Former FT Alphaville Editor and founder of The Blind Spot, Izabella Kaminska joins the show. In this episode: 

• Izabella’s pre-FT career
• Izabella’s Polish ancestry and how that informed her monetary worldview
• Why Izabella was a skeptic about Bitcoin – and why she revisited her stance
• Izabella’s interest in anacyclosis and cyclicality in political systems
• Jeremy Bentham and his views on utilitarianism
• Consequentialism and its influence on contemporary elite ideology
• What Covid-19 policies revealed about freedoms in the West
• The flaws inherent in bureaucracy
• Izabella’s changing view on the politicization of finance
• The failure of AML/KYC rules in the West
• Reflections on the FT’s Wirecard story
• Izabella’s view on stablecoins and why she first compared them to Eurodollars
• Why stablecoins are mini central banks
• The paradoxes of Web3 and DeFi and the veil of decentralization
• Do crypto systems end up inherently recentralizing
• Why Central Banking is so obscure and difficult to penetrate
• Bitcoin narratives in the context of Bitcoin’s apparent failure to be a real rates hedge
• Is gold genuinely a good inflation hedge?
• Are there Bitcoiners Izy pays attention to?
• Izabella’s thoughts on Bitcoin ESG questions
• Is Bitcoin security worth paying for?
• Why Izabella is leaving the FT and starting the Blind Spot

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