Read_721 – IMF Unveils New Global Currency “Universal Monetary Unit” [Tyler Durden]
“Can you imagine a world in which you are restricted from buying meat for a while because you have already used your “carbon credits” for the month? Your “financial privileges” could potentially be restricted at any time at the whim of a government bureaucrat, and if you are a big enough troublemaker you could be “de-platformed” from the system permanently.” – Tyler Durden
Check out the original article at:
IMF Unveils New Global Currency Known As The “Universal Monetary Unit” To “Transform” World Economy | ZeroHedge: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/imf-unveils-new-global-currency-known-universal-monetary-unit-transform-world-economy
Universal Monetary Unit – Whitepaper: https://umu.cash/documents/umu_whitepaper
What Guy’s Reading:
The Autism Vaccine
Strong Towns
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“Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.” — Patrick Rothfuss
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Read_720 – A History of Bitcoin Maximalism [Jameson Lopp]
“This was how more mainstream Bitcoin culture degraded from intellectual expressions of ideas (2017-era debates) to tribal recreations of the past. The old enemies were replaced with new enemies who were more convenient for the times, but we retained the “Bitcoiners against the world” ethos of the scaling era, which led to many newbies being overly defensive of their beliefs. It’s worth noting that this is a recurring cycle (and of course, a general trope of “the good ol’ days”) because in 2017 people were saying how much better the discussions were in 2014, and in 2014, people missed the discussions of 2011. This is a naturally occurring phenomenon as communities go from niche interest to mainstream.” – Jameson Lopp
Today we cover an amazing breakdown of the history, evolution, and current state of Bitcoin Maximalism as seen through the perspective of Jameson Lopp, an incredible beneficiary to the bitcoin ecosystem, and long time maximalist and OG. Lopp has been an incredible resource over the years, and brings us a thorough breakdown of his views on how the Bitcoin only ethos arose, and why he thinks its found itself where it is today. This is not to be missed.
The other episode mentioned numerous times in this article covering the ideas around Bitcoin Maximalism, non monetary use of the timechain, how to define bitcoin and its culture, and the viability of token networks and “crypto assets” for other utility…
Guy’s Take #59 – We’re Not Going Anywhere
Only the Strong Survive:
Part 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6qqHSEmFr6B8kSjAWAGRpU?si=7a05972ff1984f8a
Part 2: https://open.spotify.com/episode/02VuP9RlAmhivBGhiUFNQZ?si=bd2e130558664310
Part 3: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5GZmKFBcVhH500YyONWKIh?si=e10ad36fba8647f6
Chat #79 – The Spirit of Bitcoin with John Vallis
Chat #77 – Stone Cold Storage in a Fiat World with NVK
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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius
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Read_719 – All You Can Hold for Five Bucks [Joseph Mitchell]
““In the old days they didn’t even use tables and chairs. They sat on beer crates and ate off the tops of beer barrels. You’d be surprised how much fun that was. Somehow it made old men feel young again. And they’d drink beer out of cans or growlers. Those beefsteaks were run in halls or the cellars or back rooms of big saloons. There was always sawdust on the floor. Sometimes they had one in a bowling alley. They would cover the alleys with tarpaulin and set the boxes and barrels in the aisles. The men ate with their fingers. They never served potatoes in those days. Too filling. They take up room that rightfully belongs to meat and beer.”
Have you ever been to a TRUE beefsteak, do you even know what one is? AwaySlice throws the most epic of beefsteaks and there is one coming very soon in Miami around the Bitcoin2023 conference. Stay tuned and if he sharees the link with me, I will have it here in the show notes, so don’t forget to check back.
But today we dive into the article he shares on the tradition, the origins, and the heart of where the beefsteak began. Written in 1939, it is both fascinating and hilarious merely as a representation of the times, and is equal parts mouth watering in its description of the food and festivities. If you don’t walk away dreaming of steak and beer, then you weren’t paying attention. Stay to the end for one of my favorite quotes that needed a fitting read, and this one felt like it.
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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” — Hunter S. Thompson
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Read_718 – Bitcoin Does Not Waste Electricity [Beautyon_}
“Of all the objections to Bitcoin, the objection that it “wastes” electricity is the most absurd. This thinking betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how electricity works, how markets work, and what waste is.” – Beautyon
Today we take a break from all the discussion of doom and impending economic obliteration to hit a favorite topic of mine, from a simple, but important angle. This article came back across my view and I realized it was one I had never covered and thought it would make for a good short episode and rant. Enjoy!
