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Willy Woo is a leading Bitcoin on-chain analyst. Willy shares his origin story, career path, how he discovered Bitcoin and his insights into on-chain data. Willy describes this as the "Last Cycle" of Bitcoin before it skyrockets to mass adoption. Willy writes a paid market intelligence newesletter called The Bitcoin Forecast, which is available on Substack. You can follow him on Twitter under the handle @woonomic. Learn more at https://woobull.com **** THIS PODCAST DOES NOT PROVIDE FINANCIAL ADVICE ****

Peter Schiff is an honorary chairman of SchiffGold, founder of Euro Pacific Asset Management, and host of The Peter Schiff Show. He is an economic forecaster & investment advisor influenced by the free-market Austrian School of economics. His best-selling book, "The Real Crash, "warns that the 2008 financial crisis was just the prelude to a larger sovereign debt crisis that may lead to a collapse of the US dollar. In this interview, Peter shares his insights on gold, Bitcoin, and the state of our fragile economy. --- Full bio via SchiffGold.com: Background Peter Schiff's investment career began with Shearson Lehman Brothers in the early 1990s. In 1996, he and a partner started Euro Pacific Capital in Los Angeles, later moving the headquarters to Connecticut. The firm has since expanded, with offices in Scottsdale, Arizona, Boca Raton, Florida, Newport Beach, California, Los Angeles and New York City. Euro Pacific Capital's investment strategy focuses on long-term wealth savings in the face of a declining US dollar with an emphasis on emerging market and commodity-focused investments. Peter is best known for accurately forecasting the 2008 financial crisis. During a Fox News debate in December 2006, Schiff said, "What's going to happen in 2007 is that real estate prices are going to come crashing back down to Earth." Business news journals reported that Schiff accurately predicted the crisis, while "nearly all [macroeconomists] failed to foresee the recession despite plenty of warning signs." Peter has also worked in the political arena, first serving as an economic advisor for Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign and later running for United States Senate in Connecticut in 2010 as a Republican. Politically, he leans Libertarian, with an emphasis on fiscal conservatism. Peter started SchiffGold in 2010 after recommending for decades that investors allocate 10-20% of their portfolios to physical precious metals. Peter became concerned that some of his Euro Pacific Capital clients were being misled into purchasing overpriced "numismatic" gold and silver products from gold dealers with unsavory business practices. Peter started SchiffGold to provide a trustworthy alternative that would sell only the most liquid physical bullion products at the lowest possible prices. SchiffGold is backed by Peter Schiff's Guarantee that it will only sell the most liquid physical bullion products at the lowest possible prices. Peter's expertise on money, economic theory, and international investing makes him a highly sought after as a speaker and analyst. He has been quoted and interviewed hundreds of times by media outlets around the world, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Die Zeit, Tokyo Shinbun, South China Morning Post, Investor's Business Daily, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. He regularly appears on CNBC, CNN, CBC, Al Jazeera, Fox News, and Fox Business Network. Peter Schiff's Companies Euro Pacific Asset Management – Founded in 2009, and headquartered in Dorado, Puerto Rico, Euro Pacific Asset Management is a SEC registered investment advisory firm. It specializes in foreign markets and utilizes a traditional value oriented investment strategy in keeping with Peter Schiff's investment strategy. Euro Pacific manages in excess of $1 billion in a combination of separately managed accounts and a family of proprietary mutual funds. These actively managed strategies provide investors with a long-term focus unique exposure to a variety of global markets. Euro Pacific Bank Ltd. – This offshore, international bank provides private investment services to non-US citizens. It is headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Peter Schiff's Books Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse (2007) – Peter's first bestselling book predicted in detail the causes and fallout of what would become the 2008 financial crisis. He provides a long-term investment strategy that focuses on foreign markets and hard assets to protect one's wealth during years of economic uncertainty. The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets: How to Keep your Portfolio Up When the Market is Down (2008; Updated 2010) – In this followup to Crash Proof, Peter examined historic bear markets which followed major bull markets in the United States, and lays the foundation for a long-term investment strategy to preserve wealth during volatile times. Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse (2009) – The second edition of Peter's Crash Proof expands on the first edition by looking in detail at the fallout of the financial crisis he accurately predicted. How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes (2010; Updated 2013) – Reimagining a classic economic parable written by their father, Peter and his brother Andrew Schiff use cartoon illustrations and humor to explain the healthy fundamentals of a free market economy. The Collector's Edition released in 2013 features new color illustrations and updated content explaining recent economic developments such as quantitative easing and the European debt crisis. The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy—How to Save Yourself and Your Country (2012) – Peter's latest bestseller explains why Peter believes the 2008 financial crisis was merely the prelude to a much larger crash to come. Paired with Washington's inability to address its sovereign debt problem, the Fed's reckless monetary policies will ultimately trigger a complete collapse of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. Peter Schiff's Media Peter is a regular guest on national and international financial media, including CNBC, Fox Business, BBC, Bloomberg Asia, and BNN. His economic commentary has been published in and quoted by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, Barron's, and Investor's Business Daily. From 2005 to 2010, Peter hosted the short-wave radio show Wall Street Unspun, in which he commented on the latest financial market news. From 2010 to 2014, he hosted the nationally-syndicated The Peter Schiff Show, which filled the 10 AM time slot on the Radio America network starting in 2012. Peter left terrestrial radio in August 2014, though The Peter Schiff Show continues in a podcast format. Peter's personal media outlets: Peter Schiff's Gold News – Peter's daily newsmagazine focused on the precious metals markets. The Schiff Report – The home of Peter's regular video blog on the financial markets, as well as clips from his recent media appearances. His economic forecasting went viral following the 2008 financial crisis with the video "Peter Schiff Was Right". The Peter Schiff Show – Peter's podcast featuring his commentary and analysis of the global financial markets. Peter Schiff's Notable Appearances: Mortgage Banker's Speech – In 2006, Peter delivered a keynote address at the Western Regional Mortgage Bankers Conference in Las Vegas. He warned of a housing bubble and explained the basic mechanics of how a crash would occur. Practically nobody at the time shared Peter's viewpoint, and his speech stunned the more than 2,000 mortgage bankers in attendance. Of course, his prediction proved to be uncannily accurate, shooting Peter into the national spotlight as a savvy contrarian economist. Peter Schiff Was Right, 2006-2007 Edition – This compilation of Peter's mainstream media appearances in the years leading up to the housing crash and financial crisis became an instant viral hit (with millions of views spread over many versions of the video). As financial commentators laughed in his face, Peter calmly predicted the events of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. It has become a classic example of irrational exuberance and willful ignorance on the part of economists and investment advisors. Daily Show Interview with Jon Stewart – Peter Schiff appeared on the Daily Show in 2009 to explain how he was able to predict the 2008 financial crisis. This brought Peter's warnings of the hazards of irresponsible monetary policy to a much wider American audience. Peter Schiff Visits Occupy Wall Street – Reason TV followed Peter Schiff to Manhattan's Zuccotti Park in 2011, where he represented the 1% in conversations with Occupy Wall Street protestors. Inflation Propaganda Exposed – For years, Peter Schiff has railed against the misleading and often incorrect economic data officially released by government agencies. In particular, Peter believes inflation is grossly underestimated. In this popular edition of his Schiff Report video blog, Peter debunks official inflation measures with a slew of hard, fundamental facts.

In the last year, East Carolina University student Will Clemente quickly amassed a big following in the Bitcoin space as a sharp on-chain analyst and writer. His deep dives and insights into bitcoin's metrics have caught the attention of BTC greats like Willy Woo and Pomp, and now Will serves as the Lead Insights Analyst at Blockware Solutions and has his own newsletter you can subscribe to at https://btcbywc3.substack.com. Follow him on Twitter at @WClementeIII. This podcast does not provide financial advice.

Preston Pysh hosts one of the top-ranked investing podcasts on Apple Podcasts, We Study Billionaires. He's written numerous books on investing and leadership and has been ranked as a top 35 business author on Amazon. Preston also provides independent research of the stock market and central banking policy. As the Founder and President of the Pylon Holding Company, he specializes in the acquisition of private and public companies by assessing the durable competitive advantage and capacity for growth. He has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from West Point and has been awarded the bronze star in combat while commanding an attack helicopter company with the 101st Airborne Division. He is a Postgraduate Candidate at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in Baltimore, Maryland. Follow Preston on Twitter, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts.

Nik Bhatia is a financial researcher, CFA charterholder, and Adjunct Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business where he teaches Applied Finance in Fixed Income Securities. Previously, Nik worked the US Treasuries trading desk for a large institutional asset manager and has extensive trading experience in money markets and interest rate futures. After starting his teaching career, Nik felt the urge to bring his research on both the international monetary system and Bitcoin together as one to write the book Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies. He has a BA in Social Sciences from University of Southern California and a Master in Finance from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. Nik lives in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and young daughter. Learn more at www.LayeredMoney.com.

Lyn Alden is a full-time investor and independent financial analyst. She has been performing investment research for over fifteen years in various public and private capacities, and founded Lyn Alden Investment Strategy in 2016. Her goal is to provide institutional-level research in plain English, so that both institutional investors and retail investors can benefit from it. Her work has been editorially featured or cited on the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Marketwatch, Time's Money Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Street, CNBC, US News and World Report, Kiplinger, the Asia Times, the Huffington Post, and other media. She has appeared on Kitco, Real Vision, The Investor's Podcast Network, The Rebel Capitalist Show, Macro Voices, The Market Huddle, What Bitcoin Did, and many other shows and podcasts. She has also served as an advisor or consultant for start-up companies, hedge funds, and executive committees of large institutions. Her site, LynAlden.com provides investment research and strategy, covering stocks, precious metals, international equities, and alternative investments. She analyzes advanced topics for institutional investors, and also breaks many of those topics down for retail investors to keep track of what's happening in terms of global macro.

Michael Saylor is an American entrepreneur, executive, inventor, author, and philanthropist. He is the Chairman and CEO of MicroStrategy (MSTR), a publicly traded business intelligence firm he founded in 1989. Michael is an advocate for the Bitcoin Standard (Hope.com) and is the first CEO of a publicly listed company to make a long-term investment in Bitcoin. He founded and serves as the trustee for the Saylor Academy (Saylor.org), a non-profit organization that provides free education to nearly one million students. -- Full Bio Courtesy of MicroStrategy.com: Michael Saylor is an American entrepreneur, executive, inventor, author, and philanthropist. He was born to a military family in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1965 and spent his childhood living on various U.S. Air Force bases around the world. By his teenage years, his family had settled at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio—the birthplace of aviation and home of the Wright brothers. He graduated from high school first in his class, served as both class marshal and valedictorian, and was voted most likely to succeed by his peers. Mr. Saylor attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on a full Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship. While at MIT, he was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity, and obtained dual degrees in aeronautics and astronautics as well as science, technology and society. In his free time, he played guitar in a rock band and learned to fly gliders. Mr. Saylor became fascinated by the application of computer simulation technology to public policy and business strategy, eventually writing his thesis "A Mathematical Model of a Renaissance Italian City State" while studying system dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In 1987, Mr. Saylor graduated with highest honors from MIT. Having already successfully completed flight officer training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, where he learned to fly, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. He joined the Air Force Reserve and began a career in consulting, with a focus on constructing computer simulations to support strategic decision-making at companies such as DuPont, Dow, and Exxon. In 1989 at the age of 24, Mr. Saylor combined his passions for technology, business, and the use of computer simulations to launch MicroStrategy. The company was founded on his vision of helping enterprises deliver intelligence everywhere. By harnessing the power of graphical operating systems and client server computing, and pioneering a new approach to business intelligence called relational online analytical processing (ROLAP), the company grew steadily, going public in 1998 (NASDAQ: MSTR). Under his leadership, MicroStrategy has emerged as a global leader in enterprise analytics and mobility software, serving thousands of organizations around the world. Mr. Saylor is a named inventor on more than 40 patents. In addition to being credited as the inventor of relational analytics, he led MicroStrategy into the fields of web analytics, distributed analytics, mobile analytics, cloud computing, mobile identity, and IoT. He was also the creator and founder of Alarm.com (NASDAQ: ALRM), one of the first home automation and security companies, and Angel.com (sold to Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories for $110 million in 2013), one of the first cloud-based interactive voice response service providers. Mr. Saylor is the author of the book The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything, published by Perseus Books in 2012. The book anticipated the impact of mobile, cloud, and social networks on worldwide political and economic development, along with the rise of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google as transnational technology leaders that would destabilize the status quo across most industrial and political domains. The Mobile Wave appeared on both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal Best Seller lists. In 1999, Mr. Saylor established The Saylor Foundation, which has donated millions to philanthropic causes including children's health, refugee relief, education, environmental conservation, and support for the arts. The foundation runs the Saylor Academy (Saylor.org), which offers free college education and continuing professional development courses to students worldwide. To date, it has provided free educational services to more than 650,000 students. In both 2015 and 2016, Mr. Saylor participated in the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy. Mr. Saylor travels 175,000 miles per year to more than 60 cities and 25 nations to share his perspectives on enterprise analytics and mobility with technology and business audiences. Throughout his travels, he engages companies, organizations, and governments to discuss the ways that MicroStrategy can help them realize the vision of intelligence everywhere.

