Bitcoin Audible

How much economic ignorance can you fit into 1 minute and 54 seconds? Well apparently its quite a lot. Peter Zeihan confidently embarrassed himself on Joe Rogan's podcast recently by going on a short rip regarding Bitcoin's negative value and how a reliable, fixed money causes economic disaster but the inflated, debt drowned political currency is more valuable. And how counterfeiters have rightfully earned the wealth they steal, but savers gaining some purchasing power as the economy grows is "unviable." We dive into a short clip of Peter Zeihan and take it apart, piece by ignorant piece, in today's Guy's Take episode. Strap in. Here are the links to so many other reads for diving further into these economic ideas if you want a deeper understanding. All highly recommended: No Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value, and that's great!: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0EyuzhpYZRR5TimBl28Ngw?si=f5223cb0872545f9 Another Way to Think About Bitcoin's Value: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5d8O5XztARIi0eI7lYMmSN?si=8c89c2cf2c4a4f0a --- World Hyperinflations: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2130109 When Money Dies: https://www.amazon.com/When-Money-Dies-Adam-Fergusson-audiobook/dp/B004FU1028 --- Trusted third Parties are Security Holes: https://open.spotify.com/episode/21iWPjbJrRfZb3sBUb6zkD?si=c5946f4f85984745 The Dawn of Trustworthy Computing: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4AkUNUNGFeCibaPyQWtHSY?si=c351d269b0ee4cf6 The Whitepaper: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1mxIgLMRVzsuYj964ZiLa9?si=3e386d6c5ae14864 --- The Use of Knowledge in Society: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6itH5T3tXPlLfJil5jcuU4?si=82d1e0deb1da4725 The Yield From Money Held, Reconsidered: https://open.spotify.com/episode/67dqOHWLX9NRmAs4S0G9XQ?si=9f8fa16e335e4dc6 Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 10% off everything in the store until Christmas! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 5,000 FREE SATS at (https://guyswann.com/fold) • The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy) -------------------------------------- "The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust." – Satoshi Nakamoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Bitcoin is not a hedge against inflation; it is the permanent solution to inflation, and those are two very different things." - Parker Lewis Parker Lewis is back in action with the 18th installment of the Gradually, Then Suddenly series on its way to becoming a phenomenal book. Check out the many other articles in this series at the link below, but you don't want to miss this one. Bitcoin isn't a hedge against inflation, its the solution to it. Find the article and Parker's other works, plus subscribe for the many more to come at the link below: https://bitcoiner.ghost.io/bitcoin-is-not-a-hedge/ For the entire series in audio, search "Gradually, Then Suddenly" just down the page in the Bitcoin Audible at the link below: BitcoinAudible.com Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 10% off everything in the store until Christmas! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 5,000 FREE SATS at (https://guyswann.com/fold) • The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy) -------------------------------------- "Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary. For this reason all those who wish to stop the drift toward increasing government control should concentrate their effort on monetary policy." – F.A. Hayek Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"If your money requires permission to be spent, it is not your money. If your money has counterparty risk, it is not money—but credit. If your money steals from you, it is not your money—but a control and financing mechanism of your government. If your money requires identity, it is not money but a social credit score system." - Dergigi Today we dive into a short but excellent piece by Gigi in his new collection of recent articles and works around his new book, 21 Ways. Don't miss the original 21 Lessons that you can find on Audible, and on gigi's website. And the tons of further rabbit hole journey available in the links throughout this article found at the link below: https://dergigi.com/2022/12/02/bitcoin-is-the-rediscovery-of-money/ Other episodes referenced in today's show that are definite listens if you haven't heard them yet, and also important listens if you haven't heard them recently: Guy's Take #60 - Digital Money: https://fountain.fm/episode/10745176396 Read_660 - Bitcoin is Digital Scarcity: https://fountain.fm/episode/10581911734 Read_634 - The Words we Use in Bitcoin: https://fountain.fm/episode/8877233760 Read_537 - Bitcoin is An Idea: https://fountain.fm/episode/2863665913 Read_122 - "The Yield From Money Held" Reconsidered: https://fountain.fm/episode/298987009 Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 10% off everything in the store until Christmas! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 5,000 FREE SATS at (https://guyswann.com/fold) • The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy) -------------------------------------- “The basic causes of change are precisely those that are not subject to conscious control.”   ― James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"So they fire out digital chaff frantically in every direction, they play whack-a-mole with high-engagement nodes that are or could be threats. The enemy is now reactively defending themselves, not proactively steering the course. This is the Titanic and we are the iceberg." - Aristophanes We start the year off with a very interesting piece about the state of the ideological world and how the speed and connectivity of our ideas and information has massively changed the world already and fundamentally shaken the legitimacy of established authorities. What does this look like and what will come of it. Let's explore in today's episode. Check out the original article and an ocean of amazing and informative works at Bitcoin Magazine through the link below: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/print/the-chaffening Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 10% off everything in the store until Christmas! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 5,000 FREE SATS at (https://guyswann.com/fold) • The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy) ---------------------------------------- Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?" – Richard P. Feynman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"This is the root of our cultural concern for crypto DeFi. The cultural, and arguably even structural, commitment to financialization is extremely difficult to reconcile with this core purpose of securities. In a sense, none of this is surprising given the foundations of crypto DeFi. If you jump straight to “decentralized securities” without first nailing down decentralized money and peer-to-peer technology, the urge to financialize is obvious, because what other value or utility can you even attempt to provide?" - Allen & Anders Check out the full write up with numerous links and references for digging deeper into the ideas discussed: https://www.uncerto.com/green-eggs-and-ham Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 10% off everything in the store until Christmas! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 5,000 FREE SATS at (https://guyswann.com/fold) • The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

This is the full, unabridged reading of Alex Gladstein's work, "STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: HOW THE IMF AND WORLD BANK REPRESS POOR COUNTRIES AND FUNNEL THEIR RESOURCES TO RICH ONES" published with Bitcoin Magazine. Link to the original read for the plethora of links and references to dig further into this incredible story. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/imf-world-bank-repress-poor-countries Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 10% off everything in the store until Christmas! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 5,000 FREE SATS at (https://guyswann.com/fold) • The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Research from Mexico — a typical country in terms of consistent involvement historically from the Bank and Fund — shows that for every 2% decrease in GDP, the mortality rate increased by 1%. Now consider that as a result of structural adjustment, the GDP of dozens of countries in the Third World between the 1960s and 1990s suffered double-digit contractions. Despite massive population growth, many of these economies stagnated or shrank over 15-25 year periods. Meaning: the Bank and the Fund’s policies likely killed tens of millions of people." - Alex Gladstein Today we finally complete Gladstein's amazing piece on the parasitic system being perpetrated and expanded by the IMF and World Bank, and touching on the faint hope that its days may finally be numbered. We are jumping right into the middle of it, so don't forget to listen to Part 1, 2, & 3 if you haven't yet, otherwise this will be confusing, lol: Part 1: https://fountain.fm/episode/11987932208 Part 2: https://fountain.fm/episode/12038350484 Part 3: https://fountain.fm/episode/12147135095 Part 4: https://fountain.fm/episode/12318519841 To explore the ColdCard hardware wallet and the many amazing additional features and uses it has I highly recommend BTCsessions youtube channel here: Mentioned in the show for further exploring how our monetary practices strip the US of its manufacturing & productive base, here is Farrington's "Capital Strip Mine": https://fountain.fm/episode/1798299217 Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 10% off everything in the store until Christmas! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 5,000 FREE SATS at (https://guyswann.com/fold) • The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy) -------------------------------------- "There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom.” – Murray Rothbard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"The “generosity” of the West enabled unaccountable leaders to plunge their nations into debt deeper than ever before. The system was, as Payer writes in “Lent And Lost,” a straightforward Ponzi scheme: the new loans went straight to paying for the old loans. The system needed to grow to avoid collapse." - Alex Gladstein WERE BACK! We've got a bit of a lengthy introduction today while I mostly apologize and ramble about why I missed more than a weeks worth of episodes, but we are getting back into it with a huge backlog of amazing reads I have been eager to dive into over the holidays! To start us off we are going to conclude the incredible novel, I mean article, by Alex Gladstein on the IMF and World Bank's exploitation of the third world. We are jumping right into the middle of it, so don't forget to listen to Part 1, 2, & 3 if you haven't yet, otherwise this will be confusing, lol: Part 1: https://fountain.fm/episode/11987932208 Part 2: https://fountain.fm/episode/12038350484 Part 3: https://fountain.fm/episode/12147135095 To explore the ColdCard hardware wallet and the many amazing additional features and uses it has I highly recommend BTCsessions youtube channel here: Mentioned in the show for further exploring how our monetary practices strip the US of its manufacturing & productive base, here is Farrington's "Capital Strip Mine": https://fountain.fm/episode/1798299217 Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 10% off everything in the store until Christmas! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 5,000 FREE SATS at (https://guyswann.com/fold) • The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy) -------------------------------------- "I, However place economy among the first and most important of virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." – Thomas Jefferson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Far from playing the role of good samaritan, the Fund does not even follow the timeless human tradition, established more than 4,000 years ago by Hammurabi in ancient Babylon, of forgiving interest after natural disasters. In 1985, a devastating earthquake hit Mexico City, killing more than 5,000 people and causing $5 billion of damage. Fund staff — who claim to be saviors, helping to end poverty and save countries in crisis — arrived a few days later, demanding to be repaid." - Alex Gladstein If you aren't pissed off yet with Parts 1 & 2, this section is surely to push you over the edge. Spoiler alert, the IMF and World Bank are massive rackets that are purposefully destroying the productive independence and food security of poor nations to essentially enslave them in an obscure way, like any coward, through debt and monetary control, rather than openly through political domination. Listen to Part 3 to find out how. We are jumping right into the middle of it, so don't forget to listen to Part 1 and 2 if you haven't yet, otherwise this will be confusing, lol: Part 1: https://fountain.fm/episode/11987932208 Part 2: https://fountain.fm/episode/12038350484 Mentioned in the show for further exploring how our monetary practices strip the US of its manufacturing & productive base, here is Farrington's "Capital Strip Mine": https://fountain.fm/episode/1798299217 Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 10% off everything in the store until Christmas! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 5,000 FREE SATS at (https://guyswann.com/fold) • The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy) -------------------------------------- "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have" ― Thomas Jefferson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"To give an example of what this might look like in a given year, in 2012 developing countries received $1.3 trillion, including all income, aid and investment. But that same year, more than $3.3 trillion flowed out. In other words, according to anthropologist Jason Hickel, “developing countries sent $2 trillion more to the rest of the world than they received.” When all the flows were added up from 1960 to 2017, a grim truth emerged: $62 trillion was drained out of the developing world" - Alex Gladstein Today we continue through Gladstein's incredible exploration of the monetary damage and systems of monetary colonialism established through the parasitic practices of the IMF and World Bank. I promise its worse than you think it is, and at the end of this episode we will only be about halfway through it. Hold onto your butts, this gets crazy. Listen to Part 1 if you haven't yet, as we are jumping right into the middle of this read in today's show. Also I edited and fixed the missing Guy's Take from yesterday's show, so if you haven't, it might be a good addition to go back and revisit: https://fountain.fm/episode/11987932208 Mentioned in the show for further exploring how our monetary practices strip the US of its manufacturing & productive base, here is Farrington's "Capital Strip Mine": https://fountain.fm/episode/1798299217 Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 10% off everything in the store until Christmas! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 5,000 FREE SATS at (https://guyswann.com/fold) • The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy) -------------------------------------- “It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” ― Mark Twain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message