Ben Justman is a small business owner, winemaker and Bitcoiner in Western Colorado. His winery, Peony Lane, is a Natural Winery in the highest wine region in North America and specializes in Pinot Noir. He uses his background as a farmer, business owner and Bitcoiner to educate his communities about sound money and the importance of supporting local food systems. In Value Stack 35, we discuss growing up in Colorado and the process of making natural wine - from the soil composition, planning and time involved, to marketing and finding a niche market in selling to bitcoiners! We...

Jack Liu is a founding member of Ordswap and has been working in the Bitcoin industry for the past decade in various capacities. In Value Stack 34, we discuss Ordswap.io, the first trustless bitcoin ordinal/inscriptions exchange, and how his team had to build a working product in under a week! We also review how ordinals and trustless PSBT exchanges work, and speculate on what the future implications might be for inscriptions and NFTs as a trojan horse for bitcoin adoption. Support the show here, or by listening to the podcast directly on Fountain...

Charlie Spears is a recurring guest on Value Stack podcast, is the community manager for the Ordinals Project, and has been building OrdinalHub.com In Value Stack Episode 33, Charlie joined me while in town for ETHDenver to discuss the Ordinals and NFT inscription craze on bitcoin, and why bitcoiners should pay attention to what is developing in that space. We talk about why there are differing stance of opinion on this new "shared-delusion," particularly bitcoin miners, what's at stake, and if it's ultimately good for bitcoin or not. Check out the show notes below. Support the show here, or by...

Colin Crossman has been a serial entrepreneur for over 20 years. He has a background in law and engineering, and in addition to devising the KYC-minimized aspects of Distributed Hash, he has built out the entire IT infrastructure for Distributed Hash, including building several custom tools to ease management and collect detailed mining data. He and his wife work together to collect and analyze ASIC data to generate actionable insights both for individual customers, and the community at large. In Value Stack Episode 32, we start by discussing common pitfalls in human decision making, and the importance of the...

CalleBTC is a lightning network developer and creator of Cashu protocol, which is an implementation of Chaumian mints on bitcoin lightning network. In Value Stack Ep 31, we discuss how it works and differs from bitcoin on-chain and the lightning network, compare to other implementations and existing custodial relationships, and even do a demo at the end to show how easy it is to get Cashu tokens. Support the show here, or by listening to the podcast directly on Fountain app! Topics 0:00 Intro - @callebtc 0:50 How does Chaumian e-cash work? 7:41 How e-cash and...

Don is a former tech entrepreneur turned bitcoin enthusiast and angel investor. He is passionate about educating people on the importance of bitcoin, its impact on society, and how it will shape the future. As the founder of Sats Standard Capital, he invests in early-stage bitcoin and lightning network companies. He also hosts the Orange Pill Addicts and co-organizes the Kansas City Bitcoin Meetup with the KC Bitcoin Guys. In this episode, we talk about investing in bitcoin startups, and why someone would want to invest in private companies instead of more traditional assets like...

Tatum TurnUp is the host of Between Two ASICs, a bitcoin comedy show. He also does other bitcoin-themed sketch-comedy on the channel, and works as an ASIC repair technician for his day-job to support his dream of becoming a big-time podcaster one day. In this episode, we talk about a wide-range of topics, from what goes into planning content creation, living and driving in New Orleans, bitcoin mining and regulation, servicing ASICs, and more. Check out the full show notes below. ____________________________________ Support the Show ____________________________________ 0:00 Content creation & early YouTube...

2022 has been a heck of a year in bitcoin. With so much contagion in the crypto lending space, it's definitely made for one to remember. For Value Stack 28, Beau and Sam joined me for a 2022 bitcoin and crypto markets year-in-review episode. This one is a long one and we had some fun with it, so kick back and join us with your favorite beverage as we try to find the silver linings going into 2023, and why we're still as #bullish on bitcoin as ever. Check out the full show notes below. ____________________________________ ...

Tyler Bain is a registered professional engineer in the state of Colorado and alumni of the Colorado School of Mines. He hosts one of the largest recurring bitcoin meetups in the US, Denver Bitcoin & Beer, and is the co-author of Bitcoin for Dummies, Second Edition. As a bitcoin hobbyist and enthusiast, his emphasis has been on system resiliency and mining mechanics. In this episode, we discuss the importance of the Electrical Grid, energy mix, how bitcoin can improve demand load forecasting, and more. Check out the full show notes below. ____________________________________ Support the...

