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Read_713 - How the Fed "Went Broke" [Lyn Alden]
"The financial system in the United States, and for most of the rest of the world for that matter, can basically be thought of...

Chat_79 - The Spirit of Bitcoin with John Vallis
I joined John today for an over 2 hour rip on the nature of Bitcoin, numerous technical developments, the trade offs of those in...

Guy's Take #64 - No Way Back, Only a Way Out
There is no magic wand. There is no such thing as a free lunch. When we bail out an institution, a bank, or "depositors"...
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Read_712 - Lightning Prisms [DerGigi]
"One aspect that is still massively under-utilized is the programmability of Bitcoin. While simple things like scheduled payments and automated payment splits do exist,...
![Read_711 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 2 [Matthew Pines]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740750/c1a-9mg94-zo5nzjxkt37k-dqceu7.jpg)
Read_711 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 2 [Matthew Pines]
"One immediate lesson many drew from this event was a reconsideration of the risk of fiat liabilities in an environment where trust is lacking...
![Read_710 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 1 [Matthew Pines]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740751/c1a-9mg94-ddkn6qwxcvrr-6vc0ql.jpg)
Read_710 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 1 [Matthew Pines]
"The 20th century was the first where technology enabled forms of violent state competition, as well as peaceful globalization, across the full scale of...