The Bitcoin Matrix

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

Race car driver and former professional baseball pitcher C.J. Wilson zooms in to discuss: - Dealing with setbacks and playing through pain - Life as a game and a series of calculated bets - Not letting anything get in your way - His Bitcoin rabbit hole story (of course) - 10 ways to be an All Star Bitcoiner - and much more Need to starting stacking sats or looking for the best place to DCA. Here's $10 of free Bitcoin to get you started: www.swanbitcoin.com/CedricYoungelman/

Kiara Bickers, author of Bitcoin Clairity: The Complete Beginners Guide to Understanding Bitcoin sits down with Cedric to discuss: - the challenges to understanding Bitcoin - separating technical concepts from industry jargon - finding the signal in the noise - control loops & feedback - the magic of double entry accounting & double think - how full nodes & miners are similar to the manager worker relationship - the alchemy of mining - the potential dangers of blockchains - and much more

Stephan Livera sits down with Ced to explore Austrian Economics from the Bitcoiners Perspective. We discuss: - How did government intervention make money what it is today - Is the government drinking your milkshake - How does number go up technology really work - Does fiat remove the future consequences of our bad decisions - How does soft money cut against the role of the family & community - What are the issues with fractional reserve banking - Is this the final cycle - & much, much, more

Ced sits down with Jordan Bush, co-author of Thank God For Bitcoin to explore the ways in which the current monetary system is broken & what can be done to fix it. We look at how Bitcoin is redeeming the ills of society & how the ongoing transition to sound money is a source of hope for a broken world.

In this deep & wide ranging conversation with John Vallis, the host of the Bitcoin Rapid Fire podcast we sit down to discuss the most important virtues in his life: truth, freedom, curiosity, possibility & how after an unforgettable year, he's most bullish on Bitcoiners. John Vallis is cool as fuck and this chat with him was such a blast. Just fuck me already Bitcoin.