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Crypto Voices: Episode 166
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Today Alec, Keto, and Matthew are joined by Seth for Privacy. Seth is a privacy advocate who strives to educate and learn more about where technology and privacy meet and is deeply enthusiastic about the ability these technologies grant people to take back control of their data, and more broadly, their digital lives. Learn about Seth's endeavors here:
https://sethforprivacy.com/
Seth for Privacy's X Account: @sethforprivacy
Freedom.Tech's X Account: @freedomtech
Freedom.Tech's Website: https://freedom.tech/about/
Contents
00:00:00 Matt's Episode Intro
00:02:12 Episode Starts Here
00:07:08 Bitcoin News
00:10:07 Seth for Privacy Joins
00:10:48 Seth's Take on Current Events
00:19:31 Why Now?
00:21:34 Privacy Tools for Legacy Industries
00:26:26 What is the Message?
00:30:25 "The Chilling Effect"
00:33:15 Gaining Absolute Privacy
00:44:00 Personal Privacy
00:55:37 Show Sponsor - Trezor
00:56:47 Bitcoin's Future
01:08:03 War on Cash
01:14:30 Closing Thoughts
Hosts: Matthew Mezinskis, Michel, Alec Harris
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Crypto Voices: Episode 165
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Today Alec, Keto, and Matthew are joined by guest Yves Bennaïm to discuss all things Bitcoin. Yves Bennaïm has focused since 2011 on the societal and political implications of Bitcoin and its Blockchain technology. In 2017, he founded 2B4CH, a not-for-profit think tank dedicated to helping industries and governments comprehend the social and financial impacts of Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and cryptoassets. He currently serves as the chair of this organization.
Since 2017, Yves has been a regular contributor to the Swiss business magazine Bilan with his column "Bitcoin and its Blockchain." Additionally, he writes the "Swindles in the World of Cryptoassets" column for the Swiss daily newspaper Le Temps. He chairs CEN and ISO technical committees, representing Switzerland.
With a passion for spreading impactful ideas, he launched and curated TEDxGeneva in 2009 and 2010. His expertise and contributions to the field have been recognized in various media, including an interview-focused portrait by Le Temps newspaper.
Learn more about Yves here: https://yves.bennaim.com/
Contents
00:00:37 Intro to guest Yves Bennaïm
00:01:35 Yves's Bitcoin Initiative
00:11:08 Getting the Vote Moving in Switzerland
00:17:41 Bitcoin Initiative Interest
00:23:30 Bitcoin's Acceptance in Switzerland
00:35:15 What is Needed for the Vote
00:35:58 Show Sponsor - Trezor
00:36:48 Voting Continued
00:43:25 Yves on Swiss Banking Secrecy
00:51:35 Samourai Wallet in the News
01:01:28 Satoshi's Quote and What it Means Today
01:09:07 Closing Thoughts
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Crypto Voices: Episode 164
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This episode was recorded on April 18th, 2024.
Matthew and Alec talk about the upcoming Bitcoin halving and Matt breaks down some of his latest charts, featuring the United States M3 Money and the importance of repos and Eurodollars. They also look at the Bitcoin price Power law percentiles.
Contents
00:06:14 Intro + Bitcoin Halving
00:08:16 Top Monetary Assets Worldwide
00:20:28 Top Ten Stocks & Bitcoin
00:22:30 NVIDIA Shareholder Meeting
00:24:29 Bitcoin Price
00:25:54 M3 Money
00:33:48 Show Sponsor - Trezor
00:34:38 What's Next for Matt's Charts?
00:35:16 Viability of BRICS
00:40:06 Bitcoin's Adoption
00:42:20 Who Can Carry Cash?
00:48:14 Paraguay and the $100 Bill
00:49:30 Closing Thoughts
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Crypto Voices: Episode 163
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Matthew and Alec talk with Peter Todd about supporting Ukraine, and knowing when to not be a contrarian. We run the gamut on global security, focusing on Ukraine, but also Israel, Taiwan, and Bitcoin.
Contents
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:45 Idiotic contrarianism
00:04:30 Why aren't we standing up to Russia?
00:10:35 What about NATO?
00:14:06 Why should we protect Ukraine?
00:17:00 Russian liberal cause & Navalny
00:19:47 What about US wars?
00:27:00 What about freezing reserves?
00:34:45 What about Russian disinfo?
00:38:45 What about infrastructure risks?
00:45:02 How to strike back?
00:47:20 What does history tell us about diplomacy?
00:54:53 Russia parallels with Gaza
00:55:31 Russia parallels with China
01:01:40 Russia parallels with Gaza
01:11:40 Other wars show no ambiguity in Ukraine
01:15:37 Bitcoin: On-chain vs. Layers vs. Banks
01:19:10 Closing Thoughts
More info on Peter: https://twitter.com/peterktodd
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Porkopolis Economics: Episode 100
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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Today, we fact-check the age-old (in Bitcoin terms!!) comparisons that have always been made between Bitcoin and PayPal. You need to simply understand that Bitcoin is basic money, and whatever is happening inside of PayPal, is not.
This is also my 100th episode of Porkopolis Economics! As discussed at the video start, please note that from now on these macro and chart-type videos will only continue on YouTube and Rumble.
Crypto Voices, our long-form podcast on Bitcoin and privacy with Alec from Halo Privacy and Michel from nodl, will continue to be streamed via the RSS feed as it has since 2017 (via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.).
As always, thank you for watching, and listening!
Contents
00:42 The Future of Porkopolis Economics
02:48 Trezor is Sponsoring Porkopolis Economics
04:00 PayPal's comparisons to Bitcoin
06:41 PayPal and Bitcoin's Transaction Payment Volume
09:46 PayPal Mafia
11:32 Issues with PayPal
14:18 Where Bitcoin Stands Out
17:42 Bitcoin and PayPal Market Cap Chart
21:10 The Backing of Bitcoin
22:32 Closing Thoughts
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.
Porkopolis Economics: Episode 99
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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Today, we are looking at the Bitcoin market cap vs. Meta's. Towards the end of the video, I show you where Meta and Bitcoin rank among other top assets.
Contents
00:09 Chart Breakdown
01:07 Meta's Market Cap History
0256 Bitcoin's Market Cap History
03:42 Comparing The Two
06:13 Top Assets by Market Cap
08:40 Closing Thoughts
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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Porkopolis Economics: Episode 98
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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Today, we are following up on last week's United States 10-year Government Bond Yield video. In this video, we are comparing the U.S. 10-year Government Bond Yield to the Federal Reserve ownership of U.S. debt.
Contents
00:57 What Does the Fed Control?
02:03 Fed Funds Target Rate
04:21 Who Controls Who?
05:06 Federal Reserve's Ownership of U.S. Debt
06:51 Global Financial Crisis
08:33 All-Time Record High
09:50 Printing Money to Buy Government Debt
11:06 Closing Thoughts
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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Porkopolis Economics: Episode 97
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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Today, we review the United States 10-year Government Bond Yield, also known as the 10 Year Note.
A History of Interest Rates, Fourth Edition (Wiley Finance) by Sydney Homer: https://www.amazon.com/History-Interest-Rates-Fourth-Finance/dp/0471732834
Contents
00:10 Understanding the Bond Yield
02:20 Outside Sources - Good Read
03:08 Mean Over the Last 60 Years
03:32 One Sigma Down | Up
04:54 Two Sigma Down | Up
06:33 Looking at the Extremes
07:28 Closing Thoughts
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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Porkopolis Economics: Episode 96
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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Today, we review the exponential regression price of silver over the last fifty years.
All-time trend coefficients to draw it yourself:
Power formula: y = a * EXP (b * x)
Coefficients found: y = 3.52 * EXP (0.28% * x)
Contents
00:08 Silver Price Trendline and Analysis Intro
01:11 Silver's Historical Price Changes
02:19 Exponential Regression Breakdown
03:40 Understanding Compound Annual Growth Rate
05:11 2030 Prediction
05:35 Closing Thoughts
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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Porkopolis Economics: Episode 95
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All-time trend coefficients to draw it yourself:
Power formula: y = a * EXP (b * x)
Coefficients found: y = 132.49 * EXP (0.41% * x)
Prior videos with further info:
Gold original exponential explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRkS2_ylec
Gold with other trendlines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzPKK53w0IY
Gold with percentiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTkkPpCfxWA
Contents
00:33 Gold Price Trendline and Analysis Intro
00:46 Exponential Regression Breakdown
03:02 Gold's Historical Price Changes
04:05 Gold's Price Now
04:43 Understanding Compound Annual Growth Rate
07:42 203 Prediction
08:06 Closing Thoughts
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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Porkopolis Economics: Episode 94
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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Today, we take a look at the Federal Reserve balance sheet and determine how fast it grows.
Contents
00:12 Balance Sheet Overview
00:47 Global Financial Crisis and its Effects
02:22 Speed of Growth
03:57 Growth Curve after 2008
05:01 Growth Rate Doubles
05:14 Comparing Regressions
06:11 Closing Thoughts
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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Porkopolis Economics: Episode 93
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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Today, we review Apple’s market cap versus the value of shares traded using a 40-year graph of the Apple market cap.
Contents
00:17 Graph Overview
01:52 Evaluation Notes and What Isn't Going to be Covered
02:37 Value of Shares Traded
04:07 Market Cap
06:50 All Time Average
08:43 Closing Thoughts
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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Porkopolis Economics: Episode 92
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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Today, we review NATO military expenditure, break down key member nations, and break down the 2% guideline.
Contents
00:11 Table Overview
01:42 Quick 30-Member Nation Breakdown
04:46 The 2% Guideline
05:40 Measuring Military Strength and How We Do It
07:41 Expenditure Breakdown and Who Is Following the 2% Guideline
10:10 GDP Overview
12:24 Closing Thoughts
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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Porkopolis Economics: Episode 91
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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Here we review how to calculate TTM (trailing-12 month!) returns for the S&P 500 over the last 220+ years, how these returns actually look graphically, and what the all-time averages say you "should" be getting from your portfolio.
Contents
00:17 Index Overview
01:18 Rolling Trailing Twelve Month Returns
04:23 All Time Average Line
07:43 S&P By The Numbers
09:59 Closing Thoughts
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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Porkopolis Economics: Episode 90
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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
The video is a continuation of a pervious video. Matthew reviews another trend-line from the S&P500 index. Also explained are the volatility over the years, highs and lows in significant years and the all time trend.
Contents
00:19 Index Overview
00:59 All-Time Trend
02:40 From 1971
03:15 Compound Annual Growth Rate
05:37 2-sigma moves
07:56 Where We Are Now & Closing Thoughts
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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Porkopolis Economics: Episode 89
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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
This video discusses the S&P500 over the last 220 years. Also explained are the volatility over the years, highs and lows in significant decades and the all time trend. The important thing to look at when it comes to long-term returns is compound annual growth, it's a vital statistic to understand.
Contents
00:00 Chart Breakdown and Brief S&P 500 History
00:34 S&P Total Return Index
09:21 Exponential Regression
13:22 Compound Annual Growth Rate
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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Crypto Voices: Episode 162
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Matthew, Alec & Michel talk with Pete Winn, Bitcoin educator extraordinaire. Pete worked formerly at Fedi, the company, as well as contributing to the open source Fedimint, and he is the founder of the educational portal "Bitcoin for Humans." We discuss the amazing benefits at a scale that Fedimints can bring to Bitcoin, as well as some of its criticisms and risks.
Contents
00:00:00 Intro
00:04:21 What is Fedimint?
00:13:13 Regulators & Fedimint
00:21:00 Regulating Bitcoin
00:22:09 Protection over Fedimint
00:27:43 Criticism over Fedimint
00:36:13 Lighting Network
00:41:17 Bitcoin for Humans
00:45:30 Scaling and Fedimint
00:49:10 Bitcoin's Fees
00:52:28 Alec's Philosophical Question
00:59:11 Fedimint's Stability Pool
01:06:48 UTXO and the Future
01:09:09 Fedimint and Payment
01:14:43 Closing Thoughts
Links for more info: https://bitcoinforhumans.com/
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Porkopolis Economics: Episode 88
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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
This video discusses the total compound returns you'd receive from investing in the S&P500 and, crucially, reinvesting all dividends and then holding for the long term.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:34 S&P Total Return Index
02:07 Reinvesting Your Dividends
06:35 Compound Return Figures
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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Crypto Voices: Episode 161
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Matthew & Alec cover the 11-strong Bitcoin spot ETF launch this week and why it matters. Alec covers the true privacy gaps that exist in your own car. The fellas conclude with a few charts on the long-term trend of BTC priced in 10 different fiat currencies and the US national debt.
Contents
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:03 Bitcoin ETF Launch
00:09:38 Bitcoin Market Cap
00:19:04 Coinbase
00:23:44 Bitcoin Over Time
00:27:49 Peter Zeihan
00:35:10 Privacy Review on Cars
00:44:30 The Appearance of Privacy
00:48:28 United States Federal Debt
00:50:16 Closing Thoughts
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Porkopolis Economics: Episode 87
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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
It's finally here. With yesterday's SEC approval of 11 spot ETFs for Bitcoin investment, it's time to revisit where things stand in terms of Bitcoin's strong power law trendline.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:49 Bitcoin's power trendline
02:49 Analyzing percentile bands
04:31 Power law regression
05:59 Closing thoughts
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the eighty-sixth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money (and sports), from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
This episode breaks down how many bitcoins could be purchased over the years by 100 thousand units of various fiat currencies. There is a trend.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:14 100K dollars in Bitcoin terms
05:03 100L euros in Bitcoin terms
06:04 Turkish lira
07:01 Argentinian peso
08:41 Brazilian real | Chinese yuan | Indian rupee
09:40 Russian ruble
10:26 Closing thoughts
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the eighty-fifth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money (and sports), from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:19 Bitcoin market cap
03:41 Bitcoin "Price to sales" ratio
05:42 Miner revenue
07:56 Power Regression
10:17 How much do miners make?
12:20 Two standard deviation
14:49 Closing thoughts
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the eighty-fourth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money (and sports), from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:15 Bitcoin fee lifetime
03:47 last twelve months
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the one-hundred-sixty podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew and Alec are joined by a special guest: Ian Cain
Ian Cain is a co-founder and executive chairman of the QUBIC Labs.
Contents
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:16 Who is Ian Cain
00:04:12 Ian in Politics
00:17:06 Crypto in government
00:27:02 Bitcoin | Killer apps
00:31:50 Boston Blockchain Week
00:36:20 Community and Ecosystem
00:42:20 Global cities with crypto-friendly spaces
00:49:23 Alec's philosophical question
00:53:10 Older generation's approach to crypto and technology
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This is the one-hundred-fifty-ninth podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew and Alec discuss current world topics, including the devaluation of the Argentinian peso and the Zero Trust Initiative. Also, Alec discusses his newest venture: havenX.
Contents
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:16 Argentinian peso devaluation
00:12:05 Alec's havenX
00:17:08 Privacy in the government
00:19:50 Zero Trust Initiative within the Biden administration
00:21:37 havenX and its services
00:29:44 The next scam
00:35:49 Trial and Error within an ETF
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This is the eighty-third video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money (and sports), from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:01 Devaluation of the peso
03:15 Not enough devaluation
04:16 How does Bitcoin fit in?
06:21 Black market price of pesos valued in dollar terms
Here, I review the Argentinian peso, the Black Market rate, and where Bitcoin fits in.
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This is the one-hundred-fifty-eighth podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew, Alec, and Michel are back together again for some commentary on the markets and issues in the Bitcoin world.
Contents
00:00:00 Intro
00:05:30 Crime and Bitcoin
00:08:03 Nationalism in Today's World
00:17:30 Power Regression as of Dec 5th, 2023
00:28:02 Issues in Crypto Wallets
00:49:08 U.S. Federal Debt and China's Numbers
00:58:51 OpenAI News
01:02:00 The Funding Behind Signal
01:08:22 Implementation of iMessage on Android
01:13:35 Spamming the Blockchain Issues
01:17:30 Alec's Philosophical Question
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This is the eighty-second video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money (and sports), from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:59 Scenes from Torino
02:00 Mastering your craft
02:43 Jimmy Connors (5th)
03:15 Ivan Lendl (4th)
04:30 Pete Sampras (3rd)
05:25 Roger Federer (2nd)
06:14 Rafael Nadal (6th)
07:08 Novak Djokovic (1st)
Here I review Novak Djokovic's incredible record-extending 400th week atop the ATP rankings at #1 coming off his record-breaking 7th ATP Finals victory in Torino.
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This is the eighty-first video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:23 Review of regression trendlines
02:22 Review of 2021 boom
03:58 Review of earlier booms
04:37 Review of prior year
05:09 2-sigma down move
07:13 1-sigma moves
08:04 2-sigma up moves
08:55 Trendline out to 2030
Here I review the latest power regression trendline for the Bitcoin price, based on all the pricing data, from 22-May 2010, until today, 10-Nov-2023.
Prior videos with further info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBMDh9ly95Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlrqnAwucmk
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the one hundred fifty-seventh podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew interviews Aaron van Wirdum, journalist and editor at Bitcoin Magazine, and author of the upcoming Genesis Book.
Contents
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:30 Explaining Bitcoin to others
00:07:12 Hyperbitcoinization
00:10:50 Bitcoin's utility
00:12:41 Physical cash growth
00:22:37 Cash, Bitcoin, CBDCs
00:31:15 European regulation
00:32:50 Bitcoin privacy
00:41:24 Bitcoin Amsterdam
00:43:23 New book!
00:49:02 Closing links
Links for more info:
https://twitter.com/AaronvanW
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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1j7PDr7uTNsJs3CmCmtB0vLjmkKz4GOnQ
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/authors/aaron-van-wirdum
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This is the one hundred fifty-sixth podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew and Michel interview Henrik Skogstrøm, founder and CEO of Torq (formerly known as LN Capital). The Torq platform is enterprise software for managing capital, channels, and routing nodes in a secure, automated, and trigger-driven way.
Contents
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:08 Background on LN Capital (and Torq)
00:02:35 Open or closed?
00:03:12 Target market
00:05:14 State of Lightning Network
00:07:08 Which implementations?
00:07:56 Async?
00:08:24 Active customers?
00:09:00 Main features
00:10:23 Dashboard demo
00:18:10 LSP definition
00:18:50 LN econ vs. On-chain
00:21:05 Scaling Bitcoin w/ LN
00:24:20 Escaping to LN?
00:30:44 Routing node profit motive
00:32:08 LN landscape vs. On-chain
00:35:18 LN capacity
00:39:46 Data collection?
00:40:17 Scaling Lightning
00:43:56 Torq mid-term goals
00:45:50 LN econ vs. On-chain (again)
00:47:37 LN fees vs. On-chain
00:52:48 Closing links
Links for more info:
https://twitter.com/ohskogstrom
https://twitter.com/TorqLN
https://ln.capital/
https://twitter.com/ScalingLN
https://scalinglightning.com/
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This is the eightieth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:20 Official dollar price (in ARS)
04:09 Bitcoin price (in ARS)
06:58 Black market dollar price (in ARS)
11:00 Mainstream doesn't call it "black"
Here I cover the devaluation of the Argentine peso which occurred recently on 14 August. You may be surprised to know that there is a long-standing black market price for the peso, and you can actually back into this using the Bitcoin price (in Argentine pesos), as Bitcoin is one of the most liquid, free, and globally traded assets around the world.
Prior videos with further info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVKzQYtX1PY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5tJCGoU9yE
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the one hundred fifty-fifth podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew, Alec, and Michel interview Matěj Žák, CEO of Trezor, the oldest Bitcoin hardware wallet manufacturer and champion of open-source tech.
Contents
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:08 Background on Trezor
00:02:55 Open-source nature
00:05:12 Trezor clones
00:07:45 Self-custody trends
00:13:30 Current chip
00:19:38 Open-source chip
00:20:50 New products
00:22:10 Coinjoin implementation
00:28:00 Products continued
00:32:15 New chip continued
00:38:00 Bitcoin vs. Other
00:45:47 Ledger Recover
00:51:52 Customer issues
01:00:59 Prague follow-up
Links for more info:
https://twitter.com/matej_zak
https://trezor.io
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This is the seventy-ninth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:20 Monetary base value
04:50 Gov. pension fund
13:22 Central bank total assets
14:27 % of pension fund
Here I cover the Norwegian central bank's balance sheet. You may be surprised to learn that it's famous, massive "Government Pension Fund Global" sovereign wealth fund is included as part of its total assets (and liabilities). This is quite rare in the world. As well, the size is so massive, 94% of total assets are included in this fund, which absolutely dwarfs the size of Norway's monetary base (the "main thing" that central banks are supposed to be in charge of!).
Prior videos with further info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe3WaE8o0rY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPpTrgPNTz4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zghGPfY3J8I
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the one hundred fifty-fourth podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew and Alec interview Robert Malka, entrepreneur and author, and board member at the Bitcoin Today Coalition.
Contents
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:20 Foundations and Bitcoin?
00:05:20 US legislative landscape
00:16:08 US regulatory landscape
00:27:12 402 payment error
00:29:02 Bitcoin and the dollar
00:42:47 BTC VETS
00:49:39 Philosophical musings on BTC
00:56:22 New book
00:58:03 Closing thanks
Links for more info:
https://twitter.com/rjmalka
https://www.malkarobert.com/
https://bitcointodaycoalition.org/
https://bitcointodaycoalition.org/btc-vets
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This is the seventy-eighth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:20 Price in log scale
00:40 PSR multiple meaning
02:10 PSR for Bitcoin meaning
02:57 PSR multiple
05:16 PSR trendline
06:12 1-sigma bands for PSR
07:43 2-sigma bands for PSR
Here I review again the PSR ("price-to-sales" ratio) for the Bitcoin network. Is Bitcoin's market cap over- or under-valued based on this benchmark of trailing 12-month network or miner revenue? You won't find this research anywhere else!!
Prior videos with further info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0APCdaAKJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhF_4SUdkKo
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the seventy-seventh video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:12 All-time daily avg. fees ($)
01:02 BTC fee spike in May
03:40 TTM block reward % of total
07:32 Overall fee trend low % of total
Here I review again the Bitcoin fee pressure which occurred in early May 2023, due to the Ordinal, BRC-20, and NFTs on Bitcoin hype. It seems like a flash in the pan so far, but what about the overall trend when looking at the block reward/new coins vs. these fees?
Prior videos with further info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFvIRWxrjh0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnIO9QfLFXQ
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the one hundred fifty-third podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew and Alec interview Kevin Maurer, award-winning journalist and bestselling author of many books on war. We discuss his latest, Damn Lucky, Wagner in Syria, and more.
Contents
00:00 Note on Wagner mutiny
03:25 Show intros
04:50 Latest book: Damn Lucky
13:10 Wagner story in Syria 2018
27:50 American hard / soft power
37:55 War reporting
41:47 'sof' definitions
52:58 Adversarial views on US
56:52 What are our principles?
01:03:10 Journalism OpSec
01:08:46 Closing thanks
Links for more info:
https://twitter.com/ScribblerSix
https://kevinmaurer.net/
https://www.rollingstone.com/author/kevin-maurer/
https://thewarhorse.org/special-forces-soldiers-reveal-first-details-of-battle-with-russian-mercenaries-in-syria/
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This is the seventy-sixth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:24 World population
00:49 CAGR of population over time
01:30 Central bank physical currency (CBPC)
02:06 CAGR of cash over time
02:54 Multiple of cash growth over people
05:00 Multiple increasing again since 2000s
Here I review again the growth rate of the world's population, versus all the physical currency in the world. As discussed in the last video, cash does double 7 times faster than people in the world, and this 7x multiple is actually increasing since the 2000s.
Prior videos with further info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1chBFp2kR8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYKJ3sDAvb8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfizN3nTuc
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the seventy-fifth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:44 World population
02:57 CAGR of population over time
06:15 Central bank physical currency (CBPC)
09:13 CAGR of cash over time
13:27 Comparing both metrics
Here I review the growth rate of the world's population, versus all the physical currency in the world. Are you aware that the doubling time of physical cash is 7 times faster than the doubling time of human beings on the planet?
Prior videos with further info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYKJ3sDAvb8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfizN3nTuc
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the seventy-fourth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:25 Five years of research
02:39 How much has it grown?
05:10 83% of value in top 5 currencies
06:30 66% of value in top 5 liberal
Here I review the total basic money in the world. This $28.2 trillion equivalent is the core of the fiat financial system. This is also the only global money supply that economically compares with gold, silver, and Bitcoin.
