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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#569: Building A Scaling Solution For Bitcoin With Alex Bergeron

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Marty sits down with Alex Bergeron to discuss Ark Labs.


Alex on Twitter: https://x.com/bergealex4

Ark Labs: https://arklabs.to/


0:00 - Intro

0:36 - Will the strategic reserve stop soft forks?

15:50 - Unchained

16:50 - Ark

25:10 - Zaprite & SOTE

26:43 - How Ark works

1:03:57 - Product market fit

1:13:31- Things take time to build

1:20:31 - Meta protocols

1:26:35 - Wrap up

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free.

0:10.0

If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts.

0:16.0

So it's all acting like safe haven.

0:18.0

I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency,

0:24.4

Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor.

0:29.2

I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin.

0:31.8

If you're not paying attention, you probably should be.

0:36.3

Alex Burke, will we ever get away from the drama around Bitcoin?

0:40.3

Can we accept success?

0:42.3

I guess that's the big question.

0:44.3

It will come to buy us and the asset recycle, it looks like.

0:51.3

But I think the drama we're seeing right now is, I like, I very, very much liked David

1:00.2

Bailey's tweet just yesterday, I believe, which was like Bitcoins, your favorite band has gone

1:09.4

mainstream.

1:10.4

You need to start coping with it because this is the way things are going to be going forward.

1:16.5

And I think it puts a lot of people into kind of like this very uncomfortable situation with regards to their, you know, their identity and the fact that they've branded themselves

1:30.8

as bitcoins and considered themselves part of this sort of posse of reticates and outsiders.

1:38.2

And the fact that it is indeed going mainstream as sort of like is having them reconsider their role in all of this.

1:48.2

And I think they're kind of like seems that a lot of them are trying to clutch to relevance by grasping onto drama as a way to find any place where their voices can be heard really because you're not going to I mean

2:03.6

going around promoting Bitcoin is not really something that the average Bitcoin or

2:10.6

telling people to buy Bitcoin is just like well you're just one of a thousand people

2:14.6

that everyone's heard say uh or heard uh heard uh heard that so it's like

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