Onramp Bitcoin Media
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Bitcoin Did This Before. Then It Went 6X.
Bitcoin Did This Before. Then It Went 6X.
About this podcast
Onramp Bitcoin Media
Bitcoin, macro, and markets, discussed by the team building Onramp and the investors and founders we interview every week.
The Last Trade: our flagship show on markets, macro, and digital assets through a bitcoin lens, plus one-on-one interviews with investors, entrepreneurs, and analysts.
Final Settlement: our weekly show on how traditional capital is moving into bitcoin and digital assets, plus one-on-one interviews with the dealmakers and builders behind it.
First Principles: one-on-one conversations every other week on why bitcoin works and how to hold it for the lo
Episodes
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- Bitcoin Did This Before. Then It Went 6X. · 1 h 1 minThrough Dec 31: $100/month (or $1,000/year) for your first year of Multi-Institution Custody, normally $2,400. Open a vault, set up a recurring buy, and use code TLT at…
- Why AI Agents Will Run on Bitcoin by 2032 · 1 h 11 minMichael argues AI agents won't want dollars that can be seized, and that every model lands on Bitcoin as their native currency by about 2032. Plus Nvidia's key man risk after a…
- Bitcoin Just Hit Peak Fear (This Is Bullish) · 1 h 11 minThrough Dec 31: $100/month (or $1,000/year) for your first year of Multi-Institution Custody, normally $2,400. Open a vault, set up a recurring buy, and use code TLT at…
- The Biggest Heist Ever Showed Banks How to Hold Bitcoin · 1 h 3 minBanks and fintechs are about to treat Bitcoin like money, and Michael argues that means keys offline and no single point of failure. Plus Binance's $6.3 billion hack, which…
- Why His Bitcoin Lender Survived the 2022 Crash · 58 minWealthy families have always borrowed against their assets instead of selling them, and Bitcoin holders spent years without a safe way to do the same. Cam Stromme sits down with…
- Bitwise Just Put Bitcoin at $1.6 Million · 1 h 1 minThrough Dec 31: $100/month (or $1,000/year) for your first year of Multi-Institution Custody, normally $2,400. Open a vault, set up a recurring buy, and use code TLT at…
- Should You Sell Bitcoin for the Anthropic IPO? · 41 minAnthropic's IPO filing shows $16.3B of first-half revenue and an $80B paper loss, and Jason Calacanis says sell your Bitcoin and buy AI while Galaxy says the bottom is already…
- Bitcoin’s Biggest Opportunity Just Opened Up · 1 h 7 minMost people holding Bitcoin haven't worked out where it should live, and Michael argues that gap is now the biggest opportunity in Bitcoin. Plus Black October, the Pentagon's…
- Mexico Just Woke Up to Bitcoin | Gustavo Flores · 56 minMexicans watched their banks get nationalized, their deposits frozen and the peso lose half its value overnight, so they keep their wealth in bricks. Liam sits down with Gustavo…
- JPMorgan Just Set Up Bitcoin's Real Bull Run · 1 h 18 minThrough Dec 31: $100/month (or $1,000/year) for your first year of Multi-Institution Custody, normally $2,400. Open a vault, set up a recurring buy, and use code TLT at…
- Why Elon Is Giving Every Kid a SpaceX Share · 31 minElon Musk says he will give a SpaceX share to every kid in America next year, about $10B of stock, and the table splits on generosity versus strategy. Also on the clock: 5%…
- Why AI Agents Will Settle on Bitcoin · 59 minAI agents won't barter, and Michael argues they will coalesce around Bitcoin faster than anyone expects. Plus Schwab turns on Bitcoin trading, Deutsche Bank and Stifel move in…
- Your VPN Knows Too Much | Carl Dong · 35 minA traditional VPN sends your entire internet history through one company that also has your name, address and payment details. Liam sits down with Carl Dong, founder of Obscura…
- Gold Can’t Cover America’s Interest (Bitcoin Is Next) · 1 h 3 minThrough Dec 31: $100/month (or $1,000/year) for your first year of Multi-Institution Custody, normally $2,400. Open a vault, set up a recurring buy, and use code TLT at…
- What the Ledger Attack Means for Your Bitcoin · 45 minThe Ledger reseller attack, where tampered hardware wallets reached unsuspecting buyers, has the industry rethinking how people hold Bitcoin, and the table makes the case for a…
