You're The Voice | by Efrat Fenigson
Bitcoin, Surveillance, and Why Patience Is a Strategy - American Hodl | Ep. 134
By Efrat Fenigson
Aired May 4, 2026 · 34m · Last boosted May 11, 2026
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American Hodl is a Bitcoin advocate and libertarian thinker whose fascination with decentralized systems goes back to childhood, when he ran SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) at home from the third grade, hoping to find aliens via shared compute. A proudly American voice who arrived at Bitcoin through a Ron Paul libertarian path with no illusions that conventional political routes would ever deliver real change. In this conversation, recorded at Bitcoin Vegas 2026, we explore the surveillance infrastructure assembled around everyday life, the strategic tension inside Bitcoin culture between engaging the state and building outside it, the Samourai Wallet case...
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