The Bitcoin Boomers

What happens to your Bitcoin when you die? Can the government freeze or seize it? Could quantum computers break Bitcoin? And why is Bitcoin down while stocks are sitting near record highs?

In this episode of The Bitcoin Boomers, Larry Lepard, Bob Burnett and George break down five of the biggest questions Bitcoin holders are asking right now.

They dig into self-custody, multisig, inheritance planning, wrench attacks, AI-powered social engineering, Executive Order 6102, government confiscation risk, Bitcoin mining, non-KYC Bitcoin, quantum computing, Bitcoin’s relationship to global liquidity, the current drawdown, long-term holder capitulation, and why Bitcoin should never be confused with the broader crypto industry.

They also tackle a much bigger question:

What actually makes Bitcoin worth protecting?

From the invention of digital scarcity to a monetary network that no government, CEO or company controls, this conversation gets to the heart of why Bitcoin is fundamentally different.

00:00 The five questions

00:44 Q1: What happens to my Bitcoin when I die?

02:05 A word from Swan

02:38 Wrench attacks, AI scams, and multi-sig

07:28 Q2: Can the government take or freeze my Bitcoin?

08:25 Executive Order 6102, the 1933 precedent

14:20 A word from Sazmining: The Hash Stash

14:48 Mining non-KYC Bitcoin

16:33 Q3: Will quantum computers break Bitcoin?

20:23 Q4: Why is Bitcoin down while stocks are at highs?

24:04 A word from Ledn

25:04 Q5: $10,000 in Trump coin vs Bitcoin

Topics include:

• What happens to your Bitcoin when you die

• Self-custody, multisig and inheritance

• Can the government seize Bitcoin?

• Executive Order 6102 and the history of gold confiscation

• Why counterparty risk matters

• Mining Bitcoin directly

• Quantum computing and Bitcoin security

• Why Bitcoin is lagging stocks

• Bitcoin and global liquidity

• Why the current drawdown may represent opportunity

• Bitcoin vs. Trump Coin and the broader crypto market

• Why Bitcoin is a “zero-to-one” monetary invention

This episode is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute financial, tax, legal or investment advice.

The Bitcoin Boomers is a panel for smart, successful people over 40 still on the outside of Bitcoin looking in. Plain English answers to the questions no one else will touch. Signal without the noise.

Your hosts:

Gary Leland, founder of BitBlockBoom and Hall of Fame podcaster.

Lawrence Lepard, sound money fund manager and author of The Big Print.

Bob Burnett, mining entrepreneur and founder of Barefoot Mining.

George Bodine, the World's Most Interesting Bitcoiner.

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Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@BTCBoomers

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Bitcoin #BitcoinForBeginners #BitcoinBoomers

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Bitcoin is the final exit. The escape hatch. The parachute at the end of the ride.

George came back from Prague with a changed thesis, and this episode gets back to Bitcoin basics: money in self-custody that no one can stop. Larry breaks down why the third big print is coming and what a slow-motion currency failure actually looks like. Bob opens the books on the miners trilemma and why the hardest conditions in mining history are flashing the same signal as the last great bottom: whenever the money is hard, that's when you go in.

Also on the table: the shiny object syndrome draining capital into AI, why sentiment is the worst the boomers have ever seen while every metric screams value zone, paper Bitcoin and the ghost of Sam Bankman-Fried, BIP110 and the three and a half weeks until the chain decides, and why Kevin Warsh is just the modern-day Von Havenstein.

Bob's Miners Trilemma article in Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-miners-face-a-dilemma-for-success

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Cold open

01:25 Welcome: skin in the game

04:55 The Prague reset

05:18 Bitcoin is the final exit

06:50 A word from Ledn

07:44 Larry: a thousand years of debasement

09:41 The electricity timeline

10:35 Paper Bitcoin and SBF

12:11 Lost focus: three phrases

14:38 Worst sentiment, best value zone

15:54 Larry: how you get to $1M a coin

17:26 The shiny object syndrome

17:48 Bob: the miners trilemma

20:50 A word from Sazmining

21:43 What's suppressing price: rates, IPOs, AI capex

24:52 Larry: the liquidity indicator

26:04 The third print: enemy action

29:26 Warsh, the modern Von Havenstein

30:39 BIP110: two camps

34:30 Three and a half weeks to the fork

37:00 Hopeful endings

40:24 Watermelons

Not financial advice. Three friends talking Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin Boomers is a panel for smart, successful people over 40 still on the outside of Bitcoin looking in. Plain English answers to the questions no one else will touch. Signal without the noise.

Your hosts:

Gary Leland, founder of BitBlockBoom and Hall of Fame podcaster.

