What's Our Real Purpose In Ukraine?

Enjoy this week's Friday 5 - paying homage to the 2022 bitcoin conference, there's some extra Bitcoin flare to this weeks set of podcasts, videos, and articles. This week had a dive into the philosophy of the individual vs the group, how the western monetary system works (and how its broken), how non-western monetary systems inhibit freedom, and a wild macroeconomic forecast for this decade.

Collectivism v Individualism with Robert Breedlove-While they usually discuss bitcoin and other crypto related matters, in this episode Robert and Peter take a more philosophical approach. They discuss human rights, libertarianism vs. liberalism vs democracy and the negative outcomes of anarchy. It was a fascinating discussion.

The past, present, and future of payment systems with Jack Mallers- Groundbreaking things are happening in the peer to peer payment space. In the 2000's it was paypal. In the 2010's it was venmo and cashapp. According to Strike founder Jack Maller, 2020 is the decade where legacy payment systems will be left behind to be replaced with faster, cheaper, better services that support US - the end users.

Bitcoin is Freedom- This panel from the 2022 Bitcoin conference is an eye opening look into how money can be used to manipulate populations. Particularly in regions of the world that don't benefit from Democratic governance. Bitcoin is the leading tool for underserved populations to store value and transact without the dictatorial restrictions of despots.

A Macro Overview with Lawrence Lepard via The Investors Podcast - Getting ahead of what you'll be in for should you click this link and listen in - it's a bit of a depressing listen! Lawrence is a fund manager and shares his macroeconomic outlook taking such things into consideration as: the war in Ukraine, inflation, quantitative tightening, and the housing market. He ties them together into his unique forecast of what's to come for the US financial markets.

Is the Ukraine War Actually an Energy Heist- This conversation was a revelatory look into what Putin's ulterior motives might be in invading Ukraine. At the end of the day, he could finish this war out in control of Ukraines MASSIVE energy reserves, potentially shifting the global energy markets in ways no one would have imagined possible.

That’s it for this week.

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