5 Best Bitcoin Podcasts to Follow in 2026
Five Bitcoin podcasts worth your commute in 2026 — long-form interviews, daily news, and the rare philosophical deep-dive.
Bitcoin podcasts have a quality problem in both directions. The bad ones are pure cheerleading with a price chart. The "serious" ones are sometimes so technical or so philosophical that you stop listening at the gym. The five below are the ones we actually keep in rotation, with the caveats that come with each.
A note on format: all five publish as both audio and video. Pick whichever you prefer. None of them lose much without the picture.
1. What Bitcoin Did — Peter McCormack
What Bitcoin Did is the long-running conversational Bitcoin podcast, and probably the easiest entry point if you have never listened to one before. McCormack books a wide range of guests — developers, miners, economists, occasional critics — and lets the conversation breathe. Episodes are typically 90 minutes to two hours.
The weakness is the same as the strength: McCormack is a generalist, not a technical interviewer. He will let a guest skate past a hard question because he wants the conversation to flow, and he occasionally repeats his own talking points across episodes. If you want adversarial interviewing, look elsewhere. If you want a competent host who can carry a conversation with almost anyone in the space, this is the one.
Good first episode: any of the dev-heavy ones, where McCormack's habit of asking "explain it like I'm an idiot" actually works in your favor.
2. The What Is Money Show — Robert Breedlove
The What Is Money Show is the philosophical podcast in the Bitcoin space, for better and for worse. Breedlove takes the position that money is the deepest social technology humans have, and that thinking about Bitcoin is therefore thinking about civilization. He brings on monetary historians, Austrian economists, theologians, and the occasional engineer.
The strengths: nobody else takes the long-horizon, first-principles framing as seriously. The weaknesses: episodes regularly run three to five hours, the register tilts toward the grandiose, and the show has limited tolerance for guests who disagree with the core thesis. You will either love this format or bounce off it within twenty minutes.
Try it on a long drive. If it doesn't click by hour one, it won't.
3. Stephan Livera Podcast
Stephan Livera Podcast is the technical and economic Bitcoin podcast. Livera is an Austrian-school economist by background and a careful, dry interviewer. He brings on protocol developers, Lightning engineers, privacy researchers, and the occasional macro analyst. Episodes are usually under 90 minutes, which is mercifully short by Bitcoin podcast standards.
This is the show to put on when you want to understand what is actually being built. It is also the most austere on the list — Livera does not do hype, does not joke much, and assumes you are paying attention. New listeners sometimes find the tone cold. Long-time listeners value exactly that.
If you have ever wanted a podcast that treats Lightning Network development as serious infrastructure work, this is it.
4. Coin Stories — Natalie Brunell
Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell is the most journalistic of the Bitcoin-only podcasts. Brunell came from television news and the production values show: tight editing, prepared questions, a sense of pacing. She covers Bitcoin alongside macro and politics, and her guest list ranges from Lyn Alden to elected officials.
Be honest about the framing: this is Bitcoin advocacy journalism, not adversarial journalism. You will not hear a hostile interview here. But within that frame, Brunell is one of the more disciplined hosts in the space, and the show is unusually accessible to listeners who are not already deep in the culture.
A good gift recommendation for a curious family member.
5. TFTC — Marty Bent
TFTC (Tales From The Crypt, now mostly rebranded) is Marty Bent's daily-ish Bitcoin and macro podcast. Bent is opinionated, plugged into the mining and Lightning industry, and willing to be wrong in public. The show alternates between solo "rabbit hole recap" episodes and interviews.
What it does well: it captures the news cycle in a way the longer-form shows cannot. What it does less well: Bent's politics are loud, the macro takes are sometimes more confident than the evidence supports, and the production is deliberately rough. This is the podcast for listeners who want a daily pulse, not a definitive analysis.
Useful as a second subscription. Not as your only one.
If you only listen to one
Subscribe to What Bitcoin Did. It is the most consistent in quality, the most varied in guests, and the easiest to drop into mid-catalog. You can always graduate to Stephan Livera Podcast when you want depth and to The What Is Money Show when you want to think bigger than this week.
If you want the daily news loop, add TFTC. If you want polished long-form journalism, add Coin Stories. One podcast won't cover the whole space. Three, picked carefully, will.