
The Bitcoin Matrix
Let's explore Bitcoin, the future of money and the social, cultural, economical and philosophical implications of this new technology. Hosted by Cedric Youngelman.
Latest episodes

Nov 13, 2022 • 1h 28min
Escaping The Fiat Cave with MacroJack
In this episode Cedric sits down with Jackson AKA MacroJack21 for in-depth convesation on how the history of money best resembles Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the control mechanisms being built around us as part of the agenda for the Great Reset. MacroJack has a background in traditional financial services spanning investment research, investor relations, and business development. He has worked at both large established Wall Street firms and small startups. This podcast is brought to you by River Financial. Get $20 free when you sign up for River and purchase Bitcoin, and up to $10,000 free when you purchase miners. Build your Bitcoin wealth at River today at: partner.river.com/matrix Recently, I just decided to partner with crowd health to help fix the healthcare system. You’re challenging the traditional status quo, then why are you still paying expensive insurance premiums? Experience the freedom and affordability of cash payments and community-funded healthcare with CrowdHealth. Go to joincrowdhealth.com and use code MATRIX now and experience freedom from health insurance by utilizing Bitcoin Right now you can get your first six months for just $99 per month. That's just a fraction of high deductible insurance plans Make sure to search for Bitcoin Matrix in your podcast app and click subscribe! And if you have the time please leave a review whereever you listen. Check the Bitcoin Matrix out on Fountain here: https://fountain.fm/show/8jJhCIKzojSARTePnCxM Subscribe to the Bitcoin Matrix on YouTube at tinyurl.com/bitcoinonyoutube Follow Professor MacroJack on Twitter: @MacroJack21 Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

Nov 7, 2022 • 2h 30min
Dr. David B. Collum: The Crisis of Authority & the Age of Narratives
In this episode Cedric sits down with Professor David B. Collum of Cornell University to shoot the sh*t about everything and to find out exactly how much nothing in society adds up anymore. Dr. David Collum, MA, MS, Ph.D. is a Professor at The Cornell University. He received a Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University in the City of New York. His research interests are Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Physical Organic Chemistry, Organolithium Chemistry, Organosodium Chemistry, Kinetics, Reaction Mechanism. This podcast is brought to you by River Financial. Get $20 free when you sign up for River and purchase Bitcoin, and up to $10,000 free when you purchase miners. Build your Bitcoin wealth at River today at: partner.river.com/matrix What if you didn’t have to pay healthcare premiums anymore? What if you could invest in bitcoin instead? Pay one low monthly total to fund an account that is YOURS. Choose your doctors, get great healthcare, and hold up to 75% of the balance in Bitcoin every month. Stop supporting the broken health insurance system with your hard-earned capital. Go to joincrowdhealth.com and use code MATRIX now and experience freedom from health insurance by utilizing Bitcoin Right now you can get your first six months for just $99 per month. That's just a fraction of high deductible insurance plans Go to joincrowdhealth.com and use code MATRIX to sign-up. That’s joincrowdhealth.com promo code MATRIX. CrowdHealth is not health insurance. It’s a totally different way of paying for healthcare. Terms and Conditions may apply. Make sure to search for Bitcoin Matrix in your podcast app and click subscribe! And if you have the time please leave a review whereever you listen. Check the Bitcoin Matrix out on Fountain here: https://fountain.fm/show/8jJhCIKzojSARTePnCxM Subscribe to the Bitcoin Matrix on YouTube at tinyurl.com/bitcoinonyoutube Follow Professor David Collum on Twitter: @DavidBCollum Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

