You're The Voice | by Efrat Fenigson
"You're The Voice" is a podcast by Efrat Fenigson that explores topics like health, economics, politics, money, sovereignty, and mind-control through open and uncensored dialogues with guests from around the world. The show emphasizes free speech and self-expression, aiming to challenge and inspire listeners. It also incorporates perspectives on mental and spiritual well-being.
Episodes
Britain's War on Freedom, Privacy, Speech and Bitcoin - Freddie New | Ep. 157
Freddie New is a lawyer turned Bitcoin executive, CEO and co-founder of B HODL, a Bitcoin treasury and Lightning services company, and co-founder of Bitcoin Policy UK. He grew up in Zimbabwe, a country that has cycled through five currencies in his lifetime, and he took from it a lasting impression of lawyers and judges as the people who stand up hardest against government overreach. In this conve
Is Bitcoin Compromised? - Luke de Wolf | Ep. 156
* This episode was recorded in May 2026, before the BIP110 activationLuke de Wolf, industrial cybersecurity expert and author of “Defending Bitcoin”, applies critical infrastructure security frameworks to Bitcoin itself. We dig into the network's real risks and vulnerabilities: arbitrary data, Bitcoin Core's governance structure, and the Core vs. Knots split. Luke’s argument: Bitcoin has w
Freedom, Forged in Art - MADEX | Ep. 155
MADEX is an internationally renowned artist, designer and creative director from Alberta, Canada. He built the Bull Bitcoin brand alongside Francis Pouliot, and runs MADEX, a fine art, jewelry and regalia project he describes as a freedom project. In this rare conversation, MADEX explains why art has been captured as a vehicle for collectivist ideas and how he is pushing the opposite, what his thr
10 Years of BTC Sessions: Expanding Into Privacy, Sovereignty & Freedom Tech - Ben Perrin | Ep. 154
*Note that this episode was recorded before the coldcard hack.Ben Perrin is a Canadian Bitcoin educator and the creator of BTC Sessions, the world's longest running Bitcoin only educational channel, with tens of millions of views since 2016. Together, we discuss what bitcoin is shaping up to be, Ben's three YouTube deletions, the Canadian trucker protest, state censorship, self custody mis
Trezor's CTO on the Cold Card Hack: Randomness, Trust, and What Comes Next - Tomáš Sušánka | Ep. 153
Tomáš Sušánka is the CTO of Trezor, where he has worked since 2017. Tomáš joins Efrat for an urgent, unscripted conversation days after the Cold Card hardware wallet hack, in which a flawed random number generator left seed phrases vulnerable and resulted in more than 1,500 bitcoin stolen from affected users. Drawing on questions submitted directly by the Bitcoin community, Tomáš walks through wha
A 30-Year Cypherpunk Exposes The Crimes of Global Proportions - Paul Rosenberg | Ep. 152
Paul Rosenberg is a cypherpunk author and cryptography advocate who has been in the movement since finding the original cypherpunk circles in 1995. Cryptography pioneer, author of 80 books, multiple newsletters, co-founder of Cryptohippie. He wrote A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, often called the Cypherpunks Bible, imagining a parallel society built on encryption and voluntary trade, years before Bitc
The Sovereign Individual / Efrat’s BTC Prague Keynote | Ep. 151
My Prague keynote speech just dropped.Presenting it on Prague’s massive stage last month was a very moving moment for me. I felt like I’m combining my lived experience of building resilience, my “old” expertise of creating value-driven brands and identities, with my newfound wisdom on spirituality, digital and physical freedoms. These are all ingredients in my life’s recipe, and how I build and ma
Canada's Captured Government & the Fight for Alberta - Dave Bradley | Ep. 150
Dave Bradley is a Bitcoin OG and entrepreneur based in Calgary, Alberta. He co-founded Bull Bitcoin, and helped take Bitcoin Well public. He’s an outspoken advocate for Alberta independence, arguing that the breakup of the Canadian confederation and Bitcoin are two expressions of the same underlying shift toward sovereignty and jurisdictional competition. In this conversation, Dave lays out the ca
Captured Media, Captive Nation: The Irish Are Waking Up - Eddie Hobbs | Ep. 149
Eddie Hobbs is a financial advisor, bestselling author, host of the Counterpoint podcast, and a former consumer advocate turned fierce critic of centralized power. In the early 1990s he took on Ireland's endowment mortgage industry, and later won a Competition Act case that forced the government to bring in consumer disclosure laws. His TV series Rip-Off Republic set audience records in Irelan
Exposing WEF Agenda: Digital IDs, CBDCs, EU Chat Control - Efrat on BTC Archive | Ep. 148
