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Fundamentals of Fundamentals
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June 8, 2026
Loving Ourselves w/ SlyGoomba
<p>Today I sit down with my longtime friend Sly Goomba for an unfiltered conversation about identity, debt, sovereignty, and faith. We trace our early Bitcoin zealotry, why the label “Bitcoiner” feels empty today, and how paper Bitcoin, institutions, and interest-rate theater shape people’s behavior far more than we want to admit. From credit-card traps to mortgages, we wrestle with whether rates even matter, what it means to keep your word, and how to build a life that isn’t brittle. We get personal about marriages stressed by conviction, why Bitcoin often wrecks before it refines, and why real upgrades start with loving yourself and pursuing a relationship with God. We talk about building sturdier structures—community, study, and service—through things like BitDevs and honest education, and we land on a simple charge: stop LARPing, tell the truth, and become the kind of person strong enough to fix a little bit of the world.<ul><li>'High Hash Rate' podcast: <a href="https://highhashrate.com" target="_blank">https://highhashrate.com</a></li><li>'Rock Paper Bitcoin' podcast: <a href="https://rockpaperbitcoin.com" target="_blank">https://rockpaperbitcoin.com</a></li><li>BitDevs (NYC and global meetups): <a href="https://bitdevs.org" target="_blank">https://bitdevs.org</a></li><li>Chaincode Labs (NYC BitDevs host): <a href="https://chaincode.com" target="_blank">https://chaincode.com</a></li><li>Zeus Wallet (Lightning): <a href="https://zeusln.app" target="_blank">https://zeusln.app</a></li><li>Magic Johnson (official site): <a href="https://www.magicjohnson.com" target="_blank">https://www.magicjohnson.com</a></li><li>Bible (New Testament online): <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com" target="_blank">https://www.biblegateway.com</a></li></ul></p>
June 2, 2026
Austrian Economics: The God that Failed (solo)
<p>In this solo riff, I challenge an Overton window many Bitcoiners (and I once) held sacred: that Austrian economics is a complete economic theory rather than a powerful tool for debunking bad ones. Sparked by reading Irreducible by Federico Faggin, I draw a parallel between classical vs. quantum physics and classical vs. Austrian economics, arguing that Austrian thought excels at telling us what economics is not—but becomes a trap when treated as a unifying theory. I share how reverence for Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe helped me cut through intellectual tyranny, yet nearly led me into “wrong-think” when I tried to force every question through their lens. From Keynes to Hayek, from Newton to Planck, I urge the Bitcoin thinking class to resist authority worship, expand the reading list to include classical economists like Adam Smith and Milton Friedman, and remain in inquiry. Austrian ideas are invaluable lightsabers for avoiding errors, not priestly dogmas to close debates—especially when we’re still collectively figuring out what Bitcoin is and what a hard-money world may or may not look like.<ul><li>'Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature' (Federico Faggin): <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Irreducible-Consciousness-Computers-Human-Nature/dp/1956259105" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Irreducible-Consciousness-Computers-Human-Nature/dp/1956259105</a></li><li>Federico Faggin (biography): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin</a></li><li>'Human Action' (Ludwig von Mises): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Action" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Action</a></li><li>Hans-Hermann Hoppe: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Hermann_Hoppe" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Hermann_Hoppe</a></li><li>'Democracy: The God That Failed' (Hans-Hermann Hoppe): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy:_The_God_That_Failed" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy:_The_God_That_Failed</a></li><li>Murray Rothbard: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rothbard" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rothbard</a></li><li>John Maynard Keynes: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes</a></li><li>Friedrich A. Hayek (Nobel Prize facts, 1974): <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1974/hayek/facts/" target="_blank">https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1974/hayek/facts/</a></li><li>Adam Smith: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith</a></li><li>Milton Friedman: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman</a></li><li>Austrian School (overview): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School</a></li><li>Praxeology: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxeology" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxeology</a></li><li>Bitcoin (project site): <a href="https://bitcoin.org" target="_blank">https://bitcoin.org</a></li><li>Classical mechanics: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_mechanics" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_mechanics</a></li><li>Quantum field theory: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_field_theory" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_field_theory</a></li><li>Isaac Newton: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton</a></li><li>Galileo Galilei: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei</a></li><li>Nicolaus Copernicus: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus</a></li><li>Albert Einstein: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein</a></li><li>Max Planck: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck</a></li></ul></p>
May 18, 2026
Bigger Picture Bitcoin w/ Steven Lubka
<p>In this episode, I sit down with Steven Lubka to reflect on the last few years of Bitcoin culture—from the electric energy of 2021–2023 Twitter Spaces to why the vibe inevitably tracks the price. We dig into how higher interest rates changed capital allocation, why dispersion has returned to markets, and how that raises the bar for real innovation versus ZIRP-era junk. We also revisit the UK LDI scare and the 2023 U.S. bank stress to ask what the Fed actually proved about its ability to “kick the can,” and what Bitcoiners often get wrong about system fragility versus resilience.<br /><br />From pleb slop and rigid certainties to the harder work of holding nuanced, probabilistic views, Steven and I talk about conviction over decades, why mining is a full-on industrial business (not a casual hobby), and how years spent in Bitcoin unexpectedly prepared us for the AI acceleration now reshaping everything. We close on the importance of gradual change, personal growth, and building the grit to survive-and-advance through volatility, FUD, and the long arc of adoption.<ul><li>'Magic Internet Math (host’s project)': <a href="https://magicinternetmath.com/" target="_blank">https://magicinternetmath.com/</a></li></ul></p>
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