What Bitcoin Did
What Bitcoin Did
Danny Knowles
How The Financial System Controls Governments | Simon Dixon
1 hour 48 minutes Posted Jan 5, 2026 at 8:30 pm.
The Financial-Industrial Complex
Why Full Reserve Banks Are a Threat
Positive Money and the Printing of Currency
The Biggest Threat to Bitcoin: Centralization
Can Wall Street Co-Opt Bitcoin?
The Dollar: Theft of Hard Money Through Fake Capitalism
The Financial-Industrial Complex and its Key Players
Warburg, Gold, and the Bank for International Settlements
Palantir, the Warfare, and Pre-Surveillance State
The Epstein Network
Technical Industrial Complex Enters the Chat
Will Bitcoin Be Co-Opted?
Boycott, Invest Local, Buy Bitcoin
Do What They Don’t Want You to Do
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Simon Dixon joins the show for a conversation on money, power, and why Bitcoin exists at all. Drawing on decades inside investment banking and monetary reform, Simon explains why modern capitalism is not capitalism at all, how debt based money guarantees systemic collapse, and why governments are not the real locus of power. We trace the origins of central banking, fractional reserve lending, and the financial industrial complex, and why attempts at reform were always destined to fail.

We then turn to Bitcoin as both an exit and a battleground. Simon lays out the real attack vectors facing Bitcoin today, from Wall Street financialisation and ETFs to corporate treasury centralisation and custody capture. He explains why self custody matters, why elites want different rules for themselves, and why Bitcoin can survive even if it is co-opted at the edges.

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