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Age of Abundance

A daily live show about the monetary transition from fiat to Bitcoin - AI deflation, energy abundance, and the restoration of humanity. Hosted by Ricky Zhang. Live weekdays at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Clips daily.

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2026-10-07 00:45:31 UTC

How do you kill a system you can't vote out?
You stop participating in it.
Fans killed the European Super League by walking away.
Broken money dies the same way.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-093/clips/x-clip-09-fans-killed-the-european-super-league-by-walking-away-same-m.mp4

2026-10-06 21:30:41 UTC

There are decades where nothing happens.
And weeks where decades happen.
We're in the second kind right now...
Work that took a team months, done in a week for $25.
If you feel disoriented, you're paying attention.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-096/clips/x-clip-12-there-are-weeks-where-decades-happen.mp4

2026-10-06 17:15:36 UTC

Nothing visible has changed. But something has.
Five years ago people called Bitcoin a scam.
Now they say they probably should own some.
The PRIVATE threshold moved before the public one did.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-904/clips/x-clip-07-were-not-getting-stuck-in-the-panopticon-bitcoins-private-an.mp4

2026-10-06 13:45:46 UTC

Football fans just learned their sport was built on a lie.
15 years of fake success.
Now scale that up to everyone.
Every system. Every century.
The unfairness was baked into the money.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-093/clips/x-clip-04-if-fans-feel-cheated-by-one-club-how-will-8-billion-people-f.mp4

2026-10-06 00:46:07 UTC

Web of trust isn't a social credit score, says Derek Ross
A credit score has one authority at the top.
One number applied to everyone.
On Nostr, each person sets their own weights.
My score of you isn't anyone else's.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-094/clips/x-g05-web-of-trust-isn-t-a-social-credit-score.mp4

2026-10-05 21:00:28 UTC

If fiat breaks fast, chaos isn't the real question.
The real question is where people run.
Fear pushes them deeper into surveillance and CBDCs.
Unless they KNOW Bitcoin is the exit.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-904/clips/x-clip-05-what-if-bitcoin-breaks-fiat-too-fast-where-do-people-go.mp4

2026-10-05 17:15:29 UTC

What if your beer was brewed by a Bitcoin miner?
A Vancouver brewery is already piloting it.
Brewing needs heat.
Mining produces heat.
What used to be a cost is now making you Bitcoin.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-092/clips/x-clip-05-your-beer-might-soon-be-brewed-by-bitcoin.mp4

2026-10-05 13:45:27 UTC

The people cheating at the top aren't exceptionally evil.
They're what the system selected for.
Of course they thought they'd get away with it: nothing in their life ever said no.
If you'd been winning your whole life, you'd cheat too.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-093/clips/x-clip-14-if-youd-been-winning-your-whole-life-youd-cheat-too.mp4

2026-10-05 00:45:31 UTC

Self-custody is hard.
That's not a flaw. It's a fact.
Banks didn't appear by accident.
A custodian beats a password taped to the monitor.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-094/clips/x-g03-there-s-a-reason-humans-invented-banks.mp4

2026-10-04 21:30:57 UTC

If you think wealth inequality is just greed:
That story is too simple.
Greed is just human nature.
Productivity gains should make prices fall.
When money is debt, they flow to asset holders instead.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-002/clips/x-clip-03-why-wealth-inequality-is-a-feature-of-the-money-not-just-gre.mp4

2026-10-04 17:45:13 UTC

The worst people aren't winning by accident.
A debt-based money system filters for one trait: willingness to look the other way.
Everyone else gets passed over.
Fix the money and you change who rises.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-093/clips/x-clip-05-the-system-selects-for-people-willing-to-sell-their-souls.mp4

2026-10-04 13:45:40 UTC

Three things broke social media.
A handful of companies decide who speaks.
Algorithms decide what you see.
Ads fill whatever's left.
Nostr rebuilds the plumbing underneath. Derek Ross
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-094/clips/x-g02-the-three-things-wrong-with-social-media.mp4

2026-10-04 00:45:33 UTC

Half of all energy use is heating.
A Bitcoin miner throws off heat as a byproduct.
Heat your house with one. It pays you back.
Cutting a cost is the SAME as making a profit.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-092/clips/x-clip-04-why-heating-your-house-could-soon-pay-you-back.mp4

