Wyatt O'Rourke & Jordan Guess
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Bitcoin finance, beyond the thesis.
Bitcoin for Financial Services Podcast is a brisk interview show about bringing Bitcoin into professional finance. Guests talk through custody, treasury strategy, private credit, ETFs, merchant adoption, tax planning, and the uneasy fit between Bitcoin conviction and legacy market machinery.
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Bitcoin for Financial Services Podcast is a professional-services view of Bitcoin, aimed at the people trying to make it usable inside real financial lives and businesses. It is bullish by default. It is also more specific than a typical Bitcoin commentary show. Episodes focus on the machinery around the asset: custody, IRAs, tax reporting, inheritance, treasury companies, credit products, ETFs, exchanges, private markets, merchant payments, and insurance structures. The format is interview-centered, with guests carrying much of the technical explanation. The hosts steer those explanations toward practical consequences for advisors, accountants, borrowers, business owners, and clients. That makes the show feel conversational without becoming casual background chatter. One episode can move from a Bitcoin capital-markets strategy to the difference between real adoption and spread trades. Another can turn Bitcoin-backed lending into a discussion of private credit, recourse, business ownership, and whether a loan improves or weakens a company. Custody conversations are equally practical, touching on cold storage liquidity, key control, trusts, IRAs, probate, and the importance of meeting service teams in person. The show also spends time on client experience. River is framed through proof of reserves, public financials, and the idea of treating account holders as clients rather than anonymous users. Meanwhile, a life insurance conversation explores borrowing against Bitcoin wealth and trying to make long-term spending more tax efficient. Merchant adoption and payment rails show up as part of the broader question of how Bitcoin leaves the savings account and enters daily commerce. The show’s recurring tension is productive: Bitcoin is presented as the better money, but the conversations keep running into fiat markets, regulation, taxes, human trust, and institutional incentives. That tension is where the show works best. It does not linger on beginner explanations. It assumes the listener can follow terms like carry trade, public markets, private credit, key control, and basis. For finance-literate Bitcoin believers, it offers a useful map of the products and people trying to turn conviction into operating infrastructure.
Made for: For Bitcoin-literate financial professionals, advisors, accountants, founders, and investors who want practical conversations about products, custody, credit, tax, and client implementation. It is less suited to complete beginners looking for a basic Bitcoin primer.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its professional-services focus: it treats Bitcoin as something advisors, businesses, lenders, exchanges, and clients have to operationalize. Instead of staying with price talk, it keeps returning to balance sheets, custody models, product design, and market structure.
Bitcoin for Financial Services Podcast is where money meets innovation. Hosts Wyatt O’Rourke and Jordan Guess break down what’s happening in the world of Bitcoin finance and how it’s reshaping the financial services industry from the inside out. Wyatt is the author of The Bitcoinization of Finance and founder of Basilic Financial, where he helps clients bridge the gap between traditional wealth management and the new Bitcoin economy. Jordan is the owner of Trusted Advisors CPA and founder of Bitment, a platform that helps accountants and bookkeepers automate Bitcoin tax prep and reporting. Together, they talk with indust
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Bitcoin for Financial Services Podcast connects Bitcoin conviction to the mechanics of lending, custody, taxation, privacy, and capital markets.
Wyatt O'Rourke and Jordan Guess keep Bitcoin tied to the machinery of financial practice. Their guest conversations move through institutional demand, treasury companies, digital credit, custody, retirement accounts, inheritance planning, and data privacy, with questions aimed…
Bitcoin meets probate; your 'I'll sort out the keys later' plan may want a chair.
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A hard look at Bitcoin's capital-market plumbing, from Saylor's playbook to ETF flows and limited institutional conviction.
Bitcoin for Financial Services Podcast takes a clear look at Saylor's capital strategy: go into every pool of capital, build a Bitcoin instrument that fits that pool's thesis and ethos, and use it to gain more exposure to Bitcoin.
Bitcoin tradability adds a sharp edge to private credit and lender risk.
The conversation also widens into the pressures facing businesses, from AI disruption and the job market to the global economy and rising interest expense. That said, the Bitcoin-denominated fund idea lands more as a brief aside than a central argument.
Private AI is treated as an operations problem, not a slogan.
Bitcoin for Financial Services keeps its attention on a practical AI question: how firms can use newer tools without exposing confidential client data.
Crypto arguments with the polish left off.
Crypto markets, regulation, and inside-baseball commentary.
Heterodox science argued at full speed.
Bitcoin builders, pressed for the details.
Saylor is framed as taking a very Bitcoin-maximalist approach: he moves into every pool of capital he can find, builds a product for that pool that matches its investment thesis and ethos, and then uses that product to get more exposure to Bitcoin himself.
Scott Marmol joins the show.
Danny Baer discusses how Bitcoin life insurance can be the most tax-efficient way to live off Bitcoin wealth by borrowing and selling tax-free.
Ben Epling discusses how River achieved its highest volume month during a market crash by focusing on client trust and building the best Bitcoin-only exchange.
A discussion on how fiat payment systems harm small businesses and why Bitcoin offers a better alternative for saving and transactions.
The episode argues that true inflation from monetary expansion erodes purchasing power, making Bitcoin a superior store of value.
Mark, the CEO and co-founder of Maple AI, joins the show.
Bobby Schell from Voltage discusses how the Lightning Network is winning by enabling businesses to build institutional-grade payment infrastructure on Bitcoin.
This episode discusses using Bitcoin to qualify for mortgages and the relationship between Bitcoin, real estate, and dollar devaluation.
Adam Semeca, founder and CEO of MANA Bitcoin, describes MANA as an “anti-CBDC” self-custody and payments product designed for a future he believes may include CBDCs in the United States.