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Plebchain Radio
by Avi Burra and QW
Plebchain Radio is the broadcast hub for the sovereign web. Hosted by Avi Burra and QW, the network explores the synthesis of Bitcoin culture and the Nostr protocol. From breaking news to immersive music sessions, we bring you the voices shaping the parallel economy. This is where the signal is distinguished from the noise.
Episodes
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160 – Of Eagles and Condors with Paul Keating and DirectorHodl
Paul Keating and DirectorHodl come on the show to talk about Hummingbird, the documentary they just released on IndeeHub. The film started life as a small video idea for Bitcoin Jungle and grew over a couple of years into a feature-length meditation on indigenous prophecy, the fiat system, and…
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Sunday Brunch 14: Joe Martin
Joe Martin finally made it onto Sunday Brunch after a few months of being impossible to pin down, which turns out to be a good problem – his new album Alone in Valentine came out in May and he just wrapped an eight-date UK tour to go with it. The album was recorded in Nashville at Glen Campbell's...
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159 – After the Full Stop with Philip Charter
Philip Charter, fiction writer, prose editor, the man behind totallyhumanwriter.com and the editor of the 21 Futures Bitcoin fiction anthologies, joins Avi for a conversation about storytelling, the slow craft of prose, and the gap between the two that most people don't see until they try to…
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Say WoT? – Ep. 5: Proof of Person with Nathan Day and David Strayhorn
What does it mean to be human online? In an age of AI agents posting, interacting, and transacting across the network, the question has stopped being philosophical and started being structural. Avi is joined by David Strayhorn (Brainstorm) and Nathan Day to dig into proof of personhood and why…
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158 – The 43rd Country with Paco
A man who travelled to 42 countries was asked to then go as far as he could travel. He found the farthest journey was the one within himself. Paco of Run with Bitcoin returns after two years off the grid to talk about where he disappeared to. After finishing his 42-country journey at the end of...
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Sunday Brunch 13: Henrik Flyman
Henrik Flyman joins Sunday Brunch for a wide-ranging conversation on his musical journey from Sweden to Denmark, the highs and hardships of life in bands, and the evolution of his solo “shadow music” project. Along the way, he and Avi dig into awakening, sovereignty, creativity, and the strange...
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Sunday Brunch 12: Guest Host Aaron of Essex with Nat Cole
Guest host Aaron of Essex takes the Sunday Brunch wheel again and welcomes Nat Cole for a lively, music-first conversation about building a “new music economy” on a Bitcoin standard. Nat frames the idea carefully: not just another platform or “ecosystem,” but a permissionless economic layer where...
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157 – Where the Wild Sats Live with Kent Halliburton
Episode 157 opens with Avi’s sermon “The Forgotten Forge,” a meditation on what happens when a civilization outsources the making of the things that keep it alive. The frame is applied directly to Bitcoin: early on, acquiring BTC and producing it were effectively the same act, but convenience…
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Sunday Brunch 11: Buttercup Roberts
Sunday Brunch #11 is a relaxed, music-first decompression chamber with Buttercup Roberts at the table: coffee poured, no sermon, no script, and the Value-for-Value house rule intact, where 90% of sats streamed during songs goes directly to the artist. Buttercup brings a playlist built through…
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156 – Mayhem by Design with Richard Greaser
Plebchain Radio Ep. 156 is part sermon, part game-theory lab, part cultural weather report. Avi opens with “The Price of a Voice,” using Primal’s new zap polls to explore a bigger idea: when voting has a real cost, consensus stops being cheap theater and starts becoming an economy of conviction.…
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Sunday Brunch 10: Aza (Şelale)
Sunday Brunch #10 is a classic “table, coffee, record player” decompression chamber with Aza (Şelale, “waterfall”) as guest-DJ, running on the Value-for-Value house rule: stream during songs and 90% goes straight to the artist; boost during conversation and you’re buying a round for the table.…
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155 – Capturing The Will‑O’‑The‑Wisp with UTXO The Webmaster
Episode 155 opens with Avi’s sermon “Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls”: permissionless networks don’t remove gravity. They remove gatekeepers and then demand competence: slow proof-of-work, deep roots, and the brutal honesty of output. UTXO the Webmaster returns and the convo starts in familiar...
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Sunday Brunch 9: Budtender (Hash Power Music)
Sunday Brunch #9 is a classic “coffee + record player” decompression session with Budtender (Hash Power Music) as guest-DJ, running on the house rule: 90% of sats streamed during songs goes straight to the artist, and boosts during conversation keep the table stocked. Budtender shares how a chain...
