The Banks Lose The Yield Fight: Inside The CLARITY Act Stablecoin Battle | BPH EP 37
Why are bankers, the AFL-CIO, and law enforcement unions all storming Capitol Hill at the same time? In this episode of the Bitcoin Policy Hour, Zack Cohen sits down with Zack Shapiro and Ken Egan to dissect the CLARITY Act markup, the BRCA developer protection carve-out, and the bizarre coalition …
How China Hijacked Bernie & AOC's War on AI | Bitcoin Policy Hour EP 38
On April 29th, the US Senate hosted a panel on the "existential threat" of AI and two of the four panelists worked for the Chinese government. One month earlier, Bernie Sanders and AOC introduced legislation imposing a federal moratorium on American AI data centers. On Bitcoin Policy Hour EP 38, Za…
The 3.8M Bitcoin Lawsuit Could Set a Dangerous Precedent | BPH Ep 39
Could a New York court really declare 3.8 million dormant Bitcoin — including coins linked to Satoshi — as "abandoned property"? This week the Bitcoin Policy Institute team dissects an anonymous lawsuit built on an obscure lost-and-found statute, and explains why the legal theory is weak but the pr…
AI's Nuclear Arms Control Moment: Fable, Mythos & Wargaming Cyber 9/11 | BPH Ep 40
The market for AI tokens barely exists yet and that's exactly why this moment matters. In this Bitcoin Policy Hour, the team debates whether the AI industry disperses into many players or consolidates into an "AI Google," and what either outcome means for freedom, surveillance, and the dollar. They…
Is it Game Over for the CLARITY Act? | Bitcoin Policy Hour Ep 41
With the July 4th deadline closing in, the odds of getting BRCA passed in a form the industry can accept are looking worse by the week. Ken Egan, Zach Cohen, and Zach Shapiro break down where the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act and the broader CLARITY Act stand, why the opposition has had too m…
Why China's "Thousand Model War" is a Risk to US National Security | BPH Ep 42
AI is officially a national security issue and Washington is moving fast. The Bitcoin Policy Institute's Zack Cohen, Zack Shapiro, and Ken Egan break down Palantir and Nvidia's sovereign on-prem AI architecture, OpenAI's government-coordinated 5.6 rollout, and reports that Beijing may curb exports …
China's AI Gambit vs. America's Data Center Backlash: The New Tech Cold War
Is China's open-source AI strategy a values shift or a game-theoretic bluff? On this episode of The Bitcoin Policy Hour, the BPI team argues it's the latter and explains what happens when Chinese chips catch up to Nvidia. They dig into the Dean Ball vs. David Sacks debate over regulating Chinese mo…
Even the Government Gets Robbed: Why the US Needs Bitcoin Custody Standards | BPH Ep 44
The government keeps getting robbed of its own Bitcoin and a new bill wants to fix that. The BPI team breaks down the American Reserve Modernization Act (ARMA): what it would do for Treasury custody standards, why it has Democratic co-sponsors, and why they're bullish it could pass the House. They …
The Geopolitics of AI
An exploration of what China’s rise in competitive open-weight models means for American AI leadership, global influence, export controls, and the case for a U.S. open-weights strategy.
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Travis Oliphant (CEO & Co-Founder, OpenTeams; Creator of NumPy & SciPy)
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From Wireless Wars to FreedomNet: Building the Network Freedom Depends On | Freedom Tech DC 2026
Jon Pelson joins Ken Egan to discuss the telecommunications infrastructure that digital assets and other freedom technologies depend on. Drawing on Wireless Wars, Pelson examines network security, Chinese telecom equipment, and the FreedomNet initiative, including sovereign control, permissionless …
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