Is There a Trigger to Destroy the US Dollar?

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Lisser: This is a wide split issue. All the banks in America are holding these bonds. And then if you now zoom out to the world, he's saying that this is now going to be a global problem because they all everyone owns these at like the US treasury is owned by every single major financial institution reserve currency. Lisser: He thinks what's happening now will be a trigger to destroy the US dollar US dollars. The US dollar gets a reprised in terms of Bitcoin, right? Which is what they always keep saying is like one Bitcoin is always worth one Bitcoin. That's the idea.

Trung & Bilal discuss Balaji's $1m Bitcoin bet, the banking crisis, Ryan Reynolds business empire, Trung’s meme going super viral and GPT-4.

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:04:11) - Meme of the Week
(00:08:50) - The Backstory to Trung’s Tweet
(00:11:31) - How a meme goes viral
(00:13:11) - Balaji's Background
(00:15:28) - Balaji's $1m Bitcoin Bet
(00:16:55) - Banking Crisis Explained
(00:21:57) - SVB Post-Mortem
(00:27:03) - Infinite Money Printing Back?
(00:32:36) - Swap Lines Explained
(00:36:32) - Trung's take on Balaji’s Argument
(00:41:28) - Bilal’s take on Balaji’s Argument
(00:47:54) - Doing it for the meme?
(00:50:28) - Hyperbitcoinization?
(00:53:29) - Ryan Reynolds Business Empire
(00:55:30) - Van Wilder
(00:57:06) - Deadpool and Aviation Gin
(00:59:39) - Fastvertising
(01:01:08) - Mint Mobile and MVNO Businesses
(01:04:38) - Wrexham F.C.
(01:07:26) - Bearly A.I. Plug
(01:08:00) - GPT-3 vs GPT-4
(01:09:17 ) - Microsoft Copilot

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