Rob Wallace from Bitcoin News is not your typical Bitcoiner, this is a guy who spent four years living in Shanghai, bought his first 2.2 bitcoin at an ATM in 2016… only to have them stolen at a Las Vegas airport. We cover the macro chaos unfolding around us, why Eastern Europe might be civilization's last immune system, and what the Fourth Turning actually looks like from the inside. We dig deep into the corporate Bitcoin treasury mania: who's holding the line and who already blinked. Mainly, we discuss why the next wave of bitcoin adoption will come from a crisis.

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Key Topics:

• Bitcoin adoption needs a crisis
• Media landscape
• Macroeconomic trends
• Treasury companies
• Bitcoin's future

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Giacomo Zucco joins Walker America to discuss Bitcoin spam, ordinals, inscriptions, Bitcoin Core, Core v30 / OP_RETURN, Knots, and why he thinks the BIP-110 soft fork will fail—and why that’s a problem. They break down the technical and political fight over spam filtering, consensus changes, and the future of Bitcoin nodes. Zucco argues that while spam is real, BIP-110 is the wrong solution—and its failure could damage the movement trying to fight it.

Key Topics:

• Plan B Lugano + the rise of Cypher Tank

• Is Bitcoin Core compromised?

• Bitcoin spam vs censorship: where’s the line?

• Core v30 vs Knots: what’s really happening?

• Why Giacomo thinks BIP-110 will fail

• Would BIP-110 actually fix Bitcoin spam?

• Ordinals and inscriptions

• Should Bitcoin change consensus rules to fight spam?

• Why Giacomo believes Layer 2s—not forks—solve the problem

• What happens to Bitcoin if BIP-110 fails?

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PlanB: https://planb.network/

Cypher Tank: https://cyphertank.org/

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Walker sits down with Paul Keating from Primal to talk about where Nostr is three years after Nostrica, why adoption has been slower than the early hype suggested, and why that may have been a good thing. They explore Primal’s vision, creator onboarding, Bitcoin zaps as a native internet business model, circular Bitcoin economies like Bitcoin Jungle, the coming wave of Nostr apps that hide the protocol from end users, and why human-first, sovereignty-preserving social tools matter more than ever in an age of AI slop, algorithmic addiction, and centralized digital identity.

Key topics discussed

• How Nostr has matured since Nostrica and why the ecosystem is stronger now than during the first hype wave
• Primal’s roadmap, including polls, better creator tooling, smoother onboarding, and a broader vision for healthier social media
• Why Bitcoin zaps and Nostr create a fundamentally better creator economy than legacy platforms or “Web3” token schemes
• The real-world circular Bitcoin economy in Bitcoin Jungle and what it shows about living on a Bitcoin standard
• Why Nostr may become increasingly important as AI-generated slop, censorship, surveillance, and centralized identity systems accelerate
• DiVine vs AI Slop: Using proof-of-human posting to fight the rise of AI-generated content online.

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CHECK OUT: https://ownyourposts.com

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• BDIC™ is building an insurance marketplace on the bitcoin standard. Sign up for the waitlist at: http://bdic.io/walker
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