Check out the original article at: Bitcoin Doesn’t Waste Electricity
Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0n4BDOodSPaIB5HpksnJOT?si=528e08bc58c340d0
Bitcoin Mining & The Grid: https://open.spotify.com/episode/46lS7ZWR5RKTM4MlRV7Jtu?si=8c3457e9ab9443ac
Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0TlohX5A2CiBCe2eumoVBY?si=d1af7355e52c4d4e
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels: https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Case-for-Fossil-Fuels-audiobook/dp/B00TRA7ZCK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=moral+case+fossil+fuels&sr=8-1
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“There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.” ― Hans Rosling
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Read_717 – How To Wreck a Big Old GSIB [DeepThroatIPO]
“Generally, what we’re talking about here is unregulated (or lightly regulated), uninsured investors, LLCs, Funds and privately controlled “Shadow Banking” assets. In 2021, these OFI Assets scattered around the planet amounted to $152.0 Trillion (Again, not including China’s non reported OFI) or roughly 172 x JP Morgan’s relatively miniscule $884 Billion of Cash and Equivalents immediately available to liquidate/sell/wire-out without generating a FASB 115 loss.
I hope this simple calculation puts the JP Morgan/Chase “fortress like” Balance Sheet in perspective. JP Morgan/Chase, America’s biggest bank, through our own, expansive, monetary policy, has become but a pimple on the global financial system’s buttocks.” – DTIPO
Today we dive into a really fascinating thought experiment on the Western Financial System from an adversarial position. Has the West become too arrogant to assume that no one would attack them? That because of their sheer size, they are protected? That they are “indispensable” in such a way that no wealthy nation could or would attack them, even as they use their monetary system explicitly as a weapon against competitor nations? Nations, in fact, that may have a large interest in seeing the Western system implode? What if we run the numbers and see what that risk really is…
Check out the original to follow the links to verify or check out the data yourself. I’d be eager to see further discussion of this possibility and what, if anything, can truly be done to secure such a levered and bloated financial system from attack. And check out the many other things they cover below:
http://www.deepthroatipo.com/how-to-wreck-a-big-old-gsib-bank/
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“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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Read_716 – How to Fix Banking & Money – PBDC vs CBDC [El Gato]
“and the uniparty is in strong agreement here. both know that losing control of the money and the banks is an existential threat to their aristocratic and unaccountable powers.
sure, this all sounds like a lot of change and a lot of risk and a wildly new set of systems, but you’re not going to fix that which has become this broken without change. the mal and mis-incentives are far too great and the entrenched interests like it this way. and it’s going to break.” – El Gato
Today we dive into a piece that expands a thought experiment on what a free banking system might look like and what historical precedent we have for thinking about the what and why of the banking and financial system we will need to replace the one on its deathbed… especially to ensure we don’t die with it. Funny enough, the article is in a sense against Bitcoin in the sense of its need for fixing the baking system, but we will discuss in a follow up Guy’s Take exactly why his idea has a lot of value, but why it will never work, without Bitcoin. Stay tuned.
Check out the original article and tons of other great reading on the substack below:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/how-to-fix-banking-and-money-pbdc
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“I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”
— Thomas Sowell
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Read_715 – Clear and Present Danger [Joel Bowman]
“Thus was the dubious “clear and present danger” standard born. Holmes himself sought to redefine the standard later that same year when he dissented in Abrams v. United States (1919). The Justice felt that the court was not applying his own standard appropriately and openly questioned the government’s ability to limit free speech. But by then, the slippery standard was off and racing. It would fly for another half century…” – Joel Bowman
Ever wondered where the oft used, infuriating excuse for outright censorship, “well you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater,” came from? Where its origins lie? Would it surprise you that it had nothing to do with a theater, it had nothing to do with people being harmed over a lie, but ironically, it was used to censor speech criticizing the government and attempting to *protect* people from clear and deliberate harm? Me neither, but it’s a very interesting historical episode either way. Listen to find out more.
