Truth, Energy, & Bitcoin with Marty Bent

 
 

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“Once you have international trade getting settled in Bitcoin instead of the dollar, I think that’s when you’ll know: alright, we’re under a Bitcoin standard. ”
— Marty Bent

SHOW DESCRIPTION

Marty Bent is the founder of the Bitcoin focused media company TFTC.io, Venture Partner at Ten31, and Director of Cathedra Bitcoin. In this interview, we discuss resisting centralised narratives around the Ukraine/Russia conflict and the push for ESG and renewable energy. 

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The fragmentation of modern media provides access to a limitless supply of analysis, interpretations, and opinions. But rather than bringing clarity, this cacophony of commentary more often results in confusion. 

Into this mix, powerful centralised institutions mobilise significant resources to drive narratives. Over the past few generations, fearless investigative efforts have identified examples of deficient and deceptive institutions. This has resulted in such centralised messaging being treated with caution, if not explicit, cynicism. 

But does that mean we should be sceptical of all messaging emanating from centralised bodies? What are the implications for society if there is widespread distrust of such communication? 

The result is that there are different prisms through which to view events. The human misery caused by the Ukraine and Russia conflict is heartbreaking, but does that mean there are clear paths of action we can support? The forecasts of climate change impacts are worryingly bleak, but is there reasonable uncertainty, and what are the full implications of promoted mitigations?

The only thing we can do is to remain engaged, and, as Marty Bent states, “bring back civility to these types of conversations.”

TIMESTAMPS

00:03:54: Introductions
00:06:32: US vs UK healthcare systems
00:16:07: Incentive models for the pharmaceutical industry
00:21:25: Early Bitcoin predictions coming to fruition
00:25:48: Sanctions from the West, and Russia and China's long game
00:40:46: The search for the truth in the digital age
00:48:00: Bitcoin's pain points
00:51:17: The climate crisis, ESG, and renewables
01:12:58: ESG and Bitcoin mining
01:24:41: A Bitcoin standard and the evolution of mining
01:35:50: Decentralised government structures
01:45:55: Final comments

 

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