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Sats

A sat, short for satoshi, is the smallest unit of Bitcoin — one hundred millionth of a coin — and the unit everything in podcast payments is actually denominated in.

Why it matters

Pricing in whole bitcoin makes micropayments unreadable: nobody wants to send 0.00000005 of anything. Sats turn the same amount into "five sats," which is the difference between a number a listener can reason about and one they cannot.

It also sets the scale of Value 4 Value. A show earning a few thousand sats an episode is earning a few dollars — the model only adds up across a lot of listeners, or a few generous ones.

How it works

One bitcoin is 100,000,000 sats. Lightning Network goes finer still, accounting internally in millisats — thousandths of a sat — which is what makes per-minute streaming arithmetic work without rounding everything to zero. The <podcast:value> block's suggested attribute is denominated in bitcoin, so feeds carry values like 0.00000005000 that apps convert to sats for display.

Heard on the show

24 moments across 21 episodes.

  1. E227 · 4 Jul 2025 · Gimme Root!

    • Kevin Bae shuts his node, sends sats to PC 2.0timeline

  2. E205 · 3 Jan 2025 · Podscape

    • BBall Live recap: 5M satstimeline

  3. E186 · 26 Jul 2024 · Room 2514

    • Bands at Bitcoin (live + recap): BBall did 1.2M sats, event did 6Mtimeline

  4. E126 · 17 Mar 2023 · Podcasting Power Rangers

    • 1:37:00Reporting Sats to uncle Samchapter

  5. E125 · 10 Mar 2023 · Wolf Nuts

    • 24:00Sats Incomingchapter
    • 26:00Sats Statschapter
    • 35:00Sats statschapter
    • and 1 more in this episode

  6. E102 · 16 Sep 2022 · Down With OP3

    • 1:13:00Gamifying Sats and V4Vchapter

  7. E94 · 22 Jul 2022 · Bells Out

    • Netflix $0.005 per minute = 20 sats/minutesshow notes

  8. E67 · 24 Dec 2021 · Satoshi Stocking Stuffer

    • Only 3 sats/minutesshow notes

  9. E240 · 31 Oct 2025 · Open Source = People!

    • 1:20:38a thousand sats in at a time.transcript

  10. E201 · 22 Nov 2024 · Fugue State

    • 36:46sats in there so I can, so Itranscript

  11. E183 · 22 Jun 2024 · Chain of Fraud

    • 1:56:45SATs. And he says this discussion was so overlytranscript

  12. E98 · 19 Aug 2022 · Girl Friday

    • 1:06:33I've come up with for the, for the SATs for the for the prizetranscript

and 9 more episodes, back to E10 (6 Nov 2020).

Show all 24 moments across 21 episodes

  1. E240 · 31 Oct 2025 · Open Source = People!

    • 1:20:38a thousand sats in at a time.transcript

  2. E227 · 4 Jul 2025 · Gimme Root!

    • Kevin Bae shuts his node, sends sats to PC 2.0timeline

  3. E205 · 3 Jan 2025 · Podscape

    • BBall Live recap: 5M satstimeline

  4. E201 · 22 Nov 2024 · Fugue State

    • 36:46sats in there so I can, so Itranscript

  5. E186 · 26 Jul 2024 · Room 2514

    • Bands at Bitcoin (live + recap): BBall did 1.2M sats, event did 6Mtimeline

  6. E183 · 22 Jun 2024 · Chain of Fraud

    • 1:56:45SATs. And he says this discussion was so overlytranscript

  7. E126 · 17 Mar 2023 · Podcasting Power Rangers

    • 1:37:00Reporting Sats to uncle Samchapter

  8. E125 · 10 Mar 2023 · Wolf Nuts

  9. E102 · 16 Sep 2022 · Down With OP3

    • 1:13:00Gamifying Sats and V4Vchapter

  10. E98 · 19 Aug 2022 · Girl Friday

    • 1:06:33I've come up with for the, for the SATs for the for the prizetranscript

  11. E94 · 22 Jul 2022 · Bells Out

    • Netflix $0.005 per minute = 20 sats/minutesshow notes

  12. E91 · 24 Jun 2022 · Splitting the Tab

    • 35:04some SATs so they can get that value for value joy. Before youtranscript

  13. E67 · 24 Dec 2021 · Satoshi Stocking Stuffer

    • Only 3 sats/minutesshow notes

  14. E59 · 22 Oct 2021 · Double or Nothing

    • 1:18:45the SATs hit the wallet and immediately go out to anothertranscript

  15. E41 · 11 Jun 2021 · We are the Super Spreaders

    • Lots of sats over nightshow notes

  16. E36 · 7 May 2021 · Crawling Our Life Away

    • Sats - LNPay - Keep your eye on this space!show notes

  17. E23 · 5 Feb 2021 · Moving to Milli's

    • 1:08:06Racks and stacks of Satschapter

  18. E18 · 1 Jan 2021 · Taking a Tenet

    • Stacking Satsshow notes

  19. E15 · 11 Dec 2020 · We're with the Band!

    • Want sats for Dreb scott and phone boyshow notes

  20. E11 · 13 Nov 2020 · Streaming Sats

    • Lightning streaming sats in real time!show notes

  21. E10 · 6 Nov 2020 · Now Entering Phase Two

    • Sphinx and sats entertimeline

From chapter titles, show notes, the PC 2.0 Timeline and the clip notes. Where those say nothing, from the episode transcript — which reaches further but only records that a word was said. 214 of 266 episodes have curated notes; 177 moments come from transcripts.