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#171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin

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Lex Fridman

Technology, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Science

4.713.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 189 minutes

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Anthony Pompliano is an entrepreneur, investor, writer, and podcaster on topics of decentralized finance. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:54) – Army
(16:35) – Iraq
(24:14) – Will there always be war?
(31:27) – Bitcoin maximalism
(39:56) – Money is a belief system
(42:27) – Bitcoin
(46:03) – Censorship
(50:35) – Bitcoin as main currency
(59:27) – Scarcity creates value
(1:01:08) – Money is time
(1:09:34) – Eric Weinstein vs Bitcoin Community
(1:23:23) – Ray Dalio
(1:40:31) – Bitclout
(1:43:43) – How to get Bitcoin
(1:54:28) – Investing
(2:05:05) – Volatility
(2:18:08) – Philosophy of the meme
(2:28:03) – Dogecoin
(2:37:33) – NFTs
(2:43:21) – Virtual reality
(2:48:17) – AI
(2:54:18) – Bitcoin resources
(2:58:44) – Book recommendations
(3:01:22) – Can money buy happiness?
(3:03:16) – Meaning of life

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following is a conversation with Anthony Pompliano, entrepreneur, technology investor,

0:05.7

prolific writer, podcaster, and Twitter user on topics of finance, cryptocurrency, technology

0:12.2

and economics.

0:13.5

I highly recommend his popular podcast and daily letter called the pump podcast and the

0:21.0

pump letter.

0:22.6

Quick thank you to our sponsors, TheraGun Muscle Recovery Device, SunBasket Meal Delivery

0:27.7

Service, ExpressVPN and indeed hiring website.

0:32.2

Click their links to support this podcast.

0:35.3

As a side note, let me say that I'll be having many conversations in the coming months

0:40.2

about cryptocurrency with people of all kinds of backgrounds and worldviews.

0:45.2

Those who are proponents of Bitcoin, like Anthony, Nick Carter, Robert Breedlove, Alex

0:51.3

Glastine and many others.

0:53.6

And those who are proponents of other cryptocurrency technologies, like Vitalik Buterin, Charles

0:59.2

Hoskinson, Richard Hart, Sergei Nazarov, Sylvia McColley and many others as well.

1:05.4

I'm not framing this as a debate.

1:07.6

I'm simply looking to explore exciting ideas in the space of technologies that could very

1:13.5

well change human civilization and a GI civilization as well.

1:19.7

I appreciate that some communities are a bit more intense in their style of communication

1:24.8

and others.

1:26.2

But I personally am only interested in open-minded, respectful collaboration and exploring ideas.

1:32.9

I personally try to approach conversations by considering that I may be wrong about

1:39.5

everything and I'm looking to learn.

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