Thomas Pacchia sits down with Quoth the Raven (writer of the Fringe Finance blog) for a fireside chat and open Q&A on:

• QTR's unconventional journey from English major and bartender... to financial whistleblower and podcaster
• Why public frauds, central bank deception, and U.S. fiscal collapse all smell the same (and all lead to gold and Bitcoin)
• The Fed’s credibility spiral and why Trump ousting Powell could shatter confidence in the U.S. dollar overnight
• How inflation quietly transfers wealth to the rich while brutalizing the bottom 50%
• Why tethering the dollar to “literally anything with a finite supply” would, strangely enough, be better than our current path
• The bond market’s strange behavior, Treasury’s mystery bids, and whether a debt jubilee or gold re-adoption is on the horizon

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⁠Jennifer Rosenthal⁠ (DeFi Education Fund) moderates a fireside chat and open Q&A with ⁠Frank Corva⁠ (Bitcoin Magazine), ⁠Eleanor Terrett⁠ (Crypto in America), and ⁠David Z. Morris⁠ (The Rage) about the Tornado Cash trial. They discuss:

• Why the U.S. government’s prosecution of Roman Storm could set a dangerous precedent for open-source code

• How the case hinges on the definition of “money transmission”

• What this trial signals about growing friction between crypto infrastructure and national security policy

• Why the outcome could shape how judges and regulators treat privacy tools, mixers, and even Bitcoin going forward

• How press coverage, legal framing, and political cycles are influencing the stakes of the case in real time

• Why the Tornado Cash case may be the most important crypto trial since Ross Ulbricht... and what comes next

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⁠Thomas Pacchia⁠ sits down with ⁠Jonathan Melton⁠ (Head of Lending at ⁠Unchained⁠) for a fireside chat and open Q&A about:

• Why Melton left Wall Street to build Bitcoin-native lending infrastructure

• How Unchained’s multi-institution custody model protects against counterparty and rehypothecation risk

• What makes collateralized lending on Bitcoin fundamentally different from fiat debt markets

• Why most “bitcoin-backed loans” still rely on fiat rails

• How Unchained evaluates risk, liquidity, and client behavior across bear and bull markets

• Why Melton believes the next generation of bitcoiners won’t think of borrowing and custody as separate concepts

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In this collaboration with the Human Rights Foundation, Frank Corva (political correspondent at Bitcoin Magazine) sits down with Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López for a fireside chat and open Q&A about:

• How the Venezuelan government used the central bank to silently tax citizens through hyperinflation

• Why López believes Bitcoin could have prevented the worst parts of Venezuela’s economic collapse

• What it took to build a resistance movement under constant surveillance, censorship, and arrest

• Why authoritarian regimes fear Signal, Tor, and Nostr

• What López learned from organizing protests from a prison cell and a safe house while being hunted by intelligence services

• How financial surveillance became a weapon, making privacy-preserving tools essential for political organizing

• Why the World Liberty Congress is building infrastructure to connect dissidents across 60+ countries

• Why U.S. and EU-based developers need to stop underestimating the real-world stakes of open-source tech

  
  

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Drew Armstrong sits down with Alex Leishman (CEO & CTO of River) for a tavern chat and open Q&A about:

• How and why Alex started River (even though he isn't a "finance guy")
• Why most U.S. bitcoin companies are derivative casinos, and how River is different
• The challenge of building real bitcoin UX in a market addicted to speculation
• How Alex thinks about custody, nodes, and what it means to “actually use Bitcoin”
• Why ETFs might help price go up... but won’t help people become financially sovereign
• What it takes to raise capital in a bear market when you're NOT peddling garbage

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Thomas Pacchia sits down with Peter and Conor McCormack (the father-son duo behind Real Bedford FC) for a tavern chat and open Q&A about:

- How buying a tiny English football club became a real-world Bitcoin test case

- How Real Bedford funds operations, pay players, and stacks sats without relying on fiat

- What it’s like for Conor to be Vice Chairman of a team his dad owns

- Whether Real Bedford is just following in the footsteps of Wrexham A.F.C. or becoming its own serious football project with its own ambitions

- The long odds of climbing the English football pyramid—and why Peter and Conor know they will eventually prevail

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• The COIN BASED gang (⁠Thomas Pacchia⁠, ⁠Drew Armstrong⁠, and ⁠ArbedOut⁠) sits down with Bitcoin Core dev ⁠Antoine Poinsot⁠ for a tavern chat and open Q&A about:

  
  

  - The real reason why the OP_RETURN change broke people’s brains

  - The growing rift between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots—is Knots the “censorship-resistance” client now?

  - Whether or not Bitcoin Core contributors wield soft power through default settings

  - Yes, mempool rules are political

  - What Antoine ACTUALLY believes about the risk of censorship... and why neutrality might be slipping away

  - Do we need more devs or just fewer gatekeepers?

  
  

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Thomas Pacchia⁠ sits down with Alex Gladstein (Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation) for a fireside chat and open Q&A about:

• Why government and corporate adoption doesn’t contradict Bitcoin’s cypherpunk roots
• Why democracies can thrive with Bitcoin, but dictators can’t
• How HRF became a Bitcoin-native nonprofit by actually using it, not just holding it
• Why 100 million self-custody users matter more than any ETF or price chart

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