In this laid back check in, host Sunny Ray catches up with musician and Bitcoin advocate Miles about the wild swings in Bitcoin price and the mindset needed to hold through volatility. Miles shares how he bought the dip around 75,000 dollars, why he refuses to trade the day to day chop, and what the UK Bitcoin podcasting and meetup scene looks like, including his experience on the Bitcoin and Me podcast and thoughts on British Hodl. The conversation shifts to his music, a stalled solo album, a songwriting camp that produced 26 songs, and a possible label partnership, before exploring how AI tools like Suno and platforms like Replit are reshaping creative and entrepreneurial work. Sunny introduces the concept of ikigai as a framework for combining passion, skill, market need, and income in the age of Bitcoin and AI. The episode closes on a personal note, with Miles describing how embracing present moment awareness, inspired by a prior conversation about Eckhart Tolle, changed a family gathering into a moment of pure joy.
Sunny Ray and Miles talk Bitcoin dip buying, UK crypto culture, AI powered music, and finding your ikigai.
Are you playing the markets, trying to catch the dips?
I'm not brave enough for that. I've been buying all the way down and went hard around 75,000 because I thought that was the bottom. I don't have cash to deploy right now until next month, so I'm not really playing that game. I wasn't expecting 60k Bitcoin, but the season right now is about building, not watching the price unless you're actually buying.
How's the content creation been going? I saw you've been doing interviews.
I got invited onto a few podcasts. There's a guy called Gary who runs the Bitcoin and Me podcast and a conference in a small English market town in an 800 year old building. It was really chilled, no VIP area, everyone mingling. I've listened to his show for a long time, it goes deeper into your first memories of money, not just Bitcoin talk.
What's the Bitcoin podcasting and meetup scene like in the UK?
There aren't many big players. A buddy runs a meetup near me that started in August and already has around 110 people in the Telegram group. It's one of the best Bitcoin discussion groups I'm in, honestly where I get most of my information now. Outside of What Bitcoin Did, which isn't really UK based anymore, there's not huge content creators here.
What's your take on British Hodl?
He's got good insights, but he's just not that nice. He comes across as angry, always cussing people out and being aggressive, so I stopped following him. He reminds me of one of my uncles when I was a kid. Maybe he's sweet in real life, but the Twitter persona just isn't for me.
Any new progress on the music front?
I had a meeting with a record label last week that might help fund a new album. We did a songwriting camp and wrote 26 songs in three days, though realistically only five to seven are worth recording. I don't want to keep self funding it since it becomes a money pit, so now I'm looking to partner with a label to split costs and give them a stake in making it work.
How does that cross over with AI and music?
Me and my kids have gotten really into Tiny Desk, these stripped back live sessions where you see how good musicians really are. We also mess around with Suno, which can make surprisingly good tunes even for a nothing person like me. It's a bit demoralizing, but I still think there will always be a market for live musicians because you can't go see an AI artist perform live.
What impact did our conversation last week about living in the present have on you?
It really helped. My sister's birthday happened that night, everyone was in the kitchen cracking jokes and laughing so hard my wife was crying. I kept thinking about what you said, that this laughing with family right now is the only thing that matters. My kids didn't even know what was funny, they just wanted in on the moment. I'm genuinely grateful you said that to me.
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