TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
TFTC is a podcast hosted by Marty Bent about Bitcoin. Join Marty, Editor in Chief of "the best newsletter in Bitcoin", as he sits down to discuss Bitcoin with interesting people.
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Ten31 Timestamp: Closed Straits and Open Models
Marty and John dig into the Houthis blocking the Bab el Mandeb strait, oil whipsawing on peace headlines, and why Lloyd's of London pulling war coverage matters for US insurers. They get into Trump's air defense stockpile problem, Chinese diesel demand falling off a cliff, and why the MOVE index staying subdued even as yields rise is the chart to watch. The bulk of the show is an extended breakdown of the open versus closed AI model debate, why the Hugging Face hack exposes the absurdity of current guardrails, and how the real axis of conflict is US versus China, not open source versus safety. They close with Bitcoin long term holder supply hitting 84 percent, a classic bottoming signal.
In this episode:
Yemen blockade in the Bab el Mandeb strait Oil volatility and peace headline whipsaw Lloyd's of London restricting war coverage US insurers and the DFC angle Trump pausing strikes and air defense stocks Chinese diesel demand destruction Treasury yields and the MOVE index managed ascent Open source versus closed source AI debate Distillation attacks and China sanctions The real axis is US versus China not open source versus safety Hugging Face hack and OpenAI sandbox breakout Guardrails forcing use of Chinese GLM 5.2 Regulatory capture and the kill switch bill Nvidia Open Secure AI Alliance RSI and AI as a national strategic priority Bitcoin long term holders at 84 percentTIMESTAMPS:
00:01:25 - Yemen blockade in Bab el Mandeb
00:04:16 - Oil whipsawing on peace headlines
00:04:39 - Lloyd's of London war coverage
00:07:03 - City of London and dollar system
00:08:41 - Trump pausing strikes and munitions
00:09:04 - Chinese diesel demand destruction
00:12:30 - Treasury yields and MOVE index
00:15:55 - AI open versus closed source debate
00:16:50 - Sanctions and distillation attacks
00:20:13 - Jack Altman and the real axis
00:25:47 - Nvidia Open Secure AI Alliance
00:28:39 - Hugging Face hack and kill switch bill
00:31:28 - OpenAI sandbox breakout
00:34:09 - RSI and AI as national priority
00:36:56 - Bitcoin long term holders at 84 percent
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#775: Private Credit Is The Next Bomb with Dave Collum & Rudy Havenstein
Dave Collum and Rudy Havenstein join Marty Bent to dissect the medical industrial complex, SNRI and statin dangers, and the total collapse of trust in institutions. They dive into Trump?s broken promises, the Iran war escalation, Gaza, and the Charlie Kirk shooting narrative. The trio tears apart the AI bubble, SpaceX valuation, private credit risks, and a Fed-driven market top. Bitcoin, macro, and monetary policy dominate the conversation as they map a Fourth Turning collapse and the end of accountability.
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#774: Quarterly Monetary Base Update with Matthew Me?inskis
Bitcoin analyst Matthew Mezinskis joins the show to defend the power law model against recent criticism, arguing the curve remains intact and Bitcoin is trading near historical lows relative to its trend. He breaks down why exponential models fail to capture Bitcoin?s network growth, compares the power curve to stock-to-flow and Plan B projections, and examines global monetary base expansion, Fed balance sheet trends, and the intersection of Bitcoin?s scalable growth with TradFi?s volatile exponential debt. The discussion covers log periodic cycle analysis, generational buying levels, and what happens when Bitcoin?s power trend collides with fiat?s unsustainable compounding.
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#773: Open Source AI Is Non-Negotiable with Conner Brown
Conner Brown from the Bitcoin Policy Institute joins to break down AI and Bitcoin policy moving through Washington. We cover Taiwan?s legislative push for Bitcoin reserves, foreign influence campaigns targeting American data centers, and why open source AI matters for crypto adoption. Plus: how AI agents are already choosing Bitcoin, the real story behind company brains and LLM workflows, and the fight to keep DC from regulating innovation out of existence.
