{"podcast":{"title":"Navigating Bitcoin's Noise","slug":"navigating-bitcoin-s-noise-4356332","podcast_index_feed_id":4356332,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4990519/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://kanemcgukin.substack.com/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/5750fc3691dbb12625b3c8a5be66d372.jpg","author":"Kane McGukin","episode_count":78,"summary":"Navigating Bitcoin's Noise is a podcast dedicated to bridging the gap between traditional financial markets and crypto markets. In each episode, I look to discuss how monetary technologies like Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are evolving the underlying rails of the existing financial system.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T00:17:03.299477+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/navigating-bitcoin-s-noise-4356332"},"episode":{"title":"EP63 The Bitcoin-Backed Shadow Financial System A Strategic Briefing with Matthew Pines","slug":"ep63-the-bitcoin-backed-shadow-financial-system-a-strategic-briefing-with-matthew-pines","published_at":"2025-08-06T12:24:15+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/navigating-bitcoin-s-noise-4356332/ep63-the-bitcoin-backed-shadow-financial-system-a-strategic-briefing-with-matthew-pines","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/navigating-bitcoin-s-noise-4356332","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep63-the-bitcoin-backed-shadow-financial-system-a-strategic-briefing-with-matthew-pines--67269239","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/67269239/ep63_the_bitcoin_backed_shadow_financial_system_a_strategic_briefing_with_matthew_pines.mp3","summary":"America’s global power has always been built on controlling networks, money, trade, and communication. But today, those networks are under attack. China’s Belt & Road is building a parallel system, Stablecoins are being weaponized as tools of financial repression, and Bitcoin is emerging as a strategic asset that could flip global finance. Add AI-driven narrative warfare, and we’re entering a battle between centralized control, the Tower and decentralized freedom, the Square. Today, Matthew Pines and I unpack how America’s monetary tech stack is being rebuilt; before it’s too late. Kane McGukin X: https://twitter.com/kanemcgukin kanemcgukin.substack.com Matthew Pines X: https://x.com/matthew_pines https://www.btcpolicy.org/ https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/a-global-economic-reordering-us-china-competition-and-bitcoin-as-tool-of-us-statecraft","meta_description":"America’s global power has always been built on controlling networks, money, trade, and communication. But today, those networks are under attack. China’s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4155,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/navigating-bitcoin-s-noise-4356332/episodes/ep63-the-bitcoin-backed-shadow-financial-system-a-strategic-briefing-with-matthew-pines/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/navigating-bitcoin-s-noise-4356332/ep63-the-bitcoin-backed-shadow-financial-system-a-strategic-briefing-with-matthew-pines.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}