The Bitcoin Matrix
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The Bitcoin Matrix
Let's explore Bitcoin, the future of money and the social, cultural, economical and philosophical implications of this new technology. Hosted by Cedric Youngelman.
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Bitcoin Is More — Tomer Strolight on Money, Rights & AI
"Bitcoin is a rights-protection entity."
Tomer Strolight returns for his ninth visit — and reads four of his own essays start to finish, with co...
Bitcoin Is Under Attack | Matthew Kratter, Bitcoin University
"Bitcoin is not physical gold. You can kill Bitcoin."
Matthew Kratter — who runs Bitcoin University, did a PhD in literature under René Girard,...
Rehypothecation Is Cryptographically Impossible — Martin Matejka, Firefish CEO
"Rehypothecation is cryptographically impossible."
Martin Matejka joins the show to break down the rise of Bitcoin-native lending, Firefish's 3-...
Matt Cole — He Built a Stock That Pays You Every Day
Matt Cole spent fifteen years at CalPERS — the largest public pension fund in the U.S. — running more than $70 billion in global fixed income, where h...
Matt Hougan — Bitcoin's Next Supply Shock
Matt Hougan is the Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management — one of eleven spot Bitcoin ETF issuers, managing over $10 billion. When fami...
Why Bitcoin Needs Its Own Summer Camp | Camp Nakamoto
Jeff Casler and Angelo Firenze don't run a Bitcoin conference. They run a Bitcoin camp.
Jeff is a serial entrepreneur and MS survivor — co-found...
Bram Kanstein: Bitcoin Is An Economic Psychedelic | EP274
Bram Kanstein returns to The Bitcoin Matrix. He's spent over three thousand hours studying money. He hosts Bitcoin for Millennials — now expanding int...
Pius Sprenger Shorted Subprime. Now He Sees It Again.
Pius Sprenger has a PhD in mathematics and spent twenty-five years on Wall Street. He was hired to Deutsche Bank in 2004 and ended up on Greg Lippmann...
The FCC Collected $6,790. Then They Came for Bitcoin ATMs. | Paul Tarantino | Ep 272
Paul Tarantino is the CEO of Byte Federal, one of the largest Bitcoin ATM networks in the country. Eighteen months ago on this show he told us Bitcoin...
Bitcoin Age, the Dollar Mind Trick & Why Gold is Old | Nik Bhatia @timevalueofbtc | EP271
Nik Bhatia called Bitcoin a once-in-a-millennium monetary event
before most people understood what Bitcoin was. Now he has a
secon...
Who Controls Bitcoin? 16 Years of Data and a 13-Year-Old Hard Drive | EP270 | @secsovereign
Josh discovered Bitcoin in 2010 — before most people knew what a blockchain was.
What happened next changed everything.
"I'm thankful tha...
Bitcoin, Stoicism, and Time’s Edge
Nobody told Connor Dolan that the Stoics figured out Bitcoin 2,000 years before Satoshi — but after a year of research, he proved it.
Connor Dol...
Bitcoin's iPhone Moment — STRC & the Conversion of the Financial System
Nobody could explain how we get from today to a Bitcoin Standard — until now.
MarylandHODL21 and Cris Reed join The Bitcoin Matrix to break down...
Peruvian Bull - 2026 Is Already Breaking Every Rule: Here's What Comes Next
In this episode, I sit down with Roberto Rios aka Peruvian Bull, and he didn’t come to play it safe. Fresh off breaking news the morning of recording,...
Tony Yazbeck - A Collapse Survivor's Warning About War, Banks & Bitcoin
After watching Lebanese banks steal his life savings overnight, Tony Yazbeck went from cybersecurity veteran to full-on Bitcoin sovereignty advocate....
Tom Luongo - Controlled Opposition, Bitcoin and Why America Is Already at War
In this episode, I’m sitting down with Tom Luongo for the sixth time, and he makes a bold case: the chaos you’re watching in Western politics, the war...
Joe Burnett - AI Singularity & Bitcoin
In this episode, I’m sitting down with Joe Burnett for the fourth time to discuss his piece “The Singularity Has Begun” and this might just be our mos...
Andy Schoonover - Turning Healthcare Into Bitcoin Circularity
In this episode, I'm chatting with Andy Schoonover, the founder and CEO of CrowdHealth, a revolutionary community-powered alternative to health insura...
