Bitcoin Well Reads: The Great Decoupling: From the Reformation of Heaven to the Reformation of Money

The most powerful institutions in history all share one trait — they make themselves indispensable.

The medieval Church taught that you needed a priest to reach God. The modern central bank teaches that you need a custodian to store value. Both monopolies look natural until somebody opens the door.

In this episode, we read Konrad Fitzpatrick's piece The Great Decoupling: From the Reformation of Heaven to the Reformation of Money. Konrad draws a clean line between two technical documents written five centuries apart — Martin Luther's 95 Theses and Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper — and lays out the structural rhyme between them. Both were calls to fire the middleman. Both were marketed through a new printing technology. Both produced an explosion of human sovereignty that the old institutions never recovered from.

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The yen has lost a third of its purchasing power in five years against the dollar. The Bank of Japan now owns half of its own bond market. And every other reserve currency appears to be on the same trajectory.

In this May 14th Bitcoin Well Spaces, Zach sits down with Roberto Rios (The Peruvian Bull) and macro analyst Robert of Infra for one of the most comprehensive macro conversations the show has run. Simon Dixon — Bitcoin OG and respected on-chain analyst — joins midway through for additional perspective.

Guests:

Roberto Rios (The Peruvian Bull) — macroeconomist, author of The Dollar Endgame

Robert of Infra — macro analyst, TradingView chart annotations

Simon Dixon — Bitcoin OG analyst

Host: Zach, Bitcoin Well

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Bitcoin Well Reads: Banks Vs Bitcoin - Why the Alternative Is Becoming the Obvious Choice

In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach reads an original article on the structural differences between Bitcoin and the banking system — not the surface level talking points, but the things that actually matter for your financial future.

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Bitcoin Well Explains: Hot vs Cold Bitcoin Wallets

Your seed phrase can never touch the internet. But Bitcoin is a digital network. So how do you actually use it?

That contradiction trips up almost every Bitcoin beginner. This video solves it.

In this episode of the Bitcoin Well 101 series, Zach breaks down the full spectrum of Bitcoin custody — from exchange accounts to hot wallets to cold storage hardware wallets — and explains exactly how a hardware wallet pulls off what can only be described as a magic trick: sending money across the globe without your private keys ever touching the internet.

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Bitcoin Well Reads: When Rules Don't Need Rulers

Every rule system you've ever lived inside had someone behind it. A lawmaker who wrote it. A judge who interpreted it. An authority ready to enforce it — and if necessary, to back that enforcement with something harder than words.

That's just how rules work. Or so we assumed.

In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach reads "When Rules Don't Need Rulers" by Ulysses Alfaro — a piece written from the perspective of a legal professional grappling with something Bitcoin does that no legal system has ever done: enforce rules without any ruler at all.

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You've done the work. You understand fiat. You understand miners, nodes, and private keys. And then you open an exchange and get hit with 20,000 other cryptocurrencies — coins named after dogs, coins promising to be a world computer, coins claiming to be faster, cheaper, smarter, and better than Bitcoin in every measurable way.

It's a fair question. And how you answer it will determine whether you protect your purchasing power over the next decade or lose it chasing a mirage.

In this episode of the Bitcoin Well 101 series, Zach breaks down what altcoins actually are, the trade-offs they don't advertise, and why Bitcoin doesn't just lead the crypto market — it exists in a category of its own.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro: The Altcoin Question

1:37 What Is an Altcoin?

2:02 The Blockchain Trilemma

3:40 The Founder Problem

4:27 Altcoins on Trial

4:34 Ethereum

6:09 Solana

7:16 Litecoin

8:38 Bitcoin Cash

9:28 XRP / Ripple

10:03 Dogecoin

10:42 Stablecoins

11:23 So How Does Bitcoin Scale?

12:18 The Lightning Network

13:03 Why Bitcoin Stands Alone

13:54 The Lindy Effect

14:26 The "Next Bitcoin" Trap

15:00 Price Altcoins in Bitcoin

15:51 Why There Will Never Be Another Bitcoin

17:04 Outro

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Bitcoin Well Reads: Wake Up America, Bitcoin or Bust

Owning Bitcoin isn't enough. How you hold it determines whether you're actually free.

