New episode: Matthew Kratter.

Most of us treat Bitcoin like it's locked in by math — digital gold, unstoppable. Matt ran money at Peter Thiel's hedge fund before putting nearly everything he owns into Bitcoin, and he came on to argue that's not quite true.

Bitcoin Core has gone rogue. There's a quiet war over spam, OP_RETURN and BIP-110. And the only thing keeping Bitcoin money is the culture of the people who run nodes.

Consensus flows from culture. Run a node.

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GM and stay sovereign 🤙

The man who shorted subprime from inside Deutsche Bank just did the math on Bitcoin.

$1M in 8–9 years.

Peer-reviewed.

@PiusSprenger on The Bitcoin Matrix

The state isn't attacking Bitcoin ATM fraud.

It's attacking the exit door.
$208M in FCC fines against telecom fraud since 2015. $6,790 collected. 0.003%.
Meanwhile 20+ states are moving bills to ban the cleanest, most-compliant, lowest-fraud node in the entire financial chain — the cash-to-Bitcoin kiosk that 24.6 million unbanked Americans depend on.

Paul Tarantino, CEO of Byte Federal, has spent three years building the data-driven defense of this industry. He came back on the show with the receipts:

— TRM Labs: 98.8% of Bitcoin ATM transactions are legitimate
— Bitcoin ATM tracked fraud: $246M
— Bank wire fraud: $287M
— Check fraud: $26.6B
— Median customer recovers the ATM fee in 78 days through BTC appreciation
— 70% of transactions are under $500
— Median first transaction: $150
JP Morgan's own 2025 research: 80% of every dollar that moves into Bitcoin never comes back to the banks.

That's the real reason. Not fraud. The exit.

Trailer below. Full episode on Fountain

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Everything You Know Is A Lie.

- @Jeff Booth

@_BitcoinMatrix Episode #257: The Real Reason Why Bitcoin Will NEVER Fail

Tomorrow.

Send This To Your Normie Friends And Say Nothing.

The Bitcoin Matrix Where Critical Thinkers Meet.

Hey hey what is going on over here?

I’m speaking with @Jeff Booth tomorrow night for the Bitcoin Matrix podcast so let me know if there are any questions or topics that you would like for us to cover?

Please leave comments or hit me up via dm. Hopefully, we can cover some really good ones on the show.

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The U.S. Bitcoin Reserve Is Here - Why This Changes Everything

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