Nov 1, 2022 • 2h 6min
Michael Saylor: Bitcoin is a Shining City in Cyberspace Waiting For You
In this very special episode, Cedric sits down with Michael Saylor to discuss how Bitcoin is a union that offers hope for the individual struggling against the oppressive force of the collective and why it is the best chance we have to heal our world and rise above the chaos. Michael Saylor is the Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy (MSTR), a publicly traded business intelligence firm that he founded in 1989. He is also the founder of Alarm.com (ALRM), named inventor on 40+ patents, & author of the book “The Mobile Wave”. He founded & serves as trustee for the Saylor Academy (saylor.org), a non-profit organization that has provided free education to over 1 million students. He is an advocate for the Bitcoin Standard (hope.com). He has dual degrees from MIT in Aerospace Engineering & History of Science. What if you didn’t have to pay healthcare premiums anymore? What if you could invest in bitcoin instead? With CrowdHealth, you can put aside money for health expenses in your own account, and even hold a large part of it in bitcoin — if bitcoin goes up, you get the upside — not big insurance companies. Pay one low monthly total to fund an account that is YOURS. Choose your doctors, get great healthcare, and hold up to 75% of the balance in Bitcoin every month. If a large expense comes up, CrowdHealth will help negotiate and crowdfund the bill for you. Stop supporting the broken health insurance system with your hard-earned capital. Go to joincrowdhealth.com and use code MATRIX now and experience freedom from health insurance by utilizing Bitcoin Right now you can get your first six months for just $99 per month. That's just a fraction of high deductible insurance plans Go to joincrowdhealth.com and use code MATRIX to sign-up. That’s joincrowdhealth.com promo code MATRIX. CrowdHealth is not health insurance. It’s a totally different way of paying for healthcare. Terms and Conditions may apply. Make sure to search for Bitcoin Matrix in your podcast app and click subscribe! And if you have the time please leave a review whereever you listen. Check the Bitcoin Matrix out on Fountain here: https://fountain.fm/show/8jJhCIKzojSARTePnCxM Subscribe to the Bitcoin Matrix on YouTube at tinyurl.com/bitcoinonyoutube Follow Michael Saylor on Twitter: @Saylor Check out hope.com for more incredible bitcoin resources Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

Oct 23, 2022 • 1h 60min
Croesus: We Are So Early. Few.
In this remarkable episode Cedric sits down with Jesse Meyers AKA Croeus to discuss three of his seminal pieces. - Bitcoin And The American West - Why The Yuppie Elite Dismiss Bitcoin - How Early Are We? Make sure to Search Bitcoin Matrix in your podcast app and click subscribe! And if you have the time please leave a review whereever you listen. Check the Bitcoin Matrix out on Fountain here: https://fountain.fm/show/8jJhCIKzojSARTePnCxM Subscribe to the Bitcoin Matrix on YouTube at tinyurl.com/bitcoinonyoutube Follow Croesus on Twitter: @Croesus_BTC Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

Oct 17, 2022 • 1h 35min
Bitcoin Fixes Healthcare with Andy Schoonover
In this episode Cedric sits down with Andy Schoonover, the Founder & CEO of Crowdhealth for a fascinating conversation about the broken incentives of our industrial medical complex caused by government intervention, how this system takes advantages of customers and the mission to fix healthcare with Bitcoin. What if you didn’t have to pay healthcare premiums anymore? What if you could invest in bitcoin instead? With CrowdHealth, you can put aside money for health expenses in your own account, and even hold a large part of it in bitcoin — if bitcoin goes up, you get the upside — not big insurance companies. Pay one low monthly total to fund an account that is YOURS. Choose your doctors, get great healthcare, and hold up to 75% of the balance in Bitcoin every month. If a large expense comes up, CrowdHealth will help negotiate and crowdfund the bill for you. Stop supporting the broken health insurance system with your hard-earned capital. Go to joincrowdhealth.com and use code MATRIX now and experience freedom from health insurance by utilizing Bitcoin Right now you can get your first six months for just $99 per month. That's just a fraction of high deductible insurance plans Go to joincrowdhealth.com and use code MATRIX to sign-up. That’s joincrowdhealth.com promo code MATRIX. CrowdHealth is not health insurance. It’s a totally different way of paying for healthcare. Terms and Conditions may apply. CypherSafe has a long heritage of creating quality (and I think beautiful) metal products. Their parent company, Numberall has been doing it since 1930. With bitcoin slowly changing people’s time preference, they feel it’s a great time to focus on making artistic, metal items. People can again start to appreciate an item for it’s beauty, and the craftsmanship it took to make it. Their first go is the Bitcoin Reuleaux Triangle. It’s a fusion of engineering, geometry, artisanship, and bitcoin. It’s overall shape is the Reuleaux Triangle, named after Franz Reuleaux. He was an engineer in the 1800’s who formalized Kinematic Theory, Of course the obvious nod to bitcoin is front and center with the Bitcoin ₿ logo. They strived to achieve a beautiful look with the ₿ face textured for an almost diamond coated look. Along with making the ₿ a raised engraving, which creates a beveled edge to enhance the smaller details. All of this is done in titanium We hope you find the Bitcoin Reuleaux Triangle as beautiful as we do! For more information Go to cyphersafe.io and use the code Matrix to get 10% your order Make sure to Search Bitcoin Matrix in your podcast app and click subscribe! And if you have the time please leave a review on iTunes If you are interested in sponsoring the show, my DMs on twitter are open you can also hit me up with any feedback or suggestions that you might have If you want to support the show and see us so grow so that we can continue to bring you the freshest and dopest conversations in the space, make sure to subscribe and give us a 5 star rating on your favorite podcast platform. Please tell your friends and family about the Bitcoin Matrix podcast and make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel. If you want to support the show with sats, value for value style you can now stream the Bitcoin Matrix podcast on the Fountain app. Check the Bitcoin Matrix out on Fountain here: https://fountain.fm/show/8jJhCIKzojSARTePnCxM Subscribe to the Bitcoin Matrix on YouTube at tinyurl.com/bitcoinonyoutube Follow Andy Schoonover on Twitter: @SchoonoverAndy Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