I joined Archie’s podcast to discuss the growing centralization and surveillance trends, and to share my sovereignty framework.“Is sovereignty still possible in an increasingly digital world?Efrat Fenigson explores growing tensions between individual freedom and centralised control with digital IDs, surveillance systems, and CBDCs.Governments and institutions are expanding their influence across m
The Template Behind Every Psyop: How Global Control System Really Works - Ivor Cummins | Ep. 147
*Apologies friends, the video is a bit out of focus..!Ivor Cummins is a biochemical engineer, author, and independent commentator based in Dublin, Ireland, known for his channel and platform The Fat Emperor. After a career in engineering and complex problem-solving, Ivor turned his analytical lens on the corporate distortion of nutritional science, exposing decades of deliberate misinformation aro
Decentralized Montessori Education for the Sovereign Generation - Mercedes Gil Hernández | Ep. 146
Mercedes Gil Hernández is the founder and director of Montessori British School, a hybrid school offering on-site, virtual, and residential education. She spent years working in international banking before a growing concern about widespread financial illiteracy pushed her toward education. She discovered Maria Montessori's philosophy of independence and autonomy and built a school around it,
Beyond the Physical: Consciousness, Energy, and the Nature of Reality - Jeff Booth | Ep. 145
What if Bitcoin and quantum physics are pointing to the same truth? At BTC Prague, Efrat Fenigson sits down with Jeff Booth for a fireside chat that goes beyond economics and into the fabric of reality itself: consciousness, energy, spirituality, and the quantum nature of existence. This is a rare opportunity to explore how the deepest questions about who we are intersect with the world we are bui
The Federal Reserve’s Insider Who Quit for Bitcoin - Charlene Faridepo | Ep. 144
Charlene Fadirepo is a former Federal Reserve regulator turned Bitcoin strategist, Author and Consultant. After a decade in banking and consulting, she arrived at Bitcoin through a decades-long search for a financial system without bias. She co-authored “Bitcoin and the American Dream” alongside Jimmy Song, took that work to Capitol Hill, and later wrote “The Bitcoin Leap”, about bitcoin grassroot
From Burma to Freedom: Why Bitcoin Is a Human Rights Tool - Wing Ko Ko Aung | Ep. 143
Win Ko Ko Aung was born in Burma (Myanmar) in 1993 and grew up under military rule, shaped by a country still reeling from the 1987 overnight demonetization that wiped out his parents' generation's savings. A tech entrepreneur and youth educator, he entered the Bitcoin space in 2019 as a way to preserve economic energy in a country with few reliable financial options. When the 2021 militar
The Bitcoin Hero’s Journey - Terence Michael | Ep. 142
Terence Michael is a Hollywood TV producer, storyteller, and Bitcoin educator known for his cinematic, analogy-driven videos, and he co-hosts the daily show on X - "Bitcoin Today". When Covid shuttered his Airbnb properties and production work, Terence pivoted decisively into Bitcoin, eventually selling around twenty properties to go all-in. That journey gave him the material for his book Proof o
Venezuela, Debt & the Case for Bitcoin Loans - Mauricio Di Bartolomeo | Ep. 141
Mauricio Di Bartolomeo is the Co-founder of Ledn, the leader in Bitcoin-backed lending. He grew up in Venezuela, living through the early tremors of what would become one of the most dramatic monetary collapses in modern history, before coming to Canada in 2003. His front-row seat to hyperinflation under Chavez and Maduro shaped a deeply practical understanding of how money, debt, and institutiona
Living 100% on Bitcoin, Nostr & Nature - Paul Keating | Ep. 140
Paul Keating is building freedom tech with Primal, a Nostr client that puts digital sovereignty back in users' hands. Based in Costa Rica, Paul lives entirely on a Bitcoin standard as part of Bitcoin Jungle, one of the most vibrant circular Bitcoin economies in the world. A surfer, new father, and tireless advocate for freedom-first technology, Paul joined me at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas for a
Betrayed: John McAfee’s Death, the Cover-Up & Mission - Janice McAfee | Ep. 139
Janice McAfee, the widow of tech and privacy legend John McAfee, opens up about what really happened around his mysterious death. Together they spent nine years navigating an extraordinary life at the intersection of freedom, surveillance, and survival, and traveled through the Bahamas, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Spain as U.S. authorities pressed for extradition on tax and SEC-related charg
12 Years, One Pardon, and a Fight That's Not Over - Lyn Ulbricht | Ep. 138
