# Demand by Chaos

URL: /show/this-week-in-bitcoin/98/
> History is moving whether anyone is ready or not. How the system is under pressure, and why it will flow toward Bitcoin.

- Show: [This Week In Bitcoin](/show/this-week-in-bitcoin/)
- Episode: 98
- Date: 2026-04-01
- Hosts: chris
- Duration: 00:50:35
- Audio: https://feeds.fountain.fm/40huHEEF6JMPGYctMuUI/items/Ao25u1Dj31pdj4UqbU91/files/AUDIO---DEFAULT---fb0ac28f-b884-4d2f-a263-63183f95e94c.mp3


Transcripts: [application/x-subrip](https://feeds.fountain.fm/40huHEEF6JMPGYctMuUI/items/Ao25u1Dj31pdj4UqbU91/files/AUDIO---TRANSCRIPT---DEFAULT---SRT.srt)




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* ⚡ [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

**Boost Question**

* Exit Interview: How do you grade our Crypto Czar?

**Show Notes**

* [Understanding the National Debt | U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data](https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-debt/)
* [Jerome Powell says $39 trillion national debt is ‘not unsustainable,’ but it ‘will not end well’](https://fortune.com/2026/03/30/jerome-powell-39-trillion-national-debt-not-unsustainable-will-not-end-well/)
* ['ENERGY SHOCKS': Recession fears EXPLODE as oil disruption ROCKS Wall Street - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvrZE0I-VJw)
* [The World Uncertainty Index just hit 105,000. Higher than Covid.](https://www.kucoin.com/news/insight/BTC/69ac2588a468940007f6b5d0)
* [Fannie Mae accepts first Bitcoin-backed mortgage product](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/fannie-mae-accepts-first-crypto-backed-mortgage-product.html)
* [Crypto and Bitcoin mortgages](https://www.rocketmortgage.com/learn/crypto-mortgage)
* [The System Isn’t Broken - It’s Rigged | Lyn Alden - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUaNrRBvKHQ)
* [David Sacks says his time as Trump's crypto and AI czar has ended](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/david-sacks-trump-crypto-ai-czar.html)
* [Tether Was Born On Bitcoin. Twelve Years Later, Is It Coming Back?](https://www.forbes.com/sites/boazsobrado/2026/03/31/tether-was-born-on-bitcoin-twelve-years-later-is-it-coming-back/)
* [Google Finds Quantum Computers Could Break Bitcoin Sooner Than Expected](https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/03/31/google-finds-quantum-computers-could-break-bitcoin-sooner-than-expected/)
* [Blockstream Research dropped a new post-quantum signature scheme: SHRIMPS](https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/2038968724871405972)
* [Developers are currently working on a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal to strengthen Bitcoin against quantum, with a test net already deployed](https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/2038949092206715286)
* [MARA sold 15,000 BTC, Bitdeer sold all of its BTC, Riot is selling BTC from treasury to fund data center build-outs, Auradine just rebranded to Velaura AI. The biggest miners are leaving the game.](https://x.com/thebillyboone/status/2037645521649836230)
* [31.0 Adding Cluster mempool](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/31.0-Release-Notes-Draft)

**Music**

* [I Need a Little By: The Retrograde](https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6877455)