Marty sits down with Melody Wright, housing market analyst and investigative researcher, to discuss the deepening cracks beneath the surface of the U.S. housing and labor markets — from record-low home sales and rising mortgage delinquencies to corrupted government data, municipal fiscal collapse, and the broader consumer credit stress that mainstream financial media continues to ignore.

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The AI revolution is accelerating faster than most people realize, but major institutions aren't accounting for it in their economic projections. While the CBO just added $1.4 trillion to this decade's deficit forecast, they completely missed the potential disruption from artificial intelligence.

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In this episode:

- The viral "something big is happening" AI post and what it missed

- Why institutional adoption of AI tools faces massive inertia despite breakthrough capabilities

- How the managerial class creates friction against disruptive technologies

- CBO deficit projections ignore AI's potential economic disruption

- Private credit losses pile up as AI disrupts software companies

- Lightning Labs releases agent payment tools - the machine payable web arrives

- Why Bitcoiners can't be complacent about agent payments

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00:00:00 - Introduction from Bitcoin Investor Week NYC

00:02:06 - The viral AI post breakdown and institutional blindness

00:06:41 - Testing AI tools at TFTC - reality vs hype

00:09:00 - Managerial class inertia against disruption

00:11:05 - CBO deficit projections miss AI disruption completely

00:16:26 - Private credit losses from AI disruption begin

00:21:00 - Bitcoin and the machine payable web revolution

00:24:06 - Lightning Labs agent payment tools launch

00:26:00 - Competition for agent payments - Bitcoin must compete

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Marty sits down with Jesse Shrader, co-founder and CEO of Amboss, to discuss the evolution of the Lightning Network, how Taproot Assets are bringing stablecoins and multi-asset trading to Bitcoin, the launch of Amboss's RailsX peer-to-peer exchange and Magma MCP tool for AI agents, and why Bitcoin is positioned to become the backbone of global commerce and foreign exchange settlement.

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Marty sits down with Justin Moon to discuss his return to building freedom tech, the explosion of AI capabilities through tools like Open Claw and Claude Code, and why Bitcoiners need to stop patting themselves on the back and start shipping software that solves real problems for real people.

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Marty sits down with Gary Brode to discuss why the market's reaction to the Warsh Fed nomination was wrong, the real drivers of inflation, the unsustainable economics of the AI hyperscaler spending boom, and why Bitcoin's long-term value proposition remains strong despite short-term price volatility.

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Bitcoin's price hit the 50s this week, but the fundamentals tell a different story. As AI investment explodes above $600 billion annually, agents are already using Bitcoin as internet-native money.

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In this episode:

• Why the fear and greed index hit historic lows (lower than COVID and FTX)
• How AI agents are using Bitcoin Lightning wallets and signing into websites
• $600+ billion hyperscaler CapEx spend creating fundamental Bitcoin tailwinds
• Hash rate difficulty adjustment working as designed (11.15% downward adjustment)
• Why Bitcoin isn't a hedge yet but is building toward becoming one

TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Price volatility and fundamental value 00:01:25 - Fear and greed index hits historic lows 00:04:10 - AI agents using Bitcoin Lightning wallets 00:06:02 - $600 billion hyperscaler CapEx explosion 00:12:42 - AI race implications for monetary policy 00:14:30 - Hash rate correction and mining profitability myths 00:18:23 - Bitcoin's unique bits-to-atoms connection 00:22:46 - Difficulty adjustment working as designed 00:24:48 - Why Bitcoin isn't a hedge yet 00:27:01 - Knowledge distribution and early adoption

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Marty sits down with ArbedOut to discuss the Epstein email leaks and their implications for Bitcoin, the current state of markets and Bitcoin treasury companies, the challenges of reaching consensus on Bitcoin's next soft fork, the promise of AI agents making Lightning payments, and ArbedOut's new project SigBash — a programmable signer that brings covenant-like functionality to Bitcoin without a protocol change.

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Marty sits down with James Check to discuss the current Bitcoin bear market, where on-chain data and mean reversion models suggest we're in the bottom fifth of the cycle, why capitulation is a necessary process, the quantum computing FUD, the role of gold as portfolio ballast, and why staying convicted through the storm is the only rational move if your decision tree says Bitcoin isn't dead.

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