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Protocol PulseWhy $1 Trillion in Stablecoins Will Centralize Crypto | Quai Network's Energy-Backed ProposalJust sat down with Alan Orwick from Quai Network at Mining Disrupt 2025 in Texas to discuss one of the most controversial takes in crypto right now: the stablecoin centralization problem.
🔥 KEY TOPICS COVERED:
Why $1 trillion in stablecoins by 2030 threatens crypto decentralizationHow Quai uses ENERGY as a unit of account instead of fiat currencyThe two-token model: QUAI (store of value) + QI (energy-backed medium of exchange)Why Bitcoin hasn't achieved Satoshi's peer-to-peer cash vision yetGPU mining as the most grassroots distribution method for cryptoSolo mining without pools - how Quai solved Bitcoin's centralization problemBuilding trustless Bitcoin bri...
2025-12-1625 minProtocol PulseA Surgeon Reveals the AI Prediction That Killed His 401kIn this video: We are live from Mining Disrupt 2025 in Texas with Gray, a surgeon who went down the Bitcoin rabbit hole less than a year ago. In this eye-opening conversation, we break down why a police officer in 1969 could buy a home with one year's salary, while today's doctors struggle to build wealth.
Gray reveals the shocking results he got when he asked an AI to calculate the real future value of his 401k adjusted for inflation—and why the answer devastated him. We discuss the "Cantillon Effect," why the cost of living is crushing the mi...
2025-12-1317 minProtocol PulseIs AI Killing Industrial Mining? The Return of Home Bitcoin Mining w/ Solo SatoshiAre the biggest Bitcoin miners leaving the network to chase AI profits?
Live from Mining Disrupt 2025 in Texas, Matty Ice (Consensus Protocol) sits down with Matt, CEO of Solo Satoshi, to discuss the shifting landscape of the mining industry. As industrial giants pivot toward High-Performance Computing (HPC) and AI for higher payouts, a massive opportunity is opening up for the little guy.
In this episode, we dive into:
The AI Pivot: Why massive mining facilities are switching off SHA-256 and switching on AI compute.
The Bitax Revolution: How open-source, low-power devices...
2025-12-0208 minProtocol PulseBitcoin ETFs, centralization risk, and the road to real decentralization | Aly MadhavjiWe sat down at Bitcoin 2025 with Aly Madhavji, Managing Partner at Blockchain Founders Fund, to unpack the tension between a decentralized vision and the new wave of centralized ETF custody. Aly explains why hyper centralization raises seizure risk, how proof of reserves should evolve, and why shorting dynamics get easier when institutions hold the keys. We also dig into lessons from the gold bans of the past, the US policy sentiment shift, and why builders should target real users instead of casino token plays.
What you will learn:
• Bitcoin ETFs, custodians, and the centralization trap
• Why...
2025-09-2237 minProtocol PulseBitcoin Billionaire Loses Hard Drive in LandfillJames Howells, the Welsh engineer who famously lost 8,000 Bitcoin (now worth nearly a billion dollars) in a Newport landfill in 2013, joins us at Bitcoin 2025 to share his incredible story. For over a decade, he's fought a relentless legal battle against the local council to recover his hard drive. But after multiple court losses and a rejected offer to give them 10% of the coins, he's taking a different approach.
James is now tokenizing 21% of the wallet's value into ordinals and selling them to the public to raise money to buy the landfill site outright. He's assembled a world-class...
2025-09-0321 minProtocol PulseHow Bitcoiners Get A Second Passport: El Salvador, Portugal & Anarchy | Katie The RussianKatie "the Russian" shares her incredible journey from professional sailor in Siberia to Bitcoin entrepreneur and founder of Plan B Passport (recently acquired by CitizenX). In this deep conversation at Bitcoin 2025, we explore how Bitcoin's low time preference mindset transformed not just her business approach, but her entire life philosophy.
🔑 KEY TOPICS COVERED:
• How Plan B Passport got acquired by CitizenX and Katie's new role as CMO
• Why Bitcoin creates low time preference thinking that improves every area of life
• The cultural differences between Russia and America that shaped her worldview
• Why she believes in...
