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 for 500 years. Why Bitcoin is the first monetary technology that actually solves it.

We went dark. But we came back with hope. Because Bitcoin doesn't require permission — and that's the point.

Chapters:

00:00 — Welcome to Late Night Bitcoin Well Spaces

02:11 — Iran war overview: day 47, the ceasefire, and Trump's blockade

03:30 — The Strait of Hormuz and US rent-seeking behavior

05:00 — Iran's military preparedness: why this war is harder than it looks

07:00 — B2 Spirit bombers, bunker busters, and the limits of air power

08:00 — The ground invasion problem: 500,000 troops minimum for 92 million people

10:00 — Afghanistan 2.0? The war machine's incentive to keep fighting

14:00 — Iran accepting Bitcoin: what's actually happening with passage fees

15:00 — Which countries adopt Bitcoin fastest — and why

16:20 — Dollar hegemony: the fish doesn't know it's in water

17:00 — The Economic Hitman playbook: South America and dollar debt traps

20:00 — China's CIPS system and de-dollarization in practice

25:00 — Tariffs, trade war, and the macro picture

33:30 — 500 years of reserve currency collapse: Spain, Dutch, Britain, US

34:00 — Triffin's Dilemma — and why Bitcoin solves it

35:00 — Bitcoin as the neutral settlement layer for international trade

36:00 — Gold vs. Bitcoin: why wars were fought over gold and can't be fought over Bitcoin

42:00 — Israel's objectives in Iran: enriched uranium and puppet governments

43:50 — The Greater Israel Project explained

48:00 — US political capture by special interests and what it costs Americans

55:00 — What does a US "win" in Iran actually look like?

1:05:00 — Bitcoin adoption as geopolitical exit ramp

1:15:00 — The parallel financial system that can't be shut down

1:26:00 — Defund the warmongers: buy Bitcoin, hold your keys

1:28:00 — Bitcoin Well: the only way to own Bitcoin is to actually own it

1:29:00 — Wrap-up and closing

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 holds zero Bitcoin

The mailbox mental model that actually works

Public keys, private keys, and Bitcoin addresses explained

Why your private key is the most important piece of information in Bitcoin

Why leaving Bitcoin on an exchange means you don't own it

How digital signatures let you spend without exposing your secret

Why a private key is mathematically impossible to crack

What's coming in Part 2: seed phrases

This is Part 1 of a four-part series on Wallets, Keys, and Seeds.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro — Iran War Spaces Recap, Bitcoin Price, Fountain App

2:33 Today's Topic: Wallets, Keys, and Seeds

3:49 The Wrong Mental Model About Wallets

5:01 What Your Wallet Actually Holds

5:44 The Mailbox Analogy — Bitcoin Addresses and Public Keys

7:15 Your Private Key: The Most Important Thing in Bitcoin

8:53 Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins — What It Really Means

9:59 Can Someone Just Guess Your Private Key?

11:32 Digital Signatures: Spend Without Exposing the Secret

12:11 Recap and Foundation of Bitcoin Ownership

12:57 Coming Next: Seed Phrases

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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 neighbors helping neighbors. Through mutual aid.

In this episode, Zach reads his original essay "The Architecture of Solidarity" — a deep dive into why mutual aid networks were deliberately dismantled by the modern state, why you cannot rebuild them on fiat rails, and why Bitcoin is the first tool in a long time capable of tearing that wall down.

Topics covered: Peter Kropotkin and the biological case for mutual aid, the Canadian trucker convoy and financial censorship, why GoFundMe is a fortress built of wet cardboard, and how Bitcoin enables solidarity at global scale without corruptible middlemen.

Bitcoin is not just about number go up. It is the essential infrastructure for a future where we depend less on the state and more on each other.

Original Article: https://bitcoinwell.com/blog/the-architecture-of-solidarity-how-bitcoin-revives-the-lost-art-of-mutual-aid

Chapters:
0:00 – Intro: Welcome to Bitcoin Well Podcast Reads
0:14 – Bitcoin hits $73K amid Iran/US geopolitical tension
1:06 – Today's topic: Breaking free from government dependency
2:38 – Article begins: "The Architecture of Solidarity"
2:55 – Vertical charity vs. how humans actually survive
3:57 – The forgotten power of cooperation: Peter Kropotkin
4:58 – Why the state dismantled mutual aid networks
5:41 – The problem with building mutual aid on fiat rails
6:24 – The Canadian trucker protests: A case study in censorship
6:47 – Bitcoin: Money built for mutual aid
7:00 – Reason 1: Horizontal and peer-to-peer
7:21 – Reason 2: Permissionless and uncensorable
7:56 – Reason 3: Scaling trust globally
8:31 – Rebuilding the muscles of community reliance
9:23 – Bitcoin as the financial rail for a solidarity-based future
9:53 – Closing: Mutual aid isn't dead

#Bitcoin #MutualAid #BitcoinFreedom #FinancialSovereignty #BitcoinWell

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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 miners propose but nodes dispose
How anyone can run a node on a $100 Raspberry Pi
Why Satoshi deliberately kept blocks small
What happened at the New York Agreement
How UASF — the User Activated Soft Fork — defeated a corporate takeover
Why Bitcoin Cash lost 99% of its value against Bitcoin
How Bitcoin's three-way balance of power makes it ungovernable by any single group

No boardroom can rewrite Bitcoin's rules. The Blocksize War proved it.