Prior videos with further info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYKJ3sDAvb8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgOL5tQvaDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqP2WITx2uw
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the one hundred fifty-second podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew, Alec, and Michel interview Obi Nwosu, founder and CEO of Fedi, a company building on and pushing adoption of the Fedimint protocol for federated Bitcoin communities.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:37 Background in Bitcoin
11:33 Latest in CeFi regulations
13:27 Fedimint protocol
22:50 Chaumian eCash & Fedi
32:25 Federation setup example
46:07 More on eCash vs. Fedi modules
53:50 Roadmap and scaling plans
Links for more info:
https://twitter.com/obi
https://twitter.com/fedimint
https://primal.net/profile/npub1uq70uqgas9pyhds2zt57kr9se8rg3s68ztphjnq82ts8rzeknmeql7u0c2
https://fedimint.org/
https://www.fedi.xyz/faq/what-is-the-difference-between-fedi-and-fedimint
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This is the one hundred fifty-first podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew and Alec interview Omid Malekan, adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and author of several books, including Re-Architecting Trust: the Curse of History and the Crypto Cure for Money, Markets and Platforms.
Contents
01:15 Banking crunch aftermath
08:00 Scaling solutions
13:50 On Layer 2s
17:10 Genesis story on BTC
24:50 Re-Architecting Trust
41:40 Proof of stake
46:30 Developing world adoption
51:52 CBDCs
55:27 Chokepoint 2.0
01:01:50 Iran situation
01:09:46 Second coming
Links for more info:
https://twitter.com/malekanoms
https://amzn.com/dp/B0B1QFK8D9
https://www.omidmalekan.com/
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This is the seventy-third video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:45 Bedlam in Tampere
01:48 More Latvian fans
03:52 GDP vs. US
06:20 GDP vs. RU
08:47 Latvia WINS
Here I review the recent, amazing, first-ever bronze medal for Latvia in the World Hockey Championships, beating the UNITED STATES in Tampere, Finland yesterday.
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This is the seventy-second video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:18 Fees in USD landscape
02:22 TTM issuance % in USD terms
04:03 TTM issuance % in BTC terms
05:25 TTM will tell you if trend is changing
Here I review the fee spikes on the Bitcoin network over the last month, but most importantly analyzing the long-term trend of these fees by looking at issuance vs. fees on a trailing 12-month basis.
Prior videos with further info:
https://youtu.be/QC-MqgiLFvk
https://youtu.be/kFvIRWxrjh0
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
https://porkopolis.io
https://twitter.com/crypto_voices
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This is the seventy-first video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:21 Peter's bearish stance
01:28 Gold on left, Bitcoin on right
02:20 2011 comments
02:39 2013 comments
03:40 2014 comments
04:39 2015 comments
05:23 2016 comments
06:09 2017 comments
08:46 2018 comments
09:42 2019 comments
10:15 2020 comments
10:53 2021 comments
12:31 2022 comments
13:03 2023 comments
14:39 Gold & Bitcoin trendlines
16:09 Trend growth rates
Here I review gold investor Peter Schiff's thirteen-year bearish comments on Bitcoin the monetary system and the price of bitcoins. His consistency is quite remarkable, in light of continuous Bitcoin dominance over gold.
I close it with analyzing the 83% R-squared exponential trendline for gold's price, and comparing that with the 95% R-squared power trendline for the price of bitcoins.
Gold's trend only grows at 9% per year (doubles every 8 years), Bitcoin's at 125% (doubles every 0.8 years).
Prior videos with further info:
Gold original exponential explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRkS2_ylec
Bitcoin original power explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU2P_jJwVZ0
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This is the seventieth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:32 Starting at bottom of bear
01:39 Exponential trends straight lines on log
02:40 2005 trendline
04:37 2012 trendline
06:07 2015 trendlines until today
10:15 Looking out to 2030
12:22 Above or below trend more often?
Here I talk about the exponential regression trendlines over gold's price from 1999. As gold is base money, like bitcoins, this video can be used to compare and contrast the supply and demand (price) trends for bitcoins we did in the last few videos. A key difference is that gold (and most markets) follow exponential trendlines, whereas the price of bitcoins follow a power trendline.
All-time trend coefficients to draw it yourself:
Power formula: y = a * EXP (b * x)
Coefficients found: y = 3.12E+02 * EXP (0.0237% * x)
Prior videos with further info:
Gold original exponential explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRkS2_ylec
Gold with percentiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTkkPpCfxWA
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the sixty-ninth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:01 First times breaking above & below
03:06 Into and out of crypto winter
06:21 Nov-2018 puke below
07:51 Trends around 2021 double top
12:55 Closing answers!!
Here I talk about the power regression trendlines over Bitcoin's price. From Bitcoin Pizza day in 2010, to the present. Three questions I answer in this video:
1) How many times has Bitcoin's price pierced its trendline?
2) What % of the time overall is this movement?
3) Does Bitcoin's price stay above its trendline more or less than under?
All-time trend coefficients to draw it yourself:
Power formula: y = a * x ^ b
Coefficients found: y = 7.70E-18 * x ^ 587%
Prior videos with further info:
Yesterday's power regression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUTigJRqwA0
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the sixty-eighth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:58 Power trendline all-time
02:05 Working backwards in time
04:17 Dec-2030 trend predictions
07:32 The trends do NOT always fall
09:26 Signal not noise
Here I talk about the power regression trendlines over Bitcoin's price. From only looking at 2010, to the all-time trendline. We've looked at this before. Important to note that Bitcoin's all-time trend sometimes move up, and sometimes moves down. Follow the signal, not the noise!
All-time trend coefficients to draw it yourself:
Power formula: y = a * x ^ b
Coefficients found: y = 7.70E-18 * x ^ 587%
Prior videos with further info:
Original power regression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU2P_jJwVZ0
Evolution if power trends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Up3Xvmv_4
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This is the sixty-seventh video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:35 Base money in banks
01:52 Demand deposits
03:45 Reserve ratio
04:15 Reserve ratio rising
06:36 Reserve ratio falling
08:55 Central bank sells gold
11:15 What makes Canada different?
12:30 Is fractional reserve banking the problem?
Here I talk about the reserve ratio of the Canadian banking system from the late '60s, until today. This is the ratio of base money in banks, relative to outstanding demand deposits - systemwide.
The most important question I ask and answer in this video is: Is fractional reserve banking (and low reserve ratios) the source of recessions?
Prior videos with further info:
Brown's Bottom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTkkPpCfxWA
USA Demand Deposits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF08eIt2AaY
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This is the sixty-sixth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:40 Physical currency (banknotes)
01:12 Money printing during Covid
01:51 CBDC? Don't forget CBPC!
03:30 Canada's free banking system
06:33 Canada's Great Depression
08:55 Benefits of branch banking
12:07 Physical currency (banknotes)
14:22 Bank reserves (settlement balances)
19:45 Compound annual growth rates
Here I talk about the wonderful free banking history of Canada. I also bring it into the present by looking at the growth of the monetary base, or Canada's base money, over the last 90 years, since the Bank of Canada was founded. How does it affect price inflation?
Prior videos with further info:
USA monetary base: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPpTrgPNTz4
Scandic paper currency stocks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe3WaE8o0rY
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This is the sixty-fifth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:53 Latest daily average Tx fees (in dollars)
02:00 Non-base money use cases?
02:33 Use trailing twelve months!
07:40 TTM issuance % (in USD)
14:35 Other base money fees
19:13 BTC's fee % component will be more
20:10 TTM issuance % (in BTC)
Here I look at the average daily transaction fees, in US-dollar terms, for the Bitcoin protocol over its lifetime. Even with the explosion of Ordinals onto the scene these days and the demand for transaction-inclusion (block space) increasing, it does not change the fact that on-chain, mainnet bitcoins - UTXOs - are base money!
In addition, we will roll these transaction fees, over an entire year (trailing 12-months or trailing-365 days), and see how much of a % these fees make up of total miner revenue. Remember, the other (much larger, at present) component of mining revenue is the block reward, or the issuance of new coins.
Prior videos with further info:
TTM fees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a06LVI-BrSU
TTM issuance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQIi3JWrcc
Total TTM revenue (BTC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOmdRTWO6fo
Total TTM revenue (USD): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_FZSRGPb3w
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This is the sixty-fourth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:35 Daily average transaction fees (in dollars)
01:23 Brief history of the chart
06:44 Taproot brought other use cases to BTC network
07:51 Doesn't change the fact: BTC is BASE MONEY
13:30 Layered protocols / Off-chain scaling is different
15:26 Conclusion on base money
Here I look at the average daily transaction fees, in US-dollar terms, for the Bitcoin protocol over its lifetime. Even with the explosion of Ordinals onto the scene these days and the demand for transaction-inclusion (block space) increasing, it does not change the fact that on-chain, mainnet bitcoins - UTXOs - are base money!
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the sixty-third video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:25 Brief history of paper money
02:10 Denmark physical currency supply
03:10 Norway physical currency supply
05:58 Sweden physical currency supply
08:58 Rare to find shrinking CBPC
11:40 DKK physical supply in USD
12:50 NOK physical supply in USD
13:42 SEK physical supply in USD
15:08 To find signal in CBDC, watch CBPC
Here I look at the physical currency supplies of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (both in their native kroner/krona and in USD). When trying to understand where central banks are going with CBDCs, first step back and analyze their CBPC stock!
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This is the one hundred fiftieth podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew and Alec interview Ben Prentice, co-creator of the wonderful gold-influenced website 'WTF Happened in 1971?' He is also a producer of the What Bitcoin Did podcast with Peter McCormack. He is both a student and teacher of Austrian Economics.
Contents
00:00 Intro
02:15 Monetary economic history and gold
17:00 Triffin dilemma
21:15 A 'Need' to print money?
24:20 Inflation vs. Deflation
30:47 AI and prices
42:10 Long-term prices vs. wages
46:05 Future of the dollar
51:13 Bitcoin, regulation, centralization
Links for more info:
https://twitter.com/mrcoolbp
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/
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This is the sixty-second video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:38 Review of Fed Balance sheet (Base money)
02:24 BTC market cap vs. Fed Balance sheet
03:29 Power trendline: BTC penetration (95% R-squared)
09:15 Compare prior trendlines to this %
Here we analyze, on a 95% R-squared power trendline, how the Bitcoin market cap compares to the total Fed Balance sheet. This is solely looking at the percentage, the penetration, of Bitcoin versus the Fed Balance sheet over time. We also predict out to 2030, as I like to do!
Power trend coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 1.01E-16 * x ^ 599%
Prior video that analyzed Fed balance sheet exponential trendlines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbmSgENk090
Prior video that analyzed BTC market cap power trendlines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVKzQYtX1PY
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the sixty-first video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:15 The balance sheet of the Federal Reserve
01:45 Disclaimer 1: Monetary base (Total Fed assets)
03:50 Disclaimer 2: Bitcoin is analogous to more than USD base money!
04:58 Recent Fed balance sheet activity
06:15 Bitcoin market cap data
10:05 Question 1: When was the Fed last at $1 trillion?
11:47 Question 2: When was the Fed last at $500 billion?
Here we look at the history of Bitcoin's market cap, and how that compares with the monetary base of the dollar. Note, the dollar is just one (certainly the strongest) fiat network in the world, but there are many other fiat currencies that have their own monetary base and are not connected to the dollar at all! Also, I explain why the monetary base is the best monetary comparison to Bitcoin.
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
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This is the sixtieth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:20 Review of debt after Vietnam
02:22 Ronald Reagan and US debt
04:25 Bill Clinton and US debt
09:47 US debt up to and during the GFC
15:24 US debt through Covid and until today
18:07 What does it mean to 'monetize' the debt?
24:12 Conclusion... and think about the dollar
Here we look at the history of the United States Federal debt during the late 1900s, from the Reagan years, through the Clinton years, then the GFC, and through Covid stimulus until today. I answer an important question through it all... how much US debt is being directly 'monetized' by the Federal Reserve, and what does that mean?
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This is the fifty-ninth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:20 Review of 1800s during Gold standard
01:50 World War I
05:05 Fed debt holdings before Great Depression
08:00 Great Depression period
09:10 World War II
12:03 Vietnam War
Here we look at the history of the United States Federal debt during the early and mid-1900s, from World War I, through World War II, and through the Vietnam War and the dawn of the fiat standard.
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This is the fifty-eighth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:25 First congress, first president, first constitution
01:20 Federal reserve ownership of government
01:55 Total public debt
03:13 Debt vs. Money
05:15 First Bank of the United States
07:20 Second Bank of the United States
09:05 Civil War
11:35 National Banking System
13:45 Classical gold standard
Here we look at the history of the United States Federal debt during the 1800s, and how it relates to wars, central banking, and gold.
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This is the fifty-seventh video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:20 Log scale
01:20 Best BTC-fitting trend is power trendline
02:20 2010 power trendline
05:20 2012 power trendline
06:10 2014 power trendline
07:30 2016 power trendline
09:45 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 & all-time trendlines
10:40 What do these good-fitting trends tell us about today?
12:04 What about projecting to 2030?
Here we look at the best fitting trendlines across Bitcoin's USD-pricing data; from 2010, all the way until 2022, as well as all-time trendline (until 13 April 2023).
All-time trend coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 7.23E-18 * x ^ 588%
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This is the fifty-sixth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:10 Fed Funds target rate
04:14 Fed Funds effective rate
05:29 Interest on bank reserves
08:40 US 1 year T-bill
09:13 US 2 year T-note
10:08 US 3 year T-note
10:35 US 5 year T-note
10:40 US 10 year T-note
11:00 US 20 year T-bond
11:20 US 30 year T-bond
12:44 Austrian Business Cycle Theory
16:20 Central bank planning board policy rates
18:55 Policy rates exacerbate booms and busts
20:20 Inverted yield curve means recession
22:00 Pretence of knowledge
Here we look at the Federal Reserve policy rates, versus the market rate for US government securities. We use this backdrop to describe the basic Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle, and how the central bank exacerbates booms and busts.
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This is the fifty-fifth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:55 From discount rate to Discount window
05:25 2006 regulation allowing 'Interest on reserves'
07:38 IORR and IOER are dotted lines
09:35 How and why a 'corridor system?'
11:34 Floored!
19:40 It's definitely possible to lend any and all reserves...
20:18 ...Unless you have an IOR (floor) system
21:55 Not just Bernanke; Yellen & Powell too
Here we look at the Federal Reserve's weekly balance sheet versus its base policy interest rates.
The Fed has claimed they operate a 'Corridor system.' In reality, the system has been flooring interest rates since 2008, and I explain why in this video.
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This is the fifty-fourth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
02:00 Exploding reserves (and balance sheet)
03:20 What happens when supply outstrips demand...
04:35 "Tool 1:" Interest on required reserves
09:09 "Tool 2:" Interest on excess reserves
14:12 Zero interest rate policy years
15:00 Trying to "normalize"...
Here we look at the Federal Reserve's weekly balance sheet versus its base policy interest rate in the 1980s until and just after the Global Financial Crisis, which at this time morphed from being the Discount Rate, to the Fed Funds Rate.
Many were confused why such extraordinary money printing by the US central bank did not result in hyperinflation... the answer was a new policy tool of the Federal Reserve: Interest on bank reserves.
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This is the fifty-third video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:45 Review of all-time high rates
03:03 Once the hard work was done...
05:34 Fed begins new 'Target rate'
10:42 Greenspan put
12:16 The birth of the housing bubble
14:40 Cracks in the system
16:50 Banks expect (demand!) lower base money rates
23:20 Fed funds now has lower and upper bound
Here we look at the Federal Reserve's weekly balance sheet versus its base policy interest rate in the 1980s until the Global Financial Crisis, which at this time morphed from being the Discount Rate, to the Fed Funds Rate.
If we look closely at the troubles of the GFC, we can actually see that the banks expect the Federal Reserve to cater to them, bail them out, and provide lower rates, as they are borrowing and lending around 100 bps below what the Fed was targeting for many weeks from September through December 2008. The Federal Reserve, eventually, indeed complied with this demand.
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Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/This is the fifty-second video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.Contents00:00 Intro00:30 Walter Bagehot03:20 Bagehot's theory on the lender of last resort04:56 Great depression (with Bank reserves)08:14 Fed funds effective rate10:59 Discount rate is 'penalty' in 50s & 60s12:35 Discount rate since late 60s not 'penalty'Here we look at the Federal Reserve's weekly balance sheet versus its base policy interest rate in the 1910s and 1920s, which is called the 'Discount rate.' In the early days, this was the rate of interest that banks could get for borrowing directly from the Federal Reserve (and not just in emergency situations, as is the case today), called the 'Discount window.'Walter Bagehot in Lombard Street is quoted very often by central banks, as having defined the original theory of the 'Lender of last resort.' As we see, for most of the Federal Reserve's history, they do not follow his advice.Link to great ep with economist George Selgin on Bagehot, and money: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6AeODcjMg6AojFE7s3W5UQhttps://porkopolis.iohttps://twitter.com/crypto_voicesShow content is not investment or financial advice in any way.
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This is the one hundred forty-ninth podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew and Alec interview Lewis Cohen from DLx Law about Bitcoin, crypto, and securities law. He recently co-authored an important paper about the topic for regulators.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:50 Is Bitcoin a security?
02:25 Trends of the SEC
23:02 Narrow bank
31:37 US vs. Abroad
34:06 What is a security?
45:57 Bitcoin, crypto, and regulations
50:12 The ineluctable modality of securities law
Links for more info:
https://twitter.com/NYcryptolawyer
https://dlxlaw.com/who-we-are
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4282385
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This is the fifty-first video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:00 What does the central bank do?
01:40 How do Fed interest rates compare with history?
03:13 Is the interest rate the price of money?
05:47 Centralized control of interest rates
06:30 Roaring 20s and Great Depression
06:45 Why the 'Discount rate?'
09:12 What does the 'Discount rate' mean in Fed-speak?
09:59 'Discount window' was Fed lending directly until 1930s
11:55 Discount rate during Roaring 20s
13:36 Wisdom from Oskar Morgenstern on prices
15:10 Irving Fisher on Stable Money League
16:25 Discount rate into Depression of 1920-21
18:25 Discount rate lowers into Roaring 20s
20:50 Interest rates at near-historical highs into Great Depression
Here we look at the Federal Reserve's weekly balance sheet versus its base policy interest rate in the 1910s and 1920s, which is called the 'Discount rate.' In the early days, this was the rate of interest that banks could get for borrowing directly from the Federal Reserve (and not just in emergency situations, as is the case today), called the 'Discount window.' Many banks directly borrowed from the Federal Reserve in the 1910s and 1920s.
We also answer some basic questions like:
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What is the price of money?
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What is the price of credit?
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What is the etymology of 'Discount rate?'
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How did the Federal Reserve manipulate interest rates in the early days?
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Have stocks reached a permanently high plateau?
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This is the fiftieth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:58 Weekly balance sheet update
03:30 To be clear: Base money is Notes + Bank reserves
05:50 Treasury general account (an 'other' Fed deposit)
10:50 TGA during covid pandemic
14:10 Treasury doesn't influence monetary policy... right?
22:04 Brief review of (non-bank) Reverse repo facility
25:20 Final review of the Fed's four main liabilities
Here we look at the 108 year, 5,655 week history of the Federal Reserve and its balance sheet. In this one we are looking specifically at the 'Treasury General Account;' that is, how much money does the US Treasury actually have in its bank account!
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This is the forty-ninth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:50 Monetary base review
02:20 Notes % of balance sheet
07:44 Liability three: Reverse repo facility
08:56 Reverse repo % of balance sheet
09:10 History of Fed publication data
11:33 What are reverse repos?
11:55 Review of notes and reserves vs. Total assets
13:35 Reverse repo % of balance sheet (again)
16:32 Difference between 'repo' and 'reverse repo'
22:16 We need to dig deeper into banking history & legislation!
Here we look at the 108 year, 5,654 week history of the Federal Reserve and its balance sheet. In this one we are looking specifically at the 'reverse repo' facility for non-banks, and how it has grown over the last 20 years.
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This is the forty-eighth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:15 What is the printing press?
03:03 Liability one: Notes
07:15 Liability two: Reserves
11:39 How big is the Notes % of Base money?
12:59 What about coins?
Here we look at the 108 year, 5,654 week history of the Federal Reserve and its balance sheet. Building on the last couple videos, in this one we're drilling down into central bank liabilities, which is where the 'Base money' is located. Specifically, there are two types of central bank money that make up the Monetary base; the first is notes (and coins), and the second is bank reserves.
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This is the forty-seventh video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:47 Small numbers long ago, vs. big numbers now?
03:28 All-time trendline
04:50 Pre-2008 trendline
09:00 Post-2007 trendline
13:00 Always comes back to compound growth rate
13:30 Fed balance sheet CAGR
14:25 Rule of 72 (Easiest way to doubling time!)
17:43 All-time trendline CAGR
20:58 Pre-2008 trendline CAGR
21:50 Post-2007 trendline CAGR
Here we look at the 108 year, 5,654 week history of the Federal Reserve and its balance sheet. How fast does it grow, what is its trendline? In addition to last video, what is the trendline of the Fed's balance sheet before 2008? What about the post-2007 trendline?
All-time trendline coefficients:
y = a * EXP (b * x)
y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)
y = 2.26 * EXP (0.13% * x)
Pre-2008 trendline coefficients:
y = a * EXP (b * x)
y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)
y = 2.74 * EXP (0.12% * x)
Post-2007 trendline coefficients:
y = a * EXP (b * x)
y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)
y = 0.06 * EXP (0.21% * x)
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This is the one hundred forty-eighth podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew and Alec interview Yaël Ossowski from the Consumer Choice Center, who is also a visiting fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute. He recently started up a great new pod about Bitcoin, Fix the Money.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:53 Uniform Commercial Code and BTC
10:40 Catawba Digital Economic Zone
14:55 Bank money apps, Cash App, etc.
23:45 Operation Choke Point 2.0
39:36 France - Macron events
Links for more info:
http://yael.at/
https://consumerchoicecenter.org/team/yael-ossowski/
https://fixthemoney.net/
https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/in-attempt-to-stop-cbdcs-states-are-rejecting-ostensibly-pro-bitcoin-legislation
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This is the forty-sixth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:36 Used to be hard to find this data...
01:14 Log scale
01:39 What is the Fed's balance sheet?
04:42 What kind of assets do they buy with printed money?
07:01 What about gold?
08:15 History of Fed balance sheet
17:25 Removing money... until last two weeks
20:20 Exponential regression trendline (96% R-squared)
25:20 1-sigma percentile trendlines
26:70 2-sigma percentile trendlines
28:24 All-time compound annual (exponential) growth figures
Here we look at a 108 year, 5,654 week history of the Federal Reserve and its balance sheet. How fast does it grow, what is its trendline? What is a taper tantrum? How are they treating the banks?
Coefficients:
y = a * EXP (b * x)
y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)
y = 2.26 * EXP (0.13% * x)
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This is the forty-fifth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:22 Bond price and yield are inversely related
00:50 How important is the bond market?
01:59 10-yr note price sensitivity per 1% YTM change
07:10 Other duration bond price sensitivity
09:18 What happens when yields fall? Happy days...
13:00 What happens when yields don't change?
13:51 What happens when yields rise? Pain...
19:16 What is different now, compared with 30 years ago?
Here we look at the main reason why banks are struggling today, and in general: The prices of government bonds have fallen drastically in the last year, as bond yields (or interest rates) have risen. This is the main reason why banks like SVB and others are failing. We continue on with last video's theme, but this time we take a look at bond durations above and below 10 years, from 1 year bills, to 50 year bonds (which exist in some countries, though not the US).
Remember, the price/value of bonds moves in the opposite direction of their yields/rates!
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This is the forty-fourth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:25 Bonds... and two charts!
00:50 How important is the bond market?
03:40 Importance of 10-year note
04:34 Components of a bond (Yield most important!)
06:14 YTM history of US Treasury 10-yr note
10:11 Bond price sensitivity chart
16:15 Price sensitivity of 10-yr note only
19:55 What happens when yields rise? Pain...
24:15 What happens when yields fall? Fun...
Here we look at the main reason why banks are struggling today, and in general: The prices of government bonds have fallen drastically in the last year, as bond yields (or interest rates) have risen. This is the main reason why banks like SVB and others are failing.
Remember, the price/value of bonds moves in the opposite direction of their yields/rates!
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This is the forty-third video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:43 Log scale
02:20 Bitcoin all-time power regression (95% R-squared)
05:57 1-sigma percentile moves
06:30 2-sigma percentile moves
08:30 3-sigma percentile moves
10:36 3-sigma+ percentile to get to Balaji's bet by mid-June
15:20 Likelihood of price moving above Balaji's trendline
18:55 Year end 2011 power trendline comparison (85% R-squared)
22:04 How rare is a 3-4 sigma move in price?
