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#569: Building A Scaling Solution For Bitcoin With Alex Bergeron
Marty sits down with Alex Bergeron to discuss Ark Labs.
Alex on Twitter: https://x.com/bergealex4
Ark Labs: https://arklabs.to/
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Will the strategic reserve stop soft forks?
15:50 - Unchained
16:50 - Ark
25:10 - Zaprite & SOTE
26:43 - How Ark works
1:03:57 - Product market fit
1:13:31- Things take time to build
1:20:31 - Meta protocols
1:26:35 - Wrap up
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1:29:18
#568: Building A Way Around Govt Digital ID with John Carvalho
Marty sits down with John Carvalho to discuss his BIP on bitcoin units and an update on Pubky.
Links:
https://pubky.app/
https://pubky.org/
https://x.com/BitcoinErrorLog
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - John's BIP
10:16 - Millisats
14:30 - Unchained
15:30 - Optimizing against govt controlled btc
22:30 - OP_VAULT and fork consensus
36:53 - Zaprite & SOTE
38:26 - Pubky
45:21 - Government digital ID
54:10 - Nostr's vs X vs Bluesky
1:00:00 - Why Nostr needs an ID solution
1:03:13 - Atomic Economy
1:08:08 - Tether
1:12:15 - Bitfinex stolen coins
1:14:13 - MSTR
1:21:20 - Core dev incentives
1:25:39 - John's hot take history
1:29:29 - Bluesky culture
1:33:15 - Giving people what they don’t know they want
1:35:52 - Wrapup
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#567: You’ve Been Lied To Your Whole Life! with WAR MODE
Marty and Will Cole sit down to orange pill Bill and Spud from WAR MODE.
WAR MODE: https://warmode.libsyn.com/
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Here to be orange pilled
4:35 - Don’t F up the money
11:03 - Unchained
12:04 - Early bitcoin and basic value prop
17:07 - Inflation lies
25:09 - How we got to the modern system
31:19 - Zaprite & SOTE
32:52 - Bitcoin’s good for everyone and everything’s good for bitcoin
40:27 - Bitcoin, not blockchain
47:30 - Monetization & Triffin dilemma
50:21 - Mining, energy and the halving
56:52 - Fixing the money
1:00:38 - What miners and nodes do
1:10:42 - Emergent organization and early internet
1:15:01 - Bitcoin storage and risks of bank custody
1:24:32 - Big banks are far more criminal than bitcoin users
1:28:11 - The financial system is a web of lies
1:38:31 - Bitcoin is the white pill, it’s never too late
1:51:19 - F you money beats censorship
1:59:13 - The only winning move is to play
2:07:30 - Volatility - Weimar gold
2:09:11 - Bitcoin lending and regulatory attack
2:16:27 - China ban and Texas energy
2:21:41 - Q
2:23:54 - Divine intervention
2:28:52 - Conspiracy theories
2:34:49 - Freeing the enslaved American people
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2:46:09
Bitcoin Alpha E005: Why Quantum Computing Can't Kill Bitcoin with Matt Corallo
The Ten31 crew sit down with Matt Corallo to talk about Google's Willow quantum chip.
0:00 - Disclaimer
0:24 - Matt Corallo addresses the quantum chip scare
34:19 - Expected value calculation in quantum scenario
45:34 - Bitcoin MENA and nation state adoption
56:45 - Bitcoinization of finance
1:02:18 - MSTR
1:11:00 - Yield is a scary word in bitcoin
1:17:35 - 100k milestone
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1:20:48
#566: Q3 2024 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis
Marty sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q3 2024 monetary base update.
Matthew on Twitter: https://x.com/1basemoney
Porkopolis Economics: https://www.porkopolis.io/
0:00 - Intro
0:36- ATH, 4 currencies left in the way
4:50 - The Trump wave
10:44 - chart - Getting gold/btc on Fed balance sheet
24:20 - Unchained
25:11 - Optimally acquiring strategic reserve
30:38 - Zaprite & SOTE
32:11 - Triffin Dilemma and spending cuts
38:55 - How hard money helps central banks
43:23 - Yield curve/Fed policy mismatch
49:22 - Russian bitcoin
54:26 - Trump's cabinet and Scott Bessent
58:16 - Supercycle?
1:05:51 - Power curve
1:08:55 - Saylor's convertible notes
1:1545 - Base money
1:25:29 - Breton Woods 2.0?
1:42:30 - Fiat money exponential growth
1:46:44 - Job market
1:52:39 - Bitcoin Lindy effect
2:01:00 - Wrap up
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