2025-08-2716 minProtocol Pulse“Bitcoin Will Not Save You" Samuel Armes on Florida Politics, Maxis & CBDCs | BitcoinDay TampaAt Bitcoin Day Tampa, we sat down with Samuel Armes — part freedom fighter, part legislative architect — to unpack the raw truth about Bitcoin adoption, political reality, and the fight against CBDCs in Florida.
From working with Special Operations Command on shutting down Bitcoin, to drafting America’s first state-level CBDC ban, Armes has been on the inside shaping Bitcoin-friendly policy. In this unfiltered conversation, he calls out Maxi blindspots, explains why the Florida Strategic Bitcoin Reserve failed, and delivers a sobering message:
“Bitcoin will not save you. Castles fall. Community is what matters.”
These are...
2025-08-0914 minProtocol PulseThis Bitcoin Life Insurance Company Just Raised $40M vs Traditional Life Insurance SCAMIs traditional life insurance a scam? With the dollar's purchasing power plummeting, saving for the future in fiat currency feels like a losing game.
In this episode, we sit down with Zac Townsend, the co-founder and CEO of Meanwhile, the world's first life insurance company fully denominated in Bitcoin. Backed by Sam Altman and other Silicon Valley heavyweights, Meanwhile is a fully regulated entity in Bermuda, offering a simple, powerful financial tool to build intergenerational wealth on a Bitcoin standard.
Zac breaks down how their whole life policies work, allowing you to pay premiums and...
2025-07-2832 minProtocol PulseApex Predator: Gary Cardone’s Ultimate Bitcoin Conviction & Generational Wealth StrategyGary Cardone unleashes one of the most raw and compelling Bitcoin interviews you'll ever hear. From selling $70M/year businesses to go all-in on Bitcoin, to calling it the “apex predator of assets,” Gary breaks down exactly why this moment in history is the opportunity of a lifetime.
He reveals:
– Why Bitcoin is like a 27-year-old redhead that never ages
– How Wall Street and fintech are broken beyond repair
– Why most Bitcoiners stopped buying at $30—and why that's a massive mistake
– The truth about work ethic scarcity vs. asset scarcity
– His blunt take on Grant Ca...
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Cypherpunk’dBitcoin's Anti Fragile Evolution | Dr. K On Digital Sovereignty vs CBDCsIn this episode of Cypherpunk’d, we sit down with Dr. K—co-founder and CTO of Quai Network—to explore the forgotten roots of Bitcoin, the antifragile power of crypto experimentation, and the future of decentralized money in an increasingly authoritarian digital age.
We trace how Satoshi's vision went beyond Bitcoin, how Monero emerged from Bitcoin’s privacy flaws, and why gold's fate is a cautionary tale for BTC. Dr. K shares how his engineering mindset led him from Grid+ and BlockReduce to building a globally scalable proof-of-work system—one that avoids custodial traps and supports true user sover...
2025-07-181h 30Protocol PulseMichael Saylor Called Out: Proof of Reserves Debate Erupts at Bitcoin 2025At Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas, things got real. Mitchell Askew (@MitchellHODL), the 24-year-old analyst from Blockware Intelligence, publicly pressed Michael Saylor on why MicroStrategy refuses to publish proof of reserves — and the response shook Bitcoin Twitter.
In this explosive conversation hosted by Matty Ice, Mitchell unpacks the full story:
🔹 Why he confronted Saylor
🔹 Why proof of reserves matters for Bitcoin’s ethos
🔹 The transparency contradiction at MicroStrategy
🔹 Gen Z’s bleak economic reality without Bitcoin
🔹 Why money printing is destroying the American dream
🔹 Blockware’s big bet on Bitcoin mining in 2025
Mitchell’s...
2025-07-1018 minProtocol PulseRobin Seyr: Bitcoin is The Last Money Ever & Will Create Generational WealthIn this explosive interview from Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas, 26-year-old Robin Seyr drops some mind-blowing statistics about his Bitcoin podcast audience and shares controversial takes that are triggering the Bitcoin community.
