If you were God and you look down on earth and you said, how did it get so

fucked up? How can I fix it? You could just show up one day and fix it, but that would freak

everybody out. Or you could hack humanity with Bitcoin and get the greedy humans to create

the perfect money in a way that solves all these problems that God can't do by just showing up and

waving his magic wand. And I think that's going to become clear in 2021.

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What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, December 22nd, and we are back with another edition of the breakdowns end of year extravaganza, 14 amazing

brains, 21 minutes each, the story of the year that was in macro, Bitcoin, and beyond. And today

we have Max Kaiser and Stacey Herbert, two of the best known, most beloved, and longest

standing advocates and evangelists for Bitcoin. They are content creators through and through,

and I've been loving their new-ish Orange Pill podcast, so let's stop yammering and get on over to the interview.

All right, Max and Stacey, welcome to the show.

Good to have you here.

Good to be here, Nathaniel.

Yeah, baby.

So this is going to be a fun one. End of your show,

all about the things that we've learned, the things we've seen, the things we've observed. So let's

start with the biggest of big questions. What was the most important economic story of 2020?

In a year of big stories, I think, essentially it was money printer go brr.

Because it covers quite a lot of stuff.

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