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Ten31 Timestamp: When Donald Met Kimi
Marty's back on the shore house porch just as the Middle East flares up again. Marty and John dig into WTI and Brent back in the 80s, the SPR hitting 43 days, and why GCC countries are racing to bypass the Strait of Hormuz. They also get into the US as a helium winner, the Fed trying to have it both ways on forward guidance and inflation, and why Kimi K3 is exposing the strategic risk of nerfed frontier models. They also touch on Jevons Paradox in AI inference, whether sovereigns will end up backstopping training spend, and Bitcoin hovering around 64k with the strategic reserve bill finally hitting committee.
In this episode:
Shore house banter and Canadian wildfire smoke
Iran escalation and oil back in the 80s
SPR at 43 days lowest since 1983
GCC pipeline rush to bypass the Strait of Hormuz
Houthi blockade threats and Iraq oil deals
US helium exports surging to Asia
Fed governors declaring inflation peaked
The forward guidance contradiction
Kimi K3 surpassing US frontier models
Hugging Face and the nerfed frontier model problem
Jevons Paradox and AI inference demand
Sovereign backstops for training spend
Bitcoin around 64k and Galaxy bottom indicators
Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill hits committee
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Shore house banter and smoke
00:01:27 - Iran back on the table
00:02:57 - SPR at 43 days
00:03:27 - GCC pipeline rush
00:05:02 - Yemen blockade threats
00:05:35 - Iraq PM visits Washington
00:07:35 - US helium winner
00:10:25 - Fed declares inflation peaked
00:14:27 - Kimi K3 and open weight models
00:19:07 - Hugging Face autonomous AI attack
00:22:53 - Jevons Paradox and inference
00:25:55 - Sovereign backstops for training
00:29:02 - Bitcoin around 64k
00:30:36 - Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill
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#772: Bitcoin Is The Peaceful Revolution with Average Gary
Average Gary joins TFTC to unpack why veterans are flocking to Bitcoin, how military skills map to mining and self-custody, and what open-source firmware like Mugina means for decentralizing hash rate. We dig into fifth-generation warfare, building robust energy microgrids, and why the Bitcoin Veterans community is becoming a force multiplier for localism and peaceful revolution. A no-nonsense conversation on war, money, and the future of freedom tech.
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#771: Why AI Demand Won?t Collapse with Mel Mattison
Mel Mattison joins Marty to dissect AI?s impact on memory chips, the hyperscaler debt cycle, and the Fed?s rate outlook under Chairman?Warsh. The conversation swings from Korean memory stocks like Micron, Samsung and SK?Hynix to macro themes such as fiscal deficits, debasement trades, gold, Bitcoin and the new ?Trump accounts? tax vehicle. Listeners get a contrarian view on why AI demand may outlast hype, how free?cash?flow can erase debt fast, and what assets could dominate the market this decade.
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#770: The Western Canon Belongs To Your Child with Chapter House
Josh and Hannah Centers join Marty to discuss Chapter House, their publishing company reviving classic books for homeschooling families. They break down the failure of public school STEM pipelines, the superiority of physical books over screens, and why the Western canon builds virtue through wonder. The conversation covers Charlotte Mason methods, narration over worksheets, and how flawed heroes teach courage better than sanitized textbooks. They explore Christian classical education, the meaning of true literacy, and why modern schooling produces spreadsheet thinkers instead of whole human beings.
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Ten31 Timestamp: You Gotta MOVE
The Iran deal is dead again, ships are getting hit in the Gulf, and the ten year is back above four point five five. Marty and John sort through the latest Middle East escalation, why both sides actually want the conflict to keep going, and what it means for oil, LNG, and bond volatility. They dig into Japan's thirty year yield highs and the delicate balance the BOJ is walking, Mohamed El-Erian vouching for Bessent's industrial policy in the New York Times, and why the MOVE index might matter more than the absolute rate level. They also cover Circle's bank charter approval, the OpenUSD consortium bringing Wall Street and Silicon Valley together around the digital dollar, and the growing turf war over who gets to run America's strategic Bitcoin reserve.