Adam O. is the Master of Hashrate at Upstream Data. In episode 26 of Value Stack Podcast, we talk about the importance of counterparty risk in energy trade, how bitcoin mining is a perfectly fair game, the real effective altruism in crypto, how petroleum touches our everyday lives without us realizing it, and more. Check out the full show notes below. ____________________________________ Support the Show ____________________________________ 0:00 “Energy waste is the biggest problem in the energy industry. Bitcoin mining fixes this.” - tweet by Jaran Mellerud 4:00 Pushing Bitcoin mining to upstream energy markets 9:30 Upstream Data...

Rob W is the co-founder and partner at Distributed Hash, and business development lead for Upstream Data. In this episode, we talk about how "bitcoin miners are dung beetles", referring to his recent 3 minute monologue at the Adams County Commissioner hearing in Colorado, on banning bitcoin mining with flared natural gas. We also discuss running large-scale ASIC performance and heat tests, differences in Whatsminer vs Antminer machines, our favorite bitcoin educators, green-energy narratives and the oil & gas industry, and more! Check out the full show notes below. ____________________________________ Support the Show

Charlie Spears is the founder of Nakamotor Partners. In this episode, we talk all about running a bitcoin mining operation in a bear market, the narratives surrounding energy use and the oil & gas industry, how language shapes our reality, and more! Check out the full topics list below. ____________________________________ Support the Show ____________________________________ 0:00 Intro - Charlie Spears of Nakamotor Partners (nakamotor.io) 0:45 Nakamotor Partners - bitcoin at the wellsite 3:20 Vertical integration in the oilfield 7:50 Structuring bitcoin mining contracts 9:55 Path to working in the bitcoin industry 13:30 Bitcoin Reddit and the Block Size Wars 15:45 Importance of...

Mark Goodwin and his team produce the quarterly print edition of Bitcoin Magazine. In this episode, we talk about bitcoin culture, differences in strategies of producing digital vs print content, "fiat-disease" and sobriety, reclaiming sovereignty, and more. ____________________________________ Support the Show ____________________________________ 0:00 Intro 1:40 Learning about Bitcoin through the Silk Road 5:06 Crypto lessons since 2017 6:58: Was the ETH merge successful? 7:50 Are stablecoins still worth using? 9:00 Interest rates - are they instruments of war? 10:10 Exchange rates and inflation - Euro, Pound, Dollar 13:08 Keeping conviction in bitcoin 14:10 From slinging drinks to magazines 22:58 Importance of trust in relationships 26:20 What does...

Will Reeves is the CEO of Fold app and co-creator of Bitopoly. He’s leading the way in making Bitcoin adoption and education fun and approachable. I’m excited to release this episode where we discussed strategies for making Bitcoin adoption viral, building companies in volatile markets, and how to make a good game/app that keeps people coming back for more. Enjoy Episode 22 of Value Stack Podcast! ____________________________________ Support the Show Casa Makes Self Custody Easy ____________________________________ 0:00 Intro 2:00 Bitcoin Story 5:20 Separating Signal from Noise 8:50 Evolution of Fold app and Staying Bitcoin-only 11:30 Barr...

Jared is the host of the Crypto Parabellum Podcast and +Expected Value telegram group. Initially in commercial insurance and investor in real estate, he's now been trading crypto a few years ago and has excelled enough to leave his job and do it full time. His macro takes are on-point and he’s one of the few people I give weight to when he makes market calls. Obviously without a crystal ball, he must have knowledge that we can learn from to enhance our investing skills, so Iam excited to have him on the show for Ep...

Today's guest is @Jestopher_BTC. Jestopher is the co-founder of Amboss.space and hosts Satbase.org. He’s an educator on lightning network, community leader, and Bitcoiner with a passion for getting things done. He's on my short-list of experts to ask lightning-network related questions, and it has been incredible to watch him build Amboss and push lightning growth forward in a meaningful way. Unfortunately, we had some audio volume issues throughout recording, but hope it's still listenable enough to enjoy the show. You can find Jestopher on Twitter at @Jestopher_BTC. Subscribe so...

