
Onramp Bitcoin Media
Onramp Bitcoin Media
Bitcoin-native insights on markets, investing, and the future of finance.
https://onrampbitcoin.com/
The Last Trade
Bitcoin meets macro.
Onramp Media’s flagship show covering markets, monetary policy, tech, and the shifting tides of global finance.
Final Settlement
Building on Bitcoin.
A biweekly dive into Bitcoin applications, protocol development, and early-stage venture—brought to you by Early Riders.
Scarce Assets
Bitcoin for professionals.
Conversations with allocators and finance pros on portfolio strategy, hard money, and the rise of digital scarcity.
Latest episodes

Apr 16, 2024 • 54min
Scarce Assets E008: Samson Mow – Why $1M BTC Could Happen This Cycle
Scarce Assets: a biweekly podcast presented by Onramp which delves into the emergent role of Bitcoin in finance professionals' strategies and outlooks. Hosted by CFP, Andy Edstrom, and former hedge fund manager, Jesse Myers, Scarce Assets provides invaluable insights for wealth managers aiming to outperform their peers in the decades ahead.
Finance professionals everywhere know about stocks and bonds, but the macroeconomic outlook requires that serious investors pay close attention to another category: Scarce Assets.
0:00 - Introduction to Samson
3:31 - Nation-state bitcoin adoption
8:33 - Use cases resonating with governments
12:05 - Bitcoiners in government
13:45 - Aqua Wallet overview
22:00 - Accelerating adoption with JAN3
26:43 - A message from Onramp
26:59 - Bitcoin adoption in China
32:54 - Buying bitcoin vs earning bitcoin
34:19 - Forecasting the “suddenly” phase
37:13 - Benefits of the “gradually” phase
43:30 - Political unpalatability of being anti-bitcoin
46:01 - Bull market factors & the decline of fiat
51:50 - The economic situation in Canada
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Apr 12, 2024 • 59min
The Last Trade E046: Bitcoin Fixes Real Estate with Leon Wankum
Bitcoin enthusiast Leon Wankum discusses the superiority of BTC as a store of value compared to real estate, the potential for refinancing real estate with BTC, synergies between real estate & BTC, utilizing BTC to boost productivity, integrating BTC into the fiat system, measuring success for BTC as collateral, pathways to hyperbitcoinization, prospects for bitcoin urbanism, and how Bitcoin fixes real estate.

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Apr 5, 2024 • 1h 27min
The Last Trade E045: A Generational Reckoning with Jackson Mikalic
Guest Jackson Mikalic discusses topics such as gold hitting all-time highs, the debt spiral emerging, defending against financial repression, generational divides, the Great Decentralization, impacts of earthquakes on BTC mining, Coinbase's Lightning implementation, institutions getting burned by crypto, focusing on the signal of bitcoin, escaping the fiat mindset, and counterparty risk.

Apr 2, 2024 • 1h 6min
Scarce Assets E007: Alex Gladstein - Bitcoin is a Global Life Raft
Bitcoin advocate Alex Gladstein discusses the societal benefits of Bitcoin, its impact on human rights, global financial disparities, energy production incentives, and grassroots adoption. The podcast explores the role of Bitcoin in empowering marginalized communities, challenging traditional sanctions, and rethinking government aid strategies. Gladstein highlights Bitcoin's potential to revolutionize the global financial system and advance human rights globally.

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Mar 29, 2024 • 1h 51min
The Last Trade E044: Bitcoin Mining’s Next Epoch with Bob Burnett
Expert in Bitcoin mining, Bob Burnett, discusses challenges facing miners, advantages of small-scale mining, efficiencies of multiple-use miners, lessons from the tech boom, miner stack & vertical integration, scarcity of block space, decentralization of block template creation, future of miner revenue, mining pool transparency, evolution of fee market, base layer capacity & scalability, and importance of innovation in the industry.

