Stay ConnectedWelcome to The Bitcoin Collective podcast with Jordan Walker. Are you sick of finance bros and techie nerds saying to learn Bitcoin but then leaving you high and dry? Don’t worry, I’ve got you.
On this podcast, you’ll hear real, honest and relatable stories, news and guests from the Bitcoin space. Nothing techie and geared towards helping you understand and keep up with Bitcoin.
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The pound is designed to lose value. That’s not a conspiracy theory - it’s called an inflation target, and it’s built into the system.
Cameron Parry, CEO and founder of Tally Money, joins Jordan at Antidote in London to talk about what sound money actually looks like, why gold and Bitcoin are solving the same problem from different angles, and what it means to hold your savings in something nobody can debase.
Check out Tally Money: www.tallymoney.com
Topics covered:
What Tally Money is — and why you own the gold, not just a claim on it
How Cameron’s understanding of money came through Bitcoin, not traditional finance
Why the blockchain serves Bitcoin the currency, not the other way around
The gold vs Bitcoin rivalry — where it came from and why it’s fading
Whether central banks will ever hold Bitcoin
The Gordon Brown gold sale and what it tells you about public sector accountability
Why official inflation figures don’t match real-world experience
A cup of coffee that cost 80 Tally in 2019 and costs 40 Tally today
How Tally and Bitcoin complement each other rather than compete
Why paying employees in Tally worked almost too well
What it takes to build a sound money product in the UK and get mainstream adoption
Chapters:
00:00 Intro — In Crypto, There’s Bitcoin and Not Bitcoin
01:00 Cameron’s Background — Coinsilium, Stockbroking and the Path to Tally
04:00 The Global Financial Crisis and When Billions Became Normal
08:00 The World’s First Bitcoin Blockchain Company to IPO — Coinsilium 2015
11:00 Why the Blockchain Serves Bitcoin, Not the Other Way Around
13:00 How Tally Money Was Born — Sound Money for Mainstream Adoption
17:00 What Tally Actually Is — You Own the Gold, Not a Claim on It
22:00 Was Cameron a Gold Bug Before Tally? No. Here’s What Changed.
25:00 Gold vs Bitcoin — The Rivalry, the Maturity, and the Coming Together
30:00 Will Central Banks Ever Hold Bitcoin?
32:00 Gordon Brown’s Gold Sale and Failing Upwards in the Public Sector
37:00 The Debasement Trade — What the Pound Has Lost Since 1970
42:00 A Cup of Coffee in Pounds vs Tally — Why the Difference Matters
47:00 UK Savings Culture and Why People Aren’t Playing the Right Game
52:00 Paying Employees in Tally — and Why They Had to Stop
57:00 Will Bitcoin Ever Be Pegged to a Gold or Bitcoin Standard?
01:01:00 Business Accounts, the Bitcoin Business Network and Rounding Off
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EDITED BY JAMES PEARCE
www.selectedfrequencies.com
Available now on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. This episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Always do your own research.
The Pound Has Lost 95% of Its Purchasing Power Since 1970. So What Do You Do?
“Inflation Is Designed In.” The Tally Money Founder on Why Fiat Is Working Exactly as Intended
Private equity buys a business, loads it with debt, and sells it within five years. Orange Juice wants to buy the business, keep the owner in place, and never sell it at all.
Nico Lechuga is a founding partner at Ego Death Capital, a Bitcoin venture fund with around $137 million under management. Alongside fellow Ego Death partners Lyn Alden, Jeff Booth and Andi Pitt, he co-founded Orange Juice, a permanent capital vehicle that acquires cash flow positive businesses and sweeps those cash flows into Bitcoin.
The team also includes partners Ruben Zweiban, a former JP Morgan analyst and US Navy SEAL, and Adrian Steckel, the former CEO of OneWeb, plus newly appointed CTO Elias Martinez Cohen, previously an AI infrastructure engineer at NVIDIA and Twitter.
Since announcing, more than 150 businesses have reached out.
