Jon Atack returns to the Bitcoin Infinity Show for his second appearance to talk through the Bitcoin Core governance questions raised by Hodlonaut's Capture article series, and why he believes Core's instinct to circle the wagons and shoot the messenger has hurt its public image more than any outside misinformation. He gives his neutral read on the contested BIP-110 soft fork, the renewed pushes to ban Luke Dashjr, the flood of AI-generated BIP spam, and the growing centralization of Core maintainership, arguing that healthy alternative implementations and honest self-custody are what actually strengthen Bitcoin. The conversation closes with a grounded look at living on a Bitcoin standard in El Salvador, from the state of exception to the hardcore ramp-up in KYC and surveillance.

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George Bodine joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about Bitcoin self-custody, running a node, and why paper Bitcoin held through treasury companies and ETFs carries counterparty risk that real cold storage does not. Knut and George dig into the Core versus Knots debate, BIP-110, the power law disagreement, and the risks facing Bitcoin treasury companies as financialization accelerates. Along the way they explore creativity as the opposite of productivity, the discipline of dropping your ego, and what a life of integrity looks like through the eyes of an artist and former fighter pilot.

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Dr. Jack Kruse joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show for an uncensored conversation, after Natalie Brunell declined to release his appearance on her podcast. He lays out his Fabianism thesis, the idea that the same incremental "Landauer attack" he believes centralized Western medicine through the Flexner Report is now being run against Bitcoin to turn it from money into mere digital gold. Knut and Jack go deep on BIP-110, spam and UTXO bloat, ossification, node sovereignty as Bitcoin's immune system, Austrian economics, self-custody, and the El Salvador and Bukele decentralized medicine law, with Jack arguing that node runners, not miners or core developers, are the ones who decide what Bitcoin becomes.

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Renaud Cuny joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about measuring the monetary health of the Bitcoin network through hard data, from the percentage of block space consumed by spam to the concentration of mining pools and hardware manufacturers. He walks through his Bitcoin Portal project, which scores decentralization and security across mining, block space, and node diversity, and explains why direction matters more than any single number. The conversation digs into BIP-110, the OP_RETURN debate, Bitcoin Knots adoption, hash renting through Ocean and Datum, and what self-custody and node-running mean for keeping Bitcoin sound money.

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Josh, AKA Secure Sovereign, joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about Bitcoin Core governance, the case for alternative node implementations, and Bitcoin Commons, a new Rust implementation he says specifies and locks down Bitcoin consensus while making it far easier to fork and run your own node. Josh recovered a life-changing stack of Bitcoin he had held since 2010, then turned to analyzing Bitcoin Core as an informal oligarchy, running a full-chain analysis of BIP-110 across more than 900,000 blocks and building selective synchronization so node runners can skip non-monetary data. The conversation covers self-custody, consensus specification, mining decentralization, the spam debate, and a commons-based governance model drawn from Ostrom and the Hanseatic League aimed at keeping Bitcoin sound money.

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Bitcoin Mechanic joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about BIP-110, the minority soft fork now activating on hard mode, and why he believes node runners rather than miners ultimately control the network. Drawing on his front-row view of the 2017 block size wars, he breaks down the game theory that pushes miners toward enforcing new consensus rules, the UTXO bloat and OP_RETURN abuse that motivated the fork, and how Ocean, Datum, and hash rate renting are quietly redecentralizing Bitcoin mining. The conversation closes on a reframing of censorship resistance and self-custody, arguing that keeping Bitcoin usable as money is itself the point of resisting chain bloat.

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Max Hillebrand joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about his new book The Praxeology of Privacy and why privacy sits at the foundation of sound money, self-custody, and the entire cypherpunk project. The conversation traces the prehistory of Bitcoin from David Chaum's anonymous eCash through Hal Finney's proof of work, explains how surveillance distorts prices the same way money printing does, and digs into the tools that make resistance cheap, including CoinJoin, the Lightning Network, and the new White Noise messaging protocol over Noster. Along the way Max makes the case that defending your privacy is far cheaper than attacking it, and that widespread Bitcoin adoption paired with strong privacy could end financial coercion faster than most people think.

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Paco de la India joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about his Run with Bitcoin journey across 40 countries, the reality of Bitcoin adoption in the global South, and what he learned about freedom, circular economies, and money along the way. Knut and Paco dig into the BIP-110 spam debate, India's 2016 demonetization, why running different node software is not censorship, and how Bitcoin acts as the immune system of a free society. They also cover geopolitics, hyper-bitcoinization, self-custody, paper Bitcoin treasury companies, and Paco's upcoming book Proof of Work which is crowdfunded on Geyser Fund.

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