- Tokenization Just Became Bitcoin's Biggest Tailwind · 1 h 5 minStocks, bonds and cash are all moving onto digital rails, and Michael lays out why that faster money needs Bitcoin as its sponge. Plus the $86M Ledger reseller attack, and why…
- Oil Fields Are Printing Bitcoin | Steve Barbour · 55 minWhere flaring is limited, an oil company can't produce oil unless it can sell the gas, and Steve Barbour built Upstream Data to turn that gas into Bitcoin. Liam sits down with…
- Why This CEO Stopped Calling It a Hardware Wallet · 1 h 23 minZach Herbert has been building Bitcoin hardware since 2020, and Foundation no longer calls its device a hardware wallet. Cam Stromme sits down with the Foundation CEO on open…
- Trump Just Made Bitcoin's Bull Case · 1 h 8 minTrump told Time that certain levels of inflation will pay off the debt very rapidly. Jackson, Michael and Brian explain why that makes Bitcoin's bull case, then take on a…
- Trump Just Handed Bitcoin Its Best Argument · 37 minTrump says inflation will pay off the debt "very rapidly" while his own economic advisor says no way, and he is promising $5,000 checks heading into the midterms. Also on the…
- Bitcoin Is the Life Raft for the K-Shaped Economy | Peter St. Onge · 57 minBitcoin is the life raft for a K-shaped economy that keeps rewarding the people already at the top, says Peter St. Onge. Jackson sits down with the Heritage Foundation economist…
- Bitcoin Just Did What It Did Before a 6X · 1 h 5 minBitcoin just posted its highest weekly close since January, up 43% on the quarter and roughly 50% off the bottom. Jackson, Michael and Brian make the bull case, then take on Ari…
- The Gold Math That Puts Bitcoin at $1 Million · 35 minGold and silver just shed over a trillion dollars in a day as the 10-year yield hit a 19-year high, and the math on gold's $18 trillion run says Bitcoin could move faster than…
- This Chart Exposed The AI Trade and Loves Bitcoin · 54 minOne chart from Epoch AI shows the cost of AI falling about 47% a quarter since 2023, faster than any technology in history, and it exposes the math under the AI trade. Michael…
- AI Just Bailed Out Bitcoin Mining | Bob Burnett · 1 h 25 minAI just bailed out Bitcoin's public miners, and Bob Burnett says that is the healthiest thing to happen to mining in years. Liam sits down with the Ocean executive chairman on…
- Building Swan: What Bitcoin Needs to Scale 10x | Brandon Quittem · 1 h 41 minBrandon Quittem helped build Swan from a Bitcoin gifting app into a full service firm, and he thinks custody is the piece Bitcoin still needs before it grows 10x. Cam Stromme…
- BlackRock Just Made Bitcoin's Bull Case · 1 h 25 minAI's $3.1 trillion in off balance sheet commitments can end two ways, and both end with the printer running. Jackson, Michael and Brian make the case for Bitcoin, from the…
- $1B Poured Into Bitcoin in One Day (Why Now?) · 32 minThe average Bitcoin ETF holder is back in profit for the first time since January, and the data says most of them held through the whole drawdown. Also on the clock: SpaceX…
- Why Meta's Muse Forces Rapid Bitcoin Adoption · 1 h 1 minMeta shipped Muse to a user base measured in billions, and within days Amazon blocked it from shopping on Amazon.com. Michael, Liam and Brian on why autonomous agents will need a…
- The Fed Just Became Irrelevant | Gary Brode · 1 h 12 minThe Fed just hiked for the first time since 2023, and Gary Brode's answer is that it changed nothing at all. Jackson sits down with the Deep Knowledge Investing founder on why…
- The Real Reason the Clarity Act Just Failed · 1 h 1 minThe Clarity Act fell short in the Senate, and the banking lobby's fear of deposit flight looks like the real sticking point. Jackson, Michael and Brian cover why banks keep…
- Why Anthropic Just Asked AI to Slow Down · 37 minAnthropic's Dario Amodei says AI labs must pace the frontier. Is it safety, or cost control ahead of an IPO? With Cam Stromme sitting in for Michael, four stories on the clock…
