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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#638: Q1 2025 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Marty sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss Bitcoin's power law growth trend, the mathematical inevitability of money printing resumption, geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe, and the philosophical implications of exponential versus power-based growth systems colliding as Bitcoin adoption accelerates.

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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.

0:36.4

Mr. Maginxious, are you ready to turn it on turbo?

0:40.6

I am, my friend.

0:41.9

Let's go deep.

0:43.9

Always happy to be here with you, chatting base money and other things.

0:50.4

Yeah, well, we're going to turn it on turbo during this conversation,

0:53.7

but it seems like the U.S. government's going to turn it on turbo.

0:56.4

We're going to outgrow the debt. It's happening.

1:01.7

Are you let down? Were you enticed? Were you enticed by the MAGA fever last fall and now feel fully let down to a situation that was perfectly predictable to

1:12.6

most of us.

1:14.0

Hand up.

1:15.3

I did have some optimism.

1:17.1

I mean,

1:17.6

cautiously optimistic.

1:18.5

I think I was,

1:19.9

and I think publicly on the record,

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