The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast - Bitcoin News With a Canadian Spin

Bitcoin-backed mortgages are now officially here — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have greenlit the first US government-backed product that lets you use Bitcoin or USDC as collateral to buy a home, and most people are completely misreading what this actually means.The structure is more nuanced than the headlines suggest: you pledge Bitcoin into a Coinbase Prime account, take out a second loan backed by that collateral to fund your down payment, and crucially — the collateral is never mark-to-market. No margin calls if Bitcoin dumps 40% overnight. That's the biggest part of this story nobody's talking about.The US Treasury's own 2025 financial report: $6 trillion in assets, $48 trillion in liabilities — a net position of negative $41.7 trillion, up $2 trillion in one year. Jerome Powell publicly acknowledged the structural deficit problem. Meanwhile Canada moves to ban Bitcoin political donations under Bill C-25, Wealthsimple launches prediction market gambling, and 150 million Binance credentials just leaked. All of that plus Bitcoin mortgages, Australian pension Bitcoin allocation, Strait of Hormuz oil crunch, and quantum computing risk — all this episode.Sponsors:easyDNShttps://easydns.comAnycast DNS, domain registration, web & email services — fast, reliable, privacy-focused.Pay with Bitcoin.Use coupon code CBPMEDIA for 50% off your first purchase.Bull Bitcoinhttps://mission.bullbitcoin.com/cbpThe CBP recommends Bull Bitcoin for buying Bitcoin simply and securely.Use the link above for 25% off fees for life.256Heathttps://256heat.com/Heat your home, garage, or office while earning more Bitcoin than it costs to run.Book a call with a hashrate heating consultant today.Bitcoin Mentorhttps://btcmentor.io/aff/90/Get hands on, white glove support with your Bitcoin storage and planning. Whether you need help with multi-sig or multi-generational storage, Bitcoin Mentor has you covered.🟠 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@CanadianBitcoinersThe US Treasury's own 2025 financial report: $6 trillion in assets, $48 trillion in liabilities — a net position of negative $41.7 trillion, up $2 trillion in one year. Jerome Powell publicly acknowledged the structural deficit problem. Meanwhile Canada moves to ban Bitcoin political donations under Bill C-25, Wealthsimple launches prediction market gambling, and 150 million Binance credentials just leaked. All of that plus Bitcoin mortgages, Australian pension Bitcoin allocation, Strait of Hormuz oil crunch, and quantum computing risk — all this episode.Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast — Bitcoin, economics, and Canadian politics through a liberty-minded, data-grounded lens. New episodes every week.#Bitcoin #BitcoinMortgage #FannieMae #CanadianBitcoiners #CBP #BullBitcoin #Crypto #BitcoinNews #Canada #Macroeconomics

Someone kidnapped a Canadian crypto millionaire on a busy Madrid street this week. Zip ties. Sleeping pills. A GPS set for a torture site 6 hours away. Meanwhile, a man's wife stole $172 million in Bitcoin by watching him enter his seed phrase on home security cameras. This episode might change how you store your Bitcoin.We're also covering Canada's largest single-day crypto regulatory crackdown, what happens when the biggest Bitcoin payments company fires 4,000 people and then quietly asks some of them to come back, and why Quebec's immigration minister just went viral for comparing Canada to Switzerland.Check out Cory (and Luke) on their NEW show @the49thpod - wherever you get your podcasts!🔐 Canadian Crypto Millionaire Kidnapped in Madrid — Three Serbians with zip ties, sedatives, and a plan. France has already had 11 similar attacks this year. This is the new threat model for Bitcoin holders.₿ Square Auto-Enables Bitcoin for Millions of Sellers — Starting March 30, the coffee shop that uses Square might be accepting Bitcoin without even knowing it yet. Lightning Network. Default on.🏦 BlockFills Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy — $61 billion in 2025 volume. Backed by CME Group. Still blew up. The Chicago Blackhawks are a creditor.📷 Wife Steals $172M Bitcoin Via Security Camera — UK High Court case: she watched him enter his 24-word seed phrase on their own CCTV. 2,323 BTC moved to 71 wallets in minutes.