BREAKDOWN: Is Asteroid Mining Really Our Best Argument for Bitcoin Over Gold?
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🗓️ 16 August 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
After a Winklevoss encounter highlights Elon Musk’s space mining dreams, maybe we should remind ourselves of the right-here-at-home benefits bitcoin brings.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
Earlier this week, the Winklevoss brothers introduced Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy to bitcoin.
One of the notable parts of the recap video was a discussion of how Elon Musk was set to destroy the value of gold on Earth by mining gold from asteroids.
While much meme fun was had, on this week’s Long Reads Sunday NLW has chosen a selection that looks at how fiat beat out gold and how gold beat out silver to provide some – ahem – more immediately relevant lessons on how to explain the benefits of bitcoin.
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| 0:53.8 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:58.6 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
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| 1:14.2 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, August 16th, which means it's time for Long Reads Sunday. |
| 1:21.9 | And for this article, I got to tee it up a little bit. So about a week ago, Dave Portnoy, |
| 1:27.4 | a.k.a. El Presente, Dave Portnoy, aka El Presente, aka |
| 1:29.3 | the founder of Barstool Sports, aka the head of Davy Day Trader Global Global, |
| 1:34.6 | invited the WinkleVos brothers to come explain Bitcoin to him and said that if he did, |
| 1:40.4 | he would hear it and he would probably get involved. Well, that happened, and yesterday they |
| 1:44.9 | released the nine and a half minute video or so about their conversation. One part of that |
| 1:51.4 | conversation had to do with gold and why Bitcoin was better than gold, and the specific |
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