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Jan 27, 2023
The Evolving Importance of Bitcoin Mining w/ Troy Cross, C.J. Wilson & Josh Olszewicz
In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz are joined by an expert in the crypto space, Troy Cross. He is an academic philosopher and has been a Bitcoiner since 2011. He also describes himself as an environmentalist and is not afraid of controversy. Cross discusses his opinions on ESG and believes that its critics should be listened to. “My own vision is Bitcoin having a minimal environmental impact. Bitcoin mining is constantly changing, and miners are constantly trying to find more environmentally friendly ways to mine.”
Cross describes some of the ways that miners are trying to counteract the negative impacts of Bitcoin on our environment. Some of the early members in the Bitcoin space have created a way to give us pure water from Bitcoin. They use the heat from ASIC chips to distill the water. The heat from the chip alone is not enough, but when you put water under the negative pressure of a vacuum, it will boil at a lower temperature. Once the steam condenses, you will have pure water. You can create pure water from anywhere in the world.
Wilson, Olszewicz, and Cross discuss the dangers as well as the benefits of the space. Cross states, “this is a system I believe in. It is bloody; people get hurt; it rewards efficacy and ruthlessly punishes inefficiency and leverage. It redistributes wealth in accordance with how well you manage it.” There is purity in the laws of crypto. People cannot do whatever they want and are required to stay humble. The reward at the end of this pain will be well worth it. Bitcoin encourages people to think critically and expand their minds. “If we can disagree in a way that is open-minded and civil, then we are collectively able to reach a much larger audience. We win by thinking how each one of us can help to improve the crypto space.
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DISCLOSURE: The opinions presented herein are solely of the individual and not necessarily representative of Valkyrie Investments Inc. and their affiliates. There is no guarantee that any specific outcome will be achieved. Investments may be speculative, illiquid and there is a risk of total loss of your investment. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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Jan 27, 2023
Industry Products and Mining Challenges w/ C.J. Wilson & Josh Olszewicz
In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz begin by discussing the recent arrest of the founder of the Russian exchange, Bitzlato. Recent reports suggest Bitzlato had ties with a Russian darknet market Hydra, and the company only ever had $11,000 in their wallets. Wilson and Olszewicz go on to discuss the skepticism from users in the crypto space and how things might not be what they seem. Wilson uses a racing metaphor, “yellows breed yellows. Meaning that cautions bring more cautions. Bitcoin Twitter is so conditioned to be skeptical of everyone big that the second there is an announcement, they assume that it will be bad. It seems like whoever can hang on the longest will reap the rewards of being the provider of last resort.”
Wilson and Olszewicz talk about how the volatility of Bitcoin is relatively low despite the mess of GBTC. Olszewicz states, “price wise, we have erased the entirety of the post-FTX collapse in November. The price is back to where it was.” Wilson discusses, “there are a certain number of people that are back in profit on their net holdings. If we are above $21,000, we are still above the 2017 cycle. This goes back to, if you have held it long enough, you are good.”
Wilson and Olszewicz discuss mining Bitcoin and how you must be strategic. Wilson reminds listeners that Bitcoin mining requires a complex strategy. Mined Bitcoin is not as easy to hold as one might assume. It may take about four to five years to find out if you have deployed a good strategy or not. Wilson continues, “it is a wild world out there. Bitcoin is a great way to determine what direction you are heading.” Olszewicz wraps up the episode by stating the importance of keeping an open mind and being willing to learn.
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DISCLOSURE: The opinions presented herein are solely of the individual and not necessarily representative of Valkyrie Investments Inc. and their affiliates. There is no guarantee that any specific outcome will be achieved. Investments may be speculative, illiquid and there is a risk of total loss of your investment. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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Jan 27, 2023
Fed Funds Rate and the iPhone of Bitcoin w/ C.J. Wilson & Josh Olszewicz
In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz discuss how the sausage is made internationally, why there is no pivot coming to save us, and how fast food could be the next big winner. Olszewicz discussed how many people are coming to the realization of just how much power the fed has, which is much more than people in our generation ever imagined. “We are optimistic that things are going to reverse course and net assets will be saved, which is not the case.” Everything is laser-focused on inflation right now, which means you are going to see high unemployment, housing mortgages evaporating, auto loans collapsing, and consumer debt being at an all-time high. Inflation affects everything.
