![Read_611 - The Freedom of Value [Dergig]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/B457B119B778E4E43A79785299D36810_small.jpg)
Read_611 - The Freedom of Value [Dergig]
"Thus, given enough time and popularity, every movie, every song, and every document will be available to the general public for free. The nature of information does not allow for another outcome. Hen...
17 Mars 20221h 7min
![Read_610 - The Invisible Cost of War - Part 2 [Alex Gladstein]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/B457B119B778E4E43A79785299D36810_small.jpg)
Read_610 - The Invisible Cost of War - Part 2 [Alex Gladstein]
"In sum, the U.S. government has shown that — through the GFC, repo spike crisis in 2019 and pandemic crisis in 2020 — it is willing to do anything to keep interest rates down: start an experimental Q...
15 Mars 20221h 20min
![Read_609 - The Invisible Cost of War - Part 1 [Alex Gladstein]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/B457B119B778E4E43A79785299D36810_small.jpg)
Read_609 - The Invisible Cost of War - Part 1 [Alex Gladstein]
"As detailed in Saifedean Ammous’s “The Fiat Standard,” in November 1914 the British government “issued the first war bond, aiming to raise 350 million pounds from private investors at an interest rat...
11 Mars 20221h 15min
![Read_608 - Want to Stick it to the Elites? Use Bitcoin [Avik Roy]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/B457B119B778E4E43A79785299D36810_small.jpg)
Read_608 - Want to Stick it to the Elites? Use Bitcoin [Avik Roy]
"Aspiring Republican politicians and conservative opinionators love talking in darkened tones about the malevolence of elites. And yet, for all the fingers wagged and pixels rendered, conservatives ha...
2 Mars 202259min
![Read_607 - Implications of Outlawing Bitcoin [Dergigi]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/B457B119B778E4E43A79785299D36810_small.jpg)
Read_607 - Implications of Outlawing Bitcoin [Dergigi]
"If having 12 words in your head is illegal, something is terribly wrong with the law. If the police storm your building because you are finding or creating a random number in the privacy of your own ...
1 Mars 202253min
![Read_606 - Lightning is a Liquidity Network [Roy Sheinfeld]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/B457B119B778E4E43A79785299D36810_small.jpg)
Read_606 - Lightning is a Liquidity Network [Roy Sheinfeld]
"Only liquid, flowing capital generates a return. Unlike a bank account, capital on Lightning is productive when it is mobile, not at rest. That’s why flow is so essential. The more capital flows, the...
24 Feb 202249min
![Read_605 - Bitcoin Behind the Veil [Craig Warmke]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/B457B119B778E4E43A79785299D36810_small.jpg)
Read_605 - Bitcoin Behind the Veil [Craig Warmke]
"People tend to favor proposals that would benefit themselves and reject proposals that, at their own expense, would benefit others. If you were wealthy, you’d probably reject calls for higher taxes a...
23 Feb 202256min
![Read_604 - I Was Wrong, We Need Crypto [David Hansson]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/B457B119B778E4E43A79785299D36810_small.jpg)
Read_604 - I Was Wrong, We Need Crypto [David Hansson]
"Now what's that saying again. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you. It's starting to smell like that. Just because Bitcoin's most virtuous argument was presented – in if no...
22 Feb 202251min



