Lyn Ulbricht is Ross Ulbricht’s mother. Ross was the founder of Silk Road, who received a double life sentence plus 40 years without parole before being granted an unconditional pardon by President Trump after nearly 12 years of incarceration. Rather than stepping back after that hard-won victory, Lyn channeled her experience, platform, and network into founding MACS (Mothers Against Cruel Sentenc
How To Opt Out of the Digital Prison - Hakeem Anwar | Ep. 137
Hakeem Anwar is a software engineer with over 20 years in tech, and the founder and CEO of Above Phone, a conscious technology company building open source phones, laptops, and software services that free people from reliance on Big Tech. After years of building web and mobile apps for large corporations, he walked away from corporate life during Covid. He also runs Take Back Our Tech, a weekly sh
She's Fighting to Free Her Husband - Lauren Rodriguez | Ep. 136
NOTE: Donations are critical to help in this battle. Please donate & sign petition here: https://billandkeonne.org/Lauren Rodriguez is the wife of Keonne Rodriguez, co-developer of Samourai Wallet, who was arrested and imprisoned by the DOJ for writing non-custodial, open-source Bitcoin privacy software. Since Keonne's arrest, Lauren has become the relentless voice of the c
You Can’t Run Forever: Building Bitcoin Sovereignty from Inside the EU - Matyas Kuchar | Ep. 135
Matyas Kuchar is a Czech Bitcoin OG and co-founder of BTC Prague, Europe's largest Bitcoin-only conference. Born into a country shaped by communist-era currency controls and a deep-rooted distrust of central authority, Matyas sits at the intersection of Bitcoin, monetary sovereignty, and the fast-shifting political landscape of the European Union. He helped spearhead a landmark Bitcoin-friendl
Bitcoin, Surveillance, and Why Patience Is a Strategy - American Hodl | Ep. 134
American Hodl is a Bitcoin advocate and libertarian thinker whose fascination with decentralized systems goes back to childhood, when he ran SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) at home from the third grade, hoping to find aliens via shared compute. A proudly American voice who arrived at Bitcoin through a Ron Paul libertarian path with no illusions that conventional political routes wo
AI, Gold & Bitcoin Are Light In The End Of The Tunnel - Peter St Onge | Ep. 133
Peter St Onge is an economist and former MBA professor holding positions at the Heritage Foundation, the Mises Institute, and the Montreal Economic Institute. In this conversation, we discuss what the Strait of Hormuz blockade means for different countries, the parallels between today and the 1930s, why AI will raise wages rather than destroy jobs, how central banks function as a permanent bailout
You Think You’re Sovereign Until You Go Out To The Real World | Ep. 132
Today I’m sharing something different: I was interviewed by Mike Peterson on the Bitcoin Beach podcast while I was in El Salvador in Nov. 2025. Mike wrote: “What if the real trap is not working hard, but spending your best years building someone else’s empire earning money you do not even trust?Mike Peterson sat down with Efrat during “Bitcoin Historico” for a direct conversation about the fiat
Sovereign Living & Canada as a Crystal Ball - Karla Treadway | Ep. 131
Karla Joy Treadway is a serial entrepreneur, marketing strategist for freedom-minded entrepreneurs, writer, speaker, and host of the Sovereign Sphere podcast, broadcasting from an island on Lake of the Woods in Ontario, Canada, where she and her family hunt, fish, fly their own plane, and homestead off the beaten path. Covid lockdowns cost her everything: her studio, her income, her community. Bei
From Debt Slave to Sovereign: The Complete Roadmap - John Burnett | Ep. 130
This conversation goes deep into the invisible architecture most people never see. John Burnett is an entrepreneur with experience across hospitality, real estate development, and technology. A freedom lover and lifelong student of the control system, John’s "mosaic of truth" is piecing together how the financial system, the legal system, false history, and emerging technocracy all conn
The Land of the Free Has a Financial Surveillance Problem - Nick Anthony | Ep. 129
Nick Anthony is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, a fellow at the Human Rights Foundation, and author of Digital Currency or Digital Control? He's back for his quarterly appearance, and honestly, there's no one I trust more to dissect CBDCs, financial privacy, and government overreach. Nick tracks the global CBDC landscape in real time through his CBDC tracker, doing the painstaking
Attacked For Telling The Truth - Efrat Interviewed by Adrian D’Amico | Ep. 128
