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First ColdCard wallets were drained. Then tampered Ledger devices showed up from third-party sellers. You see, the people who did everything “right” got burned, while the person who left their coins on Coinbase came out fine. Q sits down with Frank Corva (Fedi, ex-Bitcoin Magazine) to unpack the hardware wallet debacles. They talk about why “don’t trust, verify” broke down, community custody and open spec, what Frank saw in Venezuela and Kibera, and why “if Bitcoin remains digital gold, it fails.” Not your keys, not your coins still holds. But the setup that’s right for you might not look like anyone else’s. Sign up for Bitcoin Well: https://bitcoinwell.com/signup - promo code PODCAST Learn about Bitcoin Well Infinite: http://bitcoinwell.com/infinite Follow Frank Corva: https://x.com/frankcorva Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, financial sovereignty, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money.

Bitcoin is trading around $86,000 with ETF demand still accumulating, but the rally is only half the story this week. Bitcoin Well just launched a Bitcoin IRA, and CEO Adam O'Brien is back on the podcast to explain why a non-custodial company built one, how it works, and where it sits on his counterparty ladder. Adam breaks down the custodial IRA through BitGo, a custodian Bitcoin Well has trusted with its own inventory for years, and the self-custody version offered alongside it. He is direct about the catch: a retirement account is still a captured account, the tax code is a counterparty, and a lost key or a coin migration inside an IRA can cost far more than it would outside one. We also get into this week's market, what a rally near $86,000 does and doesn't tell you, why Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment lets the network adapt to stressed miners without anyone picking winners or arranging a rescue, and how that contrasts with the bank consolidations happening in traditional finance. If you hold Bitcoin and have a 401k, an RRSP-style account, or any retirement savings sitting in index funds, this conversation will help you decide which rung you're actually on. Sign up for Bitcoin Well: https://bitcoinwell.com/signup Learn about Bitcoin Well Infinite: http://bitcoinwell.com/infinite Follow Adam O'Brien: https://x.com/adamobrien Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, financial sovereignty, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money. Bitcoin #BitcoinIRA #BitcoinWellPodcast

Adam O'Brien has spent thirteen years trying to subtract counterparties from his life: the bank, the exchange, the custodian, anyone who could freeze, lend out, or lose his bitcoin. This summer proved that subtraction has a floor. The ColdCard entropy failure drained $116 million from people who did everything right, generating their own seed on a trusted device. The Liquid Network lost $320 million without a single key being stolen. Neither failure involved a custodian. In this episode, Adam walks through what he calls the counterparty ladder, a six-rung framework running from captured legacy retirement assets all the way to bitcoin purchased privately in self-custody, and makes the case that the real question was never "is this trustless," it's "which rung am I actually on." That framework is also the foundation for something Bitcoin Well is launching: a Bitcoin IRA, held custodially through BitGo, with a self-custody option coming after. Adam explains why a company built on non-custodial principles is launching a custodial product, what it would take for him to call the IRA a failure, and why he chose to say the quiet part out loud in the very article announcing it: a retirement account holds captured funds no matter what's inside it, bitcoin included. Sign up for Bitcoin Well: https://bitcoinwell.com/signup Learn about Bitcoin Well Infinite: http://bitcoinwell.com/infinite Follow Adam O'Brien: https://x.com/adamobrien Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, financial sovereignty, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money. Bitcoin #BitcoinIRA #BitcoinWellPodcast

Bitcoin is sitting near $84,000 heading into this conversation, 892 days past the halving, with sentiment firmly in greed and ETF demand still described as accumulating. Dr. Jeff Ross joins the podcast to explain why none of those numbers are the real story. Jeff argues that the separation of money and state is the next necessary evolution in a long historical pattern, the same kind of institutional unbundling that happened when church and state split centuries ago. He walks through where we are in the broader macro cycle, what a Fourth Turning framework says about the stress showing up in markets, sentiment, and policy right now, and why a system built on centrally controlled money cannot be patched, only replaced. We get into the mature, late-cycle conditions bitcoin is trading in today, what long-term holders and institutional flows are actually signaling versus what the headlines claim, and why Jeff thinks the current moment in markets is a symptom of something much larger than a single rate decision or ETF flow number. This is a big-picture conversation about markets, macro, and monetary history, for anyone trying to understand what's actually breaking and what bitcoin's role is in what comes next. Sign up for Bitcoin Well: https://bitcoinwell.com/signup Learn about Bitcoin Well Infinite: http://bitcoinwell.com/infinite Follow Dr. Jeff Ross: https://x.com/FormerDrJeff Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, financial sovereignty, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money. Bitcoin #Macro #BitcoinWellPodcast