Check out the original article and their substack at the link below:
https://bonnerprivateresearch.substack.com/p/fire-fire-fire
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“Coercion is evil precisely because it…eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another.” – F.A. Hayek
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Read_714 – Bitcoin’s Meme Wars [DerGigi]
“The question that the fiat system answers is the following: who is allowed to counterfeit currency, and how much? Further, who is allowed to have access to money, and who isn’t? The answer is political and enforced by violence.
The Bitcoin system is answering the same questions, and the answers are as simple as they are ethical: nobody is allowed to counterfeit money, and anyone can access it. No exceptions.” – Gigi
Today we dive into an amazing piece published at Citadel21, and by the one and only Gigi, on the ethics encoded in the Fiat and Bitcoin systems, and how they make or break the human soul. The rules of the game establish how we relate to it, and how we can understand the purpose and meaning in its play. The best way to demoralize a person & make their efforts meaningless is to “change the rules, change them often, and change them arbitrarily.”
Check out the original article at:
https://www.citadel21.com/bitcoins-meme-wars
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“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Read_713 – How the Fed “Went Broke” [Lyn Alden]
“The financial system in the United States, and for most of the rest of the world for that matter, can basically be thought of as an Excel spreadsheet managed by the Federal Reserve. That’s all it really is. Some of the cells on the spreadsheet are assets, and some of the cells are liabilities. It’s just a ledger that they administrate, and that we all use.” – Lyn Alden
A subtle but important shift has occurred recently… the Fed became, for the first time in modern history, unprofitable. Lyn Alden breaks down how this has come about and what it does and does not mean. How does a central bank that can print its own money become unprofitable exactly, and what does it mean for the future of the United States federal government? Today’s episode is one not to miss if you are curious…
Check out the original article and the numerous charts that show the degree of the change at: https://www.lynalden.com/broke-federal-reserve/
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“If history shows anything, it is that there’s no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it’s the victim who’s doing something wrong.” ― David Graeber
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Read_712 – Lightning Prisms [DerGigi]
“One aspect that is still massively under-utilized is the programmability of Bitcoin. While simple things like scheduled payments and automated payment splits do exist, we are undoubtedly still trapped in conventional thinking when it comes to the flow of sats.
I’d like to share a simple idea that was shared with me a couple of months ago in the hopes that it will spread far and wide and, in the best case, that someone will just go ahead and implement it. (Or a better version of it.)
Here is the idea…” – DerGigi
Check out the article at the link: https://dergigi.com/2023/03/12/lightning-prisms/
And send any tips to blogpost@satprism.com if you want to split between Gigi and Mr. Kukks.
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“Creativity is intelligence having fun” – Albert Einstein
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Read_711 – The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 2 [Matthew Pines]
“One immediate lesson many drew from this event was a reconsideration of the risk of fiat liabilities in an environment where trust is lacking (including the trust not to violate territorial integrity and Westphalian sovereignty). This event reinforced the nature of fiat money as a system of centrally maintained ledger entries denominating a unit of account corresponding to a sovereign authority’s sphere of power. As such, the use of such a liability as a medium of exchange (or store of value) is contingent on the political assent of that sovereign authority.” – Matthew Pines
Today we finish Matthew Pines excellent piece breaking down the domains of geopolitical and monetary contest across the major political forces in the world. In Part 2 we lay out the potential outcomes and shifts likely to take place, where the greatest opportunities and risk may lie for certain blocs of state actors, and how Bitcoin is likely to fit into this new, global, monetary disorder. This is a great one for a foundation on the movements of the geopolitical world.
Mentioned in the guy’s take was my recent show with John Vallis on the banking crisis: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2sdikMa9kJ0d8yJF4cCxA4?si=c35f279d350d4baa
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“If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.” — Ayn Rand
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Read_710 – The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 1 [Matthew Pines]
“The 20th century was the first where technology enabled forms of violent state competition, as well as peaceful globalization, across the full scale of the Earth. Moreover, the same technology made possible the organization of massive state systems to project power and maintain integrated, centralized control over large, diverse populations and cultures.” – Matthew Pines
Bitcoin Audible is officially 5 years old today! And what a time to be celebrating an anniversary for the show than with a banking crisis and an incredible piece by Matthew Pines on the unraveling of the global monetary and political order and how and where Bitcoin is likely to play its most important role. Don’t miss this incredible piece with part 1 today, and the conclusion in tomorrow’s episode.
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