Show Notes
Three Bitcoin Boomers, one stage, no script. Recorded live at BitBlockBoom 2026 in Fort Worth on April 11.
Adam O'Brien of Bitcoin Well sits down with Lawrence Lepard, Bob Burnett of Barefoot Mining, and George Bodine for an hour of honest talk aimed at the millennials and Gen Z in the room.
What you'll hear:
What each of them wishes they knew in their 30s, and what their wives and kids actually remember about the decisions they made along the way.
Larry on pattern recognition, why he sold Microsoft too early, and why he won't make that same mistake with Bitcoin.
Bob on the 60 day retirement that didn't take, why purpose comes after financial independence, and the real reason he keeps showing up.
George on the Chisholm Trail, why you can't print cattle, and what the boomers learned about hard assets that millennials are about to relearn the hard way.
The compound math on Bitcoin returns and why leverage keeps killing young Bitcoiners.
Why Larry stopped giving people his book and started handing out The Mandibles instead.
Paper Bitcoin, the GSIB that's going to get blown up, and what George says is the only real defense.
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0:31 Losing My Aura
2:24 Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
6:25 Pattern Recognition and Network Businesses
10:18 Understanding the Nature of Time
13:35 Avoiding Greed and Leveraging Bitcoin
16:11 Maintaining Your Sense of Purpose
21:37 Bitcoin in a Fourth Turning
32:53 Self-Custody: The Best Defense Against Securitization
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Gary Leland wants to be the first person to live to 200. larry lepard thinks he's nuts. bob burnett explains why your life insurance policy gives up at 121 and what happens if you don't.
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Larry Lepard, Bob Burnett and Gary Leland on the September move: Bitcoin caught air off 62 and ran to 81 before settling near 77, the Fed's rate decision, Treasury buybacks tripling to $6 billion, and why half the people mining Bitcoin are probably losing money right now.
"Not today you don't." The Boomers open with the question every holder secretly googles — do you owe taxes on Bitcoin you never sold? — and the answer detours through gold teeth, seventeen nuclear aircraft carriers, and Larry calmly explaining why he thinks this asset goes to a million dollars… then ten. Bob puts a number on the network nobody can picture (900 exahashes — more raw computation than every supercomputer on Earth combined), George explains why that's "the magic of Bitcoin," and then the fork question lands: what actually happened at block 961,632 when BIP-110 tried to split the chain — and why one side kept mining forever while the other managed two blocks.