Here we look at Balaji Srinivasan's $1 million price per bitcoin bet within 90 days, made last week. How extraordinary is such a price target?
All-time trend coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 6.90E-18 * x ^ 588%
Year end 2011 trend coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 2.52E-28 * x ^ 950%
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This is the forty-second video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:56 Bitcoin on log scale, in terms of gold
02:27 Tops and bottoms in USD, what does it mean for BTC.AU?
18:15 Bitcoin priced in gold power trendline (95% R-squared)
18:57 1-sigma percentile moves
20:42 2-sigma percentile moves
24:47 Projecting out to 2030
Here we compare the price per bitcoin in terms of gold; that is, how many gold ounces can we exchange for 1 bitcoin at any point in time? We also layer in its best-fitting trendline, a power regression, as well as 1- and 2-sigma percentile bands to better understand where we are now versus historical levels.
Coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 8.14E-21 * x ^ 582%
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This clip is a recap from #32 Decoding Money: Total money supply USA.
Why do bitcoins economically compare to base money, and not bank money?
Full ep here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zghGPfY3J8I&t=2007s
This clip is a recap from #32 Decoding Money: Total money supply USA.
Pinpointing the difference between market money and state money as a basis for monetary philosophy!
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This is the one hundred forty-seventh podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew interviews Alex Gladstein from the Human Rights Foundation on recent banking turmoil, CBDCs, and HRF's new CBDC tracker fellowship he will be working on, together with Janine from This Month in Bitcoin Privacy, and Nick Anthony from the Cato Institute.
Contents
00:00 Intro
02:25 Silvergate and SVB
13:33 CBDCs and the HRF Tracker
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This is the forty-first video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
04:50 Remember PSR is gross ratio (before expenses)
05:20 PSR doesn't compare across industries
08:07 PSR all-time average
10:30 PSR power regression trendline (60% R-squared)
13:30 1-sigma percentile moves
14:12 2-sigma percentile moves
19:40 Log scale on right axis
We go deeper into the Bitcoin network's Price-to-sales ratio, what it looks like historically, as well as the evolution of its own power trendline with percentile bands.
Coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 4.74E-05 * x ^ 163%
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This is the fortieth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:28 Origins of metric
01:54 Numerator: Market cap ($)
03:42 Denominator: Trailing-12 month miner network revenue ($)
05:55 Ratio recap and importance
09:10 "Price-to-sales" (PSR) ratio for Bitcoin
10:30 PSR: All-time low
16:20 PSR: All-time high
19:37 Basic interpretation of low and high PSR
Here we compare the Bitcoin network supply in USD-terms (otherwise known as the market cap) with the miner trailing-12 month revenue (block reward + fees) across the entire network. This gives us a gross "Price-to-sales" ratio; in other words, how many multiples the network is worth versus network-wide revenues, at any given time.
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This is the thirty-ninth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:31 Bitcoin supply in BTC-terms
02:07 Bitcoin supply in USD-terms (market cap)
02:41 Four basic regression trendlines
03:09 Bitcoin market cap power trendline (96% R-squared)
05:13 Log scale
06:30 1-sigma percentile moves
07:05 2-sigma percentile moves
19:36 Predictive trendlines
Here we compare the Bitcoin network supply in native bitcoins with the Bitcoin network supply in US-dollars. We also layer in its best-fitting trendline, a power regression, as well as 1- and 2-sigma percentile bands to better understand where we are now versus historical levels.
Coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 4.39E-22 * x ^ 657%
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This is the thirty-eighth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:37 Block epochs ("halvings")
05:50 Projected supply until 2030
08:11 Genesis block (and client release)
11:14 How does this compare with gold and resources?
15:12 Market cap (supply in dollar-terms)
Dissecting the total Bitcoin supply curve since 3 January 2009, all the out until 31 December 2030.
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This is the thirty-seventh installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:42 Trailing-12 month revenue: Fees
01:02 Trailing-12 month revenue: Issuance
01:33 Issuance component % of total revenue
07:48 How does this compare to more established industries?
Dissecting the total issuance (block reward), PLUS network fees, paid to miners on the Bitcoin network over a rolling 365-day basis; in other words, total mining revenue (annualized). Similar to my last video, but now this is in USD (US-dollar) terms!
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This is the thirty-sixth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:54 Trailing-12 month revenue: Issuance
05:13 Trailing-12 month revenue: Fees
07:55 How long until the breakdown % crosses?
Dissecting the total issuance (block reward), PLUS network fees, paid to miners on the Bitcoin network over a rolling 365-day basis; in other words, total mining revenue (annualized).
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This is the thirty-fifth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
02:00 Terminology: Block reward and issuance
07:08 Note: Gross not net! This is revenue before expenses
08:13 Nature of this chart: Trailing 12-month run rate
17:03 Block reward and issuance in USD terms
24:40 Power regression on USD issuance rate (93% R-squared)
30:27 1-sigma percentile bands
32:30 2-sigma percentile bands
Dissecting the total issuance (block reward) paid to miners on the Bitcoin network over a rolling 365-day basis.
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This is the thirty-fourth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:45 TTM fees in BTC terms
10:30 TTM fees in USD terms
17:00 Power regression on USD TTM fees (90% R-squared)
23:00 1-sigma percentile bands
24:11 2-sigma percentile bands
Dissecting the total fees paid to miners on the Bitcoin network over a rolling 365-day basis.
Apologies for the audio this video... had to use backup mic!!
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This is the one hundred forty-sixth podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew and Alec review the Western stance toward Ukraine one year after Russia's invasion, the total US money supply, and phone number privacy.
Contents
00:00 Intro-UFOs
05:25 Ukraine
38:18 Total money supply USA
01:03:50 Privacy update
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This is the thirty-third installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:47 M0
02:48 M1 non-M0
03:33 M2 non-M1
03:44 M3 non-M2
07:37 Assets vs. Liabilities of CCs
11:40 Batching
13:18 CC purchase volume in 2022 = $9.56 trillion
14:40 Revolving credit USA
17:08 Credit card debt vs. Demand deposits
24:00 HALO Privacy
Bonus video on the US money supply! Which "M curve" do credit card purchases and debt fit into? The answer is... none! Credit cards are an entirely different type of economic activity than bank money, and state money, which we studied in the previous twelve videos in our money supply series.
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This is the thirty-second installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:33 Bank reserves
02:35 Fed repos
03:55 Vault cash
05:55 M0
08:30 M1 non-M2 (Demand deposits)
10:20 M2 non-M1
11:55 M3 non-M2
14:50 State money % of Total money
15:05 Total money supply
22:40 Hybrid market vs. Free market
30:10 How does Bitcoin fit in with all of this??
34:02 How big could Eurodollars be in M3?
Here is our final video in this money supply intro series and look into the nature of the United States dollar. We are putting together central bank money, or base money - also known as state money - with all of the bank and shadow bank money supplies in the US (M1, M2, M3, or inside money). Can we learn anything about where Bitcoin might economically compare and fit in with these money supplies?
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This is the thirty-first installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
03:10 Monetary base
07:50 Gold on Fed's balance sheet (Market value)
16:30 Gold on Fed's balance sheet (Native ounces)
24:20 Gold 'reserved' at market price
33:36 Gold 'reserved' at statutory price
37:13 Central banking, free banking, gold, no gold
Here is our second video covering outside money in the United States, also known as central bank money, or reserve money, or base money, or the monetary base. In this one we are comparing base money (a liability for the Fed), with it's historical gold reserves (an asset for the Fed). How important is the idea of a gold 'reserve?'
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This is the thirtieth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
02:05 Inside versus Outside money
07:50 M0 is a part of both Inside and Outside money
09:20 Be cautious: M0 as defined by different central banks!
10:30 Vault cash
11:28 Bank reserves
17:30 Physical cash % of Base money
22:55 Monetary base (as officially defined)
23:30 Fed repos (Shadow bank reverse repos)
31:00 Gold vs. Fiat base money vs. Bitcoin
Here is our first video covering outside money in the United States, also known as central bank money, or reserve money, or base money, or the monetary base. M0 is included in base money, as well as the M1 money supply (which we have already covered)! Now that we have covered the inside money (fiduciary media) in the United States, we can deeper look into central bank money, or base money, and how this type of money is the core of the financial and monetary system. It economically compares with gold, silver, and bitcoin.
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This is the twenty-ninth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:13 M0
03:04 M1
04:50 M2
06:40 M3 (Fed discontinued)
09:30 M3
19:03 M0 % of M3
21:52 M1% of M3
25:40 M2% of M3
30:27 Next up is base money
Here we have concluded the entire breakdown (and reconstruction) of the entire United States public-facing money supply, from M0, to M1, to M2, and now M3.
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This is the twenty-eighth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:58 Money supply "stack"
02:38 What is a Eurodollar?
05:50 How did the Federal Reserve count Eurodollars?
08:35 Eurodollars (Fed discontinued)
10:56 Eurodollars (Porkopolis)
20:30 Argentina's stack of Eurodollars
24:30 Measuring Eurodollars: Much work to do!
26:10 Stablecoins
29:03 M3 non-M2 Total
Here we look at the next level up for the United States money supply: the M3 money stock. Note that M2 is included in the M3 money supply; however, in this video we cover only the non-M2 monetary components. Specifically in this video, we are covering Eurodollars. This is the last video looking at the non-M2 portion of M3 money. It is a challenge to reconstruct this data, since the Fed stopped publishing this money supply in February 2006.
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This is the twenty-seventh installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:48 Money supply "stack"
02:47 Federal Reserve presser on M3 discontinuation
05:05 Repo market summary
05:28 Why repos: #1 Shadow banking
08:57 Why repos: #2 Liquidity
10:41 Why repos: #3 Leverage
12:30 M3 non-M2 Total (Fed discontinued)
12:39 Large time deposits & Institutional money market funds
13:40 Repos (Banks)
16:30 Repos (Shadow banks)
19:25 Former Fed economist explains repos and M3
24:10 Repos (Fed)
28:58 Fed knows it's a monopoly actor
31:45 Adding up all M3 money supplies found so far
Here we look at the next level up for the United States money supply: the M3 money stock. Note that M2 is included in the M3 money supply; however, in this video we cover only the non-M2 monetary components. Specifically in this video, we are covering repurchase agreements. These next few videos will review how it is a challenge to reconstruct this data, since the Fed stopped publishing this money supply in February 2006.
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This is the twenty-sixth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:42 Money supply "stack"
06:37 Institutional time deposits
08:40 M3 non-M2 Total (Fed discontinued)
12:45 Institutional money market funds
16:45 Large time deposits % of M3 non-M2 Total
Here we look at the next level up for the United States money supply: the M3 money stock. Note that M2 is included in the M3 money supply; however, in this video we cover only the non-M2 monetary components. These next few videos will review how it is a challenge to reconstruct this data, since the Fed stopped publishing this money supply in February 2006.
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This is the twenty-fifth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:30 Money supply "stack"
02:50 M0
03:37 M1
05:30 M2
09:24 M0 % of M2
11:00 Remember, fiduciary media
14:15 M1 % of M2
Here we look at the next level up for the United States money supply: the M2 money stock. In this video we are summing up all the components of the M2 money supply. (including M1).
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This is the twenty-fourth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:30 Money supply "stack"
02:25 Savings deposits
09:00 M2 non-M1 Total
11:10 Retail money market funds
15:50 Small time deposits
20:10 Savings deposits % of M2 non-M1 Total
Here we look at the next level up for the United States money supply: the M2 money stock. Note that M1 is included in the M2 money supply; however, in this video we cover only the non-M1 monetary components.
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This is the one hundred forty-fifth podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew and Alec interview Thomas Pacchia, founder and CIO of HODL Capital, and co-owner of the new bar with a Bitcoin flare in Manhattan, PubKey.
Thomas talks about what it's like owning a bar, with a family, and working to bring the people back out and Bitcoin to the masses in NYC. He also tells some excellent stories about his long career in Bitcoin. We finish reviewing the state of the market today and what to expect moving into the halving.
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This is the twenty-third installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:22 Money supply "stack"
03:30 M1 - Porkopolis reconstructed
05:30 M1 - Fed Fed discontinued
08:50 M0 - Cash outside bank vaults
09:10 Sight (demand) deposits
10:45 M0 Money vs. M1 Money
13:30 Do bitcoins fit in here? Only a little...
18:30 Remember, M0 is not the Monetary Base
19:54 Are demand deposits problematic?
Here we look at the classic "narrow money" supply: the M1 money stock, in the United States. We also compare the two components of M1 (M0 and demand deposits) and see what that tells us about the economy and monetary usage.
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This is the twenty-second installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:26 Vault cash
08:27 Sight (demand) deposits - Fed discontinued
15:25 Components of deposits in USA
17:15 Adjusting for CIPC
19:17 Sight (demand) deposits - Porkopolis reconstructed
24:05 Vault cash vs. Sight (demand) deposits
31:13 Not the first time we've seen this low ratio
32:55 What then for a bitcoin standard?
Here we look at the total supply of vault cash (physical currency inside bank vaults) versus the total outstanding balances of sight, or demand, deposits in the United States. There are some unfortunate discontinued publications we need to review here by the Federal Reserve, as well as reconstruct our own comparisons. The demand deposit supply is also a component of the second, basic level of the various "M supplies;" that is, a part of M1 Money.
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This is the twenty-first installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:20 Dollar briefly
01:40 History of "Money Supply" curves
02:50 Total physical currency supply
05:35 Physical currency supply outside bank vaults (M0)
06:50 Physical currency % M0 vs. Total
10:40 Be careful of M0 Money vs. Monetary Base!
12:45 More to come and summary
Here we look at the total physical currency supply of the United States dollar, and compare how much is outside of banks (M0) versus how much is inside banks (vault cash). This is also the first level, basic money supply that makes up the various "M supplies;" that is, M0 through M4, etc.
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This is the twentieth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:20 Switzerland and CHF briefly
01:10 Dollar best-looking horse in glue factory?
05:55 Switzerland no longer requiring gold holdings
08:38 Linear regression line (70% R-squared)
10:35 1-sigma move
10:50 2-sigma move
12:47 Final thoughts on gold
Here we run and explain a linear trendline over the last 60 years of Dollar-Swissy exchange rate data.
Coefficients:
y = a + b * x
y = y-intercept + slope * x
y = 2.55 - 0.32% * x
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This is the nineteenth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:20 Gold market cap
04:18 Silver market cap
09:03 Bitcoin market cap
09:47 Silver vs. Bitcoin
13:39 Gold exponential trendline (86% R-squared)
14:46 Silver exponential trendline (66% R-squared)
17:10 Bitcoin power trendline (96% R-squared)
20:48 Predictive trendlines
24:00 Log scale
Here we compare the market capitalizations of gold, silver, and bitcoin, while running and predicting their exponential (for gold and silver) as well as power (for bitcoin) regression trendlines.
Gold coefficients:
y = a * EXP (b * x)
y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)
y = 3.32E+11 * EXP (0.56% * x)
Silver coefficients:
y = a * EXP (b * x)
y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)
y = 9.15E+10 * EXP (0.40% * x)
Bitcoin coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 3.97E-13 * x ^ 658%
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This is the one hundred forty-fourth podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew and Alec review the US federal debt (and the limit) throughout the last 120 years.
Contents
00:00 Intro
02:00 US national debt history
56:50 Privacy update
Links for more info:
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Bitcoin, privacy, cryptoeconomics & liberty
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This is the eighteenth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
02:13 Current, all-time power trendline (95% R-squared)
06:50 Power trendline through 2010
12:50 Power trendline through 2013
18:35 Power trendline through 2016
26:40 Power trendline through 2019
29:10 Overall trendline price evolution
Here we run and explain a power trendline over the last 13+ years of bitcoin price data, and compare this all-time trend with those trendlines drawn from 2010 data, data up to 2013, up to 2016, and up to 2019.
Coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 6.13E-18 * x ^ 590%
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This is the seventeenth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:21 Centralized exchange problems in BTC history
05:20 Power regression trendline (95% R-squared)
07:07 1-sigma bands
07:50 2-sigma bands
08:27 Predictive trend
10:05 Log scale
11:06 Log-log scale
13:50 Finance is not a bell curve
20:27 Power trend summary
Here we run and explain a power trendline over the last 13+ years of bitcoin price data, as well as 1-sigma and 2-sigma percentile bands around the trendline.
Coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 6.12E-18 * x ^ 590%
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This is the one hundred forty-third podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew interviews Mark Yusko from Morgan Creek Capital and Morgan Creek Digital.
Superb episode, topic-packed with Mark's stories and thoughts on FTX, SBF, Bernie Madoff, Kevin O'Leary, Sequoia Capital, Jamie Dimon, Davos, the Winkelvosses, and Peter Thiel.
Mark shares his investment thesis and continuing views on Bitcoin and the internet of value, and closes with some very heartwarming and inspiring words and even a couple basketball analogies.
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This is the sixteenth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:40 Gold-silver ratio: Prices
02:25 Gold-silver ratio: Ounces (mining)
05:15 Gold-silver ratio: Market capitalization
10:15 Exponential regression trendline (80% R-squared)
11:00 2-sigma moves down or up
15:30 Implications for the silver bugs?
Here we look at three different gold-silver ratios over 520 years. The first is revisiting the gold-silver price ratio, the second is revisiting the gold-silver mining ratio, and the third is looking at the gold-silver capitalization ratio.
Coefficients:
y = a * EXP (b * x)
y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)
y = 0.8 * EXP (1.38% * x)
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This is the fifteenth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:25 Gold-silver ratio: Prices
09:55 Gold-silver ratio: Ounces (mining)
17:15 All-time average (mining ratio)
20:10 Implications for the silver bugs?
Here we look at two different gold-silver ratios over 520 years. The first is revisiting the gold-silver price ratio, and the second is the gold-silver mining ratio.
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This is the fourteenth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:30 Gold mining history
06:18 Silver mining history
10:02 Log scale
10:55 Compound annual growth summary
13:35 Industrialization
19:09 Compound annual growth summary
Here we look at the cumulative mining production across the entire world for both gold and silver since 1800.
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This is the thirteenth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:50 What is the gold-silver ratio?
03:50 Gresham's Law
05:20 Last thousand years of gold-silver ratio
05:40 Last 50 years of gold-silver ratio
14:50 Power regression trendline (51% R-squared)
16:25 One sigma (66th percentiles)
17:30 Two sigma (95th percentiles)
21:17 Predictive trend
22:05 What about the silver bugs?
Here we run and explain a power trendline, with percentiles, over the last 50+ years of the gold-silver ratio; that is, the last 50+ years of the gold price divided by the silver price (per troy ounce).
Coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 14.3 * x ^ 25%
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This is the twelfth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:17 Silver briefly
04:10 Four basic trendlines
04:20 Exponential trendline on silver price (48% R-squared)
06:22 Hunt brothers
09:25 One sigma around trendline (66th percentile)
12:35 Two sigma around trendline (95th percentile)
20:30 What about the silver bulls?
Here we run and explain an exponential trendline over the last 50+ years of silver price data, and run percentile bands (standard deviations) around the regression.
Coefficients:
y = a * EXP (b * x)
y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)
y = 3.55 * EXP (0.27% * x)
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This is the eleventh video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:30 Gold fits exponential trendline (75% R-squared)
02:20 'Brown's Bottom'
04:15 Exponential regression trendline
05:30 Standard deviation basics
06:34 Exponential regression trendline
07:50 One sigma around trendline (66th percentile)
13:10 Two sigma around trendline (95th percentile)
15:30 Log scale
24:41 Gold price suppression?
26:31 Compound annual growth rate of gold price (7.7%)
Here we run and explain an exponential trendline over the last 50+ years of gold price data, and run percentile bands (standard deviations) around the regression.
Coefficients:
y = a * EXP (b * x)
y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)
y = 133 * EXP (0.41% * x)
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This is the tenth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:30 Four basic trendlines
00:58 Power regression formula
02:26 Diagram power trendline linear scale
03:17 Diagram power trendline log scale
05:25 Diagram power trendline log-log scale
07:50 Power regression trendline
09:53 Mean
12:15 R-squared (95%)
13:55 Predictive trend
16:44 Log scale
22:04 Log-log scale
25:45 Final summary of all four trends for bitcoin!
Here we run and explain a power trendline over the last 13+ years of bitcoin price data.
Coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 5.94E-18 * x ^ 591%
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This is the ninth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:55 Four basic trendlines
01:17 Power regression formula
02:37 Diagram power trendline linear scale
04:01 Power regression trendline
06:24 Mean
08:49 R-squared (70%)
09:48 Predictive trend
11:20 Final summary of all four trends for gold!
Here we run and explain a power trendline over the last 50+ years of gold price data.
Coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 9.76 * x ^ 71%
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This is the eighth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:20 Bitcoin briefly
01:17 Diagram exponential trendline linear scale
02:47 Diagram exponential trendline log scale
04:03 Exponential regression formula
06:40 Exponential regression trendline
09:16 Mean
10:27 R-squared (86%)
11:46 Predictive trend
16:00 Log scale
Here we run and explain an exponential trendline over the last 13+ years of bitcoin price data.
Coefficients:
y = a * EXP (b * x)
y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)
y = 0.52 * EXP (0.25% * x)
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This is the seventh video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:35 Four basic trendlines
01:02 Gold briefly
03:17 Exponential regression formula
05:27 Diagram exponential trendline linear scale
06:34 Exponential regression trendline
07:50 Mean
08:55 R-squared (75%)
11:57 Predictive trend
13:55 Log scale
15:03 Non-linear R-squared caution
Here we run and explain an exponential trendline over the last 50+ years of gold price data.
Coefficients:
y = a * EXP (b * x)
y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)
y = 133 * EXP (0.41% * x)
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This is the sixth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:39 Four basic trendlines
01:17 Diagram logarithmic trendline linear scale
01:43 Diagram logarithmic trendline log scale
03:17 Trolololo's logarithmic regression
06:50 Logarithmic regression formula
09:14 Logarithmic regression trendline
10:09 Mean
14:07 R-squared (34%)
15:40 Log scale
20:41 Predictive trend
Here we run and explain a logarithmic trendline over the last 13+ years of bitcoin price data.
Coefficients:
y = a + b * ln(x)
y = y-intercept + slope * ln(x)
y = -103307 + 1434624% * ln(x)
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This is the fifth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:20 Gold briefly
01:00 Diagram logarithmic trendline linear scale
02:25 Logarithmic regression formula
06:15 Logarithmic regression line
08:50 Mean
11:20 R-squared (41%)
13:55 Predictive trend
Here we run and explain a logarithmic trendline over the last 50+ years of gold price data.
Coefficients:
y = a + b * ln(x)
y = y-intercept + slope * ln(x)
y = -1184 + 33639% * ln(x)
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This is the fourth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:20 Bitcoin brief history
07:00 Linear regression formula
07:48 Diagram linear trendline linear scale
08:27 Diagram linear trendline log scale
10:55 Linear regression line
13:40 Mean
18:00 R-squared (50%)
19:37 Predictive trend
Here we run and explain a linear trendline over the last 13+ years of bitcoin price data.
Coefficients:
y = a + b * x
y = y-intercept + slope * x
y = -13016 + 765% * x
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This is the third video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:15 Typical linear trendline
05:15 Four basic types of trendlines
12:03 Linear regression line
16:30 Mean
21:47 Predictive trend
Here we run and explain a linear trendline over the last 50+ years of gold price data.
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This is the second video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:40 Supply and demand
03:59 Compound annual growth rates
10:28 Doubling time
17:05 Right axis time
20:57 Do you need other datasets?
25:17 How to verify the trend is exponential?
Here we cover how much physical cash and coin - these things we call dollars - exist around the world. This covers a 105 year period, from a time when the dollar was redeemable and convertible into gold, until today, when it is not.
Also, how do you think Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are going to play into this situation? Why is physical cash still growing so quickly, if it is not "that important" today?
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This is the first video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:47 Dollar-gold background
05:40 Federal Reserve opened doors in 1914
13:34 Post-WWII period (Bretton Woods)
18:45 Great Moderation
22:48 Bitcoin era
25:00 What is the deal with CBDCs?
Here we cover how much physical cash and coin - these things we call dollars - exist around the world. This covers a 105 year period, from a time when the dollar was redeemable and convertible into gold, until today, when it is not.
Also, how do you think Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are going to play into this situation?
Why is physical cash still growing so quickly, if it is not "that important" today?
