Imagine money with an expiry date. Or a radius on where you're allowed to spend it. 🕹️ A walkthrough of the features some central banks are building into CBDCs, and why it's being called a very authoritarian tool in supposedly democratic hands. #CBDC #Bitcoin #reDeFined #DigitalCurrency #FinancialFreedom Watch the full…
Digital money sounds like it should be Bitcoin-like. 🤔 A breakdown of why what Europe and other mature markets are actually building resembles the CBDC models used by China, Russia, and Nigeria — not an open, permissionless network. #CBDC #Bitcoin #reDeFined #DigitalCurrency Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube…
Monetary policy can shift toward authoritarian control fast — in any market, mature or not. 🧡 Why Bitcoin is less an "alternative" to fiat and more its long-overdue improvement. #Bitcoin #reDeFined #MonetaryPolicy #FinancialFreedom Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our Host Jeremy Almond's X :…
They followed the rules. They got prosecuted anyway. 📢 The Samourai Wallet case, why it's being called a major injustice, and a public call to get educated on how regulators are treating open-source privacy developers. #Bitcoin #SamouraiWallet #Privacy #reDeFined Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow…
"Bitcoin is unbacked... by the state authority. It's backed by energy." ⚡ Why Bitcoin's transparency and fixed 21 million supply make authorities uneasy — and why that's exactly the point. #Bitcoin #reDeFined #SoundMoney Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our Host Jeremy Almond's X :…
"I'm the boss now." 🧡 How moving her wealth into Bitcoin cut down how much she depends on banks, tech companies, and government — while still paying every tax she owes. #Bitcoin #FinancialFreedom #reDeFined #SelfCustody Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our Host Jeremy Almond's…
Building a privacy wrapper for Bitcoin transactions sounds like a normal privacy feature. The Samourai Wallet founder went to prison for it. 🔒 What this case — and the Tornado Cash prosecution — signals for developers building privacy tools on open, permissionless systems. #Bitcoin #Privacy #SamouraiWallet #reDeFined #DigitalRights Watch the…
A car replacing a carriage. That's how Efrat Fenigson describes Bitcoin's relationship to fiat — not an alternative, an upgrade. 🚗 She and Jeremy Almond talk about why money is the "oxygen" that drives commerce and society, and why we're still in the earliest innings. #Bitcoin #reDeFined #FinancialFreedom #SoundMoney Watch…
"Democracy was a new thing compared to monarchies and authoritarian rule. It was just an experiment with one country until it wasn't." 🏛️ The historical parallel between democracy's rise and where Bitcoin stands today. #Bitcoin #reDeFined #History #FinancialFreedom Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥 Follow our…
Bitcoin has no CEO, no company, no single issuer — it belongs to the people. 🧡 Jeremy explains why she believes stablecoins, if they're going to exist, need to be Bitcoin-backed and built on an open standard — not just a faster version of Visa or Swift. #Bitcoin #Decentralization #Stablecoins…
"I came for hedging, I stayed for freedom." 🧡 Efrat Fenigson on meeting the Bitcoiner who introduced her to self-custody, selling her investment property to buy in, and understanding why Bitcoin's architecture makes it the first truly decentralized network for money. #Bitcoin #FinancialFreedom #reDeFined #SelfCustody Watch the full conversation on…
"We are building the very first decentralized network, very similarly to the internet itself — just for money." 💡 Efrat Fenigson breaks down why Bitcoin's protocol design is so hard to hijack, and why that matters. #Bitcoin #Decentralization #reDeFined #BitcoinProtocol Watch the full conversation on the reDeFined YouTube channel. 🎥…
History repeats: privacy tech gets branded dangerous before it becomes essential. 🔐 PGP was oppressed in its early days — now it underpins internet security. VPNs faced the same suspicion, and some countries are banning them today. Efrat Fenigson and Jeremy Almond on why Bitcoin's privacy tools may follow the…
Most stablecoins today aren't built on Bitcoin — they run on permissioned blockchains that look a lot more like Wall Street than open money. 💭 Efrat Fenigson and Jeremy Almond on why that difference matters more than people think. #Stablecoins #Bitcoin #reDeFined #DigitalAssets #Blockchain #FinancialFreedom Watch the full conversation on…
Most stablecoins today aren't built on Bitcoin — they run on permissioned blockchains that look a lot more like Wall Street than open money. 💭 Efrat Fenigson and Jeremy Almond on why that difference matters more than people think. #Stablecoins #Bitcoin #reDeFined #DigitalAssets #Blockchain #FinancialFreedom Watch the full conversation: https://hubs.la/Q04qDHV50…
She sold her investment property and put it all into Bitcoin. 💡 Efrat Fenigson spent 20 years as a corporate CMO before she started asking the smartest tech people around her one simple question: what is Bitcoin? No one could answer it — until she found the right person, picked…
In this episode, Jeremy sits down with Efrat Fenigson, host of the "You Are The Voice" podcast and former tech marketing executive, to explore the shift from corporate tech to Bitcoin advocacy driven by concerns about freedom and monetary sovereignty. The conversation covers Efrat's journey from software development in video…
Efrat Fenigson — independent journalist, Bitcoin advocate, and host of You're The Voice — on the moment COVID turned her from Bitcoin skeptic into someone asking hard questions about money, privacy, and power. From "this is just for convenience" to privacy, surveillance, and the Samurai case — this is where…
Bitcoin miners aren't stealing energy — they're buying what nobody else would buy. 💡 Grant McCarty breaks down the economics: if a utility is selling energy to a Bitcoin miner for 2-3 cents per kilowatt hour, it's because they CAN'T get a better price from anyone else. That's not exploitation…
Grant McCarty didn't start the Bitcoin Policy Institute because he loves politics. He started it because he loves Bitcoin — and bad policy was hurting Bitcoiners. 🎯 The real problem? Government officials were only hearing the negative stories. Bitcoiners weren't talking to government. Government wasn't talking to Bitcoiners. Somebody had…
Most financial systems try to fight human selfishness. Bitcoin built a system that RUNS on it. 🤯 Grant McCarty explains why Bitcoin's genius lies in its alignment of incentives: governments, institutions, miners, and individuals all acting in their own self-interest — and the network thriving as a result. No trust…
Jeremy Almond shares how moving his personal income into Bitcoin — and then doing the same for his team and company — shifted behavior at every level. Longer time horizons. Better decisions. More focus on building real value. Now imagine that same shift happening at the government and geopolitical level.…
They tried to kill Bitcoin. They failed. And they're finally starting to understand why. 💀 Grant McCarty explains the hard truth that took Washington years to accept: there is no off switch for Bitcoin. You can't regulate it out of existence. You can't enforce your way to zero. The government's…
The data tells a completely different story. Grant McCarty walks through how independent academic research shows Bitcoin mining is largely NOT extractive — and can actually DRIVE consumer energy costs DOWN while accelerating the build-out of clean, renewable energy infrastructure. Bitcoin miners buy excess energy that would otherwise be wasted.…
