Bitcoin Well Podcast
Under the Bitcoin Well Podcast banner are different shows including Answers, Explains and Reads. All shows that will help expand people's understanding of Bitcoin, both from a beginner and a veteran's perspective. With a strong focus on self-custody, self sovereignty, personal freedom and empowerment.
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- Answers: How Does Bitcoin Have Value if its not Backed by Anything?
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Answers: 2 - How Does Bitcoin Have Value if its not Backed by Anything? People say Bitcoin is "fake" because it isn't backed by anything. But is the US Dollar backed by anything? Is Gold? The answer will surprise you. 🤔 In this video, Adam O'Brien (CEO of Bitcoin Well) dismantles the biggest myth in finance: that money needs to be "backed" by something physical to have value. We explore why money isn't about "backing"—it's about Attributes. We break down the 5 trai
- Answers: Is Bitcoin Dead? (The Truth Behind the 50% Crash)
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Answers 4: Is Bitcoin Dead? With Bitcoin's price swinging by 50% in a few short months, the "Bitcoin is Dead" headlines are back in full force. But if you're only looking at the price, you're missing the most important feature of the system: volatility is a reflection of humanity. In this video, we dive into why centralization is the only real threat to Bitcoin and why a protocol of rules without rulers is as indestructible as fire. We explore why gold eventually fa
- Answers: Is it too late to buy Bitcoin?
Send us Fan Mail Are you worried you missed the boat on Bitcoin? You aren't alone. But the truth is, you aren't too late; you're just early to the biggest shift in human history. 🌍 In this debut episode of Bitcoin Well Answers, Adam O'Brien (CEO of Bitcoin Well) answers the most common question in crypto: "Is it too late?" The answer isn't about price charts. It's about the fundamental brokenness of our current system. We explore why the "Earn, Save, Invest" model is failing, why Gold and Real
- Answers: What is Self-Custody?
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Answers: 3 - What is Self-Custody? Understanding the importance of custody is the difference between having a number on a screen and owning the greatest asset on the planet. If you don’t understand custody, you don't really understand Bitcoin. In this video, we break down why custody (the simple question of who controls the asset) is the single most revolutionary change Bitcoin brought to the world of finance. In traditional finance, we are disincentivized from taki
- Bitcoin Well 2025 Year-End Review - $133M Revenue, Bitcoin Treasury Strategy, and What's Coming in 2026
Send us Fan Mail $133 million in revenue. 47% growth year over year. During a bear market. In this special edition of the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach sits down with founder and CEO Adam O'Brien and capital markets expert Halston for a full breakdown of what Bitcoin Well accomplished in 2025 — and where the company is headed in 2026. Topics covered: how Bitcoin Well's three business units performed (Bitcoin ATMs, the Portal, and Bitcoin Well Infinite), why Bitcoin Well Infinite became the primary
- Bitcoin Well Is Launching Carbon Neutral Bitcoin Purchasing (APRIL FOOLS)
Send us Fan Mail After months of internal conversations, working groups, and a lot of soul searching, Bitcoin Well is announcing carbon neutral Bitcoin purchasing. In this episode, Zach reads the full press release — because it speaks for itself. Optional at checkout. No mandates. No government program. Just individuals choosing to do more with what they have. Personal responsibility. Voluntary action. That's what this is. Learn more at bitcoinwell.com/ESG Questions? z.addair@bitcoinwell.com Bit
- Explains: Bitcoin Addresses and Public & Private Keys
Bitcoin Well Explains: Public and Private Keys When you buy Bitcoin, what do you actually own? Most people think it works like a digital file — a little coin sitting on their phone or USB drive. That mental model is completely wrong. And as long as you're holding onto it, you don't really understand what you own. In this video we strip away the jargon and explain exactly how Bitcoin ownership works — starting with one stubborn misconception about wallets. Here's what we cover: Why your wallet ho
- Explains: Bitcoin Mining and Proof of Work
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Explains: How Bitcoin Works - Mining and Proof of Work Forget the guy in a hoodie with a digital pickaxe. Forget the villain's lair boiling the oceans. Neither image is even close to accurate. Bitcoin mining is network security. It's the mechanism by which every transaction gets written, validated, and locked in permanently - without a bank, government, or central authority telling anyone what to do. In this video we break down exactly how it works: -What miners are
- Explains: Miners, Nodes, and the War That Settled Everything
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Explains: Nodes and Governance In 2017, the biggest mining pools, major exchanges, and venture capital firms signed an agreement to change Bitcoin's rules by force. They controlled over 80% of the network's computing power. They lost. Completely. Embarrassingly. This is the story of the Blocksize War — and the quiet, underappreciated participants who won it: the node operators. In this video you'll learn: What Bitcoin nodes actually are and why they matter Why miner
- Explains: Pre-Gold Money
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Explains 0: What is Money? 1 - Pre-Gold Money In order to understand Bitcoin, we have to understand what money is! Join us in the first episode of a three part introduction to the concept of money and trade itself. This podcast explains how trade occurred before money and what the first things used as money were.
