#1078 Sergej Kotliar On Why Bitcoin Is Not Close To Global Adoption
The Pomp Podcast
Anthony Pompliano
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Sergej Kotliar is the CEO of Bitrefill. In this conversation, we discuss the Circular Economy, Bitcoin the tool vs. Bitcoin the monetary movement, if the lightning network is overated, and all of the hypocrisies that exist in the Bitcoin maximalism space. ======================= Valour (formerly DeFi Technologies) represents what’s next in the digital economy -- providing simplified, trusted access to crypto, decentralized finance and Web 3.0 investment opportunities. Institutions and investors can gain diversified, secure, compliant, and easily tradable access to a diversified set of industry-leading equity products and protocols, through a single stock purchase on a regulated exchange. Currently listed on U.S. (OTC: DEFTF) and Canadian (NEO:DEFI) exchanges. For more information or to subscribe to receive company updates and financial information, visit our website at valour.com ======================= BCB Group is the leading payment services partner for the digital assets industry. BCB Group provides payment services in 30+ currencies, FX, cryptocurrency liquidity, digital asset custody and BLINC, which is BCB’s free, instant settlements network for the BCB client ecosystem. Find out more by visiting bcbgroup.com/pomp ======================= Compass Mining is the world's first online marketplace for bitcoin mining hardware and hosting. Compass was founded with the goal of making it easy for everyone to mine bitcoin. Visit https://compassmining.io/ to start mining bitcoin today! ======================= Exodus is leading the world out of the traditional financial system by building beautiful and user-friendly blockchain products. With its focus on design and user experience, Exodus has become one of the most popular and loved cryptocurrency apps. It’s supported on both desktop and mobile, allowing you to sync your wallet across multiple devices so you can have access to your funds anywhere. You can instantly exchange around 100 different cryptocurrencies straight from your wallet. Interactive charts let you view an asset’s price history and your portfolio’s performance over time. And maybe the best part, Exodus is integrated with the Trezor hardware wallet - making advanced security easy for everyone. Visit exodus.com/pomp for your free download or search Exodus on the App Store or Playstore. ======================= LMAX Digital - the market-leading solution for institutional crypto trading & custodial services - offers clients a regulated, transparent and secure trading environment, together with the deepest pool of crypto liquidity. LMAX Digital is also a primary price discovery venue, streaming real-time market data to the industry’s leading analytics platforms. LMAX Digital - secure, liquid, trusted. Learn more at LMAXdigital.com/pomp =======================
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp |
| 0:07.4 | podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Now let's kick this thing off. Sergey Cotlier is the CEO of |
| 0:13.9 | Bit Refil. In this conversation, we talk about the importance of a circular economy. How exactly the |
| 0:19.4 | Bitcoin economy should learn from other circular economies? |
| 0:22.8 | What the difference between Bitcoin the movement and Bitcoin the tool is and why Bitcoin maximalists |
| 0:28.0 | need to understand that there's a lot of nuance in the world. I really enjoyed this conversation |
| 0:32.5 | with Sergey, and I hope that you guys enjoy it as well. Let's jump into this one and let me know |
| 0:36.9 | what you think when you're done listening. |
| 0:38.7 | Anthony Pompliano runs Pomp Investments. |
| 0:41.3 | All views of him and the guests on his podcast are surely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Pomp Investments. |
| 0:47.9 | You should not treat any opinion expressed by Pomp or his guest as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a |
| 0:54.9 | particular strategy, but only as an expression of his personal opinion. This podcast is for |
| 1:00.0 | informational purposes only. All right, guys, bang, bang, I've got Sergey here with me. I thought |
| 1:04.8 | a great place that we could start this conversation was around the importance of a circular economy. |
| 1:09.1 | You gave a speech recently on Pizza Day, |
| 1:12.4 | and I thought that that specific topic could use some more elaboration. |
| 1:17.3 | And so maybe explain what is a circular economy |
| 1:19.2 | and why is it so important in the context of Bitcoin? |
| 1:22.0 | Right. |
| 1:25.0 | Well, whatever vision, I think, that you may have for Bitcoin, for cryptocurrency, whatever |
| 1:33.9 | it is, like all of the benefits of it only really start to materialize in a big way in a world |
| 1:41.6 | where money circulates within the internet layer, right? |
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