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The Café Bitcoin Podcast

The Café Bitcoin Podcast

Swan Bitcoin 650 Episodes Aug 21, 2026

The Café Bitcoin Podcast is a show produced by Swan Bitcoin that covers Bitcoin-related topics. It features interviews with guests from the Bitcoin space, including Tomer Strolight and Cory Klippsten. New episodes are released Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the show aims to educate listeners about Bitcoin.

Episodes

Café Bitcoin | Bitcoin Rips 23% on the Week, Privacy in the AI Era, Palantir and Government Capture | Day 31 of 50
Café Bitcoin | Bitcoin Rips 23% on the Week, Privacy in the AI Era, Palantir and Government Capture | Day 31 of 50 Aug 21, 2026 01:29:20 Bitcoin around $77,200, up almost 8% on the day and 23% on the week, and the show opens on the mood rather than the chart. Cory, joining from Istanbul: "the shitposting is just completely off the charts. We're back. We're so back." Brandon's read on the turn: "we needed this one. It was a rough couple months." ⭐ Adam Livingston makes the pragmatic case for sovereign accumulation, and grounds it
Parker Lewis on the 12% Day, Hank Paulson's "Break the Glass," and Why Spending Bitcoin Is a Saving Question | Day 30 of 50
Parker Lewis on the 12% Day, Hank Paulson's "Break the Glass," and Why Spending Bitcoin Is a Saving Question | Day 30 of 50 Aug 20, 2026 01:23:53 Bitcoin ran about 12% in 24 hours, from roughly $66,000 to $72,000, and the show opens on it. Parker spends the hour on what produced it rather than the number itself: the long end of the Treasury curve is behaving in a way the Treasury cannot fix. ⭐ The catalyst nobody led with: the Treasury announced a $4 billion buyback of long bonds. The 10-year yield sat at 4.68% at the announcement and fe
Café Bitcoin | The Nuclear Bitcoiner on Mining with Small Modular Reactors, and the Paper He Is Taking to a Nuclear Conference | Day 29 of 50
Café Bitcoin | The Nuclear Bitcoiner on Mining with Small Modular Reactors, and the Paper He Is Taking to a Nuclear Conference | Day 29 of 50 Aug 19, 2026 01:26:55 Ryan MacLeod, who posts as The Nuclear Bitcoiner, works at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories and has spent almost eleven years in the industry as a laboratory technologist. He compares his facility to Idaho National Lab, Oak Ridge, or Savannah River in the US, and Sellafield in the UK. The order of his conversion is the opposite of what you would guess: he did not become a nuclear advocate until after
Café Bitcoin | John Haar Returns for Macro and Mining, 55 Years Off Gold | Day 28 of 50
Café Bitcoin | John Haar Returns for Macro and Mining, 55 Years Off Gold | Day 28 of 50 Aug 18, 2026 01:25:06 John Haar, back for his first Café appearance since leaving Swan for Blockware, opens on the 55th anniversary of the Nixon Shock. His argument: gold's own physical properties, the time, trust, and armed transport required to settle in it, are what let the 1971 dollar-gold break happen and stick. No one could credibly refuse. Asked whether the US might literally "back" the dollar with Bitcoin, J
Café Bitcoin | Yan Pritzker on Bitcoin Fork History, the September 1 Hard Fork, and Why Doing Nothing Is the Safest Move | Day 27 of 50
Café Bitcoin | Yan Pritzker on Bitcoin Fork History, the September 1 Hard Fork, and Why Doing Nothing Is the Safest Move | Day 27 of 50 Aug 17, 2026 01:20:17 Yan Pritzker, Swan's cofounder and CTO, walks his new essay on Bitcoin fork history, from the 2015 block size debates through the hard fork scheduled for September 1. Published on the Swan blog and posted to X during the show. His own entry point was Ethereum, not Bitcoin. The 2016 DAO rollback split the chain and created Ethereum Classic, and watching that taught him what a fork actually is be
Café Bitcoin | Orwellian Overreach, the Museum of Civil Liberties, and the Freedom Tech Field Guide | Day 24 of 50