🍊 Find out more about Orange Juice: https://orangejuice.com/
Topics covered:
Why Orange Juice was designed as a foil to traditional private equity, not a Bitcoin treasury company
How the Berkshire Hathaway model shaped the owner operator structure
Why they’re raising privately first and proving the thesis before going public
The gearbox model — how they decide between reinvesting, buying Bitcoin or acquiring more businesses
Which types of businesses they’re targeting and why generational companies keep showing up
Why they’re already open to businesses outside the US
Nico’s Bitcoin journey — from a Vice article on the Silk Road to Jeff Booth changing everything
How AI factors into acquisition due diligence without distracting owner operators
Why a good Bitcoin solution should work like a light switch — no evangelism required
Chapters:
00:00 Intro — There Is a Better Treasury Asset Than Fiat
01:00 What Is Orange Juice and Why Was It Built?
02:00 Ego Death Capital — The Fund Behind the Idea
05:00 The Gap Nobody Had Filled for Cash Flow Business Owners
07:00 How Orange Juice Acquires Businesses — The Berkshire Model
09:00 Owner Operators, Equity and the No Earn-Out Structure
11:00 Why There’s No Time Clock — The Permanent Capital Difference
12:00 The Gearbox — How They Decide Where the Cash Goes
15:00 Real World Example: A UK Hotel Group and the Bitcoin Question
18:00 Which Sectors and Business Types Are Being Targeted
20:00 Generational Businesses and the Bitcoin Connection
22:00 Why They Went Private First Before Planning a Listing
28:00 Will Orange Juice Expand Outside the US?
35:00 Will Sweeping Cash Into Bitcoin Become the Norm?
38:00 Nico’s Bitcoin Journey — Silk Road, Jeff Booth and the Click Moment
47:00 How AI Factors Into Acquisition Due Diligence
51:00 Keeping Owner Operators Focused on What They Do Best
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X: https://x.com/nico_lechuga
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EDITED BY JAMES PEARCE
www.selectedfrequencies.com
Available now on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. This episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Always do your own research.
They’re Buying Real Businesses, Sweeping the Cash Into Bitcoin — And 150 Companies Have Already Applied
The Permanent Capital Vehicle Designed to Outlast Private Equity
Pumphreys Coffee was founded in the 1750s. It has been in Stuart's family since 1979, four generations have worked in it, and his first Bitcoin transaction is framed on the wall downstairs.
Jordan Walker travelled up to Blaydon, just outside Newcastle, to see the roastery, watch beans go through an open flame, and talk to Stuart about what it takes to build something that outlives you.
☕️ Check out Pumphrey's Coffee: https://pumphreys-coffee.co.uk/
Topics covered:
Why Pumphreys still roasts over a naked open flame when almost nobody else does
The history of a company founded in the 1750s and bought by Stuart's grandfather in 1979
Why the experience around the coffee matters more than the taste of the coffee
Where AI might actually help a hands-on business, and where it absolutely cannot
Stuart's Bitcoin journey, including buying the top twice
Why adding Bitcoin payments through Musqet meant changing almost nothing
How he replied to a customer who complained about Bitcoin and the environment
Whether accepting Bitcoin has actually brought new customers through the door
What he thinks it takes for a business to still be trading in 2140
Why Bitcoiners are often the most risk-averse people in the room
Chapters:
00:00 Intro — Bitcoiners Are the Lowest Risk People in the Room
01:00 Open Flame Coffee Roasting — How Pumphreys Does It Differently
04:00 The Pumphreys Story — Founded in 1750, Family-Owned Since 1979
08:00 What Pumphreys Actually Does — Roasting, Training, Machinery and Retail
15:00 How the Business Has Adapted Over 25 Years
20:00 Coffee Trends — What's Coming Next After Matcha
23:30 AI and Automation in a Relationship-First Business
28:00 The Experience of Coffee — Why Atmosphere Matters as Much as Taste
32:00 Stuart's Bitcoin Journey — Buying the Top in 2017
35:30 Running the Newcastle Bitcoin Meetup
36:30 Accepting Bitcoin at Pumphreys — How the Decision Was Made
40:00 The Viral Customer Complaint — and Stuart's Reply
44:00 Has Accepting Bitcoin Brought New Customers?
46:00 Building a Business to Last — Lessons From 275 Years
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www.selectedfrequencies.com
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This Coffee Company Was Founded in the 1750s, Now It Accepts Bitcoin.
How a Family Business Added Bitcoin Without Changing Anything
Fernando left his job as VP of Marketing at Blockstream to build a product on his own. Seven months later, still in beta, it was profitable. He has no employees, no investors and no board. Just a fleet of agents and a very clear view of where all this is heading.