In this episode:
Iran deal collapses again and the incentive to keep fighting Trump wants to be the paid guardian of the Strait of Hormuz Ten year yields jumping and what the MOVE index is saying Qatar pauses LNG ramp and European gas spikes Japan bond yields hit thirty year highs Mohamed El-Erian vouching for Bessent's doctrine Circle gets OCC approval despite bank lobbying OpenUSD and the digital dollar consortium Treasury versus Commerce over the Bitcoin reserve America's lead as the Bitcoin superpowerTIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Beach banter and summer grind
00:01:09 - Iran deal dead again
00:01:36 - Iran attacks ships and Trump ends the MOU
00:02:18 - Incentives to keep fighting
00:03:09 - Guardian of the Strait
00:04:05 - Ten year yields jump
00:05:25 - MOVE index and bond volatility
00:09:21 - Qatar LNG disruption
00:11:54 - Japan yields at thirty year highs
00:16:56 - Mohamed El-Erian on Bessent
00:19:32 - Circle gets bank charter approval
00:22:25 - OpenUSD digital dollar consortium
00:26:55 - Treasury versus Commerce over SBR
00:29:35 - America the Bitcoin superpower
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#769: Freedom Money In Your Private Chat with Vik Shar?a & Seth For Privacy
Marty Bent talks with Seth For Privacy and Vik from Cake Wallet about Radar, a new Signal fork that adds self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning payments to private messaging. They cover why Signal was the right base, how Spark enables seamless UX without custody, the growing EU surveillance threat, vibe coding, AI privacy risks, and why freedom tech needs to compete on convenience. A deep dive on building privacy preserving tools that normal people actually want to use.
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#768: DAC8 Is A Kidnapping Factory with Francis Pouliot
Marty sits down with Francis Pouliot to discuss Bull Bitcoin's legal fight against DAC8 and MiCA in France, the dangers of FATF-driven surveillance regimes, and the Bitcoin privacy tools like PayJoin and Silent Payments that builders are deploying to resist global KYC overreach.
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Ten31 Timestamp: The American Century (?)
The guys kick off the Fourth of July week by arguing that high agency culture is still America's edge, then dive into why AI is officially too big to fail. Marty and John break down FERC forcing grid operators to fast track data center connections, OpenAI floating a five percent stake to the Trump administration, and Marc Andreessen landing on the Pentagon's defense policy board. They also dig into the memory bottleneck squeezing the chip buildout, why frontier models are not getting commoditized by open source, and what Saudi oil flows back at ninety percent mean for Iran's leverage. To close, they look at Trump's fifty million dollar Bitcoin stash, Strategy selling coin to fund dividends, and whether Washington might already be building a strategic position through the public markets.
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Happy Fourth and why high agency culture still matters FERC orders grid operators to fast track data center interconnection OpenAI proposes a five percent stake to the administration Marc Andreessen joins the Pentagon defense policy board TSMC doubles down in Arizona and the fifty percent fab target Memory bottleneck, DRAM, and the chip shortage reality Frontier models versus open source commoditization fears Saudi oil back to ninety percent and Iran's floating stockpile China housing collapse and liquidity pumps Trump discloses fifty million in Bitcoin cold storage Strategy's digital credit framework and Bitcoin sales Could Washington be building a strategic reserve via public marketsTIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Happy Fourth and high agency culture
00:02:01 - Grid stability and energy abundance
00:02:40 - FERC orders fast track data center interconnection
00:04:51 - AI officially too big to fail
00:05:50 - OpenAI proposes five percent stake
00:08:31 - Marc Andreessen joins defense policy board
00:10:59 - TSMC doubles Arizona investment
00:14:11 - Memory bottleneck and chip headlines
00:17:12 - Etched and compute breakthroughs
00:18:42 - Frontier versus open source models
00:21:33 - Saudi oil flows and Iran stockpile
00:23:46 - China housing and liquidity pumps
00:24:59 - Trump Bitcoin disclosure
00:27:34 - Strategy digital credit framework
00:28:12 - Strategy sells Bitcoin for dividends
00:31:25 - Strategic reserve via public markets
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#767: The First Bitcoin Miner with Alex Waltz
Marty sits down with Alex Waltz to discuss his forensic investigation into Bitcoin's first seventy-two hours, which uncovers that Satoshi Nakamoto likely ran both a clearnet and Tor node to bootstrap the network, reveals Hal Finney as the third node but second person to join, and exposes how the nascent blockchain ground to a halt eight separate times.
