The Bitcoin Way Podcast

🗓️ Why you need a second residency: the first of 3 free live sessions starts 28 October. Save your seat: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/webinars/you-need-a-second-residency?utm_source=tbw&utm_medium=fountain&utm_campaign=1026-webinar-series&utm_content=banter-desc 🔑 Is your Bitcoin on an exchange? Learn to hold it yourself with our self-custody training: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/services/bitcoin-self-custody-training?utm_source=tbw&utm_medium=fountain&utm_campaign=bitcoin-banter&utm_content=desc 🗞️ Join 14,000 subscribers who get our free weekly newsletter: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/resources/newsletter?utm_source=tbw&utm_medium=fountain&utm_campaign=bitcoin-banter&utm_content=desc 📞 Wondering...

🗓️ Bitcoin plus a Plan B residency: free live webinars from 28 October. Save your seat: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/webinars/you-need-a-second-residency?utm_source=tbw&utm_medium=fountain&utm_campaign=podcast&utm_content=desc-webinar 🔑 Verify, don't trust. Learn to run your own node and hold your own keys: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/services/bitcoin-self-custody-training?utm_source=tbw&utm_medium=fountain&utm_campaign=podcast&utm_content=desc-self-custody 📞 Questions about self-custody or a Plan B residency? Book a free 30-minute call: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/contact?utm_source=tbw&utm_medium=fountain&utm_campaign=podcast&utm_content=desc-call 📖 Join 14...

🔑 Could you recover your Bitcoin without your custodian? Download our free self-custody guide: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/services/bitcoin-self-custody-training?utm_source=tbw&utm_medium=fountain&utm_campaign=1026-multisig-versus-singlesig&utm_content=desc-guide 📞 Hold your own keys, with no custodian and no KYC. Book a free 30-minute call: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/contact?utm_source=tbw&utm_medium=fountain&utm_campaign=1026-multisig-versus-singlesig&utm_content=desc-call 🗓️ Your Bitcoin's secure. Is your passport? Free Plan B webinar from 28 October. Save your seat: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/webinars/you-need-a-second-residency?utm_source=tbw&utm_medium=fountain&utm_campaign=1026-multisig-versus-singlesig&utm_content=desc-webina...

If the rules in your country changed tomorrow, where would you go? Without an answer, you don't have a Plan B. A second residency is how you make sure your country isn't your only choice. Tony explains why he thinks it's urgent, pointing to digital ID in the EU and Australia, the EU's limit on cash payments and age verification in the UK. He covers what most people get wrong about a Plan B, why a residency card in a drawer doesn't count, and what a Bitcoin circular economy changes about where you'd want to live. <...

🗓️ Living in the EU? Our free Plan B webinar series starts 28 October. Save your seat: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/webinars/you-need-a-second-residency?utm_source=tbw&utm_medium=fountain&utm_campaign=1026-webinar-series&utm_content=banter-desc 📖 Stories like France's exit tax, explained every week. Join 14,000 subscribers to our free newsletter: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/resources/newsletter?utm_source=tbw&utm_medium=fountain&utm_campaign=bitcoin-banter&utm_content=desc 📞 Wondering if a Panama Plan B is right for you? Book a free 30-minute call: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/contact?utm_source=tbw&utm_medium=fountain&utm_campaign=bitcoin-banter&utm_content=des...

Most Bitcoiners make at least one self-custody mistake. Between them, our guests have made nearly all of them. In this special edition of Bitcoin Banter, Michael sits down with Mike from Bitcoin Straight Up and Bitcoin Katie to compare their journeys into Bitcoin self-custody. There are exchange collapses, Celsius and FTX, a hardware wallet bought from the wrong place and a seed phrase mistake that cost real Bitcoin. They also get into why collaborative custody wasn't enough, whether you need to be technical to hold your own keys, and what changes once you run your...

📖 Subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/resources/newsletter?utm_source=tbw&utm_medium=fountain&utm_campaign=bitcoin-banter&utm_content=desc 📖 Interested in a Plan B? Download our FREE Panama 🇵🇦 Residency Guide here: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/services/plan-b-residency-programs?utm_source=tbw&utm_medium=fountain&utm_campaign=bitcoin-banter&utm_content=video-desc 🔑 Learn how to take 100% self-custody of your Bitcoin: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/services/bitcoin-self-custody-training?utm_source=tbw&utm_medium=fountain&utm_campaign=bitcoin-banter&utm_content=desc —------------------------ Governments are showing their hand — and it's aimed directly at your wealth. The Netherlands is...

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A self-proclaimed white hat hacker exploited Blockstream's Liquid Network, minting fake LBTC and draining nearly 4,000 Bitcoin worth around $320M. The funds were held on-chain during public negotiations conducted through blockchain messages, with 85% eventually returned and around 600 BTC kept as a claimed 'consultancy fee'. This breakdown explains how the Liquid hack happened, what it reveals about federated sidechains, custodial risk, and Bitcoin security. We also cover UK mandatory phone surveillance and digital ID proposals, arrests for communications offenses, rising Europe-Russia tensions, LG TV privacy concerns, plus our Donkeys of the Week, who are offering the opportunity to own...

The creator of SeedSigner — a former cop turned stay-at-home dad turned open-source Bitcoin developer — joins Michael Jordan to break down the ColdCard entropy bug, what it revealed about hardware wallet trust, and why NVK waged a years-long campaign against the SeedSigner project. "Seed" explains how SeedSigner's intentional statelessness and air-gapped design minimizes the trust required from non-technical users, what actually happened with the OpenSats funding rejections, why DIY cold storage is more accessible than the Bitcoin community gives it credit for, and his strong take on why cloud-connected multi-sig solutions like BitKey are the wrong lesson to lear...

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The ColdCard hack sent shockwaves through Bitcoin's self-custody movement. Is this the end for CoinKite, or part of a much broader attack on self-custody? In this episode, Michael, Tony, and Katie unpack the AI-assisted breaches hitting BTCPay Server and Lightning wallets, Strategy branding itself the "central bank of Bitcoin," BlackRock lowering IBIT minimums, and Simon Dixon's framework for seeing it all as a coordinated assault on Bitcoin sovereignty. —------------------------ 🔑 Learn how to take 100% self-custody of your Bitcoin: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/services/bitcoin-self-custody-training?utm_source=tbw&utm_medium=fountain&utm_campaign=bitcoin-banter&utm_conte...

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Self-custody isn't complete without verification. If you're not running a Bitcoin node, you're still trusting someone else's computer to confirm your balance and transactions. Tony explains what a Bitcoin node actually does, why nodes (not miners) enforce Bitcoin's rules, and how thousands of node operators stopped the 2017 block size increase. Running your own Bitcoin node is the missing piece of true Bitcoin self-custody, and it's easier than you think. Learn how to get started with anything from a plug-and-play device to an old laptop, and take the final step toward real Bitcoin sovereignty. ================= 🔑 Ready to run...