Love & Hard Money
Love & Hard Money is a weekly podcast that explores the intersection of Bitcoin, ethics, and business strategy. Each episode features deep dives into sound money principles, monetary history, and how Bitcoin fits into a principled business approach.
Hosted by Brian Bundy, founder of Satoshi General, the podcast is designed for business leaders, CFOs, and entrepreneurs who want to understand Bitcoin beyond the hype—grounded in economics, ethics, and practical business experience.
Episodes
27 episodes
On Evil
Fauci pled the Fifth 111 times. Building 7 fell straight down into its own footprint without ever being hit by a plane. The repo market froze months before anyone had heard of COVID. Epstein ran an influence operation disguised as a hedge fund....
Love and Honest Money: Scaling Trust
Episode 26 — How to Love a StrangerLove & Hard Money with Brian Episode DescriptionThere's a hard ceiling on how many people your brain can actually trust — anthropologist Robin Dunbar put th...
Bastiat, The Law, Part VII, Episode 25
We recap our reading of Frederic Bastiat's famous essay, The Law. The full text is available for free here: https://cdn.mises.org/thelaw.pdfwww.satoshigeneral.comlink...
Bastiat, The Law, Part VI, Episode 24
We continue our reading of Frederic Bastiat's famous essay, The Law. The full text is available for free here: https://cdn.mises.org/thelaw.pdf
Bastiat, The Law, Part V, Episode 23
We continue our reading of Frederic Bastiat's famous essay, The Law. The full text is available for free here: https://cdn.mises.org/thelaw.pdf
Bastiat, The Law, Part IIII, Episode 22
We continue our reading of Frederic Bastiat's famous essay, The Law. The full text is available for free here: https://cdn.mises.org/thelaw.pdf
Bastiat, The Law, Part III, Episode 21
We continue our reading of Frederic Bastiat's famous essay, The Law. The full text is available for free here: https://cdn.mises.org/thelaw.pdf
Bastiat, The Law, Part II, Episode 20
This is the first part of our reading of Bastiat's The Law with a short introduction by Brian tying the ideas in the essay to the properties inherent in Bitcoin.
Bastiat Series Part 1, The Law
In this opening episode, we introduce a special series on one of the most important political essays ever written — The Law by Frédéric Bastiat, published in 1850 in the final year of his life.Bastiat wrote with one urgent quest...
I Do What I Want
LOVE & HARD MONEY — Episode 18: I Do What I Want - Why freedom of money matters more than freedom of speechThe Episode in One LineA man in Saskatchewan kept every word of his free speech and lost everyt...
Am I A Social Justice Warrior?
What if the most powerful tool for human dignity in our lifetime isn't a policy or a protest movement — but a money the state can't reach?Brian takes the values of the social justice movement seriously — lifting up the marginalized, prot...
Don't Poop In The Well
SHOW NOTESEpisode SummaryBrian traces the tragedy of the commons from medieval English pastures through Venetian banking to the modern dollar network, arguing that monetary history is the history of shared resources ...
Why You Can't Afford A House
The 30-year mortgage didn't make housing affordable. It made it permanently more expensive. Here's the only thing that actually fixes it.Episode SummaryBrian traces the systemic causes of housing unafforda...
The Monkey, The Rat, The Amish and You
Episode SummaryBrian traces the arc from evolutionary biology to monetary policy, arguing that the rage and tribalism of modern political life are not caused by cultural failure or moral decline — they are the predictable...
The Eight Forms Of Capital
Episode SummaryIn this episode, Brian explores a framework from permaculture that expands what we mean by wealth. Drawing on the work of Ethan Roland and Gregory Landua's 2011 paper Regenerative Enterprise, he walks throu...
The Unspoken Sermon Of Satoshi Nakamoto
No one wrote this sermon. No one preached it. But if you pay attention, it's there.In Episode 12, Brian explores one of the most provocative ideas on Love & Hard Money yet: that Bitcoin — without intending to — encodes principles tha...
The Cost Of A Dollar
Episode 11: "The Cost Of A Dollar"Henry Ford believed that if Americans truly understood the banking and monetary system, there would be a revolution before morning. In this primer episode — built to share with the Bitcoin-curious...
Do Tariffs Matter?
Episode 10: Do Tariffs Matter?The tariff debate is one of the most consequential economic conversations of our time — and it's almost entirely missing the point. In this episode, Brian argues that the fight over tariffs is a secon...
Live Not By Lies
Why do smart people go quiet when you explain inflation to them? They hear the words. They understand the logic. And then they change the subject.In this episode, Brian explores what's really happening in that moment — and why Aleksandr ...
How Far Does Your Love Reach?
Why are young people waiting longer to have kids — and what does that have to do with inflation? In Episode 8 of Love & Hard Money, Brian connects monetary policy to family formation, generational thinking, and the quiet cost of living unde...
Why 21 Million: The Hitchhiker's Theory
21 million is what makes Bitcoin work — but where did the number come from? Satoshi was too methodical with everything else for us to assume it was arbitrary. In this episode of Love & Hard Money, Brian walks through why mathematical scarci...
READ ALOUD: The Winds Of Uncertainty (Bonus, Ep. 6)
In this bonus, midweek episode, I read aloud my children's book, The Winds Of Uncertainty. If you would like to follow along with pictures, they are available in the free e-book download on my website www.satoshigeneral.com.About the boo...
The Winds of Uncertainty
What if the most important lesson we never teach our kids is what money actually is?In this episode, Brian shares the story behind The Winds of Uncertainty — his children's book about scarcity, abundance, and the hidden...