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#766: Gold and Bitcoin Are Your Survival Kit with Porter Stansberry
Marty sits down with Porter Stansbury to discuss the looming 2029 financial crisis, the erosion of federalism, and why gold, Bitcoin and timber may be the only real safe?havens.
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#765: The Bitcoin Home Mining Playbook with Exergy
Marty sits down with Tyler Stevens and Dylan Seib to discuss their playbook for integrating Bitcoin miners into home and commercial heating systems, monetizing excess solar instead of selling it back to the grid, and building open source control systems that turn industrial ASICs into useful home appliances.
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Ten31 Timestamp: DRAM Rules Everything Around Me
The Iran deal is back on again and off again, but oil is not buying it. Marty and John sift through the weekend headline chaos to focus on what actually matters: WTI near seventy dollars and the dollar index back above one hundred. They break down Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's speech on economic statecraft, why reshoring critical supply chains is moving from PowerPoint to plant openings, and how Iran's oil sanctions waivers are really a dollar dominance play. They also dig into the AI-driven memory shortage that is ending consumer electronics deflation, the administration's crackdown on frontier model releases, and why Apollo's seventeen percent withdrawal requests are a warning shot for private credit. To close, they look at Strategy's preferred share depeg, Bitcoin scraping fifty-eight thousand, and BlackRock's quiet reiteration that every portfolio needs one to two percent allocated to BTC.
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Iran deal whiplash and headline fatigue WTI at seventy dollars and the dollar at one oh one Bessent on supply chain audits and economic statecraft Hard tech reshoring from El Segundo to Michigan Dollar dominance and Iran oil waivers priced in USD AI driven memory shortage ending electronics deflation Frontier AI regulation versus open source models Private credit stress at Apollo and insurers Strategy preferred shares dropping to seventy two dollars Bitcoin at fifty eight thousand and BlackRock guidanceTIMESTAMPS:
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00:10:59 - Iran oil waivers in USD
00:15:27 - AI memory shortage and electronics inflation
00:20:14 - Frontier AI as national security
00:23:18 - Open source versus frontier economics
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#764: Revenge Of The Blue Collars with Peter St. Onge
Marty sits down with economist Peter St. Onge to discuss the AI bubble's remaining runway of real earnings, the coming renaissance for blue collar workers alongside the gutting of generalist cubicle workers, and why Kevin Warsh should fight inflation by unloading the Fed's balance sheet instead of hiking rates.
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#763: The Everything Bubble Is Ending with Nick Nemeth
Marty sits down with Nick Nemeth to discuss the rot at the core of private credit and insurance, why layered leverage from sovereign wealth funds to BDCs is pushing the everything bubble toward a systemic unwind, and how Bitcoin?s future depends on rejecting Saylor-style financial engineering in favor of peer-to-peer digital cash.
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#762: July 2026 Is The Portal with Erin Redwing
Marty sits down with Bitcoin astrologer Erin Redwing to discuss the once-in-6,000-year planetary alignment arriving in July 2026, why AI and surveillance are the era's defining battlegrounds, and how Bitcoiners can survive the coming identity crisis by staying humble and stacking sats.
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Ten31 Timestamp: Bitcoin and the Red Queen
The Iran deal looked like a breakthrough until both sides started spinning it within the hour, but oil kept falling and the dollar stayed bid anyway. Marty and John walk through a week of narrative violations, from WTI dropping into the mid seventies to Fed Chair Warsh's hawkish first FOMC press conference. They dig into why hyperscaler CapEx exploding while free cash flow collapses makes Volcker 2.0 impossible, how housing affordability and debt service are pushing the Fed and Treasury back together, and why frontier AI is now a state secret. They also check in on Bitcoin's quiet grind, with Taiwan's central bank exploring reserves and BlackRock still building products in the background.
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00:04:21 - Tactical pause theory for midterms
00:05:21 - Narrative violations everywhere
00:07:37 - US capital markets versus China
00:08:20 - Warsh's hawkish FOMC debut
00:09:33 - Stripping out forward guidance
00:10:31 - Balance sheet task force
00:11:38 - Hyperscaler CapEx versus free cash flow
00:13:35 - Meta Google Microsoft AI disarray
00:16:33 - Housing affordability crunch
00:18:44 - Fed Treasury accord
00:19:40 - Debt service and non discretionary spend
00:22:49 - AI export controls and Fable 5
00:24:28 - Bessent NATO and Cuba reforms
00:26:51 - Bitcoin range bound grind
00:28:14 - Taiwan central bank and Begich AMO bill
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#761: Miners Own The Power Gold Rush with Brandon Bailey
Marty sits down with Brandon Bailey to discuss the convergence of Bitcoin mining and AI compute infrastructure, why energized power portfolios are the most undervalued asset in tech, and how the race for data center capacity is creating a generational wealth opportunity.
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#760: The State Is Farming You with NVK
Marty sits down with NVK to discuss why Bitcoin has lost its counterculture edge, how AI is reshaping sovereignty and white-collar work, and the launch of ARCA, a personal data haven built for the agentic age.
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#759: Open Source Is The Only Defense with Kyle Olney
Marty sits down with Kyle Olney to discuss the government's escalating war on freedom tech, from the BRCA's dangerous developer loopholes and sudden AI export controls to the urgent need for open source software as the last line of defense against surveillance and licensing regimes.
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Ten31 Timestamp: Ad Astra Per Nasdaq
SpaceX finally went public and made Elon a paper trillionaire, but the bigger story is what it says about America's ability to mobilize industry when it counts. Marty and John draw a line from that milestone to the geopolitical chessboard?whether the new US-Iran deal sticks, how Washington is using energy dominance and dollar leverage, and why Anthropic's Fable 5 got yanked by export controls. They also dig into Dario Amodei's AI roadmap, the Social Security math speeding toward 2032, and why the bond market may force a pro-liquidity future that makes US Bitcoin dominance impossible to ignore.
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SpaceX going public and the reality of Elon as a paper trillionaire Why American manufacturing might not be as dead as the consensus thinks The US-Iran deal and oil breaking below eighty dollars Leveraging energy, seized assets, and dollar network effects Anthropic's Fable 5, AI export controls, and Dario's policy roadmap Social Security shortfalls and why the bond market is the real constraint Bitcoin climbing back toward sixty six thousand and US dominance stats The strategic Bitcoin reserve conversation and why it is not going awayTIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - 250th anniversary vibes and great men of history
00:00:33 - SpaceX IPO and the paper trillionaire headline
00:01:56 - Falcon 1 wreckage and the story of resilience
00:03:00 - Why you don't want to short American manufacturing
00:05:32 - Colossus, Starlink, and objective reality
00:06:36 - World Cup energy and the American spirit
00:07:50 - Jack Ma vs Elon and wealth confiscation politics
00:09:57 - Bill Knudson on what drives America's future
00:10:38 - US-Iran deal and oil dropping below $80
00:12:54 - Leveraging capital markets, energy, and the dollar
00:15:34 - Bitcoin climbing back toward $66,000
00:16:36 - Anthropic's Fable 5 and AI export controls
00:19:36 - Dario's AI roadmap, UBI, and Social Security shortfalls
00:22:37 - The bond market constraint and pro-liquidity policy
00:24:13 - River data on US dominance in Bitcoin
00:26:03 - Strategic Bitcoin reserve and hitching wagons
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#758: Strategy Is A Time Bomb with Jamie McAvity
Marty sits down with Jamie McCavity to discuss why the exodus from Bitcoin mining has created the best investment opportunity in five years, how the AI compute boom is forcing a complete rewrite of global energy strategy, and why he believes Michael Saylor?s financial engineering at Strategy has crossed into outright shareholder deception.
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#757: The Treasury Is Failing You with Vince Lanci
Marty sits down with Vince Lanci to discuss his new book As Good as Gold, why the global financial system actually runs on collateral rather than currency, and how a quiet, controlled transition is underway from U.S. Treasuries to gold, Bitcoin, and a multipolar collateral framework.
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#756: Why Anger Is A Buy Signal with Michael Sullivan
Marty sits down with Michael Sullivan to discuss using AI-driven language analysis to map Bitcoin sentiment across cohorts, why 2026 price action mirrors 2015 despair, and how collapsing pleb conviction alongside steady OG optimism signals a generational bottom.
