Episode #91 - Sam Texas and the Inevitable Co...

Bitcoin Entrepreneur and host of TFTC Marty Bent completes the 'home and home' podcast conversation. I was recently on Marty's show to discuss the bigger political and financial picture (link below). Marty joins me for a talk about the 2026 growing pains of Bitcoin and its role i ...  Show more

Santiago Capital's Brent Johnson returns to the podcast for a forward-looking chat about where we are in the flow of economic and politcal history on the eve of the mid-term elections in the US. Brent's got an insightful take on the tug of war going on between the Fed and the US ...  Show more

We’re wrapping up our series on cryptocurrency mining, the energy-intensive computing process that does all of the accounting for most cryptocurrencies. Marketplace’s Andy Uhler previously reported on how crypto miners were drawn to the small Texas town of Rockdale because of its ...  Show more

Having long promised to decentralise power, Bitcoin is looking more and more like it will end up as a tool of American power under Trump. But blockchains could also be used to empower local economies. And why should the left stay attached to a money system controlled by the state ...  Show more

This week Tech Tent takes the temperature of the crypto market with the BBC's cyber reporter Joe Tidy and the Financial Times' Markets Editor, Katie Martin. Dr Johnny Ryan from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties on how our personal data is sold hundreds of times a day; and Reb ...  Show more