#504: Bitcoin Is More American Than The Dollar with Parker Lewis
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Marty sits down with Parker Lewis to discuss how fiat money corrupts the structure of the US government and how bitcoin fixes this.
Parker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/parkeralewis
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Welcome back to Tales From The Fridge
1:49 - US/Japan swap line
7:32 - Dollar is undermining the US
10:14 - Sponsors 1
11:30 - Framing bitcoin and the dollar correctly
17:37 - Importance of America’s government structure
26:59 - Hamilton describing the slippery slope
34:46 - Self-funding uniparty
41:44 - Sponsors 2
43:21 - Owning the frame
52:43 - How bitcoin decentralizes power
1:03:07 - Sticking to truth
1:14:00 - Final message
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| 0:00.0 | This rip of TFTC was brought to you by River. |
| 0:07.5 | It's the best place to buy Bitcoin. |
| 0:09.7 | Go to river.com slash TFTC and enjoy this episode. You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free. |
| 0:24.7 | If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts. |
| 0:30.3 | So it's all acting like safe haven. |
| 0:32.5 | I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency, |
| 0:38.3 | Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor. |
| 0:42.3 | I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin. |
| 0:45.3 | If you're not paying attention, you probably should be. |
| 0:48.3 | I don't know, are we good, Parker? It's really cold in this studio. Can we get, can we, we, we've been complaining about this for how long now, Logan, a month, two months? |
| 0:59.3 | I think it's probably more like five days, but it has taken a toll. They're freezing us out. It's literally this studio. It's three degrees colder than every other room in this floor. |
| 1:11.7 | I know. |
| 1:12.2 | They're freezing us out. |
| 1:14.0 | This is a smart thermometer. |
| 1:16.7 | Not that smart. |
| 1:17.7 | Are they targeting me particularly? |
| 1:19.0 | I mean, it's... |
| 1:20.4 | You're more on your game. |
| 1:21.4 | When it's colder, I'd be worried if they were, you know, |
| 1:25.6 | putting the temp up to 80 degrees. |
| 1:29.3 | Apparently that's what they did in Soviet Russia. Drop the temp? |
| 1:30.3 | Or turned up? |
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