

Crypto Voices
Matthew Mezinskis
Podcast covering diverse trends in Bitcoin and blockchain tech, decentralization, entrepreneurship, cryptoeconomics and liberty.
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Any questions, please write info@cryptovoices.com, we'd love to hear from you.
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Jun 22, 2023 • 8min
PE76: Cash grows 7 TIMES faster than people
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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.

Jun 16, 2023 • 16min
PE75: Cash vs. People - Which grows faster??
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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.

Jun 8, 2023 • 10min
PE74: How much money is there in the world??
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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.

Jun 5, 2023 • 1h 3min
CV152: Obi Nwosu - Fedimint
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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.

May 30, 2023 • 1h 15min
CV151: Omid Malekan - Re-Architecting Trust
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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.

May 29, 2023 • 9min
PE73: Latvia WINS... Hockey and GDP!?
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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.

May 26, 2023 • 7min
PE72: Bitcoin fees, revisited (in perspective)
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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.

May 19, 2023 • 19min
PE71: How long has Peter Schiff been BEARISH???
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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.

May 18, 2023 • 16min
PE70: Does gold have a TREND?
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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.

May 17, 2023 • 16min
PE69: How often is Bitcoin UNDER trend??
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This is the sixty-ninth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.
Contents
00:00 Intro
01:01 First times breaking above & below
03:06 Into and out of crypto winter
06:21 Nov-2018 puke below
07:51 Trends around 2021 double top
12:55 Closing answers!!
Here I talk about the power regression trendlines over Bitcoin's price. From Bitcoin Pizza day in 2010, to the present. Three questions I answer in this video:
1) How many times has Bitcoin's price pierced its trendline?
2) What % of the time overall is this movement?
3) Does Bitcoin's price stay above its trendline more or less than under?
All-time trend coefficients to draw it yourself:
Power formula: y = a * x ^ b
Coefficients found: y = 7.70E-18 * x ^ 587%
Prior videos with further info:
Yesterday's power regression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUTigJRqwA0
Host: Matthew Mezinskis
https://porkopolis.io
https://twitter.com/crypto_voices
Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.