Plebchain Radio

27 May 2026

Paul Keating and DirectorHodl come on the show to talk about Hummingbird, the documentary they just released on IndeeHub. The film started life as a small video idea for Bitcoin Jungle and grew over

24 May 2026

Joe Martin finally made it onto Sunday Brunch after a few months of being impossible to pin down, which turns out to be a good problem – his new album *Alone in Valentine* came out in May and he

15 May 2026

Philip Charter, fiction writer, prose editor, the man behind [*totallyhumanwriter.com*](http://totallyhumanwriter.com) and the editor of the *21 Futures* Bitcoin fiction anthologies, joins Avi for a

11 May 2026

What does it mean to be human online? In an age of AI agents posting, interacting, and transacting across the network, the question has stopped being philosophical and started being structural. Avi

4 May 2026

*A man who travelled to 42 countries was asked to then go as far as he could travel. He found the farthest journey was the one within himself.* Paco of Run with Bitcoin returns after two years off

12 Apr 2026

Henrik Flyman joins Sunday Brunch for a wide-ranging conversation on his musical journey from Sweden to Denmark, the highs and hardships of life in bands, and the evolution of his solo “shadow

29 Mar 2026

Guest host **Aaron of Essex** takes the Sunday Brunch wheel again and welcomes **Nat Cole** for a lively, music-first conversation about building a **“new music economy”** on a Bitcoin standard.

27 Mar 2026

Episode 157 opens with Avi’s sermon **“The Forgotten Forge,”** a meditation on what happens when a civilization outsources the making of the things that keep it alive. The frame is applied

22 Mar 2026

Sunday Brunch #11 is a relaxed, music-first decompression chamber with Buttercup Roberts at the table: coffee poured, no sermon, no script, and the Value-for-Value house rule intact, where 90% of

20 Mar 2026

Plebchain Radio Ep. 156 is part sermon, part game-theory lab, part cultural weather report. Avi opens with “The Price of a Voice,” using Primal’s new zap polls to explore a bigger idea: when

15 Mar 2026

Sunday Brunch #10 is a classic “table, coffee, record player” decompression chamber with Aza (Şelale, “waterfall”) as guest-DJ, running on the Value-for-Value house rule: stream during songs

13 Mar 2026

Episode 155 opens with Avi’s sermon “Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls”: permissionless networks don’t remove gravity. They remove gatekeepers and then demand competence: slow proof-of-work,

8 Mar 2026

Sunday Brunch #9 is a classic “coffee + record player” decompression session with Budtender (Hash Power Music) as guest-DJ, running on the house rule: 90% of sats streamed during songs goes

6 Mar 2026

Episode 154 opens with Avi’s sermon “Weaponized Escapism”: in an attention-extraction world, the urge to flee is rational, but the *kind* of escape matters. Numbing out through feeds, outrage,

4 Mar 2026

Avi is joined by Mark Suman (CEO of Maple AI, former Apple engineer) for a technical dive into the intersection of AI privacy, confidential computing, and Web-of-Trust as the internet shifts toward

1 Mar 2026

Avi’s guest in this serving of Sunday Brunch is Ivy Lumi, a singer-songwriter and Bitcoin-industry native who began writing songs in late 2023 and spent about a year and a half getting her first

27 Feb 2026

Episode 153 opens with Avi’s sermon **“Fix Yourself to Fix the World”**: Bitcoin can be a flawless instrument, but it doesn’t magically heal the operator. The call is to audit the inner

24 Feb 2026

Avi opens the episode with a sermon on **“the compromised substrate”**: when public idols crack, the scavengers try to smear the entire network with the sins of a few. **Bitcoin is not its

22 Feb 2026

Guest host **Aaron of Essex** takes the Sunday Brunch wheel and welcomes **Longy** for a laid-back, music-first hang: five Longy tracks get spun, boosted, and dissected in real time, with the chat

20 Feb 2026

In episode 3 of Say Wot?, guest host David Strayhorn sits down with Matthias DeBernardini, a software developer and “agentic engineering” tinkerer who’s just joined NosFabrica to help build

18 Feb 2026

Ryan Cooper from Bitcoin Ranch joins Avi for a boots-on-the-ground conversation about rebuilding real-world resilience: food, trade, and community. Ryan shares his path from Detroit childhood roots

15 Feb 2026

Guest host OpenMike takes the wheel for a laid-back, music-first Sunday Brunch with Tatum Turn Up, kicking off with some classic Nostr “we’re live … are we live?” chaos across Primal/Damus

12 Feb 2026

In episode 150, Avi Burra welcomes [Auggie](https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqsdwr2spy2sfwvj6xpcsg40y3w476e6z6uzmyt6edujfnhkrm22emsfe0ut5) from the “Meshtadel” world to talk regenerative farming,

8 Feb 2026

Avi hosts the fifth serving of Sunday Brunch as a proper decompression chamber: coffee on the table, records on the turntable, and a strict Value-for-Value house rule where 90% of sats streamed

6 Feb 2026

In this episode, Avi talks with Stirling Forge about building a decentralized rideshare alternative on Nostr, sparked by the brutal economics of driving for Uber and Lyft today. Stirling shares his

