Stephan Kinsella joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about why you can’t legally own Bitcoin, what the difference between ownership and possession means for self-custody, and whether the July 2026 Coldcard hack was really theft. Knut and Stephan dig into Austrian economics, libertarian contract theory, why fractional reserve banking…
Brendan Guest joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about Valuearchy, his proposed alternative to democracy that puts the price of government on the ballot before the vote and replaces taxation with enforceable contracts citizens can stop funding when leaders break them. Knut goes full Rothbard, pressing him on whether…
Bob Burnett joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about life after BIP-110, from mining the very first BIP-110 signaling block with Barefoot Mining to why he stepped back in June and why he sees no path to success for the Blake2b fork. As Ocean's newly elected chairman, Bob explains…
Tomer Strolight joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about the aftermath of the BIP-110 fork attempt, why he ran Knots but never followed the hard fork off Bitcoin, and what the Cold Card entropy exploit and the Liquid hack revealed about Bitcoin security. He and Knut get into why…
Giacomo Zucco joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about why the BIP-110 soft fork attempt failed, what an economic node actually is, and why running a node was never the vote most Bitcoiners believed it to be. He unpacks the mythology that grew around the UASF and SegWit, explains…
Desert Dave joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about off-grid solar Bitcoin mining in the Arizona desert, the failed BIP 110 soft fork, and why he's bricking six ASICs to mine a new proof-of-work fork instead. Knut pushes back hard, arguing that node decentralization, Ocean and DATUM, and alternative…
Cory Klippsten joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about Swan's Fifty Days for Freedom campaign, the parallels he draws between the American founders' fight for political independence and this generation's fight for monetary independence, and why he thinks Bitcoin adoption follows a seventy to eighty year technological revolution curve…
Nick Malster joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about building Fountain, the Bitcoin podcast app where listeners send sats over Lightning and creators publish to open RSS feeds instead of closed platforms. He explains why Fountain has wound down its listen to earn rewards, how AI generated podcast clones…
Thomas Jeegers joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about MiCA, self-custody, and why Europe keeps regulating itself into a corner. He explains how the block size war proved Bitcoin was genuinely decentralized, why mining pool concentration worries him less than it worries most Bitcoiners, and how compliance costs land…
Scott Dedels joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about his new book The Age of Time and why the mechanical clock, not the printing press, may be the deepest centralization in modern life. Recorded spontaneously at the Bitcoin Ireland Conference in Dublin, the conversation runs from 1657 and the…
Matthew Kratter, Bitcoin Mechanic, Luke Broyles, and Luke de Wolf join Knut Svanholm to watch the activation of BIP-110.
Knut Svanholm, Matthew Kratter, Bitcoin Mechanic, and Daniel Prince watch the BIP-110 Activation.
Samson Mow joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about BIP-110, the mandatory signalling window, and why he thinks a user activated soft fork without broad consensus is a risk to Bitcoin rather than a fix for spam. Knut and Samson dig into the block size wars, how BIP-148 and…
Kent Halliburton joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about why he thinks producing your own Bitcoin beats buying it on an exchange, and how mining as a service fits into that picture. He and Knut get into BIP-110 and Kent's position as a proud fence sitter, the growing distrust…
Jeff Booth joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about user activated soft forks, why economic nodes rather than miners decide what Bitcoin is, and why he expects these consensus battles to keep repeating for decades. He argues that the block reward alone is enough to secure Bitcoin all the…
Martin Matejka joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about using Bitcoin as collateral for loans without handing your coins to a trust me bro platform like the ones that collapsed in the last cycle. He and Knut get into how Firefish uses Bitcoin layer one tools like multisig, timelocks,…
Jon Atack returns to the Bitcoin Infinity Show for his second appearance to talk through the Bitcoin Core governance questions raised by Hodlonaut's Capture article series, and why he believes Core's instinct to circle the wagons and shoot the messenger has hurt its public image more than any outside misinformation.…
George Bodine joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about Bitcoin self-custody, running a node, and why paper Bitcoin held through treasury companies and ETFs carries counterparty risk that real cold storage does not. Knut and George dig into the Core versus Knots debate, BIP-110, the power law disagreement, and…
Dr. Jack Kruse joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show for an uncensored conversation, after Natalie Brunell declined to release his appearance on her podcast. He lays out his Fabianism thesis, the idea that the same incremental "Landauer attack" he believes centralized Western medicine through the Flexner Report is now being run…
Renaud Cuny joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about measuring the monetary health of the Bitcoin network through hard data, from the percentage of block space consumed by spam to the concentration of mining pools and hardware manufacturers. He walks through his Bitcoin Portal project, which scores decentralization and…
Josh, AKA Secure Sovereign, joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about Bitcoin Core governance, the case for alternative node implementations, and Bitcoin Commons, a new Rust implementation he says specifies and locks down Bitcoin consensus while making it far easier to fork and run your own node. Josh recovered…
Bitcoin Mechanic joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about BIP-110, the minority soft fork now activating on hard mode, and why he believes node runners rather than miners ultimately control the network. Drawing on his front-row view of the 2017 block size wars, he breaks down the game theory…
Max Hillebrand joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about his new book The Praxeology of Privacy and why privacy sits at the foundation of sound money, self-custody, and the entire cypherpunk project. The conversation traces the prehistory of Bitcoin from David Chaum's anonymous eCash through Hal Finney's proof of…
Paco de la India joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about his Run with Bitcoin journey across 40 countries, the reality of Bitcoin adoption in the global South, and what he learned about freedom, circular economies, and money along the way. Knut and Paco dig into the BIP-110 spam…