Off the Record on the Rocks

E143: Have You Been Involved with GTA6 Leaks, Anthropic's AGI Drop, and the Death of Open Source?

Michael Saylor apparently caught his sturgeon at Jackson Hole and is already back to buying — 4% of all the Bitcoin that will ever exist, timed to land right before the S

E140: Have You Been Involved with the Government Shutting Down AI Before It Hacks the Dollar?

America’s 250th birthday is coming in hot—and apparently everybody brought their own version of the dollar. BlackRock is plugging a synthetic dollar into its $20 trillion

E139: Have You Been Involved with the Pope Regulating AI While Robots Build a Bitcoin Moon Base?

The Pope says touch grass. The astronauts say look up. Meanwhile, humanoid robots are preparing to unzip themselves onto the lunar surface and build Moon Base Twenty-Eigh

E138: Have You Been Involved with MasterCard Going to the Moon in a Bitcoin Space Suit Made by Kubrick?

MasterCard just picked a side. Bitcoin is moving from retail toy to institutional plumbing, and Visa isn't sleeping either. This week, Toner and BTC Ankarino dig into wha

E137: Have You Been Involved with GameStop Buying eBay with Pokémon Cards and Vibes?

Meta’s back in the money business—just don’t call it Libra, and definitely don’t call it a bank. This week, Toner and BTC Ankarino unpack Zuckerberg quietly rolling out U

E136: Have You Been Involved with Blowing a Hairdryer on the Truth Layer?

Coinbase becomes a movie studio, Apple shows you the crew behind the commercial, and suddenly every brand is breaking the fourth wall just to prove the magic trick is rea

E135: Have You Been Involved with AI Movies, GTA Wallets & Ibogaine for Robots?

Bitcoin is everywhere now: at Cannes, in the New York Times, in the Strait of Hormuz, inside banking conferences, and possibly hiding in a gray box with Casey Affleck. Th

E134: Have You Been Involved with Truth ETFs & Programmable Markets?

From Tulum cenotes to faulty toilets in space, Toner and BTC Ankarino return from spring break staring directly into the next great American asset class: betting on whate

E133: Have You Been Involved with Polymarket Gambling Bars & Tokenized Oil on Tax Day?

Coming off SXSW and rolling straight into Blockchain Week in Washington, D.C., Toner and BTC Ankarino find the cherry blossoms blooming, the Clarity Act stalling, and Pol

Have You Been Involved with SXSW 2026… LIVE from Austin?

We’re coming to you LIVE from Austin, Texas at SXSW 2026—and the signal is loud.This isn’t a recap. This is boots-on-the-ground, drinks-in-hand, real-time pattern recogni

E131: Have You Been Involved with Kraken Getting Fed Access While the Money Machine Goes Brrr?

Winter’s thawing, DC is heating up, and suddenly the “boring” plumbing of global finance looks like the main event. In this episode, Toner and BTC Ankarino connect the do

E130: Have You Been Involved with the Fire Horse Reset While AI Buys the Outcome?

February isn’t sleepy—it’s ceremonial. Lunar New Year collides with Fat Tuesday, Ramadan, Ash Wednesday, and an eclipse for good measure… and suddenly the vibe shifts. Th

E129:Have You Been Involved with the Banks Screaming “Stablecoin Yield” While Washington Tokenizes Everything?

It’s the pre-Valentine’s Day thaw in Washington, and the ABA is back in the White House like a jilted ex—demanding the government define stablecoin yield before community

E128: Have You Been Involved with Elon Buying Elon During a Raccoon Moon?

It’s official: Elon Musk just bought himself—SpaceX acquires xAI for $1.25 trillion, and the moon isn’t the only thing full this February. In this episode of Off the Reco

E127: Have You Been Involved with Blockchain Diplomacy at Davos and Creating the 24/7 NYSE Casino?

Davos is hot—literally and geopolitically—and Brian Armstrong didn’t bring enough SPF for the regulatory crossfire. In this episode of Off the Record, On the Rocks, Toner

E126: Have You Been Involved with Replacing Democracy with Predictive Markets?

Welcome to 2026, where digital detox is harder than quitting carbs and predictive markets make Vegas look quaint. In this episode, Toner trades Instagram for a Moleskine,

E125: Have You Been Involved with Disney Paying OpenAI a Billion Dollars?

?It’s the deep dark days of December—and suddenly Disney is cutting billion‑dollar checks to OpenAI, Mickey Mouse is roaming the metaverse, and Visa just quietly picked S

E124: Have You Been Involved with a MrBeast-backed Stablecoin Economy?

From Bitcoin life insurance and digital banks with no customers to MrBeast minting his own economy, it’s getting hard to tell the difference between Wall Street and YouTu

E123: Have You Been Involved with Pardoning Turkeys & Airdropping the American Dream?

Thanksgiving hits different when the pardons are symbolic—and the payouts are real. This week, Off the Record, On the Rocks dives deep into Michael Dell’s $1,000 baby bon

Have You Been Involved with Calm Computing While Selling the Tokenized Version of Yourself on Black Friday?

Thanksgiving hits different when your avatar is more valuable than your real self. In this week’s edition of Off the Record, On the Rocks, Toner & Ankarino break down the