Flirting With Bitcoin podcast episodes

119 episodes
about the show
Ian and Mandana flirt with Bitcoin: sound money, sovereignty, and building NextBlock City. A running conversation about opting out of the old system and into Bitcoin.
episodes
- FWB120 - The Roman Calendar Is Dead: Bitcoin Runs on Lunar Time
- FWB119 - The Bits vs. Sats Debate Is a Social Contract
- FWB118 - Back to Basics: How We Actually Live on a Bitcoin Standard
- FWB117 - Every Nostr Ad Experiment Compared to NextBlock's Promo Protocol
- FWB116 - AI Is the Alternative to Venture Capital
- FWB115 - Billboard Becomes a Protocol, Not Just a Product
- FWB114 - Ten Days In: AI Coding, Browser Extensions, and Bitcoin on the Island
- FWB113 - Headed to Madeira for Sovereign Engineering
- FWB112 - Cognitive Dissonance: Preaching Sovereignty While Living Fiat
- FWB111 - Mandana Quits Her Job to Build the Attention Marketplace
- FWB110 - Trump's Crypto Order, Ross Freed, and Bitcoin for Federal Workers
- FWB109 - Family FUD at $100K and the Two Realities of Being a Bitcoiner
- FWB108 - Billboard: Prove the Business Model Before Building the App
- FWB107 - Broken Zaps, TikTok's Ban, and Why Strike Solves Both
- FWB106 - VCs Are Pimps and Projects Are Not Companies
- FWB105 - Adopting Bitcoin El Salvador: NextBlock's Debut Reception
- FWB104 - Attention Is a Commodity and You Should Price It
- FWB103 - NextBlock: Get Paid Bitcoin to Watch Ads
- FWB102 - The Value-for-Value Music Economy and the Birth of NextBlock
- FWB101 - Fountain Goes Full Nostr: The Interoperable App Future
- FWB100 - Welcome to Nostr City: Where Bitcoin Meets Free Speech
- FWB099 - Ian Becomes the Bitcoin Broker for His Family
- FWB098 - The Petrodollar Expired and Texas Is the New New York
- FWB097 - BTC Ad Server: Building Consent-Based Advertising on Nostr
- FWB096 - Bitcoiners Are Now a Voting Bloc
- FWB095 - Bitcoin Makes It Easier to Be a Dad
- FWB094 - The Digital Guillotine, Zaps, and Who Deserves a Platform
- FWB093 - Samourai Arrested: Ian Quits His Fiat Job
- FWB092 - Runes, the Mempool, and the Halving Hangover
- FWB091 - The Bitcoin Halving Party Through a Bitcoin Wife's Eyes
- FWB090 - Am I a Bitcoiner Yet? Mandana Takes the Quiz
- FWB089 - Bitcoin Hits All-Time Highs in Thirty Countries: The End of FUD
- FWB088 - El Salvador as the Singapore of the Western Hemisphere
- FWB087 - Spending Bitcoin Block by Block in El Zonte
- FWB086 - Bitcoin Beach Reality Check: Almost Nobody Uses It
- FWB084 - Season Finale: Cherokee Roots, ETF Incoming, Ten Times the Sats
- FWB083 - Bitcoin Is a Software Patch on Humanity
- FWB082 - CZ Steps Down, Milei Wins, and Strike Becomes Bitcoin WeChat
- FWB081 - Three Hundred Thousand Downloads and a Crypto Skeptic Roleplay
- FWB080 - SBF Guilty on All Counts: Spousal Trust and Boost Comments
- FWB079 - Bitcoin Gets You Around the Resistor of Endless War
- FWB078 - One Percent of Your Salary Beats a 401k
- FWB077 - Orange-Pilling the Yuppie Elite
- FWB076 - Bitcoin Is the New Aristocracy
- FWB075 - Zapvertising, the Satoshi Price Index, and Cantillon Corruption
- FWB074 - Bitcoin Blockchain as Neighborhood: Ordinals Are the Strip Clubs
- FWB073 - The Writers' Strike and the Value-for-Value Alternative
- FWB072 - Getting Paid in Bitcoin as a Freelancer
- FWB071 - Difficulty Adjustments, Milei, and Portable Passports
- FWB070 - From Immigrant Scarcity Mindset to Bitcoin Conviction
- FWB069 - The Entire World Economy Runs on Unpayable Debt
- FWB068 - Bitcoin Barbie and the Chain Analysis Confession
- FWB067 - How Much Bitcoin Is Enough?
