A man has bet a million dollars that the U.S. Federal Reserve won't print money again. The idea is to give confidence to US banks and other global financial institutions, he says. But economist Noah Smith argues this could lead to deflation in the economy if all of them crash.
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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