1 Feb 2026

Jim Costello joins Avi for Episode 4 of Sunday Brunch. The conversation pinballs from David Lynch deep cuts and the musical fingerprints of Angelo Badalamenti into how Costello’s Phantom Power

30 Jan 2026

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, Avi sits down with Coach Carbon for a wide-ranging conversation that treats football as a laboratory for truth: you can talk your way through many professions, but

29 Jan 2026

In Episode 2 of **Say WoT?**, Avi sits down with **Gzuuus** to “debug the intersection of AI and the Web of Trust,” tracing his build path through **DVMCP**, **ContextVM**, and his latest

25 Jan 2026

Avi and guest OpenMike riff on the weird gap between “real-world popularity” and how few followers some incredible musicians have on Nostr, then use that as a springboard into what it looks like

24 Jan 2026

Avi opens Episode 147 with “The Return of the Local Oracle,” a sermon on outsourced knowing, supply-chain truth, and rebuilding trust through people you can look in the eye: ranchers, butchers,

18 Jan 2026

Sunday Brunch is your lightning-laced decompression chamber: no sermon, no prepared questions, just coffee, a record player, and a guest DJ, with Value-for-Value splits (90% of boosts/streams during

17 Jan 2026

Avi opens with a sermon on “embracing the outsider” and argues that the real mission isn’t winning debates, but building a parallel city, with art as core infrastructure and Bitcoiners as the

13 Jan 2026

**Say WoT?** with host Avi Burra kicks off by staking the claim that Nostr’s “exit ramp” from addictive, black-box feeds is **Web of Trust**, and then immediately drops into the engine room

11 Jan 2026

Welcome to the inaugural serving of **Sunday Brunch** – a new weekly format from Plebchain Radio designed to be your decompression chamber after a long week in the fiat mines. No roadmap grilling,

10 Jan 2026

This week, I strip it back. No interviews. No sermon. Just signal. I explore the philosophy of the Exit. Why fighting the system is a trap, why building alternatives is the only winning move, and

3 Jan 2026

In the first Plebchain Radio episode of 2026, Avi is joined by Noa Gruman (lead singer of Scardust) and Lahav, for a conversation ranging from Scardust’s Bitcoin-adjacent music lore (including the

27 Dec 2025

In this episode, Chad F joins the show to dismantle the false dichotomy between the "ancient scrolls" of RSS and the high-speed relays of Nostr. As a longtime Podcasting 2.0 + V4V operator (and

20 Dec 2025

Episode 142 is a Nostr year-in-review roundtable with Avi, QW, Vitor Pamplona, and Corndalorian. They reflect on the mid-year “Nostr bear market” in engagement and argue it wasn’t a death

13 Dec 2025

In this episode, Avi sits down with *de-commerce* builder **Eric FJ**, creator of Conduit Market, to explore how Nostr and Bitcoin can rebuild the old-school bazaar in protocol form. They dig into

6 Dec 2025

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, Avi sits down with **Aaron of Essex**, the Bitcoiner, hairdresser, and music superfan behind **Bitcoin Essex** and the **New Music Nudge Unit**. Aaron shares his

29 Nov 2025

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, Avi sits down with London-based bitcoiner, artist and playwright *Psyfer*, caretaker of the legendary Cyphermunk House in Bloomsbury. They trace the unlikely

22 Nov 2025

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, QW interviews Sam Means (aka Lightning Store, Wavlake), a musician, father, and entrepreneur, discussing his various projects and perspectives on the music, his

15 Nov 2025

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, Avi talks with Swiss-German Bitcoin artist Yena, aka Lady Block Jane, about how vivid dreams and a forest vision pulled her into Bitcoin and birthed works like

8 Nov 2025

Max Hillebrand returns to the show to map the cypherpunk “freedom stack” for real life. He digs into open source hardware and works up the stack to Nostr-native coordination (from relay hygiene

1 Nov 2025

This episode of Plebchain Radio features QW and Avi hosting Shadrach, a cypherpunk and Bitcoiner, to discuss Bitcoin, Nostr, A to B, Web of Trust, Meshtadel and building parallel societies. A to B :

25 Oct 2025

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, QW and Avi are joined by Ainsley Costello, Heather Larson & Open Mike live from Bitcoin Park in Nashville to discuss the intersection of Nostr and Bitcoin,

18 Oct 2025

**Summary** David Strayhorn, creator of Brainstorm and Grapevine, joins the show to announce a major initiative to build a decentralized Web-of-Trust for Nostr. David explains his journey from

11 Oct 2025

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, QW and Avi welcome back Rob Brinded, author of "Glitch," to discuss his new book, the reception it has received, and the underlying principles of understanding

4 Oct 2025

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, QW and Avi interview Franzap, creator of [Zap Store](http://zap.store) about Paraguay, Fran's work, La Crypta, Web of Trust, Nostr, Bitcoin and more. Zap Store :

27 Sep 2025

In this episode of Plebchain Radio, QW is joined by Rick from CryptoCloaks to discuss Bitcoin home mining, community, 3D Printing, fatherhood, Nostr and the intersection of Bitcoin and real-world