The Bitcoin Matrix

Nik Bhatia is a financial researcher, CFA charterholder, and Adjunct Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Securities where he teaches Applied Finance in Fixed Income Securities. Previously, Nik worked the US Treasuries trading desk for a large institutional asset manager and has extensinve trading experience in money markets and interest rate futures. After starting his teaching career, Nik felt the urge to bring his research on both the international monetary system and Bitcoin together as one to write Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies. He has a BA in Social Sciences from USC and a Masters in Finance from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain.  We discuss US Treasuries, the Gold Florin, the discipline of hard money, how banks use their balance sheets to create money, the US vs China, CBDCs, are financial panics avoidable in a fractional reserve system, Hal Finney and so much more.  Ledn provides financial products to help you unlock the power of digital assets. With a secure and easy-to-use platform, it’s the simplest way to earn interest, borrow, and trade your BTC and USDC with some of the industry’s best rates. First in class when it comes to accountability and transparency, Ledn offers Proof of Reserves attestations and a highly responsive client success team, giving you peace of mind while you make the most of your Bitcoin. Learn more, sign up, and start earning at https://start.ledn.io/bitcoinmatrix. Use this code to take a LEDN loan and we both get $25 USDC.  Follow Nik @timevalueofbtc Check out his website LayeredMoney.com Buy Layered Money here: www.amazon.com/dp/1736110527 Make sure to subscribe, listen, learn and share the Bitcoin Matrix podcast. Follow the Bitcoin Matrix on twitter @delabtcmatrix Follow me on Twitter @CedYoungelman    

Hass McCook AKA Friar Hass is a Retired Chartered Professional Civil Engineer, researching & writing on Bitcoin's environmental, economic & spiritual impact since 2014. Recently he has written several articles about Bitcoin’s positive environmental impact including Projecting Bitcoin’s Future Energy Use, Bitcoin Emits Less Than 2% of the Worlds Military-Industrial Complex Carbon Emissions, Bitcoin Emits Less Than 5% of the Legacy Financial Sector’s Carbon Emissions & A Comparison of Bitcoin’s Environmental Impact with that of Gold & Banking all published in Bitcoin Magazine along with several other notable pieces including The Passion of the Believers which was published on his medium blog & also The Bitcoin Time Volume 2. We discuss #Bitcoin as a religion, submission, economic judgement day, hereafter, why you shouldn't let your memes be dreams & how price is the story

Freelance artist Jessica Vaugn is a writer, photographer and model who is best known for her work with the legendary brand Playboy. Jessica started tumbling down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole in 2020. She says that it completely changed her life and the way she views the world. As a freelancer, she’s always been keen on making independent choices. But it wasn’t until the pandemic lockdowns, that she realized government-run economic systems limited her personal freedoms.  Aleks Svetski is the host of the dope af Wake Up podcast, the Founder and CEO of Bitcoin Exhange - Amber, the Editor of the Bitcoin Times, the author of several seminal and influential pieces including Utopian Dystopias, Discrimination and Diversity, Dumb People, Resistance is not Futile, Why Liberty Matters and the Rise of the Individual. Zooming in from on location in El Salvador, the three of us had a wide ranging conversation about reinvention, the balkanization of America, Covid, depression, slave labor in China, Hollywood, identity politics, betrayal,  cultural detoxing, chemical zombies, is the MMA fight game analogous to all of life, getting arrested for not wearing a mask and how levels of consciousness are similar to floors in a Manhattan skyscraper.  

In this wide-ranging & engaging conversation with Adam Meister AKA The Bitcoin Meister AKA The Disrupt Meister AKA The Strong Handed Unique Beast joins me to discuss: - The worship of complexity - Personal responsibility as the new counter-culture - The cowboy spirit of America - Will Elon Musk fork Btc? - El Salvador, Fedcoins, Roger Ver, Mike Hearn, the block-size wars, Tone Vayes, Giacomo Zuco attacking Trace Meyer in Las Vegas, Nic Carter, Richard Heart, Erik Vorhees, American Hodl, Biden, Trump, Warren, De Santis, lockdowns, tyranny of the majority, secession, Bitcoin & so much freaking more  Adam was on fire for the whole time & there were even some tears. I hope you enjoy this one as much as I did.

