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The Bitcoin Matrix
by Cedric Youngelman
Let's explore Bitcoin, the future of money and the social, cultural, economical and philosophical implications of this new technology. Hosted by Cedric Youngelman.
Episodes
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Aaron Siri: The One Product You Can't Sue in America
"People say 'I believe in vaccines.' Nobody says that about seatbelts." Aaron Siri is the managing partner of Siri & Glimstad and, by most measures, the most consequential vaccine litigator in America. He's the attorney behind the famous nine-hour deposition of Dr. Stanley Plotkin — the man they...
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Hodlonaut: The Fight for Bitcoin — Bitcoin Core, the Capture Series & BIP-110
"We need Bitcoiners to fight for Bitcoin. If no one fights for Bitcoin, Bitcoin will very soon be dead." Hodlonaut is a Bitcoin citizen journalist, the founder of the Citadel21 zine, the man behind the 2019 Lightning Torch, and the person who told the simple truth about Craig Wright and then…
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Bitcoin Secures $1 Trillion and Has No Security Team | Luke de Wolf
"Bitcoin secures over a trillion dollars in value. It has no security team." Luke de Wolf is a cybersecurity professional and author of Defending Bitcoin. Luke spent his career defending critical infrastructure, the control systems behind power grids and gas pipelines. His claim: Bitcoin is the...
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The Tyranny of the Clock | Scott Dedels, The Age of Time
"Most of the money problems we talk about with Bitcoin — they're not money problems. They're time problems." Scott Dedels — founder of Block Rewards and author of The Age of Time — says the clock is a technology. It was invented about 600 years ago, and somewhere along the way we forgot it was…
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Bitcoin Mechanic — The Soul of Bitcoin (BIP110)
"21 million isn't a promise. It's a rule — and rules only hold if your node enforces them." Bitcoin Mechanic — of mining pool OCEAN — says Bitcoin is in a civil war, and most holders don't even know it's happening. The fight isn't over price. It's over who's actually in charge: Core or Knots,...
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Bitcoin Against the Machine | Kent Halliburton, Sazmining
"Mining isn't just how Bitcoin gets made — it's a decentralized money printer." Kent Halliburton — CEO and co-founder of Sazmining — makes a claim that should bother everyone who only buys their Bitcoin: mining isn't just how Bitcoin gets made, it's a decentralized money printer anyone can run.…
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A Titanium-Sized Post-It — James Caruso, Stamp Seed
"Paper is where Bitcoin goes to die." James Caruso — co-founder and VP of Stamp Seed — joins the show with one of the most unlikely origin stories in Bitcoin: how a 70-year-old metal-stamping company stumbled into Bitcoin through its own search data, and became one of the most trusted…
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Bitcoin Is More — Tomer Strolight on Money, Rights & AI
"Bitcoin is a rights-protection entity." Tomer Strolight returns for his ninth visit — and reads four of his own essays start to finish, with conversation in between: Bitcoin Is More, Living With AI, AI Built to Survive, and This Is Not the End. We discuss why Bitcoin isn't a price but a…
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Bitcoin Is Under Attack | Matthew Kratter, Bitcoin University
"Bitcoin is not physical gold. You can kill Bitcoin." Matthew Kratter — who runs Bitcoin University, did a PhD in literature under René Girard, and ran global macro at Peter Thiel's hedge fund — joins the show to explain why he now holds nearly everything he owns in Bitcoin, and why he's become…
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Rehypothecation Is Cryptographically Impossible — Martin Matejka, Firefish CEO
"Rehypothecation is cryptographically impossible." Martin Matejka joins the show to break down the rise of Bitcoin-native lending, Firefish's 3-of-3 multisig + DLC architecture, and why the February 6 stress test was the day Bitcoin-backed credit grew up. We discuss why rehypothecation can be...
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Matt Cole — He Built a Stock That Pays You Every Day
Matt Cole spent fifteen years at CalPERS — the largest public pension fund in the U.S. — running more than $70 billion in global fixed income, where his portfolios reportedly never underperformed their benchmark in a single year. Today he's Chairman & CEO of Strive (Nasdaq: ASST), the first...
