TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#407: FedNow is not a CBDC with Matthew Mežinskis

Sitting down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q4 2022 Monetary Base update, the banking crisis, CBDCs, and more Follow Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crypto_voices 9:14 - Q4 update, just in time for Q1 13:3...

2023-03-23 Video Audio

Episode notes

Sitting down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q4 2022 Monetary Base update, the banking crisis, CBDCs, and more


Follow Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crypto_voices


9:14 - Q4 update, just in time for Q1

13:32 - Bitcoin price

22:29 - The results of raising interest

24:42 - Bond duration risk

32:30 - QE5

34:40 - Choke Point 2.0

38:14 - Balaji's price prediction

46:53 - FedNow

55:04 - CDBC destroying big banks

1:00:09 - US state rights

1:05:21 - Flaring natural gas

1:11:00 - Blood in the water, Bitcoin is the way out

1:19:18 - Custodia Bank

1:27:17 - Black markets and civil disobedience

1:31:09 - Monetary base

1:39:09 - Back to CBDCs

1:45:33 - Bitcoin's rank in monetary base

1:47:22 - We're gonna win

1:59:39 - Gold and Silver

2:06:19 - Wrapping up


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