Lawrence Lepard, sound money fund manager and author of The Big Print.

Bob Burnett, mining entrepreneur and founder of Barefoot Mining.

George Bodine, the World's Most Interesting Bitcoiner.

Listen to the audio anywhere:

🍎 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bitcoin-boomers/id1853058330

⚡ Fountain: https://fountain.fm/show/kHBRZl0Mb0MGWMELtjw4

Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@BTCBoomers

Sponsors who make Boomers possible:

Bitcoin Well, self-custody made simple: https://bitcoinwell.com

Sazmining, mine your own Bitcoin: https://Sazmining.com/Boomers

Ledn, borrow against your Bitcoin: https://ledn.io/boomers

Follow the hosts:

Bob Burnett https://x.com/boomer_btc | Gary Leland https://x.com/GaryLeland | Lawrence Lepard https://x.com/LawrenceLepard | George Bodine https://x.com/Jethroe111

Bitcoin #BitcoinForBeginners #BitcoinBoomers

Educational only. Not financial, legal, tax, or investment advice. Do your own research.

Are Bitcoin miners abandoning Bitcoin for AI? Is Bitcoin's fee market broken? And did Michael Saylor get this one wrong?

In this episode of Bitcoin Boomers, Bob Burnett, Larry Lepard, and George Bodine dive into one of the biggest debates facing Bitcoin in 2026.

Public mining companies are pivoting toward AI infrastructure, hash rate is declining for the first time in Bitcoin history, BIP-110 has ignited fierce discussion throughout the ecosystem, and the future of Bitcoin mining may look nothing like what we've assumed.

If you care about Bitcoin's long-term security, mining economics, decentralization, or the future of block space, this is one conversation you don't want to miss.

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Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:31 State of Bitcoin mining today

02:15 Why hash rate is falling for the first time

05:05 Public miners are struggling

07:12 AI vs Bitcoin mining

10:28 Are our assumptions about mining wrong?

14:06 Decentralization improves as miners exit

17:15 Mining economics explained

21:18 Why public miners are pivoting to AI

27:12 "Good riddance" to Bitcoin miners?

31:05 Why AI is attracting all the capital

34:42 Is the four-year cycle still alive?

39:30 The real purpose of Bitcoin mining

43:12 Why block space matters

47:30 Banks could become major miners

52:02 Responding to Michael Saylor's comments

57:45 Can Bitcoin fees replace the subsidy?

1:03:42 Larry Lepard on BIP-110

1:08:55 Thinking 10–20 years ahead

1:13:20 Final thoughts

Bitcoin #BitcoinMining #MichaelSaylor #AI #BIP110 #LarryLepard #BobBurnett #GeorgeBodine

The new Fed Chairman says inflation will be a thing of the past.

Larry Lepard, Bob Burnett, and George Bodine explain why that's the most sophisticated lie in finance, and why the three assets the government can't print are about to come back with a vengeance.

Recorded July 14, 2026, as Kevin Warsh delivered his Humphrey-Hawkins testimony live.

In this episode: the Warsh playbook and "foaming the runway," why the Phillips curve is dead at the Fed, the Big Mac Index vs CPI, M2 growth vs the official inflation numbers, the AI capex arms race and why it guarantees liquidity, Hank Paulson's warning about the bond market, Japan's carry trade cracking, the power law model and why this drawdown looks like fall 2022, the Amazon parallel, and why you're not too late.

⏱ CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold Open: The Lie

1:07 Welcome: Warsh Testifies Live

1:37 "A Whopper of a Lie" + The Convenient CPI Print

2:45 The Warsh Playbook: Foaming the Runway

5:30 Why Bitcoin, Gold, and Silver Are in a Funk

7:01 Liquidity Is Tight: The China Factor

7:33 When Does It End? The Three Assets They Can't Print

8:19 Cooking the Numbers

9:07 Will AI Bail Them Out?

10:48 The Pivot: "Bitcoin Is Gonna Rip"

11:41 The Don Draper of Fed Chairmen

13:28 M2 vs CPI: The 4% Lie

14:13 Destroy Their System: Opt Out with Bitcoin

17:41 The Balance Sheet Trap

18:47 Paulson's Warning + Japan Is Cracking

20:58 The AI Capex Arms Race

24:59 Exponential Functions Burn Out

25:26 The Greatest Accumulation Period Since 2022

27:18 Dry Powder + The Power Law

28:40 For Everyone Who Bought at 120

31:28 "You're Not Too Late"

32:05 The Amazon Parallel: Buy the Leader

The Bitcoin Boomers is a panel for smart, successful people over 40 still on the outside of Bitcoin looking in. Plain English answers to the questions no one else will touch. Signal without the noise.

