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Cully Cavness is the co-founder, president, and COO of Crusoe, an energy-first AI infrastructure company. In this live episode recorded in Austin, Texas, Cully shares how Crusoe evolved from capturing flared gas for Bitcoin mining to becoming a leading developer of hyperscale data centers. He discusses the company's pivotal role in Project Stargate—a $500B AI infrastructure effort led by OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle—and how Crusoe is building a 1.2 gigawatt data center campus in Abilene, Texas. Cully reflects on the decision to divest its original Bitcoin business, the company's vertical integration strategy, and how energy abundance will shape the future of AI. In this episode, we cover: ⁠[00:24]⁠ An overview of Crusoe ⁠[01:08]⁠ Its role in Project Stargate and Abilene data center⁠[03:41]⁠ Shift from outbound to inbound interest⁠[06:17]⁠ Company pivots and existential startup bets[09:09]⁠ Sale of Bitcoin mining business to NYDIG[11:40]⁠ Flared gas capture and climate impact overview⁠[14:57]⁠ From digital flare mitigation to stranded wind use⁠[17:27]⁠ Cully's personal energy background and worldview⁠[22:14]⁠ Why AI could drive climate and fusion breakthroughs⁠[25:47]⁠ Details of the 1.2 GW Abilene campus for Oracle⁠[36:42]⁠ 3,500 skilled trades supporting data center build⁠[44:42]⁠ Natural gas as a bridge fuel + CCS investmentsEpisode recorded on June 10, 2025 (Published on June 17, 2025) Enjoyed this episode? Please leave us a review! Share feedback or suggest future topics and guests at info@mcj.vc.Connect with MCJ:Cody Simms on LinkedInVisit mcj.vcSubscribe to the MCJ Newsletter*Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant

All your Bitcoin mining news from this week, in 30 minutes or less! Including CoreWeave's downgraded IPO, Crusoe selling assets to NYDIG plus Riot bidding for Rhodium's mining assets!You're listening to The Mining Pod. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 10,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.comWant to mine Bitcoin? Check out the Blockspace Media store today!Welcome to The Mining Pod! This week, we dive into Bitcoin's difficulty adjustments with hash rate approaching 850 EH/s while miners face compressed hash prices at $48.63. We analyze Core Weave's IPO reduction from $4B to $1.5B amid market skepticism. Plus, breaking news on Crusoe's mining operations exit to NYDIG, Riot's $185M offer for Rhodium's Rockdale assets, and the hilarious irony of anti-ordinals Ocean Mining processing Taproot Wizards transactions. Join us for expert analysis on the evolving mining and AI compute landscapes.# Notes:- Difficulty adjustment estimated at 5.6%- Hash prices at $48.63 per hash per day- Network hash rate approaching 850 EH/s- Core Weave IPO reduced to $1.5B from $4B- Riot offering $185M for Rhodium assets- Crusoe selling all mining operations to NYDIGTimestamps:00:00 Start02:16 Hashrate Forecast04:56 What's up with CoreWeave?06:31 Kramer video17:38 Crusoe Sells Assets to NYDIG21:52 Riot and Rockdale25:37 Cry Corner: CATS, Wizards vs Ocean

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! This week, we dive into Bitcoin's difficulty adjustments with hash rate approaching 850 EH/s while miners face compressed hash prices at $48.63. We analyze CoreWeave's IPO reduction from $4B to $1.5B amid market skepticism. Plus, breaking news on Crusoe's mining operations exit to NYDIG, Riot's $185M offer for Rhodium's Rockdale assets, and the hilarious irony of anti-ordinals Ocean Mining processing Taproot Wizards transactions. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: - Difficulty adjustment estimated at 5.6% - Hash prices at $48.63 per hash per day - Network hash rate approaching 850 EH/s - Core Weave IPO reduced to $1.5B from $4B - Riot offering $185M for Rhodium assets - Crusoe selling all mining operations to NYDIG Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:16 Hashrate Forecast 04:56 What's up with CoreWeave? 06:31 Kramer video 17:38 Crusoe Sells Assets to NYDIG 21:52 Riot and Rockdale 25:37 Cry Corner: CATS, Wizards vs Ocean Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All your Bitcoin mining news in 30 minutes or less!You're listening to The Mining Pod. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 8,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.comWant to mine Bitcoin? Check out the Blockspace Media store today!Welcome to The Mining Pod! Matt Kimmell and Will cover the week's biggest stories in Bitcoin mining. We analyze the challenging hashprice environment for miners (hitting all-time lows at $42/hash), discuss the EPA's major deregulation announcement and its potential impact on energy markets, break down Canaan's $200M funding for US expansion, examine CoreWeave's massive $11.9B OpenAI deal ahead of its IPO, and dive into the drama between NYDIG and Mawson over allegedly stolen Bitcoin miners worth $30M.Notes:Hash price at all-time low of $42 per hash per @luxorEPA launching 31 deregulatory actions for energyCanaan secured $200M for US mining expansionCoreWeave signed $11.9B OpenAI contractNydig claims Mawson stole $30M worth of minersTimestamps:00:00 Start07:21 EPA to slash regulation14:03 Canaan $200M in financing20:41 CoreWeave & OpenAI sign deal28:50 Cry corner: Stone Ridge & Mawson $30M Theft

You're listening to The Mining Pod. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 8,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Want to mine Bitcoin? Check out the Blockspace Media store today! Welcome to The Mining Pod! Matt Kimmell and Will cover the week's biggest stories in Bitcoin mining. We analyze the challenging hashprice environment for miners (hitting all-time lows at $42/hash), discuss the EPA's major deregulation announcement and its potential impact on energy markets, break down Canaan's $200M funding for US expansion, examine CoreWeave's massive $11.9B OpenAI deal ahead of its IPO, and dive into the drama between NYDIG and Mawson over allegedly stolen Bitcoin miners worth $30M. Notes: Hash price at all-time low of $42 per hash per @luxor EPA launching 31 deregulatory actions for energy Canaan secured $200M for US mining expansion CoreWeave signed $11.9B OpenAI contract Nydig claims Mawson stole $30M worth of miners Timestamps: 00:00 Start 07:21 EPA to slash regulation 14:03 Canaan $200M in financing 20:41 CoreWeave & OpenAI sign deal 28:50 Cry corner: Stone Ridge & Mawson $30M Theft

In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin and global finance: NYDIG to Use Insurance Float for Bitcoin-Backed Loans Six New Bitcoin ETF Products Get Filed Nearly 10 Countries Now Mining Bitcoin With Government Resources   ---- Join my mailing list and subscribe to our free newsletter: thenewsblock.substack.com  ---- References mentioned in the episode:  Stone Ridge Annual Shareholder Letter U.S. Insurance Companies Hold $8.5 trillion  Warren Buffett's History With Insurance Float  Six New Bitcoin ETF Products Are Filed ProShares's New Bitcoin ETF Product Filing Bitwise's Bitcoin Corporate Treasury Strategy ETF Nate Geraci's Tweet on New Bitcoin ETF Filings  BitcoinTreasuries.net VanEck's End of Year Bitcoin Report  Bitcoin Hash Rate Eclipses 800 TH/s Trend of Governments Mining Bitcoin  Goldman Sachs's Bullish on Nation State Adoption ---- Natalie's Promotional Links:  Secure your Bitcoin with collaborative custody and set up your inheritance plan with Casa: https://www.casa.io/natalie         For easy, low-cost, instant Bitcoin payments, I use Speed Lightning Wallet. Get 5000 sats when you download using this link and promo code COINSTORIES10: https://www.speed.app/sweepstakes-promocode/ River is where I DCA weekly and buy Bitcoin with the lowest fees in the industry: https://partner.river.com/natalie  Safely self-custody your Bitcoin with Coinkite and the ColdCard Wallet. Get 5% off: https://store.coinkite.com/promo/COINSTORIES Master your Bitcoin self-custody with 1-on-1 help and gain peace of mind with the help of The Bitcoin Way: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/natalie Bitcoin 2025 is heading to Las Vegas May 27-29th! Join me for my 4th Annual Women of Bitcoin Brunch! Get 10% off Early Bird passes using the code HODL: https://tickets.b.tc/affiliate/hodl/event/bitcoin-2025   Protect yourself from SIM Swaps that can hack your accounts and steal your Bitcoin. Join America's most secure mobile service, trusted by CEOs, VIPs and top corporations: https://www.efani.com/natalie  Connect with Bitcoiners and Bitcoin merchants wherever you live and travel on the Orange Pill App: https://signup.theorangepillapp.com/opa/natbrunell ---- This podcast is for educational purposes and should not be construed as official investment advice. ---- VALUE FOR VALUE — SUPPORT NATALIE'S SHOWS Strike ID https://strike.me/coinstoriesnat/ Cash App $CoinStories   #money #Bitcoin #investing

