Larry Lepard, Bob Burnett and Gary Leland on the September move: Bitcoin caught air off 62 and ran to 81 before settling near 77, the Fed's rate decision, Treasury buybacks tripling to $6 billion, and why half the people mining Bitcoin are probably losing money right now.

Larry's call: $180,000 by the end of 2027. Bob's view from inside mining: the median cost of production is in the mid $60,000s, and spot is barely above it. And for anyone still waiting for $50,000 — Larry has a two-word answer.

Plus: the fourth Boomer joins us from an elk camp in Colorado.

00:00 Give up. You missed it.

00:49 Gary's back, George is hunting

01:19 The fourth Boomer, from an elk camp

06:00 Bitcoin caught air: 62 to 81 to 77

06:32 The yen, FIMA, and Bessent's bigger boat

09:29 Warsh the hawk

11:59 The flag and the $5,000 dividend

13:18 Miner P&L

16:29 Bitcoin decouples from the Nasdaq

18:29 The AI trade peaks

22:10 Public miners go hyperscale

25:10 Larry's call: $180K by 2027

26:13 "Give up. You missed it."

29:12 Cost of production

32:16 Energy costs

35:06 Year-end predictions

37:43 "I'm not a financial advisor." "Well, I am."

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"Not today you don't." The Boomers open with the question every holder secretly googles — do you owe taxes on Bitcoin you never sold? — and the answer detours through gold teeth, seventeen nuclear aircraft carriers, and Larry calmly explaining why he thinks this asset goes to a million dollars… then ten. Bob puts a number on the network nobody can picture (900 exahashes — more raw computation than every supercomputer on Earth combined), George explains why that's "the magic of Bitcoin," and then the fork question lands: what actually happened at block 961,632 when BIP-110 tried to split the chain — and why one side kept mining forever while the other managed two blocks.

Lightning-round episode: taxes, hashrate, gold vs Bitcoin, the 50% drawdown rule, estate planning without losing your keys, and one bonus question that gets a very honest answer. Larry Lepard, Bob Burnett, and George Bodine hold the couch — Gary Leland sits this one out (he'll be back).

CHAPTERS

00:00 — Cold Open

00:50 — Do I Pay Taxes on Bitcoin If I Don't Sell?

02:21 — Swan (sponsor)

03:01 — Gold vs Bitcoin: Which Do You Trust?

04:29 — 900 Exahashes & 17 Aircraft Carriers

06:51 — Sazmining (sponsor)

07:25 — What Backs Bitcoin?

10:12 — Sleeping Through 50% Drawdowns

14:33 — Ledn (sponsor)

15:01 — Bonus: The BIP-110 Fork at Block 961,632

The Bitcoin Boomers is a panel for smart, successful people over 40 still on the outside of Bitcoin looking in. Plain English answers to the questions no one else will touch. Signal without the noise.

Your hosts:

Gary Leland, founder of BitBlockBoom and Hall of Fame podcaster.

Lawrence Lepard, sound money fund manager and author of The Big Print.

Bob Burnett, mining entrepreneur and founder of Barefoot Mining.

George Bodine, the World's Most Interesting Bitcoiner.

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George Bodine recommended Coldcard on this show. Then the firmware flaw hit, and he got on the phone. In this episode he apologizes on camera, walks through moving his own funds, and the Boomers dig into what the incident really teaches about self-custody, trade-offs, and trust. Then, for the first time, George addresses BIP110's failure head-on: what went wrong, who's stepped away, and what it means to lose a battle without going home.

0:00 Cold Open

1:19 Welcome: Post-Coldcard, Post-BIP110

1:44 George's Coldcard Apology

3:52 Self-Custody Is Accountability

5:53 Ledn

6:30 Democratic Socialism & Doing the Work

9:57 Saylor, The Mandibles & Custodial Risk

11:39 Eggs, Baskets & the FDR Clue

12:29 Germany, Timing & the 75–80 Day Window

14:02 "President AOC" & Confiscation Talk

15:08 Sazmining

15:47 Trust & the Seed Phrase Question

18:05 Fathers, Values & Low Time Preference

22:41 Advice to Young Bitcoiners

23:36 BIP110 Post-Mortem

25:44 What Bitcoin Must Be for 200 Years

27:21 The Quantum Question & How Bitcoin Changes

30:55 Sign-Off

Also in this episode: the democratic socialism polling, the 75–80 day window between an election and taking office, the FDR precedent, buckets and baskets, why these three trust each other with more than lunch money, and what Bitcoin has to be to last 200 years.

Larry Lepard · Bob Burnett · George Bodine (filling in for Gary Leland)

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The Bitcoin Boomers is a panel for smart, successful people over 40 still on the outside of Bitcoin looking in. Plain English answers to the questions no one else will touch. Signal without the noise.

