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Who Controls Bitcoin? 16 Years of Data and a 13-Year-Old Hard Drive | EP270 | @secsovereign
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- The Bitcoin Matrix
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- Apr 13, 2026
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- 4577
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Summary
Josh discovered Bitcoin in 2010 — before most people knew what a blockchain was. What happened next changed everything. "I'm thankful that I forgot that I was holding." — Josh @secsovereign "The mechanism of control only works on people who can't see it." — Étienne de La Boétie Subscribe so you never miss an episode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ GUEST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Josh @secsovereign → https://x.com/secsovereign Bitcoin Commons → thebitcoincommons.org Personal site → secsov.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰 SPONSORS & DISCOUNTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔑 Stamp Seed — 15% OFF stampseed.com | code MATRIX 🐟 Firefish — 0% fees on first loan through April 30 firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX | code MATRIX 🔐 Unchained — 10% OFF unchained.com/matrix | code MATRIX10 🏕️ Camp Nakamoto — 15% OFF campnakamoto.com | code MATRIX 💎 River — Up to $100 FREE Bitcoin river.com/matrix 🛡️ Meanwhile — Bitcoin Life Insurance meanwhile.bm | code YTPFYD 🤝 Want to sponsor the show? thebitcoinmatrix.com/sponsors ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THE SHOW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Strike → [email protected] 💵 PayPal → paypal.biz/BitcoinMatrix 💚 Cash App → cash.app/$BitcoinMatrix 💜 Venmo → venmo.com/u/bitcoinmatrix 📬 PO Box → The Bitcoin Matrix, P.O. Box 18056, Sarasota, FL 34231 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 FOLLOW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 Website → TheBitcoinMatrix.com 🐦 Cedric on X → x.com/cedyoungelman 🐦 Show on X → x.com/ _bitcoinmatrix 🟣 Nostr → npub12tq9jxmt707gd5vnce3tqllpm67ktr0mqskcvy58qqa4d074pz9s4ukdcs ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ DISCLAIMER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast is for entertainment and educational purposes only. Nothing discussed constitutes financial, legal, or investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Always do your own research. The views…