Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the one hundred fifty-third podcast episode from Crypto Voices. Show support appreciated: donations.cryptovoices.com Matthew and Alec interview Kevin Maurer, award-winning journalist and bestselling author of many books on war. We discuss his latest, Damn Lucky, Wagner in Syria, and more. Contents 00:00 Note on Wagner mutiny 03:25 Show intros 04:50 Latest book: Damn Lucky 13:10 Wagner story in Syria 2018 27:50 American hard / soft power 37:55 War reporting 41:47 'sof' definitions 52:58 Adversarial views on US 56:52 What are our principles? 01:03:10 Journalism OpSec 01:08:46 Closing thanks Links for more info: https://twitter.com/ScribblerSix https://kevinmaurer.net/ https://www.rollingstone.com/author/kevin-maurer/ https://thewarhorse.org/special-forces-soldiers-reveal-first-details-of-battle-with-russian-mercenaries-in-syria/ Help the show by using this link to buy Damn Lucky: https://www.amazon.com/Damn-Lucky-Bloodiest-Military-Campaign/dp/1250874270/ref=sr_1_1?crid=5B6ZPN51I34A&keywords=kevin+maurer+damn+lucky&qid=1687876918&sprefix=kevin+maurer+damn+lucky%252Caps%252C204&sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=porkopolis-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=c175e6ca5251a18c445d2b4a3aba64d1&camp=1789&creative=9325 Help the show by using this link to buy No Easy Day: https://www.amazon.com/No-Easy-Day-audiobook/dp/B0095PEFYS/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=ywZZ5&content-id=amzn1.sym.ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_p=ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_r=131-2678105-4022343&pd_rd_wg=xEGzx&pd_rd_r=20eea3be-5d90-45f1-a3b7-0de3eccf8c3a&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk&_encoding=UTF8&tag=porkopolis-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=74b98097e8fb2a24aa0e6e300fbd8e4b&camp=1789&creative=9325 Show Sponsor: hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoices Hosts: Matthew Mezinskis, Michel, Alec Harris Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/ Podcast & videos Bitcoin, privacy, cryptoeconomics & liberty Thanks for watching! https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/1basemoney Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the seventy-sixth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:24 World population 00:49 CAGR of population over time 01:30 Central bank physical currency (CBPC) 02:06 CAGR of cash over time 02:54 Multiple of cash growth over people 05:00 Multiple increasing again since 2000s Here I review again the growth rate of the world's population, versus all the physical currency in the world. As discussed in the last video, cash does double 7 times faster than people in the world, and this 7x multiple is actually *increasing* since the 2000s. Prior videos with further info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1chBFp2kR8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYKJ3sDAvb8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfizN3nTuc Host: Matthew Mezinskis https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the seventy-fifth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis. Contents 00:00 Intro 01:44 World population 02:57 CAGR of population over time 06:15 Central bank physical currency (CBPC) 09:13 CAGR of cash over time 13:27 Comparing both metrics Here I review the growth rate of the world's population, versus all the physical currency in the world. Are you aware that the doubling time of physical cash is 7 times faster than the doubling time of human beings on the planet? Prior videos with further info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYKJ3sDAvb8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfizN3nTuc Host: Matthew Mezinskis https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the seventy-fourth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:25 Five years of research 02:39 How much has it grown? 05:10 83% of value in top 5 currencies 06:30 66% of value in top 5 liberal Here I review the total basic money in the world. This $28.2 trillion equivalent is the core of the fiat financial system. This is also the only global money supply that economically compares with gold, silver, and Bitcoin. Prior videos with further info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYKJ3sDAvb8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgOL5tQvaDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqP2WITx2uw Host: Matthew Mezinskis https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the one hundred fifty-second podcast episode from Crypto Voices. Show support appreciated: donations.cryptovoices.com Matthew, Alec, and Michel interview Obi Nwosu, founder and CEO of Fedi, a company building on and pushing adoption of the Fedimint protocol for federated Bitcoin communities. Contents 00:00 Intro 01:37 Background in Bitcoin 11:33 Latest in CeFi regulations 13:27 Fedimint protocol 22:50 Chaumian eCash & Fedi 32:25 Federation setup example 46:07 More on eCash vs. Fedi