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Show support appreciated: donations.cryptovoices.comShow Sponsor:hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoicesMatthew and Alec interview Paul Sztorc, founder of Drivechain, Bitcoin Hivemind (Truthcoin), and most recently Layer 2 Labs.Paul gives an overview on Layer 2 Labs and what his team is trying to accomplish with their recent $3 million raise. Most know his efforts for years in implementing Drivechain (BIP 300) on Bitcoin, and Bitcoin Hivemind as a sidechain on top of that. He is interested in implementing many other sidechains to Bitcoin as well.Listen on to learn more.Links for more info:https://twitter.com/Truthcoinhttps://layer2labs.com/https://www.drivechain.info/https://bitcoinhivemind.com/https://www.truthcoin.info/Show Sponsor:hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoicesHosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Michel, Alec HarrisMusic: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/Site: cryptovoices.com/Podcast & informationBitcoin, privacy, cryptoeconomics & libertyThanks for listening!Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.
Show support appreciated: donations.cryptovoices.comShow Sponsor:hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoicesMatthew interviews George Selgin, monetary economist and historian.George gives a look-back at the repo meltdown in September 2019, as well as a deeper overview on the mechanics of the repo market. This has become more important in recent years, compared to the market for bank reserves ("Federal Funds" in US Fedspeak). Why?He goes back to his favorite hobby horse (his term) which is the interest paid on those reserves by the central bank, an anomaly that never occurred before 2008, and how that has affected the entire structure of the system, from the size of the balance sheet, to the broader money markets, including the repo and Treasury markets.George gives some latest thoughts on the growth of physical currency and the monetary base, and provides warning on the importance of such, due to the effects of interest on those bank reserves (the other part of the monetary base, along with physical currency).We finish with some thoughts on CBDCs, and though we didn't have time to incorporate Bitcoin, we certainly will do so next time!Listen on to learn more.Links for more info:https://twitter.com/GeorgeSelginhttps://www.cato.org/center-monetary-financial-alternativeshttps://www.alt-m.org/author/selgin/Show Sponsor:hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoicesHosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Michel, Alec HarrisMusic: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/Site: cryptovoices.com/Podcast & informationBitcoin, privacy, cryptoeconomics & libertyThanks for listening!Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.
Show support appreciated: donations.cryptovoices.com Show Sponsor:hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoicesMatthew and Alec interview Jason Stone, former head of Celsius DeFi division, whistle blower, and venture capitalist.Jason details how he got into crypto investing, the time he spent at Celsius, and how he is dealing with the aftermath (as an ex-contractor who is still owed funds). He also shares some thoughts on the FTX scandal in light of his relationships in the market.Be safe out there, do not invest more than you can afford to lose.Listen on to learn more.Links for more info:https://twitter.com/0x_b1Show Sponsor:hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoicesHosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Michel, Alec HarrisMusic: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/Site: cryptovoices.com/Podcast & informationBitcoin, privacy, cryptoeconomics & libertyThanks for listening!Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.
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Matthew, Alec, and Michel interview Itai Galmor, Chief Revenue Officer at BrandShield.
We cover a variety of threats, scams, and cyber attacks lurking in the digital world today. Itai explains how companies like BrandShield can help you minimize and navigate the pitfalls.
This interview with Itai adds some interesting perspective on how the battle against scams online is constant, and long with history, but there are concrete and helpful steps you can take everyday.
Be careful out there. Listen on to learn more.
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Matthew interviews Stephan Kinsella, lawyer and author, and anti-IP advocate.
Stephan covers a lot of ground on how to increase liberalism and reduce war, through the lens of the unjust and terrible war being waged by Russia in Ukraine.
Though there are a variety of views on NATO, nukes, and strategies for minimizing this and all state wars, the focus on this show is to philosophize and center our arguments on freedom and liberalism and private property, with the important caveat that we live in 2022, not in an anarcho-capitalistic world.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/NSKinsella https://www.stephankinsella.com/ https://propertyandfreedom.org/2022/10/hoppe-on-germany-east-and-west-russia-ukraine-and-us-nato-pfs-2022/ https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/301-the-politics-of-unreality-ukraine-and-nuclear-risk https://mises.org/library/immigration-reply-hoppe
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Matthew interviews Michael Jones, founder and director of the Cryptoeconomics Lab at the University of Cincinnati.
The Cryptoeconomics Lab is part of the new Digital Futures hub at the University of Cincinnati; a fairly unique, inter-disciplinary educational and research center for students covering all things digital.
The Digital Age is generally here yet much still to come. There will be a role for non-profit, research-based institutions to review, survey, and solve problems and products surrounding it. Michael discusses a lot of these opportunities, from ethics to economics to gaming, and how Bitcoin and crypto plays into it.
We discuss all the things students are going to be exposed to in the new lab, from Bitcoin to Ethereum, from hardware to smart contracts.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/joneseconomics https://ucdigitalfutures.com/cryptoeconomics-lab/ https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2022/09/uc-celebrates-digital-futures-grand-opening.html
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Matthew and Alec interview Zoe Weinberg of ex/ante.
Zoe covers a broad range of tech projects and ideas she is working on with ex/ante. Her goal is to empower people with tech to combat censorship, surveillance, and authoritarianism, and champion human rights, as we plunge deeper into the digital age.
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Matthew and Alec interview Artur Schaback (Paxful) and Mikk Maal (Comistar). Together they are core contributors to new platform Clip Finanace.
We start out with some updates on and lessons from Paxful, which has helped very many newbies in the space get into Bitcoin, since 2015.
We then go into the yield opportunities (as always, caveat emptor) from Clip Finance and why they are different from other "Degen" farming opportunities.
We talk stablecoins vs. CBDCs and the future of regulations for crypto startups.
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Matthew and Alec interview Mateusz Machaj, founder of the Polish Mises Institute of Economic Education.
Mateusz takes us down memory lane from his founding the Polish Mises Institute and why he did so, but most of the interview is focused on Ukraine. He provides an interesting and informative lens on the Ukraine War and history of Russian aggression, through the eyes of Poland, Polish liberals, and Austrian economics. Mateusz provides some important lessons in defending liberty and freedom in the civilized world.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/MisesPl https://mises.pl/ https://mises.org/profile/mateusz-machaj
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Matthew interviews Yaël Ossowski on Ukraine and liberalism.
Yaël is deputy director at the Consumer Choice Center. He's a very bright and talented freedom-loving person, with family roots from Europe and Canada and an American upbringing.
We discuss liberalism in our modern day. We go over what we think it means to be a classical liberal in today's world, the evil we see, and why we are supporting Ukraine.
Please check out the many good references Yaël mentions during the show, listed below.
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Links for more info: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/team/yael-ossowski/
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig: https://amzn.to/3PFEJbH
Stefan Zweig’s Dream of Europe: What has been achieved? https://www.devolutionreview.com/stefan-zweigs-dream-of-europe-what-has-been-achieved/
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk: https://amzn.to/3PDJi6x
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter: https://amzn.to/3wrkEzg
Nine Nations of North America by Joel Garreau: https://amzn.to/3QIiweD
Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century by Donald Livingston: https://amzn.to/3TcBADm
Friedrich Hayek on Bitcoin and pacifism: https://youtu.be/s-k_Fc63tZI
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Matthew, Alec, and Michel interview Max Hillebrand, Bitcoin and open-source entrepreneur.
Max provides a full download on Wasabi 2.0. What went wrong with the first version, what went right, what they learned, what they struggled with, and how they are trying to improve and innovate the ease of use with and protection of one's UTXOs moving forward. Max goes around the horn and fields some good questions from the group.
We finish with a review of Matthew's Q2 2022 update on the global monetary base, and as always, why it's fairly important to understand that stuff and how it relates to Bitcoin.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMax https://wasabiwallet.io/ https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/27jLc1qpN8UXcQanHgeAsaEgLAio/pos
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Matthew and Alec interview Anita Posch, Bitcoin advocate, educator, podcaster, author, and founder of Bitcoin for Fairness.
Anita goes in-depth on her human rights journey which has taken her around the world, from Africa to South America. She explains how Bitcoin helps those in need and why they use it. She also explains the differences in Bitcoin usage compared to how it's used in more liberal democracies. Of course there are many similarities as well, as tools for savings are needed around the world!!
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Matthew and Michel interview Olga Ukolova, founder and CEO of Pandora Prime, and Dr. Maxim Orlovsky, lead engineer at Pandora Prime and contributor to RGB.
Olga and Maxim give the rundown on the beauty of the Lightning Network, and how their protocol RGB will allow for massive scaling and fiduciary agreements on top of BTC/LN. This is analogous to the smart contracting on Ethereum and other platforms, but with the beauty of executing on the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
We also talk about the current crisis in their native Ukraine, and how you can help today. Please donate and contribute online to do all you can to help us protect liberty in our time, and our friends in Ukraine!
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/OlUkolova https://twitter.com/dr_orlovsky https://pandoracore.com/ https://github.com/dr-orlovsky https://github.com/LNP-BP https://twitter.com/dr_orlovsky/status/1498985800159186949
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Matthew, Alec, and Michel interview Sergej Kotliar, founder and CEO of Bitrefill.
Sergej comes back on the show to talk all things Bitrefill. He updates on how they're doing, how they are a huge part of the Bitcoin circular economy, why they use fiduciary media, and how their service can benefit you. We also spend a lot of time analyzing the practicalities of the Lightning Network. Even some good old chat on Dogecoin!
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Alec interviews original cypherpunk and legend David Chaum, live and on location in Austin, TX.
David and Alec discuss real encryption practices and applying them around the world, and how his venture xx network is working to achieve this noble goal.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/chaumdotcom https://xx.network/david-chaum/ https://chaum.com/
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Matthew and Alec interview Janine, Bitcoin privacy expert and revision-controlled journalist.
Janine gives a wonderful breakdown from her time in Oslo at the Human Rights Foundation's Oslo Freedom Forum. She spoke on a few Bitcoin panels there, including the "first for human rights" panel on CBDCs with Matthew.
She and Alec review a variety of step-by-step privacy-preserving practices, both when using Bitcoin and in general.
She speaks on her role in the Neutrino story surrounding Coinbase, as well as her efforts in revision-controlled journalism.
We talk about the Assange and Snowden cases, and why it's important to hold the same governments accountable who purport to hold human rights dear in other areas; typically, when it doesn't put them in a bad light.
She is a very principled and informative journalist on Twitter, please do give her a follow.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/J9Roem https://gist.github.com/Enegnei/b6f084af026c4303e0915db4c26393e4 https://enegnei.github.io/This-Month-In-Bitcoin-Privacy/
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Matthew, Alec, and Michel interview Peter Todd, Bitcoin Core developer and prominent skeptic.
Peter goes in-depth on why it's important to understand the real world implications of 'Don't trust, Verify' outside of Bitcoin, especially when it comes to war. We spend the entire episode on why we should all stand up for freedom and the rights of Ukrainians as they remain under constant attack from Russia led by a murderous dictator. We all could benefit from more thought on our collective and respective defense and security practices.
Some interesting Bitcoin tie-ins as well throughout the interview.
Important stuff. Stand with Ukraine.
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Matthew and Alec interview Bryan Bishop, Bitcoin contributor, FinTech and transhumanism expert.
Bryan starts with thoughts on how Bitcoin has evolved over the recent years, and how it may change (or ossify) in the coming years.
We also talk about the tradeoffs occurring with Bitcoin regulation and privacy.
We then spend some time on his Webcash project: why he started it, and why he wanted to try a less censorship-resistant (trusted server) money approach than Bitcoin.
We finish with a slightly meandering but cursory view of his thoughts on transhumanism and the potential growth of humanity. Bryan is passionate about the moral case for tech and biotech.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/kanzure https://twitter.com/kanzure/status/1503724974942658566?s=20&t=rugab10qY_V7X5bwSb_C1Q https://webcash.org/ https://ftx.us/ https://custodiabank.com/
https://btcpayserver.org/ https://getumbrel.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Liberation-Biology-Scientific-Biotech-Revolution/dp/1591022274
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Matthew and Alec interview Jameson Lopp, professional cypherpunk.
Jameson gives an update on Casa and their Bitcoin key management and non-custodial services, and how the Taproot upgrade plays into future offerings.
We discuss the overhang from the scaling debate which ended in 2017, and how that has affected the current upgrades in Bitcoin. Will the protocol ossify soon?
Alec and Jameson go deep on some privacy and obfuscation practices, and some of the many things to think about if you want to try going as hardcore as they do on privacy (focused on US-policies).
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Matthew and Fernando interview Maria Chaplia from Ukraine.
This interview was done on Fernando Ulrich's YouTube channel. Original video link is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GcAuEKRWZg
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Matthew and Alec interview Matthew Taback, market maker with Radkl.
Matthew, like Jimmy in previous pod, gives us a good overview between TradFi and DeFi, but this time from the perspective of trading and market making. He provides execution services to their clients, who are broker-dealers.
Beyond liquidity and market making in the current market, Matt gives some history from his previous firms, interestingly trading in competition against Madoff Securities at one point.
We discuss the current regulatory climate in the United States, and how Bitcoin and DeFi continue to innovate and blindside TradFi, and how the regulators are trying to keep up, but unfortunately not in as slow, well-intentioned, and deliberate of a manner that was once done in the past.
We speak about the hinting of a CBDC coming into the US market, and what implications that has in store for the markets, economy, and privacy.
How does the Nasdaq 100 come into the mix? Matt provides some clarity. Is it a risk-on or risk-off asset? Is it correlated to other assets?
In Matt's business, charts move by stories, not necessarily long-term models.
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Matthew, Alec, and Michel interview Jimmy Morgan, general counsel at FalconX.
Jimmy discusses the differences between TradFi and DeFi, from a legal perspective. He starts out with his insight and personal background, for one working in market surveillance at NYSE Regulation. We couple this with privacy, and how the regulators view their role in the traditional markets, compared with how they're doing it in the crypto markets.
Questions from Michel provide current relevance, like when is a project truly decentralized? When is DeFi actually 'decentralized finance?'
Jimmy covers the old question on if/when Ethereum might have been classified as a security, and he asks his own questions on decentralized financial projects; such as, do you need a token?
We close with some market improvements and services offered from his current company FalconX, and his prior company BitGo, as well as some shout-outs to lawyers in the crypto industry.
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Links for more info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-morgan-72758726 https://falconx.io/
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Matthew and Alec interview Seth for Privacy, host of the Opt Out podcast.
Seth runs the gamut on a variety of important privacy topics, providing some good deep dives on tools and how to manage your digital exhaust these days.
He first provides an overview on how he fell down the privacy rabbit hole and how that related to the crypto space.
We start out on when we can reasonably expect to fight our own privacy battles, from when we're on the corporate dime, to when we're walking around in public.
We do many deep dives on mobile. From Android to Apple, there are plenty of FOSS tools to manage your mobile internet connectivity, and beyond here Seth overviews all of this on his blog and pod.
What about your contact list? What happens when Signal or any other app asks for your contact details? Are your friends' settings upholding your privacy ideals? What about managing physical addresses?
We explore the benefits of Bitcoin and privacy, along with all of its long-published challenges (Chainalysis among them). Beyond that, there are ways to further manage privacy with Monero, from toxic change to transactions. Seth is a big fan of Monero, and he provides some interesting details on how Monero can offer supplementary tools to Bitcoin usage.
He recommends Bitwarden as a password manager and DeleteMe to manage data brokers (links below).
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/sethforprivacy https://www.optoutpod.com/ https://sethforprivacy.com/ https://bitwarden.com/ https://joindeleteme.com/
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Matthew and Alec reflect on the podcast, five years on from the first episode (crypto educational narrations referred to as 'chapters' in those days).
Bottom line, the hosts are very excited to bump up the economic content very soon via streaming, and continue the journey toward more privacy and freedom with Bitcoin.
Thank you very much to all of you who have listened to the content over the years, interacted with us, and supported the show in so many ways.
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Matthew and Alec interview Greg Carmichael, founder and manager of the DEUS Opportunity Fund.
Greg flew F-16s for the US Air Force for 31 years. He graduated from Indiana University with a double degree in Physics and Chemistry, holds a Masters in International Relations from Oklahoma State University, and a Doctorate of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. He has more than 40 years of experience trading derivatives in the traditional markets, and has been very active trading in the Bitcoin and crypto markets.
This is a very good interview on Matthew's favourite business/ investing phrase: caveat emptor.
There have been many opportunities to multiply capital returns in Bitcoin terms (and in USD terms), and Greg breaks down his ways and methods, based on his lifetime of experience in the traditional markets.
He talks about doing this (the fund, and his life in general) in a private and personalised manner (he uses Halo Privacy).
He elucidates on the positives of living in Puerto Rico, where he coincidentally even gave a Bitcoin investing presentation in Peter Schiff's house!!
Greg gives a great breakdown on the benefits and risks of trading the crypto market, versus the traditional markets.
We also have very important discussions about one's cost of capital (in Bitcoin terms!), the risk-free rate, what that means in a Bitcoin-denominated world, and the risks and rewards of hodling BTC versus more actively investing.
Unfortunately the last 30 minutes of the interview was cut short due to an issue with our podcasting software (first time ever), where we discuss Greg's views on stock-to-flow and Bitcoin liquidity floor investing. There's definitely more interesting fodder to discuss, and we will indeed do so soon (as Alec mentions before he exits).
Probably the last episode before Christmas and New Year. Happy holidays and godspeed in 2022 everyone. Thank you so much for listening to the show. There is much more content coming next year!!
If you are interested in speaking with Greg about his fund, please contact him directly: carmichaeladv@gmail.com.
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Links for more info: https://www.haloprivacy.com/ https://cobalt.io/blog/cybersecurity-statistics-2021
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Matthew, Alec, and Michel speak with Laurent (Askuwheteau), the other chief/half of the Nodl team.
Laurent breaks down his recent trip to El Salvador, where he attended the Adopting Bitcoin conference, and where President Bukele announced the Bitcoin City project and Bitcoin bonds for the country.
Laurent provides great nuance and overview to the situation in El Salvador, and how Bitcoin is possibly affecting the local populace (pros and cons). For those interested in pursuing residency abroad or more on the whole situation there, from the Chivo Wallet to Bitcoin Beach to business, this interview is a great primer.
He also talks about their upcoming new project Nodl Light, Lightning developments with the Nodl, and serving more underbanked areas in the developing world, such as in Congo and Senegal. Also new Bitcoin only meet-up in France.
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Links for more info: https://www.nodl.it https://mobile.twitter.com/iaskuwheteau https://mobile.twitter.com/kiveclair https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/l_arme_invisible_de_la_francafrique-9782348037399 https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/ https://btcspeakeasy.com/
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Matthew, Alec, and Michel break down the latest Monetary Base Update for 2021 Q3, published by Crypto Voices on Twitter last week. A highlight in the last edition is that Bitcoin's value is right on the cusp of passing the oldest fiat currency in the world: the pound sterling.
We also chat identity theft, metaverse, facial recognition, Facebook, Web3, Web1(!), Taproot upgrade, and a few other privacy-related matters.
Oh yes, and Matthew is super stoked to be a new father to a beautiful baby girl!!!
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Matthew, Alec, and Michel interview Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation and Oslo Freedom Forum.
We begin with the Human Rights Foundation's efforts to help the people of Eastern Europe living under the dictatorships in Russia and Belarus. Mirroring the educational efforts Alex has been working on for quite a while now concerning the parallels between human rights and Bitcoin, HRF has indeed helped in relaying the benefits of Bitcoin to locals in Eastern Europe (https://hrf.org/belarus). With the help of their solidarity fund, and instead of the traditional payment channels, Bitcoin really did allow capital relief to flow into Belarus and support protestors and unemployed workers, avoiding bank restrictions in the locked down country.
Alex elucidates on some of the challenges involved in educating and calling to action those who enjoy basic rights and liberties in the Western world. We discuss how the lockdowns have paradoxically compelled some freedom lovers in the West to declare that places like Belarus (due to their lack of restrictions) are actually "more free." (And this has been occurring long before the virus, due to lack of understanding, the cool dictator factor, etc.). He gives some thoughts on the Magnitsky Act and the modern idea of Western smart sanctions on visas and financial assets of corrupt dictators and cronies from the East, who hold assets, live, and educate their children in the West.
And of course, how does Bitcoin fit into this picture? What are the marketing benefits of Bitcoin... and what are the marketing challenges against Bitcoin... vis-a-vis those who support the Magnitsky Act? We discuss the El Salvador story in light of this as well.
Alex explains why peaceful protesting really does have a better track record historically, compared to taking up violence and civil war. We talk important privacy questions for those living in tenuous Human Rights' circumstances, touching on capital controls and surveillance in areas from Afghanistan to Sudan to China.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/gladstein https://alexgladstein.com/ https://hrf.org/ https://hrf.org/belarus https://hrf.org/devfund https://oslofreedomforum.com/
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Matthew and Alec interview Josh Scigala, founder and CEO of Vaultoro, and co-founder of new stablecoin project "The Standard."
Really fascinating interview, we run the gamut on Bitcoin, gold, stablecoins, CBDCs, money, banking, and politics. Josh discusses some of the benefits of using Vaultoro versus other traditional fiat exchanges. As with anything, there are tradeoffs, but holding wealth in a rock solid, battle tested asset such as gold brings unique benefits. Having an account that can easily be paired/exchanged with Bitcoin makes things all the more interesting. We cover gold security, vaulting, jurisdictions, and privacy.
Josh gives a thorough overview on why systems like Vaultoro are much better for managing gold vaults than decentralized options that have come and gone over the years. As well, Vaultoro assets can be leveraged for lending much more transparently and efficiently, which he explains his team is working toward with The Standard protocol. It's a new stablecoin project their team is working on, and he goes really in depth on why algorithmic stablecoins have a brighter future than centralized fiat stablecoins (which rely on an interest spread from their investments), especially when so many fiat environments yield negative interest.
We continue on with more historical questions on fungibility, banking, interest, regulation, and geopolitics.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/JScigala https://vaultoro.com/ https://thestandard.io/
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Matthew and Alec interview Marian Tupy, editor of HumanProgress.org.
Marian overviews some facts and findings from HumanProgress, which is an autonomous wing of the Cato Institute. We discuss his latest book (linked below, must read and must have for your coffee table), which is packed with positive and important improvement data for humanity.
We cover short-term negativity biases versus long term gains as a society, democracies and representation, IQ increases, slavery abolition, resources, medicine, and more.
He also shares some things to come with his new book and their work on time prices from the Simon Project.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/HumanProgress https://www.tenglobaltrends.org/ https://www.humanprogress.org/ https://www.humanprogress.org/ylin/ https://www.humanprogress.org/simonproject/
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Matthew and Alec interview Amanda Cavaleri, investor and entrepreneur. We discuss Bitcoin surrounding the current language of the pending infrastructure bill in DC, regulation challenges, many pertinent privacy issues today, and more.
Amanda Cavaleri runs APRÉS.TECH, a Wyoming-based Bitcoin startup, fund, and mining advisory. She is also COO of Pearl Snap Capital, an investment management firm currently focused on public structured equities in the technology sector. Ms. Cavaleri has worked with global and domestic Digital Asset Hedge Funds, Venture Equity Funds, and a Bitcoin Mutual Fund. Previously, she was also a startup executive in privacy and cybersecurity alongside Dr. David Chaum, cryptography pioneer and founder of DigiCash, and led global R&D and investor relations for Dr. Marc Fleury, founder of JBoss and open source development pioneer. Ms. Cavaleri holds a Master of Science in Technology Commercialization from the McCombs Business School of the University of Texas at Austin.
Previously, she was an entrepreneur in health care, was an AARP Innovation Fellow in Washington, D.C., and held the role of Thought Leader with Carnegie Mellon University & UPMC’s Quality of Life Technology Center. Ms. Cavaleri has guest lectured at domestic and international graduate schools about emerging technology as well as taught foreign diplomats about the geopolitical digital currency and privacy landscape via the U.S. Department of State’s IVLP Exchange Program.
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Matthew and Fernando interview successful investor and economist Dr. Marc Faber on a post-gold world order, 50 years on.
This interview is part of Fernando Ulrich's series on his YouTube channel covering 50 years after the Bretton Woods collapse. Original video link will be available shortly.
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Matthew and Fernando interview expert economist and monetary historian Larry White on a post-gold world order, 50 years on.
This interview is part of Fernando Ulrich's series on his YouTube channel covering 50 years of the Bretton Woods collapse. Original video link is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emXZAdyXIdw
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Matthew and Alec interview Uri, a true Bitcoin OG, who mined bitcoins with his buddies in 2009 alongside Satoshi.
