The Bitcoin Podcast

Hosted by Corey Petty, Demetrick Ferguson, Jessie Santiago

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Jun 2026

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The Bitcoin Podcast is a show that discusses Bitcoin and Crypto topics in a laid back nature. From deep and technical topics, to laid back and philosophical topics...the gang, Demetrick, Corey and Jessie are just 3 guys looking to relax and talk about bitcoin. Established in 2015, one of the oldest crypto shows in the game.

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June 16, 2026Episode 251 hr 2 min

The Bitcoin Podcast: AI + Crypto = Meh

The full crew is back (Demetrick, Dr. Corey Petty, and Jesse) for an episode that earns its title. AI plus crypto equals meh, and the guys are not pretending otherwise.The headline: Corey is selling a chunk of his crypto. And this time it is different. Every previous sell signal from him has been triggered by the market getting too frothy. This one is not. He is selling because Bitcoin is officially boring. The technology is not delivering the kind of utility that justifies sitting on a speculative asset for another cycle, and the Petty House Index is flashing (he is not buying a house, he is buying a workshop the size of one). The guys debate Hodl Plus versus loans against collateral, and whether the upside math still works when nothing exciting is shipping.From there it gets spicy. SpaceX needs exit liquidity. The AI IPO musical chairs game is in full swing. The guys break down the theory that Elon needs the SpaceX listing to succeed so he can eventually merge it with a Tesla that cannot survive on its own.Then the real fight starts. Demetrick argues AI is a weapon, the military is already three to seven years ahead of what the public sees, and every CEO with a leather jacket walks into the Pentagon before they ship. Corey pushes back hard on the logistics: the chips did not exist until recently, the power capacity did not exist, and you cannot conjure frontier models out of thin air no matter how big the black budget is. Jesse plays referee. Nobody fully agrees, and the conversation gets cut short on purpose to pick up next week.Plus: Corey's book teaser on the death of institutions, why democratized information speed means all gas no brakes, and a callback to last week's conversation with Joe about whether crypto is only ever about the trade.Drop questions in the YouTube comments or Spotify comments. Join the Discord.

June 7, 2026Episode 2448 min

The Bitcoin Podcast: Paper Hands Micro Strategy, Bitcoin Bear is Chomping, SpaceX, AI IPO here?

Demetrick and Jesse hold down the fort (Corey ditched the show to chase what turned out to be a cardinal in North Carolina) for an episode about cracks forming in every direction at once.Michael Saylor just sold Bitcoin. Only thirty two coins, but the symbolism is louder than the size. The diamond hands era of MicroStrategy may be ending, and the bear is getting cozy on the couch.Meanwhile the AI IPO machine is sucking the life out of every other market. SpaceX is reportedly skipping the traditional IPO path and getting listed directly into the S&P 500, which would route retirement and 401k money straight into the company. The guys break down why that looks less like innovation and more like a setup for a future bailout, and what xAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI hitting the public markets at the same time means for liquidity everywhere else.From there it gets real. Demetrick's algorithm has stopped showing him reverse seared filet mignon and started feeding him cheese crusted liver and gourmet PB&J recipes. His luxury car uncle just posted a Hyundai Sonata. The Great Depression cosplay is in full swing, and the guys compare rice and bean stockpiles.Plus Corey calls in to explain the Y2K38 bug from first principles, with Demetrick finally understanding binary after a lifetime of bad teachers, and a fully unhinged closing segment about why Black Widow is secretly a wildcard and why Avengers Doomsday is going to print money.Drop questions in the YouTube comments. Join the Discord.