Your hosts:

Gary Leland, founder of BitBlockBoom and Hall of Fame podcaster.

Lawrence Lepard, sound money fund manager and author of The Big Print.

Bob Burnett, mining entrepreneur and founder of Barefoot Mining.

George Bodine, the World's Most Interesting Bitcoiner.

Listen to the audio anywhere:

🍎 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bitcoin-boomers/id1853058330

⚡ Fountain: https://fountain.fm/show/kHBRZl0Mb0MGWMELtjw4

Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@BTCBoomers

Sponsors who make Boomers possible:

Sazmining, mine your own Bitcoin: https://Sazmining.com/Boomers

Ledn, borrow against your Bitcoin: https://ledn.io/boomers

Follow the hosts:

Bob Burnett https://x.com/boomer_btc

Gary Leland https://x.com/GaryLeland

Lawrence Lepard https://x.com/LawrenceLepard

George Bodine https://x.com/Jethroe111

Bitcoin #BitcoinForBeginners #BitcoinBoomers

Educational only. Not financial, legal, tax, or investment advice. Do your own research.

Iran just made Bitcoin the toll for oil, and the U.S. dollar should be terrified. In this episode of The Bitcoin Boomers, Bob Burnett, Larry Lepard, and Gary Leland break down the petrodollar shift that could reshape global money.

Bob's Country Club buddies finally stopped laughing, Gary wants to live to 200, and Larry's hair is on fire. The Boomers go deep on inflation, the bond market, the coming "Big Print," and why Bitcoin may be the ultimate escape hatch for anyone trying to protect their wealth.

In this Bitcoin episode you will learn about:

0:00 Intro

01:03 Robert Kiyosaki's warning for Boomers

03:56 Why bond markets may be signaling a major financial event

04:10 Warsh the new Fed chair

08:49 Bob THOUGHT he would want to be CEO one day

11:28 AI, productivity, and the future of employment

14:06 Life is better now than in the Middle Ages

17:43 Bob finally gets respect at the Country Club

19:45 Education advice for younger generations

21:00 At Least You aren't Litecoin Larry

22:00 At certain wealth levels you don't notice what's going on

23:05 Larry's friend hates The Big Print

25:00 Gary wants to live to be 200

32:00 If you want to live to be 200 you need Bitcoin

34:00 Japan's debt crisis and the Yen Carry Trade

40:02 Big Print 3 and what makes Larry's hair catch fire

42:20 This is when power law rips to the upside

45:00 The Japanese 100 year mortgage

47:00 Why Bitcoin may become the ultimate escape hatch

48:00 The Petro Sat

49:10 Bitcoin the network

50:08 Nations and Blockspace

51:49 Iran kicked off the SWIFT system

53:00 A reason to mine Bitcoin and it's not what you think

01:05 First layer transactions won't last forever.

02:05 Bitcoin insurance is what they are paying for.

Why successful investors are suddenly asking questions about Bitcoin

Nation-state Bitcoin mining and sovereign block space

Iran, Russia, China, and Bitcoin's geopolitical role

Bitcoin as censorship-resistant money

Inflation, rising living costs, and generational pressure

This is Bitcoin macro for Boomers: sound money, wealth preservation, and the future of the financial system explained by people who have lived through decades of market cycles.

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🎙️ About The Bitcoin Boomers

The Bitcoin Boomers are Gary Leland, Lawrence Lepard, Bob Burnett, and George Bodine. 4 men with decades of experience in business, tech, macro, and investing. If you're over 40 and building wealth, protecting wealth, or simply trying to understand how money really works, this show is for you.

Gary Leland: Founder of BitBlockBoom, early digital pioneer, and Hall of Fame podcaster. Gary built some of the earliest e-commerce sites in 1996 and became one of the world's first podcasters in 2004. His work earned recognition in Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites and induction into the Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame. He founded BitBlockBoom.com, now in its 10th year as the longest-running Bitcoin conference in North America.

Lawrence Lepard: Macro investor, sound money advocate, and author of The Big Print: https://amzn.to/3XuzAtn. Lawrence brings four decades of experience in venture capital, private equity, and macro analysis. He speaks openly about inflation, debt cycles, monetary failure, and the fragility of the fiat system. He does not hold back on his convictions.

Bob Burnett: Tech veteran, Bitcoin mining entrepreneur, and former CTO at Gateway. Bob spent 13 years as CTO and EVP of Products at Gateway, helping lead innovation in personal computing, and worked on the world's first laptop at Zenith. Today he runs BarefootMining.com, building diversified, decentralized Bitcoin mining sites across the U.S.

George Bodine: Arguably the world's most interesting man. From fighter pilot to Delta pilot to Bitcoiner.