Mark is the former editor in chief of Bitcoin Magazine and the author of The Bitcoin-Dollar: An Economic Monomyth. In this episode, we discuss the evolution of the Bitcoin-dollar thesis, Tether, and Bitcoin as a tool for challenging state power. We also get into the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, if Bitcoin was created by intelligence agencies, and Mark's latest article, The Evolution of the Militarized Data Broker. MASSIVE THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:  IREN: https://www.iren.com/ RIVER: https://river.com/wbd CASA: https://casa.io/  LEDGER: https://www.ledger.com/