2026-10-03 21:30:40 UTC

The confusion around money isn't accidental.
Acronyms, jargon, credentials - that's the wall.
A field that wanted you to understand would speak plainly.
Clarity would end most of what passes for expertise.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-093/clips/x-clip-07-finance-is-confusing-on-purpose-if-you-understood-it-you-wou.mp4

2026-10-03 17:15:46 UTC

Bitcoin is money no one controls.
Nostr is communication no one controls.
One frees your wealth: the other frees your voice.
Together they're the exit from platforms that can mute you.
Worth hearing Derek Ross explain it.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-094/clips/x-g01-nostr-is-the-freedom-to-communicate.mp4

2026-10-03 13:45:25 UTC

So much of what gets built doesn't need to exist.
It's there because the debt has to be serviced.
The economy has to keep growing or the whole thing cracks.
That's the ILLUSION the planet pays for.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-092/clips/x-clip-12-we-build-things-nobody-needs-just-to-service-the-debt.mp4

2026-10-03 00:46:05 UTC

Fans killed the European Super League by walking away.
No petition. Just withdrawn support.
The owners thought fans had no choice...
Broken money runs on the same assumption.
Picking better money is how you walk away from it.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-093/clips/x-clip-08-fans-killed-the-european-super-league-by-walking-away-the-sa.mp4

2026-10-02 21:16:08 UTC

An agent already spent the tokens to learn a task.
You could spend yours to catch up.
Or zap it and get the finished work back.
Agent commerce needs one thing: identity and payments on one rail.
That's why Derek Ross says the agentic economy gets built on Nostr.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-094/clips/x-g04-the-agentic-economy-will-be-built-on-nostr.mp4

2026-10-02 17:30:33 UTC

Electricity used to be use-it-or-lose-it.
A wind turbine spinning at night with no town nearby - that power just vanished.
Bitcoin mining turns that moment into value.
Value that can be spent on the other side of the world.
Energy can finally teleport.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-092/clips/x-clip-02-electricity-can-now-teleport-across-the-world.mp4

2026-10-02 13:46:25 UTC

Why does the world feel like it's unraveling?
8 billion people are playing the same prisoner's dilemma.
Race to the money printer before your neighbor does.
Under fiat money, that's the defection path.
Fix the money and the game stops rewarding it.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-026/clips/x-clip-17-the-world-is-a-prisoners-dilemma-with-8-billion-players.mp4

2026-10-02 00:45:34 UTC

Football felt like the one space money couldn't touch.
Pure skill, pure expression.
But broken money seeps into every corner of life.
There's no safe space while the base layer is rotten.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-093/clips/x-clip-03-football-was-supposed-to-be-the-one-safe-space-it-wasnt.mp4

2026-10-01 21:30:45 UTC

Dishonest money teaches people to stop trying.
When the measuring stick lies, effort stops compounding.
The drugs, the giving up, the short-term thinking.
It's a rational response to BROKEN money.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-092/clips/x-clip-03-broken-money-is-why-so-many-people-give-up-on-themselves.mp4

2026-10-01 17:45:41 UTC

Until 1971, a dollar could be redeemed for real gold.
Then the link was cut.
Paper money became a made-up system overnight.
Every strange thing about prices and debt since traces back to that one moment.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-091/clips/x-clip-03-in-1971-money-stopped-being-tied-to-anything-real.mp4

2026-10-01 13:46:24 UTC

Your money quietly loses value.
Life gets harder. You get angry.
You want a villain: politicians will supply one.
We're the ones lapping it up.
The hate is downstream of the money.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-026/clips/x-clip-12-why-inflation-always-ends-with-people-looking-for-someone-to.mp4

2026-10-01 00:46:04 UTC

Bitcoin miners chase cheap energy to remote rivers in Africa.
They build the infrastructure to tap it.
When they leave, the villagers inherit the grid.
Light at night, refrigeration, connection to the world.
Aid couldn't reach these villages, but an incentive did.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-092/clips/x-clip-11-the-villagers-get-electricity-after-the-miners-leave.mp4

