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Under the Bitcoin Well Podcast banner are different shows including Answers, Explains and Reads. All shows that will help expand people's understanding of Bitcoin, both from a beginner and a veteran's perspective. With a strong focus on self-custody, self sovereignty, personal freedom and empowerment.
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- Yesterday21 min
Reads: What Canada Couldn't Freeze: Freeland, the Rhodes Trust, and the Money the State Couldn't Reach
In February 2022, Chrystia Freeland told Canada's banks they could freeze accounts without a judge, and they froze 257 of them. Two courts have since ruled it unconstitutional. The Rhodes Trust, founded by Cecil Rhodes as (in his own words) a secret society to place its people where the levers are, made her CEO anyway. Zach reads his essay on what the state could reach and what it couldn't: the bank accounts it took in hours, the 14.6 Bitcoin hand-delivered to truckers in envelopes with handwritten seed phrases, and Nunchuk's reply to the court: "We do not hold any keys." Then Hülsmann's Ethics of Money Production explains why the freeze wasn't the system malfunctioning. It was the system working. Not your keys, not your coins, not your custody, not your say. Bitcoin Well exists so your Bitcoin lands in a wallet you hold, not an account someone will be told to freeze. Buy Bitcoin straight to self-custody at bitcoinwell.com. New accounts use promo code PODCAST. Thoughts, pushback, hate mail from Oxford? z.addair@bitcoinwell.com Bitcoin Well is a non-custodial bitcoin platform that helps people buy, sell and use bitcoin in Canada and the United States. Customers can buy bitcoin online and receive it directly to their personal wallet, or work with Bitcoin Well Infinite for transactions over $50,000. Bitcoin Well also operates a network of Bitcoin ATMs across Canada. Learn more about bitcoin, self-custody and Bitcoin Well's services at bitcoinwell.com RESOURCES & LINKS: 🚀 Buy Bitcoin/Freedom: https://bitcoinwell.com 📧 Join the Mission (Newsletter): https://bitcoinwell.com/newsletter 📊 Take the Bitcoin Survey: https://bitcoinwell.com/survey 📈 Investor Relations: https://bitcoinwell.com/investors CONNECT WITH US: 🕊️ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwell 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebitcoinwell ⚡ Nostr: npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 (https://bitcoinwell.com/nostr) ChrystiaFreeland #EmergenciesAct #FreedomConvoy
- 5 days ago1h 0m
Guest: Why a Fed Rate Hike Might Not Crash Bitcoin This Time | Ansel Lindner
Today's FOMC decision carries real weight: markets are pricing an 87% probability of a 25 basis point hike, the first since 2023, after the Fed held in July on a divided 9-3 vote. Core inflation is running at 3.3%, the labor market is still warm, and Bitcoin is sitting around $77-79K heading into the announcement. Ansel Lindner (Bitcoin & Markets) joins us to break down what actually matters here: whether 25 bps is a real policy shift or mostly signaling, what a hike does to that 9-3 dissent, and why the conventional wisdom that rate hikes are automatically bad for Bitcoin might not hold up this time. If there's time, we also push back hard on the framing around the Iran conflict, including the economic angle Ansel may not expect: the same energy shock driving oil prices up sharply is a direct contributor to the inflation the Fed is now hiking to fight. Sign up for Bitcoin Well: https://bitcoinwell.com/signup Learn about Bitcoin Well Infinite: http://bitcoinwell.com/infinite Follow Ansel Lindner: https://x.com/AnselLindner Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, market analysis, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money. Bitcoin #FOMC #BitcoinWellPodcast
- 1 weeks ago19 min
Reads: The Rabbit Hole Has an Exit: 25 Years of 9/11 and Why I Ended Up in Bitcoin
In 2008, Zach sat down to read the official story of 9/11 so he could stop thinking about it. That was 18 years ago. This Reads episode walks the record, not the theories: Operation Northwoods and its 35-year classification, the Gulf of Tonkin attack that never happened, Colin Powell's vial, the 567-page Commission report that never mentions Building 7, and NIST conceding 2.25 seconds of freefall. Then it applies Rothbard's cui bono method to the whole quarter century and asks the question that finally matters: how does a state pay for a psyop and the war it sells? It prints. You don't have to agree about Building 7 to see why a money that can't be printed, with a ledger you can check yourself, is the peaceful exit. Just hold your own keys: leave it on an exchange and you've rebuilt the trust relationship you were escaping. Buy Bitcoin straight to your own wallet at bitcoinwell.com, promo code PODCAST. Questions or pushback: z.addair@bitcoinwell.com Bitcoin Well is a non-custodial bitcoin platform that helps people buy, sell and use bitcoin in Canada and the United States. Customers can buy bitcoin online and receive it directly to their