40 - WTF Happened in 2020? | Meltem Demirors
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🗓️ 23 November 2020
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40 - WTF Happened in 2020? | Meltem Demirors
Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of Coinshares... former Vice President of the Digital Currency Group, advocated for crypto in front of Congress... and overall badass.
Meltem wants to answer the question 'WTF Happened in 2020', specifically as it relates to monetary policy from the Federal Reserve, economic forces that result from a top-heavy pension and social welfare system, as well as how COVID impacts financial decision-making.
This is our first video-podcast, because Meltem brought RECEIPTS. She has DATA and CHARTS and FIGURES to show!
We also turn to a discussion on Bitcoin vs Ethereum identity and in-group, out-group dynamics, and have a jovial discussion regarding tribalistic affairs.
Hope you enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | This is Ryan Sean Adams. I'm here with David Hoffman and we're here to help you become |
| 0:28.1 | more bankless. David, we're doing this video a lot. So I can see you've got a big smile on |
| 0:32.8 | your face, man. What are you smiling about? Yeah, it's just funny to actually see you read |
| 0:36.9 | out the intro. I've never seen you or seen you read, uh, whoa, whoa, read. That was a memory |
| 0:42.0 | did. I've never seen you do it from memory. But yeah, you guys, we are doing our first video |
| 0:47.8 | podcast. And that's because we brought on Melton Demears, who brought the receipts. She |
| 0:53.2 | brought the tables. She has the data. And so we had to do this podcast in a video form. |
| 0:58.0 | So that we can see what's going on. And so if you are listening to this on the regular |
| 1:02.1 | podcast, that's totally fine. You're not going to miss too much. However, do know that there |
| 1:06.3 | is stuff to look at on the YouTube as well. If you want to follow along. This was just |
| 1:11.9 | a fun conversation. I mean, like for Americans at least, it is a holiday week when we're releasing |
| 1:18.3 | this. It's a good one to listen to during the holidays because it's, uh, it's kind of |
| 1:21.8 | fun. And we start maybe, I don't know if we start serious, but anyway, we start with |
| 1:26.6 | this whole macro case. And Melton brought the data, as you said, brought the receipts, |
| 1:31.4 | brought the slides to make the energy and the energy to make the case that everything |
| 1:37.3 | is new again. And this is something we've talked about on bank lists. And we probably |
| 1:42.7 | like the first part of this conversation, it was probably like 100% alignment, right? |
| 1:48.5 | But then the second part of this conversation is where things get a little fun, things |
| 1:52.8 | get a little spicy because there were some points where we, we disagreed on. And she |
| 1:59.6 | was happy to like call us out on things or disagree with our perspectives. And then we |
| 2:06.6 | pushed back. And I feel like we got to a really interesting conversation that the community |
| 2:11.7 | doesn't often hear from somebody who is not, Melton is not a Bitcoin maximalist, but |
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