- FWB066 - BlackRock's Spot ETF and Why Exchanges Keep Failing You
- FWB065 - Coordinated Attack on the Bitcoin Ecosystem in One Week
- FWB064 - Everything Is Fiat: The Seed Oil Rabbit Hole
- FWB063 - Trust But Verify Your Husband: Part One
- FWB062 - Rolling Your Retirement Into Bitcoin via Unchained Capital
- FWB061 - The Complete Self-Sovereign Bitcoin Security Stack
- FWB060 - Ordinals Are Driving Fees Up and That Is Fine
- FWB059 - Bitcoin Saves Kidnapped Refugees and Recalibrates Priorities
- FWB058 - The Full Story of Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road
- FWB057 - A Nostr Marketplace Is Silk Road Without a Face to Arrest
- FWB056 - Building the Bitcoin Circular Economy One Sat at a Time
- FWB055 - Satoshi's Birthday, the Gold Confiscation, and RoboSats
- FWB054 - TikTok's Ban Is a Trojan Horse for Internet Control
- FWB053 - Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed the Day Our Son Was Born
- FWB052 - Wyoming Protects Private Keys, El Salvador Opens Bitcoin Embassy
- FWB051 - Zaps on Nostr Replace Likes with Real Value
- FWB050 - Bitcoin Is Love: Holding the Line Is an Act of Love
- FWB049 - Nostr and Bitcoin: Twin Cypherpunk Technologies
- FWB048 - The SEC Is Systematically Eliminating Altcoins
- FWB047 - Hash Rate All-Time Highs While Altcoins Get Prosecuted
- FWB046 - The Great Debate: Should You Ever Sell Bitcoin?
- FWB045 - 250,000 Sats Is Your Fair Share of All Bitcoin
- FWB044 - FTX's Real Story: Bahamas, Organized Crime, and Stolen Funds
- FWB043 - Santa Claus Is Fiat
- FWB042 - FTX Was Organized Crime, Not Incompetent Kids
- FWB041 - A Practical Bitcoin Guide for Iranians Under Financial Repression
- FWB040 - The Non-Bitcoiner Partner Speaks
- FWB039 - Jack Dorsey's Decentralized Social Media Is Bitcoin-Shaped
- FWB038 - Riot's Gigawatt Deal and the Petrodollar's Exit
- FWB037 - Coin Center Is Suing the Government Over Tornado Cash
- FWB036 - PayPal's $2,500 Misinformation Fine Is the CBDC Preview
- FWB035 - Lugano Accepts Bitcoin at McDonald's
- FWB034 - Living on One Salary, Saving in Bitcoin
- FWB033 - M-Pesa Lightning: Bitcoin Adoption Across Africa
- FWB032 - How to Get Your Spouse on Board with Bitcoin
- FWB031 - After the Ethereum Merge, Everything That Could Go Wrong Did
- FWB030 - Bitcoin Is Time: Block Height as a Calendar
- FWB029 - Think in Halvings, Not Dollars
- FWB028 - The Ethereum Merge Recreates What It Claims to Replace
- FWB027 - BlackRock Is Cycling Clients Out of Housing Into Bitcoin
- FWB026 - Fedi Solves the Self-Custody Barrier for Communities
- FWB025 - BRICS, Rome's Fall, and Bitcoin's Neutral Ground
- FWB024 - Crypto Bankruptcies and the Sri Lanka Playbook
- FWB023 - Bitcoin Miners Are the Grid's New Battery
- FWB022 - Peter Schiff's Bank Froze: Self-Custody Vindicated
- FWB021 - Micropayments Can Only Run on Bitcoin
- FWB020 - Fountain and the Value-for-Value Economy
- FWB019 - The Dollar Price Doesn't Matter If You Understand Bitcoin
- FWB018 - Bitcoin Is the Most Effective Silent Protest
- FWB017 - Terra Luna Proved Every Warning Was Right
- FWB016 - Bitcoin Is the Only Honest Measuring Stick
- FWB015 - Lightning Killed Every Altcoin Talking Point
- FWB014 - Jack Dorsey Quit Twitter to Build Bitcoin Payment Rails
- FWB013 - Cold Storage, ColdCard, and Bitcoin from Space
- FWB012 - Self-Custody When Governments Freeze Accounts
- FWB011 - Altcoins Are Companies, Bitcoin Is Consensus
- FWB010 - NFTs Are Digital Beanie Babies
- FWB009 - The 2008 Crash Was a Bank Run, Not a Mortgage Crisis
- FWB008 - HODL, WAGMI, and the Bitcoin Remnant
- FWB007 - Stop Counting Dollars, Start Counting Sats
- FWB006 - El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment, In Practice
- FWB005 - Bitcoin Is an IQ Test for Nations
- FWB004 - Mining, the Halving, and the 10-Minute Clock
- FWB003 - Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins
- FWB002 - Bitcoin Is the Banks' Villain
- FWB001 - Why Bitcoin, Not Crypto