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This is the one hundred fifty-third podcast episode from Crypto Voices.

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Matthew and Alec interview Kevin Maurer, award-winning journalist and bestselling author of many books on war. We discuss his latest, Damn Lucky, Wagner in Syria, and more.

Contents

00:00 Note on Wagner mutiny

03:25 Show intros

04:50 Latest book: Damn Lucky

13:10 Wagner story in Syria 2018

27:50 American hard / soft power

37:55 War reporting

41:47 'sof' definitions

52:58 Adversarial views on US

56:52 What are our principles?

01:03:10 Journalism OpSec

01:08:46 Closing thanks

Links for more info:

https://twitter.com/ScribblerSix

https://kevinmaurer.net/

https://www.rollingstone.com/author/kevin-maurer/

https://thewarhorse.org/special-forces-soldiers-reveal-first-details-of-battle-with-russian-mercenaries-in-syria/

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Hosts: Matthew Mezinskis, Michel, Alec Harris

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Podcast & videos

Bitcoin, privacy, cryptoeconomics & liberty

Thanks for watching!

https://porkopolis.io

https://twitter.com/1basemoney

Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

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This is the seventy-sixth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.

Contents

00:00 Intro

00:24 World population

00:49 CAGR of population over time

01:30 Central bank physical currency (CBPC)

02:06 CAGR of cash over time

02:54 Multiple of cash growth over people

05:00 Multiple increasing again since 2000s

Here I review again the growth rate of the world's population, versus all the physical currency in the world. As discussed in the last video, cash does double 7 times faster than people in the world, and this 7x multiple is actually *increasing* since the 2000s.

Prior videos with further info:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1chBFp2kR8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYKJ3sDAvb8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfizN3nTuc

Host: Matthew Mezinskis

https://porkopolis.io

https://twitter.com/crypto_voices

Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

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This is the seventy-fifth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.

Contents

00:00 Intro

01:44 World population

02:57 CAGR of population over time

06:15 Central bank physical currency (CBPC)

09:13 CAGR of cash over time

13:27 Comparing both metrics

Here I review the growth rate of the world's population, versus all the physical currency in the world. Are you aware that the doubling time of physical cash is 7 times faster than the doubling time of human beings on the planet?

Prior videos with further info:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYKJ3sDAvb8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfizN3nTuc

Host: Matthew Mezinskis

https://porkopolis.io

https://twitter.com/crypto_voices

Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/

Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/

This is the seventy-fourth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.

Contents

00:00 Intro

00:25 Five years of research

02:39 How much has it grown?

05:10 83% of value in top 5 currencies

06:30 66% of value in top 5 liberal

Here I review the total basic money in the world. This $28.2 trillion equivalent is the core of the fiat financial system. This is also the only global money supply that economically compares with gold, silver, and Bitcoin.

Prior videos with further info:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYKJ3sDAvb8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgOL5tQvaDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqP2WITx2uw

Host: Matthew Mezinskis

https://porkopolis.io

https://twitter.com/crypto_voices

Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

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This is the one hundred fifty-second podcast episode from Crypto Voices.

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Matthew, Alec, and Michel interview Obi Nwosu, founder and CEO of Fedi, a company building on and pushing adoption of the Fedimint protocol for federated Bitcoin communities.

Contents

00:00 Intro

01:37 Background in Bitcoin

11:33 Latest in CeFi regulations

13:27 Fedimint protocol

22:50 Chaumian eCash & Fedi

32:25 Federation setup example

46:07 More on eCash vs. Fedi modules

53:50 Roadmap and scaling plans

Links for more info:

https://twitter.com/obi

https://twitter.com/fedimint

https://primal.net/profile/npub1uq70uqgas9pyhds2zt57kr9se8rg3s68ztphjnq82ts8rzeknmeql7u0c2

https://fedimint.org/

https://www.fedi.xyz/faq/what-is-the-difference-between-fedi-and-fedimint

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Hosts: Matthew Mezinskis, Michel, Alec Harris

Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/

Podcast & videos

Bitcoin, privacy, cryptoeconomics & liberty

Thanks for watching!

https://porkopolis.io

https://twitter.com/1basemoney

Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/

Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/

This is the one hundred fifty-first podcast episode from Crypto Voices.