Besides being an early Bitcoin adopter and miner, Uri brings some fierce principles of classical liberalism, privacy, and decentralization to the table. We discuss these issues, as well as some early Bitcoin stories.
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Matthew, Alec, and Michel discuss the perennial promise of privacy, how it's being bombarded on all fronts, for all of us, and what to do about it, if anything.
Essentially no "average" individual can tackle all the issues alone to reclaim their total and complete right to privacy without doing the cabin in the woods thing; however, there are efforts to be taken. But you gotta start somewhere. We discuss some small steps here.
Be well. Live well. Listen on to learn more.
Links for more info: -https://www.oag.ca.gov/data-brokers?page=11 -https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/19/toolkit-nso-pegasus-iphone-android/ -https://www-vice-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.vice.com/amp/en/article/z3xqdw/samsung-washing-machine-app-requires-access-to-your-contacts-and-location -https://youtu.be/jAEAyJOXP1U -https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/20/eu-to-tighten-rules-on-cryptoasset-transfers.html -https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1644513/digital-currency-and-blockchain-product-lead -https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-privacy-security-osint-show/id1165843330
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Matthew and Alec interview Charles Finfrock, Insider Threat Director at a large publicly traded company (his views discussed shouldn't be seen as representative of his employer), and former CIA case officer of 18 years.
Charles brings an intelligence background to the discussion, being one of those rare Bitcoin advocates from inside the halls of the US government for many years. Though not actively working at the CIA today, Charles's views may sound surprising to many based on his background; he is strongly in support of privacy and property rights in the new digital age, and believes Bitcoin will be a major force for good in the world. We discuss his views on Bitcoin, "virgin" coins, CBDCs, stablecoins, and scams.
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Matthew & Alec break down some recent developments including:
- Free tech vs. open tech
- Housing market
- States' rights in the pandemic
- Can you predict inflation?
- Monetary base vs. Price inflation
- Gold wars
- Alec on the Anom story
- Revisiting the ever-present meme of Bitcoin & crime (keeping perspective with what happens in fiat world)
- Is God on your team? Or better, are Philistines not on your team?
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Matthew, Michel, and Alec interview Todd Weaver, founder and CEO of Purism. If you don't have a Purism laptop or phone, get one.
Topics discussed: - Open source hardware - Latest Librem products - What is a Social Purpose Corporation - Market strategies for putting the consumer before profit - How Purism brings safety, security, and privacy to the user - What are the big boys saying about Purism? - How the competitive landscape is shaking out in open source hardware and software
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Links for more info: https://puri.sm/ https://puri.sm/products/ https://twitter.com/Puri_sm
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Matthew, Michel, and Alec team up with Rodolfo Novak from Coinkite for a great ep on privacy and hardware wallets.
Topics discussed: - ISP/ micro-ISP availability for retail - Starlink - Phoning home via web apps (don't) - Ubiquiti / Unifi - Coldcard - Seed XOR - Bitcoin Treasuries latest / future
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/nvk https://coinkite.com/ https://coldcardwallet.com/ https://seedxor.com/ https://bitcointreasuries.net/
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Matthew teams up with two new hosts for covering new topics and a different direction for the show. Stoked!
Michel from host4coins / nodl and Alec Harris from Halo Privacy will now join Matthew as regulars on the show. We'll move from being primarily focused on money and economics, to focusing on more topics around tech, privacy, and Bitcoin, as the new hosts bring lots of relevant expertise to the pod.
We'll go from simply getting you detailed info on the money supply and Bitcoin, to now providing you the latest and greatest on helpful products, privacy, relevant tech, networking, and more. And there'll still be, of course, some good money supply and Bitcoin chat.
In this first episode together we talk VPNs (even use in the long-term), Tor, containers, traffic blockers, Apple's Safari, DuckDuckGo, physical addresses, and a little money supply. And, sadly, Elon Musk.
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Links for more info: https://host4coins.net/ https://www.nodl.it/ https://www.haloprivacy.com/ https://link.medium.com/j2hJusXhsgb https://link.medium.com/AVQ5LHqsrgb https://twitter.com/crypto_voices/status/1392826475741683712?s=20
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Matthew interviews Edan Yago, contributor to the decentralized smart contract protocol Sovryn, utilizing RSK and Bitcoin.
Yago starts the discussion off with some very important historical lessons from his family life, how his family has been in the crosshairs of many tyrannical regimes, how they overcame it, why gold has been so important in war-torn countries, and how he helped protect his family even at a young age (by smuggling it!).
We move from the macro monetary and personal sovereign narrative to the micro and Bitcoin narrative with Sovryn for the remainder of the show. How it works, RSK's smart contract functionality, how the protocol is secured, how fees fit into it, and more.
We conclude with almost a strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat analysis for bitcoin and this new decentralized financial system in the world.
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Matthew interviews Mikk Maal, co-founder and CEO of Comistar.
Comistar offers business advisory services and expertise to entrepreneurs and executives looking to develop a company in business-friendly Estonia. We discuss Mikk's consulting services and experience in Estonia, taxes, regulation, and Estonia's (first of its kind) crypto license.
We also take a stroll down memory lane, from the post-Soviet roots of Estonia's economy, to how and why they became such a force in tech and business today.
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Links for more info: https://ee.linkedin.com/in/mikkmaal https://comistar.com/comistar-estonia/ https://comistar.com/
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Matthew and Fernando celebrate the 100th episode of Crypto Voices on its 4-year anniversary, reflect on 2020, and what will come in 2021. Thank you all for listening over the years!! Wish you health and happiness in 2021.
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Links for more info: https://cryptovoices.com/ https://twitter.com/crypto_voices https://twitter.com/fernandoulrich
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Matthew interviews Rodolfo Andragnes from LaBITconf.
We dive into all the new and creative things LaBITconf is doing to make this year's premier Bitcoin conference not just another online conference, from VR to moon rooms.
We also review some of the latest economic and currency happenings with the peso Argentine.
It'll be easier than ever to join the fun at LaBITconf this year!
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/RodolfoBits https://twitter.com/laBITconf https://labitconf.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKJjnf5bJcs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTGVwOTKdwc
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Matthew welcomes Paul Sztorc back to the show.
We get an update on Drivechain, the sidechain technology Paul is behind, which is a necessary Bitcoin soft fork in order to implement Paul's other project, Bitcoin Hivemind (formerly Truthcoin).
Paul discusses his perspective and reflections on the scaling debate in Bitcoin over the years, his views on where we are now, some of the bright spots in Bitcoin, and some of his concerns. We discuss exchanges and the world of credit, and the nexus of "interested parties" as Bitcoin grows.
We cover some of the basics of Paul's prediction market idea, and the importance of getting it right on Bitcoin (in order to eventually be as successful an idea as Bitcoin). What is the meaning of truth? The link below on Paul's video presentation at Anarchapulco describing how prediction markets can change politics is a must watch.
We wrap it up with some thoughts on Covid-19 and the latest Drivechain news.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/Truthcoin https://t.me/dcinsiders
https://www.drivechain.info/ https://www.drivechain.info/releases/index.html https://www.drivechain.info/peer-review/peer-review-new/ https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0300.mediawiki https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0301.mediawiki https://bitcoinhivemind.com/ https://youtu.be/dJLYRADcPP4 https://www.truthcoin.info/files/part2-slide-teaser.png
https://medium.com/@bramcohen/bitcoin-s-ironic-crisis-32226a85e39f https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1427885.msg14601127#msg14601127
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Matthew interviews Juan Galt, journalist educator, and Bitcoin evangelist.
We discuss a variety of current events in Bitcoin, such as the PayPal and BitMex news. Juan gives great perspective on the history of libertarian views on Bitcoin, a world he is very familiar with.
Do check out Juan's work with Ugly Old Goat, especially if you're interested in trading.
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Matthew interviews Jesse Berger, author of the new book "Magic Internet Money: A Book About Bitcoin."
Jesse has just published a new educational book about Bitcoin, how Bitcoin, and why Bitcoin. His book covers a ton of good topics to address these questions. Each chapter is one page packed with well-written info, and the illustrations are fantastic.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/jayberjay http://www.magicbitcoinbook.com/ - This article mentions all three calls for energy money. Buckminister Fuller recommended a "kilowatt dollar," Thomas Edison envisioned an "energy dollar," and Henry Ford conceptualized backing a currency by "a unit of energy." (https://ddcolrs.wordpress.com/2018/09/27/edisons-energy-dollar/) - As for the actual source materials, and not just the mentions, Henry Ford's energy currency proposal is the headline of this NY Tribune article from 1921 (top left corner) (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1921-12-04/ed-1/seq-1/) - Jesse: "Though I unfortunately cannot say that I have read the direct source material for the Fuller or Edison quotes, Fuller's quote is apparently taken from his book 'Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth'" (https://www.amazon.ca/Operating-Manual-Spaceship-Buckminster-Fuller/dp/3037781262) - Edison's quote apparently comes from this book, "1929: America Before the Crash" - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0815412800/. I was referred to the aforementioned Edison quote & book from this article (https://energybackedmoney.com/chapter5.html) - Bonus - Dan Held mentions "In the early 20th century, industry leaders like Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were interested in replacing gold or the dollar with “the energy dollar” or “units of energy” (commodity/energy currency)" in this blog (https://www.danheld.com/blog/2019/1/5/pow-is-efficent)
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Matthew updates on the Crypto Voices Monetary Base exhibit for 2020 Q2 with Marty Bent on his Tales from the Crypt podcast. This episode will be a lot easier if following along with the tweet thread, which is here: https://twitter.com/crypto_voices/status/1296442813756911623?s=20
Or, you can also follow along with the exhibits here: cryptovoices.com/basemoney
Bottom line: Bitcoin is currently the #10th largest base money in the fiat world. Bitcoin is currently the #12th largest base money in the fiat world, including past base monies gold & silver.
Bitcoin is unquestionably unlike anything else in the (financial) world. However, if you are going to try and compare Bitcoin's supply with other supply curves in the financial world, don't. The only money supply you can compare it to is fiat's "Monetary Base," or "Base Money."
Firstly, something needs to be used as a medium of exchange to technically be called "money."
Gold and silver used to be. Fiat is now. Bitcoin very well could be.
But don't get carried away. We need to compare bitcoin (and gold... and silver) to fiat's "base money" supply, and only to the base money supply.
M1/M2/M3 and all others simply aren't comparable. Why? Because those supplies include "claims" on base money.
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Matthew and Fernando interview Andrey Dashkov, native of Belarus, about the emerging situation in his country; most importantly, the egregious human rights violations by the State against peaceful protestors.
The situation is very serious in Belarus, and the values and ideals of freedom for people in the former Soviet Union is close to the heart of the show. Please consider donating at the links below.
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Matthew interviews Misir Mahmudov, independent researcher and author of "This Book Will Save You Time," available now in many languages, also now in audio. All proceeds go to Bitcoin development.
Misir discusses some of our favorite topics on money and inflation, scarcity, shrinkflation, economic history, and how it all relates to our most precious commodity, which is our own time.
Misir is a positive and enthusiastic educator on Bitcoin and economics, and if you haven't read his work, you should. Please check him out at the links below, and buy the book to support Bitcoin development while you're at it.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/misir_mahmudov https://medium.com/@misir_mahmudov https://timeandmoney.co/ https://www.amazon.com/This-Book-Will-Save-Time-ebook/dp/B085PVW6M2
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Matthew and Fernando update on the latest goings on in the monetary and political game, with a focus on Brazil.
Fernando rejoins the show after being absent for many interviews, as he has been focusing on his YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLJkh3QjHsLtK0LZFd28oGg), which is rapidly becoming a popular forum in Brazil on money and the political economy. Keep in mind, even though the channel is in Portuguese, it's easy to watch in any language with YouTube's closed captioning! Fernando will stay with Crypto Voices, but will be a less frequent color-commentating guest moving forward. Also interesting "news" is that Fernando late last year joined the board of the Brazilian mint (Casa da Moeda do Brasil), where he will advise on the printing of basic currency (acting on behalf of the central bank).
From Matthew and Crypto Voice's side, he will continue to do guest interviews in the Bitcoin space, but will focus more on producing web content and YouTube videos in the future, also in the political and monetary sector, such as developing out the monetary base exhibits.
Matthew and Fernando discuss the political and monetary economy due to Covid, as well as updating and clarifying a few points in our Q1 2020 monetary base update (released in May). When you reach that part in the episode, it's easiest to follow on with the Twitter thread here: https://twitter.com/crypto_voices/status/1260212049436708867?s=20
Thanks to all our loyal listeners who have been with us during this time, all the best and look forward to hearing from you and providing more content in the future.
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Matthew and Fernando interview expert economist and fund manager Daniel Lacalle. If you haven't heard of Daniel, do check out his blog, books, and videos on his website (links below), or find him often on many mainstream business news channels such as Bloomberg.
This interview was originally recorded in video on Fernando's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jgJia9q4Os&feature=youtu.be
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/dlacalle_IA https://www.dlacalle.com/en/ https://mises.org/profile/daniel-lacalle
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Matthew interviews Dr. Saifedean Ammous, Austrian economist and author of The Bitcoin Standard.
Saifedean comes back on the show for an in depth discussion on some classical principles of (Austrian) economics, of which he is currently lecturing online in his second Principles of Economics course, available now (link below).
We cover what makes Austrianism different from mainstream Keynesianism, why Austrianism's common sense isn't so "common," what a true monopoly is (can you find one?), and some debates among Austrians in money and banking.
We also cover the Bitcoin upcoming halvening (is it priced in?), mining centralization, and gold.
Listen on to learn more.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/saifedean https://saifedean.com/ https://saifedean.com/academy/ https://saifedean.com/book/ https://mises.org/profile/saifedean-h-ammous https://mises.org/profile/juan-ram%C3%B3n-rallo-juli%C3%A1n
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Matthew interviews Alec Harris, Managing Director of Halo Privacy, providing secure communications via cryptography and managed attribution for a variety of clients.
Alec is an expert in the privacy world, protecting many types of clients. We talk first and foremost how Covid-19 will affect our privacy going forward. Alec overviews some of the main services that Halo Privacy offers, and how they can help you secure your online profile. We also discuss the overlap that Bitcoin has to all of this, including contrasting cash in the physical world versus the digital world.
Alec has written many insightful blog posts on privacy, and we discuss two of them. The first is very detailed, and concerns actually obfuscating your personal identity and not tying it to your physical address. The second is a bit more lighthearted, touching on all of the Zoom meetings around the world occurring due to the quarantine. Alec's comments and steps offered toward getting on the right path to privacy are very insightful, and concrete even if you're a beginner. Privacy is a spectrum, but Alec makes the great point that anyone can and should at least take those first steps and start that journey toward better privacy.
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Links for more info: https://www.haloprivacy.com/#s-solutions https://medium.com/@chalice.perky470/disappear-here-dc710873190c https://medium.com/@chalice.perky470/zoommorons-4d698bdcf3ed https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00006897 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133189/
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Matthew updates on the Crypto Voices Monetary Base exhibit for 2019 Q4. This episode will be a lot easier if following along with the tweet thread, which is here: https://twitter.com/crypto_voices/status/1227949623362379778?s=20
Or, you can also follow along with the exhibits here: cryptovoices.com/basemoney
Bottom line: Bitcoin is currently the #9th largest base money in the fiat world. Bitcoin is currently the #11th largest base money in the fiat world, including past base monies gold & silver.
Bitcoin is unquestionably unlike anything else in the (financial) world. However, if you are going to try and compare Bitcoin's supply with other supply curves in the financial world, don't. The only money supply you can compare it to is fiat's "Monetary Base," or "Base Money."
Firstly, something needs to be used as a medium of exchange to technically be called "money."
Gold and silver used to be. Fiat is now. Bitcoin very well could be.
But don't get carried away. We need to compare bitcoin (and gold... and silver) to fiat's "base money" supply, and only to the base money supply.
M1/M2/M3 and all others simply aren't comparable. Why? Because those supplies include "claims" on base money.
In this episode, we review the 2019Q4 tweet thread in depth, covering: 1) Some of the economic, seismic changes of China and India; 2) What reserve balances really are, and how we economically look at them; 3) What other bank balances economically are (we are the creditors, banks are the debtors); 4) The methodological changes we've made with gold and silver, from using "all-time" gold and silver mined ounces, to using estimated, liquid gold and silver outstanding ounces (bullion plus jewelry); 5) The deeper meaning behind mainstream journalism's economic assumptions, views, and narratives pushed, versus their effort in actually providing well-thought data to their audience.
Listen on to learn more.
Links for more info: cryptovoices.com/basemoney https://twitter.com/crypto_voices/status/1235971075604963335?s=20 https://twitter.com/crypto_voices/status/1236311922812862467?s=20 https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1235805267167604736?s=20 https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1230109497546461184?s=20 https://twitter.com/GeorgeSelgin/status/1230119972027932673?s=20
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Matthew interviews Dr. Adam Back, applied cryptographer, inventor of proof-of-work system Hashcash, and CEO of Blockstream.
In this one we go around the horn covering economics, money, gold, silver, properties of good money, payments, savings, permission-less tech, alternative implementations, Schnorr and Taproot upgrades, hashing collisions, upgrading the hashing algorithm itself, and privacy (tradeoffs).
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/adam3us https://blockstream.com https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf https://tatourian.blog/2016/11/19/building-ultra-reliable-software/ https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/fm/fm-why-def-reject.html https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6312924
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Matthew interviews Amir Taaki, early Bitcoin developer, hacker, revolutionary, and political activist.
We discuss an interesting array of topics on geopolitics, from communism to capitalism, the role of religion, the role of leaders, the role of weapons, and the role of money.
Amir shares some stories from his early days in Bitcoin, both things he appreciated, and those he thinks Bitcoin should improve upon.
We spend a good amount of time on political and economic activism as well, such as agorism, how fighting ISIS in Syria shaped Amir's worldview, and what he hopes to help those in Catalonia achieve.
The latter part of the interview focuses on Amir's goals and challenges for his Polytech Acadamey. If interested, join the Telegram group here: https://t.me/PolytechAcademy
Amir will present more on this at Eric Voskuil's (current Libbitcoin maintainer) Crypto Econ 2020 Summit this 29 February in Vietnam. Registration and info here: https://cryptoecon.org/
Listen on to learn more.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/Narodism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Taaki https://libbitcoininstitute.org/ https://www.amazon.com/Manifesto-Democratic-Civilization-Abdullah-%C3%96calan/dp/8293064420
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Matthew interviews Michel Rauchs, former cryptocurrency and blockchain lead at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, and founder of digital asset advisory firm Paradigma.
Michel covers the many benchmarks and metrics he and his colleagues have researched and developed at Cambridge, including the Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, as well as the true user base of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Michel is very detailed and analytically-driven, and extremely bright in parsing through the noise. We continue the discussion beyond the hard metrics, and review the true utility of Bitcoin versus other systems. We also review the various categories of possible, future digital fiat systems, at the central bank digital currency (CBDC) level, stablecoin level, and corporate coin level (Libra).
Listen on to learn more.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/mrauchs https://www.paradigma.lu https://mrauchs.com/about/ https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternative-finance/people/ https://www.cbeci.org https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternative-finance/publications/global-cryptocurrency/#.XimnYC2B2u4 https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternative-finance/publications/2nd-global-cryptoasset-benchmark-study/#.Ximq5S2B2u4
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Matthew interviews Rodolfo Novak, CEO and co-founder of Coinkite, the maker of Opendime and Coldcard, the latter of which is an ultra-secure bitcoin hardware wallet. Rodolfo joins for this 3-year anniversary show of Crypto Voices!
Rodolfo gives a full overview on the latest Coldcard Mark 3, covering all security features, the interface and setup, PSBTs, interacting with the microSD card, and what makes open-source hardware development different. He shares some great lessons and challenges when it comes to trust-minimization in the open-source world.
We spend a good portion of the show covering Bitcoin's ethos after all these years, who needs it, what it's useful for, as well as some interesting (possible) sector use cases, such as in the pot and porn industries.
We discuss privacy, geopolitics, inflation, interest rates, and more. Rodolfo also gives his outlook on bitcoin in the future. As you might imagine, he's quite bullish on the technical side alone.
Remember, as Rodolfo has said on two different CV shows, "If you're not running your own full node, you're not doing Bitcoin."
Listen on to learn more.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/nvk https://twitter.com/Coinkite https://twitter.com/COLDCARDwallet https://twitter.com/OPENDIME https://coinkite.com/ https://coldcardwallet.com/ https://opendime.com/
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Matthew & Fernando interview Trace Mayer, longtime Bitcoin advocate and founder of the public service initiative Proof of Keys. The 2nd annual celebration is coming up on 3 January 2020.
Trace covers from A to Z on what Proof of Keys is all about, how to partake in the initiative, best practices, and his personal recommendations in climbing the mountaintop to monetary sovereignty. It's a fantastic initiative than anyone in the world can participate in, with just a little bit of hardware, knowhow, and personal responsibility.
We also spend a good bulk of the interview comparing bitcoin and gold. The parallels between the ancient monetary metal and the future digital medium of sound money are fascinating. We talk about gold's monetary history, particularly during World War II, the well known gold price suppression schemes, paper gold leveraged by bullion banks and central banks, how much gold reserves "officially" compare with their monetary base, and all the positive contrasts and future possibilities bitcoin offers compared with gold's mechanics.
The "paper gold" we talked about is well referenced here: https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/bullionstar/what-sets-the-gold-price-is-it-the-paper-market-or-physical-market/
Listen on to learn more, and how to signal and participate in Proof of Keys
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/tracemayer https://www.proofofkeys.com https://www.bitcoin.kn
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Matthew interviews Dave Chapman, Executive Director of BC Group, the first and still only publicly traded fintech and digital asset company in Asia.
We start off with Dave's background and his journey into banking and financial services, and how he eventually moved to Hong Kong and discovered bitcoin. Dave has been through many bitcoin cycles, both as a personal enthusiast and as an entrepreneur.
We discuss the various products and services BC Group offers, from their OSL brokerage and trading platform to white labeling, and why they're primarily focused on institutional clients. We spend a lot of time taking the pulse of the regulators in Hong Kong and in Asia, what they want to see, what they don't want to see, and some of the progress Asian markets in particular have made in the digital asset space. We compare the more restrictive Chinese model with various other Asian markets. We talk central bank digital currencies and the emerging digital and economic landscape between East and West.
We briefly touch upon the political situation and safety in Hong Kong, a city that Dave loves to live and work in, and will continue to do so. We close with some predictions for 2020.
Listen on to learn more.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/IamDaveChapman https://twitter.com/HughDMadden https://twitter.com/MarketsMaven https://twitter.com/bctechgroup https://twitter.com/osldotcom https://bc.group/en https://osl.com/en/ https://anxone.io/
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Matthew and Fernando interview Henry Brade, founder and chairman of Prasos & Coinmotion, both based in Finland.
We discuss Henry's journey in servicing and onboarding bitcoin to customers, covering their various services in Finland, as well as their current offerings and entry in the Spanish market.
We explore much of the latest regulatory climate in Finland and in Europe for Prasos and Coinmotion, based on their experience; what works well, what doesn't work well, their efforts in becoming compliant, KYC/AML (does it really work?), bank scandals, bank attitudes toward bitcoin, licensing, and other regulatory issues.
We cover in depth the variety of services that Prasos offers, from Denarium's physical products to trading bitcoin on Coinmotion, from locking bitcoin on their platform to interest-bearing account services, Prasos and Coinmotion do it all.
Definitely check out their services, particularly if you're based in Europe!
Listen on to learn more.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/Technom4ge https://prasos.fi/ https://coinmotion.com/ https://denarium.com/
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Matthew updates on the Crypto Voices Monetary Base exhibit for 2019 Q3. This episode will be a lot easier if following along with the tweet thread, which is here: https://twitter.com/crypto_voices/status/1191723457467355137?s=20
Or, you can also follow along with the exhibits here: cryptovoices.com/basemoney
Bottom line: Bitcoin is currently the #9th largest base money in the fiat world. Bitcoin is currently the #11th largest base money in the fiat world, including past base monies gold & silver.
Bitcoin is unquestionably unlike anything else in the (financial) world. However, if you are going to try and compare Bitcoin's supply with other supply curves in the financial world, don't. The only money supply you can compare it to is fiat's "Monetary Base," or "Base Money."
Firstly, something needs to be used as a medium of exchange to technically be called "money."
Gold and silver used to be. Fiat is now. Bitcoin very well could be.
But don't get carried away. We need to compare bitcoin (and gold... and silver) to fiat's "base money" supply, and only to the base money supply.