Today's guest on Value Stack is Andrew Yang. We discuss the recent crypto market blowup, the similarities in last cycle to this one, and where we think Bitcoin fits within a portfolio today. We talk strategies of leadership, how to manage a team during a downtrun, keeping positivity in life, and the joys of cooking, learning, laughing, and pushing out of one's comfort zone. You can find Andrew on Twitter at @ecurrencyhodler. Subscribe so you don't miss an episode! ____________________________________ Support the Show Casa Makes Self Custody Easy ____________________________________ 0:00 - A...

This week's guest is Mark Maraia. Mark is a business coach, a relationship rainmaker, a coordinator for Bitcoin Magazine Contributors, co-author of the Declaration of Monetary Independence, a sovereign-minded individual, and like most bitcoiners, has a lifelong commitment to learning. Check Out Our Site: https://www.cachemoney.io Support the Show: https://linktr.ee/valuestack Thanks for listening to Value Stack Podcast! ____________________________________ 0:00 About our Sponsor - Anchor.FM 1:00 Intro 1:59 Tell us about your Bitcoin story 6:50 Is Bitcoin for Outsiders? 8:15 Importance of Staying Humble / Perspective 10:30 Open Letter to...

Do you think Bitcoin is too slow? Want more use cases for your Bitcoin? Do more research. But if you're a LUNATIC like our friend here, you can BURN IT FOREVER now thanks to Strudel Finance and receive "vBTC."Why would you EVER want to do this? Honestly, we wouldn't. But @At0xNQ of Orkan Finance explains all this in our honest discussion on BTC vs altcoins, wrapped BTC, layer 2 BTC and more.Is this a big brain idea 🧠 with real use case, or just another get-rich-quick rug pull like we see so often in...

Value Stack, where old finance meets Bitcoin. We discuss current events and age-old human biases as we dissect Bitcoin’s ascension. If you're interested in investing, economics, Bitcoin, and libertarian ideas, then Value Stack Podcast is for you! This week’s guest is Eric Yakes, author of The 7th Property. You can purchase his book here. Brought to you by @Shaperfunds and @BTCBap. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Chapters 0:00 Thanks to Anchor! 1:00 A Word About Our Sponsor - Coinbeast.com 2:00 Intro - Eric Yakes 3:35 Bitcoin predictions for 2022 4:45 Domestic vs International Sovereign Debt 5:45 Credit Money vs Commodity Money 8:00 Where does Bitcoin fit in? 10:00 Why sma...

Value Stack, where old finance and Bitcoin meet. We discuss current events and age-old human biases as we dissect Bitcoin’s ascension.  If you're interested in investing, economics, Bitcoin, and libertarian ideas, then Value Stack Podcast is for you. Brought to you by @Shaperfunds and @BTCBap. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 A Word About Our Sponsor 1:00 Intro 1:50 Bitcoin Market Update 3:00 We are on the Fountain app! 4:30 Fall of Petrodollar/ Dollar Reserve Currency Status 11:45 How Important is Oil in our Life? 21:20 Russia SWIFT Sanctions 25:20 Are We in The Fourth Turning? 35:00 Does National Debt Matter? 43:00 US CPI at 7.9% 52:27 Boating Accident: $...

Value Stack, where old finance and Bitcoin meet. We discuss current events and age-old human biases as we dissect Bitcoin’s ascension. If you're interested in investing, economics, Bitcoin, and libertarian ideas, then Value Stack Podcast is for you~ Brought to you by @Shaperfunds and @BTCBap. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  0:00 A Word About Our Sponsor  1:00 Intro  2:20 We are Streaming on Fountain.FM!  4:24 Bitcoin Market Update  5:18 Nasdaq and Equity Update  7:18 Canda Invokes Emergencies Act  9:05 China Inflation Hits Multi-Year Low  11:26 Putin, Ukraine, and Bitcoin  14:10 The Crypto Bowl Commercials  15:58 Hacker @Tree_of_Alpha Saves Coinbase Advanced Tra...