I joined Adrian D’amico on his podcast to chat about the flack I got for voicing my views on Israel, Israel politics, censorship and more - following a shoutout by Tucker Carlson & Bret Weinstein. We also touched on the complexities of modern geopolitics, the influence of media and elites, and the profound impact of frequencies and consciousness on our reality. We explored the hidden agendas b
The Legal Frontline: mRNA, Digital ID & Australian Sovereignty - Katie Ashby-Koppens | Ep. 127
Katie Ashby-Koppens is a senior civil litigator, Head of Legal for Voices for Freedom in New Zealand, and co-founder of the Aligned Council of Australia. She brings over 20 years of legal experience and five years on the frontlines of Covid litigation, including a landmark GMO case against Pfizer and Moderna in Australia. She has stood before the New Zealand Royal Commission alongside some of the
Why Censorship Is A Panic Response - Andrew Lowenthal | Ep. 126
Andrew Lowenthal is CEO of Liber-net and an Australian digital civil liberties researcher with over 25 years in human rights and technology. He led Engaged Media, worked with Matt Taibbi on the Twitter Files, and mapped the censorship industrial complex for Racket News. Andrew writes about digital authoritarianism, surveillance, and free expression. Recently he testified before the EU Parliament a
From Weather Modification to Global Control & How We Fight Back - Chris Sullivan | Ep. 125
Chris Sullivan is a portfolio manager and co-founder of Hyperion Decimus, combining deep finance expertise with a passion for awakening and higher consciousness. He sees the fiat system, specifically central banks, as the root control apparatus enabling everything from geoengineering to genetic manipulation to perpetual war. We discussed weather modification programs, environmental poisoning, ESG
Born Into Monetary Reset: A Russian Orphan's Path - Anastasia Canonica | Ep. 124
Anastasia Canonica was born in post-Soviet Russia in 1991, the year the USSR collapsed and the monetary system reset overnight, erasing everyone's savings. She was placed in an orphanage at age 4 after her parents turned to alcohol amid the poverty crisis, spending ages 4-16 in Orphanage Number 5 in Novokuznetsk, Siberia. After her father's death when she was 11, she became consumed with a
Power, Money & Control: Mapping the Hidden Architecture of the World - Simon Dixon | Ep. 123
Simon Dixon is a geopolitical analyst, Bitcoin OG, and entrepreneur, formerly an investment banker. In this conversation, Simon does a deep dive into the real architecture of power shaping our world, unpacking how financial, military, and technological power structures intersect, and why incentives drive global decisions. From his early days in traditional finance to his journey into Bitcoin, Simo
Australia Is Losing Free Speech, This Senator Fights Back - Senator Alex Antic | Ep. 122
Senator Alex Antic is a member of the Liberal Party representing South Australia in the federal parliament since 2019. In this wide-ranging conversation, he opens up about how COVID-19 became his political awakening, admitting he was "far too cavalier" in trusting government and bureaucracy before the pandemic revealed how easily institutional power can be weaponized against citizens. Se
Suspended Doctor Fights Back: Exposing the Hidden Hospital Fraud - Dr. Mary Tally Bowden | Ep. 121
Dr. Mary Tally Bowden is a board-certified ENT physician and emergency medicine specialist based in Houston, Texas, who treated over 6,000 COVID-19 patients in direct care while openly challenging centralized medical authority and censorship in healthcare. In November 2021, Houston Methodist Hospital, the first hospital in the country to mandate COVID vaccines, suspended her clinical privileges fo
Mining Resilience: Healing Our Bodies and Our Money - Christine & Beau Turner | Ep. 120
Christine and Beau Turner are the founders of Abundant Mines, a Bitcoin mining company built on the principles of self-custody, privacy, and client-first service. After losing over $500,000 to a failed hosting provider, they created their own mining facilities in Oregon and established a new standard for transparent, values-driven Bitcoin mining. Beau comes from a family of gold bugs and brings an
The Artist They Called a Traitor - Monika Bravo | Ep. 119
Monika Bravo is a multidisciplinary artist, polymath, writer, evolutionary astrologer, bitcoiner, and freedom maximalist. Born in Bogotá, Colombia, she spent her mid-20s in Europe studying fashion design and photography before moving to New York in 1994. Since 2020, Monika has focused on her public art, trauma & consciousness studies, human design, Austrian economics, somatic practice, and ast
The UN's Darkest Secret (El Salvador Exposed It) - Bob McDonell | Ep. 118
