Name: Bitcoin: Today's Digital Gold Standard - with Robert Breedlove
Uploaded: 2021-12-29T06:32:23+00:00
Duration: 39 min
Description: Jason Hartman welcomes Robert Breedlove, host of The ""What Is Money"" Show for a great discussion about fiat money, the gold standard, market manipulation, inflation and of course, Bitcoin - the digi

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Jason Hartman welcomes Robert Breedlove, host of The ""What Is Money"" Show for a great discussion about fiat money, the gold standard, market manipulation, inflation and of course, Bitcoin - the digital gold and decentralized currency of the people. Bitcoin was released at a time when nothing like it existed. This ""immaculate inception"" of Bitcoin is essential to its decentralization and to its existence as the one asset in the world that is as Robert puts it, ""immune to everyone's opinion.""

0:00 A government's main product is their currency
1:20 What is money?
3:22 The first economic surpluses, trade and division of labor
7:28 Specialization of labor, the gold standard as a measure of value and market price discovery
11:19 The United States rewrote the international banking order to suit its own interests
13:17 Check out wtfhappenedin1971.com, Bitcoin - fix the money, fix the world
14:07 Dr. Saifedean Ammous and The Bitcoin Standard
16:23 Time preference, value of money, inflation and interest rates
18:22 Misallocation of capital through currency debasement, distorted price signals and economic recessions
22:00 Money is a language, Bitcoin investing strategy
25:21 Bitcoin is an internet protocol, Bitcoin as digital gold
27:21 The threat of Bitcoin to governments and central banks
30:16 Could Bitcoin be made illegal?
33:05 The state is lashing out trying to reassert the validity of its borders through excessive action
34:17 Inflation and taxation to cover government debt
35:18 Bitcoin ideology and technology