#581: Where USAID Funding Really Goes with George Webb

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Marty sits down with George Webb to discuss China's AI, the death of Suchir Balaji, and USAID black budget funds.

George on Twitter: https://x.com/RealGeorgeWebb1

George's Substack: https://georgewebb.substack.com/

0:00 - Intro 0:36 - AI whistleblower story 10:59 - Dissecting the mysterious death 14:20 - Fold & Bitkey 16:36 - The implications are massive 22:05 - Connections to Wuhan labs 26:52 - Unchained 27:52 - Identifying factions & Elon's DOGE goals 34:42 - Black budget funds & USAID PREDICT 43:18 - Adam Schiff 46:12 - Closing riffs and cancer vaxes 50:47 - Plugs

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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	George Webb, welcome to the show. Thank you for joining me.
0:39.3	Marty Bent.
0:41.3	Marty Ben, everybody said you should try to get on Marty Bent.
0:44.3	I worked years.
0:46.3	No, I didn't.
0:47.3	But then you called me.
0:49.3	So this is great.
0:50.3	Marty Bent, here you are.
0:52.3	Well, I'm very excited about this particular subject because obviously Deep Seek was the
1:00.7	big headline about a week ago with this new open source model that purportedly cost $6 million
1:08.8	to train.
1:10.0	And then I stumbled upon a presentation that you gave on January 3rd when much of the world was
1:15.6	unaware about DeepSeek, basically talking about the connection between that company and the
1:22.8	open AI whistleblower.
1:24.6	And after watching that, I said, I have to talk to George to figure out how you
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