# Empire Extraction

URL: /show/this-week-in-bitcoin/70/
> Empires drowning in debt turn to plunder, tariffs, and control. But this time, the cracks in the empire reveal the case for Bitcoin.

- Show: [This Week In Bitcoin](/show/this-week-in-bitcoin/)
- Episode: 70
- Date: 2025-08-20
- Hosts: chris
- Duration: 01:08:47
- Audio: https://feeds.fountain.fm/40huHEEF6JMPGYctMuUI/items/o553kyARj1XBpYNYJgHc/files/AUDIO---DEFAULT---59943769-69a9-4274-bbe5-5cc8499e214e.mp3





### Episode Links

* 🇺🇸 [Buy Sats on River](https://partner.river.com/jupiter) \- The best way to stack in the US
* 🇨🇦 [The Bitcoin Well](https://www.bitcoinwell.com/jupiter) \- An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform
* ⚡ [The Bitcoin Company](https://app.thebitcoincompany.com/signup?ref=JUPITER) \- Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning
* 🏦 [Fold Card](https://use.foldapp.com/r/XNHPXTFC) \- Pay bills Stack Sats
* 💵 [SALT Lending](https://borrower.saltlending.com/register?referralCode=GkPQdbqWG) \- Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling

**Show Notes:**

* [Bitcoin tanks below $119k as Bessent says gov’t won’t buy Bitcoin for reserve](https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-tanks-below-119k-bessent-gov-t-won-t-buy-bitcoin-reserve)
* [Producer Price Index News Release summary - 2025 M07 Results](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm)
* [Not at the table: Europe's colonial moment](https://arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/not-at-the-table-europes-colonial)
* [Arthur Hayes: Bitcoin Will Soar as Money Printing Won’t Stop! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvmVFg5JwJE)
* [Bank of International Settlements Paper Proposes Self-KYC For Non-Custodial Wallets](https://www.therage.co/bank-of-international-settlements-kyc-non-custodial-wallets/)
* [Former White House cryptocurrency adviser Bo Hines joins Tether](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-white-house-cryptocurrency-adviser-bo-hines-joins-tether-134729416.html)
* [FBI's undercover $250 Bitcoin payment helps take down alleged serial corporate hacker ](https://www.theblock.co/post/359837/fbis-undercover-bitcoin-payment-hacker)
* [Citigroup considers custody and payment services for stablecoins, crypto ETFs ](https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/citigroup-considers-custody-payment-services-stablecoins-crypto-etfs-2025-08-14/)
* [Ethereum staking faces $3.28 billion exit queue as delays hit longest wait in months](https://cryptoslate.com/insights/ethereum-staking-faces-3-28-billion-exit-queue-as-delays-hit-longest-wait-in-months/)
* [Group pitches Bitcoin mining to warm Vancouver's Kits Pool](https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/could-bitcoin-mining-be-used-to-heat-vancouvers-kitsilano-pool/)
* [BITCOIN HISTORY: Satoshi launched Bitcoin . org exactly 17 years ago today](https://x.com/btc_archive/status/1957513713994367222?t=E9EIlRX-vHxbQ8g23lQU3A)
* [Andreas Antonopoulos - Currency Wars and Bitcoin's Neutrality - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZCVQHtD2l4)

**MUSIC:**

* [Junkyard of Dreams by Jawbone](https://podcastindex.org/podcast/7347121?episode=37679753423)