He joins Jordan Walker to talk about what building actually looks like now, why the hardest part is no longer the code, and what happens to everyone who isn't a builder.
In this episode with Fernando:
Why the coding is now the easy part, and selling is still the hard part
Leaving Blockstream to go solo, and what he doesn't miss about managing a team
The moment in a demo call that tells you the truth
Running a business on a fleet of agents instead of employees
Why so much company content has started to sound identical
What happens to jobs when firms stop hiring altogether
Holding something scarce when the money supply isn't
Chapters:
00:00 Coming up
01:50 Seeing an early Perception demo
04:00 When AI was a glorified Stack Overflow
06:00 Does this feel like the early internet?
10:00 The trap of feeling productive
12:00 Coding is commoditised, selling isn't
16:00 Leaving Blockstream to build Perception
18:30 Nobody wanted the dashboard
21:00 The pivot to agents and MCP
25:30 The money moment is the honest moment
28:30 Can you lean on AI too much?
36:30 What agents actually save you
45:30 The real problem with AI slop
49:20 Profitable in beta, bootstrapped, solo
58:00 Jobs, ten years out
01:03:20 Hold something scarce
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FIND FERNANDO:
X - https://x.com/basedlayer?lang=en
Bitcoin Perception - https://bitcoinperception.com
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www.selectedfrequencies.com
Available now on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. This episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Always do your own research.
Nobody Wanted His Dashboard, So He Binned It
He Left Blockstream to Build Alone
Why Coding Is Now the Easy Part
14.3 million people in the UK hold premium bonds and have never won a single prize. Not £25. Not once.
That stat sent Jordan down a rabbit hole this week, and what he found underneath it is worse. 23 million people hold £135 billion in premium bonds, making it the UK's most popular savings product — while the average prize winner is sitting on around £23,400 and 94% of £1 million jackpot winners held over £10,000 in bonds. Then there's the bigger problem: £610 billion of long-term UK cash with no job to do at all.
Premium Bonds Article: https://bitcoincollective.co/blog/premium-bonds-why-winning-feels-like-losing
In this solo episode:
• Where premium bonds came from in 1956, and why ERNIE has a Bletchley Park connection
• The Freedom of Information request that revealed who never wins
• Why even winning can still be losing once you account for purchasing power
• How premium bonds became the cheapest borrowing the state has
• The £610 billion sitting idle, and why the UK has the lowest investing rate in the G7
Chapters:
00:00 Why premium bonds sent me down a rabbit hole
00:55 1956: ERNIE, Colossus and a "squalid raffle"
02:00 The UK's most popular savings product
02:55 Two thirds have never won a prize
03:40 Why the wins go to the already wealthy
04:35 Even winning is losing
06:15 The cheapest borrowing the state has
07:30 £610 billion with no job to do
09:15 Rates rose and Britain saved harder
11:15 8% vs 33% — and why I talk about Bitcoin
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www.selectedfrequencies.com
Available now on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. This episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Always do your own research.
Nic Cary reckons there is still up to £2m of Bitcoin buried in geocaches across Yorkshire. He hid it himself, more than thirteen years ago.
He first heard about Bitcoin in 2011, on a small fishing boat on the Long Island Sound. A few years later he moved from the United States to York with a backpack and helped build the first block explorer for Bitcoin out of a two-bedroom flat near the racecourse.
That project became Blockchain.com. It now has offices in six countries, an FCA registration, a MiCA licence covering Europe, and a confidential SEC filing ahead of a US listing.
In this episode:
• The fishing trip that started it
• Why the company was built in York rather than London
• The paper wallets hidden across Yorkshire, and what they were worth
• From block explorer to wallet, and the case for holding your own keys
• Polymarket, Snap Markets and tokenised stocks
• How to explain Bitcoin without arguing with people
• Why machines, not people, may make most payments within ten years
• The three things he thinks everyone should read
Timestamps:
00:00 Coming Up
00:40 Intro
01:13 Hearing about Bitcoin on a fishing boat in 2011
06:12 Websites, clams and Pipeline CRM
08:42 Why blockchain.com started in York
12:46 Bitcoin hidden in geocaches across Yorkshire
14:57 What it was worth at the time
15:43 From block explorer to building a wallet
18:03 Self-custody versus handing your money over
20:26 Polymarket, Snap Markets and tokenised stocks
22:20 How Nic's approach to explaining Bitcoin changed
25:06 Store of value, stablecoins and peer-to-peer cash
27:14 Why machines will transact in digital money
29:33 FCA approval, MiCA and the SEC filing
32:12 Three things everyone should read
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-pearcesf/
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The pound has lost 95% of its purchasing power since 1971. Bitcoin is down 50% from its highs and the mood online is grim. Richard Byworth thinks the bottom is already in, and he's got the receipts to back it up.
