Trust Revolution

6 Mar 2026

“With 12 words, you can travel the world. Your money arrives in the country before you do. It cannot be taken from you.” Roland Bewick builds the software that makes that sentence true—and just

26 Feb 2026

“You cannot have data compromised that you do not have.” James Lee has spent two decades watching breach transparency collapse—from near-total disclosure in 2020 to just 30 percent today. The

19 Feb 2026

“If somebody gets control over your personal AI — all your health data, all your financial data, all your emails, everything you've thought about — they own you.” Jesse Posner built FROST

13 Feb 2026

“All it takes is the political will or the political mistake to turn it on. And it's there.” John Robb maps the path from post-national identity collapse to automated totalitarian

6 Feb 2026

“The cypherpunks who tried to build digital cash before Bitcoin might one day be remembered like America's founding fathers.” Aaron van Wirdum spent five years writing The Genesis Book—and

30 Jan 2026

Enron had “integrity” as a core value. FTX had none at all. Both collapsed. Jason Hughey argues the problem isn't whether companies state their values—it's whether those values function as

22 Jan 2026

“If you choose to go exclusive on Spotify, you're essentially saying to 70% of your existing and potential audience, ‘Sorry, you can't listen anymore.’” Oscar Merry watched Joe Rogan lose

18 Dec 2025

“Web of Trust is any network of relationship where trust is distributed and emergent—it's not imposed by someone else.” Pip builds the infrastructure that makes decentralized reputation

12 Dec 2025

“It's not enough for me to be taken care of if everyone else on the planet is living in a digital gulag.” CK explains why HRF treats Bitcoin as essential infrastructure for human rights—and why

5 Dec 2025

Big Tech captures $670 a year from the average American through attention and data. Voluntary payment has never broken past 5% adoption in 50 years of trying. So why does it still matter? Because

26 Nov 2025

“The smallest government you can have is determined by the largest corporation you're willing to tolerate.” Cory Doctorow didn't just coin “enshittification”—he mapped the precise mechanics

19 Nov 2025

Operating under a pseudonym fits the ethos—sovereignty starts with controlling your identity. Average Gary brought the “thinking shooter” principle from Naval Special Warfare into Bitcoin: you

13 Nov 2025

“It's really difficult to engineer freedom tech—solutions that require you to kind of take ownership of your money, take ownership of your data. These things typically have engineering solutions

5 Nov 2025

“Bitcoin exists to remove intermediaries from the movement of money online. Without privacy, if someone can see how money is moving, they don't like someone you paid, they can discriminate based on

22 Oct 2025

“You cannot have trust without some form of governance. And governance is basically rules.” Tim Bouma has spent two decades inside government building Canada's digital identity framework. He's

15 Oct 2025

"If you go into a local community bank and ask for $50,000 in cash, you're going to get a lot of questions—and very likely they're going to say, 'Come back in a week, we need to order that.' The

8 Oct 2025

**What if the mind you trust is running a four-year-old's survival code?** Rob Brinded, author of *Glitch: The Hidden Code Running Your Life (And How to Debug It)*, joins Shawn to reveal how

1 Oct 2025

September 2025 marked a critical turning point in the surveillance economy. Disney paid $10 million for illegally collecting children's data. Google faced $425.7 million in penalties for nearly a

24 Sep 2025

This week we feature the “Open Communities in the Age of Control” panel, recorded live on September 20th at the Imagine IF conference in Nashville. The discussion dives into the erosion of trust

17 Sep 2025

Centralized systems—Big Pharma, globalist agendas, government education—are crumbling under their own weight, leaving trust in tatters. Alex Newman, investigative journalist and CEO of [Liberty

10 Sep 2025

Jeffrey Tucker, founder of the Brownstone Institute and Austrian economics advocate, joins Shawn to dissect the COVID-19 response's devastating impact on institutional trust and explore paths to

3 Sep 2025

**In This Episode** Shawn interviews Mathias Buus, CEO of Holepunch, about revolutionizing the internet with peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies like Pear Runtime, Hypercore, and Keet. Mathias shares

27 Aug 2025

Shawn Yeager kicks off Season 2 of *Trust Revolution* with Nick Anthony, policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives and fellow at the Human Rights

10 Jul 2025

In this solo episode, Shawn reflects on the first 12 episodes of Trust Revolution, expressing gratitude to listeners and sharing insights gained from conversations with various builders, thinkers,

2 Jul 2025

OpnState, a pseudonymous civil servant and former corporate banker, joins Shawn to expose the hidden mechanisms of global financial standards and their impact on trust and sovereignty. From his role

25 Jun 2025

Matt O'dell, Bitcoin OG and freedom tech advocate, joins Shawn to dissect trust in a world of surveillance and centralized control. From Bitcoin’s role as a beacon of financial agency to Signal's

18 Jun 2025

Stephen Pollock, SVP of Development at the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI), joins Shawn to explore Bitcoin’s growing role in U.S. policy and statecraft. This discussion covers BPI’s mission to

11 Jun 2025

In this episode, Shawn sits down with a legendary figure from the early days of digital culture, R.U. Sirius, exploring the radical roots and transformative potential of the Internet. Our guest

4 Jun 2025

Rishad Tobaccowala, futurist and author of *Rethinking Work*, joins Shawn to unravel the dynamics of power, talent, and trust in a decentralized, AI-driven future. This conversation exposes the

28 May 2025

In this *Trust Revolution* episode, Shawn Yeager and Fran, the Buenos Aires-based creator of Zapstore, explore the chokehold of centralized app stores. Fran details how Apple and Google’s control

21 May 2025

In this hard-hitting episode of *Trust Revolution*, Shawn sits down with Bronwyn Williams, a South African futurist and economist, to dissect the collapse of trust in centralized systems. Bronwyn

14 May 2025

In this episode of Trust Revolution, Shawn welcomes Yaël Ossowski, a consumer advocate and Bitcoin policy expert, for a candid discussion on the shifting balance of power between individuals and

7 May 2025

In this episode of *Trust Revolution*, Shawn welcomes Dr. David Strayhorn, a neurologist, electrical engineer, and freedom technologist, for a deep dive into Web of Trust. Recorded at Bitcoin Park in

30 Apr 2025

From working inside the banking system to living fully bankless. In this episode of *Trust Revolution*, Shawn welcomes entrepreneur, cypherpunk, and Bitcoin privacy pioneer Max Hillebrand for a

23 Apr 2025

Can your private data be as secure as your Bitcoin? In this thought-provoking episode of *Trust Revolution*, host Shawn Yeager sits down with Marks, co-founder and CEO of OpenSecret and Maple AI, to

16 Apr 2025

What happens when trust—the glue holding society together—starts to crumble under the weight of AI, decentralized networks, and political swarms? In the premier episode of *Trust Revolution*,

10 Mar 2025

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