🔥 KEY REVELATIONS:Â
• Only 3% of his 40-50k weekly viewers are younger than him - 97% are OLDERÂ
• Average viewer age is 44-47 years old (almost double his age!)Â
• Claims "0.1 Bitcoin will retire a family" - and explains why people are wrong to doubt it
 • Reveals why "some people are too smart for Bitcoin" and can't figure it outÂ
• Exposes the shocking truth: We only have 0.01...
2025-07-0437 minCypherpunk’dThe Big Print Series: Bitcoin, Decentralization & the End of Centralized Power | Episode 10 of 12Welcome back to The Big Print Series! In Episode 10, we shift focus from macro numbers to the philosophical—and structural—core of the new world: decentralization.
From ancient revolutions to Bitcoin, this episode traces the long arc of human resistance to centralized power—and shows why the next leap is not just technical, but evolutionary. Larry Lepard joins to explore how decentralization isn’t just a feature of Bitcoin—it’s its very soul.
In this episode:
• Why decentralization leads to fairness—and why mammals instinctively hate unfair systems
• The Swiss model: what a working micro-de...
2025-06-2638 minCypherpunk’dThe Big Print Series: Bitcoin, Real Estate, and the Generational Wealth Transfer | Episode 9 of 12Welcome back to The Big Print Series! In Episode 9, Lawrence Lepard joins Matty to unpack one of the most seismic shifts unfolding right now: the collapse of legacy wealth stores and the rise of Bitcoin as the new sound money.
In this deeply personal and eye-opening conversation, Larry reveals how decades of bad incentives—fueled by fiat money and Keynesian policy—have distorted housing, stocks, and even human behavior. Now, as the money-printing machine accelerates, a new generation is opting out.
In this episode:
• The Steve Jobs moment for Bitcoin: why the spreadsheet was to the...
2025-06-211h 18Cypherpunk’dThe Big Print Series: "Bitcoin is God's Gift to Humanity" | Episode 8 of 12Welcome back to The Big Print Series! In this mind-blowing Episode 8, Lawrence Lepard delivers his most profound revelation yet: Bitcoin isn't just an investment—it's literally a "God-given tool" to save humanity from monetary tyranny. For the first time in human history, we have perfect, immutable digital scarcity that can never be diluted.
In this episode:• Why Bitcoin is a "once-in-humanity" event that will never happen again • The deflation "boogeyman": How Keynesians weaponized the Great Depression to serve elites • Warren Buffett exposed: Why he really hates Bitcoin (it makes his life's work meaningless) • The inverse Cantillon effect: How deflation...
2025-06-181h 52Protocol PulseNYC Mayor Eric Adams DROPS BOMBSHELL Federal Charges Dismissed + Bitcoin City Plan REVEALEDMayor Eric Adams joins us at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas for a raw, powerful, and historic interview that bridges personal redemption, political disruption, and financial revolution. From running illegal numbers in Brooklyn as a kid to leading the financial capital of America, Mayor Adams shares his vision to turn New York City into the Bitcoin capital of the world.
In this exclusive sit-down, he talks:
* His early adoption of Bitcoin (even taking his first paychecks in BTC)
* How he overcame childhood dyslexia and being labeled “dumb”
* His fight against “lawfare” and federal harassment
* Pl...
2025-06-1709 minCypherpunk’dThe Big Print Series: The Sovereign Currency Bubble and the Coming Reset | Episode 7 of 12Welcome back to The Big Print Series! In this explosive Episode 7, Lawrence Lepard delivers his most urgent warning yet: we've reached the highest level of financial bubbles—the sovereign currency itself. Unlike dot-com or housing bubbles that can be "bailed out," when a currency bubble bursts, there's nowhere left to run.
In this episode:
• Silicon Valley Bank's collapse: How $42 trillion vanished in one day—a preview of currency failure
• Why yield curve control is coming and what it means for your savings
• The debt spiral trap: Interest payments now exceed military spending
• Gresham's La...
2025-06-1431 minProtocol PulseWorld Record Athlete & Surgeon EXPOSES the $1.5 Trillion Food Industry Scam | Dr. Shawn BakerIs it possible to reverse disease, ditch pharmaceuticals, and rebuild your life with just meat?
