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The "What is Money?" Show

The Bitcoin Policy Institute with Grant McCarty (WiM316)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

Bitcoin, Breedlove, What Is Money, Investing, Rabbit Hole, Cryptocurrency, Money, Finance, Education, Robert Breedlove, History

4.8710 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Grant McCarty joins me to discuss the impact of the Bitcoin Policy Institute, the importance of properly framing Bitcoin, and how Bitcoin’s narrative is changing in Washington.

Transcript

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0:00.0

if you break down kind of the fundamental tenets of what makes bitcoin bitcoin

0:03.7

ultimately what we're advocating for is a tech agnostic policy approach don't discriminate

0:09.2

against one technology or the other let the market decide essentially and again if you and i

0:15.8

are kind of views or theses on bitcoin are correct that we think Bitcoin over time will win out against

0:22.3

a lot of these other assets and that Bitcoin's unique properties make it uniquely situated

0:27.3

to be something like a global reserve asset or be something like a protocol that we build

0:33.2

payment layers on like Lightning or any of these applications that you can claim for Bitcoin,

0:38.5

we just want to make sure that if and when those things do come true, many of them are

0:43.4

already happening in real time, that the U.S. is in a position to embrace that and benefit from it,

0:48.6

rather than pushing it away and some other country, you know, like China or Russia or any of these other countries, you know,

0:55.8

could benefit from it because Bitcoin's not going away.

0:58.6

Right.

0:58.9

We know that.

0:59.6

Yeah.

1:00.1

Our politicians don't really know that yet.

1:05.6

Hey, everybody.

1:30.9

Welcome to The What is Money Show. I am thrilled to have you here joining me on my mission to help shine light on the collection of money. Now, if this is your first time listening to The What Is Money Show, I strongly recommend that you go back to episodes one through nine first, which lays a lot of the groundwork for many of the concepts that we explore on the show.

1:34.2

These first nine episodes are my series with Michael Saylor,

1:38.5

and thousands of people have told me that this is the best podcast series they've ever heard, hands down,

1:41.2

and that it was instrumental to their understanding of money and Bitcoin. So if you're

1:45.8

looking to start a deep dive into the nature of money, I don't think there's any place

1:51.1

better that you can start other than episode one of this show. Now, a little bit about this show

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