Jordan sits down with returning guest Richard Byworth to unpack why he believes the market is showing classic seller exhaustion, why family offices are quietly moving into bitcoin, and why the UK's wealthy are heading for the exit.
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In this episode:
- Why the four year cycle narrative might be doing more harm than good
Reading £17 billion of bitcoin selling as a bottom signal, not a warning
- Why capital rotating into AI could eventually rotate back into bitcoin
- How family offices are being educated on bitcoin without ever mentioning the word
- Bitcoin treasury companies, M Nav premiums and where the next bull run could come from
- Why the UK is losing its wealthiest people, and what that means for the country
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro — bitcoin is the value trade
00:35 Welcome back and catching up
02:26 Is the four-year cycle still real
07:22 Reading seller exhaustion in the market
08:32 AI, SpaceX and the capital rotation debate
09:12 The STRC post that caused a stir
12:41 Four years on: how far the bottom has moved
14:32 Educating family offices on bitcoin
20:56 Will institutions dominate bitcoin adoption
23:00 A different perspective on the UK from the outside
29:44 UK wealth, tax and the talent exodus
42:28 Bitcoin treasury companies and the next bull market
52:01 European consolidation and liquidity
53:19 Do banks see bitcoin as a threat to deposits
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Bitcoin's Bottom: Why Richard Byworth Isn't Worried
The UK Wealth Exodus No One's Talking About
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EDITED BY JAMES PEARCE
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-pearcesf/
Available now on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. This episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Always do your own research.
Bitcoin is down around 50% from its all-time high and the sentiment is brutal. So is this the bottom? Ben, an analyst at Keyrock, thinks there are real signs it might already be in — and that what comes next is bigger than most people realise.
In one of the most detailed conversations the podcast has hosted, Ben joins Jordan to explain why the current drawdown may mark a bottom, why volatility is steadily compressing, and why Bitcoin treasury companies and digital credit could unlock his whole thesis, an entire financial system built on top of Bitcoin as a reserve asset.
Topics covered:
- Why the largest pools of capital in the world can't hold Bitcoin directly — yet
- The signs Ben is watching that suggest this could be a bottom for Bitcoin
- Why volatility acts as a capital charge, and why it's in a long-term compression trend
- How the shift from traders to long-term holders changed this cycle
- Why Bitcoin treasury companies could unlock the entire Bitcoin thesis
- What digital credit is and why it could be the most exciting part of the Bitcoin thesis
- Why Strategy selling a small amount of Bitcoin was widely misunderstood
- Why European treasury companies look cheap — and why that discount is a mirage
- Why money backed by Bitcoin may make more sense than Bitcoin itself as money
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro — Bitcoin is only stomachable for volatility
01:00 Welcome and Ben's background at QCP
02:00 QCP's shift from market maker to asset manager
04:00 Ben's unusual route into Bitcoin via smart contracts
08:00 Reasons this could be a cycle bottom
13:00 75% of holders are now long-term
21:00 Volatility as a capital charge that compresses with price
25:00 What sparked the digital asset treasury report
27:00 The endgame: a financial system built on Bitcoin
30:00 Bringing European Bitcoin treasuries into focus
32:00 Two paths to Bitcoin becoming money
48:00 Herd mentality in crypto
49:00 Why prefs haven't come to Europe yet
56:00 Smarter Web's £210m share premium unlock
1:01:00 How big could the first issuance be?
1:07:00 Final prediction: what will it be called?
