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Crypto Voices: Episode 71

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Matthew & Fernando interview Pascal Hügli, an independent researcher and journalist from Switzerland.

Pascal covers his fascinating article from March where he poses the question, was industrial revolution-era Switzerland capitalistic, or socialistic? He looks at the life of Alfred Escher, a radical liberal of the time, and how the banking system tied into the growth of the Swiss economy. He gives some good perspective on what actually is "capitalism" and what is "socialism." He draws parallels to Bitcoin and the digitization of the world today, to the industrialization in Switzerland (and Europe) that occurred in the 19th century. We conclude with some thoughts on Bitcoin's potential, and the role of leaders and regulations in the ecosystem. Keep an eye out for his book that is coming out later this year.

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Links for more info:

https://twitter.com/pahueg

https://www.libertarianism.org/people/pascal-huegli

https://www.libertarianism.org/building-tomorrow/alfred-escher-radical-liberals-swiss-industrialization-socialist-capitalist

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Crypto Voices: Episode 70

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Matthew & Fernando interview investor and money manager Tyler Jenks of Lucid Investment Strategies.

Tyler goes in depth on an article he wrote in January, a thesis covering all of the world's wealth versus its liabilities, and "the long and winding road to $10 million bitcoin." We discuss some very interesting global and macro scenarios regarding the value of gold and bitcoin, and what the IMF and BIS may do in the case of major sovereign debt defaults. We cover the good old inflation versus deflation debate. He gives some reasons why bitcoin could be the only asset to remain outside the purview of state regulation, even though this is very difficult to predict. We close with some specific offerings and strategies that Lucid Investment offers.

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Links for more info:

https://twitter.com/LucidInvestment

https://lucidinvestmentstrategies.com/about

https://lucidinvestmentstrategies.com/products/webinars

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLJxbdXt4jG9pSy79TMVQSw

https://medium.com/@lucidfunds/the-long-and-winding-road-to-10-million-bitcoin-4b1c83d26e5d

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Crypto Voices: Episode 69

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Matthew & Fernando interview investor Tuur Demeester of Adamant Capital.

We cover Tuur's thesis in his great research report released last week, where his team dove deep into the network and market numbers and concluded that we are indeed in a bottoming phase of the current cycle, with heavy bitcoin accumulation. We discuss valuation methodologies around bitcoin, why it will be important monetarily and investment-wise for investors and hodlers, and how governments may or may not take part in the Bitcoin economy in the future.

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Links for more info:

https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester

https://www.adamantcapitalfund.com/

https://www.adamantcapitalfund.com/bitcoin-in-heavy-accumulation/

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Crypto Voices: Episode 68

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Matthew & Fernando interview developer Adam Gibson of Joinmarket.

In this interview we take a deep dive on Bitcoin's privacy, the potential implications for users both on- and off-chain, the trade-offs that come with security and privacy versus scaling, upgrades, and Coinjoin.

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Links for more info:

https://mastodon.social/@waxwing

https://twitter.com/waxwing__

https://joinmarket.me/blog/

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Crypto Voices: Episode 67

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Matthew & Fernando interview Joe McCann, Head of Systematic & Quantitative Trading at Passport Capital

Joe elaborates on all things trading in crypto, from the technical indicators to fundamentals to machine learning. He discusses his background including founding NodeSource, working with Node.js. We discuss some theories on technical versus fundamental investing, what indicators to pay attention to, the importance of price and volume, what he's learned from trading crypto versus conventional markets, how "profits" can be taken, and the bitcoin long-short ratios unique to crypto. We finish on the all-encompassing topic of why Bitcoin may or may not be bottoming.

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Links for more info:

https://twitter.com/joemccann

https://twitter.com/PassportCapital

https://www.passportcapital.com

https://nodesource.com

https://medium.com/@joemccann

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Crypto Voices: Episode 66

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Matthew & Fernando interview Bill Barhydt, founder and CEO of Abra.

Bill has extensive experience in Silicon Valley and fintech, from Goldman Sachs to Netscape. In 2014, Bill founded Abra to democratize finance across the globe using Bitcoin. Their product is very interesting and unique, focusing on the on/off-ramps with fiat today, but also geared toward freeing the user to fully control their funds and finances in the future.

