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Demis Is Out as DeepMind CEO, Revolut Founder Yacht Drama, AI’s Great Reverse Bank Run | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:13 John Coogan For a while, Bitcoin was or had characterized as an end of the world hedge, a form of money for when the nation state collapsed, and people made a lot of money on that bet, but a trader wasn't driven by the fear that 2 times in the scene
Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:37 unnamed speaker It, it, it does get weird and like there will be odd things and, but I mean, we've seen, we've seen, you know, uh, cybersecurity incidents all over the place from big companies getting hacked data leaks to, uh, the crypto locker schemes…
Microsoft Takes on Frontier AI with Project Solara, OpenClaw, and More at Build 2026 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:44 unnamed speaker So you might need to use, you might, you might need to transfer like tens of thousands of Bitcoin low fees.
Sam vs Elon Trial, Coinbase Cuts 14% in AI Pivot, Digesting Meta Earnings | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:16 unnamed speaker The Bitcoin price has been a little bit flat recently.
Neural Computers, GameStop’s $55B eBay Offer | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:27 John Coogan The creators and the maintainers of that protocol and crypto would be different because the Bitcoin protocol had the value capture component like baked into it. 3 times in the scene
Binance’s CZ: We’ll Never Know Satoshi, and That’s Good
- ▶ 1:04 Changpeng Zhao (CZ) I mean, like from 2013, right, people think that Bitcoin is only used by drug lords, uh, or for illicit activities.
- ▶ 10:05 Changpeng Zhao (CZ) What makes Bitcoin unique is that we don't know, we, well, the founder's no longer participating. 5 times in the scene
AI Is Coming for Your Memes, Crypto’s Quantum Clock, Axios Hack| Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:57 John Coogan So, Google researchers have warned that future quantum computers may be able to break some of the cryptography protecting Bitcoin and other digital assets with fewer resources than previously thought, adding urgency to the debate over how… 5 times in the scene
SpaceX-xAI merger reactions, Paypal plummets, Disney names next CEO | Diet TBPN
Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair, Google targets Chinese Cyber Weapon, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:23 John Coogan Bitcoin underperforming gold over five years.
Netflix vs Youtube, Saudi Arabia’s liquidity crunch, Tether’s gold pivot | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:42 unnamed speaker E-gold even before Bitcoin?
China’s acquisition spree, TikTok reaches U.S survival deal, Tech Giants hit by spying | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:47 unnamed speaker If you can crack, like, whatever, the Bitcoin or any, like, blockchain with quantum, like, surely you can also just get into, like, banks or, like, tons of, like, actual, like, things that are, like,
Kling AI reaches 12M MAU, China's aging tech worker crisis, drama at ThinkingMachine | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 27:01 John Coogan I, I bought a TV with a Bitcoin.
Big Tech turns to mining, Thinking Machines loses top executives, NYC Sauna Wars heat up | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:09 Jordi Hays When it first opened, Bathhouse was jokingly called the Bitcoin Bathhouse as they used the heat generated from mining to warm the tubs.
OpenAI Sets Sights on $750 BILLION Valuation
- ▶ 27:12 unnamed speaker Now the whistleblower who is a Bitcoin alpha ton capital.
Ilya Sutskever on Dwarkesh Patel Reaction, NVIDIA vs Google, Trump Unveils Genesis | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:51 unnamed speaker Apparently, uh, according to X, I don't know if this is true, but the robbery that took place yesterday, in which an armed thief posed as a delivery driver and robbed somebody for a 1,000,011 million dollars of Ethereum and Bitcoin, um,…
The State of AI: A Field Trip to TBPN’s Aura Farm + Today’s Top Tech Stories | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:33 unnamed speaker Luxury watch guy is concerned about the Bitcoin sell-off because he says there are going to be so many effing APs on the market.
Nvidia Q3 Earnings, Travis Kalanick's New Startup, Google's Nano Banana Pro Reaction | Diet TBPN
Jeff Bezos’ New AI Startup, Yann LeCun Says LLMs are a Dead End, Thiel Fund Sells NVIDIA | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:30 unnamed speaker When the metaverse bubble popped, when, you know, when, when crypto bubbles pop, like, Bitcoin trades down 50%, 60%, like, and then it's over, and then you start rebuilding, right?