modules 53:50 Roadmap and scaling plans Links for more info: https://twitter.com/obi https://twitter.com/fedimint https://primal.net/profile/npub1uq70uqgas9pyhds2zt57kr9se8rg3s68ztphjnq82ts8rzeknmeql7u0c2 https://fedimint.org/ https://www.fedi.xyz/faq/what-is-the-difference-between-fedi-and-fedimint Show Sponsor: hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoices Hosts: Matthew Mezinskis, Michel, Alec Harris Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/ Podcast & videos Bitcoin, privacy, cryptoeconomics & liberty Thanks for watching! https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/1basemoney Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the one hundred fifty-first podcast episode from Crypto Voices. Show support appreciated: donations.cryptovoices.com Matthew and Alec interview Omid Malekan, adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and author of several books, including Re-Architecting Trust: the Curse of History and the Crypto Cure for Money, Markets and Platforms. Contents 01:15 Banking crunch aftermath 08:00 Scaling solutions 13:50 On Layer 2s 17:10 Genesis story on BTC 24:50 Re-Architecting Trust 41:40 Proof of stake 46:30 Developing world adoption 51:52 CBDCs 55:27 Chokepoint 2.0 01:01:50 Iran situation 01:09:46 Second coming Links for more info: https://twitter.com/malekanoms https://amzn.com/dp/B0B1QFK8D9 https://www.omidmalekan.com/ Show Sponsor: hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoices Hosts: Matthew Mezinskis, Michel, Alec Harris Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/ Podcast & videos Bitcoin, privacy, cryptoeconomics & liberty Thanks for watching! https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the seventy-third video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:45 Bedlam in Tampere 01:48 More Latvian fans 03:52 GDP vs. US 06:20 GDP vs. RU 08:47 Latvia WINS Here I review the recent, amazing, first-ever bronze medal for Latvia in the World Hockey Championships, beating the UNITED STATES in Tampere, Finland yesterday. Host: Matthew Mezinskis https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the seventy-second video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:18 Fees in USD landscape 02:22 TTM issuance % in USD terms 04:03 TTM issuance % in BTC terms 05:25 TTM will tell you if trend is changing Here I review the fee spikes on the Bitcoin network over the last month, but most importantly analyzing the long-term trend of these fees by looking at issuance vs. fees on a trailing 12-month basis. Prior videos with further info: https://youtu.be/QC-MqgiLFvk https://youtu.be/kFvIRWxrjh0 Host: Matthew Mezinskis https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the seventy-first video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:21 Peter's bearish stance 01:28 Gold on left, Bitcoin on right 02:20 2011 comments 02:39 2013 comments 03:40 2014 comments 04:39 2015 comments 05:23 2016 comments 06:09 2017 comments 08:46 2018 comments 09:42 2019 comments 10:15 2020 comments 10:53 2021 comments 12:31 2022 comments 13:03 2023 comments 14:39 Gold & Bitcoin trendlines 16:09 Trend growth rates Here I review gold investor Peter Schiff's thirteen-year bearish comments on Bitcoin the monetary system and the price of bitcoins. His consistency is quite remarkable, in light of continuous Bitcoin dominance over gold. I close it with analyzing the 83% R-squared exponential trendline for gold's price, and comparing that with the 95% R-squared power trendline for the price of bitcoins. Gold's trend only grows at 9% per year (doubles every 8 years), Bitcoin's at 125% (doubles every 0.8 years). Prior videos with further info: Gold original exponential explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRkS2_ylec Bitcoin original power explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU2P_jJwVZ0 Host: Matthew Mezinskis https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the seventieth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:32 Starting at bottom of bear 01:39 Exponential trends straight lines on log 02:40 2005 trendline 04:37 2012 trendline 06:07 2015 trendlines until today 10:15 Looking out to 2030 12:22 Above or below trend more often? Here I talk about the exponential regression trendlines over gold's price from 1999. As gold is base money, like bitcoins, this video can be used to compare and contrast the supply and demand (price) trends for bitcoins we did in the last few videos. A key difference is that gold (and most markets) follow exponential trendlines, whereas the price of bitcoins follow a power trendline. All-time trend coefficients to draw it yourself: Power formula: y = a * EXP (b * x) Coefficients found: y = 3.12E+02 * EXP (0.0237% * x) Prior videos with further info: Gold original exponential explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRkS2_ylec Gold with percentiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTkkPpCfxWA Host: Matthew Mezinskis https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.