We speak about some general Bitcoin and internet history, to Bitcoin scaling, and focus the most time on how the Abra product works. Abra allows users to quickly and easily hold and convert both cryptocurrencies and fiat, locally and under their full control, due to Abra's unique collateralization model using the Bitcoin network and hedging partners. Bill ends with some further thoughts on Abra's direction and vision for the future; for example, entering the lending markets.

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Links for more info:

https://twitter.com/billbarhydt

https://twitter.com/AbraGlobal

https://www.abra.com

https://www.abra.com/blog/

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Crypto Voices: Episode 65

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Matthew & Fernando interview Dan Held of Interchange.

Dan expounds upon his themes covering the importance of narratives in Bitcoin. We explore his article "Quantum Narratives," the ever-present "blockchain not bitcoin" narrative, the Bitcoin Cash narrative, Bitcoin forks, the nature of a Lightning transaction, Silicon Valley, and more. Plus just a little bit on big Texas.

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Links for more info:

https://twitter.com/danheld

email: [email protected]

https://interchangehq.com

https://soundcloud.com/dan-held-2/quantum-narratives

https://medium.com/@danhedl/planting-bitcoin-56bd1459cb23

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Crypto Voices: Episode 64

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Matthew updates on the Crypto Voices Monetary Base exhibit for 2018 Q4, which will make this episode a lot easier to listen to if viewing simultaneously; it's located here: https://cryptovoices.com/basemoney

Bitcoin is unquestionably unlike anything else in the (financial) world. However, if you are going to try and compare Bitcoin's supply with other supply curves in the financial world, don't. The *only* money supply you can compare it to is fiat's "Monetary Base," or "Base Money."

Firstly, something needs to be used as a medium of exchange to technically be called "money."

Gold used to be.

Fiat is now.

Bitcoin very well could be.

But don't get carried away. We need to compare bitcoin (and gold) to fiat's "base money" supply, and *only* to the base money supply.

M1/M2/M3 and all others simply aren't comparable. Why? Because those supplies include "claims" on base money.

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Crypto Voices: Episode 63

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Matthew & Fernando interview Dash promoter and contractor Rodrigo Ambrissi.

Rodrigo markets and promotes Dash via funds he receives from the Dash protocol, administered by their layer-2 masternode system. From these funds, Rod does educational work, attends conferences, gives lectures, and markets for Dash on his Portuguese-based YouTube channel, Dash Dinheiro Digital (Dash Digital Cash).

In this discussion, we focus on his and the Dash community's efforts in inflation-stricken Venezuela, in Colombia, and other work he does in Brazil, as well as some more in-depth topics on the Dash protocol. Rod's two documentaries on Venezuela and Colombia are highly recommended.

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Links for more info:

https://twitter.com/rambrissi

Rod's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5WA2NjZp8VHK_Vl8TdWTtQ

Venezuela doc: https://youtu.be/4PbciVl3nYU

Colombia doc: https://youtu.be/S2g7P0AJbdo

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Crypto Voices: Episode 62

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Matthew & Fernando interview independent cryptocurrency researcher and blogger Hasu.

Hasu is a first-rate analyst in the crypto space, with a strong background in game theory and success in poker. This is a long but illuminating episode covering three topics: Bitcoin and social contract theory, theories on monetary maximalism, and BitMEX.

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Links for more info:

https://twitter.com/hasufl

https://uncommoncore.co

https://uncommoncore.co/an-honest-account-of-fiat-money/

https://uncommoncore.co/unpacking-bitcoins-social-contract/

https://uncommoncore.co/bitcoin-and-the-promise-of-independent-property-rights/

https://soundcloud.com/cryptovoices/chapter-47-part-i-reijers-obrolchain-haynes-governance-in-blockchain-dec-2016

https://soundcloud.com/cryptovoices/chapter-47-part-ii-reijers-obrolchain-haynes-governance-in-blockchain-dec-2016

https://uncommoncore.co/why-monetary-maximalism-could-fall-short-of-expectations/

https://uncommoncore.co/foul-play-at-bitmex-exploring-the-biggest-concerns/

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