Will Russia actually encourage trade in bitcoin to evade sanction? Plus, an update on Core Scientific's 500 MW, $8.7 billion deal with Core Weave.Welcome back to the Mining Pod! Will, Colin, and Matt are back with another news roundup. It's election season, so naturally, headlines about Russia have weaseled their way into the news cycle – only this time, the news is about how Russia allegedly wants to encourage trade in bitcoin to bypass sanctions. The gang also talks about Coinmint's partnership with NYDIG to expand its Massena, NY facility, and our friends at Compass give us an update on the bitcoin mining hosting market. The show wraps up with the latest on Core Scientific's $8.7 billion deal with Core Weave, and in this week's cry corner, the fellas are perplexed at why Dennis Porter, founder of Satoshi Action Fund, is getting so much heat for Pennsylvania's new bitcoin rights bill.

Welcome back to the Mining Pod! Will, Colin, and Matt are back with another news roundup. It's election season, so naturally, headlines about Russia have weaseled their way into the news cycle – only this time, the news is about how Russia allegedly wants to encourage trade in bitcoin to bypass sanctions. The gang also talks about Coinmint's partnership with NYDIG to expand its Massena, NY facility, and our friends at Compass give us an update on the bitcoin mining hosting market. The show wraps up with the latest on Core Scientific's $8.7 billion deal with Core Weave, and in this week's cry corner, the fellas are perplexed at why Dennis Porter, founder of Satoshi Action Fund, is getting so much heat for Pennsylvania's new bitcoin rights bill.

In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered by Bitdeer (NASDAQ: BTDR), we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin and global finance: Bitcoin Rallies As Global Liquidity Conditions Improve SEC Finally Approves Options Trading for Bitcoin ETF  NYDIG Founder Says Bitcoin is Protected by the First Amendment ---- SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER FOR MORE ANALYSIS: thenewsblock.substack.com  --- The News Block is powered exclusively by Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR), a publicly-traded leader in Bitcoin mining that stands alone as the only vertically-integrated, technology-focused Bitcoin mining company. Learn more at www.bitdeer.com.  ---- References mentioned in the episode: Bitcoin, Gold Sensing Monetary Debasement Bitcoin Tests its 200-day Moving Average  Sam Callahan's Research on Bitcoin/Global Liquidity China Unveils Largest Stimulus Since Pandemic SEC Approves Options on BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Bitwise's Jeff Park's Tweet on Bitcoin ETF Options  BNY Mellon Granted Exemption from SEC to Custody BTC Matt Hougan's Memo on Financial Advisor Adoption  Matt Hougan Shares Slide from Barrons Presentation  Bill Maher's Clip on Bitcoin Mining  NYDIG Article on Bitcoin and the 1st Amendment ---- Natalie's Promotional Links:  Secure your Bitcoin with collaborative custody and set up your inheritance plan with Casa: www.casa.io/natalie  For easy, low-cost, instant Bitcoin payments, I use Speed Lightning Wallet. Get 5000 sats when you download using this link and promo code COINSTORIES10: https://www.speed.app/sweepstakes-promocode/ River is where I DCA weekly and buy Bitcoin with the lowest fees in the industry: partner.river.com/natalie Safely self-custody your Bitcoin with Coinkite and the ColdCard Wallet. Get 5% off: https://store.coinkite.com/promo/COINSTORIES Master your Bitcoin self-custody with 1-on-1 help and gain peace of mind with the help of The Bitcoin Way: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/partners/natalie-brunell  Bitcoin 2025 is heading to Las Vegas May 27-29th! Join me for my 4th Annual Women of Bitcoin Brunch! Get 10% off Early Bird passes using the code HODL: https://tickets.b.tc/affiliate/hodl/event/bitcoin-2025   Protect yourself from SIM Swaps that can hack your accounts and steal your Bitcoin. Join America's most secure mobile service, trusted by CEOs, VIPs and top corporations: https://www.efani.com/natalie  Connect with Bitcoiners and Bitcoin merchants wherever you live and travel on the Orange Pill App: https://signup.theorangepillapp.com/opa/natbrunell ---- This podcast is for educational purposes and should not be construed as official investment advice. ---- VALUE FOR VALUE — SUPPORT NATALIE'S SHOWS Strike ID https://strike.me/coinstoriesnat/ Cash App $CoinStories   #money #Bitcoin #investing

Today, Rusty and Robyn are joined by Nate Conrad, Head of LifeX at Stone Ridge. Nate formerly served as the Head of Markets at Stone Ridge and as the President of NYDIG. Prior to joining Stone Ridge in 2016, Nate worked at Goldman Sachs as a vice president in the Interest Rates Trading business. Nate received his BSE in Computer Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania.Key Takeaways[02:53] - Nate's professional background and career highlights.[04:18] - What differentiates Stone Ridge Asset Management as a firm?[06:38] - How does LifeX work and how might it be a game changer for financial advisors and investors?[08:30] - What is the concept of “longevity pooling” and how does it work to improve retirement outcomes?[12:48] - What are some of the unique implementations or use cases for LifeX?[15:57] - How might the aforementioned use cases drive higher investor confidence and better investor behavior?[17:40] - Who is LifeX most appropriate for and who might it not be appropriate for?[19:25] - When should an investor use LifeX and when should they use an annuity instead?[21:20] - What are the pros and cons of using LifeX vs. annuities?[24:20] - What are some of the most common investor concerns or questions that they get about LifeX?[26:55] - The tax treatment of LifeX distributions.[30:15] - How has LifeX been affected by falling interest rates?[34:33] - Rules of thumb for sizing the position of LifeX in one's portfolio.[36:08] - How can investors and advisors get access to these mutual funds?[37:15] - Nate's favorite investment idea currently.Quotes[08:28] - "So, longevity pooling…[is] this idea that you take a bunch of people, you pool them together…each individual in the pool, they don't know how long they are going to live…but if we pool a bunch of people together of the same age and gender, our ability to predict the lifespan of that group, on average, is incredibly precise. " ~ Nate Conrad[20:48] - "If you look back to…the adoption of index funds over time, it took about 50 years from, you know, the birth of the ideas behind index funds to the first index fund hitting a billion dollars. I hope we'll go faster than 50 years and…really kind of evolving the way we approach retirement in our industry and we're trying to do our part to help it along. " ~ Nate ConradLinksNate Conrad on LinkedIn“Under Pressure” by QueenWade Pfau White PaperStone Ridge on LinkedInLifeX FundsStone RidgeConnect with UsMeet Rusty Vanneman, Orion's Chief Investment OfficerCheck Out All of Orion's PodcastsPower Your Growth with OrionCompliance Code: 0217-OPS-1/29/2024Disclosure(s)Orion Portfolio Solutions, LLC, an Orion Company, is a registered investment advisor.The LifeX Funds are not annuities or other types of insurance contracts, and the distributions provided by the LifeX Funds are not guaranteed or otherwise backed by an insurance company or by any third party. The investment objective of the LifeX Funds is to achieve income and a high level of reliable monthly distributions while maintaining the safety of the principal amount of each fund's investments. For more information about LifeX, please visit www.lifexfunds.com.  The LifeX Funds are sold to persons of a single gender who were born in a particular calendar year specified in the relevant prospectus. Before making an investment/allocation decision, investors should (i) consider the suitability of this investment with respect to their investment objective and individual situation and (ii) consider factors such as their net worth, income, age and risk tolerance. Investment should be avoided by those with very serious or life-threatening health problems.You should consider the investment objectives, risks and charges and expenses of the LifeX Funds carefully before investing; the prospectuses contain this and other information. Prospectuses for the LifeX Funds may be obtained by calling 855-609-3680. Alternatively, you may click the links below:  LifeX Income Funds: here.  LifeX Inflation-Protected Income Funds: here.  Investing involves risks. Principal loss is possible. The LifeX Funds are distributed by Foreside Global Services, LLC. Distribution rates discussed herein are based on estimated initial purchase prices in the funds' prospectuses as revised January 10, 2024.