- Explains: The 3 Biggest Bitcoin Myths
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Explains: The 3 Biggest Bitcoin Myths Most people's first exposure to Bitcoin was a headline. Bitcoin crashes. Bitcoin used by criminals. Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme. And if that's all you've seen, skepticism is a rational response. But before you write it off, let's make sure you're working from accurate information — not recycled talking points. In this video we break down the three biggest myths that keep people from taking Bitcoin seriously: Myth 1 — Bitcoin isn't
- Explains: The Bitcoin Whitepaper
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Explains I: Why Bitcoin Exists 3 - The Bitcoin Whitepaper What is the Bitcoin White Paper, and why does it still matter in 2026? On October 31st, 2008, while the global financial system was melting down, an anonymous developer named Satoshi Nakamoto released a blueprint for a new world. It wasn't about getting rich or speculative trading; it was about autonomy. In this video, we go line-by-line through the most important document of the 21st century. We break down t
- Explains: The Cypherpunk War for Digital Cash
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Explains I: Why Bitcoin Exists 2 - The Cypherpunk War for Digital Cash Bitcoin wasn't a miracle, it was the final move in a 40-year chess game. 🤯 Most people think Bitcoin appeared out of thin air in 2008. In reality, it was the culmination of decades of failure and innovation by a group called the Cypherpunks. From David Chaum's Digicash to Adam Back's Hashcash, this is the story of the rebel mathematicians who fought to build an un-censorable escape hatch for hum
- Explains: The Difficulty Adjustment and the Halving
Send us Fan Mail The Difficulty Adjustment and the Halving Explained - Why Bitcoin Is the Hardest Money Ever Created Mining is a global guessing game. Computers race to find a winning number, the winner writes the next page of the ledger, and gets paid in brand new Bitcoin. Clean. Simple. Elegant. But here's where most explanations stop and the really interesting questions start. What stops every computer on Earth from switching to Bitcoin mining at once? What stops Bitcoin from being mined out
- Explains: The Failures of Fiat Money
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Explains I: Why Bitcoin Exists - 1- The Failures of Fiat Money Is your money melting in your pocket? 💸 Discover why the 2% inflation target is actually a design to steal your wealth. Most people think inflation is like the weather—something that just happens. In reality, the fiat system is a "Proof of Stake" model for governments where money has no cost to produce. In this episode, we break down the fundamental flaws of our current economy and why a transition to a
- Explains: The Fall of Gold and the Fiat Trap
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Explains 0: What is Money? - 3 - The Fall of Gold and the Fiat Trap Gold was the ultimate money for 5,000 years. So how did it lose to paper? The answer isn't just economics—it's physics. ⚛️ Gold is heavy, dangerous to transport, and slow. To speed up trade, we invented a "Layer 2" solution called paper receipts. That convenience introduced a fatal flaw: Trust. In this episode, we trace the "Slow Motion Heist" that trapped the world in a fiat system: The birth of Fr
- Explains: The Rise of Gold
Send us Fan Mail **Explains 0: What is Money? 2 - The Rise of Gold ** Why did the Egyptians, Romans, and Aztecs all choose the same yellow metal for money? They never met, but they all came to the same conclusion. 🤔 It wasn't magic, and it wasn't a decree from the gods. It was brutal free-market competition. In this episode of "What is Money?", we explore The Rise of Gold. We break down the physics that made gold the "hardest" money on earth, the concept of Stock-to-Flow Ratio, and why gold was
- Explains: Transactions and the Blockchain
