Jeff Booth Interview: Bitcoin — A must hear interview on the key to our future

Topics covered:

  • 1:00 Giving back when you have everything you need; create value for others
  • 2:00 “The Price of Tomorrow”: Can u summarize it for a 10-year-old?
  • 3:05 I know your fave book is “Exponential Organizations by Salim Ismail” but understanding exponentiality is not easy.
  • 8:00 Cathie Wood: Inflation vs Deflation?
  • 14:44 What incentive do people have to spend in a deflationary world? What drives the economy if cash savings grow in purchasing power risk-free forever?
  • Mathematical Certainty – GDP tipping point of 77% as it costs GDP growth – is the only way to grow to keep printing and keep rates low?
  • 23:00 Can Central Banks STOP money printing?
  • 24:15 Is Universal Basic Income a foregone conclusion?
  • 26:00 Trickle-down economics
  • 26:15 China has more US Treasury Bills than the US’s balance sheet and has started selling T-Bills to other nations. Is there concern China may become the dominant currency?
  • 28:50 WWIII Trigger
  • 31:00 World has to reset
  • 33:27 Money printing modeling: QE rate and QE acceleration
  • 36:20 Wealth Tied to Technology
  • 37:18 CBDCs — Surveillance Disguised as Money
  • 43:15 How dangerous/Bad are CBDCs?
  • 45:00 Politicians and Pandering
  • 47:55 Relationship between spending and infrastructure bill and climate change?
  • 53:00 Connecting the dots from Money to Bitcoin — How many dots are there and what needs to happen to get to Hyper Bitcoinization?
  • 59:20 El Salvador & Bitcoin
  • 60:30 What factors could cause a scenario where bitcoin goes to zero? What is the probability of such an occurrence at this point in time?
  • 63:10 Do you think BTC layer 2 has a shot of competing with the likes of Ethereum and Solana and Avalanche?
  • 64:00 FUD or a legitimate concern: Is government suppresings Bitcoin growth via the derivatives market in an effort to maintain USD Reserve Currency Status?
  • 66:10 Are you concerned about those who hold no Bitcoin?
  • 67:40 Comparing assets that hold value, when should you pick Bitcoin over a house? A house over Bitcoin?
  • 65:00 Whales… Why would the 1% who hold 90% of global wealth pour their money into BTC to line the pockets of early adopters?
  • 72:00 Would you deem BTC a Zero Coupon Bond?
  • 72:30 Do you think crypto regulation is a bullish sentiment.
  • 72:40 Gary Gensler said, “There is Bitcoin, and there is everything else”.
  • 72:45 What is the one crypto-related thing that could keep you awake at night?
  • 73:00 Abundance of money means scarcity everywhere else — scarcity of money drives abundance everywhere else
  • 74:26 Monies being invested into Crypto; do you find similarities to the DotCOM bubble and its ensuing crash?
  • 75:44 What is one thing about BTC you believe that few others do?