M1/M2/M3 and all others simply aren't comparable. Why? Because those supplies include "claims" on base money.
In this episode, we go deeper on two new charts: 1) central bank gold reserves versus their monetary base; 2) the world basic money supply compared to the world bank money supply (M3, less M0). Remember, M0 is the cash and coin that is physically in circulation, AND outside of bank vaults.
Listen on to learn more.
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Matthew and Fernando interview Sergej Kotliar, founder and CEO of Bitrefill.
We discuss Sergej's early vision for Bitrefill, the current business model, how the company has morphed over the years, and how the effort has always been to practically and pragmatically allow their customers to spend bitcoin on real goods, via gift cards and mobile refills.
We discuss the reason for certain altcoin integrations on their platform, and take an interesting sidetrack on the pros and cons of Dogecoin.
Sergej concludes by providing more detail on their work with Lightning integration, where he sees it going, and the Thor service.
Bitrefill is hiring.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/ziggamon https://twitter.com/bitrefill https://careers.bitrefill.com/people/298490-sergej-kotliar https://careers.bitrefill.com/jobs https://www.bitrefill.com/
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Matthew & Fernando interview monetary economist George Selgin.
We cover Dr. Selgin's latest views on money and Bitcoin, including how the Libra theoretically fits into the mix. It's always very interesting to hear George's perspective on old monetary topics and new, and we go through a few of them, such as what a reserve currency is, what inflation and deflation is (both good and bad), and what the goals of monetary policy have traditionally been, as well as George's view on improvements. Even though a fan of Bitcoin (Dr. Selgin was on the original cypherpunk mailing list), George has expressed some concerns with Bitcoin's characteristics, as these characteristics in his view relate to potential money (to become a generally accepted medium of exchange), and we cover some of them here.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/GeorgeSelgin https://www.alt-m.org https://www.alt-m.org/author/selgin/
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Matthew updates on the Crypto Voices Monetary Base exhibit for 2019 Q2. This episode will be a lot easier if following along with the tweet thread, which is here: https://twitter.com/crypto_voices/status/1157636589281058816
Or, you can also follow along with the exhibits here: cryptovoices.com/basemoney
Bottom line: Bitcoin is currently the #9th largest base money in the fiat world. Bitcoin is currently the #11th largest base money in the fiat world, including past base monies gold & silver.
Bitcoin is unquestionably unlike anything else in the (financial) world. However, if you are going to try and compare Bitcoin's supply with other supply curves in the financial world, don't. The only money supply you can compare it to is fiat's "Monetary Base," or "Base Money."
Firstly, something needs to be used as a medium of exchange to technically be called "money."
Gold and silver used to be. Fiat is now. Bitcoin very well could be.
But don't get carried away. We need to compare bitcoin (and gold... and silver) to fiat's "base money" supply, and only to the base money supply.
M1/M2/M3 and all others simply aren't comparable. Why? Because those supplies include "claims" on base money.
In this episode, we go a bit deeper than prior audio compendiums on what exactly is a floating currency (a prerequisite for fiat base money), and why we included the top 30 currencies that we did in our fiat table. We focus on China and the Scandic currencies, and why "backing" is not a proper term for base money (at least today).
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Matthew and Fernando interview Dr. Stuart Haber & Dr. Scott Stornetta, authors of the seminal cryptographic 1991 paper “How to time-stamp a digital document,” a key part of the technological inspiration for Bitcoin, and as a result they share 3 of the 8 references in Satoshi Nakamoto’s “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” white paper.
We discuss their early days in cryptography, their background, and what led them to author their important time-stamping idea, and why trust and document provenance must be distributed.
We spend some time discussing their latest thinking on what makes an immutable ledger, the lingering dangers in cryptography, and how distributed consensus in many ways is a completely separate field from public key cryptography. We also discuss the importance of privacy, in light of recent mainstream, large corporate hacks of personal data, the latest victim being Capital One and its clients.
Listen on to learn more.
Links for more info: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/How-to-time-stamp-a-digital-document-Haber-Stornetta/06b055b0b53d39aa969afc2ba2c1d87985587db7 https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper https://www.hs91.net/ http://www.surety.com/about-us/corporate-management/dr-stuart-haber https://www.yugenpartners.com/team https://breakermag.com/money-was-the-sizzle-blockchain-pioneer-w-scott-stornetta-assesses-satoshis-work/ https://twitter.com/StuartHaber https://twitter.com/strangethingitl
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Matthew and Fernando interview Maksim Keidun (CEO) & Roman Snitko (CTO) of the Hodl Hodl Bitcoin P2P exchange, and organizers of the Baltic Honeybadger 2019 conference, coming up in Riga this September 14-15.
We discuss the much anticipated Baltic Honeybadger 2019 conference, which will occur in it's third annual iteration, organized by Hodl Hodl in Riga, Latvia. Great new speakers and guests, Unpopular Opinions in Bitcoin, how the team views the future of Honeybadger, and what the spirit and identity of the conference actually is.
Max and Roma also cover the latest from the Hodl Hodl P2P Bitcoin exchange. We discuss their new Predictions product in depth, and how it works in a peer-to-peer fashion on their platform. We also touch upon Lightning integration for their general exchange product (the first and earliest exchange to enable Lightning, by far). We also discuss privacy and principles in Bitcoin, including both at their conference and on their platform, and how this fits into their plans for the future.
To attend the conference and learn how, everything is available here: https://bh2019.hodlhodl.com/
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/keidunm https://twitter.com/romanitup https://twitter.com/hodlhodl https://hodlhodl.com/ https://predictions.hodlhodl.com/ https://news.hodlhodl.com/
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Matthew interviews Max Hillebrand, open-source entrepreneur and WCN YouTube host from Baden-Württemberg.
Max covers his bachelor thesis on this show, which in parallel is also interestingly available as an open-source project on GitHub. He discusses the nuances of Bitcoin scripts and UTXOs. What about Bitcoin is scarce? What about Bitcoin can be owned? What about Bitcoin is a property right? Furthermore, how will the Lightning Network's payment channels and multisig scripts form a web of trust in a new Bitcoin economy?
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMax https://github.com/MaxHillebrand/LightningMultiSig http://www.towardsliberty.com/ https://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/shows/bitcoin-to-the-max
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Matthew & Fernando interview Laura Davidson & Walter Block, two Austrian economists who've written a paper in 2015 addressing Bitcoin and Ludwig von Mises's famous Regression Theorem.
Many economists have been puzzled by the emergence of Bitcoin. Is it money? Does it violate Mises's Regression Theorem on money? What precisely is the crux of the Regression Theorem? Does Bitcoin satisfy its requirements? Or does it even apply to Bitcoin? Laura and Walter give a fascinating overview as they revisit their important paper from 2015. Their paper is linked below and titled, "Bitcoin, the Regression Theorem, and the Emergence of a New Medium of Exchange."
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Links for more info: https://mises.org/library/bitcoin-regression-theorem-and-emergence-new-medium-exchange https://mises.org/profile/laura-davidson https://mises.org/profile/walter-block https://mises.org/library/theory-money-and-credit https://mises.org/library/human-action-0
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Matthew & Fernando update on the Crypto Voices Monetary Base exhibit for 2019 Q1. This episode will be a lot easier if following along with the tweet thread, which is here: https://twitter.com/crypto_voices/status/1131189757554384901
Also exhibits are here: cryptovoices.com/basemoney
Bitcoin is currently #10 money in the world after fiat. Bitcoin is currently #12 money in the world after fiat, gold, and silver.
Bitcoin is unquestionably unlike anything else in the (financial) world. However, if you are going to try and compare Bitcoin's supply with other supply curves in the financial world, don't. The only money supply you can compare it to is fiat's "Monetary Base," or "Base Money."
Firstly, something needs to be used as a medium of exchange to technically be called "money."
Gold and silver used to be. Fiat is now. Bitcoin very well could be.
But don't get carried away. We need to compare bitcoin (and gold... and silver) to fiat's "base money" supply, and only to the base money supply.
M1/M2/M3 and all others simply aren't comparable. Why? Because those supplies include "claims" on base money.
Listen on to learn more.
Links for more info: cryptovoices.com/basemoney
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Matthew & Fernando interview Pascal Hügli, an independent researcher and journalist from Switzerland.
Pascal covers his fascinating article from March where he poses the question, was industrial revolution-era Switzerland capitalistic, or socialistic? He looks at the life of Alfred Escher, a radical liberal of the time, and how the banking system tied into the growth of the Swiss economy. He gives some good perspective on what actually is "capitalism" and what is "socialism." He draws parallels to Bitcoin and the digitization of the world today, to the industrialization in Switzerland (and Europe) that occurred in the 19th century. We conclude with some thoughts on Bitcoin's potential, and the role of leaders and regulations in the ecosystem. Keep an eye out for his book that is coming out later this year.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/pahueg https://www.libertarianism.org/people/pascal-huegli https://www.libertarianism.org/building-tomorrow/alfred-escher-radical-liberals-swiss-industrialization-socialist-capitalist
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Matthew & Fernando interview investor and money manager Tyler Jenks of Lucid Investment Strategies.
Tyler goes in depth on an article he wrote in January, a thesis covering all of the world's wealth versus its liabilities, and "the long and winding road to $10 million bitcoin." We discuss some very interesting global and macro scenarios regarding the value of gold and bitcoin, and what the IMF and BIS may do in the case of major sovereign debt defaults. We cover the good old inflation versus deflation debate. He gives some reasons why bitcoin could be the only asset to remain outside the purview of state regulation, even though this is very difficult to predict. We close with some specific offerings and strategies that Lucid Investment offers.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/LucidInvestment https://lucidinvestmentstrategies.com/about https://lucidinvestmentstrategies.com/products/webinars https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLJxbdXt4jG9pSy79TMVQSw https://medium.com/@lucidfunds/the-long-and-winding-road-to-10-million-bitcoin-4b1c83d26e5d
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Matthew & Fernando interview investor Tuur Demeester of Adamant Capital.
We cover Tuur's thesis in his great research report released last week, where his team dove deep into the network and market numbers and concluded that we are indeed in a bottoming phase of the current cycle, with heavy bitcoin accumulation. We discuss valuation methodologies around bitcoin, why it will be important monetarily and investment-wise for investors and hodlers, and how governments may or may not take part in the Bitcoin economy in the future.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester https://www.adamantcapitalfund.com/ https://www.adamantcapitalfund.com/bitcoin-in-heavy-accumulation/
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Matthew & Fernando interview developer Adam Gibson of Joinmarket.
In this interview we take a deep dive on Bitcoin's privacy, the potential implications for users both on- and off-chain, the trade-offs that come with security and privacy versus scaling, upgrades, and Coinjoin.
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Links for more info: https://mastodon.social/@waxwing https://twitter.com/waxwing__ https://joinmarket.me/blog/
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Matthew & Fernando interview Joe McCann, Head of Systematic & Quantitative Trading at Passport Capital
Joe elaborates on all things trading in crypto, from the technical indicators to fundamentals to machine learning. He discusses his background including founding NodeSource, working with Node.js. We discuss some theories on technical versus fundamental investing, what indicators to pay attention to, the importance of price and volume, what he's learned from trading crypto versus conventional markets, how "profits" can be taken, and the bitcoin long-short ratios unique to crypto. We finish on the all-encompassing topic of why Bitcoin may or may not be bottoming.
This show is definitely not investment advice!
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/joemccann https://twitter.com/PassportCapital https://www.passportcapital.com https://nodesource.com https://medium.com/@joemccann
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Matthew & Fernando interview Bill Barhydt, founder and CEO of Abra.
Bill has extensive experience in Silicon Valley and fintech, from Goldman Sachs to Netscape. In 2014, Bill founded Abra to democratize finance across the globe using Bitcoin. Their product is very interesting and unique, focusing on the on/off-ramps with fiat today, but also geared toward freeing the user to fully control their funds and finances in the future.
We speak about some general Bitcoin and internet history, to Bitcoin scaling, and focus the most time on how the Abra product works. Abra allows users to quickly and easily hold and convert both cryptocurrencies and fiat, locally and under their full control, due to Abra's unique collateralization model using the Bitcoin network and hedging partners. Bill ends with some further thoughts on Abra's direction and vision for the future; for example, entering the lending markets.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/billbarhydt https://twitter.com/AbraGlobal https://www.abra.com https://www.abra.com/blog/
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Matthew & Fernando interview Dan Held of Interchange.
Dan expounds upon his themes covering the importance of narratives in Bitcoin. We explore his article "Quantum Narratives," the ever-present "blockchain not bitcoin" narrative, the Bitcoin Cash narrative, Bitcoin forks, the nature of a Lightning transaction, Silicon Valley, and more. Plus just a little bit on big Texas.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/danheld email: dan@picks.co https://interchangehq.com https://soundcloud.com/dan-held-2/quantum-narratives https://medium.com/@danhedl/planting-bitcoin-56bd1459cb23
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Matthew updates on the Crypto Voices Monetary Base exhibit for 2018 Q4, which will make this episode a lot easier to listen to if viewing simultaneously; it's located here: https://cryptovoices.com/basemoney
Bitcoin is unquestionably unlike anything else in the (financial) world. However, if you are going to try and compare Bitcoin's supply with other supply curves in the financial world, don't. The only money supply you can compare it to is fiat's "Monetary Base," or "Base Money."
Firstly, something needs to be used as a medium of exchange to technically be called "money."
Gold used to be. Fiat is now. Bitcoin very well could be.
But don't get carried away. We need to compare bitcoin (and gold) to fiat's "base money" supply, and only to the base money supply.
M1/M2/M3 and all others simply aren't comparable. Why? Because those supplies include "claims" on base money.
Listen on to learn more.
Links for more info: cryptovoices.com/basemoney
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Matthew & Fernando interview Dash promoter and contractor Rodrigo Ambrissi.
Rodrigo markets and promotes Dash via funds he receives from the Dash protocol, administered by their layer-2 masternode system. From these funds, Rod does educational work, attends conferences, gives lectures, and markets for Dash on his Portuguese-based YouTube channel, Dash Dinheiro Digital (Dash Digital Cash).
In this discussion, we focus on his and the Dash community's efforts in inflation-stricken Venezuela, in Colombia, and other work he does in Brazil, as well as some more in-depth topics on the Dash protocol. Rod's two documentaries on Venezuela and Colombia are highly recommended.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/rambrissi Rod's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5WA2NjZp8VHK_Vl8TdWTtQ Venezuela doc: https://youtu.be/4PbciVl3nYU Colombia doc: https://youtu.be/S2g7P0AJbdo
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Matthew & Fernando interview independent cryptocurrency researcher and blogger Hasu.
Hasu is a first-rate analyst in the crypto space, with a strong background in game theory and success in poker. This is a long but illuminating episode covering three topics: Bitcoin and social contract theory, theories on monetary maximalism, and BitMEX.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/hasufl https://uncommoncore.co https://uncommoncore.co/an-honest-account-of-fiat-money/ https://uncommoncore.co/unpacking-bitcoins-social-contract/ https://uncommoncore.co/bitcoin-and-the-promise-of-independent-property-rights/ https://soundcloud.com/cryptovoices/chapter-47-part-i-reijers-obrolchain-haynes-governance-in-blockchain-dec-2016 https://soundcloud.com/cryptovoices/chapter-47-part-ii-reijers-obrolchain-haynes-governance-in-blockchain-dec-2016 https://uncommoncore.co/why-monetary-maximalism-could-fall-short-of-expectations/ https://uncommoncore.co/foul-play-at-bitmex-exploring-the-biggest-concerns/
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Matthew & Fernando interview Joshua Scigala, founder & CEO of bitcoin-gold exchange Vaultoro.
Joshua is a tech entrepreneur who, in addition to co-founding five startups, also brings enterprise managerial experience to the crypto space. He co-founded Vaultoro with his brother Philip in 2015. Vaultoro is a unique bitcoin-gold exchange in the space, focusing on the sound money aspects of both assets, as well as privacy and ease-of-use for the customer. We focus on the history of Vaultoro and why Josh decided to create it, many of the big picture economic and monetary features of gold when used in tandem with bitcoin, the economic and political situation in Venezuela, Bitcoin's risk and safety as a bearer instrument, custodial risk of both gold and bitcoin, the Glass Books Protocol that Vaultoro created for transparency, the economic future for gold and bitcoin, Vaultoro's integration with the Lightning Network, and future offerings coming down the pipeline from Vaultoro.
Josh is a solid and relatable tech entrepreneur, it was a pleasure to interview him.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/vaultoro https://www.vaultoro.com https://audit.vaultoro.com
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Matthew & Fernando interview Lamont Black, Assistant Professor of Finance at DePaul University in Chicago.
Lamont is the first economist we've interviewed who has worked directly for the Federal Reserve. He worked at the Board of Governors in Washington DC for eight years, and now teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at DePaul, where he was the first professor to formally introduce Bitcoin and crypto into the curriculum. Lamont gives his take on a variety of monetary policy issues, such as central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), the importance of the dollar today and the (in)direct consequences of Fed policy, the euro, market cycles, quantitative easing, and more. We explore some technicalities of price inflation versus money growth, further nuances of Bitcoin's future in the markets, and finally how Lamont's students are taking interest in Bitcoin.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/lamontkblack https://www.linkedin.com/in/lamont-black-80a86b43/ https://lamontblack.com/ https://business.depaul.edu/faculty/faculty-a-z/Pages/lamont-black.aspx
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Matthew & Fernando interview Mark Yusko, founder, CEO, and CIO of Morgan Creek Capital.
Mark has extensive experience in asset management and fund investing, and is a popular Bitcoin investor in the mainstream media. We have a very thorough and engaging conversation with Mark on his views on Bitcoin, from why it is changing the game, why it won't be MySpace, its investment thesis, why it's sound money, and how regulators fit into the picture. Really enjoyed this discussion with Mark, his analogies and comparisons, across old and new history, both in tech investing and not, is very thought provoking.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/MarkYusko https://www.digitalassetindexfund.com/ https://www.morgancreekcap.com/about-us/ https://www.morgancreekfunds.com/
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Matthew interviews Murad Mahmudov for the 2-year anniversary of Crypto Voices.
Murad is a talented young trader and analyst who has exploded onto the Bitcoin scene. Here is methodical and detailed analysis on price action, trends, the bottom, and the next cycle. He covers some interesting questions, such as should Bitcoin's market cycle be longer or shorter as its tech matures, and how important/accurate are metrics such as transactions per second or transaction volume. Also sound money versus "unconfiscatability". He gives his thoughts on his "mostly Bitcoin" future, how credit markets may form around Bitcoin, and what governments will do in a Bitcoin world - how they will finance deficits and how large they might be. Murad also details some of the strategies and ideas behind his crypto fund, which he will be launching very soon with some colleagues. Was a pleasure to interview a smart and enthusiastic young professional with bright future in the space.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/MustStopMurad https://twitter.com/MustStopMurad/status/1082332572510752770 https://blog.usejournal.com/bitcoin-past-and-future-45d92b3180f1
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Matthew interviews Nathan Simmons, longtime listener of the Crypto Voices podcast, for a reflective Christmas special.
Nathan explains how and why he got into Bitcoin. He compares his initial versus current views on the Bitcoin protocol, as well as a few others - Ethereum, Decred, and Ravencoin. He draws on his experience in tech sales and client relations to compare how "ready" the average user (and tech support!) might be for Bitcoin, compared with other software out there today. He gives some great advice on finding the time for education and learning in the midst of a hectic family schedule. He reflects on a few more interesting censorship resistant, identity, time-preference, and adoption ideas, as well as a thoughtful comparison with one of his favorite sci-fi novels.
Listen on to learn more. Happy New Year!
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Matthew and Fernando interview Professor Steve Hanke, applied economist at Johns Hopkins University, professional commodity and currency trader, and legendary troubled currency reformer.
Professor Hanke expounds upon his professional and academic career. We cover a few hyperinflationary episodes, including reform works he has completed or aided in, such as in Lithuania, Argentina, and Brazil. We talk about gold and the dollar, currency backing and redemption, as well as potential global currency reforms. Professor Hanke gives his (negative) opinion on Bitcoin, which he has long held. He informs on his ideas for a stablecoin project in conjunction with his board advisory position at Airtm. We close with some final thoughts on the definitions of inflation, hyperinflation, and the money supply.
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Links for more info: @steve_hanke https://www.cato.org/research/troubled-currencies http://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2017/04/Remembrances_of_a_Currency_Reformer.pdf https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/images/troubled-currencies-project/routledge-handbook-of-major-events-in-economic-history-world-hyperinflations.pdf https://engineering.jhu.edu/ehe/faculty/steve-h-hanke/ https://www.airtm.io/#/
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Matthew interviews Dr. Richard Smith, founder and CEO of Crypto TradeSmith. We discuss Richard's risk management software, which has many amazing tools to help crypto investors manage their portfolio. For a special offer on this software subscription, please follow this link! https://cryptovoices.com/tradesmithoffer
Dr. Richard Smith has built his career on math and investment risk. Richard explains his Crypto TradeSmith product, which is cryptoasset risk management software (subscription based). This mirrors his stock/equity system (TradeStops). We discuss the ins and outs of Richard's system, and all the tools they offer in Crypto TradeSmith: - The Crypto Calculator - Position sizing - Risk Rebalancer - Pure Quant - Portfolio Volatility Quotient - Crypto State Indicators (Red/Yellow/Green Lights) - Custom email and text alerts - Crypto Finder (over 50,000 crypto trading pairs)
We talk a lot about finding confidence, courage, and conviction in the markets. As the product is entirely math based, Richard's system offers some powerful insights into volatility and risk of any crypto investment. Also, uniquely, his system can give you comfort to NOT leave your coins on an exchange, and NOT be frontrun.
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Matthew & Fernando interview Nic Carter, partner at Castle Island Ventures and founder of Coin Metrics. We discuss Bitcoin in 2018 and beyond.
We start with Nic's bearish (correct) call back in March, as well as social media reactions to his kidney joke if the price hits $4,000. Nic reflects on the correct theoretical positions from the Bitcoin Core side 3-4 years ago, as the layered approach is now working and adopted more and more each day. We ask if the legacy systems of Visa, Mastercard, Fedwire, etc. are correct comparisons to Bitcoin's system. Nic comments on Ethereum, Ripple, and EOS in this context as well. Nic continues on Bitcoin's "full stack" approach as a currency and payment system that's self-sovereign, and speaks to other projects' trade-offs in this regard. He speaks to proof-of-work and its tendency to consolidate on the dominant chain. We discuss other great articles that Nic has written, such as Bitcoin's ontology and its identity as a currency/payment provider/social consensus system. Nic discusses the pros and cons of alternative implementations on Bitcoin. We take a look at the monetary policy of Bitcoin. Is it really inflationary? Is it more like authorized and issued corporate stock, where the totals are generally known? Will bitcoin ever become a unit of account under such a system? Will bitcoin ever become a global settlement asset among major institutions? What about Bitcoin's security model? Will it boil the oceans, and has Nic in his VC role found a company that can save us?
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/nic__carter http://www.castleisland.vc/ https://coinmetrics.io/ https://medium.com/@nic__carter/transaction-count-is-an-inferior-measure-fba2d5ac97f1 https://medium.com/s/story/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bitcoin-56109f3e6753 https://medium.com/@nic__carter/digesting-quantification-of-energy-and-carbon-costs-for-mining-cryptocurrencies-1f019e10fad4
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Matthew & Fernando interview Bob Murphy, Austrian economist and libertarian theorist. We discuss Bitcoin and money in the free market.
Bob is an expert on libertarian theory, money, and macroeconomic issues, coming from the Austrian tradition. We discuss a variety of topics regarding money and bitcoins in the free market. We start with Hayek's "Denationalization of Money," covering currency competition versus government fiat monopoly. We cover the effect of taxes and regulation on "non-monetized" assets today, such as bitcoin and gold. We touch on the "shadow economy." We look at Bitcoin's inflation cap of 21 million, and how that is different than other base monies. We spend some time on fractional-reserve banking, and how fractionalized claims might look on bitcoin (and other monies) in a free market. We also take a brief look at the comparison with the Lightning Network and how other claims could develop on bitcoin.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/BobMurphyEcon http://understandingbitcoin.us https://consultingbyrpm.com https://contrakrugman.com https://lara-murphy.com
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Matthew & Fernando interview Ragnar Lifthrasir, founder of IBREA and velox.RE. We discuss Bitcoin, blockchain, and real estate.
