geopolitics

417: An Ex-Intelligence Analyst's View on Ukraine

Lee Slusher has over 25 years of experience in the US Army and intelligence community and he is not pleased with US foreign policy at the moment.

TFTC Podcast

385: 2022 Year in Review with Dave Collum

This is Dave's fifth appearance on TFTC and this rip is no different than the four that came before it.

Marty's Ƀent

Issue #1290: China is making a move against the petrodollar

At the end of the day, it only makes sense to settle these types of international trades in an apolitical currency that cannot be controlled by any one party or cabal of parties.

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Issue #1230: The charade is up

The Big Bear in the East has had enough and seems to be going for the throat economically.

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Issue #1169: Energy independence is important

The distribution of the production of the base layer of society needs to expand dramatically to change the geopolitical game theory.

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Issue #1146: The China pull is strong

Hopefully the public begins to have more serious and introspective conversations about this growing ethical dilemma.

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Issue #914: Bitcoin empowers everyone

Yes, Bitcoin enables peer-to-peer transactions that are hard to censor and both myself and some of those the US deems as enemies use Bitcoin.

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Issue #595: Global unrest, so hot right now

Gaming is so hot right now, and there is so much money being made and yet to be made that it is hard to imagine a world in which automatic payouts via the Lightning Network do not come to fruition.

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Issue #580: Hoarding bitcoins is becoming part of the strategy

Behind the scenes and under the radar, smaller countries with little to lose are slowly but surely incorporating Bitcoin into their play books. Preparing for a future with a distributed apolitical censorship-resistant sound digital currency.

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Issue #579: Is the Venezuelan government hoarding bitcoins?

At the end of the day, this is the uncomfortable reality of Bitcoin. It will be used by tyrants and refugees. The network has no idea who is sending messages within it.

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Issue #563: Turning into Fall

In case some of you freaks didn't notice, the network hash rate reached an all-time high of 88 exahash per second two days ago.

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Issue #514: The ultimate hedge

As the total amount of negative yielding debt (government bonds that are expected to lose value over the duration of their lifetimes) continues to balloon above $13 TRILLION we're seeing a sharp rise in the price of Bitcoin.

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Issue #501: A tremor in Hong Kong

If this situation continues to escalate, it will be interesting to see how the price of Bitcoin reacts as it only feels natural that this move would incite a flight to safety into assets that cannot be sanctioned or subjected to the geopolitical dick flexes on display during trade wars.

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Issue #468: Heavy accumulation

As we can see, it seems as if these two bedfellows have been in a heavy accumulation phase for the last couple of decades, with China increasing their stash by more than 4.5x and Russia more than 5x'ing their bag.

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Issue #332: Oil wars?

It will be interesting to see how this story progresses in the future. It may turn out to be a great case study in poor decision making on the geopolitical stage as, again, the US seems to be putting some countries in positions in which they have no other options than to skirt the petrodollar.

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