What Bitcoin Did
What Bitcoin Did
Danny Knowles
Bitcoin vs Wall Street | American HODL, Junseth & Erik Cason
1 hour 22 minutes Posted Aug 16, 2026 at 3:00 pm.
The state and the promise of Bitcoin
Panel introductions
Bear market hustle
Bitcoin culture and libertarianism
Individual sovereignty vs the state
Audience questions and final thoughts
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“We’ve already fucking won.”

Bitcoin went from a weird internet experiment to an asset that Wall Street, corporations and governments can no longer ignore. But as the suits pile in, is Bitcoin losing the culture that made it matter?

Recorded live at PubKey in New York City, American HODL, Junseth and Erik Cason & Thomas Pacchia are on the show for an unfiltered conversation about Bitcoin’s conquest of Wall Street, why everyone still thinks they’re late, the promise of $100 million Bitcoin and whether Bitcoin needs a new narrative.

We also discuss the rise of Bitcoin treasury companies, building businesses with AI, escaping economic nihilism, individual sovereignty and why prosperity remains Bitcoin’s true killer app.

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