Dr. Shawn Baker — ex-Air Force trauma surgeon, world record-holding athlete, and CEO of Rivera Health — believes the answer is a resounding YES. In this exclusive interview from Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas, he shares how he overcame metabolic disease by going full carnivore, what happened when he applied this to his patients, and why he left the traditional medical system to fight for true health freedom.
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Inside this jaw-dropping conversation:
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* Why Big Food and Big Pharma...
2025-06-1131 minCypherpunk’dThe Big Print Series: Economic War - Austrian vs Keynesian Schools | Episode 6 of 12In this episode:
• Why Keynesian economics punishes savers and rewards reckless spending
• How Austrian School economists predicted every major economic crisis Â
• The St. Matthew Island reindeer story—a perfect metaphor for unsustainable growth
• Modern Monetary Theory: The most dangerous economic delusion of our time
• Stein's Law: If something can't go on forever, it will end
• The debt doom loop that's destroying the world's reserve currency
• Why the Fed has "purchased economic thought outright"
• How $36 trillion in debt will trigger the inevitable "Big Print"
Larry reveals how government economists deliberately suppre...
2025-06-111h 00Protocol Pulse"Work Ethic Is More Scarce Than Bitcoin" - Grant Cardone | Bitcoin 2025Grant Cardone drops bombshells in this exclusive interview at Bitcoin 2025 with Matty Ice. The real estate mogul with a $5.2 billion portfolio calls himself a "coward investor" while revealing his controversial Bitcoin strategy that's generating 35-45% returns.
🔥 KEY MOMENTS:
• Why Grant thinks work ethic is more scarce than Bitcoin
• His "coward investor" approach to crypto + real estateÂ
• Warning signs he's seeing at Bitcoin 2025 conference
• The rug pull scenario that keeps him up at night
• From 9-year drug addiction to $5+ billion empire
• Why he's buying distressed real estate with Bitcoin reserves
• His advice for young e...
2025-06-0630 minProtocol PulseBrock Pierce: From Death Threats to Bitcoin Victory - The Underground Pioneer Who Risked EverythingStep into the heart of Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas for a powerful, unfiltered interview with crypto pioneer and former U.S. presidential candidate Brock Pierce. From his child-actor beginnings to shaping the future of finance, Pierce opens up about his political mission, the battle for New York City, and the invisible toll of visionary leadership.
We dive deep into:
- Why New York City is the next major crypto battleground
- The truth about political lawfare, the BitLicense exodus, and rebuilding trust
- How RFK Jr., JD Vance, and Trump are reshaping America's...
2025-06-0447 minCypherpunk’dThe Big Print Series: How Inflation Steals Your Life Energy | Episode 3 of 12In Episode 3 of The Big Print, Larry Lepard returns to break down what may be the most important idea in economics: sound money is a moral issue.
In this episode:
Why fiat money is theft—of your time, energy, and savings
How COVID-era money printing destroyed retirements
A chilling history of how civilizations collapsed under soft money
Why Bitcoin and gold are more than assets—they're defenses against tyranny
The Founding Fathers’ warnings about paper money and what we ignored
Why separating money and state is ess...
2025-05-2748 minCypherpunk’dThe Big Print Series: How Govt Has Been Stealing 98.5% of Your Money Since 1971 | Episode 2 of 12They've been robbing you blind for over 50 years, and most people don't even realize it's happening.
In this explosive Episode 2 of The Big Print series, Harvard-educated venture capitalist Lawrence Lepard exposes the greatest wealth transfer in human history with host Matty Ice. Since Nixon took America off the gold standard in 1971, the top 1% have seized control of 92% of America's wealth while the bottom 50% have been treading water for three decades.
🔥 SHOCKING REVELATIONS IN THIS EPISODE:
• Your dollar has lost 98.5% of its purchasing power since 1971
• The government changed inflation calculations in the 1980s to steal f...
2025-05-2254 minCypherpunk’dThe Big Print Series: Why Fixing the Money is the Only Way to Fix the World | Episode 1 of 12Welcome to the debut of our Cypherpunk’d series: a deep dive into Lawrence Lepard’s urgent and eye-opening book, The Big Print. In this premiere episode, we explore Larry’s personal journey from gold investor to outspoken monetary reform advocate. Learn why he believes the broken monetary system is the root of nearly every major crisis in society—from housing affordability to endless wars—and why Bitcoin and sound money principles are the peaceful solution.