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Matt Hougan — Bitcoin's Next Supply Shock
Matt Hougan is the Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management — one of eleven spot Bitcoin ETF issuers, managing over $10 billion. When family offices, RIAs, and pension consultants size their Bitcoin allocation, his is the analysis they read. This is the institutional case for Bitcoin…
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Why Bitcoin Needs Its Own Summer Camp | Camp Nakamoto
Jeff Casler and Angelo Firenze don't run a Bitcoin conference. They run a Bitcoin camp. Jeff is a serial entrepreneur and MS survivor — co-founder of Camp Nakamoto and @btc_mass, with a thesis-forward "why this matters" voice. Angelo grew up on Sandy Island. He spent decades as director of the...
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Bram Kanstein: Bitcoin Is An Economic Psychedelic | EP274
Bram Kanstein returns to The Bitcoin Matrix. He's spent over three thousand hours studying money. He hosts Bitcoin for Millennials — now expanding into Freedom for Millennials — and writes essays connecting fiat money to consciousness, attention, and the design of modern life. This conversation...
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Pius Sprenger Shorted Subprime. Now He Sees It Again.
Pius Sprenger has a PhD in mathematics and spent twenty-five years on Wall Street. He was hired to Deutsche Bank in 2004 and ended up on Greg Lippmann's derivatives desk — the desk Ryan Gosling's character runs in The Big Short. In February 2007 he co-built the ABX index with Goldman Sachs and…
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The FCC Collected $6,790. Then They Came for Bitcoin ATMs. | Paul Tarantino | Ep 272
Paul Tarantino is the CEO of Byte Federal, one of the largest Bitcoin ATM networks in the country. Eighteen months ago on this show he told us Bitcoin wins by default. That Bitcoin is the last currency standing. That AI-generated fraud would break the credit-based payment system. He was right on...
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Bitcoin Age, the Dollar Mind Trick & Why Gold is Old | Nik Bhatia @timevalueofbtc | EP271
Nik Bhatia called Bitcoin a once-in-a-millennium monetary event before most people understood what Bitcoin was. Now he has a second book, a course at USC Marshall, and the global monetary system is doing exactly what he said it would do. This is one of the most important conversations we have had...
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Who Controls Bitcoin? 16 Years of Data and a 13-Year-Old Hard Drive | EP270 | @secsovereign
Josh discovered Bitcoin in 2010 — before most people knew what a blockchain was. What happened next changed everything. "I'm thankful that I forgot that I was holding." — Josh @secsovereign "The mechanism of control only works on people who can't see it." — Étienne de La Boétie Subscribe so you...
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Bitcoin, Stoicism, and Time’s Edge
Nobody told Connor Dolan that the Stoics figured out Bitcoin 2,000 years before Satoshi — but after a year of research, he proved it. Connor Dolan — VP of Enterprise Sales at Unchained, former BlackRock and Capital Group — joins The Bitcoin Matrix to break down why Bitcoin and Stoicism are the…
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Bitcoin's iPhone Moment — STRC & the Conversion of the Financial System
Nobody could explain how we get from today to a Bitcoin Standard — until now. MarylandHODL21 and Cris Reed join The Bitcoin Matrix to break down STRC, Strategy's capital flywheel, and why very few people understand what's actually happening in the financial system right now. We cover why STRC is...
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Peruvian Bull - 2026 Is Already Breaking Every Rule: Here's What Comes Next
In this episode, I sit down with Roberto Rios aka Peruvian Bull, and he didn’t come to play it safe. Fresh off breaking news the morning of recording, we kick things off with the Jane Street manipulation lawsuit and what it might mean for Bitcoin price action. We cover the terrifying thesis of…
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Tony Yazbeck - A Collapse Survivor's Warning About War, Banks & Bitcoin
After watching Lebanese banks steal his life savings overnight, Tony Yazbeck went from cybersecurity veteran to full-on Bitcoin sovereignty advocate. Now as co-founder of The Bitcoin Way, he’s on a mission to make sure what happened to him doesn’t happen to you. This conversation gets real, we’re...
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Tom Luongo - Controlled Opposition, Bitcoin and Why America Is Already at War
In this episode, I’m sitting down with Tom Luongo for the sixth time, and he makes a bold case: the chaos you’re watching in Western politics, the wars, the censorship, the financial pressure, it doesn’t trace back to China, it doesn’t trace back to Russia. It traces back to Europe. And...
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Joe Burnett - AI Singularity & Bitcoin
In this episode, I’m sitting down with Joe Burnett for the fourth time to discuss his piece “The Singularity Has Begun” and this might just be our most important conversation yet. Joe makes a bold case: as intelligence becomes abundant and essentially free, wealth itself starts to melt. When AI...
