{"podcast":{"title":"Escape the Technocracy","slug":"watchman-privacy-4507961","podcast_index_feed_id":4507961,"rss_url":"https://watchmanprivacy.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://watchmanprivacy.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/6/c/2/46c2757e659c596bd959afa2a1bf1c87/Main.jpg","author":"Gabriel Custodiet","episode_count":63,"summary":"Escape the Technocracy is a techno-adventure show on privacy tactics and evading technological tyranny.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T06:21:51.208766+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/watchman-privacy-4507961"},"episode":{"title":"217 - The Politics of Bitcoin (Zelko & Samourai Wallet)","slug":"217-the-politics-of-bitcoin-zelko-samourai-wallet","published_at":"2026-04-17T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/watchman-privacy-4507961/217-the-politics-of-bitcoin-zelko-samourai-wallet","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/watchman-privacy-4507961","url":"https://watchmanprivacy.com/","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/watchmanprivacy/218_The_Politics_of_Bitcoin.mp3?dest-id=2727836","summary":"Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Zelko of RoninDojo and Samourai Wallet. They unpack the crazy politics in the Bitcoin community: from the fuzzy \"red lines\" of Bitcoin company, to the gradual diminishment of Bitcoin's cypherpunk origins, to FOSS gaslighting and the recent Ocean Mining censorship. Oh, and Bitcoin is not for Progressives. Note: Originally recorded December 2023 ZELKO & RONINDOJO → https://twitter.com/BTCxZelko → https://twitter.com/RoninDojoNode → https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatch/citadel-dispatch-e026-using (Node comparison) SAMOURAI WALLET → https://billandkeonne.org/ → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPY-5SR-jPQ (Bitcoin: An Experiment in Anarchism) WATCHMAN TORCH PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → https://watchmanstorch.com → Latest updates from Watchman Privacy MY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → https://escapethetechnocracy.com (including consulting) → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Gabriel's personal site) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy SUPPORT INDEPENDENT TECHNO-ADVENTURE JOURNALISM → No sponsors. No ads. Just truth. → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html","meta_description":"Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Zelko of RoninDojo and Samourai Wallet. They unpack the crazy politics in the Bitcoin community: from the fuzzy \"red lines\"…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5395,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/watchman-privacy-4507961/episodes/217-the-politics-of-bitcoin-zelko-samourai-wallet/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/watchman-privacy-4507961/217-the-politics-of-bitcoin-zelko-samourai-wallet.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}