- CLARITY is Coming Whether You Like It Or Not · 58 minNew Clarity Act text dropped overnight ahead of a Senate vote on September 15, with the ethics sunset deleted and the ban broadened. Michael, Liam and Brian on why the…
- How AI Just Made Money A Back End Technology | Alfonso Gomez-Jordana · 58 minConnect with Early Riders — https://www.earlyriders.com/contact Connect with Onramp — https://onrampbitcoin.com/contact-us/ Presented collaboratively by Early Riders & Onramp…
- The Real Reason Your Bitcoin Isn't as Safe as You Think | Tyler Campbell · 1 h 26 minFirst Principles: self custody is a skill you practice, not a device you buy. Tyler Campbell, product manager at Unchained and one of the most experienced multisig onboarders in…
- Trump Just Promised $5,000 to Every American · 34 minAn ex-OpenAI and Anthropic researcher says there is over a 10% chance AI ends humanity within the decade, and his warning has already pulled in 150 million impressions online…
- Bessent Just Dealt Bitcoin a Winning Hand · 1 h 28 minThe Last Trade: Scott Bessent told yen traders "I am the house now," and one day later the Treasury lifted its buyback program to $6 billion a day while the ten year yield hit…
- AI Cybersecurity Just Stole $500M AGAIN (What's Next?) · 59 minConnect with Early Riders — https://www.earlyriders.com/contact Connect with Onramp — https://onrampbitcoin.com/contact-us/ Presented collaboratively by Early Riders & Onramp…
- OpenAI Says AGI Has Arrived (90% of Jobs Are Next) · 32 minOpenAI just declared that AGI has arrived, launching GPT-6 Astra five days ago with materials calling it the start of the "AGI era." Jackson Mikalic, Michael Tanguma, Liam…
- The Treasury Just Lost Control of the Bond Market · 1 h 12 minThe Last Trade: government bond yields are blowing out across the developed world, Japan's 10-year hit 3% for the first time since 1996, and the Treasury's buyback program has…
- This Warning Sign Hasn't Been Seen Since 1996 · 39 minGlobal bond yields just climbed to their highest level since 2008, with Japan's 10-year notes touching 3% for the first time since 1996, as traders price in a near seventy…
- Bitcoin's Surprise $46B Bid Starts Today · 1 h 3 minConnect with Early Riders — https://www.earlyriders.com/contact Connect with Onramp — https://onrampbitcoin.com/contact-us/ Presented collaboratively by Early Riders & Onramp…
- The $20 Trillion Trade That Decides Bitcoin's Next Move · 1 h 4 minThe Last Trade: a $20 trillion carry trade sits underneath every market in the world, and when it unwinds, Bitcoin is what gets sold first. Jackson sits down with Roberto Rios…
- Most Bitcoin Is Lost From a False Sense of Security | Parker Lewis · 1 h 13 minFirst Principles: Parker Lewis, author of Gradually, Then Suddenly, joins Cam Stromme to rebuild Bitcoin custody from the ground up in the aftermath of the Coldcard exploit and…
- Nobody Was Ready for What Bitcoin Just Did · 1 h 8 minThe Last Trade: Bitcoin just posted its second best week since February 2021, up about 24% from roughly 62,000 to a high near 80,000, and Brian calls it the biggest dollar…
- Druckenmiller Just Called Out His Old Friend at the Treasury · 42 minStanley Druckenmiller just used a Wall Street Journal op-ed to publicly break with his old friend and former Soros Fund Management colleague, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent…
- Bessent Just Doubled Treasury Buybacks - Did Something Break? · 1 h 13 minConnect with Early Riders — https://www.earlyriders.com/contact Connect with Onramp — https://onrampbitcoin.com/contact-us/ Presented collaboratively by Early Riders & Onramp…
- Don't Believe Your Lying Eyes · 27 minThe Treasury just told markets not to trust their own eyes. Jackson Mikalic, Michael Tanguma, and Liam Nelson put four stories on the clock. They break down the US Treasury more…
- Bitcoin Just Got What It Waited 5 Years For · 1 h 20 minThe Last Trade: the US Treasury just doubled its long-dated debt buybacks, turning a $2B daily cap into a $4B daily floor, and long yields fell, gold jumped $100 an ounce, and…
- Mamdani Is Just the Beginning · 31 minThe United States just crossed the $40 trillion debt milestone, and new Treasury data shows foreign buyers pulling back. Jackson Mikalic, Michael Tanguma, and Liam Nelson put…