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Email: hello@bitcoincollective.co
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EDITED BY JAMES PEARCE
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-pearcesf/
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The mood right now is identical to late 2022. The headlines are the same. The panic is the same. But the world around bitcoin looks nothing like it did back then.Jordan's back after six weeks off the tools — not because things have calmed down, but because this moment feels too familiar to ignore. This solo episode walks through why the current sentiment mirrors the last bear market bottom, what's changed beyond recognition since then, and why going quiet and building is exactly the right move right now.
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Topics covered:- Why mid-2026 feels so much like November 2022 — and what that actually signals- What's changed in four years: BlackRock, sovereign wealth funds, Square, JP Morgan- Bitcoin being declared dead 475 times — and what that pattern actually looks like- Why AI pulling capital makes bitcoin more relevant, not less- The Bitcoin Business Network hitting 100+ UK businesses- What's been built behind the scenes and what's coming very soonCHAPTERS 00:00 Intro — why Jordan's been quiet for six weeks01:06 Where bitcoin is right now02:30 Flashback to November 2022 and the $15k bottom04:30 What's changed in four years — JP Morgan, ETFs, Square, sovereign funds06:30 bitcoindeaths.com — declared dead 475 times08:00 The four-year cycle and shaking out the tourists09:15 AI is pulling attention and capital11:00 Why bitcoin is the one thing AI can't copy12:39 The Bitcoin Business Network — 100+ UK businesses14:30 Why in-person relationships matter in a digital age16:00 New website and removing friction for businesses18:00 A big announcement is coming20:00 Bear markets are for building20:37 What's next — podcast is back
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EDITED BY JAMES PEARCE
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Available now on YouTube and all major podcast platforms.
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Nicholas Dickinson bought his first significant Bitcoin stack on the all-time high. Three months later he was 40% underwater. He didn't panic. He read more books and bought more.
Nicholas is a hotelier with 40 years in the industry — currently running a 50-acre country house hotel in Norfolk. He's also one of the newest, and arguably fastest-moving, members of the Bitcoin Business Network. In just nine months he's thinking in Bitcoin, buying at what the power law tells him is a 50% discount, and working out how to bring Bitcoin into a 40-year hospitality business without losing his board.
🇬🇧 Find out more about the Bitcoin Business Network: https://bitcoincollective.co/bbn/
In this episode, Jordan and Nicholas get into:
- How The Price of Tomorrow started it all — before Nicholas even knew he was looking for Bitcoin
- Why the power law gave him more conviction than anything else he'd read
- The internal challenge of getting fellow stakeholders and a spouse on board
- Why he thinks most people know the system is broken — but can't believe the fix could be this simple
- What accepting Bitcoin at the hotel actually looks like as a first step
- Why storing business cash reserves in Bitcoin is, to Nicholas, just common sense.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro — "The problem's too big. Yes, there is a simple solution."
01:00 Welcome and Nicholas's background in hospitality
04:00 How Congham Hall came out of administration and became his longest-ever project
06:00 What makes Congham Hall different — 50 acres, spa, orchard cabins
08:00 The realities of running a profitable hotel in the UK
10:00 100 local staff and why that's almost unheard of in hospitality
15:00 The Snail Racing World Championships — a Guinness World Record
20:00 Where did Bitcoin first come up? From drug dealers to deep curiosity
21:00 The Price of Tomorrow, What's the Problem, and the lightbulb moment
24:00 Pete Matthew, The Bitcoin Advisor, and getting properly into the rabbit hole
28:00 Buying at the all-time high and what happened next
31:00 The power law — why it gave Nicholas more conviction than anything else
38:00 Thinking in sats, DCA strategy and filtering out the noise
44:00 How Bitcoin changed his outlook on his kids' futures
47:00 The challenge of getting stakeholders and a spouse on board
51:00 "The problem's too big to be solved this simply" — and why that's wrong
57:00 Accepting Bitcoin at the hotel — the vision and the baby steps
CONTACT JORDAN:
X: https://x.com/JayW132
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-walker-293955106/
Email: hello@bitcoincollective.co
CONTACT NICHOLAS:
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasdickinson/
Congham Hall - https://www.conghamhallhotel.co.uk
Email😉 - info@conghamhallhotel.co.uk
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All content provided by The Bitcoin Collective and guests in this episode is for informational and educational purposes only and is not financial, trading, or investment advice.
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EDITED BY JAMES PEARCE
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This episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Always do your own research.
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