đź’ˇ Topics Covered:
• Why Larry wrote The Big Print
• 2008 bailouts and moral hazard
• Fourth Turning cycles & systemic collapse
• The rise of i...
2025-05-2053 minCypherpunk’dFreedom, Fiat & F-Bombs: Bitcoin Ben Unloads on America’s FutureIn this unfiltered, no-holds-barred episode of Cyberpunk'd, we welcome Bitcoin Ben — Florida’s wildest truck driver/comedian, entrepreneur, and one of Bitcoin's loudest advocates. Ben is known for his unapologetic rants, hilarious analogies, and fiery libertarian views. He’s part comedian, part prophet, and 100% original.
We talk about:
Why Ben believes Trump is recapitalizing America through Bitcoin
How the poor will "eat the rich" if the financial system isn’t fixed
The real story behind Ben's journey from truck driving to crypto stardom
Why freedom must come before Bitcoin, or we’re...
2025-05-141h 16Cypherpunk’dHow Blockchain Is Saving Truckers 90% on Predatory Payment Fees | Todd ZieglerYour essential CRYPTO FREEDOM WATCH roundup for April 15, 2025. Get the latest on El Salvador's Bitcoin adoption challenges, with only 11% of registered firms operational.Â
Learn how a crypto CEO lost $100K in a sophisticated Zoom scam, and why Homeland Security is investigating Anchorage Digital.
We also cover Strive Asset Management challenging Intuit's anti-Bitcoin policies, EOS rebranding to Vaulta for Web3 banking, the SEC's surprising new crypto-friendly task force under Hester Peirce, Canada's innovative Solana ETFs with staking capabilities, and COTI's privacy Layer 2 protocol launch.
Stay informed on today's most significant crypto developments in under 10 m...
2025-04-1843 minCypherpunk’dYour VPN is Spying on You: Bitcoin Core Dev Exposes the Truth - Carl DongIn this eye-opening episode of Cypherpunk'd, we sit down with Carl Dong, former Bitcoin Core developer and founder of Obscura VPN, who exposes the dirty secrets of the VPN industry.
Carl shares his journey from escaping China's Great Firewall to becoming one of Bitcoin Core's top five contributors. Learn how traditional VPNs are essentially "toxic waste" collectors of your personal data, and why he's building a revolutionary two-hop system that physically CANNOT track your online activity.
Discover:
- Why Carl calls user data "toxic waste" and how it creates massive liability
- The...
2025-04-101h 23Cypherpunk’dIndustrial Waste in Your Drinking Water? How Local Activism Defeated CDC Funding & Removed FluorideIn this powerful episode, Matty sits down with Scott Kiley—a former industrial CEO turned health freedom warrior. After spending 40+ years engineering and rebuilding global-scale industrial machines (including the invention of Amazon’s curbside recyclable padded mailer), Scott pivoted into advocacy following the COVID-19 mandates that shook the world.
Key topics discussed:
• Scott's entrepreneurial journey and business insights from 40+ years in industrial machinery
• How COVID awakened him to government overreach and launched his health freedom advocacy
• His successful campaign to remove fluoride from water supplies across 19 Florida municipalities
• The concerning lack of accountability in public he...
2025-04-041h 47Cypherpunk’dThe Daylight Robbery Series: The Perfect Tax System | Episode 13 of 13In this epic conclusion to The Daylight Robbery Series, Dominic Frisby reveals the blueprint for the ideal tax system, drawing powerful lessons from Hong Kong's remarkable success story.
🔍 Discover why less is truly more in taxation:
- Why Hong Kong became the world's fastest-growing economy with NO natural resources
- The ancient tradition of the "tithe" and why 10-15% tax rates create more prosperity than 50%
- How lower, simpler taxes actually generate MORE government revenue
- The shocking truth about property taxes: how they penalize productivity and entrepreneurship
- Why government spe...
2025-04-0133 minCypherpunk’dThe Daylight Robbery Series: How Data & AI Are Reshaping Taxation | Episode 12 of 13In the latest episode of The Daylight Robbery Series, Dominic Frisby explores how governments are using AI and big data to revolutionize tax collection while digital economies make traditional taxation increasingly difficult.
