTC Ankarino break down how Coinbase’s follically minimalist CEO became America’s accidental ambassador to the world...
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E126: Have You Been Involved with Replacing Democracy with Predictive Markets?
Welcome to 2026, where digital detox is harder than quitting carbs and predictive markets make Vegas look quaint. In this episode, Toner trades Instagram for a Moleskine, Ankarino unboxes his 1997 analog self, and Liquid Death is the unofficial sponsor of Dry January (Severed Lime, anyone?). But...
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E125: Have You Been Involved with Disney Paying OpenAI a Billion Dollars?
?It’s the deep dark days of December—and suddenly Disney is cutting billion‑dollar checks to OpenAI, Mickey Mouse is roaming the metaverse, and Visa just quietly picked Solana as its stablecoin settlement rail. In this episode, Toner and BTC Ankarino break down why Bob Iger’s all‑in move on Sora...
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E124: Have You Been Involved with a MrBeast-backed Stablecoin Economy?
From Bitcoin life insurance and digital banks with no customers to MrBeast minting his own economy, it’s getting hard to tell the difference between Wall Street and YouTube. In this week’s episode, Toner and BTC Ankarino track the December madness—from 21Shares going public just for holding BTC…
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E123: Have You Been Involved with Pardoning Turkeys & Airdropping the American Dream?
Thanksgiving hits different when the pardons are symbolic—and the payouts are real. This week, Off the Record, On the Rocks dives deep into Michael Dell’s $1,000 baby bond for Gen Alpha, retail-facing prediction markets, and the full-on tokenization of trust. CZ gets his holiday pass, Kushner’s...
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Have You Been Involved with Calm Computing While Selling the Tokenized Version of Yourself on Black Friday?
Thanksgiving hits different when your avatar is more valuable than your real self. In this week’s edition of Off the Record, On the Rocks, Toner & Ankarino break down the three big flippenings of the season: Sam Altman’s ambient “calm computing” moonshot, Jesse Pollock turning himself into a…
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Have You Been Involved with Saudi BILLIONS, GTA Delays & The Gaming Takeover
GTA VI delayed again—but this time, it’s bigger than “just polish.” Billion-dollar Saudi investments. DraftKings leaves the AGA. Roblox scans your face. Rockstar hits reset.In this episode of Off the Record On The Rocks, Toner and Ankarino go deep into the tectonic shift underway in gaming,...
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Have You Been Involved with the World Series Polymarket Casino on the Super Beaver Moon?
World Series goes to Game 7, Dodgers win big, and Polymarket wins bigger—because the metaverse already called it. As parents tailgate on lawns during trick-or-treating and kids watch Otani on PS5, America’s pastime collides with predictive markets, AI twins, and a new economic singularity....
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Have You Been Involved with France Buying Bitcoin & IBM Selling a Digital Haven?
Late October, and everyone’s making moves: France aims to buy 2% of all Bitcoin, IBM launches a “digital asset haven” (because “enclave” was taken), and Nvidia wants to tokenize everything—from baseball stats to your face. The World Series runs 18 innings while Polymarket bets $197M on Jerome...
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Have You Been Involved with Sora Owning Your Face & Wall Street Betting Reality?
October opens with a harvest moon and a head fake: government shutdown, Swifties drop an album, Bitcoin rips to ATH, and the NYSE’s parent plunks billions into Polymarket while Texas files its own exchange—hello, Y’all Street. Meanwhile OpenAI’s Sora goes full consumer: scan your face, set who…
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Have You Been Involved with the Meme That Became the Market?
Late September, and everything’s a derivative of itself. Powell blinks, Polymarket bets it first, and lawns sprout golden Trump statues holding Bitcoin (and, weirdly, Epstein). Apple drops a Bitcoin-orange iPhone with cameras that watch you watching them, Meta counters with AR glasses that...
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Have You Been Involved with the Pentagon’s Ministry of Memes?
Google and Coinbase walk into a bar… and leave with a stablecoin protocol! While Powell whispers “rate cuts,” meme speed laps the Fed. Tether mints a new “U.S.” dollar, Klarna’s IPOs like it’s 2017, and Toner’s Labubu bling store proves you can spin up a full AI e-commerce stack before happy…
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Have You Been Involved with the Truth Breaking Faster Than the News?
