James Lavish, hedge fund veteran, managing director of the Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, and author of “The Informationist” newsletter, joins Forward Guidance to share his vision for the future of money.

Today’s interview is sponsored by Blockfills, a crypto trading solutions and financial technology firm.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction 

(03:52) The "Disease" Of Debt

(16:03) The Fiscal Debt Spiral

(28:25) Hard Assets As A Standard For Global Money

(42:25) Valuing Bitcoin As A Call Option

(49:22) Imagining A Deflationary Monetary System

(58:36) Why Just Bitcoin?

(01:03:51) Lavish's Bitcoin Opportunity Fund

(01:09:47) Lavish: A Lot of Crypto Projects Are, In Fact, Securities

(01:11:44) The Economy & The Federal Reserve

(01:15:04) Tether

(01:17:15) Optimal Macro Environment For Bitcoin

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