The Wolf Of All Streets

Six men boarded a private train under fake names in 1910, traveled to a private island, and secretly designed the most powerful financial institution on the planet. The banks that the Fed is supposed to regulate are its legal shareholders and collected $186 billion last year just for parking money there. The man who was in the room during the largest backdoor bailout in American history just got sworn in as the new Fed chair. I walk you through the entire story - from Jekyll Island to Silicon Valley Bank - and explain why Bitcoin is the only exit from a system that was never built for you.
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He invented the proof-of-work system that made Bitcoin possible, was one of the last people Satoshi ever contacted, and now runs one of the most important infrastructure companies in the space. Adam Back sits down to explain why we're still in the early innings of institutional adoption, reveals what Blockstream is quietly building to protect Bitcoin from quantum computing, and shares why the recent wave of DeFi hacks and restaking collapses is exactly what the cypherpunks warned about from the beginning.
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Bitcoin's chart is flashing the same bear flag pattern that preceded the 2022 collapse, and Ran Neuner w/ Crypto Banter breaks down exactly why that should concern you. We dive deep into the STRC problem nobody is talking about - how Saylor's window to raise capital is shrinking month by month and what happens when the biggest buyer in the market can no longer buy. Plus, Hyperliquid just surpassed Coinbase in valuation, SpaceX and OpenAI IPOs could drain liquidity from every market, and treasury yields are screaming that someone is lying. This is one of the most important conversations we've had this year.
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On today's show, the panel analyzed Mark Cuban’s full Bitcoin sale as classic capitulation and a potential market bottom signal, strongly defending Bitcoin’s long-term role as digital gold and an asymmetric inflation hedge. They discussed heavy Ethereum bearishness, highlighted by Bankless co-founders selling their last ETH and declaring the “First Era” over. The conversation also covered Hyperliquid’s explosive momentum, the booming AI/agentic economy with privacy-focused tokens like NEAR and Venus, DeFi hacks and risks, and LetIn’s regulated Bitcoin lending model. Overall, speakers acknowledged the current crypto winter but remained optimistic about blockchain infrastructure powering the future tokenized AI economy.
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Bitcoin is at a crossroads for Mark Cuban as he reveals he sold most of his BTC after the Iran war exposed its broken hedge narrative, while gold rips and the dollar weakens. Meanwhile, Rep. Nick Begich is pushing the ARMA Act to enshrine a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve into federal law, locking in a 20 year minimum hold and stripping future administrations of the power to dump it. Over on Ethereum, a high profile brain drain at the Foundation has Dankrad Feist and Laura Shin sounding alarms about ideology overtaking tokenomics, with critics warning ETH's "original sin" since Dencun is now coming home to roost. We're breaking down what Cuban's exit really signals, whether ARMA can pass before the midterms, and if Ethereum's identity crisis is the buying opportunity of the cycle or the start of something much worse.

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