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Andy Schoonover - Turning Healthcare Into Bitcoin Circularity
In this episode, I'm chatting with Andy Schoonover, the founder and CEO of CrowdHealth, a revolutionary community-powered alternative to health insurance that’s helping thousands of people fund their healthcare through crowdfunding, not corporate middlemen. But here’s where it gets really...
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Dave Collum - Fourth Turning Meets Market Collapse
In this episode, I sit down with Dave Collum. We dive deep into why the financial legends who warned us about insane market bubbles back in 2015 might not have been wrong – they might have just been early. We’re talking about an economy at 35,000 feet with its engines on fire, and the solution…
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Beau Turner - The Truth About Bitcoin Mining
In this episode, I’m sitting down with Beau Turner, co-founder and CEO of Abundant Mines. What starts as a conversation about mining quickly becomes something bigger: a deep exploration of what it means to convert energy into sovereignty. Beau’s path here wasn’t easy. From real estate empires to...
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Lauren Rodriguez - The Samurai Wallet Story
In this episode, I chat with Lauren Rodriguez, wife of Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of the privacy-focused Samurai Wallet, about her family’s harrowing journey through the U.S. justice system. Keonne was indicted by the DOJ and sentenced to five years in federal prison for developing…
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The Very Best of The Bitcoin Matrix in 2025
In a year of noise, we looked for the signal. 53 episodes - one truth. This is the best of The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast in 2025. ––– Offers & Discounts ––– 🎟️ BitcoinDay Tickets - 10% OFF Join us at BitcoinDay (including the carnivore dinner!) Use code: MATRIX 👉...
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Aaron Day - The Rise of Technocracy
In this episode, I chat with Aaron Day, a freedom movement architect, serial entrepreneur, and outspoken opponent of global technocracy. After government regulations destroyed his healthcare business, Aaron walked away from the fiat system, becoming an early advocate for Bitcoin and decentralized...
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Jason Leibowitz - This Solves Bitcoin’s Biggest Unspoken Problem
In this episode, I chat with Jason Leibowitz, Head of Strategy at Meanwhile, about a game-changing financial product that blends Bitcoin with the powerful concept of infinite banking.Jason takes us on a journey through how Bitcoin-denominated whole life insurance works—and why it might be the...
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Jeff Booth - The Real Reason Why Bitcoin Will NEVER Fail
In this episode, I sit down with Jeff Booth, entrepreneur, author of The Price of Tomorrow, and one of the clearest thinkers on how technology, money, and human agency collide. We explore why Bitcoin is not just an asset but a protocol, how broken money distorts society, and why deflation is the...
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Walker America - This Is Why Governments Are Trapped (And Bitcoin Isn’t)
In this episode, I sit down with Walker America, host of the Bitcoin podcast and one half of The Crypto Couple, to explore his journey into Bitcoin, content creation, and podcasting. We discuss the separation of money and state, the power of independent media, low time preference living,...
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Keonne Rodriguez - You Don't Live in a Free Country (Here's Why)
HELP KEONNE AND BILL: https://billandkeonne.org/ I n this episode, I chat with Keonne Rodríguez, co-founder of Samurai Wallet—a Bitcoin wallet focused on privacy and self-sovereignty. Keonne now faces prison time for building open-source privacy tools, in a legal case that has stunned the Bitcoin...
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Parker Lewis - The Final Bitcoin Price Explosion
In this episode, I chat with Parker Lewis, author of Gradually, Then Suddenly and Head of Business Development at Zaprite. We dig deep into the transition from fiat to a Bitcoin-based economy, why Bitcoin must become a medium of exchange to succeed, and how Zaprite is helping pave that path by...
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Dave Collum - You Have No Idea What They're Hiding
In this episode, I chat with Dave Collum, professor of organic chemistry at Cornell University and one of the most iconic voices in the financial and political commentary space. Dave returns for his eighth appearance on the Bitcoin Matrix and as always, he pulls no punches. If you’re looking for…
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Natalie Brunell - Bitcoin is for Everyone
In this episode, I chat with Natalie Brunell, host of Coin Stories, a top-ranked Bitcoin podcast and one of the most powerful voices in Bitcoin education and financial media. We dive into her debut book Bitcoin is for Everyone, while also exploring the role of women in Bitcoin, and why she sees...
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Daniel White - This System is a Shit Show
In this episode, I chat with Daniel White, the author of The Great Realignment: Power, Money, Greed, and Bitcoin, and the CEO of MicroSeed, a Bitcoin self-custody startup. If you’ve ever wondered why the world works the way it does, and how Bitcoin offers a profound shift in that dynamic, this...