May 27, 2026Episode 221 hr 2 min

The Bitcoin Podcast: The New Hype Cycle

Demetrick, Dr. Corey Petty, and Jesse are joined by founder and investor Joe for a conversation that cuts through sixteen years of crypto noise with one provocative thesis: crypto is only about trading.Joe walks the guys through all five hype cycles, from Silk Road to Mt. Gox to the 2017 ICO mania to NFTs to today, and shows how the top of every cycle has been defined by a single dominant trading narrative. Everything else, he argues, is undercurrent. The conversation traces how he arrived at this conclusion after the chaos of ETHDenver 2023 sent him back to first principles, including the poker code buried in the original Bitcoin commit.From there the guys get into where the next hype cycle is forming. Joe demos a tap trading app he is building that strips away every chart, button, and knob until trading feels closer to a mobile game than a Bloomberg terminal. Green for good, red for bad, prediction markets baked in. The crew riffs on PVP tournaments, head to head trading streams on Twitch and Kick, and why apps optimized for volatility win when traditional markets get quiet.Plus: Anatoly's legendary bag working of Hyperliquid on Solana, why a normal person will never love a candlestick chart, and Corey announces he is winding down Archivist and open sourcing the IP.Drop questions in the YouTube comments. Join the Discord. The Pope conversation got pushed to next week.

May 10, 2026Episode 2240 min

The Bitcoin Podcast: Laws and Such

Demetrick and Dr. Corey Petty fly solo this week (Jesse missed the memo) to break down the regulatory squeeze tightening around crypto.The new U.S. ruling banning native yield on stablecoins is the headline. The guys unpack what it actually means: stablecoins are getting institutionalized, the barrier to entry just got a lot taller, and only players with deep legal benches will route around the rules. Surveillance, control, or both?Corey explains how USDC dependency quietly de-decentralized DAI, and Demetrick raises the bigger question: with foreign nations buying less U.S. Treasury debt, stablecoin issuers are stepping into that role. What happens when crypto companies become the dollar's biggest buyers?Also covered: Stripe's new agentic wallet infrastructure for AI agents, the latest bill targeting crypto payment rails, and why the no middlemen dream keeps colliding with human nature. Plus Demetrick's weekend speaking to financial advisors who are finally opening up to crypto.Eleven years of The Bitcoin Podcast in three weeks. Over one thousand episodes. Thanks for sticking around.Drop questions in the YouTube comments. Join the Discord (QR in the video).No financial advice. Just the conversation.

April 11, 2026Episode 2253 min

The Bitcoin Podcast: Corey is a GENIUS, Jessie and Dee give CLARITY

This week on The Bitcoin Podcast, Jessie pulls back the curtain on the gym software he's been quietly building, an MRO (maintenance, repair & operations) platform designed to give gym owners something they've never had: real data. Every piece of equipment gets a digital record, like a VIN number for a car, maintenance history, repair logs, and predictive analytics that can save small gym owners thousands per year. It's the unglamorous infrastructure play hiding inside a billion-dollar industry that private equity hollowed out.Then Dr. Corey Petty and Demetrick cut through the legislative noise on two bills reshaping U.S. crypto:The GENIUS Act brings stablecoins into a real regulatory framework, opening the door for banks and institutions, protecting users from algorithmic collapses (think Luna), and creating a state-level pathway for smaller issuers. The catch? No yield on stablecoins, no FDIC insurance, and Big Tech gets to issue them without full banking standards.The CLARITY Act is the one builders have been waiting for, it ends regulation-by-enforcement, draws a clean line between CFTC and SEC jurisdiction, and has rare bipartisan support. But it's stalled in the Senate while the banking lobby actively fights it, and every month it drags, more crypto innovation moves offshore.Honest, unfiltered, and always building.🌐 thebitcoinpodcast.com | 💬 Join the Discord

April 1, 2026Episode 211 hr 3 min

The Bitcoin Podcast: What the Mesh?!

What happens when the hurricane hits and every cell tower goes dark? For one father working the night shift at a hospital during Hurricane Helene, that was not a hypothetical. It was eleven hours of silence with no way to reach his family.Kenneth and Josh from the Georgia Statewide Mesh Coalition join Dee and Jesse to break down mesh networking, the decentralized communication technology that keeps working when everything else fails. No cell towers. No ISP. No single point of failure. Just a resilient, self-routing network built by the community, for the community.Learn what mesh actually is, how Meshtastic works, and why this technology might be the most important thing you have never set up yet.When the grid goes down, will you still be able to communicate?