One year removed from the Crypto Bowl, Glen connects with NYDIG's Rahm McDaniel to assess what has and hasn't changed for credit unions and members. Also- trying (and failing) to avoid addressing Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate and USDC.   Links related to this episode:   NYDIG: https://nydig.com/  Our earlier interview with Becky Reed of Lone Star CU and John Wingate of BankSocial: https://www.big-fintech.com/Media/BIGcast/ArticleID/829/A-Lone-Star-Lighting-the-Crypto-Path  CU 2.0's Fintech Madness, Thursday March 30: https://cu-2.com/fintech-madness/   NACUSO Network Conference, March 27-29: https://www.nacuso.org/conferences/2023-nacuso-network/information/   Check out the CU Crypto Report, a crowdsourced data analysis of how CU members are already engaging with cryptocurrency. Now accepting volunteers to contribute anonymized data to the 2023 report: https://www.cucrypto.report/    Follow the Best Innovation Group on Twitter: @bigfintech Follow Glen on Twitter @154Advisors Follow John on Twitter @jbfintech

For bitcoin news, resources, price updates, and bitcoin mastery videos sign up for free at https://21towers.com. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:09 Summary 01:38 NYDIG 2022 Review and Look Ahead 06:18 Bitcoin price & Mayer multiple 08:56 Glassnode predicts Bitcoin going up 12:30 Is weakning dollar causing Bitcoin to gain strength? 16:57 FED, SEC and AG going hard on crypto mess (We cover DCG, Gemini, Huobi & Binance) 27:07 Bank run on Silvergate Capital 31:13 Marathon Miner consolidating Bitcoins and paying off Silvergate loans 34:09 $3.8B has moved out from India in a year since the introduction of Tax 36:48 El Salvador launches a bond to fund Bitcoin adoption & mining in the country Links from this show: https://viewemail.nydig.com/2022-review-and-look-ahead?ecid=ACsprvsmMMHtjx-_dUTe_6f1qEaQvyKR6n9W0eHBx8ayjzRU7Zvv-5SVCkqVvWzcu5_Xd8YCRUgN&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--bIOMdooru5OOFcXTiLDvI7992Q9C1GhrV43Qq_Iw96YKldTdmMLNB3d1699zobr8bUtjZXSG-6zZc5XhUOsnQi_N7uwhttps://buybitcoinworldwide.com/stats/mayermultiple/https://twitter.com/excellion/status/1613408614638813185 https://ycharts.com/companies/GBTC/discount_or_premium_to_navhttps://insights.glassnode.com/the-week-onchain-week-2-2023/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/dollar-7-month-low-vs-euro-slower-fed-rate-hike-expectations-3191881https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-07/crypto-empire-dcg-faces-us-investigation-over-internal-transfershttps://twitter.com/dylanleclair_/status/1613667119157186563 https://www.straitstimes.com/business/celsius-founder-alex-mashinsky-sued-for-crypto-fraud-by-new-york-attorney-general https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/01/06/huobi-exchange-token-down-11-on-reports-of-layoffs-internal-strife-at-company/ https://u.today/crypto-giant-binance-bleeding-assets-reporthttps://cryptopotato.com/sec-objects-to-binance-us-buying-voyager-digital-for-1-billion/ https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/silvergate-capital-shares-sink-crypto-related-deposits-plunge-8-billion-3185181 https://www.reuters.com/markets/woods-ark-invest-nearly-liquidates-silvergate-capital-position-2023-01-06/ https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/01/05/bitcoin-miner-marathon-digital-pays-off-silvergate-revolving-credit/https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/01/04/indians-moved-over-38b-to-foreign-exchanges-since-crypto-tax-rules-research-study/ https://www.investopedia.com/el-salvador-bitcoin-bond-7094463 Related podcasts referred from this show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20iEEFqU6uo&list=PLBnIgIKJjojCojJveevdjMWTRfkvsJ94t&index=16 If you want to learn about bitcoin or ask us questions, sign up for free at https://www.21towers.com. Telegram: https://t.me/btc21towers 21Towers Podcast: YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBnIgIKJjojCojJveevdjMWTRfkvsJ94t Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/21towers/id1560959546 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6X2WkOg74tVQLo0C182aNv Twitter: https://twitter.com/21towersbitcoin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/btclighthouse/message

This week Marty and Matt discuss so many things that we hit the character limit in the description. - Core Scientific Files for Bankruptcy - Two FTX Execs Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges - SBF Released on $250M bond - Twitter announces policy banning nostr and other social promotion - QuadrigaCX addresses thought to be dead wake up - Greenidge Sells Hash to NYDIG to Avoid Bankruptcy - HRF Awards $325K in new grants - Zeus v0.7.0 - Alby v1.21.0 - Tails v5.8 BTCPay Server v1.7.2 - BTCPay v1.7.3 - LDK v0.0.113 - Breez Satscard Bounty - Sztorc Launches Company Focused on Drivechains - LastPass Compromised 10:19 - Merry Christmas! 14:02 - Jan 11th Bitcoin Park meetup 20:25 - Dashboard 23:13 - Nostr is doing great 30:23 - CoreSci bankrupt 49:09 - ASIC are cool 56:16 - FTX execs plead guilty 1:06:34 - Elon doesn't like privacy 1:15:47 - QuadrigaCX awakens 1:28:18 - HRF grants 1:31:12 - Shoutouts 1:37:10 - Zeus v0.7.0 1:42:43 - Alby v1.21.0 1:43:56 - Tails v5.8 1:47:02 - Btcpay Server v1.7.2 and v1.7.3 1:47:38 - LDK v0.0.113 1:47:50 - Breez Satscard bounty 1:50:47 - Paul Sztorc Layer Two Labs 1:53:54 - Last Pass security incident 1:59:00 - Shoutout to oil and gas workers 2:01:33 - Boostagrams Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins Upstream Data Blockstream IVPN Coinkite

Today's blockchain and cryptocurrency news Bitcoin is up slightly at $16,832 Ethereum is up slightly at $1,214 Binance Coin is down slightly at $249 Alameda invested $400M in Modulo Capital Visa proposes using StarkNet for automatic recurring payments. BlockFi files motion to open withdrawals. QuadrigaCX wallets awaken after 3 years Greenidge strikes deal with NYDIG, still not in the clear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"I will start with the conclusion: my piece failed. Nothing has changed. DeFi-driven blowups have continued. Therefore, in the strongest possible terms, I repeat, with humility: do not invest in non-Bitcoin crypto. Do not invest in non-Bitcoin DeFi. This is why NYDIG is a bitcoin company. Always has been, always will be." - Ross Stevens Today we take a short dive down the FTX and Alameda rabbit hole with an article put out from NYDIG and Stone Ridge that prefaces the situation with a call to action for those in the space, and then is followed by a breakdown of the events and what we know so far from Greg Cipolaro. If you are wondering what has been going on in crypto, this is a good place to start. Check out the mentioned article below written 6 months ago on the risks and potential failures of crypto and Defi with the incredible piece co-authored by Ross Stevens, Nic Carter, & Allen Farrington: https://nydig.com/on-impossible-things-before-breakfast Check out the original shareholder letter at the link below: https://nydig.com/research/through-the-looking-glass-the-ftx-and-alameda-saga Dont forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 5% off everything in the store! (guyswann.com/coldcard) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 5,000 FREE SATS at (guyswann.com/fold) • The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (swanbitcoin.com/guy) ---------------------------- “It is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.” - F.A. Hayek Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, Barclays bullish on Bitcoin mining, NYDIG raises more, Argentinian state-owned energy going to crypto mining, GBTC remains stubbornly cheap, CFTC may regulate cryptocurrencies, Strike raising more money despite us still not understanding what they do, Lightning Network continues to grow, Mashinsky was apparently up to same shady shit with Celsius apparently (whodathunk?), and Korean authorities finally taking action against Luna scammer Do Kwon.