Blue Origin Lands Rocket, Valve Drops Steam Machine, Cantor Group Surges | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:29 Jordi Hays The captain, Sailor himself, he says, unless you do the requisite hundred plus hours of studying Bitcoin on top of a hundred plus hours of micro strategy, you should not enter this trade, he said, because it is a very sophisticated trade…
Jared Isaacman Back In The Cockpit at NASA | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:50 unnamed speaker Uh, Joe Weisenthal says, not surprised that Bitcoin has fallen so much lately. 4 times in the scene
Sequoia Capital Partner Shaun Maguire Live on TBPN
- ▶ 12:28 Shaun Maguire Like you could just buy Bitcoin, you know, buying Bitcoin outperformed basically every crypto investment, but Coinbase was still an amazing investment. 4 times in the scene
a16z Crypto Managing Partner Chris Dixon Live on TBPN
- ▶ 2:54 unnamed speaker Like, people were tracking, like, number of Bitcoin wallets for a while, and, and that, like, the idea that the next generation will even be aware if they have a wallet, because they might own it through an ETF.
- ▶ 14:10 Chris Dixon We, we both do kind of early stage traditional venture and do things like buy tokens like Bitcoin directly in the market. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:26 unnamed speaker Would, I don't know if this is possible, if this has already happened, uh, but would you ever see yourself backing a project that looks like Bitcoin in the sense that the founder's anonymous, you can never meet them, but for some reason…
Building a $10B+ DeFi Protocol with Just 11 People | Jeff Yan Joins TBPN
- ▶ 0:00 Jeff Yan There will never be another Bitcoin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:37 Jeff Yan And, uh, we had strayed very far from the original ethos of, um, Satoshi and Bitcoin.
- ▶ 2:49 Jeff Yan I think he, or, you know, whoever built Bitcoin, they, uh, not sure, but Satoshi, we'll just say Satoshi, uh, was very unique. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:12 Jeff Yan Bitcoin would not be Bitcoin if he had raised, uh, Series A, even if best investors in the world, you know, sickest cap table ever, still, still would, I would say that would not, Bitcoin would not be Bitcoin. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:37 Jeff Yan So like, if you want to, if like you look at Bitcoin, for example, on any one exchange, there's like usually one very liquid Bitcoin perp and that's the liquid asset forever, never expires. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:43 John Coogan Like, I, I'm familiar with kind of the, how Bitcoin went, where people were just mining it on their laptop, and then it turned into a data center, and then it turned, like, hunt for the cheapest energy possible with the ASIC, uh, because… 3 times in the scene
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen live on TBPN
- ▶ 8:22 unnamed speaker Yeah, I just feel like it's, I just feel like it's notable that you have all these, you know, digital asset treasury companies that are just market buying, you know, obscene amounts of, of, uh, you know, Bitcoin and other tokens, and you…
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
- ▶ 18:55 Andrew Ross Sorkin I, I feel like every Uber driver talks to me about Bitcoin now, but I was, I was hearing it from people in like 15, 16.
Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- ▶ 47:01 unnamed speaker Do you think this is, this is Tim Cook signaling that he's a BTC Maxi?
Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping
- ▶ 1:35:52 Gabe Whaley All they got to do is go to Twitter and be like, send a Bitcoin to this address, and I'll send you two Bitcoin, and then they actually do it.
Gabe Whaley on Why MSCHF Makes Virality an Art Form
- ▶ 27:16 Gabe Whaley All they got to do is go to Twitter and be like, send a Bitcoin to this address, and I'll send you to Bitcoin, and then they actually do it. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked
- ▶ 6:25 John Coogan I was thinking about, um, they, we moved on from Bitcoin treasuries to like the further out risk curve ones.
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 2:07:16 John Coogan Um, payoff, uh, what if I take out a massive short position on Bitcoin and I'm the first one to have a quantum computer 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:23:57 Martin Shkreli So at the start, you know, when I asked the questions about cryptography, it just kind of said, I have no idea who knows, but it's, it's, it's super hard to, to crack Bitcoin. 4 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 31:46 unnamed speaker Major top signal Bitcoin all-time high. 6 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- ▶ 1:13:08 John Coogan Alternatively, maybe he's a hardcore Bitcoiner. 5 times in the scene
THE MEGA BILL - What's ACTUALLY inside?
- ▶ 3:33 unnamed speaker Or alternatively, maybe he's a hardcore Bitcoiner. 6 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
- ▶ 1:05:52 Jordi Hays Um, there was, uh, some interesting price action in Bitcoin. 3 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 57:21 Katie Haun So to my mind, the court system is the reason we have ETFs in this country today for Bitcoin, um, and for ETH, and I think of this as a bit, a similar thing.
- ▶ 1:12:12 Katie Haun Obviously chief example of that is Bitcoin. 3 times in the scene
Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
- ▶ 32:12 Jordi Hays Um, Bitcoin is actually, uh, falling alongside. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:40 John Coogan We saw that with the Bitcoin project progression from CPU to GPU to FPGA to ASIC.
