What happens when your bank fails, your government locks your money, and your savings vanish overnight?

That’s exactly what happened to Tony Yazbeck, co-founder of The Bitcoin Way, when Lebanon's financial collapse wiped out his life savings. In this riveting episode of the Efani Features Podcast, host Mark Kreitzman talks with Tony about how that devastation led him to Bitcoin — and why he now helps others reclaim their financial sovereignty through education, self-custody, and privacy-first infrastructure.

This is not another “Bitcoin price” conversation. This is about survival, control, and the future of money.

🧠 In this episode:

• How losing everything revealed the truth about fiat, banking, and centralized control
• Why Bitcoin is not an investment — it’s savings technology for the post-dollar world
• Why self-custody is non-negotiable (and how to do it properly)
• What The Bitcoin Way teaches: cold wallets, encrypted vaults, air-gapped security, Bitcoin nodes, disaster recovery, and more
• Helping non-technical users get started — even if they’ve never bought Bitcoin before
• How to avoid the top 3 mistakes that get people’s coins stolen
• Digital privacy strategies including de-Googled phones, GrapheneOS setups, and privacy-first comms
• Why Tony believes the future is Bitcoin + sovereign communities — and why the dollar system is already collapsing

You’ll also hear why any amount of Bitcoin — even 0.01 — is meaningful, and why high-net-worth individuals are often the most vulnerable due to misplaced trust in legacy systems.

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🎙 Hosted by Mark Kreitzman, General Manager at Efani
🔗 Follow Tony on X: @V4BTC