Wilson and Olszewicz discuss the effects of a credit-based economy. Wilson states, “we live in a country with over $90 trillion in debt and only $9 million in the money supply. This has caused the ice to start thinning, and eventually, someone will fall through the cracks.” Olszewicz continues, “that is the argument for the inability to raise our own government debt interest payments above 5%. It would exceed anything that we could even think about paying and be the single biggest line item other than the defense budget.” Politicians often do not think about the impact of the money they are spending now and its potential to increase our future inflation.”
Olszewicz states, “It has only been fourteen years since White Paper, the network was launched in 2009, and it has had 99.98% uptime. Over time, people age out of the CEO or CIO role, and the new generation comes in and sees this as more than just an alternative asset.” Wilson continues, “social media platforms are only around twenty years old, which is only a little older than Bitcoin. People are being born now that do not know about how these platforms started, just that they are operational. It is similar in terms of smartphones. Some people forget that there was first Motorola, then SideKick, and then came the iPhone. We are not even at the iPhone of Bitcoin yet.”
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DISCLOSURE: The opinions presented herein are solely of the individual and not necessarily representative of Valkyrie Investments Inc. and their affiliates. There is no guarantee that any specific outcome will be achieved. Investments may be speculative, illiquid and there is a risk of total loss of your investment. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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Jan 27, 2023
SBF Taken into Custody, CPI, FOMC, Inflation & More w/ C.J. Wilson & Josh Olszewicz
In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz discuss the big update of the FTX case. The wheels of justice are slowly turning, and Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested by the Bahamian Department of Justice. The United States Department of Justice is sending a petition to extradite him, which is predicted to happen. The question now is, does everyone involved who turned on Bankman-Fried get immunity? What will happen to Caroline? There is still a lot that is unknown.
Olszewicz states that the two biggest takeaways are that “this has very little to do with Bitcoin at all: how was the exchange run, who was trading what. The protocol was unaffected. The second one is that regulations are definitely coming. It is just a matter of what flavor. I am all for having the best regulations we can, but would those regulations have stopped something from happening in the first place? Are you going to prevent venture capitalists from investing in companies that are headed by individuals in a United States off-shore tax haven?”
Wilson describes his definition of a bear market while discussing the current state of the crypto space with Olszewicz. They talk about inflation and how most people generally are conscious of price changes of resources such as gas. One of the best ways to see inflation is by looking at fast food prices. They wrap up the episode by discussing user growth. The number of BTC addresses is almost a million, so there are almost a million whole coiners. There are still a few reasons that Bitcoin would not be the best primary source of your money. They talk about the room for growth, how it is hard to earn Bitcoin, and the need for a way to pay salaries with crypto.
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DISCLOSURE: The opinions presented herein are solely of the individual and not necessarily representative of Valkyrie Investments Inc. and their affiliates. There is no guarantee that any specific outcome will be achieved. Investments may be speculative, illiquid and there is a risk of total loss of your investment. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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Jan 27, 2023
FTX Contagion Slowly Being Revealed w/ C.J. Wilson & Josh Olszewicz
In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz discuss the massive shake in the crypto industry. The pain we have been seeing since this summer is still in circulation with the latest casualty of the FTX blow up. SBF is a great example of what not to do. Many people were skeptical of the speed his enterprises were ramping up and how they were severely understaffed. Wilson explains, “if you have too fast of a rise and too much money being injected without too many rules being put into place, it results in many problems. According to Forbes, he took his investors' money and made venture investments with other companies, which are not liquid. If you spend money in that manner, there is no possibility of getting it back if you need it.” Olszewicz states there is speculation “they had no accounting system or tax management team.” Everyone inside the space was blindsided by the FTX scandal.
Wilson and Olszewicz discuss how the market could be a factor in these scandals being brought to light. People thought of FTX as the central bank of crypto that can help bail you out, but it has been proven again that there is not one. Wilson suggests that “if you look at it from a roach mentality, how do I survive the apocalypse? You will end up being fine. The way to do that is to keep your head down and be humble. If you overextend yourself in this type of volatile state, you are going to lose your arm.” Olszewicz brings up, “there are no issues with the chain, and people are able to withdraw their funds. At the end of the day, there are issues still going on, but they are centralized exchange issues and not chain issues.” These are operating issues, not technical issues.