Ragnar overviews his work toward getting real estate deals done more effectively, efficiently, and seamlessly with Bitcoin and blockchain. We talk deeds, title, mortgages, leases, tenants, financials, time-stamping, and tokens. As Fernando has written, when people refer to tokenization in the "real world," essentially they are referring to a "proxy" phenomenon, meaning the token represents something else (as opposed to a "native" token, such as a bitcoin). Historically, the government has always been involved in registering and tracking property rights. So we spend a lot of time discussing the overlap of these two forces: traditional government property ownership recognition, versus property ownership recognition on the blockchain (proxy tokens). We discuss different technical aspects, such as tokenizing on Bitcoin, versus Ethereum, Stellar, or other blockchains. We talk stablecoins, and many other big picture aspects on getting real estate effectively working in the digital age.
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Links for more info: https://twitter.com/Ragnarly https://www.ibrea.network/ https://www.velox.re/
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Matthew & Fernando interview Alena Vranova, co-founder and former CEO of Satoshi Labs and Trezor, and co-founder of the newly announced group supporting Bitcoin, 'The B.'
Alena and many prominent people in Bitcoin unveiled 'The B' this past weekend in Riga at the Baltic Honeybadger 2018 Bitcoin Conference. She speaks here in detail on what The B is about, what its purpose is, how she hopes it will help Bitcoin, its funding model, why the founders, volunteers, and "helpers" came together to found this organization, and her immediate plans for its future.
She also addresses some tough questions on the (expected) controversy that comes with launching such an organization. Listen on to learn more.
Links for more info: https://theb.foundation/media/the_B_-_Launch_@Riga-23-Sept-2018.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2WXxgZ8h-0&feature=youtu.be&t=3h38m3s https://theb.foundation/ https://twitter.com/TheB_Foundation https://twitter.com/AlenaSatoshi
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Matthew & Fernando spend the entire show discussing one, important topic: Base Money.
Bitcoin is unquestionably unlike anything else in the (financial) world. However, if you are going to try and compare Bitcoin's supply with other supply curves in the financial world, don't. The only money supply you can compare it to is fiat's "Monetary Base," or "Base Money."
Firstly, something needs to be used as a medium of exchange to technically be called "money."
Gold used to be. Fiat is now. Bitcoin very well could be.
But don't get carried away. We need to compare bitcoin (and gold) to fiat's "base money" supply, and only to the base money supply.
M1/M2/M3 and all others simply aren't comparable. Why? Because those supplies include "claims" on base money.
Listen on to learn more.
Links for more info: https://cryptovoices.com/basemoney
James Rickards erroneously comparing gold to 40% of four currencies' M1 (and, erroneously claiming that US/Eurozone/China/Japan are 75% of global economy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4xpZm7JlqU&t=375s
James Rickards erroneously comparing gold to 100% of three currencies' M2: https://twitter.com/jamesgrickards/status/872134115230982144
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This is a rebroadcast of the CryptoBasic team's interview with Matthew, entitled "RT #3 - Monetary Policy, Austrian Economics, and Bitcoin Maximalism."
Original show details here: https://www.cryptobasicpodcast.com/home/monetarypolicy
This is a rebroadcast of Stephan Livera's interview with Fernando, entitled "SLP13 – Bitcoin as ultimate asset, with Fernando Ulrich."
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Matthew & Fernando interview Max Keidun & Roman Snitko, CEO & CTO of Hodl Hodl, the P2P crypto exchange that doesn't hold your funds, and organizers of the popular Baltic Honeybadger Bitcoin Conference in Riga, this year from 22-23 September, 2018.
Max and Roman give an overview of the agenda and style of this year's Honeybadger. They also update on new products and improvements in the Hodl Hodl business, including OTC trades, and House Hodl - buying and selling real estate with bitcoin. It is actively being developed right now with brokers, coming in 2019. We talk some more shop on Bitcoin and the state of the market, including technological improvements and tokenization. If you are on the fence to come to Riga for one of the best conferences in Bitcoin, don't delay, tickets are literally almost out and will not be sold at the door!
Links for more info: https://bh2018.hodlhodl.com https://hodlhodl.com https://househodl.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgujEoZqX_FfDTLb3Uuhsdg?reload=9 https://twitter.com/hodlhodl?lang=en https://twitter.com/keidunm?lang=en https://twitter.com/romansnitko?lang=en
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Matthew & Fernando interview Giacomo Zucco, co-founder of Blockchain Lab Consulting, BHB Network, the RGB open-source project, and Bitcoin maximalist.
We continue our discussion on Bitcoin, money, and central banking. Giacomo speculates on how this competitive relationship will develop over the years, and what other effects this will have on the economy and business. We move on to RGB and tokenizing assets on bitcoin, and conclude with an analysis of the lightning network as it relates to centralization and fractional reserves. In-depth conversation, this is part II of II.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/giacomozucco https://twitter.com/BHBnetwork https://www.blockchainlab.it/ https://github.com/rgb-org/spec/blob/master/README.md
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Matthew & Fernando interview Giacomo Zucco, co-founder of Blockchain Lab Consulting, BHB Network, the RGB open-source project, and Bitcoin maximalist.
We discuss many views and facets of Bitcoin, money, and central banking. Giacomo speculates on how this competitive relationship will develop over the years, and what other effects this will have on the economy and business. Some interesting history on money at scale, comparisons with gold, and censorship resistance. In-depth conversation, this is part I of II, we finish the discussion next week.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/giacomozucco https://twitter.com/BHBnetwork https://www.blockchainlab.it/ https://github.com/rgb-org/spec/blob/master/README.md
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Matthew & Fernando interview Saifedean Ammous, economics professor and author of the new book, The Bitcoin Standard.
We discuss Saif's background and why he decided to write "the book we all wanted to have written" covering Bitcoin, banking, and economics. Saif explains the importance of Bitcoin's supply schedule and the difficulty adjustment; the anatomy of monetary demand versus monetary supply; the proper comparison of Bitcoin to the current international payment system (as opposed to purchasing coffee on-chain); and a Bitcoin standard. We discuss the competitive landscape of mining and centralization risks. Also, what does it really mean to say Bitcoin is a medium of exchange? Saif gives his view on Dr. Selgin and White's position on fiduciary media, and concludes on what it might actually look like if Bitcoin "fails" in the banking world.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/saifedean http://saifedean.com/ https://thesaifhouse.wordpress.com/ https://thesaifhouse.wordpress.com/book/
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The Factor 2.9 crew from Stockholm interviews Matthew about Bitcoin. Show aired 12 June 2018.
Matthew breaks down some of the origins of the Crypto Voices show, his long-term views for Bitcoin, why it's a brilliant economic invention, and how it will benefit society.
Links for more info: https://medium.com/@Ulrich_98986/an-economic-definition-of-cryptotokens-3ac66d3cba20
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Matthew interviews Stephan Kinsella, longtime advocate of private property and personal liberty, and expert on intellectual property law.
We discuss broad ranging issues on Bitcoin and private property. Is Bitcoin really property per se, and does anyone truly own bitcoin(s)? Also, how does the nature of intellectual property (or lack thereof) play into the open-source aspects of Bitcoin? What is Bitcoin? Is Bitcoin a digital good? Stephan shares his knowledge on the history of intellectual thought, personal liberty, and intellectual property to answer some of these questions. We discuss some current topics about the brand of Bitcoin (versus Bitcoin Cash), and if blockchain could(?) ever resolve some of the faults and friction in IP that Stephan has studied for years. Stephan is a well-read intellectual and Bitcoiners would do well to read more of his writings.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/NSKinsella http://www.stephankinsella.com/ https://mises.org/profile/stephan-kinsella https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0 https://mises.org/library/goods-scarce-and-nonscarce https://cointelegraph.com/news/pro-btc-movement-scraps-lawsuit-against-vers-bitcoincom-citing-lack-of-funds
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Matthew interviews Danielius Stasiulis, co-founder of BitDegree.
We discuss the ever-present topic of education, and the possibility of disrupting and bringing its cost down via the blockchain. This is the second show on Crypto Voices covering a project on Ethereum that has leveraged an ICO. We start by discussing Danielius's business background in Lithuania and Eastern Europe, and why he decided to get into the blockchain space. We cover a variety of interesting facets about business in CEE, such as the lack of venture capital funding (ever, since fall of the Soviet Union), and why Lithuanians are leading the charge in ICOs. We discuss the warming to blockchain that is occurring for regulators in Lithuania, and why Danielius believes they are thinking critically on the potential of the technology for their local economy. Danielius informs that BitDegree is the first approved ICO/utility token in Lithuania, and likely in Europe outside of the major markets (Switzerland, Gibraltar, etc.). We then turn to education, and why Danielius believes the incentive structure offered by tokens can disrupt the old trade and bring its cost down for students. We look at some of the token economics, and how it fits together with learners, educators, and businesses. We discuss the costs of education around the world, and how this new model could be a breakthrough in delivering skills to unskilled workers. We explore some of the business relationships between BitDegree's founders, its foundation, and coinholders. Last but not least, Danielius informs and invites everyone to their Block Forum conference in Vilnius, 14-17 June.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/DStasiulis https://twitter.com/bitdegree_org https://www.bitdegree.org/ https://www.blockforum.eu/ https://www.cofmag.com/lithuanian-ico-boom/
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Matthew and Fernando interview Jameson Lopp, professional cypherpunk.
We start asking Jameson 'what is Bitcoin?'. We explore some of his prior writings, and get his latest perspectives on difficult topics (in the world of Bitcoin) such as roadmaps, scaling, technical upgrades, and consensus. We take some time to unpack the idea of bugs in the code and the human factor involved in dealing with them if and when they surface (and preventing them). We explore his new non-custodial, cryptoasset key-storing service Casa, and some of the features and benefits he and his partners will offer. We discuss some economic and risk-topics surrounding Bitcoin and other cryptoassets (such as ICOs). We close with his latest (brief, more philosophical) thoughts on the risks Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/lopp http://lopp.net/ https://statoshi.info/ https://keys.casa/ https://www.coindesk.com/nobody-understands-bitcoin-thats-ok/
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Matthew and Fernando interview Dr. Lawrence White, professor of economics at George Mason University and senior fellow at the Cato Institute.
This is a continuation of sorts of our very first episode/guest with Dr. George Selgin (who has worked closely with Dr. White over the years, and originally studied under him). Dr. White is an expert in monetary and banking history. He begins with a broad overview of fractional reserve banking, his views according to the modern free banking school, and their differences with 100% reserve Austrian economists. We discuss the development of monies over time, and the various reasons why Bitcoin diverges from this blueprint, such as its prior, non-monetary use cases and fixed supply. We explore why academic experts look askance at Bitcoin. Dr. White gives a primer on the economy and banking reserves through the lenses of a gold standard, fiat standard, and bitcoin standard. We talk a bit about the current global financial system, and the optimistic (yet cautious) role he sees for Bitcoin in it. We conclude with the archetype of "Blockchain Dan" (a path which Fernando and Matthew are arguably on), and reflections from Dr. White on the monetary enthusiasm of undergraduates over the years. Finally, he reveals he is working on a new book comparing gold and bitcoin!
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/lawrencehwhite1 https://www.cato.org/people/lawrence-white https://www.alt-m.org/author/white/ https://mason.gmu.edu/~lwhite11/biography.html https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/rae9_2_5_4.pdf?file=1&type=document https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rk6N8PIf0g
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Matthew and Fernando interview Zooko Wilcox, co-founder of the Zcash cryptocurrency protocol and CEO of the Zerocoin Electric Coin Company.
Very interesting and broad discussion on the various social and economic implications of privacy. Zooko explores the numerous reasons for privacy coins, where Bitcoin has taken us with its success, how he hopes Zcash can take us further, why it's needed, and how privacy coins can effect society. We explore some straw men (dark markets) in terms of their analog comparisons today. We discuss other use-cases for privacy coins. We discuss some facets of the Zcash team and protocol, including some of the reasoning behind establishing a company to launch the currency. He notes the importance of security audits. He addresses the open questions on improving Bitcoin versus improving other coins (such as with privacy upgrades). Zooko concludes with some reflections on DigiCash, as well as some lessons on the importance of not resting on laurels in building this technology for the future.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/zooko https://z.cash/ https://www.imf.org/~/media/Files/Publications/WP/2018/wp1817.ashx https://www.coindesk.com/how-bitcoin-helps-afghan-girls-achieve-financial-freedom/
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Matthew (Fernando had to jet after Part I) interviews Paul Sztorc, computer scientist and founder of Bitcoin Hivemind and Drivechain protocols. This episode is part II of II.
In Part II we discuss some of Paul's recent writings and updates on the Drivechain protocol, and how Bitcoin can scale via sidechains. Related to this we discuss Bitcoin maximalism versus altcoin development. As for Drivechain, Paul's prediction market Bitcoin Hivemind (discussed in Part I) would be a key component of this new protocol, but the idea is that developers, businesses, and enthusiasts from any blockchain or scaling project could operate on Bitcoin (on- and off-chain) under the same 21 million coin protocol. We also discuss thoughts on some of the politics of Bitcoin, and how sidechains could emerge eventually via soft fork, hard fork, futures market, or a new protocol entirely (said paths are not mutually exclusive).
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/truthcoin http://bitcoinhivemind.com/ http://www.drivechain.info/ http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/ https://youtu.be/tzaVt7uN4p4 https://youtu.be/gUbGT70wy5k
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Matthew and Fernando interview Paul Sztorc, computer scientist and founder of Bitcoin Hivemind and Drivechain protocols. This episode is part I of II.
We discuss Paul's journey into prediction markets, and their potential in a decentralized market using Bitcoin; how a prediction market works and some of its features; governance and affecting political change via prediction markets; building prediction markets on Bitcoin versus other protocols (such as Ethereum); finally, we begin discussing the importance of Bitcoin sidechain protocols as they can/should relate to prediction markets, and Paul's protocol Drivechain specifically (more on this next week).
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/truthcoin http://bitcoinhivemind.com/ http://www.drivechain.info/ http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/ https://youtu.be/tzaVt7uN4p4 https://youtu.be/gUbGT70wy5k
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Matthew and Fernando interview Jeremy Gardner, co-founder & managing partner at Ausum Ventures.
We discuss Jeremy's history at Augur and his current view on the platform for the future; his thoughts on ICOs in general and the state of the market today; his thesis on which and how many decentralized protocols there will be in the future; his interest in venture and what he and his team are focusing on at Ausum VC; the price-stable coin Basecoin; the future of regulation around these protocols; and some book recommendations.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/Disruptepreneur https://twitter.com/AusumVentures https://www.ausum.vc/ https://distributed.com/ https://www.blockchainedu.org/ http://www.augur.net/ http://www.getbasecoin.com/
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Category: Markets & political Author: Andreas Antonopoulos Originally published: 12-Mar-2014 Published at: Andreas M. Antonopoulos Source: https://antonopoulos.com/failure-is-an-option/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Matthew and Fernando interview Paul Puey, founder and CEO of mobile blockchain wallet Edge.
We discuss lots of security topics in Bitcoin and other crypto assets, specifically regarding the average user’s concerns. Paul details his history in tech and how we got into Bitcoin, as well as why he decided to found Edge (formerly known as Airbitz). We cover the current differences between the newly branded Edge wallet versus Airbitz, and the longer-term plans for the company under the Edge brand. We cover a good deal of time on the exchanges, how their business model differs from wallet providers, security versus utility versus risk, how they work together, fees, and some of the challenges of centralized entities (exchanges) in crypto versus more decentralized ones, such as client-side wallet providers. We discuss some of the technical, longer-term prospects for Edge, such as when and how multi-sig will be usable and easy for the average user (across crypto assets, not just in Bitcoin). Also, will the future of crypto use wallets? We further do some speculating on more philosophical questions, such as will all bitcoin in the world eventually be lost (or stolen)? Paul has some cautious views on the Lightning Network, which tandems with their more crypto-agnostic efforts and company direction.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/paullinator paul@edgesecure.co https://edgesecure.co/ https://edgesecure.co/developer/ https://airbitz.co/
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Category: Investment Author: Henry Brade Originally published: 9-Jun-2016 Published at: Medium Source: https://medium.com/@Technomage/10-good-reasons-to-buy-bitcoin-now-9c5438893df9#.bdi9txje1 Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Matthew interviews Henry Brade, co-founder and CEO of Prasos.
Matthew and Henry discuss a good variety of current Bitcoin topics, from adoption to regulation. Henry details the Prasos model and a few of their key services, including Coinmotion and Denarium. Henry overviews how he got into Bitcoin, including his pre-Bitcoin days as a poker player, and how some of his political and economic views have changed since getting into Bitcoin. He provides some hindsight on the Bitcoin scaling debate. We spend a lot of time discussing the business and political environment in Northern Europe surrounding Bitcoin, and how companies do face headwinds from regulators, in spite of the clear benefits of Bitcoin and blockchain. He speculates on a "regulated versus cash" economy emerging in the future digital world, much as it has been in the past analog world. Henry concludes by detailing all their new and improving services, including a crypto investment fund. Finally, Prasos is hiring! They are looking for great developers for their Lightning integration. Contact Henry and the team for details.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/Technom4ge https://prasos.fi/ https://coinmotion.com/ https://denarium.com/ FI: https://bittiraha.fi/ FI: https://bittimaatti.fi/
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Matthew & Fernando interview Žilvinas Šilėnas, President of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute.
Good discussion getting back to basics on the state of classical liberal thought and economics in Eastern Europe, particularly in Lithuania. Žilvinas and his team at LFMI are doing amazing work advocating for classical liberal economic policies in their country, and their influence goes beyond their borders. He shares some insights on how and why they have been so successful in Lithuania. As far as Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies go, Žilvinas shares many good points on currency competition and why this asset class should be treated like any other good, as far as regulations go... don't mess with it!
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/zsilenas https://www.facebook.com/zilvinas.silenas https://en.llri.lt/ https://freema.org/ https://www.atlasnetwork.org/about/people/zilvinas-silenas
Great festival if you are traveling to Lithuania! http://www.vilnius-events.lt/en/event/kaziukas-fair-2/
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Matthew & Fernando interview Patrick Byrne, founder & CEO of Overstock.
Fascinating discussion with a busy executive, we are grateful for the time Patrick spent with us covering everything they are doing at Overstock with blockchain technology. We begin with Patrick's background, moving from philosophy to Wall Street. We discuss the complexities of running a publicly traded company, and the many dealings (and battles) Patrick has had with the SEC. He overviews their TZero platform, how they plan to disintermediate the broker-dealer business, and in general cut the inefficiencies and lack of transparency plaguing modern finance. We move on to his work with Hernando de Soto, an important Peruvian economist who has done monumental work on the history of property rights. He, Patrick, and the team at Medici Ventures are (among others) investing in the lofty goal of bringing a true property rights system to the developing (and developed!) world through the blockchain. This could offer those in desparate environments a fighting economic chance at establishing their title and property, potentially opening up access to credit and other entrepreneurial tools. We conclude with another great free-market economist last-named de Soto, Spanish economist Jesús Huerta de Soto, who Fernando studied Austrian Economics under, and whom Patrick would like to meet!
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/OverstockCEO https://www.overstock.com/ http://www.mediciventures.com/ https://www.tzero.com/ https://youtu.be/JlnbDdPsY58 Hernando de Soto: http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/d/desoto-capital.html Jesús Huerta de Soto: https://www.mises.org/library/money-bank-credit-and-economic-cycles
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Matthew & Fernando interview RSK Labs CEO Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar.
We discuss many of the technicalities of RSK, which is the first general purpose smart contract platform secured by the Bitcoin network. We discuss RSK Labs' vision for scaling programmable contracts on Bitcoin, how their system relates and works with Ethereum, security and consensus issues, and how they are progressing from being a more centralized system, to becoming a truly decentralized one. We look at some of RSK's use cases. There are many reasons why Diego describes RSK as a "base layer," or even "on-chain" layer, as Bitcoin miners secure the network via merged mining, and full nodes will be incentivized with a new validation system called PUBS (Proof of Unique Blockchain Storage). From there we discuss how their payment layer or off-chain solution called Lumino fits in, and how it can possibly integrate with the Lightning network. We conclude with their roadmap for 2018.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/dieguito https://www.rsk.co/ https://faq.rsk.co/en/main/
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Matthew & Fernando interview RegTech Executive Juan Llanos.
We discuss Juan's history in regulatory and legal frameworks, and how he eventually found the crypto world. Juan overviews his outlook on crypto regulation and compliance in the next few years, including an interesting take that many politicians "on the inside" already own cryptoassets, so regulatory interpretations could be drawn from that conclusion. He defines three kinds of regulation: stimulative, prudential (consumer protection), and law enforcement. We explore these topics, and go further on his experience in dealing with different governments and crypto projects and their views, including best practices, jurisdictions, token categorization, and ICOs. We also explore Milton Friedman's speculations in 1999 on e-cash and taxes.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/JuanLlanos https://contrariancompliance.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanllanos
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Matthew & Fernando interview Jonathan Mohan. This is the final interview we did on location in New York in October 2017!
We discuss Jonathan's thoughts regarding hodling Bitcoin and its forks from a composite perspective, and then spend the majority of time covering his ideas and consulting work on smart contract and counterparty risk. The crux of the issue has to do with effectively arbitrating disputes when something goes wrong, namely through insurance or insurance-based surety bonds. There are technical and practical challenges to any smart contract or oracle usage, and Jonathan discusses the important role that insurance can play, perhaps more than any collateral-based system or staking can.
Links for more info: https://twitter.com/JonathanMohan https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinnyc/ https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/category/episodes
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Matthew & Fernando interview Bitcoin developer Jimmy Song.
We discuss Jimmy's thoughts on 2017 in crypto (what he's learned and what he's written about), the risk of hard forks, what will scare you to sell(?), his post on Crypto Keynesians vs. Crypto Austrians, Bitcoin's role as a medium of exchange vs. store of value, Bitcoin's position as a base-level protocol, the value overflow incident of 2010, effects of altcoins, and the difficulty of predictions.
Links for more info: https://medium.com/@jimmysong https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEFJVYNiPp8xeIUyfaPCPQw https://twitter.com/jimmysong https://github.com/jimmysong
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Matthew & Fernando interview Eric Voskuil from Libbitcoin. This is part two in a two-part episode!
We discuss Eric's background, the Libbitcoin protocol implementation, and then focus the remaining 1.5 hours covering a variety of interesting cryptoeconomic topics that Eric has written in the Libbitcoin wiki, including threat level paradox, axiom of resistance, government fiat, reserves versus savings, fees in Bitcoin, the role of inflation in the network, altcoins, and more.
Links for more info: https://libbitcoin.org/ https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin/wiki/Understanding-Bitcoin https://twitter.com/evoskuil https://www.linkedin.com/in/evoskuil
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Matthew & Fernando interview Eric Voskuil from Libbitcoin. This is part one in a two-part episode!
We discuss Eric's background, the Libbitcoin protocol implementation, and then focus the remaining 1.5 hours covering a variety of interesting cryptoeconomic topics that Eric has written in the Libbitcoin wiki, including threat level paradox, axiom of resistance, government fiat, reserves versus savings, fees in Bitcoin, the role of inflation in the network, altcoins, and more.
Links for more info: https://libbitcoin.org/ https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin/wiki/Understanding-Bitcoin https://twitter.com/evoskuil https://www.linkedin.com/in/evoskuil
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Matthew gives a (not brief) Happy New Year intro to a recording of the Cryptoeconomics panel at the Baltic Honeybadger Bitcoin Conference in Riga, Latvia, which occurred on 26 November, 2017. The intro (on Jan 2018 valuations, cryptocurrencies vs. ICOs) was recorded on 5 January 2018.
The panelists were Andreas Antonopoulos (@aantonop), Adam Back (@adam3us), Henry Brade (@Technom4ge), Tuur Demeester (@TuurDemeester), Eric Voskuil (@evoskuil), and Giacomo Zucco (@giacomozucco).
Links for more info: https://bh2017.hodlhodl.com/ https://hodlhodl.com/
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Matthew interviews Chris Beams from Bisq, the decentralized crypto asset exchange. This is part two in a two-part episode!
We discuss a variety of interesting topics covering the Bisq platform, including how "decentralized" it actually is, the current (and planned) governance among its founders and stakeholders, the role and creation of the BSQ colored coin on Bitcoin's blockchain (including its distribution via testnet), the key features of the Bisq trading platform (security, privacy and censorship resistance), how one actually trades on the Bisq exchange, and more, such as the key features of decentralized systems, DAOs, and the technological adoption of Bitcoin during these days of heady prices.
Links for more info: https://bisq.network/ https://github.com/bisq-network/docs/blob/master/dao/phase-zero.adoc https://twitter.com/cbeams https://twitter.com/bisq_network https://medium.com/@mcasey0827/speculative-bitcoin-adoption-price-theory-2eed48ecf7da
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Matthew interviews Chris Beams from Bisq, the decentralized crypto asset exchange. This is part one in a two-part episode!