In February 2022, Chrystia Freeland told Canada's banks they could freeze accounts without a judge, and they froze 257 of them. Two courts have since ruled it unconstitutional. The Rhodes Trust, founded by Cecil Rhodes as (in his own words) a secret society to place its people where the levers are, made her CEO anyway. Zach reads his essay on what the state could reach and what it couldn't: the bank accounts it took in hours, the 14.6 Bitcoin hand-delivered to truckers in envelopes with handwritten seed phrases, and Nunchuk's reply to the court: "We do not hold any keys." Then Hülsmann's Ethics of Money Production explains why the freeze wasn't the system malfunctioning. It was the system working. Not your keys, not your coins, not your custody, not your say. Bitcoin Well exists so your Bitcoin lands in a wallet you hold, not an account someone will be told to freeze. Buy Bitcoin straight to self-custody at bitcoinwell.com. New accounts use promo code PODCAST. Thoughts, pushback, hate mail from Oxford? [email protected] Bitcoin Well is a non-custodial bitcoin platform that helps people buy, sell and use bitcoin in Canada and the United States. Customers can buy bitcoin online and receive it directly to their personal wallet, or work with Bitcoin Well Infinite for transactions over $50,000. Bitcoin Well also operates a network of Bitcoin ATMs across Canada. Learn more about bitcoin, self-custody and Bitcoin Well's services at bitcoinwell.com RESOURCES & LINKS: 🚀 Buy Bitcoin/Freedom: https://bitcoinwell.com 📧 Join the Mission (Newsletter): https://bitcoinwell.com/newsletter 📊 Take the Bitcoin Survey: https://bitcoinwell.com/survey 📈 Investor Relations: https://bitcoinwell.com/investors CONNECT WITH US: 🕊️ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwell 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebitcoinwell ⚡ Nostr: npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 (https://bitcoinwell.com/nostr) ChrystiaFreeland #EmergenciesAct #FreedomConvoy

Today's FOMC decision carries real weight: markets are pricing an 87% probability of a 25 basis point hike, the first since 2023, after the Fed held in July on a divided 9-3 vote. Core inflation is running at 3.3%, the labor market is still warm, and Bitcoin is sitting around $77-79K heading into the announcement. Ansel Lindner (Bitcoin & Markets) joins us to break down what actually matters here: whether 25 bps is a real policy shift or mostly signaling, what a hike does to that 9-3 dissent, and why the conventional wisdom that rate hikes are automatically bad for Bitcoin might not hold up this time. If there's time, we also push back hard on the framing around the Iran conflict, including the economic angle Ansel may not expect: the same energy shock driving oil prices up sharply is a direct contributor to the inflation the Fed is now hiking to fight. Sign up for Bitcoin Well: https://bitcoinwell.com/signup Learn about Bitcoin Well Infinite: http://bitcoinwell.com/infinite Follow Ansel Lindner: https://x.com/AnselLindner Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, market analysis, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money. Bitcoin #FOMC #BitcoinWellPodcast

