#739: Quarterly Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
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🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Marty sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss Bitcoin's power law price dynamics, the accelerating "treadmill" of traditional markets, escalating geopolitical chaos including Russia's digital authoritarianism and America's shifting foreign policy, and the mathematical tension between Bitcoin's decelerating growth and Wall Street's attempt to subsume it into exponential fiat systems.
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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 currency, |
| 0:24.4 | 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. |
| 0:31.9 | If you're not paying attention, you probably should be. |
| 0:36.2 | I had to tell you to stop sharing your screen because I went to share mine. We met at the end of January to do the Q4, 2025 update, I believe. I don't know. Yeah, it's cute. I'm changing it up actually. Frankly, I know I'll continue to change it this quarter. It was actually Q3. It's going to it's gonna be key four now that was Q3 last update was at the end of |
| 0:57.6 | January a month before the the exploration of the war is a still war is at a ceasefire I |
| 1:06.5 | don't know whatever whatever's happening in Iran whatever we're calling it now it was a month before that |
| 1:12.4 | and to your point and focusing on bitcoin i mean that's one silver lining at least from our |
| 1:19.2 | perspective of i think what's happened over the last two months is that i think the world is |
| 1:24.1 | waking up to the need for a neutral reserve hardcapped currency monetary system that's not controlled by anybody and want to pull up the screen share and we published this on January 31st but when we met things are not looking good for for Bitcoin priced in gold specifically as you can see here yeah in this |
| 1:45.1 | chart going back he was at the lower bound the zero percent bound of of the |
| 1:53.1 | power our trend and many people were wondering okay as Bitcoin jumped the |
| 2:00.0 | shark we're living in a gold world gold hard money world now many people were wondering, okay, has Bitcoin, jumped the shark. |
| 2:05.1 | We're living in a gold world, gold hard money world now. |
| 2:07.6 | And it seems like the tides have changed. I mean, a few days after we recorded, we fell down to those 60s, tipped the high 50s. |
| 2:15.8 | And since then, we were range bound for a couple months and now |
| 2:19.3 | climbing out approaching 80k again currently sitting at 78,126 dollars so a lot has changed |
| 2:28.9 | in the last two months three months yeah we should do we should do price actually right now, just as everybody's favorite, just to kick it off. |
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