Today I am joined by Anthony Power, an independent mining analyst. We talk about Argo Blockchain and Core Scientific's financial warnings. The day after recording, Iris Energy also announced its inability to pay for up to $103 million in ASIC financing from NYDIG. While we covered Iris' precarious financial situation, the warning was issued after we recorded this show. Anthony Power: https://twitter.com/cazenove Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Start 00:38 Intro 01:35 Argo 15:26 Core Scientific 27:26 Failure of large miners 35:00 Macro forces MINE Start mining your own bitcoins with Compass. https://bit.ly/3CehBf1 WATCH https://youtube.com/c/CompassMining?sub_confirmation=1 LISTEN Apple Podcasts https://apple.co/3fNfrdi Spotify https://spoti.fi/3tSf9G1 Amazon https://amzn.to/3557cqg Anchor https://bit.ly/3rmb7UF Fountain https://bit.ly/3NeNTec RSS https://bit.ly/3chpULV LEARN Every week, Compass sends a memo to professional miners and investors with the most important news and data in cryptocurrency mining. Get the free newsletter in your inbox too: https://bit.ly/3vOGzxD FOLLOW Twitter: https://twitter.com/compass_mining LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/compassmining

We talk about difficulty, hashprice, miners seeking relief from debt, NYDIG laying off 33% of its staff, Luxor Technologies new hashrate derivative and Braiins Stratum v2. Matt Kimmell: https://twitter.com/MatthewKimmell Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley STORIES https://data.hashrateindex.com/network-data/btc https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/08/16/bitcoin-miner-stronghold-digital-in-restructuring-negotiations-with-lenders/ https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/10/07/bitcoin-miner-argo-blockchain-raises-27m-to-ease-liquidity-pressures-shares-plunge-15/ https://compassmining.io/education/argo-blockchain-balance-sheet/ https://www.theblock.co/post/177162/nydig-laid-off-one-third-of-staff-in-september-wsj https://blockworks.co/nydig-raises-720m-for-institutional-bitcoin-fund/ https://hashrateindex.com/blog/luxor-technologies-launches-otc-bitcoin-mining-derivative/ https://twitter.com/BraiinsMining/status/1579822557788004352

This episode is sponsored by ZenGo.The most valuable crypto stories for Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. The “Hash” hosts discuss the bitcoin services company NYDIG laying off around 100 people, according to CoinDesk sources. The firm has cut approximately 30% of its staff in the past several weeks as the crypto market has soured. Crypto winter is also taking a toll on companies that man the virtual mines, which has led to cryptocurrency exchange Binance starting a lending facility for bitcoin (BTC) miners. Plus, Tether, a stablecoin issuer, announced it no longer holds commercial paper or unsecured debt to specific company holdings. And also, another hot topic, Binance starts a $500M support fund for Bitcoin mining. And Also, an interview with Sandy Carter from Unstoppable Domains. See also: Crypto Trading Firm NYDIG Lays Off About 33% of StaffUS Judge Removes Legal Firm Roche Freedman From Class Action Against Tether, Bitfinex: ReportStablecoin Issuer Tether Cuts Commercial Paper Holdings to ZeroBinance Pool Starts $500 Million Fund to Support Bitcoin Mining-This episode has been edited by Michele Musso. Our executive producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Neon Beach.”-ZenGo crypto wallet is an on-chain crypto wallet with no private key vulnerability, leveraging advanced cryptography called MPC. Get started at ZenGo.com/HASH and use code HASH to get $20 back on your first purchase of $200 or more. Terms and conditions apply. See site for details.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today's blockchain and cryptocurrency news Bitcoin is down .5% at $19,625 Ethereum is down .5% at $1327 Binance Coin is down .5% at $273 Tether says they have eliminated 30B of commercial paper from its reserves  Uniswap Labs has closed a 165M series B Binance is launching a 500M fund for bitcoin miner loans WSJ reports NYDIG lay-offs. blockchain.com and crypto.com will restrict Russian-related accounts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ahlan wa sahlan, and welcome to the 43rd edition of CoinMENA's weekly newsletter, Kalam Crypto. This week, MENA is the fastest-growing crypto region in the world, Binance chain gets hacked, and NYDIG launched an institutional bitcoin fund. All that and more, so let's dive into this week's letter, and talk crypto: The simplest and safest way to invest in crypto, sign up and start trading today with CoinMENASee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kim Kardashian was fined $1.26 Million over crypto promotion and SEC Gary Gensler rides this news to distract from SEC failures. President Biden calls on Congress to pass crypto regulations. NYDIG buys $720 Million in Bitcoin.

Michael Saylor and Microstrategy have been sued by the DC Attorney General for tax fraud, Russia warms to digital currency for international settlement, NYDIG launches Lightning accelerator and more on today's show.

Please Like, Share, and Subscribe to my channel! BING BONG. In this episode I am joined by Tone Vays (@ToneVays on Twitter) who is a former Wall Street Quant with a background in Financial Engineering, turned Bitcoiner. He is the founder of the Financial Summit, Unconfiscatable Bitcoin Conference, and the Understanding Bitcoin Conference. We get into Tone's background, the gap between traditional finance and Bitcoiners, the growing amount of in person conferences, and his take on China banning Bitcoin mining. Then we take a dive into these 6 current event stories surrounding Bitcoin and the greater macro economy: - Iran approves regulation for use of Bitcoin and shitcoins for international trade - Singapore planning legislation to decrease purchases of Bitcoin and crypto - NYDIG announces Lightning Accelerator Project: - Bitcoin Depot is going public on Nasdaq: - El Salvador Volcano Bitcoin Bonds delayed - Eurozone Inflation hits 9.1%: Follow Tone @ToneVays on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ToneVays Follow all of the conferences here: https://twitter.com/FinSummit https://twitter.com/Unconfiscatable https://twitter.com/UnderstandBit Check out Tone's YouTube page here: https://www.youtube.com/c/tonevays LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, AND SHARE THIS PODCAST Follow me on Twitter @greencandleit https://twitter.com/Greencandleit Subscribe to my newsletter: https://greencandleinvestments.substack.com/ Subscribe to my YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdvC14iR8V7MedS7ArKHNCA --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/greencandleit/support

This week Marty and Matt are joined by Adam Curry, Ryan Gentry of Lightning Labs and Grant Gilliam of Ten31 to have a Bit Block Boom rip. - DC accuses saylor and microstrategy of tax fraud - mining difficulty increases by 9.25% - mempool launches lightning explorer - nydig launches lightning accelerator - Iran approves bitcoin for imports - joinmarket v0.9.7 - lnd v0.15.1-beta - btcd v0.23.1-beta - Odell 50yrs poll 1 poll 2 - announcing rapid gossip sync - block hardware wallet update - TBD on self sovereign identity - second largest data leak in history, 800M chinese records exposed Shoutout to our sponsors: AmmoSeek Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl Upstream Data TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast Follow Odell: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