In 2008, Zach sat down to read the official story of 9/11 so he could stop thinking about it. That was 18 years ago. This Reads episode walks the record, not the theories: Operation Northwoods and its 35-year classification, the Gulf of Tonkin attack that never happened, Colin Powell's vial, the 567-page Commission report that never mentions Building 7, and NIST conceding 2.25 seconds of freefall. Then it applies Rothbard's cui bono method to the whole quarter century and asks the question that finally matters: how does a state pay for a psyop and the war it sells? It prints. You don't have to agree about Building 7 to see why a money that can't be printed, with a ledger you can check yourself, is the peaceful exit. Just hold your own keys: leave it on an exchange and you've rebuilt the trust relationship you were escaping. Buy Bitcoin straight to your own wallet at bitcoinwell.com, promo code PODCAST. Questions or pushback: [email protected] Bitcoin Well is a non-custodial bitcoin platform that helps people buy, sell and use bitcoin in Canada and the United States. Customers can buy bitcoin online and receive it directly to their personal wallet, or work with Bitcoin Well Infinite for transactions over $50,000. Bitcoin Well also operates a network of Bitcoin ATMs across Canada. Learn more about bitcoin, self-custody and Bitcoin Well's services at bitcoinwell.com RESOURCES & LINKS: 🚀 Buy Bitcoin/Freedom: https://bitcoinwell.com 📧 Join the Mission (Newsletter): https://bitcoinwell.com/newsletter 📊 Take the Bitcoin Survey: https://bitcoinwell.com/survey 📈 Investor Relations: https://bitcoinwell.com/investors CONNECT WITH US: 🕊️ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwell 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebitcoinwell ⚡ Nostr: npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 (https://bitcoinwell.com/nostr) September11 #Building7 #OperationNorthwoods #GulfOfTonkin #Psyop

Liquid, the Blockstream sidechain built to give Bitcoin users faster and more private transactions, hit a consensus split this week and "white hat hackers" pulled $320 million out of it. Bitcoin itself never went down. The layer built on top of it did. Rob from Bitcoin News joins us to go deep on what actually happened with Liquid and why this keeps being the pattern: the same week, the ColdCard attacker moved 45 percent of previously stolen funds in a third wave, and Orionx, a Tether-backed Chilean exchange, shut down after an audit found $7 million in customer funds missing, leaving 100,000 users without refunds. We also get into the real debate of the week: Coinbase's new Bitcoin-backed mortgage product with Better Home & Finance, and whether that's genuine adoption or just Bitcoin becoming collateral for the same debt trap it was supposed to be an exit from. Plus the IMF quietly confirming El Salvador's Bitcoin strategy survived four years of pressure intact, AMC's CEO calling Robinhood's tokenized stock "contemptible," and what's actually at stake in the CLARITY Act's September 15 Senate vote. Sign up for Bitcoin Well: https://bitcoinwell.com/signup Learn about Bitcoin Well Infinite: http://bitcoinwell.com/infinite Follow Rob Wallace on X and YouTube: https://x.com/\_Rob_Wallace https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyfFeU73MF9uC5mA6lTS0FA Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, market analysis, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money. Bitcoin #BitcoinWellPodcast

There is a camera on a pole near you right now, and it is photographing every car that passes. Adam O'Brien's essay "Jump Out of the Pot" turns that camera around and points it at your bank account: the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act that made banks informants, the 1976 Supreme Court ruling that made your financial records the bank's property instead of yours, and the 257 Canadian accounts frozen in hours for a perfectly legal donation. Financial privacy isn't about hiding bad things. It's protection against a government that changes the definition of bad things after the fact. The code already protects your coins. Only your habits protect the rest. Buy Bitcoin straight to your own wallet at bitcoinwell.com. New accounts use code PODCAST. Bitcoin Well is a non-custodial bitcoin platform that helps people buy, sell and use bitcoin in Canada and the United States. Customers can buy bitcoin online and receive it directly to their personal wallet, or work with Bitcoin Well Infinite for transactions over $50,000. Bitcoin Well also operates a network of Bitcoin ATMs across Canada. Learn more about bitcoin, self-custody and Bitcoin Well's services at bitcoinwell.com FinancialPrivacy #Surveillance #FlockSafety RESOURCES & LINKS: 🚀 Buy Bitcoin/Freedom: https://bitcoinwell.com 📧 Join the Mission (Newsletter): https://bitcoinwell.com/newsletter 📊 Take the Bitcoin Survey: https://bitcoinwell.com/survey 📈 Investor Relations: https://bitcoinwell.com/investors CONNECT WITH US: 🕊️ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwell 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebitcoinwell ⚡ Nostr: npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 (https://bitcoinwell.com/nostr)

