80: Shutdown Shock
By Chris Fisher
Ep. 80 · Aired Nov 5, 2025 · 1h 13m · Last boosted Nov 11, 2025
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The U.S. shutdown has sidelined a trillion dollars, starving markets and Bitcoin alike. Whales are having their IPO moment, treasury stacks are shrinking, and now BIP-444 drops a fresh dose of chaos into the mix. 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 Tomas on X: "OK, lots of bad take...
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Episode Boosts
Every boost sent to this episode, as published to Nostr, newest first.
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What do I think of BIP444? If you’re interested, read the original BIP, understand it properly then make your own judgement. Too many Bitcoiners are just listening to their favorite influencer and picking a side to support. The BIP makes no reference to a decision being made to determine if arbitrary data is objectionable. The BIP lists 7 Op Codes or conditions which would further restrict arbitrary data at the cons…
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Found TWIB last week and have been bingeing backwards to episode 50. Love the macro take.
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Here's an intetesting article I ran across on Nomadnet: 42bfb438810723c65fe196af59948600:/page/nip-05/[email protected]/the-golden-encirclement.mu If you don't have Nomadnet, I think it is also posted here on Substack: https://kudzai.substack.com/p/the-golden-encirclement-how-c…
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Thanks for the value
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Thanks for the high signal, here's a small amount of value in return. I'm a few shows out but PLEASE stay audio focussed. Visuals (e.g. notes on your nostr account) as an add-on would be a bonus but I'm finding I have to stop, dry/clean my hands multiple times per show where they've leaned more heavily into video. It's frustrating, when I've hit a rhythm in some tedious chore, and am successfully transported to real…
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As much like the idea of Lava products I've seen some investigation posts from Cory Klippsten and Samson Mow showing from Lava's own terms how the risk is being put all on the borrower. Stuff about "the borrower agrees that these are business loans only" buried in the terms and their rates are so much lower compared to other larger, more experienced lenders that something seems off. Something seems off. Also suggest…
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Linux and Bitcoin do go well together! I've been listening to you since 2014 and bought Bitcoin for the first time 2 years ago just to boost the shows because I wanted to support JB. I've only gotten orange pilled this year after doing the research. I wish I was there for the Plan B days. I remember awhile ago you and Alan sold Bitcoin to buy a server. I wonder how much that server costs now in fiat fun bucks given…
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As someone whose wife is a government employee we have had to scale back our DCA sadly. Once that backpay hits though we are going to smash buy (hopefully before the price jumps back up 🤣)
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Boosting again just because I keep thinking about the stuff in this episode
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Says for tunes
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Kratter has always been a kind of Bitcoin purist but I have had a tough time following him recently too- seems like an overreaction on his part or sour grapes- last thing we want is a group or individual determining what Bitcoin should or should not be used for
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Re: a soft fork, I have posted a question on Matthew Kratter's videos: if we only have 20% of node runners switching to knots why do you think we have sufficient consensus to force the miners to mine the soft fork blocks?
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Last week I boosted and relied on you seeing the rendered version of my npub like is shown on Fountain & Primal, but that isn’t how things work. After reading you suggested making my own site pouted at my Nostr profile… so I did 😁 I setup https://genebean.me with all my links and setup https://genebean.me/nostr as a shortcut.
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Such a good show!
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Chris, you are either intentionally mid-representing this soft fork, or you aren’t remembering what orphan blocks are. https://www.lightspark.com/glossary/orphan-block Reorganizing a block happens often- that’s why we have the little 6-block circle indicator in Sparrow for example. You should be waiting about 6 confirmations to consider a transaction fully settled. That isn’t “F***ing with property” that’s how Bitco…
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Fresh TWiB! Last week, I asked if the US government shutdown was impacting Bitcoin. Boy did I get my answer! Also thought on BIP-444, the supposed whale selling, and more. Enjoy! 🍻