🔑 Breez SDK Introduces Seedless Wallets — Passkeys instead of seed phrases. Self-custodial. No 24-word backup required during normal use.🏚️ $500K Per Homeless Person in Toronto — And the CBC says Canadians are unhappy because of social media.🇨🇦 FINTRAC Revokes 23 Crypto MSBs in One Day — Canada's AML crackdown is no longer gradual. Finance Minister Champagne called it a "significantly increased pace of action."🕵️ BC CRA Employee Charged — An insider with access to your taxes may have used it. This is what centralized financial surveillance enables.📉 Kraken Freezes IPO — $2.2B in revenue. $20B valuation. Still won't go public. Bitcoin down 44% from highs is doing that.🤖 Block Rehires Laid-Off Workers — They fired 4,000 in February blaming AI. Three weeks later: "Actually that was a clerical error."🌌 Canada's $200M Spaceport Deal — Nova Scotia is getting a commercial launch facility.🇨🇭 Quebec: "Better 9M Rich Than 15M Poor" — The immigration minister quoted Switzerland. The internet had thoughts.🛂 Super Visa Income Changes — Ottawa quietly changes who qualifies for parents and grandparents to stay 5 years per visit. Starting March 31.🔫 Ontario Homeowner Shoots Intruder, No Charges — A quiet but significant precedent in Canadian self-defense law.🎣 FBI + Thai Police: $580M Seized — 8,000 phones. 1,300 hard drives. Industrial-scale pig-butchering scams targeting Americans, run by trafficking victims.🧃 Chicago Man Resells Food Stamps Through Soda Arbitrage — The greatest free market story of the week.📉 Newton Crypto / CIRO — Canada's regulated exchange journey: four years in, still on exemptive relief.🏛️ "Only One Good Bitcoin Policy" — Buy it. Hold it. That's the whole argument.🔔 Subscribe and hit the bell — Canadian Bitcoin coverage every week.🎙 Join the conversation: https://discord.gg/m5vekwZr🐦 Follow us: @CanadianBTCPod

Someone kidnapped a Canadian crypto millionaire on a busy Madrid street this week. Zip ties. Sleeping pills. A GPS set for a torture site 6 hours away. Meanwhile, a man's wife stole $172 million in Bitcoin by watching him enter his seed phrase on home security cameras. This episode might change how you store your Bitcoin.We're also covering Canada's largest single-day crypto regulatory crackdown, what happens when the biggest Bitcoin payments company fires 4,000 people and then quietly asks some of them to come back, and why Quebec's immigration minister just went viral for comparing Canada to Switzerland.Check out Cory (and Luke) on their NEW show @the49thpod - wherever you get your podcasts!🔐 Canadian Crypto Millionaire Kidnapped in Madrid — Three Serbians with zip ties, sedatives, and a plan. France has already had 11 similar attacks this year. This is the new threat model for Bitcoin holders.₿ Square Auto-Enables Bitcoin for Millions of Sellers — Starting March 30, the coffee shop that uses Square might be accepting Bitcoin without even knowing it yet. Lightning Network. Default on.🏦 BlockFills Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy — $61 billion in 2025 volume. Backed by CME Group. Still blew up. The Chicago Blackhawks are a creditor.📷 Wife Steals $172M Bitcoin Via Security Camera — UK High Court case: she watched him enter his 24-word seed phrase on their own CCTV. 2,323 BTC moved to 71 wallets in minutes.🔑 Breez SDK Introduces Seedless Wallets — Passkeys instead of seed phrases. Self-custodial. No 24-word backup required during normal use.🏚️ $500K Per Homeless Person in Toronto — And the CBC says Canadians are unhappy because of social media.🇨🇦 FINTRAC Revokes 23 Crypto MSBs in One Day — Canada's AML crackdown is no longer gradual. Finance Minister Champagne called it a "significantly increased pace of action."🕵️ BC CRA Employee Charged — An insider with access to your taxes may have used it. This is what centralized financial surveillance enables.📉 Kraken Freezes IPO — $2.2B in revenue. $20B valuation. Still won't go public. Bitcoin down 44% from highs is doing that.🤖 Block Rehires Laid-Off Workers — They fired 4,000 in February blaming AI. Three weeks later: "Actually that was a clerical error."🌌 Canada's $200M Spaceport Deal — Nova Scotia is getting a commercial launch facility.🇨🇭 Quebec: "Better 9M Rich Than 15M Poor" — The immigration minister quoted Switzerland. The internet had thoughts.🛂 Super Visa Income Changes — Ottawa quietly changes who qualifies for parents and grandparents to stay 5 years per visit. Starting March 31.🔫 Ontario Homeowner Shoots Intruder, No Charges — A quiet but significant precedent in Canadian self-defense law.🎣 FBI + Thai Police: $580M Seized — 8,000 phones. 1,300 hard drives. Industrial-scale pig-butchering scams targeting Americans, run by trafficking victims.🧃 Chicago Man Resells Food Stamps Through Soda Arbitrage — The greatest free market story of the week.📉 Newton Crypto / CIRO — Canada's regulated exchange journey: four years in, still on exemptive relief.🏛️ "Only One Good Bitcoin Policy" — Buy it. Hold it. That's the whole argument.🔔 Subscribe and hit the bell — Canadian Bitcoin coverage every week.🎙 Join the conversation: https://discord.gg/m5vekwZr🐦 Follow us: @CanadianBTCPod