Q sits down with Nolan Bauerle (CountBTC) for a conversation that goes way past the price chart. Nolan's frame: the Iran war was decided the day Lloyds of London pulled war insurance, because the real fight was between physical energy delivery and the paper version of it (Brent, futures, risk premiums). Fiat is words. And the world is shifting toward something more symbolic, simpler, and physical. From there it gets spicy. Politics as kayfabe, the Whitfield Diffie story about America being imperial and revolutionary at the same time, why Quebec is quietly what MAGA wants, and where the two of them part ways on Israel, lawfare, and whether Trump runs again. The through-line is Nolan's uncomfortable thesis for Bitcoiners who see themselves as pure revolutionaries: you don't beat Wall Street by nagging it into self-custody. You infect it, redefine its incentives, and separate money from state at the level of taxation and collateral. Disagreement, history, and a lot of laughs. Buy Bitcoin the only way that ends with the keys in your hands. bitcoinwell.com, promo code PODCAST. For larger purchases, meet a Bitcoin advisor at bitcoinwell.com/infinite. Follow Nolan: CountBTC on X, Nolan Bauerle on YouTube and Rumble.

There's a camera on a pole near you right now, tracking every car that passes. Your city bought it to catch stolen vehicles. It's already been used to track romantic partners, reach into immigration cases, and build a national database that runs warrant-free searches across tens of thousands of cameras. Your bank account is the same machine. It's just older, and nobody built a satirical Darth Vader bit about it yet. Adam O'Brien, CEO of Bitcoin Well, joins us to make that case in full. We get into why surveillance infrastructure never stays limited to its stated purpose, what actually happened during Canada's 2022 trucker convoy account freezes (257 accounts, no court order, a ruling that took four years to arrive), why Elizabeth Warren's crypto AML bill targets law-abiding self-custody users while stablecoins account for the vast majority of actual illicit crypto volume, and why Adam believes a modern-day Executive Order 6102 wouldn't need to touch Bitcoin's code at all — just a letter to five custodians and a database query. We also talk about the darkest part of this: how KYC databases and physical wrench attacks are connected, why a data breach today is a home address that doesn't expire, and what it actually looks like to build a private Bitcoin stack in a way that's completely legal. Watch the full clips referenced in this episode: Adam's blog posts: https://bitcoinwell.com/blog/jump-out-of-the-pot Darth Vader at San Diego City Council: https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/darth-vader-san-diego-city-council/ Sign up for Bitcoin Well: https://bitcoinwell.com/signup Learn about Bitcoin Well Infinite: http://bitcoinwell.com/infinite Follow Adam O'Brien: https://x.com/adamobrien Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, financial privacy, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money. Bitcoin #FinancialPrivacy #BitcoinWellPodcast RESOURCES & LINKS: 🚀 Buy Bitcoin/Freedom: https://bitcoinwell.com 📧 Join the Mission (Newsletter): https://bitcoinwell.com/newsletter 📊 Take the Bitcoin Survey: https://bitcoinwell.com/survey 📈 Investor Relations: https://bitcoinwell.com/investors CONNECT WITH US: 🕊️ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwell 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebitcoinwell ⚡ Nostr: npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 (https://bitcoinwell.com/nostr)

Bitcoin ran from $64K to $79K-plus in a single week, hashrate hit an all-time high near 1,020 EH/s, and fees stayed cheap — and almost none of the mainstream coverage mentioned any of that. It was the same ETF-flows, institutional-buying, short-squeeze story on repeat. GMONEY (Bitcoin self-custody consultant, host of "Bitcoin is Digital 1776") and Rod Palmer (Bugle News, media and culture) join us to tell the story that actually got missed this week — what a $15K move means for the network versus what it means for the price, whether the CLARITY Act's September 15 Senate vote is a win for Bitcoin sovereignty or the start of its domestication, and whether the ColdCard fallout is pushing people toward real self-custody or straight into ETFs. We close on the big question: does GMONEY's "Bitcoin as Digital 1776" thesis still hold up now that BlackRock has a balance sheet position and Washington is writing the rulebook — or is that exactly how the revolution wins? Sign up for Bitcoin Well: https://bitcoinwell.com/signup Learn about Bitcoin Well Infinite: http://bitcoinwell.com/infinite Follow GMONEY: https://x.com/GMONEYPEPE Follow Rod Palmer: https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, market analysis, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money. Bitcoin #BitcoinWellPodcast