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Jimmy Song - Inside the Bitcoin Betrayal
In this episode, I chat with Jimmy Song, a Bitcoin developer and educator that has been a driving force in Bitcoin for over a decade. We dive deep into the political undercurrents around Bitcoin Core development, funding models, decentralization theater and the question on everyone’s mind: Is...
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Tomer Strolight & Nico Moran - The Road to 2032 (Live at The Canadian Bitcoin Conference)
In this episode, I sit down with my friends Tomer Strolight and Nico Moran live at the Canadian Bitcoin Conference to explore what it really means to live on a Bitcoin standard. If you’re ready to upgrade your time preference, protect your keys, and build a life aligned with hard money and real...
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Bram Kanstein - The Biggest Technological Battle Ever
In this episode, I chat with Bram Kanstein, host of the Bitcoin for Millennials podcast and longtime internet tinkerer turned Bitcoiner. We get into cypherpunk roots vs. Wall Street adoption, the upcoming digital euro, and why AI’s energy future actually pairs with Bitcoin mining. If you want a...
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Tom Luongo - They Lost Control of the Markets
In this episode, I chat with Tom Luongo, a well-known macro expert and a returning five-timer on the show, about the power games behind markets and politics. If you want a hard-hitting map of the current geopolitical and cultural battlefield, this one’s for you. ––– Support My Work ––– Paypal:...
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Cedric Youngelman - What Makes This Cycle Different
In this episode, I had the pleasure of joining Robin Seyr on his show to dive deep into Bitcoin, its current trajectory, and the bigger forces shaping our future. If you’re curious about where Bitcoin stands today, how it could evolve tomorrow, and what we can do as individuals to preserve its…
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Grant Cardone - How Bitcoin Broke My Playbook
In this episode, I chat with Grant Cardone, the entrepreneur, bestselling author, and real-estate mogul behind Cardone Capital, known for his 10X philosophy and massive multifamily portfolio. If you want a brutally practical blueprint for going all-in on one thing, building units at scale, and...
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Amanda Goodall - 5 Ways to Survive The AI Takeover
In this episode, I chat with Amanda Goodall, a workforce intelligence analyst who spots restructuring signals months before they hit the headlines. We dig into how AI is quietly eating back-office work. We also cover warehouse robots and humanoids on the horizon, and practical job-hunt tactics to...
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Samson Mow - KNOTS vs CORE
In this episode, I chat with Samson Mow, CEO of Jan3, longtime Bitcoiner, and a key voice in nation-state Bitcoin adoption, about the heated Core vs. KNOTS debate. If you want a clear, no-BS walk through the current discourse, plus practical takeaways for node runners, this episode is for you.…
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Trace Mayer - Why Bitcoin Will Outlive Nations
In this episode, I chat with Trace Mayer, early Bitcoin investor and the mind behind the Seven Network Effects, about monetary sovereignty and the ideas that shaped Bitcoin culture. We dive into his rabbit-hole journey from gold to Bitcoin, debates from the block size wars, why “proof of keys”...
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Jesse Myers - Is This The Future Of Bitcoin?
In this episode, I chat with Jesse Myers, aka “Croesus” on X, a Bitcoin strategy advisor and former co-founder of OnRamp Bitcoin. With an MBA from Stanford and experience at Bain & Company, Jesse is now leading Bitcoin strategy at SmarterWeb and advising UTXO Management. We dive deep into the…
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Scott Dedels - Time, Energy, Money: How Bitcoin Rewrites Reality
In this episode, I chat with Scott Dedels, co-CEO of Block Reward, host of the Block Reward Podcast, and author of The Dao of Bitcoin: Towards a Cosmology of Energy Money. Together, we dive deep into the nature of time, monetary entropy, and Bitcoin’s role in reshaping our collective experience....
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Stephan Livera - Paper Bitcoin or not, Bitcoin is going to $10 Million
In this episode, I chat with Stephan Livera, Bitcoin educator, host of the Stephan Livera Podcast, and advisor at Bold Bitcoin. We explore his journey of escaping the lockdowns in Australia to build a new life in Dubai, and how his libertarian values and understanding of Bitcoin economics shaped...
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Let's explore Bitcoin, the future of money and the social, cultural, economical and philosophical implications of this new technology. Hosted by Cedric Youngelman.
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