Trust Revolution
Shawn Yeager
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Unfiltered conversations with builders, thinkers, and operators in Bitcoin and beyond. Exploring the systems we trust, why they work (or don't), and what comes next.
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S3E7 Self-Custody for You and Your AI | Roland Bewick
“With 12 words, you can travel the world. Your money arrives in the country before you do. It cannot be taken from you.” Roland Bewick builds the software that makes that sentence true—and just…
S3E6 Your Data's Already Gone. Now What? | James Lee
“You cannot have data compromised that you do not have.” James Lee has spent two decades watching breach transparency collapse—from near-total disclosure in 2020 to just 30 percent today. The…
S3E5 Your Money, Your Data, Your Mind | Jesse Posner
“If somebody gets control over your personal AI — all your health data, all your financial data, all your emails, everything you've thought about — they own you.” Jesse Posner built FROST threshold…
S3E4 S03E04 John Robb — Total Surveillance Is One Switch Away
“All it takes is the political will or the political mistake to turn it on. And it's there.” John Robb maps the path from post-national identity collapse to automated totalitarian surveillance—and…
S3E3 S03E03 Aaron van Wirdum – Bitcoin's Origin Story and the Unfinished Fight
“The cypherpunks who tried to build digital cash before Bitcoin might one day be remembered like America's founding fathers.” Aaron van Wirdum spent five years writing The Genesis Book—and warns the…
S3E2 S03E02 Jason Hughey – Companies Don't Keep Promises. People Do.
Enron had “integrity” as a core value. FTX had none at all. Both collapsed. Jason Hughey argues the problem isn't whether companies state their values—it's whether those values function as actual…
S3E1 S03E01 Oscar Merry — What Joe Rogan Lost for $100M
“If you choose to go exclusive on Spotify, you're essentially saying to 70% of your existing and potential audience, ‘Sorry, you can't listen anymore.’” Oscar Merry watched Joe Rogan lose influence…
S2E16 S02E16 Pippellia – Reputation Without a Kill Switch
“Web of Trust is any network of relationship where trust is distributed and emergent—it's not imposed by someone else.” Pip builds the infrastructure that makes decentralized reputation actually…
S2E15 S02E15 Christian Keroles – What Dissidents Know About Bitcoin
“It's not enough for me to be taken care of if everyone else on the planet is living in a digital gulag.” CK explains why HRF treats Bitcoin as essential infrastructure for human rights—and why…
S2E14 S02E14 Why Ads Keep Winning
Big Tech captures $670 a year from the average American through attention and data. Voluntary payment has never broken past 5% adoption in 50 years of trying. So why does it still matter? Because…
S2E13 S02E13 Cory Doctorow – Why Every Platform Betrays You
“The smallest government you can have is determined by the largest corporation you're willing to tolerate.” Cory Doctorow didn't just coin “enshittification”—he mapped the precise mechanics of how…
S2E12 S02E12 Average Gary – From classified ops to open source
Operating under a pseudonym fits the ethos—sovereignty starts with controlling your identity. Average Gary brought the “thinking shooter” principle from Naval Special Warfare into Bitcoin: you don't…
S2E11 S02E11 Stephen DeLorme – Bitcoin and Freedom by Design
“It's really difficult to engineer freedom tech—solutions that require you to kind of take ownership of your money, take ownership of your data. These things typically have engineering solutions that…
S2E10 S02E10 Dan Gould – Turning privacy into Bitcoin's economic edge
“Bitcoin exists to remove intermediaries from the movement of money online. Without privacy, if someone can see how money is moving, they don't like someone you paid, they can discriminate based on…
S2E9 S02E09 Tim Bouma — Digital ID architect builds the escape route
“You cannot have trust without some form of governance. And governance is basically rules.” Tim Bouma has spent two decades inside government building Canada's digital identity framework. He's also…
S2E8 S02E08 Trey Sellers – Power Without Permission
"If you go into a local community bank and ask for $50,000 in cash, you're going to get a lot of questions—and very likely they're going to say, 'Come back in a week, we need to order that.' The cash…
S2E7 S02E07 Rob Brinded – Can you trust your mind?
What if the mind you trust is running a four-year-old's survival code? Rob Brinded, author of Glitch: The Hidden Code Running Your Life (And How to Debug It), joins Shawn to reveal how childhood…
S2E6 S02E06 – Privacy's last stand
September 2025 marked a critical turning point in the surveillance economy. Disney paid $10 million for illegally collecting children's data. Google faced $425.7 million in penalties for nearly a…
S2E5 S02E05 Live from Imagine IF 2025
This week we feature the “Open Communities in the Age of Control” panel, recorded live on September 20th at the Imagine IF conference in Nashville. The discussion dives into the erosion of trust in a…
S2E4 S02E04 Alex Newman – Trust Crisis: Paths to Renewal
Centralized systems—Big Pharma, globalist agendas, government education—are crumbling under their own weight, leaving trust in tatters. Alex Newman, investigative journalist and CEO of Liberty…
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Trust Revolution has published 37 episodes since March 2025, covering topics in Science, Social Sciences.
Trust Revolution is currently declining with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 1h 6m.
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