BREAKDOWN: Marty Bent on the Macro Fires on the Horizon
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🗓️ 26 December 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Marty Bent is the author of one of the most popular daily Bitcoin newsletters and co-host of Tales From The Crypt. In this end of year interview with The Breakdown, he talks about the macro context - from trade wars to pressure on the fed to continue and expand the QE experiment to global instability - and how it is painting in stark colors the need for tools like bitcoin.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown, an everyday analysis breaking down the most important stories in Bitcoin, crypto, and beyond, with your host, NLW. |
| 0:15.0 | The Breakdown is distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome back to the breakdown, end- year extravaganza. So today I am thrilled to share an interview with Marty Bent. |
| 0:29.6 | Marty is one of the most prolific content creators in Bitcoin. |
| 0:32.6 | He has a daily newsletter of the same name that I think is just the perfect example of the one thought per day |
| 0:38.9 | medium. He has a podcast that he does weekly called Tales from the Crypt with Matt O'Dell. He's just |
| 0:45.1 | all over the place all the time. And so I was super excited to get his take on the year. And a lot of what |
| 0:51.0 | he talked about echoed some of maybe what we heard from Peter McCormick earlier in the week, which is this idea that there is this storm brewing, right? |
| 0:59.2 | And you feel it in terms of this ongoing tension around a trade war with China. |
| 1:05.8 | You feel it in the inescapable reality that central bankers don't know how they're going to get us out of |
| 1:12.3 | the QE thing that we've become addicted to. You see it in global discontent. And it creates a very |
| 1:18.8 | different and important context for Bitcoin. So that's what this interview is about. I hope you |
| 1:23.5 | enjoy it. And if you do, please subscribe to the breakdown so you don't miss any of this great |
| 1:28.2 | content. But with that, let's dive into this awesome interview with Marty Bent. Here we go. |
| 1:36.0 | All right. I am here with Marty Bent. So one of the things that I've talked about a lot is |
| 1:42.2 | how interesting it is that in Bitcoin and in the |
| 1:45.6 | larger crypto landscape, these independent media voices are shaping so much of the conversation. |
| 1:50.4 | And I've often tweeted that I think that when it comes to daily newsletters, just Marty is the |
| 1:57.0 | absolute peak of that format, the one thought medium. And obviously you do so much more, so much more content than just that. |
| 2:04.8 | But it seems like it was like a monster year for you. |
| 2:07.6 | I'm really, really excited to have you here to help us recap and look forward. |
| 2:12.6 | Well, Dan, I can't thank you enough. |
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