In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach reads two original articles back to back. The first, written by Zach, makes the case for Bitcoin as the ultimate savings technology — and explains why no other money, crypto, or financial instrument comes close. The second, written by Bitcoin Well founder and CEO Adam O'Brien, lays out why America is at a critical crossroads for financial freedom, and why Bitcoin Well's non-custodial model isn't just a product feature — it's a moral stance.

Article 1: Bitcoin — The Ultimate Savings Technology

Modern monetary theory promised governments could spend without consequence. The bill is coming due. A permanent cycle of debt, the steady erosion of purchasing power, and a financial system that treats inflation as a feature rather than a bug. Meanwhile, Bitcoin offers the first credible alternative: a fixed supply, no central issuer, no government able to debase it overnight. Zach walks through what money actually is — a technology for transferring value across space and forward through time — and why fiat has failed that function. Bitcoin doesn't just protect your wealth from inflation. It removes the mechanism of theft entirely.

Article 2: Make America Free Again — Adam O'Brien

America was built on the idea that freedom isn't given, it's protected. But if your Bitcoin sits on Coinbase, Binance, or any custodial platform, you've handed your financial sovereignty to a third party that can freeze it, lend it out, lose it, or have it seized. Every transaction that doesn't end with a TXID going to your personal wallet is a vote for the system Bitcoin was designed to replace. Adam breaks down exactly what non-custodial means in practice, why Bitcoin Well was built the way it was, and what it means that no other Bitcoin exchange in America can make the same structural guarantee: if Bitcoin Well disappeared tomorrow, not a single customer would lose a single sat.

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Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:27 Bitcoin: The Ultimate Savings Technology

00:01:54 The MMT Problem

00:02:38 What Is Money?

00:03:26 Rules Without Rulers

00:04:05 Bitcoin vs. Gold

00:04:43 Why Not Crypto?

00:05:24 Choosing Sovereignty

00:06:08 Bitcoin or Bust (Adam O'Brien)

00:06:32 The Crossroads at Hand

00:07:19 What Makes Bitcoin Different?

00:07:50 80% Freedom, 20% Investment

00:08:11 Are You a Real Bitcoiner?

00:09:20 Why Bitcoin Well Exists

00:10:19 Bitcoin Is Freedom

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Bitcoin Well Reads: The Engineered Collapse: How the 2026 Iran War Really Started

The mainstream narrative says the 2026 Iran conflict was a sudden eruption of ancient hatreds and regional tension. That framing is convenient. It's also wrong.

The fuse wasn't lit in the Strait of Hormuz. It was lit months earlier in the halls of the US Treasury, by men in suits wielding spreadsheets.

In this episode of Reads on the Bitcoin Well Podcast, Zach reads his original long-form article "The Engineered Collapse: How the 2026 Iran War Really Started" — a deep dive into the monetary history, financial warfare tactics, and geopolitical consequences that set the stage for the current conflict. And why none of it is surprising if you understand the pattern.

Chapters:

0:00 — Intro: market context, the double blockade, and what today's piece covers

1:20 — "The Engineered Collapse" begins: why the mainstream narrative is wrong

2:00 — A pattern worth recognizing: Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, Russia 2022

4:00 — The strategy of financial suffocation: Besant's admission and the dollar shortage

5:15 — What the US Treasury actually taught Iran (not what it intended to)

5:45 — A decade of preparation: Bitcoin mining and domestic infrastructure post-SWIFT

6:30 — The 77% hash rate drop: was Bitcoin mining infrastructure a military target?

7:00 — The Strait of Hormuz toll: $1/barrel, payable in Bitcoin, settled on-chain in seconds

8:00 — April 17, 2026: oil drops 10%, Bitcoin hits local high — the divergence explained

8:30 — The military dimension: drone cost asymmetry and why the Ford carrier group is keeping its distance

9:00 — The signal the rest of the world is reading: Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, BRICS

9:30 — Sound money as geopolitical survival strategy: the conclusion

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