Franklin Hugh Money

An Investment in Knowledge

An Audio Series

Bitcoin: A Money Story

Not a computing story. A money story — how a few thousand lines of code came to be worth more than a trillion dollars, told from the beginning.

Eight parts Listen in order Education, not advice

All eight episodes are now live. Start at the beginning — each part builds on the last. This is a series about where Bitcoin came from and how it actually works, built up from the problem it was made to solve, not the price chart. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy anything.
1
The Money Problem: What Bitcoin Was Built to Solve
A timestamp and an accusation in the same breath.

The genesis-block headline, the double-spend problem, the cost of the middleman, and the thirty years of cryptographers who tried to remove him — ending with the nine-page paper that did.

Listen · Part 1

The Money Problem

~15 min
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2
The Proof: Mining and Proof of Work
A global lottery that runs every ten minutes and costs real electricity to enter.

Proof of work, mining, and the energy debate argued honestly — plus the quiet truth that miners propose but nodes dispose.

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The Proof

~13 min
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3
Your Keys: Wallets and Self-Custody
Owning bitcoin means controlling a secret. Lose it and there is no one to call.

Your wealth as a sentence, the ladder of custody from exchange IOU to cold storage, and why every disaster targets you, never the blockchain.

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Your Keys

~13 min
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4
The Transaction: How a Payment Moves
Ten thousand bitcoin bought two pizzas. Now watch a coin actually move.

No balances, only discrete chunks of unspent coin; why fees track bytes, not dollars; and the mempool auction for block space.

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The Transaction

~12 min
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5
The War and the Upgrade: The Block-Size War
A disagreement about one setting that was really a war over Bitcoin's soul.

The block-size war, why users — not miners — settled it, and the second-layer answer (Lightning) tested live in El Salvador.

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The War and the Upgrade

~13 min
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6
The Valuation: Why Bitcoin Has Any Value
The reason nobody spends it is the same reason it's worth anything at all.

The bull and bear cases tested against gold, Ethereum, and Saylor's leveraged bet. The verdict: not settled.

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The Valuation

~13 min
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7
Getting It, Keeping It: Buying and Storing Safely
The playbook — and where most people quietly make their worst mistakes.

Buying, the exchange IOU, ETFs vs. self-custody, dollar-cost averaging, position sizing, taxes, and multisig for inheritance.

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Getting It, Keeping It

~12 min
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8
The Frontier: What Comes Next
Money being rebuilt, in public, in real time, by no one in particular.

Mt. Gox, the ETF's gentle inversion, privacy, stablecoins, governments turning buyer, the miners' fee-only future, and the distant quantum clock.

Listen · Part 8

The Frontier

~14 min
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