

The Bitcoin Matrix
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.
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Jul 25, 2022 • 1h 19min
The Plot to Embarrass America & Destroy the Dollar with Phil Gibson
In this eye-opening and revealing episode Cedric sits down with Phil Gibson AKA Mr. Pseu to talk about how Davos is out to embarrass America, destroy the US Dollar and how Jerome and the Federal Reserve are doing everything that they can to save capitalism inflation be damned.
- Who is Davos
- Why does Davos want to destroy America
- Why Jerome Powell's policies are bullish for Bitcoin
- How the Federal Reserve continues to create economic conditions ripe for a Bitcoin bull market as capital seeks reliable returns
I hope that you enjoy this aweome rip as much as I did.
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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.
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 us out on Fountain here: https://fountain.fm/show/8jJhCIKzojSARTePnCxM
Follow Phil Gibson on Twitter: @MrPseu
Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman
Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

Jul 18, 2022 • 50min
Natalie Brunell on Hard Money, Bringing Saving Back & Bitcoin
In this very enjoyable conversation Cedric sits down with Natalie Brunell to discuss Bitcoin, macroeconomics, finance, the glamorization of consumer debt, bringing savings back, origin and success stories.
Natalie is the host of the Coin Stories Bitcoin Podcast, a media commentator, the host of the Hard Money show and an investor, educator and writer.
Natalie is also an Emmy award winning journalist, 1st generation American and one of the most articulate and informed voices that you'll come across in media.
I hope that you enjoy this rip as much as I did.
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
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.
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 us out on Fountain here: https://fountain.fm/show/8jJhCIKzojSARTePnCxM
Follow Natalie Brunell on Twitter: @natbrunell
Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman
Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

Jul 11, 2022 • 1h 6min
Adam Back Reflects on the Cypherpunk Movement, Inventing Hashcash, Satoshi & Bitcoin
In this very special episode Dr. Adam Back, the CEO and co-founder of Blockstream has a very candid conversation as Adam reflects on the cypherpunk movement, cryptography, privacy, ecash, inventing hashcash (used in Bitcoin mining), Bitcoin and Satoshi.
TBH, I still can't believe that this happened and I really hope that you enjoy this rip as much as I did.
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
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.
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 us out on Fountain here: https://fountain.fm/show/8jJhCIKzojSARTePnCxM
Follow Adam Back on Twitter: @adam3us
Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman
Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

Jul 5, 2022 • 1h 54min
Surfer Jim on the State of America, Bitcoin & Why He's More Stoked Than You Are - Regularly
In this wide-ranging and free flowing conversation Surfer Jim rejoins the Ced for another epic rip about the state of America, Bitcoin, Fire Island, and how he's more stoked than you - regularly.
Surfer Jim has been on three prior episodes that you should check out here:
17: Surfer Jim: The Bitcoin Radical on First Principles & Bitcoin as Real Estate
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/surfer-jim-the-bitcoin-radical-on-first-principles/id1534519469?i=1000498453474
22: Pierre Rochard, Jimmy Song, Katie the Russian, Knut Svanholm & Surfer Jim: A Very Bitcoin Thanksgiving
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pierre-rochard-jimmy-song-katie-the-russian-knut/id1534519469?i=1000500267855
76: Bitcoin is Inevitable & Surfer Jim Can Prove It
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bitcoin-is-inevitable-surfer-jim-can-prove-it/id1534519469?i=1000536095757
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
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.
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 us out on Fountain here: https://fountain.fm/show/8jJhCIKzojSARTePnCxM
Follow Surfer Jim on Twitter: @surferjimw
Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman
Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

Jun 26, 2022 • 1h 31min
Tomer Strolight: Beautiful Bitcoin
In this very special and heartwarming episode Tomer Strolight returns for the third time to discuss five more of his wonderful pieces.
We cover Beautiful Bitcoin, Why Bitcoin is the World's Most Inclusive Institution, Why Bitcoin is the Path to Economic Stability, Why Bitcoin is Worthy of Being Loved and Why Bitcoin is a Declaration of Peace.
I specifically chose these particular pieces from Tomer's amazing catalog because I felt that we all could use some more beauty, honor, inclusiveness, optimism, wonder and wisdom during these interesting times that we now find ourselves in.
I hope that you enjoy this rip as much as I did.
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
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.
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.
Follow Tomer Strolight on Twitter: @TomerStrolight
Free Bitcoin Book!
Why Bitcoin is a collection of short essays exploring the "why" behind Bitcoin.
Get it for free at https://event.swanbitcoin.com/whybitcoin/
Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman
Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

Jun 19, 2022 • 45min
Relevant Peter Schiff: The Fiat Gadfly (Reissue)
This was one of my favorite conversations from 2020, when I first started the show, that I want to share again at this particular moment. I think this episode encapsulates such a wide range of ideas about bitcoin, bitcoiners and monetary freedom and expresses them is such an entertaining and dramatic fashion.
From white collar worker to poker player to Twitter jail. Relevant Peter Schiff has the juice. He hard-forked the irrelevant Peter Schiff Classic with his biting tweets aimed at the frivolous world of fiat. Learn about his origins in the "real" world, the fall of Mt Gox & Silk Road, and monetary censorship.
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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.
LEDN is a secure, simple and easy to use platform for managing and growing your digital wealth. If you want to see what it’s all about and get $10 free in USDC when you take out your first LEDN loan head over to https://start.ledn.io/bitcoinmatrix
If you enjoy the show please support our amazing sponsors, tell your friends and family, subscribe to our channel here and on YouTube, write a five star review wherever you download your podcasts and if you want to support us more directly I have tips open on Twitter.
Follow Relevant Peter Schiff on Twitter: @RelevantPeter
Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman
Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