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Explains: How Bitcoin Actually Works - Transactions and the Blockchain Most people picture a Bitcoin wallet like a digital safe; coins rattling around on a hard drive somewhere. That mental model is wrong, and it's costing people clarity on how this whole system actually works. In this video, we break down exactly what happens when you send Bitcoin: what UTXOs are and why they matter, how your private key creates a mathematically unforgeable signature, how transacti
- Reads: 1 - Bitcoin and the Atom Bomb
In 1945, humanity invented a technology that made total war impossible. In 2009, we invented a technology that made total financial control impossible. ⚛️₿Welcome to the premiere episode of Proof of Thought, a new series exploring the deepest philosophical questions of our time. In this episode, we read an article by Bitcoin Weller Uli that draws a chilling parallel between the Atomic Bomb and Bitcoin. Just as nuclear weapons forced nations to change how they wage war through "Mutually Assured D
- Reads: Bitcoin Is Fighting With Itself Again - The Great Data War of 2026
Send us Fan Mail The Great Data War of 2026: Why Bitcoin's "Civil War" Is Actually Proof It's Working Bitcoin is having another one of its famous arguments. And if you're new here, you might think the sky has fallen. It isn't. What's being called the Data War is the latest flashpoint in a debate that's been simmering since Casey Rodarmor launched the Ordinals project in 2023, essentially using a loophole opened by Taproot to inscribe arbitrary data directly onto individual satoshis. That gave us
- Reads: Code, Beauty and the Void (Making Bitcoin Invisible)
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Reads 5: Code, Beauty and the Void Is Bitcoin's greatest weakness its design? For 15 years, the Bitcoin protocol has operated with perfect uptime—no crashes, no bailouts, and no central point of failure. Yet, the average person is still terrified to use it. This is the Adoption Wall. In this deep dive, we explore why the problem isn't that Bitcoin is too complex for humans, but that its tools were never designed for humans in the first place. We use the philosophies
- Reads: How Bitcoin and the Atomic bomb changed the World
Send us Fan Mail In 1945, humanity invented a technology that made total war impossible. In 2009, we invented a technology that made total financial control impossible. ⚛️₿ Welcome to the premiere episode of Proof of Thought, a new series exploring the deepest philosophical questions of our time. In this episode, we read an article by Bitcoin Weller Uli that draws a chilling parallel between the Atomic Bomb and Bitcoin. Just as nuclear weapons forced nations to change how they wage war through "
- Reads: Iran is a Creation of Fiat Money
Send us Fan Mail Most people analyze the Middle East through religion, ideology, or ethnic conflict. Useful frames — but incomplete ones. If you want to understand why wars never end and why the same regions keep bleeding across decades, follow the printing press. In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach reads his original essay "How Iran Is a Creation of Fiat Money" — a deep dive into the monetary history behind 70 years of engineered conflict. What's covered: the 1953 CIA cou
- Reads: Money and Freedom & Why Self-Custody Is Needed
Send us Fan Mail If a third party can freeze your life savings at the push of a button, do you actually own your money? In this deep-dive episode of the Bitcoin Well podcast, we explore the inseparable link between money and human freedom. From the historical seizure of gold in 1933 to the modern-day freezing of bank accounts in Canada and beyond, the message is clear: trust is a vulnerability. We break down: The Evolution of Money: How we moved from the transparency of barter to the "debt trap"
- Reads: Saylor's Selling Shares. We're Selling Freedom.