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Ten31 Timestamp: In It For The Tech
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Why AI's recursive self-improvement could lead to exponential growth How the US government's interest in Bitcoin and AI could drive demand The potential implications of a strategic Bitcoin reserve Signs Bitcoin may have bottomed while traditional assets struggle The intersection of economic security and national securityTIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Introduction to AI development
00:05:00 - US government's interest in Bitcoin and AI
00:10:00 - Potential implications of a strategic Bitcoin reserve
00:15:00 - Bitcoin's price and market conditions
00:20:00 - Economic security and national security
00:25:00 - Conclusion and final thoughts
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#755: The Bottom Is In with James Check
Marty sits down with James Check to discuss why Strategy's 32 bitcoin sale is a de-risking "sacred cow" moment, why the current "time pain" chop marks the final chapter of the bear market, and why Bitcoin is entering deep value territory while the broader crypto ecosystem faces an extinction-level event.
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#754: 15% Inflation Is Coming Back with Chris Martenson
Marty sits down with Chris Martenson to discuss rigged oil and futures markets, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve heading for tank bottom, the coming wave of inflation, and why hard assets are the only protection against a terminally broken financial system.
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#753: The Economy Is AI Now with Jordi Visser
Marty sits down with Jordi Visser to discuss why AI?s parabolic growth reflects real exponential demand rather than a bubble, how physical infrastructure bottlenecks are the only real brake on progress, and what the rise of agentic computing means for the death of the 60/40 portfolio, corporate hierarchies, and the fusion of Bitcoin with tokenized finance.
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Ten31 Timestamp: Just Add a Zero
Trump and Bessent's $250 bill photo sums up the current moment, but under the surface the economy is tearing apart. AI stocks are ripping while credit card delinquencies hit 2008 levels. We get into why oil is artificially cheap, why data centers are becoming a political target, and the Bitcoin developments everyone is ignoring.
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Trump and Bessent's $250 bill vs the iconic Fed building audit photo Chevron and Exxon CEOs call BS on suppressed oil prices amid SPR drains Micron and Dell hit record highs as AI infrastructure proves it's not 1999 Credit card delinquencies and savings rates flash K-shaped warning signs Why Brad Gerstner is pitching dividends to calm AI data center opposition Iran's Hormuz Safe and Calyx's Cashew protocol validate Bitcoin's core thesisTIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Getting the band back together after Memorial Day
00:01:02 - Trump, Powell, and the $250 bill photo
00:02:34 - The K-shaped economy acceleration
00:03:00 - Oil prices, Hormuz, and strategic reserve draws
00:05:41 - Chevron and Exxon call BS on manufactured oil prices
00:07:30 - AI infrastructure: Micron, Dell, and record earnings
00:09:03 - Why this AI boom isn't the dot-com bubble
00:12:22 - xAI Colossus, Anthropic's raise, and OpenAI breakthroughs
00:16:08 - Delinquencies and savings flash K-shaped warnings
00:19:41 - Gerstner's dividend plan vs NYC seizure rhetoric
00:24:24 - AI data centers, energy, and narrative battles
00:26:48 - Bitcoin's Hormuz Safe development
00:28:38 - Cashew protocol, TEEs, and Bitcoin privacy
00:30:45 - Sentiment worst since 2015 and why it matters
00:34:25 - No summer doldrums this year
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#752: Why AI Stocks Are Cheap with John Tinsman
Marty sits down with John Tinsman to discuss the astronomical ROI of AI data centers, why hyperscaler CapEx has made the US economy rate-inelastic, and the brewing agricultural input crisis.
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#751: NGOs Are Enabling Addiction with Pablo Antonio & DC Posch
Marty sits down with DC Posch and Pablo Antonio to discuss exposing EBT fraud fueling San Francisco's fentanyl crisis, the perverse incentives of the NGO-industrial complex, and how reviving civic ambition through Greco-futurist beauty could rebuild American cities.
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#750: Stimmy Checks Are Coming Back with Joe Consorti
Marty sits down with Joe Consorti to discuss the K-shaped economy and why money printing has severed markets from reality, the Fed's trap between soaring interest expense and oil-driven inflation, the looming return of stimulus checks, Bitcoin's rise as neutral geopolitical settlement money in the Hormuz crisis, and the cultural decay downstream from fiat currency.
