Bitcoin Alpha explores the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin as CNBC analysts predict $500,000 price targets and major institutions embrace cryptocurrency. The discussion covers BlackRock's iBit ETF success, Rick Edelman's 10-40% allocation recommendations, and Figma's $100 million Bitcoin treasury strategy. The team analyzes Trump's fiscal policies, deficit spending, and Federal Reserve dynamics while examining Bitcoin dominance versus altcoins. Topics include rare earth materials policy, industrial reshoring, inflation concerns, and the social contagion effect driving corporate Bitcoin adoption across Silicon Valley and traditional finance sectors.
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#640: Bitcoin Enlightenment with Pascal Hügli
Marty sits down with Pascal Hügli to discuss his co-authored book "Bitcoin Enlightenment," exploring how the abandonment of the gold standard created our current era of monetary relativism and why Bitcoin represents a return to economic reality and individual sovereignty.
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#639: Dollar Collapse and Network States with Balaji Srinivasan
Marty sits down with Balaji Srinivasan to discuss the sympathy for white American conservatives, the simultaneous disruption of Blue America by the internet and Red America by China, the inevitable collapse of the dollar amid Bitcoin's 100 million X rise, and the emergence of network states as a solution for rebuilding civilization after the coming fiat crisis.
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#638: Q1 2025 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis
Marty sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss Bitcoin's power law growth trend, the mathematical inevitability of money printing resumption, geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe, and the philosophical implications of exponential versus power-based growth systems colliding as Bitcoin adoption accelerates.
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#637: From Industrial Debt to Digital Abundance with Jordi Visser
Marty sits down with Jordi Visser to discuss how AI is breaking traditional economic indicators, why Bitcoin represents the future S&P 500, and how energy bottlenecks could constrain the coming AI revolution while private companies increasingly avoid going public.
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TFTC is a podcast hosted by Marty Bent about Bitcoin. Join Marty, Editor in Chief of "the best newsletter in Bitcoin", as he sits down to discuss Bitcoin with interesting people.