Bitcoin: This podcast is a front-to-back deep dive into Bitcoin as a monetary network, not just a speculative asset. It explains that Bitcoin is best understood as three things at once: a distributed ledger, a scarce native asset, and a settlement system that allows value to move without relying on banks or other central intermediaries. The episode starts by correcting common misconceptions, then walks through why Bitcoin was created, especially in the context of the 2008 financial crisis and the long-running problem of digital double spending.

From there, the conversation moves into how Bitcoin actually works under the hood: wallets do not hold coins but private keys, ownership is enforced through cryptography, transactions are structured through the UTXO model, and the network is governed by a division of labor between nodes and miners. A ...