personal wallet, or work with Bitcoin Well Infinite for transactions over $50,000. Bitcoin Well also operates a network of Bitcoin ATMs across Canada. Learn more about bitcoin, self-custody and Bitcoin Well's services at bitcoinwell.com RESOURCES & LINKS: 🚀 Buy Bitcoin/Freedom: https://bitcoinwell.com 📧 Join the Mission (Newsletter): https://bitcoinwell.com/newsletter 📊 Take the Bitcoin Survey: https://bitcoinwell.com/survey 📈 Investor Relations: https://bitcoinwell.com/investors CONNECT WITH US: 🕊️ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwell 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebitcoinwell ⚡ Nostr: npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 (https://bitcoinwell.com/nostr) September11 #Building7 #OperationNorthwoods #GulfOfTonkin #Psyop
- 1 weeks ago1h 1m
Bitcoin Didn't Break. The $320M Shortcut Built on Top of It Did.
Liquid, the Blockstream sidechain built to give Bitcoin users faster and more private transactions, hit a consensus split this week and "white hat hackers" pulled $320 million out of it. Bitcoin itself never went down. The layer built on top of it did. Rob from Bitcoin News joins us to go deep on what actually happened with Liquid and why this keeps being the pattern: the same week, the ColdCard attacker moved 45 percent of previously stolen funds in a third wave, and Orionx, a Tether-backed Chilean exchange, shut down after an audit found $7 million in customer funds missing, leaving 100,000 users without refunds. We also get into the real debate of the week: Coinbase's new Bitcoin-backed mortgage product with Better Home & Finance, and whether that's genuine adoption or just Bitcoin becoming collateral for the same debt trap it was supposed to be an exit from. Plus the IMF quietly confirming El Salvador's Bitcoin strategy survived four years of pressure intact, AMC's CEO calling Robinhood's tokenized stock "contemptible," and what's actually at stake in the CLARITY Act's September 15 Senate vote. Sign up for Bitcoin Well: https://bitcoinwell.com/signup Learn about Bitcoin Well Infinite: http://bitcoinwell.com/infinite Follow Rob Wallace on X and YouTube: https://x.com/_Rob_Wallace https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyfFeU73MF9uC5mA6lTS0FA Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, market analysis, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money. Bitcoin #BitcoinWellPodcast
- 1 weeks ago11 min
Reads: Your Bank Account Is a Flock Camera
There is a camera on a pole near you right now, and it is photographing every car that passes. Adam O'Brien's essay "Jump Out of the Pot" turns that camera around and points it at your bank account: the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act that made banks informants, the 1976 Supreme Court ruling that made your financial records the bank's property instead of yours, and the 257 Canadian accounts frozen in hours for a perfectly legal donation. Financial privacy isn't about hiding bad things. It's protection against a government that changes the definition of bad things after the fact. The code already protects your coins. Only your habits protect the rest. Buy Bitcoin straight to your own wallet at bitcoinwell.com. New accounts use code PODCAST. Bitcoin Well is a non-custodial bitcoin platform that helps people buy, sell and use bitcoin in Canada and the United States. Customers can buy bitcoin online and receive it directly to their personal wallet, or work with Bitcoin Well Infinite for transactions over $50,000. Bitcoin Well also operates a network of Bitcoin ATMs across Canada. Learn more about bitcoin, self-custody and Bitcoin Well's services at bitcoinwell.com FinancialPrivacy #Surveillance #FlockSafety RESOURCES & LINKS: 🚀 Buy Bitcoin/Freedom: https://bitcoinwell.com 📧 Join the Mission (Newsletter): https://bitcoinwell.com/newsletter 📊 Take the Bitcoin Survey: https://bitcoinwell.com/survey 📈 Investor Relations: https://bitcoinwell.com/investors CONNECT WITH US: 🕊️ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwell 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebitcoinwell ⚡ Nostr: npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 (https://bitcoinwell.com/nostr)
- 2 weeks ago2 min
Reads: Your Bank Account Is a Flock Camera
There is a camera on a pole near you right now, and it is photographing every car that passes. Adam O'Brien's essay "Jump Out of the Pot" turns that camera around and points it at your bank account: the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act that made banks informants, the 1976 Supreme Court ruling that made your financial records the bank's property instead of yours, and the 257 Canadian accounts frozen in hours for a perfectly legal donation. Financial privacy isn't about hiding bad things. It's protection against a government that changes the definition of bad things after the fact. The code already protects your coins. Only your habits protect the rest. FinancialPrivacy #Surveillance #FlockSafety Buy Bitcoin straight to your own wallet at bitcoinwell.com. New accounts use code PODCAST.
