

Crypto Voices
Matthew Mezinskis
Podcast covering diverse trends in Bitcoin and blockchain tech, decentralization, entrepreneurship, cryptoeconomics and liberty.
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Author note: All authors, whose content is featured on Crypto Voices, are contacted beforehand for permission, regardless of copyright or license such as Creative Commons. If you are an author whose work is reproduced here and you have not heard from Crypto Voices, it's because we couldn't find a way to contact you. However, in this situation your work was already licensed Creative Commons, and it was so great anyway that we just couldn't wait to turn it into audio and put it up!
Any questions, please write info@cryptovoices.com, we'd love to hear from you.
Episodes
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Feb 1, 2023 • 22min
PE17: Power trend percentiles on bitcoin price
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This is the seventeenth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:21 Centralized exchange problems in BTC history
05:20 Power regression trendline (95% R-squared)
07:07 1-sigma bands
07:50 2-sigma bands
08:27 Predictive trend
10:05 Log scale
11:06 Log-log scale
13:50 Finance is not a bell curve
20:27 Power trend summary
Here we run and explain a power trendline over the last 13+ years of bitcoin price data, as well as 1-sigma and 2-sigma percentile bands around the trendline.
Coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 6.12E-18 * x ^ 590%
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Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Jan 31, 2023 • 1h 5min
CV143: Mark Yusko - Great stories
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This is the one hundred forty-third podcast episode from Crypto Voices.
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Matthew interviews Mark Yusko from Morgan Creek Capital and Morgan Creek Digital.
Superb episode, topic-packed with Mark's stories and thoughts on FTX, SBF, Bernie Madoff, Kevin O'Leary, Sequoia Capital, Jamie Dimon, Davos, the Winkelvosses, and Peter Thiel.
Mark shares his investment thesis and continuing views on Bitcoin and the internet of value, and closes with some very heartwarming and inspiring words and even a couple basketball analogies.
Links for more info:
https://twitter.com/MarkYusko
https://www.morgancreekcap.com/
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Hosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Michel, Alec Harris
Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/
Podcast & videos
Bitcoin, privacy, cryptoeconomics & liberty
Thanks for watching!
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Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Jan 30, 2023 • 18min
PE16: Silver more valuable than gold? (IV)
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This is the sixteenth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:40 Gold-silver ratio: Prices
02:25 Gold-silver ratio: Ounces (mining)
05:15 Gold-silver ratio: Market capitalization
10:15 Exponential regression trendline (80% R-squared)
11:00 2-sigma moves down or up
15:30 Implications for the silver bugs?
Here we look at three different gold-silver ratios over 520 years. The first is revisiting the gold-silver price ratio, the second is revisiting the gold-silver mining ratio, and the third is looking at the gold-silver capitalization ratio.
Coefficients:
y = a * EXP (b * x)
y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)
y = 0.8 * EXP (1.38% * x)
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Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Jan 27, 2023 • 26min
PE15: Gold-silver ratios explained: Price vs. Mining (III)
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This is the fifteenth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:25 Gold-silver ratio: Prices
09:55 Gold-silver ratio: Ounces (mining)
17:15 All-time average (mining ratio)
20:10 Implications for the silver bugs?
Here we look at two different gold-silver ratios over 520 years. The first is revisiting the gold-silver price ratio, and the second is the gold-silver mining ratio.
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Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Jan 26, 2023 • 20min
PE14: How much gold is there? (II)
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This is the fourteenth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:30 Gold mining history
06:18 Silver mining history
10:02 Log scale
10:55 Compound annual growth summary
13:35 Industrialization
19:09 Compound annual growth summary
Here we look at the cumulative mining production across the entire world for both gold and silver since 1800.
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Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Jan 25, 2023 • 26min
PE13: Silver to the moon? Gold-silver ratio (I)
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This is the thirteenth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:50 What is the gold-silver ratio?
03:50 Gresham's Law
05:20 Last thousand years of gold-silver ratio
05:40 Last 50 years of gold-silver ratio
14:50 Power regression trendline (51% R-squared)
16:25 One sigma (66th percentiles)
17:30 Two sigma (95th percentiles)
21:17 Predictive trend
22:05 What about the silver bugs?
Here we run and explain a power trendline, with percentiles, over the last 50+ years of the gold-silver ratio; that is, the last 50+ years of the gold price divided by the silver price (per troy ounce).
Coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 14.3 * x ^ 25%
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Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Jan 24, 2023 • 24min
PE12: Exponential trend percentiles on silver price
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This is the twelfth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:17 Silver briefly
04:10 Four basic trendlines
04:20 Exponential trendline on silver price (48% R-squared)
06:22 Hunt brothers
09:25 One sigma around trendline (66th percentile)
12:35 Two sigma around trendline (95th percentile)
20:30 What about the silver bulls?
Here we run and explain an exponential trendline over the last 50+ years of silver price data, and run percentile bands (standard deviations) around the regression.
Coefficients:
y = a * EXP (b * x)
y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)
y = 3.55 * EXP (0.27% * x)
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Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Jan 23, 2023 • 27min
PE11: Exponential trend percentiles on gold price
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This is the eleventh video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:30 Gold fits exponential trendline (75% R-squared)
02:20 'Brown's Bottom'
04:15 Exponential regression trendline
05:30 Standard deviation basics
06:34 Exponential regression trendline
07:50 One sigma around trendline (66th percentile)
13:10 Two sigma around trendline (95th percentile)
15:30 Log scale
24:41 Gold price suppression?
26:31 Compound annual growth rate of gold price (7.7%)
Here we run and explain an exponential trendline over the last 50+ years of gold price data, and run percentile bands (standard deviations) around the regression.
Coefficients:
y = a * EXP (b * x)
y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)
y = 133 * EXP (0.41% * x)
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Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Jan 20, 2023 • 32min
PE10: Power trendline on bitcoin price (VIII)
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This is the tenth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:30 Four basic trendlines
00:58 Power regression formula
02:26 Diagram power trendline linear scale
03:17 Diagram power trendline log scale
05:25 Diagram power trendline log-log scale
07:50 Power regression trendline
09:53 Mean
12:15 R-squared (95%)
13:55 Predictive trend
16:44 Log scale
22:04 Log-log scale
25:45 Final summary of all four trends for bitcoin!
Here we run and explain a power trendline over the last 13+ years of bitcoin price data.
Coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 5.94E-18 * x ^ 591%
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Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Jan 19, 2023 • 19min
PE9: Power trendline on gold price (VII)
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This is the ninth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:55 Four basic trendlines
01:17 Power regression formula
02:37 Diagram power trendline linear scale
04:01 Power regression trendline
06:24 Mean
08:49 R-squared (70%)
09:48 Predictive trend
11:20 Final summary of all four trends for gold!
Here we run and explain a power trendline over the last 50+ years of gold price data.
Coefficients:
y = a * x ^ b
y = y-intercept * x ^ slope
y = 9.76 * x ^ 71%
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Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.