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Why It’s Time To Come Down On Bitcoin

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Its creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, gave it all of the qualities of cash, but in a digital format: peer-to-peer transfer of a currency in the absence of any intermediary that is pretty much anonymous — only wallet IDs are shared. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number.

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You’re Living in a World Wrought by Central Banks. Notice Anything Wrong?

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Take, for example, how the Fed views statistics, such as employment numbers, when it’s thinking about inflation or raising rates so quickly, which is really constraining to people on an actual budget facing other inflationary pressures, and, by the way, not actually doing anything about inflation. So those numbers are disparate.

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Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail

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It’s like being asked to figure out the solution to one of those unsolved math problems that mathematicians work on for years before they go insane. A number of car companies are going with Apple or Google platforms. WhatsApp did it, why can’t I? Once they get it into it, they realize that figuring out the solution is really hard.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And you know, it’s been an honor to have a number of awards to it. So yeah, man, that was the idea.

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Transcript: Michael Lewis on SBF & FTX

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and I don’t know if this is from the book or or my research, Forbes settled on that number. They said at that moment they were selling crypto as it’s gonna replace fiat currency. And they put some Bitcoin on my phone and we walked into Palo Alto to the one coffee shop that accepted Bitcoin as currency. Right, right.

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