#407: FedNow is not a CBDC with Matthew Mežinskis
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
Sitting down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q4 2022 Monetary Base update, the banking crisis, CBDCs, and more
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9:14 - Q4 update, just in time for Q1
13:32 - Bitcoin price
22:29 - The results of raising interest
24:42 - Bond duration risk
32:30 - QE5
34:40 - Choke Point 2.0
38:14 - Balaji's price prediction
46:53 - FedNow
55:04 - CDBC destroying big banks
1:00:09 - US state rights
1:05:21 - Flaring natural gas
1:11:00 - Blood in the water, Bitcoin is the way out
1:19:18 - Custodia Bank
1:27:17 - Black markets and civil disobedience
1:31:09 - Monetary base
1:39:09 - Back to CBDCs
1:45:33 - Bitcoin's rank in monetary base
1:47:22 - We're gonna win
1:59:39 - Gold and Silver
2:06:19 - Wrapping up
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| 0:00.0 | What's up freaks? |
| 0:07.5 | Howdy. |
| 0:09.0 | It's wartime out there. |
| 0:12.8 | Sat back down with Maddie Mazinxious and crypto voices from Porcopolis economics. |
| 0:20.5 | For quarterly update, Q4, 2022, |
| 0:24.7 | but obviously we talked a lot about everything going on |
| 0:27.5 | in the banking system right now. |
| 0:30.7 | A lot of charts in this one. |
| 0:32.8 | I think Matt did a incredible job of verbally describing the charts. |
| 0:38.6 | But if you want to actually see the charts, recommend you go over to YouTube, put this on |
| 0:45.2 | Twitter, if you're on Spotify, you can watch the video, have it on Rumble and Bitcoin TV as |
| 0:49.9 | well, if you want the charts. |
| 0:51.2 | But again, I think Matthew did a great job of describing what was on |
| 0:55.9 | the screen at the point in time. And we'll link to this thread where a lot of these charts can be |
| 1:02.9 | found as well. Haven't read Boost in a few weeks. Sorry, Freaks, been very busy. But we'll get to it. |
| 1:10.1 | Rift 406 debt-based colonialism and |
| 1:13.2 | structural adjustment with Alex Gladstein. At Eric 9-9, 50,000 sats. Great rip. Thank you, Eric. Appreciate it. |
| 1:21.2 | At BFG 86, 5,000 stats prediction. 10 years from now, Alex will win the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1:27.1 | and we'll be referring |
| 1:28.1 | to him as Sir Alex. Would be pretty cool. At Kirill Sukov, 1,000 sats, heart emoji. And at |
| 1:38.5 | Girt, 1,000 sats, peace sign emoji. Thank you for the boost on rip 406. We're going to rip 405 as well. |
| 1:47.2 | The Biden laptop report with Garrett Ziegler, spicy one. I think an important one. |
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