Oct 10, 2022 • 1h 32min
The Ultimate Case for Bitcoin with Murad Mahmudov
In this important interview Cedric sits down with Murad Mahmudov to talk about what Bitcoin is, how it works, the importance of its deflationary monetary system, why all Fiat Currencies are doomed to fail, and how central banks and institutions should be thinking about Bitcoin. Muard is the founder of STFX, economist and angel investor. Mahmudov believes that Bitcoin will transform finance, government, and society and due to it's deflationary properties will cause people to think more long term relative to how people act in the current fiat money system. What if you didn’t have to pay healthcare premiums anymore? What if you could invest in bitcoin instead? With CrowdHealth, you can put aside money for health expenses in your own account, and even hold a large part of it in bitcoin — if bitcoin goes up, you get the upside — not big insurance companies. Pay one low monthly total to fund an account that is YOURS. Choose your doctors, get great healthcare, and hold up to 75% of the balance in Bitcoin every month. If a large expense comes up, CrowdHealth will help negotiate and crowdfund the bill for you. Stop supporting the broken health insurance system with your hard-earned capital. Go to joincrowdhealth.com and use code MATRIX now and experience freedom from health insurance by utilizing Bitcoin Right now you can get your first six months for just $99 per month. That's just a fraction of high deductible insurance plans Go to joincrowdhealth.com and use code MATRIX to sign-up. That’s joincrowdhealth.com promo code MATRIX. CrowdHealth is not health insurance. It’s a totally different way of paying for healthcare. Terms and Conditions may apply. CypherSafe has a long heritage of creating quality (and I think beautiful) metal products. Their parent company, Numberall has been doing it since 1930. With bitcoin slowly changing people’s time preference, they feel it’s a great time to focus on making artistic, metal items. People can again start to appreciate an item for it’s beauty, and the craftsmanship it took to make it. Their first go is the Bitcoin Reuleaux Triangle. It’s a fusion of engineering, geometry, artisanship, and bitcoin. It’s overall shape is the Reuleaux Triangle, named after Franz Reuleaux. He was an engineer in the 1800’s who formalized Kinematic Theory, Of course the obvious nod to bitcoin is front and center with the Bitcoin ₿ logo. They strived to achieve a beautiful look with the ₿ face textured for an almost diamond coated look. Along with making the ₿ a raised engraving, which creates a beveled edge to enhance the smaller details. All of this is done in titanium We hope you find the Bitcoin Reuleaux Triangle as beautiful as we do! For more information Go to cyphersafe.io and use the code Matrix to get 10% your order Make sure to Search Bitcoin Matrix in your podcast app and click subscribe! And if you have the time please leave a review on iTunes If you are interested in sponsoring the show, my DMs on twitter are open you can also hit me up with any feedback or suggestions that you might have If you want to support the show and see us so grow so that we can continue to bring you the freshest and dopest conversations in the space, make sure to subscribe and give us a 5 star rating on your favorite podcast platform. Please tell your friends and family about the Bitcoin Matrix podcast and make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel. If you want to support the show with sats, value for value style you can now stream the Bitcoin Matrix podcast on the Fountain app. Check the Bitcoin Matrix out on Fountain here: https://fountain.fm/show/8jJhCIKzojSARTePnCxM Subscribe to the Bitcoin Matrix on YouTube at tinyurl.com/bitcoinonyoutube Follow Muard Mahmudov on Twitter: @MustStopMurad Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