Natalie Brunell talks with leading Bitcoin proponent Dr. Saifedean Ammous. Saifedean is an Austrian economist and best-selling author of The Bitcoin Standard and its soon-to-be released sequel, The Fiat Standard. The Bitcoin Standard is a groundbreaking study of the economics of Bitcoin. The Fiat Standard digs deeper into central banks and government debt. Saifedean discusses both books and his philosophy on Bitcoin's value proposition. Learn more about his research and courses at Saifedean.com ___________________________________________________________________ Dr. Saifedean Ammous is the author of The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, the best-selling groundbreaking study of the economics of bitcoin. The book was a pioneer in explaining bitcoin's value proposition as the hardest money ever discovered, and the only working alternative to national central banks for international payments. Dr. Ammous holds a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University, where his doctoral thesis studied the economics of biofuels and alternative energy sources. He also holds an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Engineering from the American University of Beirut. Saifedean.com is a website is intended to showcase Dr. Ammous' research in studying the economics of bitcoin, and nothing in it should be construed as investment advice. Bitcoin is a sophisticated technology whose ownership requires an understanding of complex technologies and tools. Before deciding whether to invest in bitcoin, you should do your own extensive research into the financial and technical aspects involved. Nothing written in this website should be considered advice related to that decision.

Jeff Booth is an entrepreneur, technology Leader, author, and strategic advisor. He wrote the best-selling book The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is The Key To An Abundant Future. In an economic system built on debt and inflation, Jeff believes we need to take advantage of the deflationary nature of technology, embrace it, and use it to build an abundant and hopeful future. He shares how Bitcoin can help bridge that transformation. Follow Jeff at @JeffBooth. ----------------- Via JeffreyBooth.com: Jeff Booth is a visionary leader who has lived at the forefront of technology change for 20 years. He led BuildDirect, a technology company that aimed to simplify the building industry, for nearly two decades through the dot-com meltdown, the 2008 financial crisis, and many waves of technological disruption. Jeff has been featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, Inc.com, The Globe and Mail, BNN, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, TIME, and The Wall Street Journal. In 2015, he was named BC Technology Industry Association's (BCTIA) Person of the Year, and in 2016 Goldman Sachs named him among its 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs. He is a Founding Partner of OitoLabs, Co-Founder of addyinvest.com and NocNoc, and serves on the boards of Terramera, Cubic Farms, LlamaZOO, Synthiam and the Richmond Hospital Foundation as well as numerous advisory boards. He has been a Young Presidents Organization member since 2004 and contributes time as a Founding Fellow on the Creative Destruction Lab. In his downtime, Jeff can be found at the lake playing his guitar around a campfire with his family and friends, enjoying watersports or skiing at local Vancouver mountains. He is also dedicated to learning and reads about 50 books a year.

Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin advocate, developer, educator, and author. He has been contributing to open-source Bitcoin projects since 2013 and has written several books on the digital asset and its underlying technology, including The Little Bitcoin Book: Why Bitcoin Matters for Your Freedom, Finances, and Future , Thank God for Bitcoin: The Creation, Corruption and Redemption of Money and Programming Bitcoin: Learn How to Program Bitcoin From Scratch. He argues that the blockchain's sole use case is for sound money, which Bitcoin fulfills perfectly.