We discuss a variety of interesting topics covering the Bisq platform, including how "decentralized" it actually is, the current (and planned) governance among its founders and stakeholders, the role and creation of the BSQ colored coin on Bitcoin's blockchain (including its distribution via testnet), the key features of the Bisq trading platform (security, privacy and censorship resistance), how one actually trades on the Bisq exchange, and more, such as the key features of decentralized systems, DAOs, and the technological adoption of Bitcoin during these days of heady prices.
Links for more info: https://bisq.network/ https://github.com/bisq-network/docs/blob/master/dao/phase-zero.adoc https://twitter.com/cbeams https://medium.com/@mcasey0827/speculative-bitcoin-adoption-price-theory-2eed48ecf7da
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Matthew & Fernando discuss Bitcoin scaling and Bitcoin Cash with Roger Ver.
Roger is a high profile investor and entrepreneur, CEO of Memory Dealers, the first investor in Bitcoin startups, owner of Bitcoin.com, and proponent of Bitcoin Cash.
We discuss a variety of economic and security factors surrounding scaling, the base max block size, censorship, role of nodes, role of miners, forks, altcoins, and more. We discuss Roger's view on $10,000 bitcoin. Also some general reflection on his views of Bitcoin Cash versus Bitcoin. Finally he discusses his thoughts on the Free Society project and the role cryptocurrencies could play.
Links for more info: https://www.bitcoin.com/ https://twitter.com/rogerkver https://www.freesociety.com/
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Matthew & Fernando discuss Bitcoin investing going mainstream with Brian Kelly of CNBC.
Brian Kelly is a financial markets investor and author, an expert in global finance, macroeconomics and cryptocurrencies. He is a commentator on the popular CNBC show Fast Money. Brian has also authored the book "The Bitcoin Big Bang - How Alternative Currencies are About to Change the World." He manages a hedge fund focused on cryptoassets.
We discuss a variety of interesting topics on Bitcoin going mainstream, and some of the opps and challenges surrounding this in Brian's business. We talk about his fund, other hedge funds interested in the space, potential growth, regulation, 100% backing on the blockchain vs. leveraging up bitcoin, Wall Street veterans wrapping their heads around the topic, trading arbitrage, the role of Bitcoin vs. gold, and more.
Links for more info: http://bk.capital/ http://bk.capital/book/ https://twitter.com/bkbriankelly https://www.cnbc.com/brian-kelly/
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Matthew & Fernando discuss Bitcoin with Max and Roman from the peer-to-peer crypto exchange Hodl Hodl.
They discuss the benefits of trading bitcoins in a secure, p2p manner on their exchange, understanding multisig escrow control during trades, the importance of protecting your keys, and why to practice your trades on their testnet with testnet coins first. We move on to discuss their star-studded bitcoin conference, taking place next week, 25-26 November in Riga. Topics are geared toward any and all enthusiasts of Bitcoin. We also discuss conclusions of the current scaling chapter in Bitcoin, including the prescient commentary from Fernando over the last few months, predicting that SegWit2x would not happen.
Links for more info: https://bh2017.hodlhodl.com/tickets https://bh2017.hodlhodl.com/ https://testnet.hodlhodl.com/ https://hodlhodl.com/
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Matthew & Fernando discuss the latest price mania in Bitcoin, as well as dig into some charts available on cryptovoices.com, which help one understand, drill down on the fundamentals, look beyond the FOMO, and filter out the noise of the markets. We reflect on some of the latest public statements on Bitcoin from the financial industry. Fernando goes in-depth on his recent public statement on behalf of the Brazilian and Argentinian communities, regarding the dangers of the SegWit2X hard fork. We close with some final thoughts on consensus and cryptographically verifying one's positions.
Links for more info: https://cryptovoices.com/200-day-moving-average-price-multiple/ https://cryptovoices.com/the-money-table/ https://cryptovoices.com/hashrate-valuation/ https://hackernoon.com/why-the-brazilian-and-argentinian-bitcoin-communities-oppose-segwit2x-801edc213af8
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Matthew & Fernando interview Thiago César on location in New York.
Thiago is the CEO of Brazilian company Bit.One. His firm allows corporate clients in Brazil buy and spend Bitcoin via online exchange and payment gateway. He is a long-time Bitcoiner and entrepreneur, with international and corporate experience beyond Brazil's borders.
We discuss Thiago's thoughts on the market for bitcoin in Brazil, regulation and attitudes of the authorities, how Bit.One is adapting to Crypto Valley in Switzerland, safely storing your private keys (in your own skin!!), and Bit.One's efforts to bring bitcoin to the mass market in Brazil.
Links for more info: https://bit.one/ thiago@bit.one
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Category: Investment Author: RexMLS.com Originally published: 9-Aug-2016 Published at: RexMLS Source: http://www.rexmls.com/blog/uncategorized/free-the-data/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Matthew & Fernando interview Stephen King on location in New York.
Stephen is a tenured real estate professional and developer, formerly of King Realty Group in New Jersey. He is the founder of the Princeton Ethereum Meetup.
We discuss his most recent venture, Rex MLS. MLS stands for Multiple Listing Service, a generic term for a networked pool of property sales info in the real estate industry, among brokers, typically available in a proprietary and expensive fashion. It is a highly consolidated industry with a few dominant companies.
We discuss his vision for Rex, and how he and his partners plan to open up property data among brokers, using the Ethereum blockchain and REX tokens. Their rollout plans today are focused in the US in Chicago, in the commercial (office) sector, though they envision real estate brokers adopting their services across the world, in all property sectors. We discuss some of the benefits and challenges of putting real estate on the blockchain, the role of property title on the blockchain, geo-spatial coordinates of premises, and also their recent ICO.
Links for more info: http://www.rexmls.com/ https://twitter.com/rexmls?lang=en https://twitter.com/mstephenking
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Matthew & Fernando interview Chris Burniske on location in New York.
Chris is a partner at Placeholder Capital. He formerly led ARK Invest's cryptoasset efforts, making one of the first bullish calls on Bitcoin from "traditional" Wall Street in 2015. Chris has also recently co-authored a book on cryptoasset valuation, linked below.
We discuss some of the variables Chris has used and applied in his analysis, including tricky ones like velocity. We discuss the revenues of various blockchains, the differences b/w proof-of-work and proof-of-stake's revenue propositions, and other valuation ideas.
Links for more info: Coin supplies in 2050: http://onchainfx.com/ Miner revenues vs. price: https://cryptovoices.com/network-annual-revenue/ https://twitter.com/cburniske?lang=en https://medium.com/@cburniske https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Beyond-Innovative-Investors-Blockchain/dp/1260026671 https://ark-invest.com/research/author/cburniske
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Matthew & Fernando interview Caitlin Long on location in New York.
Caitlin is a tenured Wall Street professional, with 22 years’ worth of experience at Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and Salomon Brothers, working as an equity analyst and eventually serving as Managing Director for 15 of those years. She is now President and Chairman of Symbiont, a blockchain smart contract platform for institutional finance.
We discuss her involvement and efforts at Symbiont, where she is disrupting the worlds of Wall Street and traditional finance with the efficiencies garnered from the blockchain. We discuss the role of permissioned and public blockchains, the regulations and standards coming, corporate governance, risk reduction, rehypothecation of assets around the world (and its associated risks), the coming central bank-based blockchain currencies, and more.
Links for more info: https://symbiont.io/ https://caitlin-long.com/ https://twitter.com/caitlinlong_/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlin-long-356b383a/ https://www.alt-m.org/2016/04/26/why-financial-regulators-are-warming-to-blockchains-and-rightfully-so/
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Matthew & Fernando interview Trace Mayer.
Trace is a longtime Bitcoin investor and advocate, investing in companies such as Kraken, BitPay and Armory.
We discuss a variety of broad and interesting topics, such as Bitcoin pricing, non-cash flow asset pricing, Bitcoin's future role as a risk-free asset, the economics of crypto coin supplies and forks, network security and the scaling debate, gold bugs hating on Bitcoin, Bitcoin as a tangible vs. corporeal asset, Bitcoin's role as a Giffin good vs. Veblen good (or both?), and a bit of the legal landscape for good measure.
Links to topics discussed in show: http://www.bitcoin.kn/ https://twitter.com/TraceMayer https://glacierprotocol.org/
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Category: Investment Author: Trace Mayer Originally published: 19-Dec-2011 Published at: RunToGold (also check out Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast at bitcoin.kn) Source: http://www.runtogold.com/2011/12/solid-bitcoin-consolidation-finally-bears-a-bitcoin-breakout/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Matthew interviews Robert Wiecko.
Robert is the Project Manager of the DASH Core team.
We discuss a variety of features and functions on how the DASH currency works in the blockchain economy, including the role of the core team itself, their decentralized treasury and self-funding system, the role of masternodes, the role of miners, the autonomy of the network, incentives, and whales. Robert also invites anyone in London to come to their first DASH Conference, this Sunday, 24 September.
Links to topics discussed in show: https://www.dash.org/ https://www.dash.org/forum/ https://www.dash.org/team/ robert@dash.org 12.1 update does affect transaction malleability: https://www.dash.org/update/
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Matthew and Fernando interview Rodolfo Novak.
Rodolfo is a Bitcoin entrepreneur from Brazil who has founded a variety of interesting and important projects such as BTC Look, Opendime, and Coinkite. He is based in Toronto.
We discuss Opendime; after this, the majority of the discussion focuses on the various technical and economic arguments in the Bitcoin scaling debate, how Bitcoin is run, and what Bitcoin is. One of the most technical shows we have done, though we do still cover the economic sides. Good shouts from Rodolfo on the technical front.
Links to topics discussed in show: http://rnvk.org/ https://opendime.com/ https://coinkite.com/ https://twitter.com/nvk Nakamoto on nodes and altruism: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-August/010238.html Thoughts on authenticity of above link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1166153.30;imode
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Matthew and Fernando interview Jeffrey Tucker.
Jeffrey is an author, economist and thinker. He is director of content for the Foundation for Economic Education, Chief Liberty Officer of Liberty.me, research fellow at the Acton Institute, policy adviser of the Heartland Institute, founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, and author of many books, including Bit by Bit: How P2P is Freeing the World, and also It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes, as well as thousands of articles appearing in both scholarly and popular press.
We discuss Bitcoin's role in the current political climate, its monetary aspects, its (possible) role in shadow economies, and some of the latest activities Jeffrey is working on, including starting a crypto hedge fund.
Links to topics discussed in show: https://fee.org/donate/ https://liberty.me/ https://twitter.com/jeffreyatucker http://www.jeffreytucker.me/
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Matthew and Fernando interview Helio Beltrão, founder and president of Instituto Mises Brasil.
Helio is a successful entrepreneur and investor. Helio discusses his interpretation of Bitcoin as money and as a digital good. We explore Menger, Mises, Hayek & Ferguson and classical liberal economics, such as spontaneous order versus design.
He also proposes looking at Bitcoin based on the "Progression Theorem": estimating the likelihood of Bitcoin eventually becoming a generally accepted medium of exchange. Also we look at other attributes and its potential (and hurdles) in disrupting the current financial system.
Links to topics discussed in show: http://mises.org.br/
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Category: Market & political Author: Wessel Reijers, Fiachra O'Brolcháin, Paul Haynes Originally published: 21-Dec-2016 Published at: Ledger Journal Source: http://www.ledgerjournal.org/ojs/index.php/ledger/article/view/62 Narrator: Crypto Voices cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Matthew and Fernando interview Erik Voorhees of ShapeShift.io.
Erik is a serial entrepreneur in the Bitcoin and digital asset space. We discuss the changing landscapes in Bitcoin and digital assets over the years, scaling, and their potential to disrupt money (and perhaps gold) and banking as we move forward. Erik also discusses some of his latest ventures.
Links to topics discussed in show: https://shapeshift.io/#/coins https://prism.exchange/login https://www.saltlending.com/
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Category: Market & political Author: Wessel Reijers, Fiachra O'Brolcháin, Paul Haynes Originally published: 21-Dec-2016 Published at: Ledger Journal Source: http://www.ledgerjournal.org/ojs/index.php/ledger/article/view/62 Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Matthew and Fernando interview Dr. George Selgin of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute.
Dr. Selgin relays a variety of interesting and pertinent information regarding money's origins, its use-cases, its store of value, its regulation among central banking, and how Bitcoin fits into the picture.
Links to topics discussed in show: https://www.cato.org/people/george-selgin https://www.alt-m.org/author/selgin/
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Show 10: Bitcoin Cash & Understanding True Cost per Transaction Matthew and Fernando discuss the latest on the Bitcoin Cash pending UAHF, and also explore the true cost per Bitcoin Transaction, which includes BOTH transaction fees AND inflation.
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Matthew and Fernando discuss the latest on Segwit locking in and pending activation; as well as their take on the opinions released this week from the SEC.
Links to topics discussed in show: http://blog.wizsec.jp/2017/07/breaking-open-mtgox-1.html https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/ib_coinofferings
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Fernando discusses his recent Bitcoin testimony to Brazilian government, including congressmen and regulators. We also break down government bond yields in light of typical fiscal policy, and Matthew explains the compound return analysis on cryptovoices.com. Also, Matthew sees smallest hippo in the world who was born a preemie, Fiona. It all fits together.
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Matthew and Fernando continue overview on basics of Bitcoin scaling, including some economic effects and considerations that you may have not heard elsewhere.
Links to topics discussed in show: http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/measuring-decentralization/ https://coin.dance/poli
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Matthew and Fernando continue overview on basics of Bitcoin scaling and the immediate calendar ahead this summer. A bit of the economics of all this, but more on that coming next week.
Links to topics discussed in show: https://coin.dance/poli
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Category: Markets & political Author: Evan Faggart Originally published: 4-May-2016 Published at: Bitcoin.com Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/konrad-graf-bitcoin-block-size-economy/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Matthew and Fernando discuss the basics on Bitcoin scaling, as well as latest crypto news. To be continued next week.
Links to topics discussed in show: http://hackingdistributed.com/2017/06/19/bancor-is-flawed/ https://medium.com/@eduffield222/hong-kong-research-and-planning-4206e065aa9c https://github.com/dashpay/dash-roadmap/blob/master/README.md
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Category: Markets & political Author: Eric Sammons Originally published: 2-Sep-2016 Published at: Swimming Upstream Source: http://ericsammons.com/apple-vs-dash-importance-privacy/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Market & political Author: Christoph Jentzsch Originally published: 24-Aug-2016 Published at: slock.it Source: https://blog.slock.it/the-history-of-the-dao-and-lessons-learned-d06740f8cfa5#.9uwuie2g8 Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Matthew and Fernando discuss the latest craze and mania surrounding Ethereum and its ICO ventures, and how it all relates back to Bitcoin.
Links to topics discussed in show: http://www.flippening.watch/
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Category: Technical Author: Vitalik Buterin Originally published: 19-Jun-2016 Published at: Ethereum Blog Source: https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/06/19/thinking-smart-contract-security/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Matthew and Fernando discuss regulation around the world by governments concerning cryptocurrency, and a revisit to look at what the market thinks of Ethereum 1 year after the DAO attack.
Links to topics discussed in show: https://forum.daohub.org/c/theDAO
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Category: Market & political Author: J. Chitty Originally published: 8-Mar-2016 Published at: Medium Source: https://medium.com/@chitty/why-not-litecoin-f4457b61fce2 Also see: https://steemit.com/@chitty Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Matthew and Fernando discuss some labels, terms and principles regarding economics, the money supply, and how this applies to Bitcoin.
Links to topics discussed in show: Global balance sheet http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/employment-and-growth/financial-globalization
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Chapter 41: The Altcoin Debate Continues Category: Markets & political Author: Vitalik Buterin Originally published: 7-Apr-2014 Published at: Bitcoin Magazine Source: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/altcoin-debate-continues-1396896177 Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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First "normal" podcasted show on Crypto Voices!
Hosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Fernando Ulrich Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Site: https://cryptovoices.com/ Podcast & Info Cryptoeconomics & Liberty
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Category: Markets & political Author: Daniel Krawisz Originally published: 14-Mar-2014 Published at: Satoshi Nakamoto Institute Source: http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/the-coming-demise-of-altcoins/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: Vitalik Buterin Originally published: 7-Sep-2013 Published at: Bitcoin Magazine Source: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/in-defense-of-alternative-cryptocurrencies-1378593768 Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: Daniel Krawisz Originally published: 22-Aug-2013 Published at: Satoshi Nakamoto Institute Source: http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/the-problem-with-altcoins/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: Gavin Andresen Originally published: 19-Aug-2013 Published at: GavinTech Source: http://gavintech.blogspot.it/2013/08/the-macro-economics-of-alt-coins.html Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Investment Author: Trace Mayer Originally published: 07-Dec-2015 Published at: RunToGold (also check out Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast at bitcoin.kn) Source: http://www.runtogold.com/2015/12/the-rise-of-the-fourth-great-bitcoin-bubble/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: Don Tapscott Originally published: May-2016 Published at: McKinsey & Company: High Tech Source: http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/high-tech/our-insights/how-blockchains-could-change-the-world Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: Eric Sammons Originally published: 02-May-2016 Published at: Swimming Upstream Source: http://ericsammons.com/dont-trust-craig-wright-or-satoshi-nakamoto/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Technical Author: Emin Gün Sirer Originally published: 04-May-2016 Published at: Hacking, Distributed Source: http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/05/04/logical-fallacies-hunt-satoshi/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Technical Author: Andreas Antonopoulos Originally published: 04-Mar-2015 Published at: Foundation for Economic Education Source: https://fee.org/articles/decentralization-why-dumb-networks-are-better/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: Konrad S. Graf Originally published: 30-Mar-2013 Published at: Konrad S. Graf - Bitcoin Theory Source: https://konrad-graf.squarespace.com/blog1/2013/3/30/a-short-bitcoin-commentary-on-deflation-and-liberty.html Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Technical Author: Chris Pacia Originally published: 29-Sep-2013 Published at: Escape Velocity Source: https://chrispacia.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/bitcoin-explained-like-youre-five-part-4-securing-your-wallet/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Technical Author: Chris Pacia Originally published: 07-Sep-2013 Published at: Escape Velocity Source: https://chrispacia.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/bitcoin-cryptography-digital-signatures-explained/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Technical Author: Chris Pacia Originally published: 02-Sep-2013 Published at: Escape Velocity Source: https://chrispacia.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/bitcoin-mining-explained-like-youre-five-part-2-mechanics/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Technical Author: Chris Pacia Originally published: 02-Sep-2013 Published at: Escape Velocity Source: https://chrispacia.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/bitcoin-mining-explained-like-youre-five-part-1-incentives/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: Oliver Bussmann & Nick Williamson Originally published: 26-Sep-2016 Published at: Bussmann Advisory Source: http://oliverbussmann.com/why-blockchain-wont-disrupt-banks-first/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Technical Author: Stuart Harrison Originally published: 18-Jan-2016 Published at: Open Data Institute Source: https://theodi.org/blog/blockchain-and-open-data-how-could-it-work Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: Ryan X. Charles Originally published: 09-Jan-2016 Published at: Ryan X. Charles Times Source: https://ryanxcharlestimes.com/top-10-conceptual-questions-about-bitcoin-81e4335e7f89#.azdkw3p5h Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: mozzadrella Originally published: 03-Jun-2016 Published at: Medium Source: https://medium.com/@mozzadrella/design-thinking-for-cryptocurrency-education-bba76bbae7d1#.woh3gedee Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Technical Author: Demir Selmanović Originally published: 08-Jul-2016 Published at: Ukrainian Law Blog Source: http://ukrainianlaw.blogspot.lt/2016/07/cryptocurrency-for-dummies-bitcoin-and.html Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Legal Author: Larry White Originally published: 02-Aug-2016 Published at: Alt-M Source: http://www.alt-m.org/2016/08/02/a-victory-for-bitcoin-users/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: RexMLS.com Originally published: 05-May-2016 Published at: RexMLS Source: http://www.rexmls.com/blog/uncategorized/data-democracy/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: RexMLS.com Originally published: 27-Apr-2016 Published at: RexMLS Source: http://www.rexmls.com/blog/uncategorized/rex-the-decentralized-mls/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Technical Author: Richard Gendal Brown Originally published: 05-Apr-2016 Published at: Richard Gendal Brown Source: https://gendal.me/2016/04/05/introducing-r3-corda-a-distributed-ledger-designed-for-financial-services/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Legal Author: Caitlin Long Originally published: 26-Apr-2016 Published at: Alt-M Source: http://www.alt-m.org/2016/04/26/why-financial-regulators-are-warming-to-blockchains-and-rightfully-so/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Investment Author: Leo Treasure Originally published: 17-Nov-2015 Published at: Medium Source: https://medium.com/@songproducer/money-bitcoin-monero-a-fungible-currency-1906c4ae175b#.mm28mo1jw Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: dashmasternode.org Originally published: 11-Aug-2016 Published at: dashmasternode.org Source: http://dashmasternode.org/dash-unstoppable-blockchain/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Technical Author: Gavin Andresen Originally published: 04-Nov-2015 Published at: Gavin Andresen Source: http://gavinandresen.ninja/designing-for-success Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Technical Author: Kathy Reid Originally published: 09-Apr-2016 Published at: Klog: Kathy Reid's Blog Source: http://blog.kathyreid.id.au/2016/04/09/bitcoin-blockchain-21co-computer/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
This recording is a reproduction of author Kathy Reid's piece 'Learning Bitcoin and the blockchain with the 21.co bitcoin computer'. The author's original work is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0. In addition, Crypto Voices did receive express permission from the author to reproduce this content in audio. However, the author does not necessarily endorse the manner of reproduction, nor has verified its recorded accuracy as it relates to the author's original material. Crypto Voices is grateful to work with such authors in this exciting industry.
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Category: Markets & political Author: Ari Blask Originally published: 16-Apr-2016 Published at: Alt-M Source: http://www.alt-m.org/2016/04/16/cryptocurrency-the-policy-challenges-of-a-decentralized-revolution/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Technical Author: W. Ian O’Byrne Originally published: 18-Mar-2016 Published at: W. Ian O'Byrne Source: http://wiobyrne.com/what-is-blockchain/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Legal Author: Pamela Morgan Originally published: Mar-2016 Published at: Third Key Solutions Source: https://www.thirdkey.solutions/estate-planning-7steps/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
This recording is a reproduction of author Pamela Morgan's piece 'Estate Planning in 7 Steps (for bitcoin, altcoins, asset-tokens)'. The author's original work is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0. In addition, Crypto Voices did receive express permission from the author to reproduce this content in audio. However, the author does not necessarily endorse the manner of reproduction, nor has verified its recorded accuracy as it relates to the author's original material. Crypto Voices is grateful to work with such authors in this exciting industry.
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Category: Markets & political Author: Vitalik Buterin Originally published: 05-Jul-2016 Published at: Medium Source: https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/why-cryptoeconomics-and-x-risk-researchers-should-listen-to-each-other-more-a2db72b3e86b#.yafccfaxf Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: Eric Sammons Originally published: 17-May-2016 Published at: Brave New Coin Source: http://bravenewcoin.com/news/decentralized-transparent-blockchain-based-governance/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Legal Author: Roman Latković Originally published: 28-May-2016 Published at: The Dash Times Source: http://thedashtimes.com/2016/05/28/legality-crypto-currency-holdings/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: Jon Matonis Originally published: 26-Jan-2015 Published at: The Monetary Future Source: http://themonetaryfuture.blogspot.si/2015/02/volatility-deflation-and-manipulation.html Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: Konrad S. Graf Originally published: 27-Feb-2013 Published at: Konrad S. Graf - Bitcoin Theory Source: https://konrad-graf.squarespace.com/blog1/2013/2/27/in-depth-bitcoins-the-regression-theorem-and-that-curious-bu.html Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: Erik Voorhees Originally published: 30-Oct-2015 Published at: Money and State Source: http://moneyandstate.com/its-all-about-the-blockchain/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Investment Author: Trace Mayer Originally published: 14-Jun-2011 Published at: RunToGold (also check out Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast at bitcoin.kn) Source: http://www.runtogold.com/2011/06/what-is-bitcoin/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: Nozomi Hayase Originally published: 15-Jul-2016 Published at: openDemocracy Source: https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/nozomi-hayase/bitcoin-innovation-of-money-and-evolution-of-governance Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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Category: Markets & political Author: Andreas Antonopoulos Originally published: 01-Jul-2015 Published at: FEE Source: https://fee.org/articles/money-will-be-digital-but-will-it-be-free/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening!
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