{"podcast":{"title":"Playable Characters Show with Brandon Gentile","slug":"playable-characters-show-with-brandon-gentile-6977645","podcast_index_feed_id":6977645,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1f416a8/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://brandongentile.substack.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/227738/227738-1738730349755-ec554eeb3260d.jpg","author":"Brandon Gentile","episode_count":476,"summary":"The “Playable Characters” show is an intimate deep dive in to people of the world who can critically think in the Bitcoin, macro economic, liberty, financial literacy, and business arena. My mission is to use my experience as a professional hockey player, business owner, investor, father, and husband to arm you with the info you need to protect yourself from out of control cronies and the unproductive class hell-bent on running every aspect of your life. Enjoy, Brandon","last_synced_at":"2026-07-08T04:17:34.700932+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/playable-characters-show-with-brandon-gentile-6977645"},"episode":{"title":"The Bitcoin Civil War That's Holding Price Hostage","slug":"the-bitcoin-civil-war-that-s-holding-price-hostage","published_at":"2026-05-24T11:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/playable-characters-show-with-brandon-gentile-6977645/the-bitcoin-civil-war-that-s-holding-price-hostage","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/playable-characters-show-with-brandon-gentile-6977645","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandongentile/episodes/The-Bitcoin-Civil-War-Thats-Holding-Price-Hostage-e3jq05b","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1f416a8/podcast/play/120438379/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-23%2F424752881-44100-2-41690ae6d3471.mp3","summary":"What I can’t say on YouTube… I publish here: 👉 https://brandongentile.substack.com Next TOP interview: 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rkSnl1eBZI&list=PL69jJphDIQDWu-4cG5NWzUazXfhsoTLrd&index=1The Debate That Could Save Bitcoin...or Kill It Forever👉 Engrave the seed from your wallet on titanium with Stamp Seed, the last backup you’ll ever need. https://www.stampseed.com/ use code BRANDON for 15% OFF storewide!👉 Don’t just HODL - protect what you HODL. Meanwhile is the first life insurance company built entirely in Bitcoin, helping you safeguard your wealth and pass it on safely. 💎 https://meanwhile.bm/start?referralCode=4QPBWCConnect with Matthew here: Twitter - https://x.com/mattkratter?s=20Nostr - https://primal.net/kratterWebsite - https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com🔊 LISTEN ONFountain - https://fountain.fm/show/X8q7DR6vzgS9zXPYgJumSpotify - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandongentile 📲 TALK TO ME ONTwitter - https://twitter.com/brandon_gentileNostr - primal.net/p/npub1r6xc8z27uv9dy4zd55z6rjxe2vcdu40jrygla0wcug56klfeh4nshta9je ⚡️ SUPPORT THE SHOW & VALUE FOR VALUE ECONOMY!Strike ID: https://strike.me/brandongentile/ Cash App: $ThinkingBig811Timestamps:0:00 — Stanford PhD dropout turned Peter Thiel hedge fund analyst explains his unlikely path from English literature to global macro trading.15:58 — Bitcoin's toxic maximalist culture peaked in 2020 and 2021, why the social layer has since collapsed.21:35 — Kratter reveals he has had to publicly attack former friends and allies Adam Back and Michael Saylor to protect Bitcoin's integrity.24:54 — Culture is upstream of consensus: why the Second Amendment analogy exposes the slow death of Bitcoin's core ethos.35:36 — Iran accepting Bitcoin for crude oil insurance is a direct and deliberate attack o…","meta_description":"What I can’t say on YouTube… I publish here: 👉 https://brandongentile.substack.com Next TOP interview: 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rkSnl1eBZI&l…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7639,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/playable-characters-show-with-brandon-gentile-6977645/episodes/the-bitcoin-civil-war-that-s-holding-price-hostage/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/playable-characters-show-with-brandon-gentile-6977645/the-bitcoin-civil-war-that-s-holding-price-hostage.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}