We also had Svetski going on all sorts of interesting tangents. Spiral dynamics? Multimillenial shifts in human civilization? Mycelium? Gimme those all day over yet another story about an IOU sale.
It does seem a bit more sanitized now. And it's hard to trust someone when they pause to tell you about how great Trezor or Bitkey is.
I do still hear some interesting enough updates from RHR, and Bitcoin Optech keeps things focused. And I gotta hand it to @Nunya Bidness for things like Cathedral and the general focus on relating Bitcoin's incentives with agricultural innovation and general best practices. If nothing else it's a nice break from some of the news that gets to be a grind.
I came into bitcoin podcasts from macro and geopolitical podcasts, and that's still the area they're often more interesting in. For information about Bitcoin itself, aside from when there really is news, you're better off with a book or a conversation. Get to a Bitdevs!
As for the podcasts, I'm not dropping them, but it's some signal in a high noise environment very dependent upon who the guests are. 1.75x listening while working or otherwise doing things is enough so that I can catch if something of interest actually comes on.
