#266: Complacency in the US, reworking public education, and changing the system from within w/ Blake Masters

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Blake Masters, COO of Thiel Capital - President of The Thiel Foundation - Running for US Senate in Arizona, to discuss:

- Why leave the private sector for the Senate?

- What policies are important to focus on?

- Complacency in the US

- The pitfalls of public education

- Energy policy

- Balkanization

- Bitcoin Permanent Funds

- much more

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What is up for you?
0:01.0	It's your boy, Marty Ben, here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crypt.
0:04.0	I had the immense pleasure of sitting now with Blake Masters, individual running for Senate out of the state of Arizona.
0:13.0	He's coming from the private sector.
0:15.0	He's the CEO of Teal Capital and the president of the Teal Foundation.
0:18.0	We jump into a lot of philosophical conversations about the state of America and the best path forward,
0:25.5	everything that's going on in the country from education, border control, international geopolitics,
0:34.8	Bitcoin, energy policy.
0:36.6	We hit it all.
0:38.3	Hope you guys enjoy it. This rip was brought to you by our good friends at the motherfucking
0:41.3	Cashup.
0:43.3	Cash up.
0:44.3	Cash up, you stack sats, send sats, receive sats and sell sats, if you so please.
0:49.3	Or say, sats, sats, sats, sets, sets are the standard.
0:57.1	There's 100 million sats in one whole Bitcoin, not to buy a whole Bitcoin.
0:59.8	You do not have to buy a fraction of Bitcoin.
1:00.9	You can stack whole sats.
1:02.6	Instead, cash app makes it very easy.
1:03.9	You can DCA in the sats.
1:05.6	That's dollar cost average.
1:10.0	You set a set amount and you buy daily weekly or biweekly.
1:13.3	Cash app also has their boost program,
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