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154 – Mandalas That Converge To The Sourcenode
Episode 154 opens with Avi’s sermon “Weaponized Escapism”: in an attention-extraction world, the urge to flee is rational, but the kind of escape matters. Numbing out through feeds, outrage, and dopamine loops keeps you tethered to the machine. The real exit is constructive escapism: retreat into...
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Say WoT? – Ep. 4: Secure Enclaves, Sovereign Agents with Mark Suman
Avi is joined by Mark Suman (CEO of Maple AI, former Apple engineer) for a technical dive into the intersection of AI privacy, confidential computing, and Web-of-Trust as the internet shifts toward an agentic future. Mark explains Maple’s core design: privacy-first by default, where each user...
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Sunday Brunch 8: Ivy Lumi
Avi’s guest in this serving of Sunday Brunch is Ivy Lumi, a singer-songwriter and Bitcoin-industry native who began writing songs in late 2023 and spent about a year and a half getting her first five tracks produced, eventually releasing under the Ivy Lumi name starting May 2025. Ivy shares her...
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153 – Metanoia Through Praxeology: The Golden Rule with Red Tail Hawk
Episode 153 opens with Avi’s sermon “Fix Yourself to Fix the World”: Bitcoin can be a flawless instrument, but it doesn’t magically heal the operator. The call is to audit the inner ledger with the same seriousness we bring to the timechain, because sovereign networks demand sovereign people. Red...
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152 – A Bootlegger on the Denim Road with Ben Justman
Avi opens the episode with a sermon on “the compromised substrate”: when public idols crack, the scavengers try to smear the entire network with the sins of a few. Bitcoin is not its loudest humans, and the protocol shouldn’t inherit anyone’s moral debt by association. Then Ben Justman returns,...
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Sunday Brunch 7: Guest Host Aaron of Essex with Longy
Guest host Aaron of Essex takes the Sunday Brunch wheel and welcomes Longy for a laid-back, music-first hang: five Longy tracks get spun, boosted, and dissected in real time, with the chat and sats flowing as part of the show’s “participation layer.” Between songs, Longy rewinds the tape to his...
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Say WoT? – Ep. 3: Curate First, Compute Second with Guest Host David Strayhorn and Matthias DeBernardini
In episode 3 of Say Wot?, guest host David Strayhorn sits down with Matthias DeBernardini, a software developer and “agentic engineering” tinkerer who’s just joined NosFabrica to help build open-source Web of Trust tooling on Nostr. They trace Matthias’ path from materials engineering into…
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151 – The Milk Route Meets the Mesh with Ryan Cooper
Ryan Cooper from Bitcoin Ranch joins Avi for a boots-on-the-ground conversation about rebuilding real-world resilience: food, trade, and community. Ryan shares his path from Detroit childhood roots and a fiercely independent, homeschool-led upbringing to managing a Chevy dealership, then getting...
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Sunday Brunch 6: Guest Host Open Mike with Tatum Turnup
Guest host OpenMike takes the wheel for a laid-back, music-first Sunday Brunch with Tatum Turn Up, kicking off with some classic Nostr “we’re live … are we live?” chaos across Primal/Damus before settling into the vibe of Value for Value radio: sats flow to artists during tracks, and to the show...
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150 – Soil Regenerates and the Denim Road is Born with Auggie
In episode 150, Avi Burra welcomes Auggie from the “Meshtadel” world to talk regenerative farming, circular Bitcoin economies, and what it looks like to build a parallel system from the dirt up. Avi opens with a “soil is the original protocol” sermon: real resilience comes from base layers…
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Sunday Brunch 5: DJ Valerie
Avi hosts the fifth serving of Sunday Brunch as a proper decompression chamber: coffee on the table, records on the turntable, and a strict Value-for-Value house rule where 90% of sats streamed during each song goes straight to the artist. This week’s guest-DJ is DJ Valerie B LOVE, who rolls in...