"Most people don’t understand the cost of being free or the cost of having masters." Lamar Wilson AKA Big Marh is a long time bitcoiner, software developer & Co-founder of the Black Bitcoin Billionaires group on Clubhouse where he holds court almost every single day. In this wide-ranging conversation Lamar joins me to discuss love, freedom, humor, motivation, community building, debt slavery, the Federal Reserve, Elon Musk, entrepreneurism, spending two btc on a transmission, his rabbit hole story, the man at the bottom of the mountain, why people are in bondage because of their money & how if you're grinning, you're winning. "Bitcoin is planting apple trees, not weeds"

"I'm not leaving the world for my children the way the boomers left the world for us." In this wide ranging conversation with Clancy Rodgers from Citadel 21 U.S. who is also a Hodling Artist, Tolling Queen, Big Titty Toxic Bitch & the author of What Happens When Walmart Buys $1 Billion Of Bitcoin? recently published in Bitcoin Magazine, Clancy zooms in to talk about how her family's photos were hacked, the death of her ego, shitposting on Facebook & Twitter, the 2020 election, Obama, Melinda & Bill Gates, the Clinton Foundation, woke left cancel culture, civil war, Covid-19, the CDC, the memes & toxicity, normies, the battle between dark & light, her fuck you status & how Bitcoin holds everyone accountable & so much more.  

Pierre Rochard has been involved with Bitcoin as a researcher, investor, and software developer since February 2013. He co-founded the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute to curate the best primary source literature on Bitcoin and cryptography. In addition to developing Bitcoin software, Pierre is an outspoken advocate for Bitcoin's decentralized governance. In 2017 he began co-hosting the Noded Bitcoin Podcast. Pierre is widely recognized as an authority on the investment case for Bitcoin.   We discuss: - Is Gresham’s law the most misunderstood law in monetary economics  - How 2021 separated the fixed from the variable - Is China preparing an attack on Bitcoin  - How do external parties see bitcoin  - What drives bitcoin adoption  - Is the dollar cooked  - Bitcoin FOMO, ADHD & PISD  - Is El Salvador the real deal  - How many genocides has the UN prevented  - Btc price action, speculative attacks, China, El Salvador, the banks, NYDIG, CBDCs, commercial banks, Jack Mallers, France, nuclear power, Brad Sherman, Cypress, bank bail-ins, Thiers Law, Gresham’s Law, cultural marxism, HELOCs, George Soros, super cycles, Mircea Popescu and so much more  

"We’re not entering a dark age, we’ve been in one."  Michael Krieger gradually recognized that his true passion centers upon writing on issues of significant societal importance given the extremely challenging times we live in. This realization culminated with his losing interest in financial markets & eventually launching his website Liberty Blitzkrieg in early 2012. In this very special conversation we discuss: - Leaving the crowded streets of Manhattan for the open spaces of Boulder - How vaccine passports are a red line - Is humanity forking - Will there be free-range humans & caged humans - Are they trying to fundamentally change America & the nature of who we are - Was 2020 the nadir - How the entire 21st century has been a disaster for the U.S.A. - Gardening, cycles, dealing with nature & happenstance  - Lehman Brothers, 9/11, Elon Musk, Elizabeth Warren, Donald Trump, El Savlador, the Berlin Wall, psy ops, egotism, the pleb network, memes, Bitcoin & so much more

Stephen Chow is an art patron - 100% of his savings goes to supporting his favorite living artists. His goal is to support living artists from as many cultures as he can, working in a wide variety of mediums and cultural traditions. He would rather sponsor ONE new masterpiece from an artist of his choosing, at his own expense, knowing full well that it could fail, than be given ALL of the lost masterpieces in the history of art. In his free time, he transcribes Bitcoin podcasts into the written word. In this chat we discuss: - Finding works that leave a legacy - Connecting with artists - How many neglected geniuses don't have an audience - Does the patron influence the work - The idea behind patronage - The effects Bitcoin has had on his mission  - & more  

“Everybody is up to their eyeballs in debt, but they can’t make the price of credit any cheaper.”  Dylan LeClair is the author of The Conclusion of the Long Term Debt Cycle & the Rise of Bitcoin. He writes content about on-chain analytics & the financial markets for Bitcoin Magazine. We discuss: - How bitcoin is designed to pump forever - Are we at a midcycle peak - Is it risky to borrow to buy btc - QE, UBI, El Salvador, the Triffin Dilemma, Michael Saylor, how cash is trash & more