Café Bitcoin | Orwellian Overreach, the Museum of Civil Liberties, and the Freedom Tech Field Guide | Day 24 of 50 Aug 14, 2026 01:19:26 A museum for things that aren't gone yet. Roxana Nasoi of Logos walks through the Museum of Civil Liberties: five halls, twenty major events, a record kept where it can't be quietly edited. Phase one of a past, present, and future campaign. "Liberties, not rights." Roxana explains the word choice: rights imply something that can be granted and revoked. The halls cover control of money, the surv
Café Bitcoin |  Self-Custody with Nick Neuman, Money Without Permission and Debanking | Day 23 of 50
Café Bitcoin | Self-Custody with Nick Neuman, Money Without Permission and Debanking | Day 23 of 50 Aug 13, 2026 01:23:53 Suze takes us inside the UK's debanking inquiry. A director and co-founder of Bitcoin Policy UK, she's submitting evidence to Parliament's cross-party inquiry this week, and explains what an APPG can and can't do about banks blocking lawful transactions. The numbers are staggering. The Locked Out report found roughly 40% of payments to exchanges blocked or delayed by UK banks, with one exchange
Greg Foss on Bitcoin as Insurance, Credit Signals in the AI Boom, and Do the Math | 50 Days for Freedom, Day 22
Greg Foss on Bitcoin as Insurance, Credit Signals in the AI Boom, and Do the Math | 50 Days for Freedom, Day 22 Aug 12, 2026 01:15:03 Greg Foss is back. After stepping away from Twitter and spending time on Nostr, the veteran credit analyst explains what pulled him back: young people reaching for socialism, and credit markets he sees as far less healthy than equities. The credit default swap thesis. Foss walks through his method: take the CDS spread on U.S. government debt, multiply by total obligations including unfunded lia
Café Bitcoin | Larry Lepard and Greg Foss on Japan as the Seminal Event, Credit as the Warning, and Why Timing Beats Everyone | Day 21 of 50
Café Bitcoin | Larry Lepard and Greg Foss on Japan as the Seminal Event, Credit as the Warning, and Why Timing Beats Everyone | Day 21 of 50 Aug 11, 2026 01:31:53 Cory's argument about narratives. Journalists and bankers keep asking what the catalyst will be, but narrative follows price rather than causing it. Something moves because sellers are exhausted, and the reason gets fitted afterward. The only narrative that matters is Bitcoin being better money for eight billion people. Larry Lepard on what actually moved. The debasement trade began in earnest
Café Bitcoin | Jeff Ross on Energy Money, Why Abundance Still Needs Scarcity, and Study Before You Stack | Day 20 of 50
Café Bitcoin | Jeff Ross on Energy Money, Why Abundance Still Needs Scarcity, and Study Before You Stack | Day 20 of 50 Aug 10, 2026 00:39:42 The theme was looking forward After two brutal weeks the room turned to what comes next, set up by a listener's observation that the philosophical Bitcoin conversation which drew people in around 2020 had gone quiet for years and is audibly back Why the guard dropped Phillip framed Coldcard as a psychic blow because it was the standard for personal sovereignty, and the harder question is why th
Café Bitcoin | Slay Your Heroes, the Fourth Turning, and Certainty Lowers Your Guard | Day 17 of 50
Café Bitcoin | Slay Your Heroes, the Fourth Turning, and Certainty Lowers Your Guard | Day 17 of 50 Aug 6, 2026 01:25:48 Suze's Forbes piece, and the question under it. Her Telegram reporting found a persistent identifier that survives restarts, network changes and borders, with the credible risk being targeted surveillance rather than mass tracking. Her real question: why is don't-trust-verify never applied to companies and personalities inside Bitcoin? The confessions, and Cory's calibration. American HODL admi
Café Bitcoin | Guy Swann and Yan Pritzker on Coldcard, the Asymmetry of Defense, and Privacy | Day 16 of 50
Café Bitcoin | Guy Swann and Yan Pritzker on Coldcard, the Asymmetry of Defense, and Privacy | Day 16 of 50 Aug 5, 2026 01:12:00 Guy Swan on learning the wrong lessons. The takeaway circulating is "go with the biggest company," which forgets Mt. Gox and FTX and everything else proving size is not safety. His analogy: when a libertarian politician betrays you, libertarianism didn't break, you got scammed. He wants a rule that works forward. His sharpest point: "I don't want a rule that only works in hindsight." Anyone can

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