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149 – The Bat Signal Virus: Ridestr and Drivestr with Stirling Forge
In this episode, Avi talks with Stirling Forge about building a decentralized rideshare alternative on Nostr, sparked by the brutal economics of driving for Uber and Lyft today. Stirling shares his background: former weather forecaster turned rideshare driver who stacked sats hard when payouts…
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Sunday Brunch 4: Jim Costello
Jim Costello joins Avi for Episode 4 of Sunday Brunch. The conversation pinballs from David Lynch deep cuts and the musical fingerprints of Angelo Badalamenti into how Costello’s Phantom Power Media helps independent artists navigate the Bitcoin and podcasting music ecosystem, inspired by…
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148 – Lightning Strikes the Bread and Circuses with Coach Carbon
In this episode of Plebchain Radio, Avi sits down with Coach Carbon for a wide-ranging conversation that treats football as a laboratory for truth: you can talk your way through many professions, but you can’t talk your way into elite performance. The pitch keeps receipts. They dig into the idea…
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Say WoT? – Ep. 2: AI, Reputation, and the Death of “Trust Me Bro” with Gzuuus
In Episode 2 of Say WoT?, Avi sits down with Gzuuus to “debug the intersection of AI and the Web of Trust,” tracing his build path through DVMCP, ContextVM, and his latest project, Relatr, with the goal of engineering machine intelligence that amplifies human reputation instead of harvesting it....
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Sunday Brunch 3: OpenMike
Avi and guest OpenMike riff on the weird gap between “real-world popularity” and how few followers some incredible musicians have on Nostr, then use that as a springboard into what it looks like to actually build culture: paying creators directly, making venues more resilient, and turning…
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147 – Beef Exits The Truman Show with Tom Taber
Avi opens Episode 147 with “The Return of the Local Oracle,” a sermon on outsourced knowing, supply-chain truth, and rebuilding trust through people you can look in the eye: ranchers, butchers, and neighbors with gardens. Tom Taber returns to unpack his work with the Beef Initiative, arguing that...
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Sunday Brunch 2: Rod Palmer
Sunday Brunch is your lightning-laced decompression chamber: no sermon, no prepared questions, just coffee, a record player, and a guest DJ, with Value-for-Value splits (90% of boosts/streams during songs go to the artist; talk-time splits go to the guest + show). This episode’s guest is Rod…
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146 – From Lion King to Lightning with Dion Wilson
Avi opens with a sermon on “embracing the outsider” and argues that the real mission isn’t winning debates, but building a parallel city, with art as core infrastructure and Bitcoiners as the new patrons. Guest Dion Wilson, former professional dancer (including the touring cast of Disney’s The…
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Say WoT? – Ep. 1: User-Driven Trust Scores with Derek Ross, Vitor Pamplona, and David Strayhorn
Say WoT? with host Avi Burra kicks off by staking the claim that Nostr’s “exit ramp” from addictive, black-box feeds is Web of Trust, and then immediately drops into the engine room with Vitor Pamplona (Amethyst), Derek Ross (Soapbox), and David Strayhorn (NosFabrica). The trio breaks down NIP-85...
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Sunday Brunch 1: Oscar Merry
Welcome to the inaugural serving of Sunday Brunch – a new weekly format from Plebchain Radio designed to be your decompression chamber after a long week in the fiat mines. No roadmap grilling, no deep-dive technicals, just coffee, conversation, and a curated playlist of independent…
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145 – Ghosting the Leviathan Part 1: The Art of the Quiet Exit
This week, I strip it back. No interviews. No sermon. Just signal. I explore the philosophy of the Exit. Why fighting the system is a trap, why building alternatives is the only winning move, and how to navigate the inevitable friction this creates with the people we love. I perform a reading of...
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144 – Bitcoin is Definitely Metal with Noa and Lahav
In the first Plebchain Radio episode of 2026, Avi is joined by Noa Gruman (lead singer of Scardust) and Lahav, for a conversation ranging from Scardust’s Bitcoin-adjacent music lore (including the “RIP” video) to the reality that “Bitcoin is definitely metal” … and prog. Noa shares highlights…
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PCR143 – Welding the Bridge with ChadF
In this episode, Chad F joins the show to dismantle the false dichotomy between the "ancient scrolls" of RSS and the high-speed relays of Nostr. As a longtime Podcasting 2.0 + V4V operator (and “welcoming committee” booster), Chad traces the arc from No Agenda’s time-talent-treasure model through...
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PCR142 – Year-In-Review with Vitor Pamplona and Corndalorian
Episode 142 is a Nostr year-in-review roundtable with Avi, QW, Vitor Pamplona, and Corndalorian. They reflect on the mid-year “Nostr bear market” in engagement and argue it wasn’t a death spiral, it was infrastructure season: fewer tourists, more plumbers, deeper roots. Vitor breaks down why user...
