$473 million worth of Bitcoin vanished overnight when Mount Gox collapsed in 2014. I was on that exchange. I lost Dogecoin to a hack on a random platform. I used leverage once and did not sleep properly for three weeks. This episode is the five technical mistakes that cost me real money so they never cost you.

In this episode:

• Why leaving your Bitcoin on an exchange means you do not actually own Bitcoin what Mount Gox taught me the hard way and the twenty minute fix that means nobody can ever take yours
• Why yield scams and guaranteed return platforms have wiped out more Bitcoin wealth than almost anything else what Celsius proved and how to spot the difference between a legitimate product and a Ponzi scheme
• Why I tried leverage once, could not sleep for three weeks, and why ten billion dollars of leveraged positions were wiped out in a single day in 2021

I built a free calculator that shows exactly what consistent monthly Bitcoin investing could do to your wealth over 5, 10 or 20 years. It's called the Steady Stack Calculator — punch in what you can afford to put in each month and see what the numbers actually look like at the other end. Most people are genuinely surprised. You can also download the 10 Bitcoin Mistakes to Avoid document completely free at the same link.

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Most people don't lose money in Bitcoin. They lose it to five completely avoidable emotional mistakes and right now, with Bitcoin sitting at $63,000 after hitting $126,000 last October, every single one of them is playing out in real time.

In this episode:

• Why the moment everyone was messaging me about buying Bitcoin was exactly the wrong moment to go all in and why the silence right now is the signal
• The people who bought at the top and have already sold at a loss, what their brain told them, and why it was wrong
• How to know if the money you're investing is money you should never have put in
• Why checking the price every day is doing more damage than any market crash
• Why going quiet when Bitcoin drops is the most expensive mistake of all and what to do instead

I built a free calculator that shows exactly what consistent monthly Bitcoin investing could do to your wealth over 5, 10 or 20 years. It's called the Steady Stack Calculator — punch in what you can afford to put in each month and see what the numbers actually look like at the other end. Most people are genuinely surprised. You can also download the 10 Bitcoin Mistakes to Avoid document completely free at the same link.

Steady Stack Calculator and 10 Bitcoin Mistakes Document — click here to grab both for free

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In 2025 US banks generated $434 billion in profit from the gap between what they paid you on your savings and what they earned on your money. JPMorgan alone made $49.6 billion. Chase paid its customers 0.01% interest on savings accounts. The Federal Reserve was paying banks 3.65% on the same money.

This episode is about why the most powerful financial institutions in the world are currently spending millions lobbying your politicians to kill Bitcoin and crypto legislation and what they are desperately trying to protect.

In this episode:

• How the banking spread actually works, what net interest margin means, and why the $434 billion figure is not a scandal but a business model operating exactly as designed
• The December 2025 closed-door meeting where the CEOs of Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo sat with US senators to lobby against crypto legislation and the $6.6 trillion in deposits they admitted was at risk if they failed
• Why the American Bankers Association sent a national call to arms to bank executives asking them to contact senators immediately before a critical vote
• Bitcoin yield products already paying 6% to 11.5% including Michael Saylor's Stretch and Strike products backed by Bitcoin reserves and what that means for the 0.01% your bank is offering you
• Why Bitcoin sitting outside this system entirely is not a side effect but the whole point

I built a free calculator that shows exactly what consistent monthly Bitcoin investing could do to your wealth over 5, 10 or 20 years. It's called the Steady Stack Calculator — punch in what you can afford to put in each month and see what the numbers actually look like at the other end. Most people are genuinely surprised. You can also download the 10 Bitcoin Mistakes to Avoid document completely free at the same link.

Steady Stack Calculator and 10 Bitcoin Mistakes Document — click here to grab both for free

Hit follow, so you never miss the latest insights on money, finance, invest and build wealth - plus clear guidance on cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, and Bit Coin for today’s serious investors.