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The Bitcoin Dollar & Crypto-Colonialism with Mark Goodwin

Unlimited Hangout with Whitney Webb

CHAPTER

The Origins of Bitcoin

Bitcoin was created very very likely directly out of the 2008 crisis. The U.S. government wanted to create a neutral base asset for the economic debasement that had to happen when you know all these cdo's and the whole real estate market imploded in the great financial crisis. So i kind of proposed this theory that the this idea of like the bitcoin dollar which is an analog to the petro dollar um so they created a monopoly on the ins and outs of petrol and oil as a means to sort of control both industrializing nations but also hey we need to print money.

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