Send us Fan Mail Reads 7: Michael Saylor Vs Bitcoin Well In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well, Zach dives into two powerful blog posts that challenge the current state of Bitcoin adoption and reclaim the meaning of financial sovereignty. Blog 1: Bitcoin Doesn't Need Another Michael Saylor This piece by Conrad Fitzpatrick argues that while Michael Saylor was the hero we needed for institutional acceptance, his "Treasury Playbook" has led to a massive rise in "captured" Bitcoin held by thi
- Reads: Socialism is Rising because Our Money is Dying
Send us Fan Mail Why does it feel like "Capitalism" is failing and "Socialism" is rising? The answer isn't in the voting booth—it's in the printing press. 🖨️ In this episode of Bitcoin Well Reads, we explore the terrifying convergence of the American and Chinese economic models. Whether you call it "Corporate Welfare" or "State Socialism," the engine is the same: Fiat Currency. We analyze the works of Ludwig von Mises, Ayn Rand, and Murray Rothbard to reveal why they would have all viewed Bitco
- Reads: The Architecture of Solidarity: How Bitcoin Revives the Lost Art of Mutual Aid
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Reads: The Architecture of Solidarity: How Bitcoin Revives the Lost Art of Mutual Aid You have been lied to about what charity actually is. When crisis hits, we are trained to look up. We wait for the government agency. We wait for the NGO. We wait for the wealthy benefactor. This is vertical charity. It is dependence masquerading as care. But this is not how humans actually survived for most of our history. We survived through horizontal cooperation. Through neighb
- Reads: The Hidden War on the Family (and How Bitcoin is the Solution)
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Reads: The Hidden War on the Family (and How Bitcoin is the Solution) What's really destroying the family? Most people blame culture, technology, or moral decay. But what if the root cause is the money itself? In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, we dig into a powerful essay arguing that fiat currency has silently dismantled the economic and moral foundation required for healthy families and that Bitcoin may be the most important tool parents have t
- Reads: The Philosophy of Liberty and Why Bitcoin Matters
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Reads 4: The Philosophy of Liberty and Why Bitcoin Matters Bitcoin is hovering in the mid-$60,000s, and the fear index is flashing panic . But if you are hyper-focused on price, you are missing the entire point of why Bitcoin was created . In this episode of the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach Addair steps away from the noise of the market to read his foundational essay, "The Philosophy of Liberty and Why Bitcoin Matters". We explore the absolute basics of human freedom:
- Reads: What Can You Actually Use Bitcoin For?
Send us Fan Mail Reads: Seven ways Bitcoin is used today Most people dismissing Bitcoin haven't seen it in use. They see a price chart and miss the system underneath. In this episode, Zach reads "7 Ways Bitcoin Is Used Today" by Ulysses Alfaro — a breakdown of how Bitcoin is already solving real problems for real people all over the world. This is a great episode to share with anyone who still asks "but what can you actually use Bitcoin for?" Questions? z.addair@bitcoinwell.com Bitcoin #SoundMon
- Spaces: Iran, Hyperinflation, and Stablecoins - Has The Dollar Endgame Begun?
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin has touched $76,000 as the global landscape shifts under our feet. With the US and Israel at war and the energy markets in haywire due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, we are at a structural inflection point for the global financial system. In this session, Zach and the Peruvian Bull dive into why the "flight to safety" isn't leading to gold, but to Bitcoin. We discuss the massive influx of Iranian buyers using Bitcoin as an exit ramp from a weaponized SWIFT syste
- Spaces: Jane Street, Bitcoin Manipulation & The Dollar Endgame | Peruvian Bull + Infronomics
Send us Fan Mail Is Jane Street manipulating Bitcoin the same way they allegedly front-ran the Terra Luna collapse? In this episode, I sit down with Robert Rios (@peruvian_bull on X) and Robert from Infranomics (@infraa_ on X) Joined Feb 27th 2026 to break down the Terraform Labs lawsuit, the suspicious 10am price slams traders have been watching for months, and what it all means for Bitcoin. We also go deep on the macro picture: the Fed's quasi-stealth QE, Triffin's Dilemma and the dollar endga
- The Petrodollar Is Dying And Bitcoin Is the Exit | Peruvian Bull and Q on the Iran War, Dollar Hegemony & Sound Money
47 days into the Iran war, the ceasefire is holding — barely. The US just set up a blockade at the Strait of Hormuz, not to stop Iran, but to collect rent. And Iran is already settling oil trades in Bitcoin. In this Bitcoin Well Spaces session, The Peruvian Bull (Roberto) and Q break down the geopolitics, the military math, and the monetary history behind what's unfolding. Why a US ground invasion would need up to a million troops. How Triffin's Dilemma has ended every reserve currency empire fo