Mr Obnoxious

Peter McCormack

Mr Obnoxious

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Mr Obnoxious

Peter McCormack

Mr Obnoxious

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Mr Obnoxious

Peter McCormack

Mr Obnoxious

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“You’re seeing a lot of support for nuclear now… I think the momentum behind nuclear is growing more and more with climate change… we’re in a very good path moving forward to build out a lot more nuclear to provide that zero carbon-emitting ene
“The reason this is actually different is because there is actual proof-of-work, there is demonstrable economic activity happening…you’re just giving up some of the yield, or some of the margin that you would produce from that mining yield to s
“The endgame of all these currencies is hyperinflation, the Dollar, the Euro, the Yen…the Yuan, the Ruble, all of them; but I think when one of those currencies that’s run by more of a developed nation…that’s when everyone is forced to adopt bi
“If you want to understand someone, an individual, you kind of need to understand what their life has been like, where they came from…and I think the same is true for Bitcoin, if you really want to understand Bitcoin, you need to understand whe
“Within the Bitcoin mission, all of that stuff is a LARP. There is no gray; it’s entirely black or white. You’re either self-sovereign, or you’re not…if you want to have conversations about banking technology, custody technology, if that’s your
“Antpool’s in a place, let’s say Foundry’s in a place, whoever, they start doing weird things…miners would just pull their hashrate away; so, where we get into bigger problems is where let’s say Foundry, and Riot, and Marathon, and Cleanspark a
“Everyone’s very afraid of being hacked, and, unless you understand the underlying security in all of your accounts, you’re going to have trouble not knowing whether these claims by a robocall are real.”— JunsethJunseth is an OG Bitcoiner and t
“If you care about customer harm you wouldn’t put these frictions in place because I can go and buy Bitcoin right now from whoever the hell I want using a VPN and you can’t stop me.”— Freddie NewFreddie New is the Head of Policy at Bitcoin Poli
“The world is going to change, we’re not at the end of what humans can do…the current thing has only been around for 50 years and currently has a lot of stress…and I think it’s incredibly exciting and meaningful that people in the Bitcoin space
“How good are governments at maintaining their own little fiat bubble against the constant push of Bitcoin?…Whether you look at it as a very very large monetary asset globally or virtually the only one…that’s all still quite a bit out, but I ha
“You’re in the game now, this thing isn’t valuable if it’s not able to be used in a self-custodied manner, that’s the innovation, that’s the core innovation...we and the issuers got to take the story of Bitcoin’s true value out, that’s how they
“If you want to change things you need to make sure the person who’s sitting at the table speaks the same language as the person opposite so that you can open that door so you can walk this idea in; and I strongly believe it’s going to be throu
“We need to build a system that is not going to create any sort of systemic centralisation and the incentives are aligned so that doesn’t happen, that can defend us against fiat money, now the question of whether or not fractional reserve money
“The United States is just set to structurally run these massive fiscal deficits…that’s called fiscal dominance, it’s where the central bank does not have full control…because the amount of public debt and the amount of public deficits are too
“The problem is it’s this naked delegation of lawmaking authority to the unelected people within Treasury…you want them to have unconstrained power? Shouldn’t we just go back to a world where bipartisan legislation in Congress is what is conseq
“I do think that there’s a world where this “I think the rest of the Bitcoin world needs to be humble and be open to learn…there’s always this feeling: ‘let’s go help the Africans, let’s go teach the Africans,’ when sometimes, just shut up, and
“I do think that there’s a world where this materialises and Bitcoin is incredibly valuable, but a lot of the other promise and utility and hope that early bitcoiners had is kind of negated. ”— Thomas PacchiaMarty Bent is a Venture Partner at T
“We have freedom of expression, but if the government then can punish you by shutting down your bank accounts without even charging you with a crime, they have the ultimate power to turn us into slaves.”— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Robert F. Kennedy
“Freedom to code, freedom for financial self-reliance, and most importantly freedom to innovate free from regulatory overreach.”— Vivek RamaswamyVivek Ramaswamy is a 2024 US presidential candidate. In this interview, we discuss Vivek’s decision
“Maybe he can try to remove subsidies, maybe he can remove labour market regulations... maybe he can lower the taxes and lower the spending. Fundamentally as a libertarian you want to lower the spending, lower the size of the state, lower the t
“In order to match inflation, to meet long term goals, and to do all the things people want to do in their lives, they’re being forced beyond their risk tolerance…in my mind, Bitcoin even though it’s a volatile asset, you’re actually not being
“How much of the management burden, how much of the security burden can we take away from users while they are learning, while they are reaping the benefits of using bitcoin?…Maybe they only become interested once you’ve seen the upside.”— Chri
“Those that don’t want issues focused on the money divide people to focus on other things…they don’t really care about any of these views, what they’re trying to do is sew chaos.”— Lyn AldenLyn Alden is a macroeconomist and investment strategis
“People think I’m here to make them money, I’m just here to make money better”— BitcoinIn this episode, we are joined by Steve Lee, the Lead at Spiral, Haley Berkoe, PM at Spiral and… Bitcoin. We discuss whether Bitcoin has a branding issue, an
“This direct connection that mainstream economics wants to draw between the amount of bank reserves in the system and lending, stimulating the economy, doesn’t exist.”— Macro AlfMacro Alf is the founder of The Macro Compass, an investment strat
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