The Bitcoin Matrix

Justin Rhedrick is best known as the Bitcoin Vegan & a Bitcoin Educator. After getting released from prison, Justin was tired of running the rat race, the seemingly never-ending paycheck to paycheck cycle & that’s when he decided to learn about Bitcoin. We discuss: - His opportunities & plans coming out of prison - Breaking cycles - Mindset of an early adopter - How to stop caring about obstacles - Levelling up & staying the course - How there is no privilege here - & more

Erik Cason is a crypto-anarchist, makarismos, & iconoclast thinker writing about the social ramifications of bitcoin & the Director of Client Services at Unchained Capital. We discuss: - The place of law in society - Who gets to create the exception - How Bitcoin creates a new social contract - The perpetual & exceptional state of emergency since WW2 - Bitcoin as the base layer for a new kind of commonwealth - The secret nature of the war against you - Blinding the sovereign - & so much more

Greg Foss has over 30 years experience in high-yield credit trading & capital structure arbitrage. We sit down to discuss: - High yield trading, credit default swaps & Bitcoin as the Anti-Fiat - Why Bitcoin is extremely cheap default insurance & the best asymmetric trade - The wholesale transfer of risk to government  - If the next financial crisis is the last - How there is no other buyer of last resort   - 2008 GFC, The Big Short, QE, TARP, bailouts, LTCM, CBDCs & pension funds - & so much more

Knut Svanholm author of Sovereignty through Mathematics, Independence Reimagined, Everything There is Divided by 21 Million Bitcoin & Bitcoin & the Separation of Money & State calls in to discuss: - Bitcoin is a mathematical battery & positive force for humanity - The connection between central banking, statism & nationalism - The State as a network in the way that Cancer is a network - How something born of the internet is taking hold of the physical world outside of it - Atheism, Aliencoin & more

Gigi, author of 21 Lessons, What I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole, Bitcoin is Time & Proof of Life sits down to discuss:  - Bitcoin as a force away from a centralized structure - perfect error correction in the digital world - Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment as the magic sauce - can privacy be reclaimed - Bitcoin as a form of speech - how speech is inherently linked to value - time as a non sensical concept - is time even real - is Bitcoin alive - & so much more

Marty Bent, Editor in Chief of Marty’s Bent, Host of Tales from the Crypt & bringing market to molecule at Great American Mining sits down to discuss: - Harvesting organic waste fuels while securing the world’s first engineered monetary network aka Bitcoin - The moralization of energy cosumption - Government overreach - The amount of energy it takes to secure the US Dollar - Bitcoin, Covid, Dave Portnoy, Barstool Sports, Coinbase, Ben Hunt, Clubhouse & his outlook for 2021 - & so much more

Mark Yusko, Founder, CEO & CIO of Morgan Creek Capital & the Managing Partner of Morgan Creek Digital Assets sits down to discuss: - the difference between price & value - hanging out with the bad guys - the importance of conviction - cash as an investment - the mathematics of loss - the 3:15 train problem- the fads, the frauds & the phonies - demographics as destiny - in & out politics - how money over IP is a substantive, transformative, technological advance - & much more about Bitcoin & investing

In this episode, I sit down with Max Hillebrand, the Rothbardian Crypto Anarchist, Sound Money Agorist, Free software entrepreneur building Bitcoin defensive weapons of war at Wasabi Wallet to discuss: - What the State Is Not - What the State Is - How the State Preserves Itself - Is Science the New God of the State - How the State Transcends Its Limits - The Use of Intellectuals by the State - What the State Fears - How States Relate to One Another - History as a Race Between State & Social Power

In this episode, Cedric sits down with Isaiah Jackson, author of Bitcoin & Black America to discuss: - the effects of the Federal Reserve & inflation on the Black middle class - the relationship between Black America & the media - the Golden Age of Black businesses & entrepreneurship - the circulation of the Black dollar - the state of household wealth in black america - how the Black community should prepare for the next 100 years - & so much more

In this special episode, Cedric sits down with Vijay Boyapati to discuss his seminal piece, The Bullish Case for Bitcoin. We discuss: - digital scarcity & how to value monetary goods - why do humans value scarcity - how money evolves through four stages - path dependence, Gartner hype cycles & the standard S curve - is this the final cycle - the real threats to Bitcoin - the future value of Bitcoin - the moral case for Bitcoin - & so much more