- 2 weeks ago1h 9m
Guest: Bitcoin Won't Defeat Wall Street. It Will Absorb It | Nolan Bauerle (CountBTC)
Q sits down with Nolan Bauerle (CountBTC) for a conversation that goes way past the price chart. Nolan's frame: the Iran war was decided the day Lloyds of London pulled war insurance, because the real fight was between physical energy delivery and the paper version of it (Brent, futures, risk premiums). Fiat is words. And the world is shifting toward something more symbolic, simpler, and physical. From there it gets spicy. Politics as kayfabe, the Whitfield Diffie story about America being imperial and revolutionary at the same time, why Quebec is quietly what MAGA wants, and where the two of them part ways on Israel, lawfare, and whether Trump runs again. The through-line is Nolan's uncomfortable thesis for Bitcoiners who see themselves as pure revolutionaries: you don't beat Wall Street by nagging it into self-custody. You infect it, redefine its incentives, and separate money from state at the level of taxation and collateral. Disagreement, history, and a lot of laughs. Buy Bitcoin the only way that ends with the keys in your hands. bitcoinwell.com, promo code PODCAST. For larger purchases, meet a Bitcoin advisor at bitcoinwell.com/infinite. Follow Nolan: CountBTC on X, Nolan Bauerle on YouTube and Rumble.
- 2 weeks ago54 min
Guest: Bitcoin Well's CEO: 'Your Bank Account Is a Surveillance Camera
There's a camera on a pole near you right now, tracking every car that passes. Your city bought it to catch stolen vehicles. It's already been used to track romantic partners, reach into immigration cases, and build a national database that runs warrant-free searches across tens of thousands of cameras. Your bank account is the same machine. It's just older, and nobody built a satirical Darth Vader bit about it yet. Adam O'Brien, CEO of Bitcoin Well, joins us to make that case in full. We get into why surveillance infrastructure never stays limited to its stated purpose, what actually happened during Canada's 2022 trucker convoy account freezes (257 accounts, no court order, a ruling that took four years to arrive), why Elizabeth Warren's crypto AML bill targets law-abiding self-custody users while stablecoins account for the vast majority of actual illicit crypto volume, and why Adam believes a modern-day Executive Order 6102 wouldn't need to touch Bitcoin's code at all — just a letter to five custodians and a database query. We also talk about the darkest part of this: how KYC databases and physical wrench attacks are connected, why a data breach today is a home address that doesn't expire, and what it actually looks like to build a private Bitcoin stack in a way that's completely legal. Watch the full clips referenced in this episode: Adam's blog posts: https://bitcoinwell.com/blog/jump-out-of-the-pot Darth Vader at San Diego City Council: https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/darth-vader-san-diego-city-council/ Sign up for Bitcoin Well: https://bitcoinwell.com/signup Learn about Bitcoin Well Infinite: http://bitcoinwell.com/infinite Follow Adam O'Brien: https://x.com/adamobrien Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, financial privacy, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money. Bitcoin #FinancialPrivacy #BitcoinWellPodcast RESOURCES & LINKS: 🚀 Buy Bitcoin/Freedom: https://bitcoinwell.com 📧 Join the Mission (Newsletter): https://bitcoinwell.com/newsletter 📊 Take the Bitcoin Survey: https://bitcoinwell.com/survey 📈 Investor Relations: https://bitcoinwell.com/investors CONNECT WITH US: 🕊️ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwell 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebitcoinwell ⚡ Nostr: npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 (https://bitcoinwell.com/nostr)
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