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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#590: Why Gen Z Understands Freedom Tech with Ian Carroll

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Marty sits down with Ian Carroll to discuss the Argentinian crypto scam, Trump's second term, open source AI, and more.


Ian on Twitter: https://x.com/Cancelcloco_

Ian on Nostr: https://primal.net/IanCarroll


0:00 - Intro

0:36 - FTX and Milei's scam

11:45 - Crypto's rep is now clear

18:49 - Fold & Bitkey

20:32 - How Bitcoin and Nostr change you

30:13 - What's happening with gold

36:54 - Unchained

37:55 - Trump's 2nd term and disentangling the US

45:35 - New generations bring better understanding

50:48- Open source AI and immutable code

58:49 - Tech oligarchy

1:03:56 - McKernan and Japanese jab deaths

1:08:28 - The challenge of digital ID

1:18:19 - Moving to Austin

1:21:42 - InfoWars

1:28:22 - In person maximalism



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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.

0:25.3

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

0:29.2

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

0:31.9

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

0:36.3

You mentioned FTX right before we hit record, but that was something I was like,

0:40.4

if you paid attention to the space the way Sam McMahon-Fried came out of nowhere, the kimchi

0:46.9

trade.

0:47.9

Yeah.

0:48.5

We knew it in the Bitcoin space is there that are between the United States, Korea, and some other parts of Southeast Asia,

0:57.7

always existed for a while.

0:59.5

And a lot of Bitcoiners were like, all right, there's an arm here that's take advantage of it.

1:03.8

And even individuals who had family and connections, maybe even second passports in Korea,

1:10.5

couldn't set up bank

1:11.2

accounts. Like the whole lore behind Sam Bankman-Fried and him getting rich on the kimchi trade just

1:17.2

didn't pass the sniff test with many Bitcoiners who bought of that before and tried.

1:22.2

I mean, basically everything about Sam Bankman-Fried didn't pass the sniff test, right up to him

1:26.8

being the exact kind of personality

1:29.0

that you like an intelligence agency or like a subversion operation would look for to kind of make a patsy out of

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