Bitcoin, AI, and New Ideas, Explained for Normal People
Updated August 18, 2026
No lambos, no laser eyes. Financial planners, ranchers, economists and skeptics explaining money itself — why it loses value, what the Federal Reserve actually does, and whether Bitcoin is an answer or a mania. Vance asks the questions a smart, skeptical person actually has.
Episodes from the archive
From 487 episodes of the Vance Crowe Podcast, these conversations go deepest on this ground:
- Financial Planner Explains Why He Tells Clients to Put 1% in Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Mining Geography, Texas Stock Exchange vs NYSE, and Nostr Protocol Explained
- Bitcoin vs Cattle: Rancher Debates Digital Currency as Government Hedge
- Financial Planner Tells Clients to Put 5% of Portfolio in Bitcoin: Here's Why
- What is deflation? U.S. Treasuries expert Lacy Hunt explains how money's buying power changes.
- How Bitcoin Really Works and Why FDR Made Owning Gold Illegal in 1933
- Why Bitcoin's price stayed flat after ETF approval: Grayscale outflows explained
- Luke Gromen "print the money or trigger the revolution"
- Early Amazon Investor Explains Federal Reserve Critique and Private Currency Alternative
- Inflation vs Deflation Debate: Trust Officer Explains Fed Policy, Bitcoin Nodes, and OCD Reality
- Bitcoin Host Explains Why Digital Money Can't Be Hacked and Boomers Live in Different Reality
- Why Passive Investing Creates Zombie Money and Distorts Stock Prices
- AI Expert Explains 8 Ways Artificial Intelligence Could End Civilization
- Corn Yield Estimates Market Manipulation? Fed Bitcoin Reserve Plan, China Tariff Risks
- World Bank Insider Reveals Why Centralized Power Is Corruption and Bitcoin Will Win
- USDA Secretary Rollins: Polished Messenger or Independent Voice? Farm Subsidies vs Bitcoin
- Fed Rate Cuts, Chinese Currency Wars, and Why Government Creates the Monopolies It Fights
- Decentralized Internet Infrastructure: IPFS, Bitcoin Bubbles, and Censorship Resistance
- USDA Relocates 2,600 Employees, Fertilizer Supply Chain Crisis, and Bitcoin in Ag Lending
- Fed Rate Cuts Signal Hidden Crisis: Ag Economist Warns Something's Coming
- 25-Year-Old Entrepreneur on Modern Dating, Bitcoin, and Why Young Men Are Struggling
- Why Bureaucrats Always Win: Modern Survivalism, Bitcoin, and the Iron Law of Institutions
- John Deere's $195 Repair Tool, Bitcoin vs Shitcoins, and the Coming Index Fund Apocalypse
- Libertarian Predicts Which US State Goes Bankrupt First and How the Dollar Gets Rebooted
- Fourth-Generation Cattle Rancher on Bitcoin, Boomer Wealth Collapse, and Reading the Land
Where to go from here
If your organization needs new, contested ideas explained without hype — Bitcoin, AI and how to actually use it, what's real and what's mania — that's Vance's specialty, on stage or in his interest-based communication course.
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