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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#579: Bitcoin 101, Chinese AI and Poisonous Modern Life with Matt McCusker

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Marty sits down to orange pill Matt McCusker.


Matt on Twitter: https://x.com/mattwritesbooks

Matt's website: https://mattmccusker.com/


0:00 - Intro 0:36- First steps to understanding bitcoin 12:33 - Fix the money, fix the world 21:13 - Fold & Bitkey 23:08 - Mining and quantum computers 30:10 - AI and China 35:31 - Unchained 36:32 - What bitcoin does to finance 41:46 - Blockchain scams and warped reality 47:10 - V4V 51:05 - Gambling and free will 56:36 - How comedy helps a messed up world 1:03:19 - Modern media and phones 1:07:19 - School, nicotine and writing 1:12:47 - The book Marty would write 1:18:25 - Fiat food, raw milk and MAHA 1:31:36 - Poison everywhere, p*rn is the worst 1:44:21 - Wrap up

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Transcript

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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.

0:25.3

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.

0:36.4

Curious to learn about it. Yeah, am it's it's like alien technology to me every

0:42.4

time i hear about it i'm like glad it's doing well i don't know how i don't know what to do

0:46.7

about that but i'm really happy about that yeah the uh i guess all right if you're curious

0:51.0

to learn about the first question is like how do you understand bickland like how would you

0:54.1

describe it your understanding i don't understand it it's just a thing i see

0:57.3

and i'm like oh shit it's up it's up it just goes up then it crashes and i'm like of course it's

1:02.2

gonna crash and it goes up i'm like of course it was going up it can't stop as fucking i don't know

1:05.8

anything about it do you view like a stock uh money uh do you understand how it works?

1:11.6

You mean like stocks?

1:13.6

Well, like that's like...

1:14.6

I understand stocks.

1:15.6

I don't understand Bitcoin.

1:16.6

I'm like, so to put it this way, it's like stocks, I understand like the stocks that pay

1:21.6

your dividends and you can buy those and they'll give you dividends back.

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