Value Stack, where old finance and Bitcoin meet. We discuss current events and age old human biases as we dissect Bitcoin’s ascension. If you're interested in investing, economics, Bitcoin, and libertarian ideas, then Value Stack Podcast is for you~ Brought to you by @Shaperfunds and @BTCBap. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 A Word About our Sponsors 1:00 Intro 2:30 Costa Rica Hydro Plant 6:00 The Grid and Mining Electricity Usage 9:00 Price-to-Hodl Ratio 13:30 Block ASICs 16:30 Lone Wolf Mines a Bitcoin Block 17:45 Cash App Integrating Lightning 21:20 Boating Accident of the Week - Melania Trump 23:00 Bored Apes and the NFT Craze 29:00 Arkansas $10K Bitcoin for Relocation 31:45 Fed Rates 37:50 Outro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Visit Our WebsiteSupport the Show

This week, we were joined by Sam Callahan from Swan Bitcoin. We talk a wide range of topics related to bitcoin, financial planning, and macroeconomics.   Check out https://www.swanbitcoin.com/Bap/ to DCA the easy way!    Value Stack, where old finance and Bitcoin meet. We discuss current events and age old human biases as we dissect Bitcoin’s ascension.     If you're interested in investing, economics, Bitcoin, and libertarian ideas, then Value Stack Podcast is for you!  Brought to you by @Shaperfunds and @BTCBap.    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   0:00 A Word About Our Sponsor - Coinbeast.com   1:00 Opening Remarks / Intro   5:00 Dorsey leaves Twitter - All in Bitcoin?   11:00 Michael Saylor Orange-Pilling the Masses on Tucker Carlson   ...

Value Stack, where old finance and Bitcoin meet. We discuss current events and age old human biases as we dissect Bitcoin’s ascension.  If you're interested in investing, economics, Bitcoin, and libertarian ideas, then Value Stack Podcast is for you!  Brought to you by @Shaperfunds and @BTCBap.  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  0:00 A Word About Our Sponsors  1:00 Intro  5:20 Square Releases TBDex Whitepaper  9:00 Cash App Launches Tax Filing  13:50 SEC Denies Spot ETF  19:00 Continued Institutional Adoption  24:00 Are Stablecoins a Threat to Freedom?  27:18 Ushering in Prosperity with Bitcoin  31:12 Inflation Heating Up  37:20 Boat...

Value Stack, where old finance and Bitcoin meet. We discuss current events and age old human biases as we dissect Bitcoin’s ascension. If you're interested in investing, economics, Bitcoin, and libertarian ideas, then Value Stack Podcast is for you! Brought to you by @Shaperfunds and @BTCBap.   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 A Word About Our Sponsors 1:00 Intro 2:50 First Bitcoin ETF Launches 6:30 Future of Bitcoin Institutional Adoption 9:00 Interactive Brokers Embraces Bitcoin 10:21 Houston Firefighters Pension Fund Buys Bitcoin 15:04 Bitcoin as an Inflation-Hedge Narrative is Growing 21:32 Boating Accident of the Week - Peter Schiff 28:3...

Value Stack, where old finance and Bitcoin meet. We discuss current events and age old human biases as we dissect Bitcoin’s ascension.  If you're interested in investing, economics, Bitcoin, and libertarian ideas, then Value Stack Podcast is for you! Brought to you by @Shaperfunds and @BTCBap.  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 A Word About Our Sponsor - Coinbeast.com 2:00 Intro 3:20 Price and Stock to Flow Model Update 3:55 Stock to Flow Model Explained 7:45 Stock to Flow and Difficult Adjustment Algorithm 9:15 George Soros Buys Bitcoin 12:45 WY Senator Cynthia Lummis Dis...

Value Stack, where old finance and Bitcoin meet. We discuss current events and age old human biases as we dissect Bitcoin’s ascension. If you're interested in investing, economics, Bitcoin, and libertarian ideas, then Value Stack Podcast is for you! Brought to you by @Shaperfunds and @BTCBap. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 A Word About Our Sponsors 1:00 Intro 2:50 Taos and Denver Bitcoin Meetups 6:30 Twitter Adopts Bitcoin Lightning 10:50 China Bans Bitcoin (Again) 14:30 More US Regulation of Crypto Incoming? 16:04 Coinbase CEO on Pomp's Best Business Show 19:38 Toxic Bitcoiners Twitter Spaces Debate 23:15 Bi...