Bob McDonell is the founder of @HouseofLifeMC in El Salvador, a shelter providing care, protection, and hope for abandoned children and teenage mothers with their babies. This profound conversation reveals the dark reality of child abuse, trafficking, and exploitation in Central America, while showcasing a transformative model of healing through love, structure, and opportunity. Bob shares his jou
Argentina: We Don’t Trust, We Verify - Agustin Kassis | Ep. 117
Agustin Kassis is a Bitcoin developer, entrepreneur, and founder of La Crypta in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a self-taught programmer since age 11 and serial entrepreneur with seven startups, Agustin discovered Bitcoin in its first years. This conversation explores Argentina's unique position as a potential Bitcoin adoption leader, shaped by decades of currency destruction, hyperinflation, and
Hidden Agendas of Control vs. A Protocol for Freedom - Jeff Booth | Ep. 116
Jeff Booth is a General Partner at Ego Death Capital and the author of The Price of Tomorrow, known for his profound insights at the intersection of technology, economics, and human consciousness. This conversation explains how the existing monetary (fiat) system relies on debt, fear, and illusion to survive, and why it’s now unraveling under its own weight. Jeff explains why Michael Saylor’s cur
Panel: Censorship of Free Speech & Health | BTC Prague 2025 | Ep. 115
Free speech is under fire — especially in the realms of health, money, and power. In this BTC Prague 2025 panel, Efrat Fenigson moderates a conversation with Dr. Jack Kruse, Dr. Alexis Cowan, Kevin McKernan, and Tristan Scott on modern censorship and how Bitcoiners are pushing back.---→ Join me at Europe’s largest bitcoin conference - BTC Prague, June 11-13, 2026. Code EFRAT for 10% off: http://bt
Health Sovereignty: Mitochondria, Light & Nature - Dr. Alexis Cowan | Ep. 114
My guest today is Dr. Alexis Cowan, PhD,, a Princeton-trained molecular biologist specializing in metabolism, mitochondrial function, and circadian biology. We talk about why modern science has drifted into scientism, how mitochondrial dysfunction sits at the root of nearly every chronic disease, and why reclaiming sovereignty over your health is both radical and necessary. We dive deep into light
Sentenced For Building Freedom! Samourai Wallet's Keonne Rodriguez | Ep. 113
→ Sign the petition & financially support Bill & Keonne here: https://billandkeonne.org/From open‑source privacy pioneer to federal inmate, Keonne Rodriguez, the mind behind Samourai Wallet, sits down to explain why the DOJ’s “regulation‑by‑prosecution” saga matters to every crypto user, developer, and civil‑rights advocate. This episode was broadcasted LIVE on Tuesday, Dec. 16th 2025, 10a
From Addiction to Building Villages: Responsibility Over Collapse - Aaron Murphy | Ep. 112
My guest today is Aaron Murphy, founder of MurphsLife Foundation, a storyteller and builder working across Latin America to turn direct aid into long-term, dignity-first systems. We sit down in El Salvador’s National Palace to talk about what happens when you hit rock bottom—and choose responsibility, faith, and service instead of collapse. Murph shares his journey from addiction, debt, panic atta
Unapologetically Yourself: The Courage to Speak & Be Different - Zuby | Ep. 111
My guest today is Zuby, a British-Nigerian rapper, author, podcaster, and public speaker, raised in Saudi Arabia and known for building an independent career outside traditional gatekeepers. We sit down in El Salvador’s National Palace to talk about why money doesn’t create courage, it only amplifies the character you already have, and why simply telling obvious truths has somehow become “brave” i
Cash Controls, App-Store Censorship & the Battle for Privacy - Lea Petrasova | Ep. 110
My guest today is Lea Petrasova, co-founder and CEO of Vexl, a peer-to-peer bitcoin app that lets people exchange bitcoin privately, without identification (KYC) or any middlemen. Lea is a prominent voice in the European cypherpunk community, dedicated to privacy, digital freedom, and restoring bitcoin’s original peer-to-peer design. We discuss why identity-linked bitcoin undermines true self-cust
Why Bitcoin Is a Lifeline for African Women - Lorraine Marcel | Ep. 109
My guest today is Lorraine Marcel, founder of Bitcoin Dada and its technical arm Dada Devs for women across Africa. She’s a financial activist reshaping Africa’s fintech landscape by training women across 12 countries in financial literacy, Bitcoin fundamentals, and technical development. We talk about how mobile money like M-Pesa, limited banking access, and cultural barriers around property shap
Educating Brazil, Despite Surveillance & Fiat Mindset - Carol Souza | Ep. 108
