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🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Marty sits down with Matt Cole from Strive to discuss the tidal shift in America driven by bitcoin.
Matt on Twitter: https://x.com/colemacro
Strive: https://strive.com/
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - ESG/DEI disaster isn’t quite over yet
13:52 - Unchained & Coinkite
16:12 - Matt’s background and framing bitcoin for pensions
25:04 - Career risk of missing bitcoin
28:52 - Moving the Overton window and helping clients with bitcoin
33:12 - Zaprite & SOTE
34:45 - Making the most of bitcoin
43:07 - How using bitcoin changes your understanding
48:48 - AI machine payments, regulations and altcoins
56:34 - Trump admin stepping out of America’s way
1:03:21 - America has centuries left
1:13:33 - Wrapup
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0:00.0 | You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free. |
0:10.0 | If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts. |
0:16.0 | So it's all acting like safe haven. |
0:18.0 | I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their |
0:23.5 | currency, Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor. |
0:29.2 | I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin. |
0:31.8 | If you're not paying attention, you probably should be. |
0:36.2 | The Bitcoin is ESG argument. |
0:38.3 | We, we, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but I helped start an off-grid, |
0:44.3 | flare gas mitigation, Bitcoin mining company, Great American Mining. |
0:48.3 | And so we were on oil and gas well pads upstream in the Bakken mitigating flare gas in North Dakota. |
0:59.1 | And I mean, I went on a multi-year brigade against ESG because that's what I think I realized |
1:09.0 | at Great American mining is like no matter how hard you try to convince people like, |
1:15.6 | hey, we're mitigating flare gas, we're being extremely efficient with the energy, the goalposts just always moved. |
1:21.6 | But you can make the argument that Bitcoin is the most ESG friendly asset in the world if you want to open source code. |
1:30.3 | Anybody who saves it is going to see their purchasing power increase over time. |
1:36.3 | The energy intersection really forces you to be as efficient as possible. |
1:41.3 | And we tried to run with those narratives for a while, but people were always |
1:44.9 | like, oh, not good enough. Yeah, it really exposes the ESG for what it is, right, which is a political |
1:50.2 | movement, that this asset, gee, governance, you can't find a better asset with regards to governance |
1:56.5 | than Bitcoin, S, democratizing access to being able to opt out from financial systems from |
2:03.0 | corrupt governments, you can't find a better system from that, the ability to utilize energy |
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