Guest: Bitcoin Well's CEO: 'Your Bank Account Is a Surveillance Camera
Bitcoin Well Podcast
- Published
- September 1, 2026
- Duration
- 54:33
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Sep 1, 2026
Discusses society, culture.
Summary
There's a camera on a pole near you right now, tracking every car that passes. Your city bought it to catch stolen vehicles. It's already been used to track romantic partners, reach into immigration cases, and build a national database that runs warrant-free searches across tens of thousands of cameras. Your bank account is the same machine. It's just old…
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There's a camera on a pole near you right now, tracking every car that passes. Your city bought it to catch stolen vehicles. It's already been used to track romantic partners, reach into immigration cases, and build a national database that runs warrant-free searches across tens of thousands of cameras. Your bank account is the same machine. It's just older, and nobody built a satirical Darth Vader bit about it yet. Adam O'Brien, CEO of Bitcoin Well, joins us to make that case in full. We get in
Themes
- society
- culture