March 19, 2026Episode 2045 min

The Bitcoin Podcast S02E20: We're Jiving With A Little Crypto Sprinkled In

The crew is back and they've got receipts. After a two-week hiatus (Corey had very important meetings, we swear), Demetrick, Dr. Corey Petty, and Jessie are reunited and ready to vibe.This episode? Pure unfiltered conversation with a little Bitcoin and a little chaos.Bitcoin's Scarcity Era is Officially HereThe 20 millionth Bitcoin was mined, and suddenly the media wants to act surprised. The boys break down why the "only 21 million" math has always been the point and whether the market will finally behave like the old heads always said it would.Corey's Portugal TripDr. Petty just got back from Lisbon where he spoke at a live community event alongside heavy hitters from the open-source and decentralized web world, including folks from the Internet Archive. What's actually being built out there and why does it matter?The Crypto Honesty CheckWhy has crypto spent years selling people a Web2 experience wrapped in a Web3 bow? The guys go there, calling out token projects that confused "decentralized" with "worse performance for no good reason" and naming what actually matters: data sovereignty, decentralized identity, and real infrastructure.Big Tech's Empty PromiseIs Instagram actually worth anything? A surprisingly moving meditation on photo albums, Kodak pictures, and why a plastic binder at grandma's house hits harder than a million followers.Plus shoutouts to Corey's hot wife, Michael B. Jordan winning an Oscar for Sinners, and the debut of "Quantum Tom."The Bitcoin Podcast, where the takes are hot, the tech is real, and the jive is unmatched.Want to win $10 in Bitcoin? Join the Discord, post a lip sync of the intro, and it's yours. First five new members only.

February 27, 2026Episode 1941 min

Can Bitcoin Beat Quantum?

Can Bitcoin survive the impending Quantum threat?

February 26, 2026Episode 181 hr 17 min

The New Original DAO...Run it back!

In this episode we sit down with Griff Green, one of the earliest DAO builders and a core figure in Ethereum’s governance history — from the original DAO era through today’s next-generation coordination experiments.Griff was closely involved around the first DAO and helped lead white-hat recovery efforts during the 2016 DAO crisis. Since then, he has gone on to co-found and support multiple ecosystem projects focused on decentralized funding, public goods, and governance design, including Giveth, the Commons Stack, and several token engineering and coordination initiatives.This is not a surface-level DAO hype conversation. This is a rebuild conversation.We go deep on what actually failed in early DAO designs, what people misunderstood about decentralized governance, and what it will realistically take to redo the DAO model in a way that works — socially, economically, and technically.We cover:What really went wrong (and right) with the first DAOLessons learned from DAO governance failures and exploitsWhy most DAOs struggle with participation and decision qualityIncentive design vs voting designFunding public goods without governance captureToken engineering, bonding curves, and coordination mechanismsWhat a “DAO 2.0” architecture needs to includeWhether truly decentralized governance can scaleIf you care about DAOs, crypto governance, public goods funding, or coordination at scale — this conversation is required context from someone who was there at the beginning and is still building forward.Subscribe for more deep crypto conversations — no price talk, no hype cycles, just signal.Drop your question in the comments:👉 What must change for DAOs to actually work this time?👉 Subscribe, comment, and clip your favorite moment.👉 Tell us in the comments: What’s your biggest question about re-architecting DAOs?

February 25, 2026Episode 171 hr 2 min

Crypto+AI= Need for Better DAOs

Join us as we dissect the evolving landscape of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), moving beyond the "chat room with a bank account" stereotype. We dive into Vitalik Buterin's vision for better DAOs, exploring critical functions like improved oracles and dispute resolution, and debate the role of human politics versus programmatic efficiency. Discover how concepts like "problem geometry" and "sequenced governance" offer a path to more mature, robust, and effective DAOs, leveraging cutting-edge tools like AI and Zero-Knowledge proofs to overcome decision fatigue and human vulnerabilities.