🔍 Discover the growing tension between technology and taxation:
- How AI and big data are becoming the tax collector's most powerful tools
- Why electronic invoicing systems in countries like Brazil, Mexico, and Italy signal a new era of tax surveillance
- The frightening reality of predictive tax analytics that can flag discrepancies between your lifestyle and tax declarations
- Why...
2025-03-2942 minCypherpunk’dThe Daylight Robbery Series: Digital Nomads & Borderless Money | Episode 11 of 13In this forward-looking episode of The Daylight Robbery Series, Dominic Frisby explores how the rapidly evolving digital economy and crypto are fundamentally challenging government taxation powers and reshaping our future.
Discover eye-opening insights about the changing nature of work and taxation:
- Why digital nomads (projected to reach 1 billion by 2035) pose an existential threat to traditional taxation
- How tech giants like Google, Apple, and Facebook employ a fraction of the workers that traditional companies do while generating vastly more wealth
- The impossibility of effectively taxing borderless digital businesses and why international...
2025-03-2638 minCypherpunk’dThe Daylight Robbery Series: How Governments Silently Rob You | Episode 10 of 13In this eye-opening episode of The Daylight Robbery Series, Dominic Frisby reveals the most insidious forms of taxation that operate in plain sight - debt and inflation - and how they're silently draining your wealth without you even noticing.
Herbert Hoover warned: "Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt." Discover the shocking truth about how our financial system is designed to hide the most devastating forms of wealth confiscation:
- Why national debt is truly "taxation without representation" (Britain only finished paying WWI debts in 2015!)
- How US debt doubled...
2025-03-2225 minCypherpunk’dThe Daylight Robbery Series: How Hitler, Banks & Nations Fought for Wealth | Episode 9 of 13In this riveting episode of The Daylight Robbery Series, Dominic Frisby reveals the extraordinary story of how the Nazis systematically looted central bank gold reserves across conquered Europe - and the desperate attempts to keep national wealth from falling into Hitler's hands.
This eye-opening exploration uncovers dramatic historical events rarely taught in schools:
- How Nazi forces marched directly to central banks on the same day as invasion
- The incredible journey of Polish gold as it fled across 7 countries to escape capture
- Why Czechoslovakia's clever gold transfer strategy still failed to...
2025-03-2045 minCypherpunk’dThe Daylight Robbery Series: The Birth of Big Government | Episode 8 of 13Join us with author Dominic Frisby as we explore how world wars transformed taxation from a burden on the wealthy few to a reality for every citizen. Discover how government grew from consuming just 10% of GDP in 1900 to becoming the dominant economic force we know today.
This eye-opening episode reveals historical facts rarely taught in schools:
- How friendly societies provided welfare before government took over
- The dramatic rise of income tax during WWI and WWII (from 13 million to 50 million Americans)
- How Disney and Hollywood were enlisted to make tax payment seem...
2025-03-1726 minCypherpunk’dThe Daylight Robbery Series: How Tariffs Caused the Civil War | Episode 7 of 13Join us with author Dominic Frisby as we expose how taxation and tariffs—not just slavery—drove the Southern states to secession. Learn how the North's increasingly aggressive tariff policies forced the South to pay 75% of federal taxes while receiving little in return, creating economic tensions that Lincoln refused to resolve.
This episode reveals shocking historical facts rarely taught in schools:
- How Abraham Lincoln prioritized revenue collection over peaceful resolution
- The South's willingness to abolish slavery to gain independence from Britain
- Why Fort Sumter was targeted as a strategic tax collection poin...
2025-03-1443 minCypherpunk’dThe Daylight Robbery Series: How the Richest Families Controlled Nations | Episode 6 of 13Discover the fascinating connection between war, debt, and the rise of income tax that built the fortunes of history's wealthiest banking families.Â
In this episode, we explore how legendary financiers like Fugger the Rich and Nathan Rothschild amassed incredible wealth by financing wars and manipulating markets. Learn about Rothschild's cunning strategy after the Battle of Waterloo that crashed the British bond market and made him one of history's richest men.