Wilson and Olszewicz discuss how the current state of the space is going to make everyone better Bitcoiners when this is over. Wilson states, “Bitcoin is like a sponge. You squeeze the sponge, and liquidity comes out, but you can see the absorption and how much capacity it really has when you put it back in the water. I think Bitcoin has the capacity to absorb all the tears, pain, and broken-hearted people.” Bitcoin is for everyone, and everyone is necessary for mass adoption. At the end of the day, there are still a lot of great things going on in the space.
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DISCLOSURE: The opinions presented herein are solely of the individual and not necessarily representative of Valkyrie Investments Inc. and their affiliates. There is no guarantee that any specific outcome will be achieved. Investments may be speculative, illiquid and there is a risk of total loss of your investment. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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Nov 12, 2022
The Bitcoin User Experience Is Still In Its Infancy w/ Josh Olszewicz & C.J. Wilson
In this episode of “Bitcoin Bottom Line,” hosts C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz discuss how the “sausage is made” internationally, why there is no pivot coming to save us and how fast food could be the next big winner for investors. Olszewics discussed how many people are coming to the realization of just how much power the Federal Reserve wields, which is much more than people in our generation ever imagined. “We are optimistic that things are going to reverse course and net assets will be saved, which is not the case.”
Everything is laser-focused on inflation right now, which means you are going to see high unemployment, housing mortgages evaporating, auto loans collapsing and consumer debt being at an all-time high. Inflation affects everything.
Wilson and Olszewicz discuss the effects of a credit-based economy. Wilson states, “We live in a country with over $90 trillion in debt and only $9 million in the money supply. This has caused the ice to start thinning, and eventually, someone will fall through the cracks.” Olszewicz continues, “That is the argument for the inability to raise our own government debt interest payments above 5%. It would exceed anything that we could even think about paying and be the single biggest line item other than the defense budget. Politicians often do not think about the impact of the money they are spending now and its potential to increase our future inflation.”
Olszewicz states, “It has only been 14 years since [the Bitcoin] white paper, the network was launched in 2009, and it has had 99.98% uptime. Over time, people age out of the CEO or CIO role and the new generation comes in and sees this as more than just an alternative asset.”
Wilson continues, “Social media platforms are only around 20 years old, which is only a little older than Bitcoin. People are being born now that do not know about how these platforms started, just that they are operational. It is similar in terms of smartphones. Some people forget that there was first Motorola, then Sidekick, and then came the iPhone. We are not even at the iPhone [stage] of Bitcoin yet.”
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Nov 11, 2022
45. Are We There Yet? with Mike Hobart
In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz are joined by special guest Mike Hobart. He is an author of Bitcoin Magazine, a seed oil disrespecter, and a former United States military member. Wilson, Olszewicz, and Hobart open the episode by talking about what is currently happening in the investing space. Olszewicz states that there is currently no good news, and we are seeing how rate hikes are not working effectively.
Wilson has observed people starting to question inflation and interest rates while seeing that there is a person responsible for them. He believes the solution is the Bitcoin mantra “no rulers, just rules.” Hobart remarks that energy companies have the potential to have a significant impact on the acceptance of Bitcoin as well. “I believe that we will get a lot closer after energy companies like Exon, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips become vocal about how they are using Bitcoin mining to help with their production numbers and revenue. I have noticed that everyone wants to treat Bitcoin like a stock and equity or as a heavy rock like gold. It is both of these things and neither at the same time. The more information that is put out about Bitcoin, the more understanding people will have, and the adoption rate will begin to grow even more exponentially.”
Hobart closes the episode by sharing the threat medical debt has to our economy. “With the rest of the macroeconomic situation, the whole market is looking at housing because of 2008, oil, energy, and gas because of Ukraine, as well as supply and shipping rates due to covid. I think the markets are going to have the black swan come from the health sector. In regard to diabetes, ten percent of the population has diabetes, and ninety-seven million people are prediabetic. About forty percent of the population is or will be taking insulin. This does not account for all of the other metabolic diseases prevalent in society. There are trillions of dollars worth of medical debt in the United States, and nobody is talking about how this debt is going to affect the economy.”
