BITCOIN SEASON 2: Bitcoin Was Always Political w/ Casey Rodarmor

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Casey Rodarmor discusses Bitcoin politics, ordinals/runes development, stablecoins, and his wild new project adding Chinese numerology and divination features to Bitcoin ordinals protocol. You're listening to Bitcoin Season 2. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 7,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Casey Rodarmor, creator of Bitcoin Ordinals and Runes protocols, joins us to talk about his frustration with Bitcoin politics, why he thinks Bitcoiners are becoming too cozy with politicians, the future of ordinals and runes adoption, his thoughts on stablecoins, and his fascinating new project to integrate Chinese numerology and divination systems into Bitcoin through SAT-based fortune telling. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com **NOTES:** • Bitcoin currently trading at $110,000 • Runes has built-in 4-year hype cycle for names • One-letter rune names unlock in final phase • Casey blames lack of creativity for runes adoption • Stablecoins expand dollar demand globally • Chinese numerology integration planned for ordinals Timestamps: 00:00 Start 00:55 Tired of Ordinals & Runes? 03:25 Bitcoin is feeling weird 06:41 Politicians 10:02 Arch Network 10:34 Bitcoin & politics 12:02 Stablecoins 14:02 Hell Money Podcast 15:20 Numerology 22:04 Vaporware? 23:35 Interesting stuff right now - 👉 Brought to you by Arch Network! Arch brings the speed of Solana & the best of crypto UX to Bitcoin. Tap into the rich app ecosystem on Arch & try out the testnet while you’re still early! Visit arch.network to learn more. - 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is produced Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	I have the inventor of ordinals and runes, Casey Rodamore, on this podcast. We talk about how Casey,
0:06.7	even though ordinals may be down, how Casey is going to improve and is new ideas for ordinals.
0:13.7	We also talk about things such as state sycophantism, Bitcoin going forward, how Casey likes to think
0:19.9	about Bitcoin as a more application
0:22.1	focused developer. This is one of the more spicy and fun conversations I've had. Casey
0:26.8	is a wonderful conversation. This conversation was recorded live at the inscribing Conference at Bitcoin Vegas, a Bitcoin Culture and Arts Conference.
0:43.6	Shout out inscribing.
0:44.4	Go to inscribing.com or at org events on X.
0:48.5	You're the Ornals and Rooms guy, but you're...
0:50.8	Are you tired of talking about Orinals and Roons by now?
0:54.1	No, honestly, I'm very happy to talk about them.
0:56.8	You know, they're, they're my babies.
0:58.5	They're things I love about them.
0:59.9	They're great.
1:00.9	I'm still, I still think they're fun.
1:03.4	Every day I go to Ordinals.com and I see what's kind of like been landing in blocks out
1:07.6	of the Mempool.
1:09.7	Roons, I think, is interesting.
1:11.1	I think everybody's sleeping on Roons.
1:13.2	It has this built-in four-year hype cycle where, you know, in three years, these like
1:18.0	one-letter legendary names are going to start dropping and people are going to realize like,
1:21.9	oh, shit, you know, it's like the ha, like, Roons has the having, too, except it's like the names.
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