Digital Asset Market Update Q2-2022 Host Marc Nichols and returning guest Matt Kolesky, Director of Arbor Digital, present a digital asset market update for Q2 of 2022 in this special episode. They discuss the external factors affecting digital asset markets, the internal factors at play, and the current regulatory landscape. They also share a portfolio update and take a look ahead at Q3 and Q4 of this year. NYDIG's White House Executive Order Schedule Arbor Digital Quarterly Report – Q2 2022  Digital Asset Friday Update 7.8.22 Arbor Digital is a team of passionate professionals dedicated to responsibly constructing and managing digital asset portfolios by continually evaluating blockchain projects with potential. Our mission is to be the connection for Registered Investment Advisors and their clients to the world of digital assets and to educate them about the disruptive power of blockchain technology within financial services. to learn more and find out how you can #getoffzero visit https://arbordigital.io/ to book a demo or subscribe to our weekly Digital Asset Roundup. rate and review us: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Listen: Spotify Amazon Music Alexa

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What's going on in the Global Monetary System w/ Matthew Pines In Todays Episode of The Bitcoin Magazine Podcast we are joined by Matthew Pines from the Bitcoin Policy Institute. Talking about the Global Monetary System and the Fundamental Economy of the Internet Surveillance and the monetary System. Listen to the full episode for more! Lower your time preference and lock-in your BITCOIN 2023 conference tickets today! https://b.tc/conference/2023

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"The reverse of that process – a so-called “death spiral” – was inevitable. Any time the immeasurably over-levered global fiat monetary system, for whatever reason, experienced one of its periodic external shocks that skyrockets immediate demand for actual US dollar liquidity, UST investors would demand USD liquidity faster than the brittle and fundamentally flawed Terra ecosystem could provide. At some point, one UST would be worth materially less than one USD, further rattling investors and kicking off a classic bank run. Worse, with algorithmic certainty, the UST bank run would be accelerated by a corresponding hyperinflation in LUNA." - Ross Stevens, Nic Carter, Allen Farrington "A post-mortem on Terra, a pre-mortem on DeFi, and a glimpse of the madness to come." Another amazing piece from NYDIG, this one detailing out the inevitable collapse of TerraUSD/LUNA algorithmic stablecoins, and a warning about the fragility and leverage that threatens the same end for the DeFi ecosystem, to follow up with the exciting things being built on top of the Bitcoin and Lightning network stack. Dont miss this one. Some great previous reads for digging further into the ideas covered in the show: Shelling Out: The Origins of Money - https://bitcoinaudible.com/reboot-shelling-out-the-origins-of-money-nick-szabo/ Only the Strong Survive - https://open.spotify.com/episode/7u8mzgKk1nQcwpz9EjIiet?si=1b5c0272a08c4f0a Time Value of Bitcoin - https://bitcoinaudible.com/the-time-value-of-bitcoin/ For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on literally everything you buy with the Fold Card (guyswann.com/fold). Get 20% off with discount code BITCOINAUDIBLE. • Buy Bitcoin automatically and painlessly with SwanBitcoin (swanbitcoin.com/guy) • Keep your Bitcoin keys safe on the secure, open source BitBox02 (guyswann.com/bitbox). Discount code GUY gets you 5% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My friend and fellow student of money codenamed "Lester" joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the excellent book "The Twilight of Gold" by Melchior Palyi. Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUESTLester's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProgrammableTxTwitter Thread Reference: https://twitter.com/naturalmoneybtc/status/1361036765293735937BOOKThe Twilight of Gold: https://archive.org/details/twilightofgold190000paly/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Looking at Liquidity Principles in the Bitcoin Era00:04:34 Considering Global Base Money is Approximately 29.3 Trillion00:08:11 If There Was a Massive Unwind in Debt…00:13:51 There is Plenty of Sats in the Bitcoin Sea00:18:47 The Difference Between Money Supply and Purchasing Power00:21:09 NYDIG00:22:17 “It is Interest Being Bought With Money and Not Money Being Rented With Interest”00:29:52 Credit Should Incentivize and Not Hamper Productivity in Borrowers00:34:53 There Is No Need for a Planned Interest Rate00:39:14 Policy Manipulates Interest Rate Levers00:44:45 How Homes are Kept Unaffordable00:48:12 Pain Now or Pain Later: Delaying the Crippling Interest Structure00:53:42 Acknowledging Differing Viewpoints on Banking Schools00:55:30 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Yaron Brook joins me for a discussion on Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism where we discover how Reason has created progress, freedom, and the pursuit to a good life. This series will loosely follow Ayn Rand's written work "The Virtue of Selfishness."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUESTYaron's Twitter: https://twitter.com/yaronbrookYaron's Show: https://yaronbrookshow.com/The Virtue of Selfishness: http://ikesharpless.pbworks.com/f/AynRand-TheVirtueofSelfishness.pdf PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 The Differences Between Intrinsic, Objective, and Subjective Values00:07:22 Objectivism and Similarities with Austrian Theory of Economics00:13:08 Distinguishing Humans as Conceptual From Perceptual00:17:13 Language and Time are Products of Conceptual Thinking00:22:10 Go Beyond Staying Alive to Living as Human Beings00:29:48 NYDIG00:30:56 Does Rand Accept Pursuing Self-Interest by Exploiting Another?00:35:44 Governments Should Have Limited Roles; Focus on Eliminating Violence00:41:14 How Do You Express Vigilance on Governments?00:44:19 The Free Market of Currency Without Centralized Intervention00:49:58 Good and Evil Exist Because Humans Have Reason and Can Ignore Reason00:57:50 Learning to Philosophize, Think, and Create01:05:20 Consider Philosophy: “Bitcoin Can't Win Unless it Has the Right Ideas”01:12:40 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2023, pre-order your tickets now: https://b.tc/conference/2023Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Yaron Brook joins me for a discussion on Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism where we discover how Reason has created progress, freedom, and the pursuit of a good life. This series will loosely follow Ayn Rand's written work "The Virtue of Selfishness."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUESTYaron's Twitter: https://twitter.com/yaronbrookYaron's Show: https://yaronbrookshow.com/The Virtue of Selfishness: http://ikesharpless.pbworks.com/f/AynRand-TheVirtueofSelfishness.pdf PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Morality is Objectively True, Reality Snaps Back at You00:03:11 The Guide to Human Success is Constant Knowledge Acquisition and Refinement00:09:52 Discovering Reason Brings Us Out of a Mindless, Dull “Paradise”00:15:20 Reason Creates Morality With the Choice of Good and Evil00:18:50 Evil Takes Many Forms: Banishing Access to Truth00:23:47 How Governments Have Dehumanized Groups of People00:29:33 NYDIG00:30:41 For the State to Grow it Must Appeal to Anti-Reason, Fear, and Emotion00:35:53 Yaron's Concept: Separate State From Economics, Education, Healthcare, and Ideas00:40:19 Achieving The Hypothetical Concept with Better Ideas00:47:07 Is the Problem With The State or With People That Don't Reason?00:52:11 Pursue Self-Interest Without Overstepping: “Someone's Success is Not My Loss”00:56:53 Rand Linked Mathematics With the Formation of Concepts01:00:00 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mike Hill joins for me for a multi-episode exploration of the masterful book “Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals” written by best-selling author Robert Pirsig. This book may be one of the most undervalued ever written, as it proposes an alternative interpretation of reality that Pirsig calls “The Metaphysics of Quality” (MOQ). According to MOQ, reality is not made up of substance, but rather it is composed of distinct patterns of value. In a Copernican-like revolution of perspective, MOQ sheds new light on age-old debates such as moral relativism, the nature of subject-object duality, good vs. evil, science vs. religion, the importance of freedom, and the primacy of action.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMike's Website: https://www.mikehill.design/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 How the Stacked Layers of Static Value Interoperate00:01:38 The Philosopher's Stone and the Value of Archetypes00:05:50 Metaphysics of Quality and the Jungian Archetypes00:09:04 Emergence of the King Archetype and Human Consciousness00:11:44 The Necessity of Physical and Mimetic Exchange to Childhood Development00:14:39 Etymology of King and Kingdom: The Organizing Principle00:16:49 What is Light is the “Shadow” of Dynamic Quality?00:21:21 Why Pathologies are Born in Darkness00:24:14 NYDIG00:25:23 Metaphors We Live By00:28:51 Flatland and the Other Dimensions of Reality00:31:04 Plato's Cave and the Shadows of Metaphysical Principles00:33:36 “The Return” and its Relationship to “Resolution”00:36:35 Linguistic Relativity: Language Shapes Thoughts00:39:16 Categorizing Metaphors00:41:40 “What is Money?” IntroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Author James Davidson joins me for another conversation exploring topics from his prescient book “The Sovereign Individual."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUESTJames' Investment Newsletter: https://strategicinvestment.com/page/str/ PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 The Overlap of Economic, Political, and Mega-Political Games00:08:35 Considering Cyber Warfare and the Current Russia-Ukraine Turmoil00:15:33 Did Russia Not Anticipate the Suspension of SWIFT?00:20:37 Predicting Bitcoin as the Ultimate Offshore Bank00:26:20 21st Century Taxpayers "Growing Wings"00:32:14 Will Bitcoin Co-Exist With Fiat?00:37:04 “Efficiency Will Become More Important Than the Dictates of Power”00:47:06 The Scale of Violence Changes in a Cashless World00:58:37 NYDIG00:59:45 The Connection of Microbes and Technology as Mega-Political Variables01:06:16 “People Have a Way of Knowing When Their Bread is Buttered”01:11:04 Smaller, Micro-Processed Entities Will be More Efficient Than Nation-States01:23:19 How Would We Reach a Point of Dissolution?01:28:53 Pension Will Become a Lesser Factor in Decision-Making01:35:53 Bitcoin Will Transform Violence-Dependent Democracy01:41:07 Register with James for Success-Backed Forecasting01:46:55 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

