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Adam Back

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Sep 21, 2026

JVHOST
13:54
But let me know your thoughts.
JVHOST
13:55
In yesterday's episode, we deciphered Adam Back's prediction of Bitcoin hitting one million per coin before the next halving estimated to take place in April of 2028.
JVHOST
14:04
Let me know if you agree or disagree with that.
JVHOST
14:07
Also, more breaking news.
Knut SvanholmHOST
9:47
you end up having fewer participants in the network, which is bad for you, objectively speaking, because you're losing out on those fees.
Knut SvanholmHOST
9:56
However, if they think that this movement is too small, then they have their other economic incentives, including being friends with Saylor and Adam Back and people who are big in the space but were against this fork.
Knut SvanholmHOST
10:14
So they have to weigh this economic decision one against the other.
Knut SvanholmHOST
10:19
And the sales numbers of start nines and umbrals, like 5,000 new nodes fired up approximately, all of this is approximation.
JVHOST
2:26
Meanwhile, the biggest pools of capital are positioning before the crowd.
JVHOST
2:30
And Adam Back has been pounding the table on where this ultimately goes.
JVHOST
2:34
This isn't some random crypto influencer throwing numbers at a wall.
JVHOST
2:37
Back invented hash cash, the proof of work system that became a foundational precursor to Bitcoin.
JVHOST
2:43
Satoshi Nakamoto corresponded directly with him during Bitcoin's creation, and Back has publicly maintained the standing bet that Bitcoin reaches one million per coin before the 2028 halving.
JVHOST
2:55
He has also described something so much bigger.
JVHOST
2:57
In an interview with CoinShares, Back said that if Bitcoin reaches its full potential, it could ultimately command a $200 trillion market cap.
JVHOST
3:06
Think about that number.
Paul SztorcGUEST
14:24
widely endorsed in the BTC community.
Paul SztorcGUEST
14:26
We have people like Adam Back, we have Rene Picard who wrote Master of Lightning, Robin Linus who invented BPM.
Paul SztorcGUEST
14:31
So it's a long, long list of people.
Paul SztorcGUEST
14:34
And the answer, the question is, if it's a good idea, why hasn't BTC adopted it? And so the answers are, maybe it's a terrible idea, what we're proposing, or, you know, the alternative explanation is just that there's this weird cultural problems in BTC.
ArchieHOST
53:16
You're not going to have as many resources to make sure that your solution is going to be well-engineered, right, from a security point of view.
ArchieHOST
53:25
No, I know Adam Back also makes the argument that says, well, there's more complexity in shit-cornering.
ArchieHOST
53:30
I know.
ArchieHOST
53:31
All I'm saying is there are trade-offs either way, right? You can either go for this five-person shop in Canada with two devs, and we saw how that worked out, you know, but it was culturally pure, or you can go with a company that sells more units and probably has more engineering resources as well.
BlakeHOST
2:50
Yeah.
BlakeHOST
2:50
So just to give everybody a little context, Blockstream is a company that was founded by Adam Beck, who was one of potentially one of the early founders or contributors to Bitcoin.
BlakeHOST
3:03
And Blockstream builds a bunch of products.
BlakeHOST
3:06
They fund some of the Bitcoin corporations.
BlakeHOST
5:39
Yeah.
BlakeHOST
5:40
So quite a long time.
BlakeHOST
5:42
And yeah, unfortunately, Adam might have to, Adam Beck might have to flip the bill for this one.
TraceyHOST
5:49
Well, look, he may have some money stuck somewhere on the side because there's a lot of rumours for a while that he might have been Satoshi.
SatoshiHOST
30:50
bringing context to complex interactions between geopolitics, macroeconomics, and Bitcoin, as you highlighted.
SatoshiHOST
30:56
Landing industry leaders like Adam Back and Jack Mallers from day one significantly cements their credibility, positioning BMTV to become a primary source of institutional-grade insight.
SatoshiHOST
31:06
Their laser focus on Bitcoin also fills a strategic vacuum, offering unfiltered expertise that mass-market crypto media often dilutes.
GeorgeHOST
31:13
Now, let me put you on the spot, Satoshi.
JoeyHOST
16:40
And that's the problem they're having.
LenHOST
16:41
So Adam Back says that the network resumption is coming up.
LenHOST
16:44
And he says that the peg will be covered.
LenHOST
16:47
But he says that don't panic sell.
QHOST
32:14
Um, and on the September the 10th, four days ago, the Liquid Network restarted.
QHOST
32:19
Um, and Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream, said that the liquid Bitcoin peg will be covered one to one.
QHOST
32:28
I have a couple of follow-up comments, um, but I wanna let you come in first.
MaxHOST
32:38
I sort of side with the theft, with the criminals here-
Thomas HuntHOST
0:42
and i'm thomas hunt from the world crypto network moving on to issue one liquid bug well they found the bug that drained the liquid foundation it's not good from what i can tell blockstream recently found a vulnerability from 2019 i'm not going to name names but they were patching the vulnerability five days ago the problem is they did it in phases and disclosed it to the public without waiting for it to be patched and telling everyone where the vulnerability was this is either a massive negligent blunder or an intentional scapegoat i don't have evidence either way but i'm just pointing out that both are plausible from a technical level in simple terms they found a back door to the treasure instead of closing the door writing right away or waiting to tell everyone until the door was closed they posted the treasure map for the whole world to see while the back door was left wide open hackers have stolen 4 000 bitcoin worth 320 million dollars from the liquid Network However, the hackers claim to be white hat hackers and say, contact us on chain.
Thomas HuntHOST
2:00
company worth three billion dollars whose ceo is speculated to be satoshi built its own side chain and the hacker walked away with 4 000 real bitcoin the federation signed it because the fake coins looked valid the keys were not stolen this is a software bug she says ben says he wrote a little screenplay about it four thousand bitcoin one small bug one very unhappy lawyer yes very funny and uh let's see white hats stole them we are white hats uh richard hart hits adam back after the liquid drain liquid richard hart went after adam back and after purported white hats pulled four thousand he said liquid is pause the coins west through a peg art no keys were reported stolen the bitcoin had not been returned hart said that back had long called him a scammer and that a large part of the bitcoin community has long disliked blockstream heart piling on to the trouble liquid network attacker returns 3 400 bitcoin after bug fix retains nearly 600 bitcoin around 50 million dollars block stream refuses the ransom for the return of 47 million dollars in the liquid heist saying it is theft with 598 bitcoins still outstanding the company says it will go to law enforcement and that the funds should be returned Ben, quite a soap opera there, the liquid blockchain hack.
Thomas HuntHOST
3:41
What do you think, especially about the end part where they say, hey, we want the rest of our money too.
Ben ArkPANELIST
3:48
I think they have to legally say that because it was, I found it.

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Thomas HuntHOST
21:29
And as much as I agree, Blockstream has to come out and say, you dirty hackers, blah, blah, blah.
Thomas HuntHOST
21:34
They've got to be so happy they got this money back.
Thomas HuntHOST
21:36
You were saying it's really bad for Adam Back and all these things.
Thomas HuntHOST
21:40
I'm looking at it the other way.

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