The Bitcoin Matrix

For this insightful and highly informative episode Cedric sits down again with Bitcoin author and thinker Brandon Quittem for a wide ranging conversation about Bitcoin as a pioneer species, ecology, how utilizing more energy and not less will save the planet and why he's so optimistic about the future even as we go through another fourth turning.

Brandon is an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, and passionate Bitcoiner. He's currently building SwanBitcoin.com which is the best place to buy Bitcoin in the US.

His articles have been read by more than 2 million people online. Most well known for exploring the parallels between Bitcoin and mycelium.

His superpower is taking complex information and turning it into simple, actionable, intelligence.

When he's not helping bitcoin companies, he spends most of his “work time” reading, writing, and speaking.

Check out our first conversation together here:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brandon-quittem-the-bitcoin-mycologist-on-the/id1534519469?i=1000499188949

Bitcoin is a fungus. If you cleave a piece off, you're just making more. It cannot be stopped, no matter how hard governments, detractors, or other obstacles may stand in its way. Brandon and Ced ponder a potential Second Civil War, psychedelics, Millennial thinking vs Zoomer thinking, and where we stand in The Fourth Turning. In all of this turmoil, how does Bitcoin reduce suffering?

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An important practice in raising children is reading to them.

My guests today, Chris and Frieda Bobay have created a wonderful children's book, Bitcoin for Kiddos.

Our kids are the future and the book "Bitcoin for Kiddos" which was written and illustrated by Chris and Frieda Bobay was born out of a lack of educational material for children around this digital asset.

Chris and Frieda wanted to start a fun and engaging dialogue with kids on the subject of money and where Bitcoin fits in. The world is constantly changing around us and the money is changing too.

As everything becomes more digitized we as parents must do our best to keep up and continue our education. We discuss how Chris and Frieda believe that Bitcoin is a monetary system that provides an even playing field and will give our children the best chance at a bright future.

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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.

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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

In this fresh & timely chat, Flip from Bitcoin Magazine & I discuss:

A very exciting day in Bitcoin, $10k candles & Elon Musk

Bitcoin 2021 FOMO, surprises & anticipation

Bitcoin as a ubiquitous data layer

Proof of existence, decentralized identity & sparse data

How Bitcoin is really a global database for deriving truth

Working at a media company squarely in the middle of a financial revolution

His rabbit hole story & how Bitcoin made him think deeply about freedom