From the pandemic response to central banking, media narratives, and Bitcoin adoption, we examine a simple heuristic: if the product is free, you are the product. This isn’t conspiracy thinking — it’s incentive analysis. When you stop listening to what people say and instead examine how they’re incentivized, the world looks very different. We explore how Bitcoin restructures incentives away from coercion and toward cooperation, why violence becomes less profitable in a Bitcoin world, and how self-custody changes the calculus of power.
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0:00 – WiM Episode Trailer
1:24 – Why Bitcoin Still Matters in 2026
4:15 – Price Validation & Market Confirmation
7:14 – Incentives, Violence & Cooperation
11:12 – Heuristics from the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole
15:23 – Lowering the Profitability of Coercion
18:23 – Natural Selection & Bitcoin Adoption
22:08 – Conviction Through Community
25:12 – Early Adopters vs Mainstream Bitcoin
29:17 – Learning Through Monetary Pain
31:30 – Language, Meaning & Money
34:11 – Writing the Next Book
37:01 – The State, ETFs & Self-Custody Risks
41:25 – Be the Change: Culture Through Imitation
45:17 – Acting on Highest Passion
47:28 – Why You Can’t Lose If You Learn
49:46 – Responsibility & The Ability to Respond
51:45 – Dystopian Worlds & Cultural Imagination
53:15 – Outro
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