2026-09-30 23:00:35 UTC

Technology should make everything cheaper.
Your rent, your groceries, your insurance...
None of it comes down.
A debt-based system DIES the moment prices fall.
So the money printing never stops.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-091/clips/x-clip-13-why-the-system-cant-let-prices-come-down.mp4

2026-09-30 21:45:56 UTC

Why won't a single politician tell you to tighten the belt?
Because the one who promises more spending wins.
Honesty loses votes, pandering wins them.
The filter is structural: the truth-teller never makes it to office.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-026/clips/x-clip-03-why-no-politician-will-ever-tell-you-the-truth-about-debt.mp4

2026-09-30 20:00:35 UTC

How does a village with no grid finally get electricity?
Bitcoin miners set up at a river.
Gridless builds the infrastructure to power the operation.
When the miners leave, the POWER stays.
Light, refrigeration, kids who study after dark.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-092/clips/x-clip-10-african-villagers-get-electricity-after-the-bitcoin-miners-l.mp4

2026-09-30 18:15:46 UTC

Why does immigration feel this crazy?
People know they're being extracted from.
That leaves two options: keep getting extracted, or move closer to the extractor.
Mass migration is that second option at scale.
Fix the money and the pressure ends.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-091/clips/x-clip-10-immigration-chaos-is-a-symptom-not-the-disease.mp4

2026-09-30 17:16:12 UTC

Owning more Bitcoin doesn't give you power over its rules.
Fiat is different. More money buys closer access to the money printer.
That's how wealth compounds into political power.
Bitcoin has no printer to stand next to.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-028/clips/x-clip-19-ownership-concentration-isnt-power-concentration.mp4

2026-09-30 15:15:54 UTC

When a headline says taxpayers funded the bailout, the real word is inflation sufferers.
You pay once in taxes. You pay again in lost purchasing power.
The second bill never shows up on a receipt.
It shows up at the grocery store.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-027/clips/x-clip-02-when-the-news-says-taxpayers-they-mean-you-twice.mp4

2026-09-30 13:45:38 UTC

The rage at billionaires is real.
The target is wrong.
Every coup, every tax, every reset just hands the money printer to someone new.
Change the MONEY or the cycle begins again.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-091/clips/x-clip-06-killing-the-billionaires-wont-change-anything-heres-why.mp4

2026-09-30 00:46:06 UTC

The shift to Bitcoin isn't top-down.
It's the private school head shaping a generation.
The mid-level exec turning their company.
The regular person talking Bitcoin at the barbershop.
Wherever you stand, that's where it happens.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-028/clips/x-clip-17-the-bottom-up-revolution-school-heads-executives-hairdresser.mp4

2026-09-29 23:31:22 UTC

AI models and new Bitcoin blocks work the same way.
Expensive to create.
Nearly free to use.
Whoever prints the money will also ration the intelligence.
That's ONE lever with no exit.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-031/clips/x-clip-20-bitcoin-blocks-and-ai-models-same-economics.mp4

2026-09-29 21:30:36 UTC

The last decade felt like the Hunger Games.
That's what a Prisoner's Dilemma looks like as stakes climb.
Everyone turns cold-blooded to survive.
People didn't get worse.
The game did.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-091/clips/x-clip-12-if-the-last-10-years-felt-like-the-hunger-games-buckle-up.mp4

2026-09-29 20:00:32 UTC

Why is this the first generation to expect less than its parents?
It's not personal. It's the money.
When money is made from debt, wealth flows to whoever holds assets first.
Everyone else runs to stand still.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-001/clips/x-clip-05-were-the-first-generation-told-to-expect-less-while-wealth-c.mp4

2026-09-29 18:46:06 UTC

Bitcoin's white paper isn't scripture.
It's the origin story...
TODAY billions move through Lightning and other layers on top of it.
Anchoring on the 2009 vision blinds you to what's already here.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-028/clips/x-clip-11-the-trap-of-anchoring-on-bitcoins-original-vision.mp4

2026-09-29 16:45:36 UTC

People think gold became money because it's shiny.
It didn't.
It won because it's scarce and doesn't rot.
That's the only test money has ever had to pass.
The dollar fails it.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-091/clips/x-clip-05-we-didnt-pick-gold-as-money-because-its-pretty.mp4