Your hosts:

Gary Leland, founder of BitBlockBoom and Hall of Fame podcaster.

Lawrence Lepard, sound money fund manager and author of The Big Print.

Bob Burnett, mining entrepreneur and founder of Barefoot Mining.

George Bodine, the World's Most Interesting Bitcoiner.

Listen to the audio anywhere:

🍎 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bitcoin-boomers/id1853058330

⚡ Fountain: https://fountain.fm/show/kHBRZl0Mb0MGWMELtjw4

Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@BTCBoomers

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George Bodine woke up at 5am, saw the Coldcard news, and drove through the dark with shaking hands to move his Bitcoin before someone else could. He made it. Others lost everything.

In the August episode, Bob Burnett, Larry Lepard, and George Bodine break down what actually went wrong inside Coldcard — the "one in a quadrillion" collisions their own support line saw, why the seed phrases were hiding in a drop of water instead of the universe, and what a former fighter pilot's checklist discipline looks like when your stack is on the line.

Then: the BIP110 chain split is real. Bob explains why Barefoot Mining stopped signaling in June, what the four-block fork means, why the next upgrade will need exchanges, treasuries, and Wall Street to agree — and what to do if you get airdropped the fork coin.

Self-custody was the whole point. Is it still?

Not financial advice. Do your own research.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Cold open

01:39 Welcome: the August edition

02:36 Who got hit: George's 5am drive

05:19 A word from Swan

05:56 Is the ETF the better option?

07:02 Bob's view: what Coldcard actually did

08:23 One in a quadrillion

09:15 Hide and seek in a drop of water

11:05 Entropy 101

14:28 Proving randomness & Chaos Enterprises

17:24 The future of self-custody

19:06 Larry's answer: Fidelity

20:07 The air-gap mistake & Trezor

21:45 "One bad company": answering the normies

23:02 The 6102 threat

27:42 Why wallets are built wrong

30:18 A word from Sazmining

30:51 One job

32:11 How to vet a Bitcoin company

34:45 The chain split is real

36:52 George: you don't leave people behind

38:06 Larry's verdict on BIP110

41:10 Bob's call with Brink

43:38 What it takes to change Bitcoin

44:15 Airdrop advice & sign-off

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The Bitcoin Boomers is a panel for smart, successful people over 40 still on the outside of Bitcoin looking in. Plain English answers to the questions no one else will touch. Signal without the noise.

Your hosts:

Gary Leland, founder of BitBlockBoom and Hall of Fame podcaster.

Lawrence Lepard, sound money fund manager and author of The Big Print.

Bob Burnett, mining entrepreneur and founder of Barefoot Mining.

George Bodine, the World's Most Interesting Bitcoiner.

Listen to the audio anywhere:

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What happens to your Bitcoin when you die? Can the government freeze or seize it? Could quantum computers break Bitcoin? And why is Bitcoin down while stocks are sitting near record highs?

In this episode of The Bitcoin Boomers, Larry Lepard, Bob Burnett and George break down five of the biggest questions Bitcoin holders are asking right now.

They dig into self-custody, multisig, inheritance planning, wrench attacks, AI-powered social engineering, Executive Order 6102, government confiscation risk, Bitcoin mining, non-KYC Bitcoin, quantum computing, Bitcoin’s relationship to global liquidity, the current drawdown, long-term holder capitulation, and why Bitcoin should never be confused with the broader crypto industry.

They also tackle a much bigger question:

What actually makes Bitcoin worth protecting?

From the invention of digital scarcity to a monetary network that no government, CEO or company controls, this conversation gets to the heart of why Bitcoin is fundamentally different.

00:00 The five questions

00:44 Q1: What happens to my Bitcoin when I die?

02:05 A word from Swan

02:38 Wrench attacks, AI scams, and multi-sig

07:28 Q2: Can the government take or freeze my Bitcoin?

08:25 Executive Order 6102, the 1933 precedent

14:20 A word from Sazmining: The Hash Stash

14:48 Mining non-KYC Bitcoin

16:33 Q3: Will quantum computers break Bitcoin?

20:23 Q4: Why is Bitcoin down while stocks are at highs?

24:04 A word from Ledn

25:04 Q5: $10,000 in Trump coin vs Bitcoin

Topics include:

• What happens to your Bitcoin when you die

• Self-custody, multisig and inheritance

• Can the government seize Bitcoin?

• Executive Order 6102 and the history of gold confiscation

• Why counterparty risk matters

• Mining Bitcoin directly

• Quantum computing and Bitcoin security

• Why Bitcoin is lagging stocks

• Bitcoin and global liquidity

• Why the current drawdown may represent opportunity

• Bitcoin vs. Trump Coin and the broader crypto market

• Why Bitcoin is a “zero-to-one” monetary invention

This episode is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute financial, tax, legal or investment advice.