Canada just lost 84,000 jobs. Goeasy blew up 57% in a day. And a former Prime Minister compared Bitcoin to Pokémon cards. Normal week.This episode covers the biggest Bitcoin hardware launches in years (COLDCARD Mk5 AND Jade Lightning — same week), the IRS form that forces crypto users to confess their entire history under oath, 20 million Bitcoin mined and what happens next, and more Canadian institutional collapse than we can comfortably fit in one show.🔑 COLDCARD Mk5 launches — Coinkite's latest generation drops from Toronto: bigger screen, better keys, faster NFC, still 100% air-gapped and Bitcoin-only. A Canadian product building financial sovereignty hardware for the world.🚨 IRS Crypto Perjury Trap — The IRS is attaching a two-page form to audit notices demanding your complete lifetime crypto history, signed under penalty of perjury. Tax attorneys say don't sign it. Here's why.🃏 Boris Johnson Calls Bitcoin a Ponzi Scheme — The former UK PM, whose own government tried to make Britain a "global crypto hub" in 2022, compares Bitcoin unfavourably to Pokémon cards. Michael Saylor, Adam Back, and community notes responded.⚖️ Coinbase vs. Bitcoin Tax Exemption — Marty Bent alleges Coinbase lobbyists told Congress "no one uses Bitcoin as money" to kill the de minimis exemption. Coinbase says it's a lie. The CLARITY Act currently excludes Bitcoin from exemption anyway.#️⃣ 20 Million Bitcoin Mined — 95% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist is now in circulation. The last million takes 114 years. The most important monetary scarcity milestone in history.🏛️ JPMorgan Sued Over $328M Ponzi — Jamie Dimon calls Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme. His bank allegedly provided two years of banking infrastructure to an actual one. Class action filed.🇨🇦 NOTABLE NORTH💼 84,000 Jobs Gone in February — Canada's worst non-pandemic monthly jobs number in years. Economists expected +10,000. Private sector is contracting. Youth unemployment above 14%.🔄 NDP Floor Crosser — Lori Idlout joins the Liberals, becoming the 4th opposition MP to cross the floor in 4 months. Carney is two byelection wins from a majority government.🔫 Shots Fired at US Consulate — Two men open fire on the US Consulate in Toronto at 4:30 a.m. The building held. No arrests. The RCMP is treating it as a national security incident.🎂 Carney: One Year In — The former central banker turned PM marks his first anniversary in Oslo. Polls are strong. The economy is softening. The floor crossings are working. What year two looks like.📊 Online Child Exploitation +347% — Statistics Canada confirms a 347% increase in online child sexual exploitation incidents since 2014. Luring specifically increased 65% in the last year alone.🥶 Soldiers Frostbitten in Alaska — 30-60+ Canadian Armed Forces members suffered frostbite during Arctic training in Alaska. Several were hospitalized. The CAF tried to keep it quiet.📰 Media Vetting Failure — A woman has appeared in multiple Canadian media pieces with questions now circulating about her identity. The bigger story: newsrooms aren't checking.Sponsors:easyDNShttps://easydns.comAnycast DNS, domain registration, web & email services — fast, reliable, privacy-focused.Pay with Bitcoin.Use coupon code CBPMEDIA for 50% off your first purchase.Bull Bitcoinhttps://mission.bullbitcoin.com/cbpThe CBP recommends Bull Bitcoin for buying Bitcoin simply and securely.Use the link above for 25% off fees for life.256Heathttps://256heat.com/Heat your home, garage, or office while earning more Bitcoin than it costs to run.Book a call with a hashrate heating consultant today.Bitcoin Mentorhttps://btcmentor.io/aff/90/Get hands on, white glove support with your Bitcoin storage and planning. Whether you need help with multi-sig or multi-generational storage, Bitcoin Mentor has you covered.

