032 American Hodl: Bitcoin is Forever War | KNOTS vs Core & BlackRock | All in Bitcoin w/CK
All In Bitcoin🎙️American Hodl: Bitcoin is Forever War | KNOTS vs Core & BlackRock | All in Bitcoin w/CK
American HODL got into Bitcoin in 2014. He's seen every cycle since, every war, every wave of new people arrive and dilute the culture he helped build. In this episode he doesn't hold back.
Nietzsche, René Girard, and whether Bitcoiners become the thing they fight. The block size war and the PTSD it left behind. Why the KNOTS vs Core debate is a sideshow — and what BlackRock is quietly doing to Bitcoin's development culture that actually matters. The four-year cycle: broken or evolving? And the big unresolved tension that will define Bitcoin's future: freedom versus number go up.
Plus: when is deception moral? What Bukele got right. Why Europe is headed for civil war. And why Bitcoin is not a phase, not a moment — it's forever war.
And we're making a Bitcoin movie: BIP-110, KNOTS vs Core. You'll have to watch to get the pitch!
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
2:06 Pseudonymity, identity, and inner truth
4:26 Nietzsche, Girard, and avoiding becoming a monster
6:03 Institutional betrayal led to Bitcoin
14:32 British vs American humor: HODL responds
18:00 SETI at Home: a childhood Bitcoin analogy
19:18 Raising children with agency and responsibility
27:39 Reconsidering the Bitcoin 4-year cycle
34:51 Bitcoin sniffed out the Iran war before anyone else
38:38 Europe's future and the UK's nanny state
46:04 Why anger gets more attention than reason
52:21 Bitcoin´s libertairian delusions
1:14:56 The good, bad, and unresolved in Bitcoin
1:19:36 Institutional influence and Wall Street's role
1:21:48 Power, deception, and strategy in Bitcoin
1:37:56 Bitcoin Cinema: BIP-110, KNOTS vs Core
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