70: Empire Extraction
20 August 2025
Empires drowning in debt turn to plunder, tariffs, and control. But this time, the cracks in the empire reveal the case for Bitcoin.
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Episode Links
- 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US
- 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform
- ⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning
- 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats
- 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling
Show Notes:
- Bitcoin tanks below $119k as Bessent says gov’t won’t buy Bitcoin for reserve
- Producer Price Index News Release summary - 2025 M07 Results
- Not at the table: Europe’s colonial moment
- Arthur Hayes: Bitcoin Will Soar as Money Printing Won’t Stop! - YouTube
- Bank of International Settlements Paper Proposes Self-KYC For Non-Custodial Wallets
- Former White House cryptocurrency adviser Bo Hines joins Tether
- FBI’s undercover $250 Bitcoin payment helps take down alleged serial corporate hacker
- Citigroup considers custody and payment services for stablecoins, crypto ETFs
- Ethereum staking faces $3.28 billion exit queue as delays hit longest wait in months
- Group pitches Bitcoin mining to warm Vancouver’s Kits Pool
- BITCOIN HISTORY: Satoshi launched Bitcoin . org exactly 17 years ago today
- Andreas Antonopoulos - Currency Wars and Bitcoin’s Neutrality - YouTube
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