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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#639: Dollar Collapse and Network States with Balaji Srinivasan

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Marty sits down with Balaji Srinivasan to discuss the sympathy for white American conservatives, the simultaneous disruption of Blue America by the internet and Red America by China, the inevitable collapse of the dollar amid Bitcoin's 100 million X rise, and the emergence of network states as a solution for rebuilding civilization after the coming fiat crisis.

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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

Logi, it's been too long.

0:38.1

It's good to see you, sir.

0:39.4

Good to see you, too.

0:41.0

Yeah, we were just talking about jumping off points.

0:42.8

You have one here.

0:43.8

I had one that I wanted to pull up.

0:46.5

We'll pull it up and post,

0:47.8

but just referencing your tweet from last night

0:50.3

about your sympathy to the white American conservative.

0:53.9

And I think this is a good jumping off point because I think this particular

0:58.0

topic sort of involves everything that we've been talking about.

1:02.2

That's right.

1:03.1

I mean, so as context, you know, five years ago, I moved to Singapore and India.

1:09.3

I basically split my time between them. And I was public about that.

1:13.4

And, um, you know, I was just talking to some of my friends. And the thing is, there's,

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