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PCR141 – Reclaiming the Bazaar with Eric FJ
In this episode, Avi sits down with de-commerce builder Eric FJ, creator of Conduit Market, to explore how Nostr and Bitcoin can rebuild the old-school bazaar in protocol form. They dig into NIP-99 product listings, NIP-17 DM-based order flows, and the emerging “infinite product pool” that…
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PCR140 – The Nudge That Shapes Worlds with Aaron of Essex
In this episode of Plebchain Radio, Avi sits down with Aaron of Essex, the Bitcoiner, hairdresser, and music superfan behind Bitcoin Essex and the New Music Nudge Unit. Aaron shares his 90s-era origin story, from Napster and CDs to discovering Bitcoin and realizing he could help working musicians...
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PCR139 – Prometheus in Bloomsbury with Psyfer
In this episode of Plebchain Radio, Avi sits down with London-based bitcoiner, artist and playwright Psyfer, caretaker of the legendary Cyphermunk House in Bloomsbury. They trace the unlikely origin of the house back to a 10-day Vipassana retreat in rural India, where Psyfer was flooded with…
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PCR138 - Reformatting The Format with Sam Means
In this episode of Plebchain Radio, QW interviews Sam Means (aka Lightning Store, Wavlake), a musician, father, and entrepreneur, discussing his various projects and perspectives on the music, his band The Format and much more. The Format Live on Tonight Show : https://youtu.be/5i9GQzPM8G0 The...
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PCR137 – Mermaids, Entropy, and Synchronicity with Lady Block Jane
In this episode of Plebchain Radio, Avi talks with Swiss-German Bitcoin artist Yena, aka Lady Block Jane, about how vivid dreams and a forest vision pulled her into Bitcoin and birthed works like Dressed in Entropy and the mermaid piece I’ll Take Yours Too, who quietly stacks sats from our…
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PCR136 – The Cypherpunk Bestiary with Max Hillebrand
Max Hillebrand returns to the show to map the cypherpunk “freedom stack” for real life. He digs into open source hardware and works up the stack to Nostr-native coordination (from relay hygiene to posting CoinJoin rounds). We talk private, scalable group communication – what’s missing, what’s...
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PCR135 – The Human Mesh with Shadrach
This episode of Plebchain Radio features QW and Avi hosting Shadrach, a cypherpunk and Bitcoiner, to discuss Bitcoin, Nostr, A to B, Web of Trust, Meshtadel and building parallel societies. A to B : https://atobitcoin.io/ Finding Home Episode 2 [IndeeHub Code For 21% off: PIONEERCHAIN21 ] Avi...
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PCR134 – Nostrville 3.0 Pregame - Live from Bitcoin Park with Ainsley Costello, Heather Larson & Open Mike
In this episode of Plebchain Radio, QW and Avi are joined by Ainsley Costello, Heather Larson & Open Mike live from Bitcoin Park in Nashville to discuss the intersection of Nostr and Bitcoin, including the latest developments on the live music front, Nostrrville 3.0, Nostr Shire, and Nostr Valley...
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PCR133 – WoT's The Deal with David Strayhorn
Summary David Strayhorn, creator of Brainstorm and Grapevine, joins the show to announce a major initiative to build a decentralized Web-of-Trust for Nostr. David explains his journey from neurologist to trust-protocol architect and details how NosFabrica pivoted from healthcare to tackling the...
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PCR132 – Glitch in the Matrix with Rob Brinded
In this episode of Plebchain Radio, QW and Avi welcome back Rob Brinded, author of "Glitch," to discuss his new book, the reception it has received, and the underlying principles of understanding one's own mind. Citadel Garden : https://citadel.garden/ Glitch Book : https://www.glitchthebook.co/...
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PCR131 – Asado and APKs with Franzap
In this episode of Plebchain Radio, QW and Avi interview Franzap, creator of Zap Store about Paraguay, Fran's work, La Crypta, Web of Trust, Nostr, Bitcoin and more. Zap Store : https://zapstore.dev/ Avi Burra's Book 24 :...
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PCR130 - Mining Nostalgia with Cryptocloaks
In this episode of Plebchain Radio, QW is joined by Rick from CryptoCloaks to discuss Bitcoin home mining, community, 3D Printing, fatherhood, Nostr and the intersection of Bitcoin and real-world issues. CryptoCloaks Store : https://www.cryptocloaks.com/ CryptoCloaks Makers Space Community :...
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Plebchain Radio is the broadcast hub for the sovereign web. Hosted by Avi Burra and QW, the network explores the synthesis of Bitcoin culture and the Nostr protocol. From breaking news to immersive music sessions, we bring you the voices shaping the parallel economy. This is where the signal is distinguished from the noise.
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