2026-09-29 15:15:52 UTC

Some days five people are watching live.
Some days it's hundreds, weeks later.
The math of showing up: you're never talking to the room you can see.
You're talking to whoever finds it next.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-031/clips/x-clip-15-why-i-keep-streaming-when-only-three-people-are-watching.mp4

2026-09-29 13:46:32 UTC

Why does money printing never stop?
A debt-based system has only two states.
Forever expansion, or everyone's savings vanish at once.
There's no third option.
So we always choose to keep printing.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-030/clips/x-clip-04-debt-money-only-ends-two-ways-forever-or-all-at-once.mp4

2026-09-29 00:45:38 UTC

If you cheer your house going up in value.
You're the "they" to every young person who can't buy one.
Same system, opposite sides.
There is no they.
It's fellow human beings all the way down.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-091/clips/x-clip-09-if-your-house-keeps-going-up-youre-the-villain-to-first-time.mp4

2026-09-28 23:02:17 UTC

The unemployment rate won't spike.
Entry-level roles will just quietly stop existing.
Take out another loan and get another degree.
Or live at your parents' another five years.
That's not a job market. It's can-kicking.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-031/clips/x-clip-13-the-entry-level-job-that-just-quietly-stopped-existing.mp4

2026-09-28 21:31:12 UTC

We've never had one truth 8 billion people could agree on.
Every tribe, every belief, every side had its own version...
Bitcoin is a ledger secured by real energy.
Anyone can verify it, no one can rewrite it.
The first shared TRUTH in human history.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-037/clips/x-clip-22-bitcoin-is-the-first-thing-8-billion-people-can-agree-is-tru.mp4

2026-09-28 20:17:00 UTC

Is there a they, or are you the they?
If your home rises in value, you're the they to the young renter.
If you buy an iPhone, you're the they to the cobalt miner.
There's no top villain.
Just fellow humans all the way down.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-091/clips/x-clip-08-you-are-the-villain-in-someone-elses-story.mp4

2026-09-28 18:30:48 UTC

Competition usually means someone has to lose.
In a Bitcoin economy that flips.
My money holds its value whether I win or lose.
The winner still creates value that lifts everyone.
Even losing leaves me better off than before.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-035/clips/x-clip-16-bitcoin-is-the-only-competition-where-losing-still-makes-you.mp4

2026-09-28 16:46:27 UTC

Once you learn a truth, you can't unlearn it.
You know what's real, but your days don't reflect it yet...
That gap is the discomfort you feel.
The only way out is changing what you do.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-037/clips/x-clip-08-you-cant-unknow-a-truth-the-only-way-out-is-changing-your-ac.mp4

2026-09-28 15:15:44 UTC

Flexing works today for one reason.
Proximity to the money printer is the real power.
The jet, the watch - they just signal it.
Sound money breaks that. Bitcoin is scarce.
Spending it to impress strangers just looks dumb.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-089/clips/x-clip-17-flaunting-money-will-look-stupid-in-ten-years.mp4

2026-09-28 13:47:03 UTC

Buying a home feels like escape.
Every mortgage creates new money.
That money bids up the next home.
You didn't rig this game.
You just joined it.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-004/clips/x-clip-14-the-moment-you-buy-a-house-you-become-the-problem.mp4

2026-09-28 00:46:00 UTC

Fear-based content about the surveillance state keeps you inside it.
If your lasting impression is fear, you act from fear.
What is a little island today becomes a bigger island tomorrow - the lifeboat becomes the ship.
Don't just watch the exit get built.
Build it.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-087/clips/x-clip-06-if-its-a-control-grid-youre-worried-about-dont-just-watch-bu.mp4

2026-09-27 23:00:41 UTC

The job market is a treadmill that only speeds up.
The instinct is to run faster - more applications, more credentials.
That path only leads to pain.
Step off NOW, while it's still slow enough to jump.
Later, stepping off is just falling.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-089/clips/x-clip-16-step-off-the-treadmill-before-it-moves-too-fast-to-jump.mp4

2026-09-27 21:30:34 UTC

AI can give you anything you want, instantly.
What it can't give you: another human choosing to spend their scarce hours on you.
That choice becomes the last real luxury.
The one thing abundance can't manufacture.
https://vod.ageofabundance.live/ep-090/clips/x-clip-07-the-last-luxury-is-being-chosen-by-another-human.mp4