Listen "79: Collateral Damage"
Episode Synopsis
The Fed cuts, the layoffs hit, and AI papers it all over. But the real story’s in the collateral. From credit crunches to Bitcoin-backed loans, what’s breaking and what’s being built.
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🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US
🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform
⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning
🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats
💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling
Show Notes
Fed cuts rates for the second time this year, will end balance sheet run-off in December
Government shutdown now 2nd longest in U.S. history
Ledn to Reach $1 Billion in Bitcoin-Backed Loans by 2025
Strike Line of Credit in the Works - YouTube
Lava is introducing the world’s first bitcoin-backed line of credit.
Lava | Waitlist
Shehzan on X: "We make it seamless to use your bitcoin with instant borrowing, global off-ramps, and our upcoming card product to spend directly from Lava." / X
JPMorgan To Accept Bitcoin As Collateral By Year-End
Chain Code Delegation: Improving privacy in collaborative multisig
S&P Global assigns B- rating to Saylor’s Strategy, cites “high bitcoin concentration”
Strategy Inc Assigned 'B-' Issuer Credit Rating; | S&P Global Ratings
CleanSpark Acquires Land and Power in Texas for AI Data Center Push Beyond Bitcoin
Why bitcoin miner CleanSpark beat Microsoft for Wyoming AI data center
Bitcoin Will Power the Internet of Money and Tokenize Real World Assets with David Marcus - YouTube
Music
The End Of The World BY: Filoxera
Episode Links
🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US
🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform
⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning
🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats
💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling
Show Notes
Fed cuts rates for the second time this year, will end balance sheet run-off in December
Government shutdown now 2nd longest in U.S. history
Ledn to Reach $1 Billion in Bitcoin-Backed Loans by 2025
Strike Line of Credit in the Works - YouTube
Lava is introducing the world’s first bitcoin-backed line of credit.
Lava | Waitlist
Shehzan on X: "We make it seamless to use your bitcoin with instant borrowing, global off-ramps, and our upcoming card product to spend directly from Lava." / X
JPMorgan To Accept Bitcoin As Collateral By Year-End
Chain Code Delegation: Improving privacy in collaborative multisig
S&P Global assigns B- rating to Saylor’s Strategy, cites “high bitcoin concentration”
Strategy Inc Assigned 'B-' Issuer Credit Rating; | S&P Global Ratings
CleanSpark Acquires Land and Power in Texas for AI Data Center Push Beyond Bitcoin
Why bitcoin miner CleanSpark beat Microsoft for Wyoming AI data center
Bitcoin Will Power the Internet of Money and Tokenize Real World Assets with David Marcus - YouTube
Music
The End Of The World BY: Filoxera
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