Jun 13, 2022 • 1h 36min
Behind Enemy Lines of the Bank of International Settlements with Sam Callahan
In this important and eye-opening episode Cedric sits down with Sam Callahan from behind enemy lines to talk about the Bank of International Settlements, it's formation and dubious history.
What exactly is the BIS? What do they do? Do they have a moral compass? Why is there a bank above all governments? Why is it not accountable? What have they learned from China about social control? How much data do they have access to? Is there a war on cash? What can be done?
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.
LEDN is a secure, simple and easy to use platform for managing and growing your digital wealth. If you want to see what it’s all about and get $10 free in USDC when you take out your first LEDN loan head over to https://start.ledn.io/bitcoinmatrix
If you enjoy the show please support our amazing sponsors, tell your friends and family, subscribe to our channel here and on YouTube, write a five star review wherever you download your podcasts and if you want to support us more directly I have tips open on Twitter.
Follow Sam Callahan on Twitter: @samcallah
Check out his thead on the BIS here: https://mobile.twitter.com/samcallah/status/1473815145545551873
Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman
Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

Jun 6, 2022 • 1h 25min
Bitcoin Lake, Guatemala, Biomining & the Holy Grail of BTC
In this episode Cedric sits down with Dr. Patrick C. Melder from the Bitcoin Lake project to talk about all things Lago Bitcoin, Guatemala, lake Atitlan, biomining and the holy grail of Bitcoin.
Inspired by Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador, Bitcoin Lake wants to educate the local community on the various benefits and possibilities of Bitcoin and the lightning network.
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.
LEDN is a secure, simple and easy to use platform for managing and growing your digital wealth. If you want to see what it’s all about and get $10 free in USDC when you take out your first LEDN loan head over to https://start.ledn.io/bitcoinmatrix
If you enjoy the show please support our amazing sponsors, tell your friends and family, subscribe to our channel here and on YouTube, write a five star review wherever you download your podcasts and if you want to support us more directly I have tips open on Twitter.
Follow Dr. Patrick Melder on Twitter: @entsurg
Check out the Bitcoin Lake project at http://bitcoinlake.io/
Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman
Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

May 24, 2022 • 2h 3min
Brandon Quittem: Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species
For this insightful and highly informative episode Cedric sits down again with Bitcoin author and thinker Brandon Quittem for a wide ranging conversation about Bitcoin as a pioneer species, ecology, how utilizing more energy and not less will save the planet and why he's so optimistic about the future even as we go through another fourth turning.
Brandon is an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, and passionate Bitcoiner. He's currently building SwanBitcoin.com which is the best place to buy Bitcoin in the US.
His articles have been read by more than 2 million people online. Most well known for exploring the parallels between Bitcoin and mycelium.
His superpower is taking complex information and turning it into simple, actionable, intelligence.
When he's not helping bitcoin companies, he spends most of his “work time” reading, writing, and speaking.
Check out our first conversation together here:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brandon-quittem-the-bitcoin-mycologist-on-the/id1534519469?i=1000499188949
Bitcoin is a fungus. If you cleave a piece off, you're just making more. It cannot be stopped, no matter how hard governments, detractors, or other obstacles may stand in its way. Brandon and Ced ponder a potential Second Civil War, psychedelics, Millennial thinking vs Zoomer thinking, and where we stand in The Fourth Turning. In all of this turmoil, how does Bitcoin reduce suffering?
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.
If you enjoy the show please support our amazing sponsors, tell your friends and family, subscribe to our channel here and on YouTube, write a five star review wherever you download your podcasts and if you want to support us more directly I have tips open on Twitter.
Follow Brandon Quittem on Twitter: @Bquittem
Check out his writing on Medium: https://brandonquittem.com
Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman
Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

May 17, 2022 • 40min
French Monetary Colonialism, Bitcoin & Africa with Alex Gladstein
In this important episode Cedric sits down with Alex Gladstein the Chief Strategy Office for the Human Rights Foundation to discuss France's history of monetary colonialism, the mechanics of the CFA system, Senegal, assassinations, economic apartheid & how Bitcoin fixes this.
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.
LEDN is a secure, simple and easy to use platform for managing and growing your digital wealth. If you want to see what it’s all about and get $10 free in USDC when you take out your first LEDN loan head over to https://start.ledn.io/bitcoinmatrix
If you enjoy the show please support our amazing sponsors, tell your friends and family, subscribe to our channel here and on YouTube, write a five star review wherever you download your podcasts and if you want to support us more directly I have tips open on Twitter.
Follow Alex Gladstein on Twitter: @Gladstein
Check out the Human Rights Foundation on Twitter: @HRF
Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman
Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix