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Izabella Kaminska (The Blind Spot) on Reconsidering Bitcoin Skepticism (EP.297)

Mar 14, 2022

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Is It the Duty of the Journalists to Really Scrutinize Challenges

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The Value of Transparency in Journalism

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Introduction

2min

A Brief History of Journalism

2min

I Was Born in the Uka, but Grew Up in a Completely Different Country.

2min

Was It a Polish Upbringing?

2min

Is Polish Culture So Strong That You Your Parents Tell You These Stories?

3min

I've Never Thought We'd Have These Issues of Centralization and Ias

2min

The Philosophy of Polybius Zeno

2min

Is There a Cyclic Trend?

2min

The Acceleration of Cryptocurrencies

2min

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The Man Who Made the Pantpanocticonfery

4min

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The Lock Down Mentality

2min

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Freedom Comes With Risk

1min

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Is There a Risk?

4min

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I'm a Student of Propaganda

2min

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Is the Market Clearing?

3min

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Is Bicoin a Terrorist?

4min

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Money Laundering

2min

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The Shadow Government in Menmar A, Wasd Dollarizing

4min

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Central Banks, You Knowe Ive.

2min

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Central Decentralization Is a Natural Evolution of the System

2min

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Compass Mining

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Is It a Question of Division of Labor?

1min

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Is There Just Too Much Regulation?

2min

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I Think the One Thing That Bitcoin Has Done Is Galvanize and Encourage Financial Literacy

3min

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I'm Not a Libertarian, but I've Had a Similar Epiphony

3min

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Bitcoin

3min

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Inflation Is a Mismatch Between Supply and Demand

3min

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Is Gold a Great Inflation Hedge?

2min

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Is There a Difference Between Bitcoin and the Cryptocurrency Space?

2min

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The Cons of Energy Consumption

2min

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Is It Worth Paying for Cryptocurrencies?

3min

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Is There a Relationship Between Central Bankers' Doom and Inflation?

2min

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Is the Central Bank Back With Avengeance?

2min

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Is It the Duty of the Journalists to Really Scrutinize Challenges

2min

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I've Been at the Ft for 13 Years, Am. And I Think I Need a New Challenge

2min

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The Only Challenger Is the Independent Media

2min

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Is It Possible to Be Neutral in This Day in Agead?

2min

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Web Free

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The Value of Transparency in Journalism

2min

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I've Been a Fan of Yours From Time to Time, but I'm Really Grateful for Your Coming On.

3min

Former FT Alphaville Editor and founder of The Blind Spot, Izabella Kaminska joins the show. In this episode:

Izabella’s pre-FT career
Izabella’s Polish ancestry and how that informed her monetary worldview
Why Izabella was a skeptic about Bitcoin – and why she revisited her stance
Izabella’s interest in anacyclosis and cyclicality in political systems
Jeremy Bentham and his views on utilitarianism
Consequentialism and its influence on contemporary elite ideology
What Covid-19 policies revealed about freedoms in the West
The flaws inherent in bureaucracy
Izabella’s changing view on the politicization of finance
The failure of AML/KYC rules in the West
Reflections on the FT’s Wirecard story
Izabella’s view on stablecoins and why she first compared them to Eurodollars
Why stablecoins are mini central banks
The paradoxes of Web3 and DeFi and the veil of decentralization
Do crypto systems end up inherently recentralizing
Why Central Banking is so obscure and difficult to penetrate
Bitcoin narratives in the context of Bitcoin’s apparent failure to be a real rates hedge
Is gold genuinely a good inflation hedge?
Are there Bitcoiners Izy pays attention to?
Izabella’s thoughts on Bitcoin ESG questions
Is Bitcoin security worth paying for?
Why Izabella is leaving the FT and starting the Blind Spot

Learn about The Blind Spot and follow Izabella on twitter.

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