My guest today is Carol Souza, co-founder of Area Bitcoin, one of the largest Bitcoin education platforms in Latin America, reaching hundreds of thousands across Brazil and the Portuguese-speaking world. Her path began not in tech or finance, but as a dentist, where Brazil’s inflation, POS payment fees, and daily operational fragilities pushed her to study money and ultimately adopt Bitcoin as a s
Decentralizing Digital Identity & Encrypted Messaging - Jeff G | Ep. 107
My guest today is Jeff G, privacy advocate and builder of censorship-resistant communication systems using Nostr and open cryptographic infrastructure. Jeff works on White Noise, a decentralized encrypted messaging project designed to remove single points of failure from private communication. We explore how the internet was built without native money and how that mistake created a surveillance ec
What’s the Problem? The Story Behind Bitcoin’s Most Viral Film - Joe Bryan | Ep. 106
My guest today is Joe Bryan, tech entrepreneur & former Goldman Sachs derivatives trader turned Bitcoin educator and creator of the viral film What’s the Problem. After a decade building tech businesses, Joe set out to craft a story that explains why the world needs Bitcoin. His film, now translated into more than 40 languages, uses Pixar-style storytelling to reveal how the fiat system quietl
This Swiss MP Says Bitcoin Is the Only Honest Money - Samuel Kullmann | Ep. 105
My guest today is Samuel Kullmann, a Member of Parliament from Switzerland’s Canton Bern, entrepreneur, and one of Europe’s first openly pro-Bitcoin politicians. His journey began in 2015 when the Swiss National Bank dropped its euro peg, pushing him to study money, move from gold to Bitcoin, and embrace hard-money principles. We discuss how Switzerland’s decentralized system — shared executive po
What COVID Taught Me About Money & Control - Efrat Fenigson | Ep. 104
In this interview with Viva Frei I talk about my path from freedom activism to Bitcoin. I was born in Israel in 1980 to a family of Holocaust survivors and builders of the early state. During COVID I watched Israel impose coercive measures like the Green Pass and saw a sign that said “Reserved for vaccinated only.” It reminded me of my grandfather’s stories from pre-war Europe and pushed me to pro
Digital Currency or Digital Control? - Nick Anthony | Ep. 103
My guest today is Nick Anthony, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, a fellow at HRF, and one of the clearest voices dissecting CBDCs, financial privacy, and government overreach. He authored the book “digital currency or digital control?” and advocates for freedom and privacy. In this episode, we explore how governments use propaganda to sell CBDCs as “digital cash,” despite public resistance,
Censorship & Control: The UK’s Digital ID Agenda - Alan Miller | Ep. 101
My guest today is Alan Miller, co-founder of the Together Association, a nationwide civil-liberties movement ensuring the public—not technocrats—remain at the heart of politics. Alan’s career spans four decades of creative and civic entrepreneurship: from pioneering acid-house parties and co-creating London’s cultural hub The Old Truman Brewery, to co-founding the Night-Time Industries Association
Beyond Ego: The Truth About Money, Meaning & Bitcoin - Richard Byworth | Ep. 100
My guest today is Richard Byworth, Managing Partner at Syz Capital, bridging traditional finance with Bitcoin. With over 25 years in global investment banking and asset management, Richard now spearheads Syz’s $300m digital asset strategies and hosts the *Syz the Future* podcast. He’s also a Board Member at Relai, and an advisor to JAN3. In this conversation, he unpacks the moment the 2008 crisis
Ep. 99: Knut Svanholm - Stop Asking Permission: Bitcoin Or Fiat Prison
My guest today is Knut Svanholm, author, educator, and philosopher focused on Bitcoin. Drawing on ethics, praxeology, and monetary history, Knut argues that sound money reduces conflict by aligning human action with natural law and voluntary exchange. In this episode, he explains why fiat banking already functions like a CBDC system in practice, why cash preserves privacy but not liberty, and why
Ep. 98: Max Kei - Banks Will Bow to Bitcoin
My guest today is Max Kei, former private banker and founder of Debifi, the world’s largest non-custodial Bitcoin-backed lending platform for institutions. With over a decade in private banking and deep experience building peer-to-peer Bitcoin infrastructure at Hodl Hodl and launching the Baltic Honeybadger conference, Max has become a leading voice on how Bitcoin will reshape global finance. In t
Ep. 97: Allen Farrington - Architecting the Monetary Endgame
My guest today is Allen Farrington, writer, investor, and co-founder of Axiom, a Bitcoin-focused venture capital firm backing companies that use Bitcoin as real infrastructure rather than speculation. Allen co-authored “Bitcoin is Venice” and “Only the Strong Survive” and draws on a background in math, philosophy, Austrian economics, and long-term equity investing to explain why Bitcoin is both a