Oct 3, 2022 • 1h 11min
Pierre Rochard on Work, Communism, Spirituality & Bitcoin
Pierre Rochard discusses proof of work vs proof of stake, adoption waves, CPI inflation, and the intersection of spirituality and money.

Sep 26, 2022 • 1h 28min
Nuclear Bitcoin Mining with Ryan Macleod
In this episode Ced sits down with Ryan Macleod AKA the Nuclear Bitcoiner to discuss the importance and safety of nuclear energy and how Ryan is trying to orange pill the nuclear industry by showing how bitcoin aids the economic case. What if you didn’t have to pay healthcare premiums anymore? What if you could invest in bitcoin instead? With CrowdHealth, you can put aside money for health expenses in your own account, and even hold a large part of it in bitcoin — if bitcoin goes up, you get the upside — not big insurance companies. Pay one low monthly total to fund an account that is YOURS. Choose your doctors, get great healthcare, and hold up to 75% of the balance in Bitcoin every month. If a large expense comes up, CrowdHealth will help negotiate and crowdfund the bill for you. Stop supporting the broken health insurance system with your hard-earned capital. Go to joincrowdhealth.com and use code MATRIX now and experience freedom from health insurance by utilizing Bitcoin Right now you can get your first six months for just $99 per month. That's just a fraction of high deductible insurance plans Go to joincrowdhealth.com and use code MATRIX to sign-up. That’s joincrowdhealth.com promo code MATRIX. CrowdHealth is not health insurance. It’s a totally different way of paying for healthcare. Terms and Conditions may apply. CypherSafe has a long heritage of creating quality (and I think beautiful) metal products. Their parent company, Numberall has been doing it since 1930. With bitcoin slowly changing people’s time preference, they feel it’s a great time to focus on making artistic, metal items. People can again start to appreciate an item for it’s beauty, and the craftsmanship it took to make it. Their first go is the Bitcoin Reuleaux Triangle. It’s a fusion of engineering, geometry, artisanship, and bitcoin. It’s overall shape is the Reuleaux Triangle, named after Franz Reuleaux. He was an engineer in the 1800’s who formalized Kinematic Theory, Of course the obvious nod to bitcoin is front and center with the Bitcoin ₿ logo. They strived to achieve a beautiful look with the ₿ face textured for an almost diamond coated look. Along with making the ₿ a raised engraving, which creates a beveled edge to enhance the smaller details. All of this is done in titanium We hope you find the Bitcoin Reuleaux Triangle as beautiful as we do! For more information Go to cyphersafe.io and use the code Matrix to get 10% your order Make sure to Search Bitcoin Matrix in your podcast app and click subscribe! And if you have the time please leave a review on iTunes If you are interested in sponsoring the show, my DMs on twitter are open you can also hit me up with any feedback or suggestions that you might have If you want to support the show and see us so grow so that we can continue to bring you the freshest and dopest conversations in the space, make sure to subscribe and give us a 5 star rating on your favorite podcast platform. Please tell your friends and family about the Bitcoin Matrix podcast and make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel. If you want to support the show with sats, value for value style you can now stream the Bitcoin Matrix podcast on the Fountain app. Check the Bitcoin Matrix out on Fountain here: https://fountain.fm/show/8jJhCIKzojSARTePnCxM Subscribe to the Bitcoin Matrix on YouTube at tinyurl.com/bitcoinonyoutube Follow Ryan Macleod on Twitter: @NuclearBitcoinr Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

