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We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

BTC146: Broken Money 2/2 w/ Lyn Alden (Bitcoin Podcast)

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

Stig Brodersen

Education, Investing, Business

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In the part two of a two-part discussion with Preston Pysh and Lyn Alden, they talk about the merging of a credit based money ledger system with a commodity backed money system into a single new technology, which is Bitcoin. 


IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

01:22 - Why money has been at the crux of global conflict since time immemorial.

16:08 - Why can't a government entity just fire-up 20,000 nodes and try to fork the code?

33:41 - Lyn's thoughts on Gresham's law and Bitcoin.

41:23 - What would a bitcoin would look like with no unit abstraction?

47:13 - How do Taxes change in a bitcoin world?

49:04 - Does Bitcoin need smart contracting to compete with other protocols?

57:43 - Why couldn't Adam Back improve the Bitcoin code?

01:02:25 - The privacy trade-off is something that many want, what is Lyn's point of view?

01:06:02 - What is the fundamental trade-off between PoW and PoS?

01:06:02 - Lyn's discussion of volatile vs non-volatile computer memory when trying to understand PoS and PoW.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome to this Wednesday's release of the Bitcoin Fundamentals podcast.

0:07.2

Today's show is part two of a two-part discussion with the incredibly talented macro-investor

0:12.7

Lynn Alden.

0:14.2

Lynn recently published a book titled Broken Money and if you haven't heard the first

0:17.8

part of the conversation, I would highly recommend you go back into your podcast app and

0:22.5

find the episode that precedes this one.

0:25.0

And if you've already listened to that first part, welcome back and we're getting ready

0:29.0

to talk about the merging of a credit-based money ledger system with a commodity-backed

0:34.6

money system into a single new technology which is Bitcoin.

0:39.2

During this conversation, we talk about many different technical trade-offs that Bitcoin

0:42.6

makes such as privacy versus auditability, scripting and smart contracting.

0:48.3

Why many people look at Bitcoin as old technology relative to many of the other crypto projects

0:53.1

and what they're missing with that point of view, along with many other important topics.

0:57.9

So with that, here's part two with Lynn Alden on our newly released book, Broken Money.

1:07.1

You're listening to Bitcoin Fundamentals by The Investors Podcast Network.

1:12.7

Now for your host Preston Pish.

1:17.9

Alright, so I'm back here with Lynn Alden talking about her brand new book, Broken Money.

1:32.1

For people that are just joining us and haven't listened to the first part, I highly,

1:37.0

highly recommend that you go back and listen to the first part with Lynn, Stig and myself.

1:42.5

Before we talk really about the first half of the book and the history and the technology

1:47.3

of money and how we've kind of come to this third phase, if you listen to the tail end

1:52.7

of the last conversation, Lynn talks about there being like basically three phases.

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