Read Write Own - A16Z Partner Chris Dixon on TBPN
- ▶ 7:46 Chris Dixon Um, whereas crypto very much, you know, Bitcoin started at the fringes, right?
- ▶ 13:43 Chris Dixon A lot of, a lot, a lot of venture funds just simply, maybe they'll have a little bit of Bitcoin, but they'll, otherwise they'll rule it out if there's tokens and things.
Coinbase CEO Explains the Future of Crypto
- ▶ 6:42 Brian Armstrong People have very high demand for the dollar and then Bitcoin.
- ▶ 10:49 Brian Armstrong And so Bitcoin was like the key innovation, I think, that unlocked that opportunity.
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 11:06 Balaji Srinivasan You know, pro-Bitcoin, if you're pro-cryptocurrency, smart contracts, and so on, you're pro-AI, you're pro-biotech, pro-nuclear, and whatnot.
- ▶ 18:33 John Coogan Yeah, on, on the Bitcoin, uh, thing, I, I imagine that Bitcoin could be kind of the gold standard for many network states if they opt in. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:44 Balaji Srinivasan So, well, the term stable coin obviously is historical because it was stable relative to Bitcoin. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:38 John Coogan I think he invested in Bitcoin back in.
- ▶ 54:17 Chris Dixon A lot of, a lot, a lot of venture funds just simply, maybe they'll have a little bit of Bitcoin, but they'll, otherwise they'll rule it out if there's tokens and things.
- ▶ 56:10 Chris Dixon And so what we, what we think of it is we can do everything from, we can buy, we buy Bitcoin or something just directly, which we do.
- ▶ 1:06:46 John Coogan Was it a full Bitcoin as a referral fee? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:39 Brian Armstrong People have very high demand for the dollar and then Bitcoin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:36:53 Koki Mochida But back then, I, you know, I was 11, and I did not know that you can, you know, actually start to fight these natural disasters, um, but I started just, like, building, you know, robots when three-D printers were really popular, started…
We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
- ▶ 40:38 John Coogan What else is interesting in crypto to you cross prediction markets, um, stable coins, maybe just Bitcoin theories, uh, you know, where Bitcoin is in the narrative right now, store value, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:15 John Coogan Because like, like just technically, if I'm in some random country and I have the resources to mine Bitcoin and swap it into stable coins, like I can technically transfer it instantaneously today, but there might be gas fees and all sorts… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:09:50 Koki Mochida The money I made from that, I put into Bitcoin, and then, uh, going to, like, hedge funds in high school, and I started a small one.
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day
- ▶ 3:22 unnamed speaker Like, there's gold, maybe the US dollar, maybe Bitcoin.
Building the World’s Smallest Fusion Reactor | Robin Langtry on TBPN
- ▶ 26:31 John Coogan Uh, you could imagine that once mid-journey gets good enough, uh, or kind of hits some, some peak, that they would just bake it down into silicon, and we would just have image generation models, you know, ASICs, essentially, like what…
Why Hallucination Is Good For AI Voice Agents | Russell D'Sa on TBPN
- ▶ 6:14 John Coogan Uh, you could imagine that once mid-journey gets good enough, uh, or kind of hits some, some peak, that they would just bake it down into silicon, and we would just have image generation models, you know, ASICs, essentially, like what…
This Company is Changing Cybersecurity | Alex Dhillon on TBPN April 10th
- ▶ 17:04 unnamed speaker He, people think he might've created Bitcoin and, uh, back in, uh, like 2004 or something, he was, you know, those like spam emails you get that are like, oh, magical pill, you know, pill mill stuff.
GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 12:03 John Coogan That was the best time to launch a stable coin before Bitcoin getting really early.
The ISSUE with MONEY and how to fix it | Zachary Perret on TBPN April 3rd
- ▶ 8:22 Zachary Perret Buy some coin base, Bitcoin coin base, and you can make a trade on Robinhood.
Alexis Ohanian reflects on Reddit, the changing internet, and the future of Digg.
- ▶ 16:00 Alexis Ohanian And I'm Bitcoin really specifically, but like, can we get to that next point where we have a technology that just sort of underpins a lot of people's lives casually?
Nic Carter talks crypto, meme coins, and the regulatory environment.
- ▶ 9:54 Nic Carter Are they just gonna hold the seized Bitcoin? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:53 Nic Carter Bitcoin did well.
Bridget Harris breaks down the Prime Intellect deal and the broader sentiment in crypto today.
- ▶ 8:07 Bridget Harris See that, oh, Cardano's like one cent and Bitcoin's like a hundred K and like, they'll genuinely just go and buy like Cardano because like it's cheaper. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:06 John Coogan Do you think that starts with like Bitcoin lending? 5 times in the scene
Packy McCormick Breaks Down Ramp's New $13B Valuation and Where He's Investing Right Now.
- ▶ 27:11 Jordi Hays Bitcoin's down eight percent today and basically round tripped.
The FULL HISTORY of Temu (Why it's EXPLODING!)
- ▶ 56:19 unnamed speaker Obviously the, the BTC maxis say that the sovereign wealth fund should just be a trillion dollars of Bitcoin. 2 times in the scene
The Truth About Chinese Manufacturing (De Minimis)
- ▶ 11:07 Jordi Hays The lesson here, go back in time and buy Bitcoin in 1930.
The Internet’s Most Famous Drug Dealer (Ross Ulbricht)
- ▶ 3:27 unnamed speaker Uh, leveraged novel payment rails using Bitcoin and maintain this sort of missionary sort of mode to building the company that was basically almost like a religious pursuit for him because of his libertarian beliefs,
- ▶ 7:50 unnamed speaker It's like if he had had all these ideas five years before, impossible, then wouldn't have had Bitcoin. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:44 unnamed speaker And so he'd be freaking out the Bitcoin at the time to be clear with who I don't, we should look up on public what the actual price was, but it would be like, I'm sure it was like a few dollars.
- ▶ 16:50 unnamed speaker Uh, they had an escrow system which used Bitcoin, kind of smart contracts, but really just, it would transfer the Bitcoin out of the buyer's, out of the buyer's account into a holding account, and then once the transaction cleared, it… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:00 unnamed speaker And, uh, yeah, I mean, another, another factor of the growth was that Silk Road really drove early adoption of Bitcoin and it created this crazy flywheel where you would buy a little bit of Bitcoin to go on Silk Road, buy some psilocybin… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:51 unnamed speaker Because it's all just happening on the dark web, and there's money flowing around, and Bitcoin, and everyone thinks it's anonymous. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:43 unnamed speaker You should split up your Bitcoin holdings so that, you know, if you get taken down here, like, you know, you'll still, and then, and then on the platform level, they had created this sort of PayPal style system, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:32 unnamed speaker Ross, for his part, was often oblivious to the scale of the manhunt, trusting in Tor and Bitcoin's layers of security, while continuing to manage Silk Road from cafes and libraries around San Francisco.
- ▶ 50:37 unnamed speaker Who had run like a Bitcoin forum that was like more of the prime suspect at the time.
- ▶ 54:31 unnamed speaker There's a world where he would have become like a Bitcoin, you know, a hundred billionaire, like one of the wealthiest, most like, you know, influential people in the world and could have been out of reach in many ways.
- ▶ 59:35 unnamed speaker Follow his Bitcoins from start to finish.
- ▶ 1:00:26 unnamed speaker Um, there was panic over Bitcoin funds held in escrow, which now seemed out of reach. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:33 unnamed speaker In 2021 to 20 22, a stash of over 50,000 stolen Bitcoin from the Silk Road is seized by the U.S. government and Ross relinquishes any claim to help satisfy his one hundred and eighty three million dollar restitution order. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:19 unnamed speaker Crypto for a long time was looking for use cases outside of Bitcoin being digital gold, meme coins being speculation, uh, and, and, and other activities and 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:47 unnamed speaker Exactly, and so they were able to trace the Bitcoin where it moved out of the Silk Road account into their account, and then was eventually taken off chain, and I think they were buying like sports cars and stuff, and so they were able to…
What Open AI Got WRONG
- ▶ 11:02 unnamed speaker So they're just going to like, you know, Bitcoin should go to zero because they broke an encryption.
How SPORTS BETTING took over America?
- ▶ 20:19 unnamed speaker So this definitely resonated, especially with the Bitcoin crowd, I imagine. 2 times in the scene
Elon’s New Blockchain (Project DOGE)
- ▶ 2:39 unnamed speaker And then maybe, uh, Bitcoin national reserve is big.
- ▶ 11:18 unnamed speaker Um, so, uh, public blockchains like Bitcoin and Solana come with their own problems given that such ledgers are governed by decentralized networks of computers.
- ▶ 15:00 unnamed speaker And I think that if, if Bitcoin or cryptocurrency is like, is like a justification for starting fresh, it could at least bring some energy.
DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- ▶ 1:45:35 John Coogan People think he invented Bitcoin.
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