Sep 19, 2022 • 59min
Building River with Alexander Leishman
In this episode Cedric sits down with the CEO and Founder of River for an interesting conversation around buidling River, his rabbit hole story and how River Financial is dedicated to providing financial products and services that enable their clients to harness the transformative possibilities of Bitcoin. CypherSafe has a long heritage of creating quality (and I think beautiful) metal products. Their parent company, Numberall has been doing it since 1930. With bitcoin slowly changing people’s time preference, they feel it’s a great time to focus on making artistic, metal items. People can again start to appreciate an item for it’s beauty, and the craftsmanship it took to make it. Their first go is the Bitcoin Reuleaux Triangle. It’s a fusion of engineering, geometry, artisanship, and bitcoin. It’s overall shape is the Reuleaux Triangle, named after Franz Reuleaux. He was an engineer in the 1800’s who formalized Kinematic Theory, Of course the obvious nod to bitcoin is front and center with the Bitcoin ₿ logo. They strived to achieve a beautiful look with the ₿ face textured for an almost diamond coated look. Along with making the ₿ a raised engraving, which creates a beveled edge to enhance the smaller details. All of this is done in titanium We hope you find the Bitcoin Reuleaux Triangle as beautiful as we do! For more information Go to cyphersafe.io and use the code Matrix to get 10% your order Make sure to Search Bitcoin Matrix in your podcast app and click subscribe! And if you have the time please leave a review on iTunes If you are interested in sponsoring the show, my DMs on twitter are open you can also hit me up with any feedback or suggestions that you might have If you want to support the show and see us so grow so that we can continue to bring you the freshest and dopest conversations in the space, make sure to subscribe and give us a 5 star rating on your favorite podcast platform. Please tell your friends and family about the Bitcoin Matrix podcast and make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel. If you want to support the show with sats, value for value style you can now stream the Bitcoin Matrix podcast on the Fountain app. Check the Bitcoin Matrix out on Fountain here: https://fountain.fm/show/8jJhCIKzojSARTePnCxM Subscribe to the Bitcoin Matrix on YouTube at tinyurl.com/bitcoinonyoutube Follow Alexander Leishman on Twitter: @Leishman Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

Sep 12, 2022 • 1h 44min
Fiat Companies Solving Fiat Problems, Building Arctica & WTF Happened in 2020 with Heavily Armed Clown
In this fantastic episode Heavily Armed Clown makes his 3rd appearance on the show to talk about how Bitcoin and coding provided him with a new path, leaving the military and his new free and open sourced project Arctic that you should go and support now. HAC is also the cofounder of the meme and website wtfhappenedin1971.com and the host of the Bitcoin Echo Chamber podcast, blog and website. He was episode #8 WTF Happened in 1971? and #13 The Election Night Special with Guy Swann and Pierre Rochard. Links here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/heavily-armed-clown-what-the-f-ck-happened-in-1971/id1534519469?i=1000495768112 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pierre-rochard-guy-swann-heavily-armed-clown-the/id1534519469?i=1000497172297 You bought a hardware wallet right? So you take your bitcoin security seriously, now go that extra step and secure it from physical disaster with a CypherWheel seed storage device. Go to cyphersafe.io to keep your Sats Safe and use the code Matrix for 10% off your order. SwanBitcoin is by far the easiest and most affordable way to accumulate Bitcoin with automatic recurring purchases. Just set it and forget it! Start your plan today and get $10 of free Bitcoin dropped into your account if you use my link Swanbitcoin.com/Matrix If you want to support the show and see us so grow so that we can continue to bring you the freshest and dopest conversations in the space, make sure to subscribe and give us a 5 star rating on your favorite podcast platform. Please tell your friends and family about the Bitcoin Matrix podcast and make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel. If you want to support the show with sats, value for value style you can now stream the Bitcoin Matrix podcast on the Fountain app. Check the Bitcoin Matrix out on Fountain here: https://fountain.fm/show/8jJhCIKzojSARTePnCxM Subscribe to the Bitcoin Matrix on YouTube at tinyurl.com/bitcoinonyoutube Follow Heavily Armed Clown on Twitter: @heavilyarmedc Support the free and open source Bitcoin self custody solution Arctica here: https://tallycoin.app/@hac/arctica-developer-fund-d2gdck/ Check out https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix