Solutions to the K-shaped economy Mike Belshe gave the clearest breakdown of the “K-shaped economy” I’ve heard. Cash loses value every year, so the only way to stay ahead is to hold assets. But most Americans can’t. They get paid in cash and spend it all on rent, food, insurance, and medical bills. Nothing is left to invest. Even those who scrape together $10k in stock get pushed back out. The car breaks down, a medical bill hits, and they have to sell. Back to cash, back to the treadmill. The wealthy play a different game. They borrow against their assets and repay in dollars that are worth less every year. Borrowing dollars is effectively being short the dollar. Banks happily lend to them. If you’re small, the bank says you’re not worth the effort, so you have to sell instead. Same system, two completely different outcomes. Belshe’s fix: tokenize everything. Cut the cost of financial services until anyone can borrow against their assets instead of selling them. Crypto is the bridge that lets regular people get the same things the rich get. Belshe lists Bitcoin as one of several tools, alongside tokenized stocks, stablecoins, and shielded assets like Zcash. But it could be argued that it’s the natural starting point. If the problem is holding a currency that loses value, Bitcoin is the asset with a fixed supply that no central bank can expand. He’s said elsewhere that this fixed supply is the core promise of the protocol. Self-custody matters here too. Belshe calls it the escape hatch if institutions ever fail people. Holding your own keys means no bank decides whether you’re worth serving. Escape the devaluing dollar with a hard asset. Use tokenized lending so you don’t have to sell it when life happens. The rich have always had these tools. Crypto is the first real chance to give them to everyone. For the full episode with @mikebelshe CEO of @BitGo, check out the full interview here. bitcoin:native

Explaining Nuances that are often not dealt with. @hashdag is in the full episode touching on latest developments, explaining technical aspects where Kaspa excels and you get to see beautiful Romania on a road Trip.

Lightning on Drivechains at launch? Hopefully zero. Because Lightning is a failed, dead project and the evidence is overwhelming it won’t survive. Drivechains by @Truthcoin is coming. @Vladcostea

This episode is done on hard mode. No show notes, high speed traffic and on the fly repairs to the equipment. Yonatan Sompolinsky/ @hashdag visited Romania for a short vacation and @Vladcostea did a road trip style interview with him whiledriving him to catch his flight. He caught us up with everything he's been doing for the past year, from his philosophical obsession with stag hunts, to covenants on Kaspa kaspa:native and his admiration for Zcash. Some highlights from the show 🌞ZK, born for privacy but lives for scaling 🌞The mental map: where Kaspa is unique 🌞Prisoner's dilemma vs stag hunt 🌞The Kaspa-Ethereum overlap 🌞Why DAGKnight survives a world war

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Bitcoin Post-Maximalism, Scaling Regrets and Saylor's Endgame! Our latest episode has entrepreneur, armchair economist and future budding poker pro, @VinnyLingham as the featured guest. He is a bona fide Bitcoin OG who pioneered gift card payments in 2012 with Gyft, served on the board of the Bitcoin Foundation and is now Chairman and Co-founder at @PraxosCap/ Praxos Capital. "Your fans will remember you for your biggest success and your haters will remember you for your biggest failure. The delta between the two is irrelevant to them." - Vinny Lingham Some highlights from the show ☄️Bitcoin can't be the whitepaper's payment system. ☄️Mainstream users and idiot-proof money. ☄️Saylor's Bitcoin Security Consortium. ☄️Why Elon Musk walked away from Bitcoin? ☄️What happens when the block rewards run out?

This episode is done on hard mode. No show notes, high speed traffic and on the fly repairs to the equipment. Yonatan Sompolinsky/ @hashdag visited Romania for a short vacation and @Vladcostea did a road trip style interview with him whiledriving him to catch his flight. He caught us up with everything he's been doing for the past year, from his philosophical obsession with stag hunts, to covenants on Kaspa kaspa:native and his admiration for Zcash. Some highlights from the show 🌞ZK, born for privacy but lives for scaling 🌞The mental map: where Kaspa is unique 🌞Prisoner's dilemma vs stag hunt 🌞The Kaspa-Ethereum overlap 🌞Why DAGKnight survives a world war

Paul Sztorc on self-custody: The network only sees one owner, so if your coins are on an exchange, they own them. Tough season to push self custody with cold storage… but skip the Coldcard. You’re better off with other options. @Truthcoin @Vladcostea

Lightning on Drivechains at launch? Hopefully zero. Because Lightning is a failed, dead project and the evidence is overwhelming it won’t survive. Drivechains by @Truthcoin is coming. @Vladcostea

Wouldn't it be cool if you could sell anything to anyone, anywhere in the world, for Bitcoin? Isn't it weird that you basically can't? And that people don't? There is still no serious global marketplace built for Bitcoin. Yet.

After 7 years, Bitcoin Takeover podcast is having its own scaling debate Over the last few months, some of you guys reported uptime issues with my website and RSS feed Upon further investigation, I discovered that the server CPU gets overloaded sometimes So I contacted my host today, will try to migrate to a server that can deal with the increasing demand Sorry for the inconvenience, I just didn’t expect to grow this fast 😍