Canada just lost 84,000 jobs. Goeasy blew up 57% in a day. And a former Prime Minister compared Bitcoin to Pokémon cards. Normal week.This episode covers the biggest Bitcoin hardware launches in years (COLDCARD Mk5 AND Jade Lightning — same week), the IRS form that forces crypto users to confess their entire history under oath, 20 million Bitcoin mined and what happens next, and more Canadian institutional collapse than we can comfortably fit in one show.🔑 COLDCARD Mk5 launches — Coinkite's latest generation drops from Toronto: bigger screen, better keys, faster NFC, still 100% air-gapped and Bitcoin-only. A Canadian product building financial sovereignty hardware for the world.🚨 IRS Crypto Perjury Trap — The IRS is attaching a two-page form to audit notices demanding your complete lifetime crypto history, signed under penalty of perjury. Tax attorneys say don't sign it. Here's why.🃏 Boris Johnson Calls Bitcoin a Ponzi Scheme — The former UK PM, whose own government tried to make Britain a "global crypto hub" in 2022, compares Bitcoin unfavourably to Pokémon cards. Michael Saylor, Adam Back, and community notes responded.⚖️ Coinbase vs. Bitcoin Tax Exemption — Marty Bent alleges Coinbase lobbyists told Congress "no one uses Bitcoin as money" to kill the de minimis exemption. Coinbase says it's a lie. The CLARITY Act currently excludes Bitcoin from exemption anyway.#️⃣ 20 Million Bitcoin Mined — 95% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist is now in circulation. The last million takes 114 years. The most important monetary scarcity milestone in history.🏛️ JPMorgan Sued Over $328M Ponzi — Jamie Dimon calls Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme. His bank allegedly provided two years of banking infrastructure to an actual one. Class action filed.🇨🇦 NOTABLE NORTH💼 84,000 Jobs Gone in February — Canada's worst non-pandemic monthly jobs number in years. Economists expected +10,000. Private sector is contracting. Youth unemployment above 14%.🔄 NDP Floor Crosser — Lori Idlout joins the Liberals, becoming the 4th opposition MP to cross the floor in 4 months. Carney is two byelection wins from a majority government.🔫 Shots Fired at US Consulate — Two men open fire on the US Consulate in Toronto at 4:30 a.m. The building held. No arrests. The RCMP is treating it as a national security incident.🎂 Carney: One Year In — The former central banker turned PM marks his first anniversary in Oslo. Polls are strong. The economy is softening. The floor crossings are working. What year two looks like.📊 Online Child Exploitation +347% — Statistics Canada confirms a 347% increase in online child sexual exploitation incidents since 2014. Luring specifically increased 65% in the last year alone.🥶 Soldiers Frostbitten in Alaska — 30-60+ Canadian Armed Forces members suffered frostbite during Arctic training in Alaska. Several were hospitalized. The CAF tried to keep it quiet.📰 Media Vetting Failure — A woman has appeared in multiple Canadian media pieces with questions now circulating about her identity. The bigger story: newsrooms aren't checking.Sponsors:easyDNShttps://easydns.comAnycast DNS, domain registration, web & email services — fast, reliable, privacy-focused.Pay with Bitcoin.Use coupon code CBPMEDIA for 50% off your first purchase.Bull Bitcoinhttps://mission.bullbitcoin.com/cbpThe CBP recommends Bull Bitcoin for buying Bitcoin simply and securely.Use the link above for 25% off fees for life.256Heathttps://256heat.com/Heat your home, garage, or office while earning more Bitcoin than it costs to run.Book a call with a hashrate heating consultant today.Bitcoin Mentorhttps://btcmentor.io/aff/90/Get hands on, white glove support with your Bitcoin storage and planning. Whether you need help with multi-sig or multi-generational storage, Bitcoin Mentor has you covered.