My favorite episode with @EricBalchunas yet. Ahead of his new book with @JSeyff, he walked me through his path from skeptic to Bitcoin believer, what his mom said the first time she heard about Bitcoin, what happened when he actually tried self-custody, and the inside story of how BlackRock’s ETF almost never got filed at all. We also got into why he calls Bitcoin a teenager, what Jack Bogle and Bitcoiners have in common, whether the government ends up buying stocks, and who he thinks is quietly stealing Bitcoin’s best argument. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Trailer 00:53 Why nothing stops the stock market 3:47 What actually turned Bitcoin around 8:45 Why gold stopped working and Bitcoin took over 10:39 The strange new ETFs Wall Street is launching 13:47 How easy it is to launch an ETF? 17:02 Why so many young men are losing money trading 19:28 Will the government start buying stocks? 23:04 Who actually owns the stock market 27:41 How a skeptic ended up writing a Bitcoin book 31:50 Why Bitcoin keeps coming back from the dead 35:16 "Funny money from space" 40:41 The inside story of BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF 43:38 The first asset that came from the people 47:09 What happened when he tried cold storage 48:39 What Bitcoiners can learn from Jack Bogle 54:30 Where this goes over the next 10 years