Patriot Day, twenty-four years later—and the timeline refreshes itself. A live-streamed political assassination in Utah, a presidential eulogy via post, and a nation doomscrolling its own democracy. Russia’s rolling tanks, Poland’s burning borders, Apple’s new watch bands, and somehow it’s all…
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E114: Have You Been Involved with Blinging out Labubu’s & Tokenized Truth?
Post–Labor Day and back at the bar, we unpack a wild mix of crypto, collectibles, and geopolitics—all rhyming in one story about truth, provenance, and power. We start with summer’s sparkle: the Labu Boo craze, 3D-printed bling, PSA-graded Pokémon, and why “tokenizing” physical things (and their...
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Have You Been Involved with Blockchaining the Truth While Firing the Fed by Tweet?
Deep-August isn’t sleepy—it’s moral whiplash. Taylor & Travis “engagement week” collides with DC theater, K-Pop demon hunters, and a President trying to sack a Fed governor by social post—backed by whatever “data” today’s AI decides. We trace how headlines get calendar-stacked like dominoes, how...
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E112: Have You Been Involved with a DC Takeover While Tokenizing the Economy?
Forget “summer slowdown” — DC is on uppers! Web3 mixers, AI hype, and crypto market “clarity” are all popping off while PayPal opens a shiny new crypto window. Meanwhile, the Clarity Act creeps through Congress, government wallets are moving big bags, and suddenly Visa and Mastercard look like...
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E111: Have You Been Involved in Tokenizing the Truth?
All-time highs hit during Crypto Week in DC! Coincidence? Apple’s App Store lets Bitcoin sneak in the back door (again). And truth itself? The truth is now fractionalized and minted! This week we ride the regulatory rocket past the Genius Act, through the Clarity Act, and land on the Anti-CBDC…
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E110: Have You Been Involved with Trump Family Grifting US Investors in Plain Sight?
Vance in Vegas, says “Stablecoins are great… force multipliers of our economic might!” Tether owns all the US Treasure Bonds, and when Circle IPOs, institutional investors (Blackrock, Ark, Greyscale, etc) get to load up on discounted shares. US Dollar digital twin now officially tied to Bitcoin...
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E109: Have You Been Involved with Apple Implanting Hardware Chips in Your Skull?
We know Apple loves superserving the disabled community, but this has broader implications: putting Cook and Musk toe-to-toe over access to your delicious brain! Don’t sleep on Sammy Altman, his World project and iris scanning orb are at center of Proof of Humanity debate. Meanwhile Coinbase (not...
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E108: Have You Been Involved with Calling OpenAI’s Purchase of Chrome?
Don’t be stupid, follow the money y’all! DOJ playing Monopoly with Google and Meta and WINNING. We called it a year ago! Is Web3 really a new thing, or just a Web2 layer 2? Hard to tell… but Sammy Altman wanna bring AI to the masses, through a browser! By the way, China just bought $50 Billion...
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E107: Have You Been Involved in Tariffing Antarctica While Whales Buy Bitcoin at a Discount?
We’re deep in the spin-cycle of tariff season—Antarctica’s sanctioned, Trump’s on the links, and Larry Fink is whispering “recession” like it’s a bedtime story. Meanwhile, Satoshi whales are buying the dip, Buffett is sitting on cash like it’s 2008, and stablecoins are assembling a Treasury-bond...
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E106: Have You Been Involved in Creating Fifteen-Million Tariffs to Lowkey Pump Yo Cryptos?
On ‘Liberation Day Eve’ our breath is baited and held… “how many of the fifteen-million purported tariffs will affect my life?” the people scream as they run to hide their seed phrases. Magic 8-ball says “FEDs signal Crypto is here and here to stay!” Bitcoin mining OK, meme-coin shilling OK,...
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E105: Have You Been Involved in Buying an ETF of a Derivative of a Basket of Memes?
First the Bitcoin ETF, then the Ethereum ETF, then the Solana ETF… but now a basket of memes ETF? As the new economy ebbs and flows in advance of ‘Liberation Day’, maybe a derivative product of Pudgy Penguins is just what we need to offset a global economic crisis? Meanwhile all-Crytpo bars are a...
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E104: Have You Been Involved with AI Agents Returning Astronauts to Earth?
SXSW was a vibe! Web3, AI, and creator economy talk ruled the scene, but no one’s saying “metaverse” anymore. Why? The tech has matured, and it’s all about ownership now. Disney, Apple, and Accenture are doubling down on immersive content, and the collaborative spirit of Web3 is alive and well....
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E103: Have You Been Involved in Bitcoin’s Strategic Reserve Buying TikTok Onchain?