Chapters:
0:00 – Intro: Welcome & schedule update

0:54 – The Adam O'Brien Show announcement

1:38 – Today's topic: Bitcoin governance & the Block Size Wars

2:02 – Can miners rewrite Bitcoin's rules?

2:52 – Meet the node operators: Bitcoin's unsung referees

3:29 – How nodes actually work: The validation process

4:25 – Who runs nodes? And why accessibility matters

5:48 – Who writes the software? Bitcoin's open-source developers

6:36 – Why Bitcoin is designed to change slowly

7:21 – 2017: The network gets congested and the corporate side mobilizes

8:00 – The New York Agreement: An 80% power grab

8:31 – The nodes push back: UASF explained

10:32 – August 1st: The corporations blink

10:41 – Bitcoin Cash: The aftermath

11:32 – What the Block Size War proved

12:14 – What's next: Wallets, Keys, and Seeds

#Bitcoin #BlocksizeWar #BitcoinNodes #BitcoinHistory #BitcoinEducation

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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 #SoundMoney #BitcoinEducation #LightningNetwork #BitcoinWell

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:59 7 Ways Bitcoin Is Used Today
4:01 #1 Hard Money and Store of Value
6:27 #2 Settlement Layer and Method of Exchange
8:44 #3 Borderless Money and Remittances
10:50 #4 Commercial Infrastructure and Point of Sale
12:34 #5 Freedom Money and Censorship Resistance
14:17 #6 Energy Network and Mining
16:23 #7 Bitcoin as Financial Instrument
18:49 Conclusion

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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

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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 of new supply in a matter of weeks? What stops the supply from exploding like every other commodity in history?

The answer is two pieces of code Satoshi Nakamoto quietly baked into the protocol from day one.

In this video we break down both: the difficulty adjustment — Bitcoin's built-in thermostat that keeps block times at exactly 10 minutes no matter how much computing power enters the network — and the halving — the programmed supply schedule that makes Bitcoin the hardest money ever created by mathematical certainty.

We also address the death spiral objection head-on, explain Bitcoin's stock-to-flow ratio, and end with the question the next video answers: if miners have all that power, what stops them from rewriting the code and giving themselves unlimited Bitcoin?

📩 z.addair@bitcoinwell.com

Chapters:
00:00 Intro — Mining Difficulty Drops 7.76%

01:05 Today's Topic

02:20 Mining Is a Global Guessing Game

02:47 What Stops Bitcoin From Being Mined Out?

03:23 The $1 Million Thought Experiment

04:13 Why 10 Minutes?

04:49 The Difficulty Adjustment

05:33 65 Million Times More Powerful

06:05 Bitcoin Manages Itself

06:15 The 21 Million Cap and the Halving

07:12 The Halving Timeline

08:00 Bitcoin vs. Gold on Supply

09:00 Stock-to-Flow

09:03 The Death Spiral Myth

10:03 What Pays Miners After the Reward Hits Zero?

11:03 Difficulty Adjustment + Halving Together

11:46 Mises and the Regression Theorem

12:05 Next Up: Nodes and the Blocksize War

#Bitcoin #BitcoinHalving #ProofOfWork #SoundMoney #BitcoinEducation

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$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 growth driver, the white glove service for high net worth individuals on a Bitcoin journey, the vision for a legitimate Bitcoin treasury company — hold Bitcoin, generate real operating profits, be genuinely embedded in the Bitcoin industry, how the company took its private placement partially paid in Bitcoin, why Canadian Bitcoiners are more cypherpunk than their American counterparts, Bitcoin Well's US expansion and the challenges of the American payment rail landscape, how AI is being deployed to improve operations, the ATMs as a privacy and marketing engine for the Portal, and what a sub-6x ROAS on paid ads signals about product-market fit.

Adam's closing thesis: Bitcoin is the only asset you can trade your time for and launch into the future. The only asset that's reasonable to self-custody. And Bitcoin Well is on a mission to enable independence through it.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro — Bitcoin Well 2025 Year-End Review

01:42 Adam's One-Word Summary for 2025: "Set Up"

03:58 Revenue Breakdown — Where Did the 47% Growth Come From?

04:21 The Three Business Units Explained 07:10 Bitcoin Well Infinite — Who Are the Customers?

10:17 US Expansion — Hurdles and the Self-Custody Culture Gap

13:40 Bitcoin Well's Bitcoin Treasury — 6 Bitcoin and Growing

14:53 What a Legitimate Bitcoin Treasury Company Actually Looks Like

17:26 The Private Placement Paid in Bitcoin

20:52 GNA Was Down Despite Revenue Growth — Why?

22:00 AI and the Shift Toward Marketing Spend

24:04 What's Actually Working in Marketing

26:02 The ATM Segment — Stable Revenue, Bigger Role

27:00 ATMs as a Privacy and Marketing Engine, Not Just Revenue

28:56 The Mission: Enabling Financial Independence

30:28 Closing Thoughts and How to Follow Bitcoin Well

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