58: Bitcoin Clarity: A Guide to Understanding with Kiara Bickers
The CryptoCast with Jason Hartman
Release Date: 02/19/2022
The CryptoCast with Jason Hartman
Today Jason welcomes back Lynette Zang from Zang Enterprises, highlighting her expertise in the economy, sound money, and precious metals. They discuss the recent surge in gold prices, attributed to global central banks' increased gold purchases, despite market manipulation efforts to suppress it. Zang explains that rising gold prices indicate failing currencies and manipulation by governments to maintain control. She emphasizes the importance of a peaceful return to sound money, like gold and silver, to restore fiscal responsibility and public confidence. Zang also discusses geopolitical...
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Jason interviews Professor Campbell R. Harvey from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the author of DeFi and the Future of Finance as they talk about the yield curve and Decentralized Finance. Harvey discusses the phenomenon of an inverted yield curve, which has predicted every recession for the last several decades. Harvey expressed his concern about the current inverted yield curve, which has been in place for 12 months, traditionally leading to a recession. Jason and Campbell also discuss the significance of an inverted yield curve and the potential of decentralized finance...
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Bitcoin is in the news, and there's an amazing rush on cryptocurrencies and seemingly a new coin coming out every day. So it's becoming more obvious that we're in a bubble. But what's the real future of cryptocurrencies? Jason Hartman talks to Tama Churchouse, co-founder of Churchouse Publishing Limited and lead cryptocurrency analyst at Stansberry Churchouse Research, about what's going on in the world of cryptocurrency. Tama explains the differences between things like Bitcoin and Etherium, and the two look into what the government's future role in cryptocurrency will look like. Key...
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The worlds of cryptocurrencies and crowdfunding can work in harmony, but the world of the long term cryptocurrency lover and day traders may not be so harmonious. Jason Hartman talks with David Drake, founder of LDJ Capital, about what's going on in the cryptocurrency world, regulations on the ICO market, and how currencies like Bitcoin might be incorporated into international currency baskets. Key Takeaways: 3:53 What kind of regulations do ICOs have? 8:33 Cryptocurrencies are now seeing two worlds collide: the old guard of people who are buying and holding versus the hedge funds coming in to...
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Is virtual real estate a real money making opportunity or are you better off going to Vegas to gamble? Jason Hartman welcomes Steve Hoffman back to the show today to hear about the latest developments regarding real estate, digital assets and speculation in the metaverse. As we see a lot of big brands such as Gucci jumping into the virtual space to sell digital assets, a lot of people are wondering, where do you buy land in the metaverse? Are these good investments? How is their worth actually determined? How are people actually earning money? Can you make money speculating on virtual land?...
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Jason Hartman invites Joseph Wang aka The Fed Guy, to the show today. Who better to talk about the inner workings of the Federal Reserve than someone who actually worked there! Joseph Wang is a former senior trader on the open markets desk at the Federal Reserve and the author of Central Banking 101. Jason and Joseph tackle the biggest question on everyone’s mind: will mortgage rates go higher? How much higher can they go? Why did the Fed wait so long to start quantitative tightening and raise rates? Why didn’t they do it more gradually? Do you think Powell really thought inflation was...
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Jason Hartman welcomes Lynette Zang, Chief Market Analyst for ITM Trading. We are at the end of this current monetary experiment! Central banks are out of tools and out of time. Are we headed into a hyperinflationary depression? The system is already shifting and will have to be reset - we just need a big enough crisis to get everybody on board… Key Takeaways: 0:43 Welcome Lynette Zang, Chief Market Analyst for ITM Trading 2:03 Valuing Gold and crypto 4:16 Moving property and equity into the digital universe 5:18 What do you think the real rate of inflation is? 7:46 Inflation is a wealth...
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Jason Hartman invites Laurence Kotlikoff, Professor of Economics and NY Times Best Selling author of Money Magic: An Economist's Secrets to More Money, Less Risk, and a Better Life, to the show today. Are the United States' long term fiscal problems solvable? How HIGH would federal taxes have to increase to pay for our spending? Could we fix the system with healthcare reform? What will be the economic consequences of Russia's war with Ukraine? Jason Hartman and Laurence Kotlikoff discuss the outlook for the future and much more, including unfunded mandates, debt vs. GDP, tax hikes, why NOT to...
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Jason Hartman interviews Jeff Snider, Chief Investment Strategist and Head of Global Research at Alhambra Investment Partners. Consumer prices and asset markets have created the illusion of a red hot economy, but according to Jeff, the bond market has been telling us what's been wrong since 2008. Jeff shares with us some incredible data that shakes up traditional thinking and gives us his insights on the Federal Reserve, interest rate hikes, monetary policy and money printing and the correlation between the yield curve and treasury markets. Jeff also gives an in depth explanation of the hidden...
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Jason Hartman invites Casey Michel, author and investigative journalist, to speak about his new book which uncovers how the US has created the greatest money laundering scheme in history. South Dakota has pioneered an entire industry of what they call anonymous trusts. South Dakota has taken this to a magnitude we've never seen by creating perpetual anonymity for these trusts. The information of those in the trust will never be shared with governments, with other jurisdictions, tax authorities, investigators, which is why we've seen both Americans and non Americans flocking to South Dakota....
info_outlineJason Hartman welcomes bitcoin expert and author of "Bitcoin Clarity," Kiara Bickers.
There's a lot of noise in the crypto space involving all kinds of buzzwords and Kiara's work helps us take a step back and obtain a true understanding of all the properties of the system without having to learn how to code or be a cryptographer. Her book aims to help us understand Bitcoin at its lowest level of actual data and remove all the mysticism. Jason and Kiara also discuss the privacy implications of a digital cash, central bank digital currencies, alt coins and decentralized finance.
Check out Kiara's book "Bitcoin Clarity," and find her at https://getbitcoinclarity.com/.
Key Takeaways:
0:00 Welcome Bitcoin expert Kiara Bickers, author of "Bitcoin Clarity"
2:29 What is a Cypherpunk?
4:09 Kiara's motivation to write "Bitcoin Clarity"
5:42 Satoshi and decentralization
7:49 Understanding the cryptocurrency system
8:37 Bitcoin and government regulation
11:22 Crypto friendly countries and central bank digital currencies
13:03 Going beyond crypto buzzwords
16:40 Valuing alt coins
18:57 Proof of work and bitcoin mining
22:33 Ethereum and proof of stake
23:28 Proof of storage and scarcity
25:51 Understanding the technical details as an investor in the Bitcoin space
27:11 Fixing our corrupt monetary system with decentralized finance
28:56 Evaluating Bitcoin
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