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🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 137 minutes
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Marty sits down once again with Matthew Mežinskis for the Q1 2024 monetary base update.
Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/1basemoney
0:50 - Power law trend is trending
5:42 - Govt attacking bitcoin
11:47 - Sponsors 1
13:02 - US debt and inflation
24:27 - Monetary base vs hard assets
34:05 - Top 5 currencies
37:06 - M3
45:58 - Outside money
52:17 - Sponsors 2
53:54 - Monetized debt and MMT
1:05:57 - Late stage central planning
1:10:06 - Bitcoin free banking
1:13:51 - Bitcoin price chart
1:23:37 - Bitcoin network and fee market
1:30:28 - Antpool
1:39:56 - MineOne and nationalization of hash
1:50:23 - ASIC commodification
1:54:29 - Nukes and tyranny
2:04:23 - Last chart
2:08:28 - Final thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | This rip of TFTC was brought to you by River. |
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| 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, |
| 0:38.5 | Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor. |
| 0:43.3 | I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin. |
| 0:45.9 | If you're not paying attention, you probably should be. |
| 0:50.5 | The power law trend line wars are upon us. We're sitting down with one of the generals. |
| 1:02.0 | Your model's hot right now, dude. |
| 1:04.0 | Your model is high. |
| 1:05.5 | Good to see you too. |
| 1:06.2 | Yeah, it's getting some traction. |
| 1:07.7 | It's exciting. |
| 1:09.6 | We're just chatting a little bit pre-show about it. It's pretty funny. This Giovanni fellow, who some of my followers pointed out to me this year, he's been tracking this for a long time, actually. He was doing some stuff on Reddit, like way back, I don't know, 2014, 2015, doing some power law regressions. |
| 1:29.3 | And then he did a sort of a big one in like September or so, 2018, which was, you know, |
| 1:38.9 | 10 full years of Bitcoin at that point, showing how it seems pretty natural that Bitcoin's following |
| 1:46.5 | a power law trend line. And then I posted on Twitter in the very end of 2018. And so I had never |
| 1:57.2 | seen this stuff. Mine was, as I wrote on the post, because I was talking to him about it. I'd seen, well, I had never seen his stuff. Mine was, as I wrote on the post, because I was talking to him about it. |
| 2:02.7 | I had seen, well, I had been inspired by this trollo-low-low, low, this is username on Bitcoin |
| 2:08.9 | talk. |
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