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#749: Lyme Disease and Biowarfare with Kris Newby
Marty sits down with Kris Newby to discuss the hidden history of tick?borne bioweapon research, the rise of Lyme and Alpha?Gal allergies, and what it means for public health today.
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#748: The Bond Market Says Tick Tock with Luke Gromen
Marty sits down with Luke Gromen to discuss the unsolvable U.S. sovereign debt trap, why the Fed will be forced to print money to cap yields into a new inflation spike, and how AI-driven labor disruption and the Iran-Hormuz supply shock are accelerating the end of the dollar-centric world order.
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Ten31 Timestamp: Mr. Warsh, I Don't Feel So Good
While US and Chinese leaders exchanged niceties in Beijing, bond markets were selling off hard. Thirty-year Treasury yields hit their highest level since 2007, inflation prints came in hot, and the Strait of Hormuz started looking like a live test of Bitcoin as money for enemies.
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US-China summit theater and what was actually accomplished
Global bond yields hitting highs not seen since 2007
Hot CPI and PPI prints versus the AI productivity narrative
Treasury repo "dirty tricks" and lending against its own debt
Strait of Hormuz fallout: motor oil, sulfur, fertilizer, and helium
Iran's IRGC demanding Bitcoin for passage insurance
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00:00:00 - US-China summit and CEO theater
00:01:06 - Beijing's holding pattern
00:02:11 - Bond markets send the real signal
00:04:18 - Hot inflation prints and Fed fears
00:05:55 - AI productivity or transitory 2.0?
00:07:26 - 1999 Cisco chart echoes
00:09:00 - Hormuz physical supply shocks
00:11:06 - US debt math and sovereign spiral
00:13:09 - Treasury repo market creativity
00:16:26 - Japan hyperinflation warnings
00:17:13 - China refinery cuts: who blinks first
00:18:44 - Iran's Bitcoin-only Hormuz insurance
00:21:21 - Bitcoin as money for enemies
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#747: Stablecoins Won?t Save the Treasury Market with Peruvian Bull
Marty sits down with Roberto?Rios AKA Peruvian Bull to discuss Japan?s yen crisis, soaring U.S. debt, AI?driven inflation, and why Bitcoin may be the only safe haven.
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#746: The Digital Euro Is A Trap with Matt Dines
Marty sits down with Matt Dines to discuss the European Union's plan to monetize private savings through a digital euro, the Warsh-Powell proxy war for the Federal Reserve, and the mounting credit risks inside Bitcoin-backed perpetual preferreds.
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#745: The AI Approval Layer Is Fake with Zach Herbert
Marty sits down with Zach Herbert to discuss how Foundation Devices is building a microkernel operating system to bring Bitcoin-grade security principles to the AI era, why current AI permission layers are fake, and the urgent need to reinvent personal computing before autonomous agents overrun legacy operating systems.
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Ten31 Timestamp: Going Vertical
China's teapot refiners are bleeding, Intel is going vertical on reshoring headlines, and AI benchmark scores are leaving the charts as Trump meets with Xi this week. Three vertical charts tell the story of US leverage across energy, chips, and capital markets, why the AGI buildout is driving industrial policy, and what it means for a labor market already showing cracks. No matter which scenario plays out, the path keeps leading back to the asset with no supply response.
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Why Chinese teapot refiners are getting squeezed by Hormuz
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Intel going vertical on Apple reshoring and chip policy
US portfolio inflows and the weaponization of capital markets
AI benchmarks breaking the charts on scaling laws
The split economy: record AI investment and broke consumers
Mass layoffs at Cloudflare, Upwork, and Coinbase
Why every road leads back to Bitcoin's fixed supply
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00:00:00 - Mother's Day and monitoring the meta war
00:01:06 - Chinese teapot refiner margins collapse
00:02:11 - Three vertical charts framing the week
00:04:18 - SPR drains, input costs, and export asymmetry
00:05:15 - Trump-Xi meeting timing and leverage
00:07:26 - Hormuz closure was anticipated by US strategy
00:09:44 - Intel stock goes vertical on Apple reshoring
00:11:06 - TSMC risk and the Apple-Intel chip deal
00:12:57 - US portfolio inflows and the capital markets card
00:13:58 - Asymmetric leverage: energy, chips, and capital
00:17:13 - The choice between US decline or industrial reboot
00:19:31 - AI benchmarks break the charts on scaling laws
00:23:38 - Data center buildout and the physical economy
00:25:44 - K-shaped economy: record earnings, cracked consumer
00:29:13 - Bitcoin as the only asset with no supply response
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#744: Your Face Is Not A Password with Gerald Glickman
Marty sits down with Gerald Glickman to discuss the urgent need for Bitcoiners and policymakers to embrace cryptography-based decentralized identity standards that preserve privacy and individual sovereignty before the window closes on a surveillance-based digital ID future.
