🎙 Bitcoin Fortress Podcast — Episode 236 The Price of Everything is Changing Date: October 11, 2026 Block Height: 970958 Moscow Time: 1192 Fees: 1 / 1 /2   ABOUT THIS EPISODE This week on The Bitcoin Fortress Podcast, we're watching two powerful economic forces collide. Capital is becoming more expensive as bond yields climb, inflation persists, and governments struggle with mounting debt. At the same time, artificial intelligence is making once-expensive capabilities increasingly abundant. We examine Bitcoin's resilience, the changing regulatory landscape, turmoil in global bond markets, the enormous financing demands of AI, and what it all means for monetary sovereignty. We also explore conversations from the Bitcoin podcast universe and feature my latest Substack essay, When Intelligence Becomes Cheap. The common thread? The old assumptions about money, value, and scarcity are being challenged.   Bitcoin Fortress YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEPGN1YCIQcMxkUig5GaNrQ   Bitcoin Fortress Substack Featured Post: When Intelligence Becomes Cheap https://bitcoinfortress.substack.com/p/when-intelligence-becomes-cheap   Bitcoin Fortress Books: Bitcoin Fortress: A Simple Guide to Bitcoin for Beginners Bitcoin Retirement and Estate Planning The Bitcoin Lifestyle The Architecture of Money The Sovereign Life Follow me on Nostr: npub122fpu8lwu2eu2zfmrymcfed9tfgeray5quj78jm6zavj78phnqdsu3v4h5   NEWS (October 4, 2026 – October 11, 2026) Bitcoin and digital assets MarketWatch — Bitcoin's longer-term uptrend — Oct 5 Barron's — Bitcoin pressured by dollar and yields — Oct 7 Reuters — CFTC proposes crypto oversight rules — Oct 5 Barron's — CME and CFTC perpetual futures dispute — Oct 10 WSJ — Bitcoin investment products expand in Europe — Oct 8 Macro, interest rates and global debt Reuters — Pimco warns 10-year Treasury could reach 6% — Oct 9 Reuters — Strong Treasury auction eases bond selloff — Oct 7 Barron's — Investors buy into Treasury rout — Oct 5 Reuters — Dollar and rates respond to Fed minutes — Oct 8 Reuters — Investors move toward cash and bonds — Oct 9 Reuters — European debt and bond-market stress — Oct 9 Energy and geopolitics Reuters — Global debt dominates IMF–World Bank meetings — Oct 11 Reuters — Oil, inflation and global markets — Oct 9 Artificial intelligence and capital Reuters — Financing the AI infrastructure boom — Oct 9 Reuters — Nvidia explores Reflection AI investment — Oct 10 Reuters — AI-led bull market approaches four years — Oct 9 Podcast references TFTC — Jeremy Ryan Slate: Rome's Currency Debasement Playbook — Oct 5 TFTC — Susan Kokinda: The Economic Revolution Is Already Here — Oct 7 TFTC — Tom Luongo: London Closed the Strait of Hormuz — Oct 10