Episode
Bitcoin's Real Buyers Haven't Arrived Yet - Adam Back
- Podcast
- The Wolf Of All Streets
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- May 24, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1675
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Summary
He invented the proof-of-work system that made Bitcoin possible, was one of the last people Satoshi ever contacted, and now runs one of the most important infrastructure companies in the space. Adam Back sits down to explain why we're still in the early innings of institutional adoption, reveals what Blockstream is quietly building to protect Bitcoin from quantum computing, and shares why the recent wave of DeFi hacks and restaking collapses is exactly what the cypherpunks warned about from the beginning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices