In this episode with Tim Braheem, we discuss the properties of sound money, central banking, the incentives for armed conflict, and why Bitcoin is the best peace-making technology.
Tim Braheem is the Founder and CEO of Performance Experts and the host of The 360 Experience podcast.
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// OUTLINE //
00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:38 - Intro
00:02:11 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:02:57 - Introducing Robert Breedlove
00:03:22 - Robert's Europe Tour
00:04:36 - The Questions of Significance
00:06:03 - Insufficiency and Indispensability of Language
00:08:47 - Understanding the Nature of Money
00:10:39 - Money: A Universal Medium of Exchange
00:12:57 - Money: The Most Marketable Commodity
00:17:25 - Money Emerges from Trading
00:19:12 - Properties of Good Money
00:22:11 - Money Needs to Be Expensive to Produce
00:25:53 - Counterfeiting of Money
00:27:57 - Retaining Purchasing Power
00:32:37 - Counterfeiting Monopoly of the US Dollar
00:36:27 - Winners & Losers in Central Banking Paradigm
00:41:04 - Simplifying Currency Inflation
00:43:29 - Advantage of Investing in Real-Estate
00:47:40 - Why Gold Became Money
00:54:16 - Warehousing of Gold
00:57:23 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:58:20 - Introduction of Gold-Backed Currency Standard
01:01:12 - Problems with a Fractional Reserve Banking
01:05:57 - Central Banks and War Incentives
01:11:36 - A Centrally Controlled Gold Standard
01:13:53 - Introduction of the Fiat Standard in 1971
01:19:25 - Intital Stage of the Bitcoin Rabbithole
01:23:43 - The $100 Trillion Question
01:26:14 - What is Bitcoin
01:28:56 - The Intangibility of Bitcoin
01:34:40 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
01:35:31 - Comprehending the Non-Physical Nature of Bitcoin
01:37:22 - Bitcoin Resembles the Properties of Good Money
01:41:34 - Bitcoin: An Asset with Absolute Scarcity
01:44:01 - The Emerging Consensus of Bitcoin
01:47:32 - Bitcoin: A Money with Zero Percent Inflation
01:49:49 - Bitcoin is More Than an Invention
01:50:45 - Production Cost of Money
01:52:35 - The Supply and Demand Ratio
01:54:14 - Perfect Information in a Financial System
01:58:07 - The Biggest Fear About Bitcoin
01:59:14 - Bitcoin’s Price Prediction
02:07:20 - Why Bitcoin
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