The Bitcoin Matrix

"Bitcoin is the most important innovation to happen to money in 1,000 years." - Vijay Boyapati In this very special episode, Vijay returns to talk with Ced about his new book the Bullish Case for Bitcoin & where we are in this cycle. We discuss: - What are the common mistakes made during a bull run - How a bull market tests your conviction more than a vicious bear market - Is the current cycle different than prior cycles - El Salvador, nation state adoption, inflation & the Berlin Wall - How Bitcoin poses an existential threat to government monetary policy - Bitcoin as a collateral asset - Gartner hype cycles, Bitcoin's fundamentals, the Lindy Effect & tulips - Will countries ban proof of work mining - Mike Hearn, Ron Paul, big tech, Google, Silicon Valley, altcoin season, QE, AMC, Gamestop, meme stocks & so much more

In this mind-blowing conversation with the author of Wikileaks: The Global Fourth Estate, History is Happening, Nozomi Hayase & I discuss: - Did we trade authenticity for acceptance - Is pyschology used to move public opinion & manufacture consent - The stadium of democracy - The post-human future, superhumans & is humanity forking off - How Bitcoin affects our connection to reality, natural law & instinct - Snowden, Assange, MLK Jr, God, religion, Jesus, liberation psychology & much more To support Julian Assange please visit and donate at https://assangedefense.org/  

In this conversation, I speak with Javier Bastaro, a journalist for Cointelegraph, based in Caracas, Venezueala about hyperinflation, dollarization, the diaspora and the political, economic and human crises in Venezuela.  Will Venezuela turn into the new Cuba? How bad did things get in 2016? How deep is the current crisis that Venezueala is facing?  "Bitcoin makes you understand how deeply and important money is to the realization of the individual and to the realization of the citizen."

NVK is the Co-Founder & CEO of Coinkite, the company behind uber-popular Bitcoin hardware products like the Coldcard, OpenDime, BlockClock & several other dope ass pieces of hardware that allow users to engage in Bitcoin safely & conveniently.  We discuss: - The origins of Coinkite, Coldcard Wallet, Opendime & the BlockClock Mini - How Bitcoin products are pinatas for security - What sets the Coldcard Wallet apart - Common errors,  misconceptions & advice around Bitcoin security  - & more

In this wide-ranging chat with Phil Gibson aka Mr Pseu the host of podcast A Boy Named Pseu, we wax philosophically about music, culture & freedom in society today, our love for musical earworms, music as a universal language, his Bitcoin rabbit hole story & how Bitcoin is a beautiful & poetic response to the 2008 crisis & not just a random occurence & so much more in this free-flowing conversation I had with one of the freshest & dopest Bitcoiners around.

In this engaging conversation, Brady Swenson the Head of Education at Swan Bitcoin & fellow Bitcoin podcaster joins me to discuss:  - The significance of Satoshi's disappearance - Bitcoin as pushback against fiat - How civilization doesn't work without money - Lessons learned from the Roman Empire - Bitcoin as the future foundation for the empowerment of individual expression - His experience in the Peace Corps, starting Citizen Bitcoin, joining Swan & his rabbit hole story - & more

In this deep & wide ranging chat, David Bailey the CEO of Bitcoin Magazine & I discuss going from a hodler to a builder, what keeps him up at night, challenges that force you to figure out who you are, the Bitcoin 2021 conference, piles of Venezuelan cash to take home, Sumo wrestling for Taproot activation, his rabbit hole story, replacing the monetary system with one that is free & open to all, transforming society for a millenium, how revolutions don't pause for a pandemic & so much more.

In this fresh & timely chat, Flip from Bitcoin Magazine & I discuss: - A very exciting day in Bitcoin, $10k candles & Elon Musk - Bitcoin 2021 FOMO, surprises & anticipation - Bitcoin as a ubiquitous data layer - Proof of existence, decentralized identity & sparse data - How Bitcoin is really a global database for deriving truth - Working at a media company squarely in the middle of a financial revolution - His rabbit hole story & how Bitcoin made him think deeply about freedom

In this insightful & endearing conversation with Mir Liponi, the Godmother of Italy's Bitcoin Community, co-founder of the BHB Network & former CEO of Satoshi Design, we discuss her article Bitcoin & Motherhood, the history of the Bitcoin scene in Europe, the Milan Protocol, always doing the best thing for Bitcoin, how Bitcoin is for normal people & what a better future for our children in a Bitcoin world would look like.  I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. 

Nick Neuman & Jameson Lopp, CEO & CTO of Casa join me to talk about the world of multi-signature, hardware wallets, personal security & more.  We discuss: - The dos & don'ts of Bitcoin key management & security - The differences between wallet types - The spectrum of security options  - The tradeoffs between security & convenience - Hardware wallets, paper wallets, multi-sig, seeds vs seedless, decoy wallets, honeypots & the $5 wrench attack - How Casa secures your bitcoin - & more