AI is deflationary. Bitcoin is scarce. Put them together. @lynnerae: "The deflation that AI will bring to the world couples perfectly with Bitcoin's scarce supply. The two together are a really powerful force I hadn't thought of in that way before." @isramunozp: "AI just further untaps true free market competition dynamics — things have to continue getting cheaper. That's deflation of technology." This is the thread Build With Bitcoin keeps pulling on, and that we discuss in our recent Highlights episode, available now 🎧

🎙️ 5 conversations. 1 milestone. A lot of signal. In our latest Build With Bitcoin Highlights episode, @lynnerae & @isramunozp break down what's really happening beneath the Bitcoin price noise: → Bitcoin compounding in layers like TCP/IP → $6B in Lightning payments in Africa 🌍 → AI Bitcoin converging faster than anyone expected Full 20 minutes. Worth every one.

Everyone is using AI to write content. And it's starting to show. Fernando Nikolic @basedlayer, founder of @BTCPerception, is watching it happen in real time: "Everybody is leveraging AI to write their content, and everybody starts talking exactly the same, writing exactly the same — generating this collective slop." His solution: proprietary data as the differentiator. When one major company told him they already built their own internal tools, Fernando challenged them to A/B test it against Perception's data feed. "It was night and day. They're now a very happy enterprise customer." Code is commoditized. The data underneath it isn't. 🎧 Latest episode of Build With Bitcoin with Fernando Nikolic of Perception — link in bio.

Controversial take from Fernando Nikolic @basedlayer, founder of @BTCPerception and former Head of Marketing at @Blockstream: "Bitcoin is not for everyone." Not because Bitcoin isn't valuable — but because the Bitcoin community has done a poor job of meeting people where they are. "A lot of Bitcoiners who have taken it upon themselves to orange pill the world are essentially just repeating the stuff that convinced them. If Austrian economics and Argentina's inflationary history convinced me, I'm not going to beat 100 people over the head with that." @lynnerae considered her own approach: "I go at it from the technology standpoint — and as Fernando was talking, I realized how few people really care what the underlying protocol is." The orange pill isn't one pill. It's a hundred different pills for a hundred different people. 🎧 Build With Bitcoin — new episode with Fernando Nikolic of Perception. Link in bio.

Every Bitcoin company is shouting into the same void. @BTCPerception tells you who's listening — and what they actually care about. Fernando Nikolic @basedlayer built a narrative intelligence platform that tracks everything being said about Bitcoin across news, SEC filings, earnings calls, social media, GitHub repos, and more — synthesizing it in real time, so companies know where the narrative gaps are before their competitors do. "If the BBC, which has covered Bitcoin negatively for its entire existence, all of a sudden flips — Perception catches that and tells you: now you should look at the BBC." 🎧 New episode on Build With Bitcoin — link in bio.

Sanjay grew up in India, where 10–12% annual inflation against the dollar is just... life. His family didn't own gold ETFs. They owned physical gold — stored at home. When @sgmavinkurve found Bitcoin in 2012, it was immediate: "This is everything I love about gold — without the shortcoming. And that shortcoming is its physicality." A lifelong gold bug's path to Bitcoin conviction, and why the hardest people to orange-pill are often the ones in the "rich world" who've never felt the pain of debasement. Lynne and Israel on what it actually takes to make the light bulb turn on. 🎧 @BuildwBitcoin — link in bio.

In 2022, @sgmavinkurve had an unstoppable urge to buy Bitcoin but no cash to do it. So he took out a cash-out refi on an investment property — and watched his BTC drop 50% almost immediately. That painful experience became Sovana. "There's got to be a better way of tapping your home equity to invest in Bitcoin — without the monthly payment." What happens when a Bitcoiner with 2012 conviction runs out of capital? He builds the solution. @sovanabtc 🎧 New episode on @BuildwBitcoin — link in bio.

When we decided to build a podcast about Bitcoin founders and the people backing them, we needed a north star for what this ecosystem could look like at its best. Jeff Booth — episode 8, our most listened-to episode ever — gave us that. And on episode 100, he reminded us why. Traditional VC became a game of raising massive capital, pricing out competitors, and finding exit liquidity. Jeff calls it what it is. "I want to be the first call when they can't sleep at night because something's going to blow up." Most VCs have never built a business. They don't know what it feels like to have your top person quit, your runway disappear, and your market close — all at once. The Bitcoin founders we talk to every week are different. Jeff sees it too. And 100 episodes in, so do we. 🎧 Episode 100 with @jeffbooth — link in bio. | @isramunozp | @lynnerae