James Davidson joins me to discuss themes from his book “The Sovereign Individual” that touch on mega political variables, changing powers in the world, and predictions of his about the 21st century. This conversation is a re-airing that was originally released on Real Vision.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUESTJames' Investment Newsletter: https://strategicinvestment.com/page/str/ PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Introducing James Davidson's Book “The Sovereign Individual”00:03:30 Governance Structure Scale: Gunpowder and Violence00:08:48 Rules Instead of Rulers Will Render Institutions Anachronistic00:14:32 Being Sovereign Individuals in the Era of Decentralization00:20:19 Market Forces Driven by Bitcoin Post-Industrial Capitalism00:28:40 Will Encryption Lead Us to a More Peaceful World?00:33:54 NYDIG00:35:02 States and Crony Capitalists Fight For Relevance in the Digital Age00:42:35 Modern Censorship and how “Cancel Culture" is Really Stupid00:48:09 James' Thoughts on the Accelerated Pace of Cryptocurrency Adoption00:54:14 Predicting City States and Modern Healthcare01:01:22 A Brief Discussion on James' Writing and Past Market Predictions01:07:04 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

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Brandon Quittem joins me for a discussion to deconstruct the often misunderstood relationship between energy and Bitcoin. This conversation also touches on points from Brandon's article “Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species” where he uses an ecological framework to map out the abundant future of Bitcoin mining. (apologies: we lost Robert's camera footage on this episode)Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUESTBrandon's Twitter: https://twitter.com/BquittemBrandon's Writing: https://brandonquittem.com/Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species: https://medium.com/the-bitcoin-times/bitcoin-is-a-pioneer-species-38f42ecdbb88 PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Why Use Biology and Evolution as a Lens for Bitcoin Mining?00:05:23 Energy Kickstarts Life, Wealth, and Bitcoin00:10:10 Who is the Scapegoat for Blame in an Unevenly Distributed Economy…00:15:08 “Bitcoin Mining is Everything You Don't Understand About Energy”00:20:01 Disconnecting More Energy as More Pollution00:24:31 Kearney, Nebraska: A Town Benefiting from Bitcoin Mining00:28:01 Three Unique Traits of Bitcoin Miners as Attractive First and Last Resort Energy Buyers00:35:33 How Bitcoin Miners Act as a Pioneer Species to Resurrect Deserted Land00:38:43 Complex Systems Come From Accumulated Trade and Exchange00:42:36 Traditional Cities and Network States: Parallels of Succession in Modern Society00:49:42 Bitcoin Energy Sponge: More Energy is Wasted Than Consumed on an Average Day00:56:06 The Great Spreading Out and the Concept of Self-Sovereign Network States01:03:31 NYDIG01:04:39 The Carrot to Warfare is Smaller in the World of Network States01:09:23 Bitcoin Incentives and the Moral Equivalent of War01:13:30 A Fatal Deceit is That Policy is the Only Way to Order01:18:00 The Mining Synthesis Monetizes Energy for an Abundant Future01:25:17 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mike Hill joins for me for a multi-episode exploration of the masterful book “Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals” written by best-selling author Robert Pirsig. This book may be one of the most undervalued ever written, as it proposes an alternative interpretation of reality that Pirsig calls “The Metaphysics of Quality” (MOQ). According to MOQ, reality is not made up of substance, but rather it is composed of distinct patterns of value. In a Copernican-like revolution of perspective, MOQ sheds new light on age-old debates such as moral relativism, the nature of subject-object duality, good vs. evil, science vs. religion, the importance of freedom, and the primacy of action.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMike's Website: https://www.mikehill.design/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 A Purpose of Evil is to Test the Integrity of the Good00:06:09 Christ on the Cross as Emblematic of the Dynamic Tension of Being Human00:07:37 Society Frees Individuals from the Biological Chains of Necessity00:10:28 The Dynamic Tension Between The Individual and Society00:14:35 Authoritarian Government as a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing00:16:54 Evaluating the Sovereign Individual through the Lens of MoQ00:19:55 “Every Consciousness is a Center of the Universe”00:22:16 A High Quality Socioeconomic System Assimilates a Maximal Quantity of Perspectives00:25:25 A Human Being is a Collection of Ideas…00:27:07 NYDIG00:28:15 The Dynamic Tension Between the Biological and Social Layers00:32:30 The Role of Totalitarianism in the Bootstrapping of Societies00:36:22 Conditions of Oppression as a Precursor to Liberation00:39:09 Nietzsche's Three Metamorphoses: The Camel, The Lion, and The Child00:43:17 “The Moral Equivalent of War” and Life as Disobedience to Gravity00:46:35 The Dynamic Tension Between Central Banking and Bitcoin00:51:57 What Happens after The Lion Becomes The Child?00:53:31 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

According to a report by J.P. Morgan, close to 300 banks are planning to roll out Bitcoin trading on mobile apps in the first half of 2022. Another study finds that 44% of regional and global banks will offer crypto support by the end of the year. More than ever, the share of a consumer's wallet is at risk. The question is how will banks and credit unions respond at a time when differentiation and deploying digital solutions is no longer optional? We are very fortunate to have Patrick Sells, chief innovation officer for NYDIG, back on the Banking Transformed podcast. He is joined by Stephen Bohanon, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Alkami. They will discuss the opportunities and challenges of traditional banks offering integrated Bitcoin solutions. This Episode of Banking Transformed is Sponsored by Alkami  Alkami Technology, Inc. empowers financial institutions to evolve and thrive in the new digital age of banking. Our premium digital banking platform powers regional banks and credit unions to grow confidently, innovate at speed, and adapt nimbly—all while providing a secure, frictionless experience to the consumers and businesses they serve—24/7/365.  Accelerate your digital transformation journey with Alkami today. Visit alkami.com for more.  

