LTB!: Bailouts, Bitcoin, Disruption, Failures and Hope
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin we're discussing the coming bailout-everything regime in a topic that's both extremely timely but is also what originally forced many long-term bitcoin enthusiasts to learn about money and become interested in cryptocurrency originally.
As much of the world on an almost uniform and bipartisan basis shuts down to slow the spread of COVID19 and prepares to bail out first financial markets and now basically everything that can't work on a fully remote basis, we're talking about crisis, bailouts, the limits of monetary policy and the real possibility that it's not a straw that breaks the back of our money but rather the whole world suddenly jumping on.
This episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin is sponsored by eToro.com
On today's show we'll discuss:
- The growing bipartisan and global shutdown then bailout everything movement
- The alternative to the bailout path we're on
- The inability of even extraordinary monetary policy to resolve these issues and the markets growing cognitive dissonance
- The revival of the "system is breaking and when it does we'll need something new that doesn't share the same problems of being vulnerable to politically expedient over-reactions" narrative that, frankly, drove my initial interest in bitcoin in the first place.
- And more...
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| 0:00.0 | On today's episode, we're revisiting a topic that's both extremely timely, while at the same time is literally the thing that got me interested in understanding money and led me to cryptocurrency in the first place 12 years ago. |
| 0:14.0 | As much of the world in an almost uniform and bipartisan basis shuts down to slow the spread of COVID-19 and prepares to bailout first |
| 0:20.9 | financial markets and then basically everything that can't work on a fully remote basis. |
| 0:25.5 | We're talking about the crisis, the bailouts, the limits of monetary policy, and the real |
| 0:29.4 | possibility that it's not a straw that breaks the back of our money, but rather the whole world |
| 0:33.4 | suddenly jumping right on. |
| 0:35.2 | Today's episode is sponsored by etorro.com. |
| 0:37.8 | Let's Talk Bitcoin is owned by the hosts and editorially independent, but you can find |
| 0:41.2 | new episodes every Sunday on the CoinDesk podcast network at CoinDest.com, the LTB network |
| 0:45.9 | at let's talk bitcoin.com and on our privately managed show-only subscriber feed at |
| 0:49.8 | LTPo.com. |
| 0:51.6 | With all of that said, I'd like to welcome you to the Let's Start Bitcoin Show. |
| 0:54.5 | This is episode 431. |
| 0:56.3 | My name is Adam B. Levine. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm a longtime journalist, entrepreneur, and also an editor at CoinDisc these days. |
| 1:01.6 | Joining our discussion today are the other host of the show, Dr. Stephanie Murphy. |
| 1:05.1 | Hello. |
| 1:06.0 | Jonathan Mohan. |
| 1:07.2 | Hey, hey. |
| 1:08.1 | And Andreas M. Antonopoulos. |
| 1:10.2 | Hey, everyone. Thanks for being here today, hey. And Andreas M. Antonopoulos. Hey, everyone. |
| 1:11.5 | Thanks for being here today, guys. |
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