Have you been involved in another week of absolute crypto chaos? Episode 103 is packed with wild headlines—Alexis Ohanian wants to put TikTok on-chain, Dogecoin just got the ETF green light, and the SEC is suddenly not interested in Yuga Labs anymore. Meanwhile, Trump’s late-night tweets are...
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E101:Have You Been Involved in a Sovereign Wealth Crypto Takeover?
The playbook is out in the open—Bitcoin gets a “strategic reserve” narrative, Ethereum ETFs move forward, and sovereign wealth funds quietly load up on digital assets. Musk’s OpenAI bid fuels another AI war, Doge investigators track government spending in real time, and Taylor Swift is...
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E100: Have You Been Involved in Using Sovereign Wealth to Buy Google Chrome & TikTok?
First the BItcoin Digital Reserve, then Microstrategy rebrands to “Strategy, a BTC” (Bitcoin Treasury Company)... Not to be outdone, Gov explores Sovereign Wealth Funds to acquire Real World Assets! Take a nod from Scandinavian Royalty, buy up distressed companies under DOJ watch. Pachai happy to...
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E99: Have You Been Involved in Andreessen Horowitz Manipulating the Stock Market?
Like the schoolyard song, “whomever smelt it, dealt it.” There’s a cloud of hard gas (fees) around your Aeron, sir! Perhaps Solana’s ‘Sputnik Moment’ will be like China's? $6MM Deep Fake, er Deep Seek ‘spooks’ Wall Street, everything on discount. Sammy Alman launches ChatGPT GOV so stocks surge...
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E98: Have You Been Involved in Weaponizing American Artificial Intelligence?
For the second time inauguration moves indoors… keep away from the rain, sleet, and bullets! Like every January 6th rioter, TikTok lives to see another day… his executive order sharpie almost out of ink! Technology illuminati round out TrumpTV cast of characters, from Bezos to Cook to Pichai to...
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E97: Have You Been Involved in Making Bitcoin U.S. Legal Tender?
Geopolitical maneuvering continues… maybe we stop long range missiles into Ukraine? Maybe China sells Tik-Tok to Elon. Maybe the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is ready to go? Domestically the stage is quickly being set… a week away from inauguration day, from congress kicking-off the 2025 winter...
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E96: Have You Been Involved in Firing Vance and Hiring Musk as Vice President?
Vance and Musk both have Silicon Valley heritage, but Elon gots mo’ DOGE, mo’ rockets, and mo’ raw cash, fam! Meanwhile, the battle of AI collaboration continues: Amazon’s Alexa and AWS will need to work with Anthropic’s Claude.AI, Apple’s Siri will need to understand OpenAI’s Sora, and…
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E95: Have You Been Involved in Breaking Up the Visa + Mastercard Monopoly?
Credit card companies were the cornerstones of “The Golden Age of Capitalism”, opening up transaction opportunities in the post-war era (1945-1973). BUT, you can’t hide from Uncle Sam forever! Visa ‘future credit dollars’ will no longer de-dollarize the american economy, no more 50% profit…
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E94: Have You Been Involved in Murdering Billionaires on the Blockchain?
A brazen assassination in Manhattan, but aging military complex convinced “not professional…” Even M told Bond it gets easier after your first. Sundar believes that AI is slowing down, maybe because Feds forcing a Chrome sale to Sammy Altman. Or maybe Gemini isn’t that good? US Holidays offer...
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E93: Have You Ever Been Involved in Ceasefires Creating Truth Layers on the Blockchain?
When Netanyahu declares a ceasefire just in time for Turkey Day, how do we know it’s real? Is it on Polymarket? Is it on the blockchain— Or just another geopolitical production? While the world debates peace, we’re tracking truth layers and onchain prediction markets. Not to mention, Bitcoin’s...
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E92: Have You Been Involved in Shrouding a Proxy War with Versace Underwear?
Bitcoin continues to rip… but is it a charade? Certainly not the Kabuki Theater that was a “Paul vs. Tyson Boxing Match” Everything is scripted, and spectacles entertain for a reason… what’s the cover up? Hope about firing MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems into Russia? Or maybe throwing the...
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Mike Toner and Ankarino Lara discuss breaking news and trends in all things Crypto: from Bitcoin to ETH & Altcoins, from DeFi to NFTs, and of course the burgeoning Metaverse. Subscribe today and prepare yourself for a better tomorrow!
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