We also uncover the surprising origins of income tax - from its medieval beginnings under Henry IV to its modern implementation during the Napoleonic Wars. F...
2025-03-1129 minCypherpunk’dThe Daylight Robbery Series: Tax Wars That Created Nations | Episode 5 of 13In this compelling fifth episode of Cypherpunk'd, host Matty Ice continues his enlightening conversation with Dominic Frisby, author of "Daylight Robbery," exploring how taxation sparked the formation of modern nation-states including Britain, America, and France.
đź“– In this episode:
- Dominic delves into how the English Civil War fundamentally shifted power from the Crown to Parliament through tax disputes, leading to the execution of King Charles I and ending the divine right of kings.
- Discover how poorly implemented British taxes on American colonies sparked the American Revolution, establishing the principle of "no taxation without representation."...
2025-03-0839 minCypherpunk’dThe Daylight Robbery Series: The Peasants' Revolt | Episode 4 of 13In this compelling fourth episode of Cypherpunk'd, host Matty Ice is joined once again by Dominic Frisby, author of "Daylight Robbery," to explore the profound impacts of the Black Death on tax systems and the formation of modern states.
đź“– In this episode:
- Dominic provides expert insights into how the Black Death reshaped the economic and social structures of Europe through changes in tax policy and labor dynamics.
- Learn about the unexpected ways these historical shifts prompted the rise of modern nation-states and influenced global tax structures.
- Discover the intriguing connections between tax...
2025-03-0645 minCypherpunk’dThe Daylight Robbery Series: Death, Taxes, or Islam | Episode 3 of 13In this eye-opening episode of CypherPunk'd, Matty and Dominic Frisby explore the fascinating untold tax stories behind the world's major religions. Discover how Muhammad's brilliant tax exemption strategy helped Islam conquer vast territories in just 30 years, why Christianity replaced pagan religions across Europe, and how taxation shaped the founding stories of Judaism.
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Learn about the powerful connection between religion, taxation, and control throughout human history. From Moses leading the first tax exiles out of Egypt to Jesus being crucified for sedition against Roman tax collectors, we reveal how tax policies have often determined the fate o...
2025-03-0342 minCypherpunk’dThe Daylight Robbery Series: The Hidden History of Taxation | Episode 1 of 13Uncover the shocking truth about taxation that schools never teach you! From window taxes that changed architecture for centuries to Hong Kong's economic miracle, this episode with Dominic Frisby, author of Daylight Robbery, reveals how the entire course of civilization has been shaped by taxation and rebellion against it.
Dominic masterfully explains the hidden power dynamics behind taxation, showing how every revolution in history has been a response to tax injustice. Learn how the "art of taxation consists of plucking the goose to obtain the most feathers with the least possible hissing" - and why there's so...
2025-02-2757 minCypherpunk’dUS $8 Trillion War Spending & Debt Crisis Exposed: Are We Headed for a Monetary Reset? | Lepard & FrisbyIs the United States technically bankrupt? In this eye-opening episode of CypherPunk'd, host Matty Ice sits down with two financial heavyweights to discuss our looming sovereign debt crisis.
Lawrence Lepard, author of the new book "The Big Print," breaks down how America spent $8 trillion on Middle East wars since 2001, creating an unsustainable debt burden while veterans struggle and defense contractors profit. Meanwhile, British comedian and financial author Dominic Frisby offers a shocking comparison: if you think America's situation is bad, the UK and Western Europe are in far worse shape.
Our guests explore:
• Why th...
2025-02-251h 44Cypherpunk’dBitcoin Mining in 2025: Price Moves Faster Than Hashrate | Blockware CRO Danny CondonJoin Danny Condon, Chief Revenue Officer at Blockware Solutions, for an in-depth analysis of Bitcoin mining economics and what's ahead in 2025. With experience managing over 300,000 mining rigs, Danny explains key concepts every investor should understand.
Key insights:
- The fundamental disconnect between Bitcoin price movement and mining infrastructure
- Why miners can currently produce Bitcoin at $43,000 (significant discount to market)
- Analysis of mining equipment supply constraints and market dynamics
- How institutional and potential nation-state adoption affects mining economics
- Innovation in mining efficiency and heat capture technology
- The...
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