Value Stack, where old finance and Bitcoin meet. We discuss current events and age old human biases as we dissect Bitcoin’s ascension. If you're interested in investing, economics, Bitcoin, and libertarian ideas, then Value Stack Podcast is for you! Brought to you by @Shaperfunds and @BTCBap.  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  0:00 Thanks to our Sponsors - Coinbeast.com and Anchor 2:05 Intro 3:50 Meeting Preston Pysh 6:50 Fidelity Predicts $1B per BTC 8:22 Twitter BTC Strategy vs Coinbase vs Titan  - Corporate Strategies Compared 11:40 Decentralization Trends of Companies and Data Privacy 13:52 Crypto vs Bitcoin - Risk Profiles Compared 20:20 What Crypto Projects are Adding Value to Society? 27:14 Boating Accident of the Week - Busta Rhymes 2...

Value Stack, where old finance and Bitcoin meet. We discuss current events and age-old human biases as we dissect Bitcoin’s ascension.    If you're interested in investing, economics, Bitcoin, and libertarian ideas, then Value Stack Podcast is for you!       Brought to you by @Shaperfunds and @BTCBap.  #bitcoin ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Today's Topics 0:00 Sponsorships  2:42 Bitcoin Price Discussion  7:51 Congress Infrastructure Bill  11:30 The B-Word Conference  17:19 Bitcoin and World Peace  24:03 $FTX and $HOOD Raise More Capital  26:06 Boating Accident of the Week - Trevor Milton  30:03 Investing and Managing Behavioral Biases  45:03 Outro  ━━━━━━━━━━━━

Welcome to Value Stack Podcast. If you're interested in investing, economics, Bitcoin, and libertarian ideas, then this is the podcast for you! Brought to you by @Shaperfunds and @BTCBap. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Sponsorships 1:03 Intro  1:32 Attending Local Bitcoin Meetups  4:24 Is Stock to Flow Model Breaking Down?  9:11 Grayscale GBTC Lockup Expiry - Price Drop Incoming?  26:18 Boating Accident of the Week (US Senator Cynthia Lummis)  31:08 Trading and Managing Emotions in Volatile Markets  41:14 Major Hashrate Decline - A Cause for Concern?  47:23 Outro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Today's topics:   -We discuss our experience attending local bitcoin meetups in person and the growth of the bitcoin commu...

In today's podcast, we discuss the recent adoption of Bitcoin in El Salvador, the events that led up to it, and the implications worldwide now that Bitcoin is legal tender. We have a critical discussion about Bitcoin toxic maximalists and whether they're good for the adoption of Bitcoin or not. We also talk about recent events surrounding Robert Breedlove and BitClout, and give our takes.  We acknowledge the legendary life of John McAfee in this week's Boating Accident. We talk about the difficulty of teaching financial advisors about bitcoin, how to teach bitcoin t...

Welcome to Value Stack Podcast, where we talk about all things related to value investing and Bitcoin.   In today's episode, we discuss the reason rise of Dogecoin, Elon Musk's misunderstanding of Bitcoin, and the recent bitcoin crash into mid-40 thousand.  We also talk about the Ethereum ecosystem compared to Bitcoin's maximalists.  We talk about common misconceptions on block times, scalability, lightning network, Bitcoin on Mars, and more. We also talk about multi-sig custody solutions for multinational companies and the rise of sovereign individuals.   Heard about the bitcoin car?  That's coming too! If y...

Welcome to the Value Stack Podcast, where we talk about all things related to value investing and Bitcoin.  In today's second episode, we discuss Bitcoin Basics and how the various components of the network assimilate together to form a valuable cryptocurrency. We talk about miners, nodes, block rewards, halving epochs, security, wallets, and more. If you're a beginner and are looking to sharpen your bitcoin sword, this is a great episode to check out.  If you're interested in investing, economics, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, and libertarian ideas, then this is the podcast for you!   ...

Welcome to the Value Stack Podcast, where we talk about all things related to investing and Bitcoin.  In today's debut episode, we discuss measures of inflation and the value investor's dilemma. We discuss Naufal Sanaullah guest episode on The Business Brew podcast. We talk about Michael Saylor's views on bitcoin and inflation, and the process of hyperbitcoinization.  If you're interested in investing, economics, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, and libertarian ideas, then this is the podcast for you!   Join @Shaperfunds and @BTCBap on Twitter for this hour-long dive into the world of value investing, and how bitcoin will change the...