Back on the Chain

In episode 50, we celebrate a small milestone and dive straight into the overlap between Phish, Bitcoin, and pattern recognition. From the latest Dick’s run to the Liquid/Blockstream saga, we explore how easily our worlds blur together: rain delays, setlist interpretations, off-chain debates, and the strange habit of hearing meaning everywhere at once. We also spend a lot of ...

In this episode, we finally recap Lake Satoshi and why it felt so uniquely familiar to me: not just as a Bitcoin gathering, but as something with the vibe, openness, and weird magic of a Phish festival. We talk about the atmosphere on the ground, the people we connected with, and why the event’s camping format and community energy made such a strong impression. We also reflec...

In this episode, I welcomed Mark Goodwin back to the show, and we went deep on Phish’s recent run—why it felt so fresh, so generous, and, at times, almost unbelievable. We talked about Mark falling hard back into the band through couch tour, the way Phish has been finding new jam spaces inside songs that were never traditional vehicles, and how the MSG “90s shows” captured bo...