70: Empire Extraction

By Chris Fisher

Aired Aug 20, 2025 · 1h 8m · Last boosted Aug 27, 2025

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Empires drowning in debt turn to plunder, tariffs, and control. But this time, the cracks in the empire reveal the case for Bitcoin. Affiliate 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...

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Andrew 30k sats
babelfish21 10k sats
NyKoF 10k sats
bobbypin 5k sats
Rik 5k sats

nakamoto6102 3.5k sats
aceackerman 2.2k sats
hellothere 2.2k sats
Hashraid 2k sats
Chris Fisher 2k sats
Turkey 500 sats
BDC 210 sats
Piez 121 sats

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bobbypin 5,000 sats Aug 27, 2025

I noticed that you don't talk a lot about mining in TWIB like you did in PlanB. I'm thinking that mining would be a fun hobby to get into and learn more about Bitcoin while helping the decentralization. Right now I'm looking at the Bitaxe Gamma and might scale out from there. Right now I have an AlbyHub hosted by Alby. Is there anything you think I should know before getting into it, or any tips you could give me wo…
BDC 210 sats Aug 26, 2025
babelfish21 10,000 sats Aug 26, 2025

Thanks for the important news about BINS. I had not heard that. As you said, they have clearly revealed their hand now and its a good one. So, either they kill Bitcoin fungibility and solidify the fiat empire or they accelerate the revolt into a value-for-value alternative. Every FYC transaction directly between Bitcoiners is one more removed from the KYC stranglehold.
nakamoto6102 3,500 sats Aug 25, 2025

Thanks for the value
Hashraid 2,000 sats Aug 25, 2025

Hey Chris, I’m curious if you’ve looked into the Spark layer 2 solution from LightSpark. Seems really promising and that it would be a good compliment to Lightning. It feels a lot like Liquid, but more trustless. It feels like there are a lot of new layer 2 solutions in the works right now and I’d love your take on them. As always, thanks for the show!
NyKoF 10,000 sats Aug 23, 2025

Started listening to Self-Hosted on Spotify, discovered LUP, came to fountain, discovered twib and now Boosting. Thanks for the journey
Andrew 30,000 sats Aug 22, 2025

Thanks for the value as alway, I certainly don’t like all this talk about governments/ corporations guarding the “on and off ramps” to the block chain and threatening to mandate only KYC routes they approve of, what are you thoughts on the BIS’s proposition of “duty of care”. I feel that would be next to impossible to implement but we tend to be lemmings as a population at times. So I will remain attentive to all th…
hellothere 2,222 sats Aug 21, 2025
Rik 5,000 sats Aug 21, 2025

Biggest ligthning transaction ever for me. how cool I can just send this? Great show, even better energy, thanks! 🙏
Piez 121 sats Aug 20, 2025

Thank you sir
aceackerman 2,222 sats Aug 20, 2025

V4V from the crypto capital of the world!
Turkey 500 sats Aug 20, 2025
Chris Fisher 1,999 sats Aug 20, 2025

Fresh TWiB! Really tying together the last few weeks of news. If you understand what I discussed in this episode, you’ll inherently understand one of the major value propositions of bitcoin. 🍻