

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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Jan 18, 2023 • 21min
PE8: Exponential trendline on bitcoin price (VI)
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This is the eighth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:20 Bitcoin briefly
01:17 Diagram exponential trendline linear scale
02:47 Diagram exponential trendline log scale
04:03 Exponential regression formula
06:40 Exponential regression trendline
09:16 Mean
10:27 R-squared (86%)
11:46 Predictive trend
16:00 Log scale
Here we run and explain an exponential trendline over the last 13+ years of bitcoin price data.
Coefficients:
y = a * EXP (b * x)
y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)
y = 0.52 * EXP (0.25% * x)
https://porkopolis.io
https://twitter.com/crypto_voices
Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Jan 18, 2023 • 17min
PE7: Exponential trendline on gold price (V)
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This is the seventh video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:35 Four basic trendlines
01:02 Gold briefly
03:17 Exponential regression formula
05:27 Diagram exponential trendline linear scale
06:34 Exponential regression trendline
07:50 Mean
08:55 R-squared (75%)
11:57 Predictive trend
13:55 Log scale
15:03 Non-linear R-squared caution
Here we run and explain an exponential trendline over the last 50+ years of gold price data.
Coefficients:
y = a * EXP (b * x)
y = y-intercept * EXP (slope * x)
y = 133 * EXP (0.41% * x)
https://porkopolis.io
https://twitter.com/crypto_voices
Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Jan 16, 2023 • 23min
PE6: Logarithmic trendline on bitcoin price (IV)
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This is the sixth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:39 Four basic trendlines
01:17 Diagram logarithmic trendline linear scale
01:43 Diagram logarithmic trendline log scale
03:17 Trolololo's logarithmic regression
06:50 Logarithmic regression formula
09:14 Logarithmic regression trendline
10:09 Mean
14:07 R-squared (34%)
15:40 Log scale
20:41 Predictive trend
Here we run and explain a logarithmic trendline over the last 13+ years of bitcoin price data.
Coefficients:
y = a + b * ln(x)
y = y-intercept + slope * ln(x)
y = -103307 + 1434624% * ln(x)
https://porkopolis.io
https://twitter.com/crypto_voices
Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Jan 13, 2023 • 17min
PE5: Logarithmic trendline on gold price (III)
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Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/
This is the fifth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:20 Gold briefly
01:00 Diagram logarithmic trendline linear scale
02:25 Logarithmic regression formula
06:15 Logarithmic regression line
08:50 Mean
11:20 R-squared (41%)
13:55 Predictive trend
Here we run and explain a logarithmic trendline over the last 50+ years of gold price data.
Coefficients:
y = a + b * ln(x)
y = y-intercept + slope * ln(x)
y = -1184 + 33639% * ln(x)
https://porkopolis.io
https://twitter.com/crypto_voices
Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Jan 12, 2023 • 24min
PE4: Linear trendline on bitcoin price (II)
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Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/
This is the fourth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:20 Bitcoin brief history
07:00 Linear regression formula
07:48 Diagram linear trendline linear scale
08:27 Diagram linear trendline log scale
10:55 Linear regression line
13:40 Mean
18:00 R-squared (50%)
19:37 Predictive trend
Here we run and explain a linear trendline over the last 13+ years of bitcoin price data.
Coefficients:
y = a + b * x
y = y-intercept + slope * x
y = -13016 + 765% * x
https://porkopolis.io
https://twitter.com/crypto_voices
Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Jan 11, 2023 • 24min
PE3: Linear trendline on gold price (I)
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Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/
This is the third video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:15 Typical linear trendline
05:15 Four basic types of trendlines
05:50 Predictive nature of trendlines
12:03 Linear regression line
16:30 Mean
19:50 R-squared (70%)
21:47 Predictive trend
Here we run and explain a linear trendline over the last 50+ years of gold price data.
Coefficients:
y = a + b * x
y = y-intercept + slope * x
y = -100 + 240% * x
https://porkopolis.io
https://twitter.com/crypto_voices
Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Jan 10, 2023 • 28min
PE2: How fast do dollars grow? (II)
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This is the second video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:40 Supply and demand
03:59 Compound annual growth rates
10:28 Doubling time
17:05 Right axis time
20:57 Do you need other datasets?
25:17 How to verify the trend is exponential?
Here we cover how much physical cash and coin - these things we call dollars - exist around the world. This covers a 105 year period, from a time when the dollar was redeemable and convertible into gold, until today, when it is not.
Also, how do you think Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are going to play into this situation? Why is physical cash still growing so quickly, if it is not "that important" today?
https://porkopolis.io
https://twitter.com/crypto_voices
Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Jan 9, 2023 • 27min
PE1: How many dollars are there? (I)
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Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/
This is the first video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast.
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:47 Dollar-gold background
05:40 Federal Reserve opened doors in 1914
13:34 Post-WWII period (Bretton Woods)
18:45 Great Moderation
22:48 Bitcoin era
25:00 What is the deal with CBDCs?
Here we cover how much physical cash and coin - these things we call dollars - exist around the world. This covers a 105 year period, from a time when the dollar was redeemable and convertible into gold, until today, when it is not.
Also, how do you think Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are going to play into this situation? Why is physical cash still growing so quickly, if it is not "that important" today?
https://porkopolis.io
https://twitter.com/crypto_voices
Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Dec 30, 2022 • 2h 24min
CV142: Paul Sztorc - Layer 2 Labs
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Show Sponsor:
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Matthew and Alec interview Paul Sztorc, founder of Drivechain, Bitcoin Hivemind (Truthcoin), and most recently Layer 2 Labs.
Paul gives an overview on Layer 2 Labs and what his team is trying to accomplish with their recent $3 million raise. Most know his efforts for years in implementing Drivechain (BIP 300) on Bitcoin, and Bitcoin Hivemind as a sidechain on top of that. He is interested in implementing many other sidechains to Bitcoin as well.
Listen on to learn more.
Links for more info:
https://twitter.com/Truthcoin
https://layer2labs.com/
https://www.drivechain.info/
https://bitcoinhivemind.com/
https://www.truthcoin.info/
Show Sponsor:
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Hosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Michel, Alec Harris
Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/
Site: cryptovoices.com/
Podcast & information
Bitcoin, privacy, cryptoeconomics & liberty
Thanks for listening!
Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Dec 13, 2022 • 1h 4min
CV141: George Selgin - Repos, reserves, cash, and CBDCs
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Matthew interviews George Selgin, monetary economist and historian.
George gives a look-back at the repo meltdown in September 2019, as well as a deeper overview on the mechanics of the repo market. This has become more important in recent years, compared to the market for bank reserves ("Federal Funds" in US Fedspeak). Why?
He goes back to his favorite hobby horse (his term) which is the interest paid on those reserves by the central bank, an anomaly that never occurred before 2008, and how that has affected the entire structure of the system, from the size of the balance sheet, to the broader money markets, including the repo and Treasury markets.
George gives some latest thoughts on the growth of physical currency and the monetary base, and provides warning on the importance of such, due to the effects of interest on those bank reserves (the other part of the monetary base, along with physical currency).
We finish with some thoughts on CBDCs, and though we didn't have time to incorporate Bitcoin, we certainly will do so next time!
Listen on to learn more.
Links for more info:
https://twitter.com/GeorgeSelgin
https://www.cato.org/center-monetary-financial-alternatives
https://www.alt-m.org/author/selgin/
Show Sponsor:
hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoices
Hosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Michel, Alec Harris
Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/
Site: cryptovoices.com/
Podcast & information
Bitcoin, privacy, cryptoeconomics & liberty
Thanks for listening!
Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.