Show support appreciated: donations.cryptovoices.com

Matthew and Alec interview Omid Malekan, adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and author of several books, including Re-Architecting Trust: the Curse of History and the Crypto Cure for Money, Markets and Platforms.

Contents

01:15 Banking crunch aftermath

08:00 Scaling solutions

13:50 On Layer 2s

17:10 Genesis story on BTC

24:50 Re-Architecting Trust

41:40 Proof of stake

46:30 Developing world adoption

51:52 CBDCs

55:27 Chokepoint 2.0

01:01:50 Iran situation

01:09:46 Second coming

Links for more info:

https://twitter.com/malekanoms

https://amzn.com/dp/B0B1QFK8D9

https://www.omidmalekan.com/

Show Sponsor: hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoices

Hosts: Matthew Mezinskis, Michel, Alec Harris

Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/

Podcast & videos

Bitcoin, privacy, cryptoeconomics & liberty

Thanks for watching!

https://porkopolis.io

https://twitter.com/crypto_voices

Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/

Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/

This is the seventy-third video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.

Contents

00:00 Intro

00:45 Bedlam in Tampere

01:48 More Latvian fans

03:52 GDP vs. US

06:20 GDP vs. RU

08:47 Latvia WINS

Here I review the recent, amazing, first-ever bronze medal for Latvia in the World Hockey Championships, beating the UNITED STATES in Tampere, Finland yesterday.

Host: Matthew Mezinskis

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This is the seventy-second video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.

Contents

00:00 Intro

00:18 Fees in USD landscape

02:22 TTM issuance % in USD terms

04:03 TTM issuance % in BTC terms

05:25 TTM will tell you if trend is changing

Here I review the fee spikes on the Bitcoin network over the last month, but most importantly analyzing the long-term trend of these fees by looking at issuance vs. fees on a trailing 12-month basis.

Prior videos with further info:

https://youtu.be/QC-MqgiLFvk

https://youtu.be/kFvIRWxrjh0

Host: Matthew Mezinskis

https://porkopolis.io

https://twitter.com/crypto_voices

Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

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This is the seventy-first video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.

Contents

00:00 Intro

00:21 Peter's bearish stance

01:28 Gold on left, Bitcoin on right

02:20 2011 comments

02:39 2013 comments

03:40 2014 comments

04:39 2015 comments

05:23 2016 comments

06:09 2017 comments

08:46 2018 comments

09:42 2019 comments

10:15 2020 comments

10:53 2021 comments

12:31 2022 comments

13:03 2023 comments

14:39 Gold & Bitcoin trendlines

16:09 Trend growth rates

Here I review gold investor Peter Schiff's thirteen-year bearish comments on Bitcoin the monetary system and the price of bitcoins. His consistency is quite remarkable, in light of continuous Bitcoin dominance over gold.

I close it with analyzing the 83% R-squared exponential trendline for gold's price, and comparing that with the 95% R-squared power trendline for the price of bitcoins.

Gold's trend only grows at 9% per year (doubles every 8 years), Bitcoin's at 125% (doubles every 0.8 years).

Prior videos with further info:

Gold original exponential explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRkS2_ylec

Bitcoin original power explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU2P_jJwVZ0

Host: Matthew Mezinskis

https://porkopolis.io

https://twitter.com/crypto_voices

Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/

Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/

This is the seventieth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.

Contents

00:00 Intro

00:32 Starting at bottom of bear

01:39 Exponential trends straight lines on log

02:40 2005 trendline

04:37 2012 trendline

06:07 2015 trendlines until today

10:15 Looking out to 2030

12:22 Above or below trend more often?

Here I talk about the exponential regression trendlines over gold's price from 1999. As gold is base money, like bitcoins, this video can be used to compare and contrast the supply and demand (price) trends for bitcoins we did in the last few videos. A key difference is that gold (and most markets) follow exponential trendlines, whereas the price of bitcoins follow a power trendline.

All-time trend coefficients to draw it yourself:

Power formula: y = a * EXP (b * x)

Coefficients found: y = 3.12E+02 * EXP (0.0237% * x)

Prior videos with further info:

Gold original exponential explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRkS2_ylec

Gold with percentiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTkkPpCfxWA

Host: Matthew Mezinskis

https://porkopolis.io

https://twitter.com/crypto_voices

Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.