Show Notes
Bitcoin is the final exit. The escape hatch. The parachute at the end of the ride.
George came back from Prague with a changed thesis, and this episode gets back to Bitcoin basics: money in self-custody that no one can stop. Larry breaks down why the third big print is coming and what a slow-motion currency failure actually looks like. Bob opens the books on the miners trilemma and why the hardest conditions in mining history are flashing the same signal as the last great bottom: whenever the money is hard, that's when you go in.
Also on the table: the shiny object syndrome draining capital into AI, why sentiment is the worst the boomers have ever seen while every metric screams value zone, paper Bitcoin and the ghost of Sam Bankman-Fried, BIP110 and the three and a half weeks until the chain decides, and why Kevin Warsh is just the modern-day Von Havenstein.
Bob's Miners Trilemma article in Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-miners-face-a-dilemma-for-success
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Cold open
01:25 Welcome: skin in the game
04:55 The Prague reset
05:18 Bitcoin is the final exit
06:50 A word from Ledn
07:44 Larry: a thousand years of debasement
09:41 The electricity timeline
10:35 Paper Bitcoin and SBF
12:11 Lost focus: three phrases
14:38 Worst sentiment, best value zone
15:54 Larry: how you get to $1M a coin
17:26 The shiny object syndrome
17:48 Bob: the miners trilemma
20:50 A word from Sazmining
21:43 What's suppressing price: rates, IPOs, AI capex
24:52 Larry: the liquidity indicator
26:04 The third print: enemy action
29:26 Warsh, the modern Von Havenstein
30:39 BIP110: two camps
34:30 Three and a half weeks to the fork
37:00 Hopeful endings
40:24 Watermelons
Not financial advice. Three friends talking Bitcoin.
The Bitcoin Boomers is a panel for smart, successful people over 40 still on the outside of Bitcoin looking in. Plain English answers to the questions no one else will touch. Signal without the noise.
Your hosts:
Gary Leland, founder of BitBlockBoom and Hall of Fame podcaster.
Lawrence Lepard, sound money fund manager and author of The Big Print.
Bob Burnett, mining entrepreneur and founder of Barefoot Mining.
George Bodine, the World's Most Interesting Bitcoiner.
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