Jon Atack returns to the Bitcoin Infinity Show for his second appearance to talk through the Bitcoin Core governance questions raised by Hodlonaut's Capture article series, and why he believes Core's instinct to circle the wagons and shoot the messenger has hurt its public image more than any outside misinformation. He gives his neutral read on the contested BIP-110 soft fork, the renewed pushes to ban Luke Dashjr, the flood of AI-generated BIP spam, and the growing centralization of Core maintainership, arguing that healthy alternative implementations and honest self-custody are what actually strengthen Bitcoin. The conversation closes with a grounded look at living on a Bitcoin standard in El Salvador, from the state of exception to the hardcore ramp-up in KYC and surveillance.

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George Bodine joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about Bitcoin self-custody, running a node, and why paper Bitcoin held through treasury companies and ETFs carries counterparty risk that real cold storage does not. Knut and George dig into the Core versus Knots debate, BIP-110, the power law disagreement, and the risks facing Bitcoin treasury companies as financialization accelerates. Along the way they explore creativity as the opposite of productivity, the discipline of dropping your ego, and what a life of integrity looks like through the eyes of an artist and former fighter pilot.

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Dr. Jack Kruse joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show for an uncensored conversation, after Natalie Brunell declined to release his appearance on her podcast. He lays out his Fabianism thesis, the idea that the same incremental "Landauer attack" he believes centralized Western medicine through the Flexner Report is now being run against Bitcoin to turn it from money into mere digital gold. Knut and Jack go deep on BIP-110, spam and UTXO bloat, ossification, node sovereignty as Bitcoin's immune system, Austrian economics, self-custody, and the El Salvador and Bukele decentralized medicine law, with Jack arguing that node runners, not miners or core developers, are the ones who decide what Bitcoin becomes.

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