Mar 22, 2024 • 1h 41min
The Last Trade E043: Bitcoin Fixes This with Larry Lepard & David Thayer
The Last Trade: a weekly, bitcoin native, interactive podcast covering where Bitcoin and traditional finance meet on a macro scale. Hosted by Marty Bent, Jesse Myers (Croesus), Michael Tanguma, and a special weekly guest host.
Join us as we dive into what Bitcoin means for how individuals & institutions save, invest, and propagate their purchasing power through time. It's not just another asset - in the digital age, it's the Last Trade that investors will ever need to make.
0:00 - PE valuations & zombie companies
8:00 - Repricing equities on a bitcoin standard
13:49 - State pensions & looming defaults
17:34 - Awakening to systemic problems
26:20 - Broken fiat incentives
30:58 - Bitcoin restores economic sanity
34:50 - Why decentralized systems win
41:44 - The slippery slope of centralization
46:06 - Building a trust-minimized monetary system
51:33 - A message from Onramp
51:50 - ETFs vs the Onramp Bitcoin Trust
55:00 - Risks of centralized custodians & 6102 attacks
1:07:50 - The need for humility in understanding bitcoin
1:15:20 - The only wrong allocation is zero
1:17:20 - Building the bitcoin community in Philadelphia
1:21:37 - The potential for politicians to embrace bitcoin
1:26:30 - Bitcoiners supporting systemic solutions
1:33:13 - Open networks & interoperability
1:37:14 - Spreading knowledge & wrapping up
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Mar 19, 2024 • 1h 9min
Scarce Assets E006: Robert Breedlove – What is Money?
Scarce Assets: a biweekly podcast presented by Onramp which delves into the emergent role of Bitcoin in finance professionals' strategies and outlooks. Hosted by CFP, Andy Edstrom, and former hedge fund manager, Jesse Myers, Scarce Assets provides invaluable insights for wealth managers aiming to outperform their peers in the decades ahead.
Finance professionals everywhere know about stocks and bonds, but the macroeconomic outlook requires that serious investors pay close attention to another category: Scarce Assets.
0:00 - Introduction to Robert Breedlove
6:20 - Fields of study & their intersection with money
11:25 - The ultimate form of freedom
17:40 - Money is the language of human action
20:08 - The arrogance of central planning
24:45 - The fear-based paradigm of fiat money
30:35 - Reflections on economic science
35:34 - A message from Onramp
35:50 - Fiat inflation as economic bloodletting
40:06 - Potential reactionary forces against bitcoin
49:30 - Getting comfortable with bitcoin's volatility
54:00 - The journey of understanding bitcoin
59:50 - The “What is Money” Show
1:01:38 - The concept of scarcity & wrapping up
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Mar 15, 2024 • 1h 40min
The Last Trade E042: Entering a New Paradigm with Mitch Kochman
The Last Trade: a weekly, bitcoin native, interactive podcast covering where Bitcoin and traditional finance meet on a macro scale. Hosted by Marty Bent, Jesse Myers (Croesus), Michael Tanguma, and a special weekly guest host.
Join us as we dive into what Bitcoin means for how individuals & institutions save, invest, and propagate their purchasing power through time. It's not just another asset - in the digital age, it's the Last Trade that investors will ever need to make.
0:00 - Intro to Mitch & bull market buzz
3:45 - MSTR & the Saylor playbook
9:15 - A quiet all-time high
14:03 - Unit bias & thinking in sats
16:03 - Gold parity & ETF inflows
21:10 - Bitcoin adoption accelerating
32:04 - Banking rails, infrastructure, & custodians
37:05 - Bitcoin mining excise tax proposal
47:05 - Political calculus & stifling innovation
53:20 - The Fed & Treasury moving the goalposts
1:02:05 - A message from Onramp
1:02:21 - Fiscal & monetary ignorant bliss
1:06:15 - Shifting the Overton Window
1:10:50 - The halving is coming
1:15:25 - Public miner performance
1:26:02 - Jamie Dimon pivot?
1:31:10 - Nation-state & corporate adoption
1:35:25 - We're going to win
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Mar 12, 2024 • 1h 24min
Final Settlement E004: Bitcoin is the True Cost of Capital with Cam Doody
Final Settlement: a biweekly podcast presented by Onramp which explores the breadth and depth of the Bitcoin thesis, focusing on the underlying mechanics of the protocol, its ongoing development, and real-world applications of the technology. Hosted by Brian Cubellis (Head of Strategy & Research at Onramp) and Michael Tanguma (Co-founder & CEO of Onramp), Final Settlement aims to go beyond the conventional view of Bitcoin as merely a financial asset, or “digital gold."
Discover how this groundbreaking technology has the potential to benefit society through rearchitecting how value is stored and transferred. A resource for institutional investors and bitcoin enthusiasts alike, our discussions aim to enhance your understanding and conviction in Bitcoin's broader utility – tune in to grasp the full scope of bitcoin's transformative power in the digital age.
0:00 - Intro to Cam
4:58 - Articulating the bitcoin thesis outside of NGU
8:40 - Harnessing deflationary technology
13:53 - Founding Brickyard & transforming venture
26:00 - Efficiency & prudent capital allocation
33:00 - Bitcoin is the true cost of capital
38:15 - Sound money adoption begins with individuals
41:00 - Growth (via the internet) plus efficiency (via AI)
43:59 - A message from Onramp
44:15 - Leveraging deflationary tech like AI & bitcoin
48:00 - The future of venture fundraising
55:40 - Adoption curves & tipping points
1:02:33 - Synergies of bitcoin + AI
1:10:18 - Acceleration of technological evolution
1:13:05 - A new paradigm for bitcoin
1:19:00 - Recent investments & wrapping up
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Mar 8, 2024 • 1h 12min
The Last Trade E041: Nobody Puts Bitcoin in a Corner with Mark Connors
The Last Trade: a weekly, bitcoin native, interactive podcast covering where Bitcoin and traditional finance meet on a macro scale. Hosted by Marty Bent, Jesse Myers (Croesus), Michael Tanguma, and a special weekly guest host.
Join us as we dive into what Bitcoin means for how individuals & institutions save, invest, and propagate their purchasing power through time. It's not just another asset - in the digital age, it's the Last Trade that investors will ever need to make.
0:00 - Intro to Mark
4:55 - ETF flows & asset managers' Incentives
10:20 - Educating investors about bitcoin
15:20 - Osmosis & the flow of value
16:40 - The memetic nature of ETFs & bitcoin adoption
27:40 - The need for improved custody solutions
32:20 - Challenges with self-custody
36:30 - The evolution of bitcoin custody
40:32 - A message from Onramp
40:48 - Risks of centralized custody & unilateral control
47:00 - Bringing investors up the learning curve
50:04 - Retaining control of your bitcoin
52:10 - Centralized failures & ETF concerns
55:00 - Onramp Branches, meeting people where they are
59:00 - Pattern recognition & conviction
1:04:40 - Supply-demand dynamics & institutional adoption
1:07:45 - Looking ahead & wrapping up
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