Café Bitcoin is BACK | Day 2 of 50: FATF Surveillance Creep, Signal vs. Noise, and The Work That Wins

Chapters

• 00:00 — Day 1 recap: 2,800+ listens, 465 peak concurrent, why this show exists
• 01:15 — Susie Violet Ward on FATF's fraud roadmap: the Travel Rule comes for Bitcoin
• 06:15 — "If you're not a baddie, why should you care?" Privacy is normal
• 08:15 — Signal vs. noise: Cory audits the France wrench-attack narrative live
• 14:30 — Susie's tangent: capitalism as balance, governments as parasite, and whether science has economics' blind spots
• 19:00 — Cory defends Einstein, spooky action at a distance, and simulation theory
• 20:00 — Why Bitcoiners don't need to talk about Bitcoin (the Gjelina story)
• 22:00 — Fernando Nikolic on Perception, narrative engineers, and data as the AI moat
• 25:30 — Inside Swan's AI stack: Cygnet, 25 full-time agents, Workforce Intelligence
• 30:00 — The vibe-coding warning: never go it alone with PII or financial data
• 33:30 — The Battle for Monetary Independence, Part 2: "The Work That Wins" (the USS Yorktown diary, Ten Million Bitcoiners, The Race to Avoid the War)
• 39:30 — Swan: 0.5% buy fee, network fees paid on withdrawals, 80%+ of sats in self-custody
• 41:30 — RBX origin story: Death Row Records and getting out of GBTC without capital gains
• 43:30 — Shout-outs: Bitcoin Today (Samson Mow tomorrow), Bitcoin Veterans, Danny live at Pubkey Friday
• 44:30 — Block clock stories: the Sharpie fix and the bearish rocket clock
• 52:00 — The time P ate a shoe (boiled in chili, five hours)
• 55:30 — Tatum on self-hosting, media preservation, and "don't trust, verify" beyond your node
• 59:00 — Susie's retracted BBC investigation and how articles get memory-holed via lawsuits
• 65:00 — 1984, post-edited movies, and Grayscale's Worldcoin ETF
• 66:30 — Privacy normalization: phone numbers at the sandwich shop, 23andMe regrets
• 69:30 — Orange-pill moments: why the system's winners can't hear the signal
• 73:30 — Wrap: Day 3 tomorrow, 10am ET, 90 minutes