Ep. 96: Max Hillebrand - Building Weapons of Defense for Freedom
My guest today is Max Hillebrand, praxeologist, cypherpunk, and open-source advocate dedicated to building freedom tech that empowers individuals through economic and technological sovereignty. As a contributor to projects like Bitcoin Core, Wasabi Wallet, BTCPay Server, JoinMarket, Lightning Network, Bisq, Angor, White Noise, and Amethyst. In this episode, Max shares his journey from Austrian eco
Ep. 95: Alena Vránová - The Fight for Digital & Physical Security
My guest today is Alena Vránová, entrepreneur, author, and builder of freedom tech who has spent over a decade pioneering tools that defend both digital and physical sovereignty. She co-founded SatoshiLabs (Trezor’s mother company), which launched the world’s first commercially available hardware wallet, joined the Casa Node team to make running Bitcoin and Lightning easy, and co-authored The Lit
Ep. 94: Is Bitcoin’s Institutional Wave a Trojan Horse or the Tipping Point? BHB 2025
This episode is a recording of the great panel I moderated at Baltic Honeybadger 2025. Willy Woo, Max Kei & Preston Pysh break down ETFs, treasury strategies, custody risks, CBDCs, and why self-custody still matters most.-- SPONSORS & AFFILIATES --→ Get your TREZOR wallet & accessories, with a 5% discount, using my code at checkout (get my discount code from the episode - yep, you’ll h
Ep. 93: Francis Pouliot - The Fiat Scam vs. The Bitcoin Flame
My guest today is Francis Pouliot, long-time Bitcoin advocate, cypherpunk entrepreneur, and CEO of Bull Bitcoin, Canada’s leading Bitcoin-only exchange. Known for his uncompromising stance on self-custody, privacy, and resistance to state overreach, Francis has been a vocal defender of Bitcoin’s founding ethos for over a decade. He is also a key figure in Bitcoin Jungle, a circular economy in Cost
Ep. 92: Bob Burnett - The Wild Truth About Bitcoin Mining
My guest today is Bob Burnett, veteran technologist, former Gateway CTO, and now CEO of Barefoot Mining. From consumer tech pioneer with eight U.S. patents to leader in sovereign Bitcoin mining, Bob shares his vision for “wild mining,” where miners own their energy using innovative energy sources. He challenges the myth that mining is only for massive corporations, showing how small, strategically
Ep. 91: Chef Pete Evans - Radical Health, Radical Freedom
My guest today is the internationally renowned chef Pete Evans, bestselling author, and outspoken advocate for regenerative health and personal sovereignty. He built a successful career in the culinary world with over 30 cookbooks and award-winning restaurants, and after shifting to regenerative health and holistic wellness, he became one of the first high-profile figures to be widely deplatformed
Ep. 90: Preston Pysh - The Great Monetary Reset Is Already Here
My guest today is Preston Pysh, engineer, Apache helicopter pilot, partner at Ego Death Capital VC, and co-founder of The Investor’s Podcast Network. Known for co-hosting “Bitcoin Fundamentals” podcast and authoring several books on investing, Preston is one of the most influential voices in the Bitcoin space. In this episode, Preston shares how his systems-thinking mindset and background in milit
Ep. 89: Eric Weiss - Why Corporate Adoption Is Driving Bitcoin Like Never Before
My guest today is Eric Weiss, founder of Blockchain Investment Group and one of the earliest institutional investors in Bitcoin. In this episode, Eric shares how his background as a proprietary bond trader and early internet VC led him to Bitcoin in 2013, and how he eventually played a key role in orange-pilling Michael Saylor. We explore the rise of Bitcoin treasury companies, the structural tax
Ep. 88: Kevin McKernan - What Has Fiat Medicine Done To Us
My guest today is Kevin McKernan, a renowned genomicist and biotech pioneer, founder of Medicinal Genomics and contributor to the Human Genome Project. In this episode, Kevin exposes his discovery of DNA contamination in COVID-19 injections, revealing Pfizer's bait-and-switch between clinical trials and mass production, with SV40 viral sequences and bacterial DNA deliberately hidden from regul
Ep. 87: Pierre and Morgen Rochard - Upgrading Finance with Bitcoin
Our guests today are Pierre and Morgen Rochard, co-hosts of the “Bitcoin for Advisors” podcast and leading advocates for integrating Bitcoin into long-term financial planning. In this episode, Pierre shares how Austrian economics and open-source philosophy led him to Bitcoin in 2012, and how his new venture, “The Bitcoin Bond Company”, aims to unlock institutional credit markets using sound money.