Dave Collum - Fourth Turning Meets Market Collapse
In this episode, I sit down with Dave Collum. We dive deep into why the financial legends who warned us about insane market bubbles back in 2015 might...
Beau Turner - The Truth About Bitcoin Mining
In this episode, I’m sitting down with Beau Turner, co-founder and CEO of Abundant Mines. What starts as a conversation about mining quickly becomes s...
Lauren Rodriguez - The Samurai Wallet Story
In this episode, I chat with Lauren Rodriguez, wife of Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of the privacy-focused Samurai Wallet, about her family’s harrowi...
The Very Best of The Bitcoin Matrix in 2025
In a year of noise, we looked for the signal. 53 episodes - one truth. This is the best of The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast in 2025.
––– Offers &...
Aaron Day - The Rise of Technocracy
In this episode, I chat with Aaron Day, a freedom movement architect, serial entrepreneur, and outspoken opponent of global technocracy. After governm...
Jason Leibowitz - This Solves Bitcoin’s Biggest Unspoken Problem
In this episode, I chat with Jason Leibowitz, Head of Strategy at Meanwhile, about a game-changing financial product that blends Bitcoin with the powe...
Jeff Booth - The Real Reason Why Bitcoin Will NEVER Fail
In this episode, I sit down with Jeff Booth, entrepreneur, author of The Price of Tomorrow, and one of the clearest thinkers on how technology, money,...
Walker America - This Is Why Governments Are Trapped (And Bitcoin Isn’t)
In this episode, I sit down with Walker America, host of the Bitcoin podcast and one half of The Crypto Couple, to explore his journey into Bitcoin, c...
Keonne Rodriguez - You Don't Live in a Free Country (Here's Why)
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n this episode, I chat with Keonne Rodríguez, co-founder of Samurai Wallet—a Bitcoin wallet f...
The Final Bitcoin Price Explosion: Parker Lewis’ Warning
In this episode, I chat with Parker Lewis, author of Gradually, Then Suddenly and Head of Business Development at Zaprite. We dig deep into the transi...
Dave Collum - You Have No Idea What They're Hiding
In this episode, I chat with Dave Collum, professor of organic chemistry at Cornell University and one of the most iconic voices in the financial and...
Natalie Brunell - Bitcoin is for Everyone
In this episode, I chat with Natalie Brunell, host of Coin Stories, a top-ranked Bitcoin podcast and one of the most powerful voices in Bitcoin educat...
Daniel White - This System is a Shit Show
In this episode, I chat with Daniel White, the author of The Great Realignment: Power, Money, Greed, and Bitcoin, and the CEO of MicroSeed, a Bitcoin...
Jimmy Song - Inside the Bitcoin Betrayal
In this episode, I chat with Jimmy Song, a Bitcoin developer and educator that has been a driving force in Bitcoin for over a decade.
We dive...
Tomer Strolight & Nico Moran - The Road to 2032 (Live at The Canadian Bitcoin Conference)
In this episode, I sit down with my friends Tomer Strolight and Nico Moran live at the Canadian Bitcoin Conference to explore what it really means to...
Bram Kanstein - The Biggest Technological Battle Ever
In this episode, I chat with Bram Kanstein, host of the Bitcoin for Millennials podcast and longtime internet tinkerer turned Bitcoiner. We get into c...
Tom Luongo - They Lost Control of the Markets
In this episode, I chat with Tom Luongo, a well-known macro expert and a returning five-timer on the show, about the power games behind markets and po...
Cedric Youngelman - What Makes This Cycle Different
In this episode, I had the pleasure of joining Robin Seyr on his show to dive deep into Bitcoin, its current trajectory, and the bigger forces shaping...
Grant Cardone - How Bitcoin Broke My Playbook
In this episode, I chat with Grant Cardone, the entrepreneur, bestselling author, and real-estate mogul behind Cardone Capital, known for his 10X phil...
Amanda Goodall - 5 Ways to Survive The AI Takeover
In this episode, I chat with Amanda Goodall, a workforce intelligence analyst who spots restructuring signals months before they hit the headlines. We...
Samson Mow - KNOTS vs CORE
In this episode, I chat with Samson Mow, CEO of Jan3, longtime Bitcoiner, and a key voice in nation-state Bitcoin adoption, about the heated Core vs....
Trace Mayer - Why Bitcoin Will Outlive Nations
In this episode, I chat with Trace Mayer, early Bitcoin investor and the mind behind the Seven Network Effects, about monetary sovereignty and the ide...