Everyone agrees Bitcoin's big returns are gone. That agreement is the trade. In this Reads, Zach walks through why the diminishing returns thesis quietly became the most crowded belief in Bitcoin, how gold and silver just ran a $15 trillion proof of concept that killed the law-of-large-numbers argument, what a $40 trillion national debt does to a central bank that no longer sets its own policy, and why Jeff Booth's deflation thesis is now running on an AI schedule. Four completed cycles is four data points, and everyone drew the comfortable curve through them. Then the part nobody wants to hear. Wall Street solved unit bias at $36 a share, and a share is still a claim, not property. An ETF gives you exposure. Keys give you ownership. Buy real Bitcoin and send it straight to a wallet you control at bitcoinwell.com. SelfCustody #NotYourKeysNotYourCoins #AustrianEconomics

Last week was about custody failing. This week it's about whether the infrastructure underneath Bitcoin — mining itself — is quietly being captured. Bob Burnett sits on OCEAN's board, runs Barefoot Mining, and went on record defending how OCEAN handled the BIP-110 fork after miners demanded leadership be ousted and Adam Back called for docked pay. This is his first real chance to tell the full story — and we're not letting him off easy. We also get into the bigger story pool centralization: Foundry alone controls roughly 31% of global hashrate, four pools control over 70%, and the Nakamoto coefficient sits at just 3 — meaning three pools colluding could hit 51%. OCEAN's answer is DATUM, a system that lets miners control their own block templates. Does BIP-110 actually prove DATUM works, or expose its limits? Bob also breaks down brutal post-halving mining economics (the cost to mine one BTC hit roughly $70K in 2025), what that means for independent operators like his own, and — coming off the ColdCard hack — what he actually tells a 60-year-old who bought a hardware wallet in 2021 and hasn't touched it since. Sign up for Bitcoin Well: https://app.bitcoinwell.com/signup Book a free call with a Bitcoin Advisor: https://bitcoinwell.com/infinite Follow Bob Burnett: https://x.com/boomer_btc Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, mining analysis, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money Bitcoin #BitcoinMining #BitcoinWellPodcast

This isn't just a ColdCard story anymore. In this emergency episode, Portland Hodl, Bitcoin Core contributor and creator of Slipstream, reveals that an open-source AI model with none of the safety guardrails of US frontier models is now tearing through the entire hardware wallet industry's code. ColdCard was first. Then BTCPay Server. Then Nunchuk. As of this morning, Trezor too. We get into what to actually do right now if you're on an affected device (priority order matters: some setups need to move funds immediately, others have more time), how Slipstream lets you migrate funds through a private mempool without exposing your multisig's public keys to attackers, and why Portland won't rule out that the ColdCard bug was something more than an accident. We also talk about what this means as a preview for a real quantum computing threat down the road. If you're affected and don't know what to do, Bitcoin Well's support team is taking calls to help you move your funds safely. Sign up for Bitcoin Well: [app.bitcoinwell.com/signup] Book a free call with a Bitcoin Advisor: [bitcoinwell.com/infinite] Follow Portland Hodl: https://twitter.com/PortlandHODL Subscribe to Bitcoin Well for bitcoin news, security updates, and how to buy, sell, and use bitcoin. Bitcoin Well is Canada's non-custodial bitcoin company, established in 2013 and publicly traded since 2021 ($BTCW.V). We offer Bitcoin ATMs, personal bitcoin services, and an online bitcoin platform. Future-proof your money Bitcoin #SelfCustody #BitcoinWellPodcast