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#743: Why Boomers Will OutHODL You with Eric Balchunas
Marty sits down with Eric Balchunas to discuss the Strategy investor call, the accelerating institutional takeover of Bitcoin through ETFs, and whether the cypherpunk base is cashing out just as Wall Street and the boomers arrive.
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#742: Why Privacy Is Non-Negotiable with Lauren Rodriguez
Marty sits down with Lauren Rodriguez to discuss the persecution of her husband Keonne over Samurai Wallet, the criminalization of open-source code and financial privacy, and the urgent fight to free political prisoners in the war on crypto.
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Ten31 Timestamp: The House Always Wins
The Trump administration is invoking the Defense Production Act to fast-track energy and grid infrastructure, the UAE just left OPEC after six decades, and the Treasury is opening dollar swap lines to fund a massive industrial push. Meanwhile US farmers are getting squeezed by fertilizer shortages, and Bitcoin is looking harder and harder to bet against as the monetary base expands and Washington starts waking up to what it can do.
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Defense Production Act invoked for grid, LNG, and critical infrastructure
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UAE leaves OPEC after six decades and what that means for global supply
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Bitcoin's case amid a structurally expanding monetary base
Energy and compute convergence playing out in the portfolio
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00:00:00 - Back from Bitcoin 2026 and the Vegas recovery
00:01:38 - Defense Production Act enacted for energy and grid infrastructure
00:03:30 - Jamison Greer on paying the national security premium
00:05:30 - EU strategic partnership and border-adjusted price floors
00:06:12 - US grid decay and China's power generation boom
00:08:26 - How to pay for it all as debt to GDP crosses 100%
00:12:26 - UAE and dollar swap lines for funding industrial policy
00:15:16 - UAE leaves OPEC after six decades
00:20:30 - US energy export dominance and drill baby drill
00:21:28 - Fertilizer and helium shortages hitting American farmers
00:24:20 - Backwardation says oil disruption may be temporary
00:25:00 - Bitcoin's setup against a growing monetary base
00:26:17 - Portfolio update: energy meets compute
00:29:05 - Bitcoin as collateral for infrastructure credit
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#741: Solving The Wrench Attack with Max Guise
Marty sits down with Max from BitKey to discuss the evolution of Bitcoin self-custody, the launch of the new seedless hardware wallet, and the architectural challenges of making Bitcoin "everyday money."
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#740: Hard Asset Lending For The 99% with Sadi Khan
Marty sits down with Sadi Khan to discuss AVEN's launch of a Bitcoin-backed credit card offering 10-year fixed-rate credit lines as low as 7.99% APR, the company?s mission to grind down consumer cost of capital through asset-backed lending, and how technology, regulatory clarity, and hiring for intelligence are reshaping modern finance.
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#739: Quarterly Monetary Base Update with Matthew Me?inskis
Marty sits down with Matthew Me?inskis to discuss Bitcoin's power law price dynamics, the accelerating "treadmill" of traditional markets, escalating geopolitical chaos including Russia's digital authoritarianism and America's shifting foreign policy, and the mathematical tension between Bitcoin's decelerating growth and Wall Street's attempt to subsume it into exponential fiat systems.
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#738: The Dollar Empire Is Just Beginning with Capital Flows
Marty sits down with Jeremiah from Capital Flows to discuss how duration and credit risk price all assets, the implications of the dollar's reserve status on global trade, the current liquidity-driven equity melt-up, and emerging opportunities in decentralized finance and space technology.
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