Ep.5: JAN3/Ex-Blockstream's Samson Mow – Convenience or Privacy: CBDCs, Digital IDs, an Upgrade?
Release Date: 11/04/2024
Adam Back: BSTR - The Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company (BTCTCs Subseries 003)
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Adam Back (https://x.com/@adam3us) is the legendary cypherpunk whose early work on Hashcash inspired Satoshi Nakamoto’s Whitepaper on Bitcoin. Fast forward 16 years and the next evolution of money is in the equity markets with Bitcoin treasury companies and Adam is heavily involved both as an investor but also as a founder and financial product engineer with the BTCTC, the Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company (BSTR). Adam joins Richard in the studio to discuss his early days on the cypherpunk scene, his interest in trading, his BTCTC metric months to mNAV cover and his own foray into the...
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Dr. Richard Petty: AI and the Redundant Future
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Dr. Richard Petty (https://cccw.hku.hk/team/petty-richard/) is an international professor, entrepreneur, investor and public policy expert on business, finance, accounting and technology. A prolific author, advisor and speaker on economics, finance, and policy solutions to technological disruption, he is a common keynote speaker at events and programs by financial media, academic institutions, industry bodies and governmental and intergovernmental organizations. Richard joins us in the studio to discuss this important topic of the disruption of AI impacting our current economic models of...
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H100 CEO Sander Andersen: The Winning Mindset – BTCTCs Subseries Ep.2
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Sander Andersen (https://x.com/sanderandersenn) is the CEO of H100 ($H100:NGM, $GS9:FSE, $HOGPF:OTC) (https://h100.group), the Swedish Stock Exchange listed Healthcare Tech Company with this year's most aggressive cap raising strategy to quickly accumulate Bitcoin on its balance sheet. The company listed only in April 2025 at a USD 11mn market cap and introduced the BTC acquisition strategy in May. Now the Nordic region's largest holder of Bitcoin, H100 is at a ~USD 250mn market cap owing to Sander's impressive capital raising prowess, passion for Bitcoin and strategic experience working...
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Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich Part 2: 555 (Go Go Go) – BTCTCs Expert subseries (B001)
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In the inaugural episode of our new BTCTCs subseries at Syz the Future, Simon Gerovich (https://x.com/gerovich) of Metaplanet (3350:JP / $MTPLF) joins Richard (https://x.com/RichardByworth) in the studio for part 2 of our ongoing conversation on Metaplanet and other Bitcoin treasury companies (BTCTCs). The discussion goes in depth on the ins and outs of a functioning BTCTC, from the different mechanisms needed to continually issue shares into the markets in order to accumulate more bitcoin (e.g. ATM) as well as the very unique solution Metaplanet harnessed to achieve the same. We also chat...
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Dr. Chris Knobbe: The Hidden History of Seed Oils
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Dr. Chris Knobbe is an ophthalmologist, clinical professor emeritus, researcher and leading voice in health policy unveiling the hidden dangers of seed oils (aka vegetable oils) in our food supply. Driven by the data showing stark correlations between rising chronic disease (coronary heart disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, alzheimers/dementia, age-related macular degeneration) and the integration of seed oils into our modern diet, Chris left practice to further research and policy advocacy exploring this troubling and commonly unknown link through AMD Foundation (http://amdfoundation.com)...
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David Knight Legg: The Political Strategy of Destabilization (Ep.13)
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David Knight Legg () joins us one year after this pod was first conceived to reflect on a rather tumultuous twelve months. As anticipated David cuts through the headlines and performative politics to precisely hone in on what really is going on underlying the present geopolitical turmoil: the current energy play involving Russia and Iran, Trump’s territorial assertions towards Greenland, the surprising elections in Canada and Australia, and the impact of technology on the next generation. As our first guest and also the first to reprise that role here at the show, David illuminates our...
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Ep.12: Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich – The Future of Capital is Here
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Simon Gerovich (https://x.com/gerovich) is the President and Board Rep Director of the top company in the world right now in stock performance, Metaplanet ($MTPLF). After adopting a bitcoin treasury strategy following the footsteps of Michael Saylor's Strategy formerly Microstrategy ($MSTR). Metaplanet shot up to the top of the Japanese stock market and the globe in 2024 and maintains that top ranking today. Simon drops by the studio to talk shop on how he got here, valuation metrics on this new category of company, the ins and outs of accretive dilution, the evolving nature of this capital...
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Ep.11: Banque Syz CIO Charles-Henry Monchau – "Underinvested, Undervalued": The Opportunity
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Charles-Henry Monchau (https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-henry-monchau-cfa-cmt-caia-4003096/) is the Chief Investment Officer at Bank Syz and leading voice on investing in global markets. Charles-Henry is a true citizen of the world -- Swiss-French by birth, growing up in Africa and having worked all over Europe and the Middle East. He drops into the studio to share his distinctive insights on the market on digital assets, free speech and ESG with a focus on what's in store for Europe. Join us to hear from one of the foremost thinkers about market challenges today. X (Twitter):...
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Ep.10: Luzius Meisser and Yves Bennaïm – Swiss Democracy and the Bitcoin Public Initiative
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The Bitcoin Public Initiative is a direct democratic effort by Luzius Meisser and Yves Bennaïm for the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to include bitcoin in its reserves. Luzius is a board member of Bitcoin Suisse and Bitcoin Association of Switzerland as well as founder of Meisser Economics and Frankencoin. Yves is founder of 2B4CH, a think tank on bitcoin's impact on society, and part of the Swiss representation to ISO on standards for blockchain and DLT. Both guests lead The Bitcoin Public Initiative, embodying direct democracy in action and prompting discussion on the role of bitcoin as a...
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Ep.9: Ex-Goldman Sachs Advisor Jennifer Wines – What is Real Wealth?
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Jennifer Wines () is the Author of Invisible Wealth and a Certified Wealth Planning Advisor with novel insights into the evolution of wealth in our modern age. After many years spent at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Fidelity, she observed that clients were reconceptualizing their definition of wealth (largely in part due to the standstill caused by the pandemic) and it set her off on a journey to further explore this question thoroughly. The result was the book Invisible Wealth where she sets out a framework for understanding wealth throughout history and evolving trends today, as well as the...
info_outlineSamson Mow (https://x.com/Excellion) of JAN3 / ex-Blockstream fame, is a regular advisor to Nation States on integrating Bitcoin to manage sovereign debt and an accomplished gaming and tech entrepreneur. He discusses how his work with digital money and technology has come into contact with notions of privacy and freedom and how our love of more and more convenience may end up costing us more than we realize, especially with the emergence of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and Digital IDs. This conversation is surely one not to miss, touching on the increasing levels of surveillance across the world in the last decade enabled by the leaps in technological innovation and why we may wish to take pause when it comes to embracing the latest convenience.
Just around the same time of the recording this episode the UK announced implementation of its own Digital ID and rules called the Digital Identity Attributes Framework (DIAF), which is on a voluntary basis, for now - https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-for-digital-identities-and-attributes.
#privacy #freedomofspeech #money #state #surveillance #technology #CBDC #centralbankdigitalcurrency #freedom
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