Orange Pill Podcast

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Check out our guests: 

• Jan Capek
• Edward Evenson
• Slush Pool

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Max and Stacy discuss: 

• Pleb vs toff
• Misappropriation of diamond hands
• Approaching bitcoin with humility
• The value of liberty worth the cost of energy

Max and Stacy are joined by Jan Capek and Edward Evenson of SlushPool.com to discuss: 

• The 'China controls bitcoin' FUD
• The 'bitcoin is boiling the oceans' FUD
• The Great Hashrate Migration 

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Max and Stacy with a microdose of ORANGE PILL on 19 May 2021

Topics: 

• Bitcoin tumbles
• The first ever $10,000 candle
• Cathie Wood reiterates her $500,000 call
• Plans for Bitcoin 2021
• Signaling taproot, dealing with FUD
• Justin Sun buys 150M worth of bitcoin on the dip

Max and Stacy discuss: 

• Bitcoin is designed to kill central banks
• The dollar devs at the central bank 
• Doge is like putting baggies of gasoline on your stovetop 
• Big Bitcoin 
• You can't lobby bitcoin

They are joined by Crypto Mags to tear apart the bitcoin will boil the oceans FUD:

• Bitcoin is providing tremendous value
• It's unseizable money 
• A valuable service of savings for the unbanked
• It's using a lot of wasted resources - valuable energy put to good use
• Our energy grid is hugely centralized, bitcoin helps decentralize the infrastructure
• Transmission constraint; bitcoin mining pays for a load as something that takes energy 
• Energy and carbon are both cost centers
• Bitcoin is electrifying the financial system 
• Bitcoin is a new heavy industry 

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Max and Stacy compare the man-made disaster of the Dust Bowl to the ongoing catastrophe of money and finance: 

• The price is wrong
• The incentives were wrong
• Opies are the okies of this depression 
• There's been a New Deal for Wall Street for the past few decades
• Black blizzard of money 
• The bad agricultural practices are the bad financial practices of today, over harvesting the same underlying collateral
• The price is always right in a free market
• The price is always wrong in a rigged market

They are joined by Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation to discuss: 

• The petrodollar
• The Triffin Dilemma
• How Bitcoin fixes both

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Max and Stacy discuss the drive toward banana republicanism as the money printing goes into overdrive. 

They chat to Parker Lewis of Unchained Capital about: 

• Multisig wallets and control of your own bitcoin
• Money printing and inflation 
• The central banks have no idea what they are doing
• Bitcoin citadels and cities like Austin and Miami competing for their business
• Run the numbers and other memes that play a role in spreading bitcoin knowledge and culture

Max and Stacy's ORANGE PILL PODCAST livestream from 27 April 2021

They discuss Tesla's successful 'proof of liquidity' test of the bitcoin market as they sell 10% of their holdings

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Max and Stacy chat about the 'Bitcoin OG state of mind' and why it is better to arrive late than to show up ugly

They chat to Adam Back of Blockstream.com about: 

• Why the halving was not priced in
• Taproot activation and what it means for bitcoin
• What happened to the hashrate when China went offline 
• 'Blood coins' and 'virgin coins'
• The cypherpunk ideology spawning a Renaissance 2.0

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Audio from Max and Stacy's livestream on YouTube discussing the bitcoin headlines from 21 April 2021

Focus is on the bitcoin vs gold debate between Michael Saylor and Frank Giustra

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Max and Stacy imagine no possessions, it's easy if you stack or if you live in a world in which price signals have misallocated capital so badly that nothing you need is available

And discuss: 

• The monster of commodification and financialization 
• The ultimate lie
• Frontrunning your thoughts with neuralink 
• Isaiah Jackson, the Marvin Gaye of Bitcoin

The interview Nick Neuman of Casa about:

• The inherent value of self-custody in an age of runaway money printing atop a fragile banking system
• What is multi-sig and how does it help secure your corn?
• The uniquely OG problem of Schrödinger's bitcoin (coined by Jameson Lopp)

Audio of the YouTube livestream from 14 April 2021

Topics: 

• The Coinbase listing and its pop and then tumble
• French 'tacos'
• British rock and comedy
• Jerome Powell's statements on 'cryptocurrency being a speculative vehicle like gold' and his claim that the growing debt is not a concern