BitCorner with Juan Cienfuegos

🎧 WATCH ON FOUNTAIN.FM & EARN SATS! ⚡ This episode PREMIERES FIRST on Fountain — earn sats while you listen. 🧠 Support independent podcasts. Escape the algorithm. 👉 Listen & subscribe here: https://tinyurl.com/yck8u6sa 🟠 Bitcoin Conference 2026 – The world’s biggest Bitcoin event is back in Las Vegas. 🎫 Use code BITCORNER here: 👉 https://tickets.b.tc/event/bitcoin-2026 🐂 Bull Bitcoin – Buy Bitcoin directly into self-custody. No banks. No middlemen. 🪙 Sign up here: 👉 https://app.bullbitcoin.com/registration/bitcornerpodcast 🎯 Episode Thesis Hollywood isn’t collapsing because people stopped loving movies. It’s collapsing because capital, distribution, and creative power have been centralized into too few hands. In this episode of BitCorner Podcast, we sit down with Zack Mahoney, founder of IndieHub, to break down what the Netflix–Warner Bros. mega-deal really signals: the end of competitive filmmaking, the erosion of theaters, and an industry optimized for algorithms—not art. This is a conversation about media monopolies, broken incentive systems, and why independent creators are being squeezed out—and how Bitcoin introduces a radically different model for funding, distribution, and creative sovereignty. A structural diagnosis of why Hollywood is bleeding—and what comes next. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 – Why Netflix broke the incentive system 00:30 – Netflix–Warner Bros deal explained ($82.7B shock) 01:35 – Consolidation, fewer films & the death of theaters 01:40 – Nolan & Spielberg fight to protect cinema 02:01 – Who decides what gets made — and who gets shut out 02:08 – Introducing Zack Mahoney (IndieHub) 03:06 – Zack’s background: actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur 05:56 – 2008 financial crisis & Hollywood’s first collapse 06:17 – Technology, politics & economics converge 07:22 – Why artists ignored money — until it broke everything 08:33 – From actor to producer: learning how capital works 09:27 – Discovering Bitcoin & understanding what’s broken 10:00 – Why existing “crypto” solutions failed filmmakers 11:29 – IndieHub vs Netflix: opposite incentives 12:11 – Why you can’t understand Hollywood without money 13:49 – Post-war Hollywood & decades of consolidation 15:11 – Universal → Comcast → NBC: consolidation in real life 16:04 – Fixing the incentive system (IndieHub’s mission) 17:10 – Why filmmaking requires risk (and CEOs can’t take it) 18:17 – Sequels, remakes & creative decay explained 19:12 – Why public companies destroy storytelling 20:46 – How films used to be financed (equity & incentives) 22:40 – Streaming broke the unit-sales model 22:50 – “You pay Netflix $35 and they decide everything” 24:00 – Why the system is mathematically doomed 25:05 – Hollywood as junk food culture 26:30 – Can Hollywood decentralize? (Short answer: no) 27:10 – Why Netflix can’t copy IndieHub 28:29 – Hollywood as a location is finished 29:06 – Technology destroyed the studio monopoly 30:35 – Anyone can make films now — but distribution is broken 31:35 – The real problem: delivery + payment 32:44 – Why filmmakers must get paid or the industry dies 33:04 – Zero-rate capital & why studios outcompete everyone 34:19 – Production vs infrastructure: picking a lane 35:25 – Why media became a propaganda system 37:01 – Dopamine economics & attention harvesting 38:13 – Streaming value per second (Bitcoin model) 39:06 – Money as the only honest feedback loop 39:53 – Attention is the most valuable resource 40:23 – Centralized decay vs conscious creation 40:51 – Final reflections: choosing what you support 📲 SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST 🎧 Fountain: https://tinyurl.com/yck8u6sa 🎵 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/bdcsyy4u 🍎 Apple Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/cj5wkhxv 🎬 Rumble: https://tinyurl.com/3bc6bvtn 📺 YouTube: /@bitcornerpodcast 👤 CONNECT 🎙️ Zack Mahoney: https://indeehub.studio/🎬 Bitcoin Film Fest: https://bitcoinfilmfest.com/ 🌐 Juan / BitCorner Website: https://bitcornershow.framer.ai/ 📸 Instagram: @bitcorner_official 🐦 Twitter/X: https://x.com/TheJuanSC 📧 Email: bitcornerpodcast@proton.me