Tuur Demeester joins me for a conversation on philosophy, argumentation ethics, and the 4 causes of conflict and universal solutions in relation to property and self-ownership. Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUESTTuur's Twitter: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeesterTuur's Writing: https://tuurdemeester.medium.com/ PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Are We Philosophical or Philosophers?00:06:41 Tuur Reflects on How Philosophy and Bitcoin Entered His Life00:13:42 “The Most Painful Thing to Lose Are Illusions”00:20:20 Touching on the Root of Fiat as an Expression of Fear00:23:20 Tuur Demystifies the Way to Study Philosophy00:27:48 Reading is Not Page 1 to Page 100: Deviate, Target, Access Multiple Sources00:34:26 The Value of Books That Are Not Bestsellers00:38:16 Where Does Knowledge Go if it is Only Thought and Not Conveyed…00:44:21 Defining the Philosophy of Law Ties in With Political Philosophy00:49:40 Touching on the Paradox of Contract and Conflict00:52:55 Philosophers Behind Argumentation Ethics and the Universal Causes of Conflict00:56:05 Fighting Over a Steak: 4 Causes of Conflict and 4 Universal Solutions Explained01:03:44 Applying Universal Solutions to Humanize Political Factions01:07:15 Left/Right is a Useful Fiction for the Collective Narrative, Not the Individual01:11:41 Scale Variance of Compassion and Unity in Human Society01:15:20 Cultural vs. Individual Software: One is Necessary, One is Self-Autonomy01:25:34 Do We Self-Program to Fear or Reciprocal Love?01:28:53 NYDIG01:30:00 Revisiting Fiat as an Expression of Fear01:33:50 Property in Relation to Individual Self-Ownership: Are We Self-Owned?01:42:53 The Printing Press Revolution Undermined Knowledge via Dialogue01:45:50 Arguing Against Self-Ownership is Arguing For Self-Ownership01:51:12 Navigating the Territory of Property in a Collective Setting01:56:10 Revisiting the Paradox of Contract and Conflict with Consensus02:03:44 Bitcoin as a Proxy for Universal Solutions That Shrinks Conflict Space02:07:39 “What is Money?” OutroHighlight (00:56:05) to (1:03:44)SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

My friend and fellow student of money codenamed "Lester" joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the excellent book "The Twilight of Gold" by Melchior Palyi.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTLester's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProgrammableTxBOOKThe Twilight of Gold: https://archive.org/details/twilightofgold190000paly/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 The Role of Short-Term Capital During the Gold Exchange Standard00:06:01 The Nature of Self-Liquidating Loan Instruments00:08:24 “We are Walking the Currency Toward the Graveyard”00:10:44 The Liquidity Principles of Banking00:14:19 The Emergence of Elongated Debt Maturation Structures00:19:06 Debt Restructuring as a Means of Delaying and Exacerbating Volatility00:20:07 NYDIG00:21:15 Debt Restructuring Hiding Many Modern Financial Problems00:24:57 The Political Convenience of Debt Restructuring00:28:40 “Every Monetary System Will Always Be Under Attack…”00:32:16 People are Always, Everywhere Looking for Every Loophole to Exploit00:37:00 Liquidity is the Real Social Safety Net; Bailouts are a Scam00:41:27 The Two Big Sources of Inflation in the World: Governments and Bank Credit00:43:39 The “Lender of Last Resort” Model Destroys the Real Social Safety Net00:46:51 The Self-Defeating Nature of Aiming at Price Stability…00:47:36 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Yaron Brook joins me for a discussion on Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism where we discover how Reason has created progress, freedom, and the pursuit to a good life. This series will loosely follow Ayn Rand's written work "The Virtue of Selfishness."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUESTYaron's Twitter: https://twitter.com/yaronbrookYaron's Show: https://yaronbrookshow.com/The Virtue of Selfishness: http://ikesharpless.pbworks.com/f/AynRand-TheVirtueofSelfishness.pdfPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Introducing Ayn Rand's Virtue of Selfishness00:06:00 To Be Or Not To Be: The “Is” and “Ought” On Leading A Good Life00:09:55 Inducing Principles of Ethics from the Post-Industrial Revolution00:14:18 A Permissionless Society Creates Freedom and Innovation00:19:42 Reason Reveals Itself in the 18th Century00:23:11 The Flywheel Effect of a Free and Flourishing Society00:29:46 NYDIG00:30:55 A Moral Life is One That Pursues Self-Interest00:33:14 Reason is Objectivity: Observe, Deconstruct, Abstract, and Manipulate00:39:30 “The Price of Freedom is Constant Vigilance”00:45:45 When Force is Applied Reason Becomes Obedience00:49:52 An Ideal Society of Operationalized Individual Rights00:53:26 Rights are the Freedom of Action for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness00:57:09 Living is a Long-Term Project in the Good Place01:02:37 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Social scientist Hotep Jesus joins me to share his thoughts on how society has been steadily fed a pre-fabricated narrative and how he uses desire, discipline, and direction to reshape his own. Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTHotep's Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotepJesusHotep's Website: https://bryansharpe.co/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Why Emotionally Charged News Hook Better Than Facts00:05:30 The Standard Narrative of Pop Culture and Education00:10:49 Culture Influences Economics Which Informs Social Change00:13:45 Are We Creating a Less Intelligent Generation?00:17:05 Is Standard Education Part of a Long-Term Power Control Structure?00:21:35 Advice From an Autodidact: “Live Like Somebody Is Taking Away Your Time”00:24:10 Understand General Health and You Understand the Economy00:27:06 Communism: Take an Emotional Argument and Weaponize It00:32:13 NYDIG00:33:20 “The Power to Change the Rules is the Power to Win in Perpetuity”00:37:24 Would You Rather Create Your Boardroom or be a Player?00:47:56 Build Desire and Discipline But Always Follow Direction00:53:52 “If You Don't Have Self-Discipline, Someone Else Will Discipline You”00:56:35 The “Money Man” of History Has Always Played the People01:02:15 Demonstrate Don't Explicate: Build Yourself Instead of Arguing01:06:08 "What is Money?" OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mike Hill joins for me for a multi-episode exploration of the masterful book “Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals” written by best-selling author Robert Pirsig. This book may be one of the most undervalued ever written, as it proposes an alternative interpretation of reality that Pirsig calls “The Metaphysics of Quality” (MOQ). According to MOQ, reality is not made up of substance, but rather it is composed of distinct patterns of value. In a Copernican-like revolution of perspective, MOQ sheds new light on age-old debates such as moral relativism, the nature of subject-object duality, good vs. evil, science vs. religion, the importance of freedom, and the primacy of action.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMike's Website: https://www.mikehill.design/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Seeing Quality or Excellence as the Ultimate Reality00:06:07 Human Egotism and Our Failure to Understand the Universe…00:09:01 The Connection Between Quality and Resolution00:12:52 Money as the Most Dynamic Static Representation of Value00:14:59 An Excellent Performance Exists as the Bleeding Edge of Order and Chaos00:17:23 The Pioneers Taking Arrows in the Back in Pursuit of Excellence00:20:02 NYDIG00:21:10 Analogizing Metaphysical Perspective to Selecting the Right Map for the Job00:24:55 Metaphysics of Quality and its Role in the Destruction of Moral Relativism00:28:59 Introducing Pirsig's Platypus Paradox…00:32:12 The Platypus Blew Out Biological Categories and Led to a Procrustean Bed00:35:51 Light as a Phenomenological Representation of Pure Dynamic Quality00:38:03 “The Whole World as a Marketplace of Kingdoms within Kingdoms within Kingdoms…”00:40:19 Life as a Strategy Stack with an Overarching Aim of Territoriality00:43:37 Property as an Abstract Expression of the Extended Human PhenotypeSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Economist Denise Hearn joins me for an in-depth conversation that delves into the many faces of the economy and value—we discuss the slippery definitions of wealth, cognitive awareness, and how these concepts relate to the individual.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTDenise's Twitter: https://twitter.com/denisehearn_Denise's Newsletter: https://embodied-economics.ghost.io PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Introducing Denise's Work on Anti-Monopoly00:03:12 Traditional Proxies of Economic Value and Power00:10:10 Downward and Upward Causations in Markets00:14:55 Internal Influences External: How Societal Values Shape Cities00:21:21 A Blind Man and a Moth: Extending the Cognitive World Beyond the Human Body00:28:22 Deciphering Real and Unreal in a World of Schrödinger's Cat00:35:05 Using Rational Choice Theory Why Would Someone Buy a Purse Made of Trash?00:41:52 Dissecting Physical Power and Political Power00:48:34 Growthless Asset Maximization: How Companies Make Money00:53:49 Concentrated Industries and Monopoly Puts Power in Fewer Hands00:57:58 Is it too Simplistic to Create Policies Around a Core Productivity Metric?01:05:28 Incentivizing Consumption By Placing a Tax on Currency01:11:06 Centralization and Decentralization: The Systole and Diastole of Human History01:18:28 Bitcoin Incentivizes Wealth Acquisition via Self-Production01:22:23 Are Bitcoin and Smart Contracts a Window to a New Governance Model?01:27:47 NYDIG01:28:54 “Bitcoin is Optimized for the Self-Interest of Holders”01:33:05 Trust as a Concept for the Meta-Narratives of Our System01:43:08 Do We Act Out of Self-Interest or for the Collective Benefit?01:47:57 How Would We Implement the Building Blocks of an Optimized Collective?01:52:44 Identifying the Proxy for Wealth as Knowledge and Capital02:00:09 Measuring Productivity and the Individual: Is it still of Value if it is Unseen?02:04:44 Is Life Happening Within a Simulation02:11:08 Questioning Life Detracts from What it Means to Be Alive02:16:02 "What is Money?" OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