Ep. 86: Susie Violet Ward - Fixing the UK's Broken Bitcoin Policy
My guest today is Susie Violet Ward, CEO and co-founder of Bitcoin Policy UK, a financial analyst and journalist (Forbes) focused on Bitcoin and the environment. In this episode, Susie unpacks the regulatory hostility toward Bitcoin in the UK, from the FCA’s refusal to distinguish it from crypto, to the media’s relentless misinformation, especially by the BBC. We discuss her personal journey from
Ep. 85: JD & Britney - 8 Kids, 1 Bus, No Fear
My guests today are JD and Britney, the couple behind “American Family Road Trip”, a faith-led family of ten living full-time on the road in a self-renovated bus. Since 2018, they’ve embraced a life of minimalism, homeschooling, and Bitcoin, all while raising eight children across the backroads of America and beyond. In this episode, JD and Brittney share how leaving behind their 7,000-square-foot
Ep. 84: Joe Kelly - How To Manage $11 Billion Worth Of Bitcoin?
My guest today is Joe Kelly, co-founder and CEO of Unchained, a leading Bitcoin financial services company known for its collaborative custody model. A long-time entrepreneur and early Bitcoin adopter, Joe has built one of the most trusted platforms for secure key management, estate planning, and Bitcoin-backed lending. In this episode, Joe shares how his unconventional upbringing in Alaska and ye
Ep. 83: Marty Bent - Freedom Tech vs. The State
My guest today is Marty Bent, a writer, investor, and one of the most influential voices in the Bitcoin media ecosystem. As the founder of the popular podcast and newsletter TFTC (Truth for the Commoner) and managing partner at Ten31, a venture firm investing exclusively in Bitcoin infrastructure, Marty has helped shape the conversation around Bitcoin’s future for nearly a decade. In this episode,
Ep. 82: Caitlin Long - Banking Meets Bitcoin Revolution
My guest today is Caitlin Long, Founder and CEO of Custodia Bank, a 22-year Wall Street veteran, and one of the most influential voices in Bitcoin policy and financial regulation. A Harvard-trained lawyer and early Bitcoin advocate, Caitlin played a central role in turning Wyoming into the most crypto-friendly legal jurisdiction in the United States, helping pass over 20 blockchain-enabling laws.
Ep. 81: Mark Moss - Own Bitcoin Before This $5 Trillion Liquidity Event
My guest today is Mark Moss, a serial entrepreneur, investor, and educator in Bitcoin and macroeconomics. He’s the founder of Market Disruptors and a partner at the Bitcoin Opportunity Fund. In this episode, Mark explains why fiat currencies collapse through inflation over decades, not overnight, and how the U.S. is using tariffs and debt expansion to stay afloat. We dive into why the 60/40 portfo
Ep. 80: Parker Lewis - Bitcoin, Texas & the Fight for Sovereignty
My guest today is Parker Lewis, the author of “Gradually Then Suddenly” and head of business development at Zaprite. A long-time fixture in the Bitcoin community, Parker is known for making complex monetary ideas accessible and for championing Bitcoin’s role in restoring long-term thinking, personal responsibility, and economic sovereignty. Born and raised in Austin, Texas, Parker is a vocal advoc
Ep. 79: Dr. Tina Peers - Injured by Covid Jab To Discover Spike Detox
My guest today is Dr. Tina Peers, a UK-based naturopathic holistic practitioner with extensive experience treating long Covid, vaccine-related injuries, and mast cell activation syndrome. With over 40 years of clinical experience, Tina was early to identify the role of spike protein toxicity and immune dysregulation in post-Covid illness. In this episode, we explore how she helped patients recover
Ep. 78: Alex Krainer - "Europe: Where Are You Heading?"
My guest today is Alex Krainer, a geo-political analyst, commodity trading expert and founder of I-System Trend Following. This livestream was originally recorded on Substack on May 7th, 2025, where we discussed:Economic: Europe faces stagnating growth, high debt levels, and a challenging transition toward green energy. Deindustrialization risks, driven by high energy prices and overregulation, ar
Ep. 77: Mikkel Thorup - Become an Expat: Outrun Tyranny & Maximize Liberty
My guest today is Mikkel Thorup, the founder and CEO of Expat Money, an expat consultancy company that focuses on helping clients to legally mitigate tax liabilities, obtain second residencies and citizenships, as well as make foreign investments, including international real estate. Raised in Canada and self-educated since the age of 12, Mikkel’s journey is anything but conventional. He’s lived i
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