The Bitcoin Boomers is a panel for smart, successful people over 40 still on the outside of Bitcoin looking in. Plain English answers to the questions no one else will touch. Signal without the noise.

Your hosts:

Gary Leland, founder of BitBlockBoom and Hall of Fame podcaster.

Lawrence Lepard, sound money fund manager and author of The Big Print.

Bob Burnett, mining entrepreneur and founder of Barefoot Mining.

George Bodine, the World's Most Interesting Bitcoiner.

Listen to the audio anywhere:

🍎 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bitcoin-boomers/id1853058330

⚡ Fountain: https://fountain.fm/show/kHBRZl0Mb0MGWMELtjw4

Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@BTCBoomers

Sponsors who make Boomers possible:

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Bitcoin is the final exit. The escape hatch. The parachute at the end of the ride.

George came back from Prague with a changed thesis, and this episode gets back to Bitcoin basics: money in self-custody that no one can stop. Larry breaks down why the third big print is coming and what a slow-motion currency failure actually looks like. Bob opens the books on the miners trilemma and why the hardest conditions in mining history are flashing the same signal as the last great bottom: whenever the money is hard, that's when you go in.

Also on the table: the shiny object syndrome draining capital into AI, why sentiment is the worst the boomers have ever seen while every metric screams value zone, paper Bitcoin and the ghost of Sam Bankman-Fried, BIP110 and the three and a half weeks until the chain decides, and why Kevin Warsh is just the modern-day Von Havenstein.

Bob's Miners Trilemma article in Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-miners-face-a-dilemma-for-success

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Cold open

01:25 Welcome: skin in the game

04:55 The Prague reset

05:18 Bitcoin is the final exit

06:50 A word from Ledn

07:44 Larry: a thousand years of debasement

09:41 The electricity timeline

10:35 Paper Bitcoin and SBF

12:11 Lost focus: three phrases

14:38 Worst sentiment, best value zone

15:54 Larry: how you get to $1M a coin

17:26 The shiny object syndrome

17:48 Bob: the miners trilemma

20:50 A word from Sazmining

21:43 What's suppressing price: rates, IPOs, AI capex

24:52 Larry: the liquidity indicator

26:04 The third print: enemy action

29:26 Warsh, the modern Von Havenstein

30:39 BIP110: two camps

34:30 Three and a half weeks to the fork

37:00 Hopeful endings

40:24 Watermelons

Not financial advice. Three friends talking Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin Boomers is a panel for smart, successful people over 40 still on the outside of Bitcoin looking in. Plain English answers to the questions no one else will touch. Signal without the noise.

Your hosts:

Gary Leland, founder of BitBlockBoom and Hall of Fame podcaster.

Lawrence Lepard, sound money fund manager and author of The Big Print.

Bob Burnett, mining entrepreneur and founder of Barefoot Mining.

George Bodine, the World's Most Interesting Bitcoiner.

Listen to the audio anywhere:

🍎 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bitcoin-boomers/id1853058330

⚡ Fountain: https://fountain.fm/show/kHBRZl0Mb0MGWMELtjw4

Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@BTCBoomers

Sponsors who make Boomers possible:

Bitcoin Well, self-custody made simple: https://bitcoinwell.com

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Educational only. Not financial, legal, tax, or investment advice. Do your own research.

Are Bitcoin miners abandoning Bitcoin for AI? Is Bitcoin's fee market broken? And did Michael Saylor get this one wrong?

In this episode of Bitcoin Boomers, Bob Burnett, Larry Lepard, and George Bodine dive into one of the biggest debates facing Bitcoin in 2026.

Public mining companies are pivoting toward AI infrastructure, hash rate is declining for the first time in Bitcoin history, BIP-110 has ignited fierce discussion throughout the ecosystem, and the future of Bitcoin mining may look nothing like what we've assumed.

If you care about Bitcoin's long-term security, mining economics, decentralization, or the future of block space, this is one conversation you don't want to miss.

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Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:31 State of Bitcoin mining today

02:15 Why hash rate is falling for the first time

05:05 Public miners are struggling

07:12 AI vs Bitcoin mining

10:28 Are our assumptions about mining wrong?

14:06 Decentralization improves as miners exit

17:15 Mining economics explained

21:18 Why public miners are pivoting to AI

27:12 "Good riddance" to Bitcoin miners?

31:05 Why AI is attracting all the capital

34:42 Is the four-year cycle still alive?

39:30 The real purpose of Bitcoin mining

43:12 Why block space matters

47:30 Banks could become major miners

52:02 Responding to Michael Saylor's comments

57:45 Can Bitcoin fees replace the subsidy?

1:03:42 Larry Lepard on BIP-110

1:08:55 Thinking 10–20 years ahead

1:13:20 Final thoughts