My friend and fellow student of money codenamed "Lester" joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the excellent book "The Twilight of Gold" by Melchior Palyi.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTLester's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProgrammableTxBOOKThe Twilight of Gold: https://archive.org/details/twilightofgold190000paly/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Summarizing the Intricacies of the Gold Standard00:05:48 Interest Rate Manipulation and the “Race to Debase”00:09:53 Monetary Manipulation and the Inevitability of Balance of Trade Breakdowns00:15:11 The US Dollar Hegemony and the Evisceration of its Domestic Industrial Economy00:19:32 When Money is Sound, Economic Organization is Largely Apolitical00:22:53 The Inflexibility of the Gold Standard Gave Banks the Freedom to Operate Sustainably00:27:06 Is the Prevalence of Debt is Inverse to the Portability of Money?00:32:06 Commercial Debt as a “Tokenization” of the Delivery of Products and Services00:34:57 World War 1 as an Accelerant to the Politicization of Money00:40:16 NYDIG00:41:24 A Radical Shift in Schelling Points from a Gold to a Fiat Standard00:46:17 The Modern Specter of Both Inflation and Deflation…00:49:49 Exploring an Inflection Point from an Old to a New Monetary System00:56:00 How a Market for Borrowing Will Emerge on a Bitcoin Standard…01:02:07 The Advantage of a Liquid Money Market01:07:22 Saved Capital is a Narrower Limit on Production than Knowledge and Technology01:10:45 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Comedian and YouTube star JP Sears joins me for a freestyle conversation on the principle of freedom, how we must safeguard it, and why it is indispensable to life lived fully.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTJP's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AwakenWithJPJP's Website: https://awakenwithjp.com/Zion Network: https://www.getzion.com/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Bringing Life, Liberty, and Property into the New Paradigm00:03:46 “A Jail You Don't Know You're In”: What is Mass Formation Psychosis?00:08:30 “Inflation is Legalized Counterfeiting; Counterfeiting is Criminalized Inflation”00:11:35 The Incentive Blindness Surrounding Fiat00:15:55 Are We the Victims to a Morally Camouflaged State?00:21:43 Kill the Jester, Kill the Truth00:28:35 Bypassing the Defenses of Our Opposition with Comedy00:33:31 Identifying and Breaking From the Trance in Our Lives00:38:12 The Twisting Morality of Our Institutions00:45:07 JP Recalls the Moment He Knew He Had to Safeguard Freedom00:48:55 NYDIG00:50:02 “There's Plenty Worse Than Death”: Violation of Freedom, Submission to Control00:55:42 Those Who are Not Threatened by Death Will Appreciate Life01:00:01 Fear Enslaves Us to Control; Do Something That Provokes Fear01:11:18 Freedom Convoy Case and Decentralized Networks Like Zion01:20:00 JP's Thoughts on Bitcoin From a Pyramid Scheme to Becoming “An Answer”01:21:40 Joe Rogan Case Study: How Zion Functions on Non-Censorship and Self-SovereigntySOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Indonesian Bitcoin specialist and educator Dea Rezkitha joins me for an in-depth conversation into how money has shaped historic political and economic power structures in Indonesia. Dea also looks forward to how Bitcoin can provide people with self-agency and greater resilience.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTDea's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dearezkithaDea's Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dearezkithaDea's Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/26NeuEmwYtb3iMnp2IFKyp?si=a34a81ad7a6342afKelas Bitcoin: https://kelasbitcoin.com/My Bitcoin Story: http://bit.ly/MyBitcoinStoryPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Kelas Bitcoin as an Indonesian-centric Resource for Bitcoin Newbies and Enthusiasts00:03:47 Dalio's Framework of The Big Cycle: Rises and Declines of Big Empires00:09:47 Money as a Factor and Tool in the Changing World Order00:12:16 The History of Indonesia as a Trading Port00:17:37 How the Dutch Gained Control By Establishing VOC as the First Publicly Traded Company00:22:00 NYDIG00:23:08 How VOC as a Sovereign Power Built the Boats to Riches00:28:55 Exploitation Using Short-Term Incentives To Create More Plantation Workers00:33:32 “If You Can Control The Money, You Can Sculpt History”00:40:35 Indonesia Transitioning From a Dutch Colony to the Japanese Occupation00:51:40 Destabilizing the Indonesian Rupiah to Reclaim it as a Colony00:58:17 Economic Consequences of Indonesia Having To Pay a 4.9 Billion Dutch War Debt01:05:42 Constant Debasement of Rupiah Creates Hyperinflation of 500% in 196601:10:55 The State Grows while Money Associated with Capitalism Declines01:14:58 Foreign Investment Opens with Cascades of Corruption and Control01:19:53 “Life Finds a Way”: The Dynamic Nature of Markets During Booms and Busts01:24:48 1997-98 Mark Larger Economic Contractions, Civil Unrest, and Political Fallout01:28:54 Production vs. Consumption: Indonesia as a Microcosm of The Big Cycle01:34:34 Post-Asian Financial Crisis and the Next Changing Order Away From Fiat01:40:15 60% Unbanked in Indonesia: A Hole That Bitcoin Can Fill01:43:51 Bitcoin is Boring Money: Safe, Resistant, and Harder to Confiscate01:50:46 Indonesia is at a Crossroads Between CBDC and BitcoinSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Welcome back to another episode of Empire's Weekly Roundup. The Weekly Roundup airs every Friday morning with Jason Yanowitz and co-host, Santiago Roel Santos. In today's weekly roundup Jason & Santiago discuss the Bitwise Blue-Chip NFT Index Fund, Shopify & Nike entering crypto, NYDIG raising $1 Billion, Elizabeth Warren's negative comments on DeFi, PleasrDAO buying an NFT of Wikipedia's First Edit for $750K, Preston Pysh's M2 supply growth thread and so much more! Wikipedia NFT: https://www.christies.com/features/First-Wikipedia-edit-to-be-sold-as-NFT-11983-1.aspx?sc_lang=en&lid=1 Preston Pysh thread: https://twitter.com/santiagoroel/status/1471066014494429184?s=20 -- Empire's Weekly Roundup is brought to you by Blockworks, a financial media brand delivering breaking news and premium insights about digital assets to millions of investors. For more content like this, subscribe to Blockworks' free daily newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ Follow me and Santiago on Twitter, @JasonYanowitz and @santiagoroel; let us know what you thought of the show!