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Nov 7, 2022
44. Bitcoin Mining Removes Methane From The Atmosphere w/ Josh Olszewicz, C.J. Wilson & Daniel Batten
In this week’s episode of “Bitcoin Bottom Line,” hosts C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz are joined by special guest Daniel Batten to discuss bitcoin mining using organic materials. Batten is an expert on methane and explains the benefits of bioavailable energy. “If you are taking your power source, such as natural gas that would otherwise stay in the ground, it is carbon positive when you take it out of the pipeline. This will contribute to carbon emissions and is absolutely the type of bitcoin mining we want to do.”
Batten goes on to talk about how there is another form of methane that does not come from the ground and is freely emitted into the atmosphere. “This comes from farms or anywhere you have anaerobically decaying organic matter, which are things that rot without air. Global warming is about several different emissions that all have their global warming potential. If we compare methane to carbon dioxide, methane is more warming and breaks down faster than carbon dioxide and then turns into it.”
The United Nations Environment Programme has stated that methane is the strongest lever to reduce climate change over the next twenty-five years. “This is because it increases at a parabolic rate and is 84-times more warming than carbon dioxide. If you can find a way to use it as a fuel source, you are removing it from the atmosphere.”
Wilson, Olszewicz and Batten discuss the benefits to our environment of using these emissions and potential ways to do so. They wrap up the episode by talking about how this is not a single-solution problem and many preventative measures will need to be put in place to impact climate change. Batten states, “There is enough landfill gas around the world to power the Bitcoin network many times over. Bitcoin does not produce enough energy to solve this problem single-handedly.”
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Oct 13, 2022
43 Bitcoin Is A Safety Net w/ Josh Olszewicz & C.J. Wilson
In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz discuss the current worldwide events. Wilson discusses how Bitcoin has recently been a safety net. Olszewicz states that “currencies appear to be collapsing on the government's management. Japan and England have been a complete mess.” The pound is currently at an all-time low, along with many other currencies. Bond markets are doing historically worse than they ever have. Olszewicz says “it does not make sense to me why the pound is up if England has been printing money and buying their own bonds.”
Wilson explains that all of the national banks lean into each other for stabilization. As trends change, we typically see a five or ten-percent wick over a long period of time. Now we are seeing twenty to thirty-percent riffs, where the dollar is up thirty percent against these other currencies in a very short period of time. People are generally unaware of how interlinked all of the central banks are.
Wilson goes on to talk about risk as an investor. “When you are an investor, you want to put your money in a diversified portfolio of risk so you are not all risk, all the time. Bitcoin does not have a yield or natural interest rate so you have to manage your cash flow in order to operate. The problem is that during inflation, your cash flow is being burned much faster than you want.” Wilson believes that inflation is here to stay for quite a while.
Wilson and Olszewicz discuss using bitcoin as a transaction method. “If you want to do a transaction, you can buy bitcoin, send it to someone and they can sell it for cash right away. There is very little volatility between transaction periods. You can decide to exchange it all for cash or you could take a fraction in bitcoin and the rest in cash.” Olszewicz says that bitcoin is “an off-ramp for all of the central banking mismanagement.”
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Sep 30, 2022
42 How to survive a Bearmarket /w Josh Olszewicz & C.J. Wilson
C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz of Bitcoin Bottom Line discuss how to survive in a Bear Market in this week's episode.
In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz discuss how to survive in choppy markets. There is currently a large amount of volatility in the crypto space which could be unsettling for new crypto users. Wilson explains “if your first bitcoin purchase was $45,000 or higher and you are looking at an $18,000 price, that does not look great in your portfolio. For those of us who bought in when the price was $3,000, we are still comfortable knowing that the price is above that because we know that the volatility on the downside is rewarded with all-time highs on the upside.”
Wilson and Olszewicz discuss the difficulty of taking profits in the space. Olszewicz states “the volume of any cryptocurrency is down significantly and the number of people who are publicly trading it is a very small percentage. People are not trading as they used to unless they have a different approach to long-only.” The long-only strategy only works if you take a profit and buy back in at a lower price. The problem is that in a market like this, you do not know what the low is. Wilson warns that you should not be investing solely in one place. Wilson says, “right now the winning strategy is not losing.”
Wilson and Olszewicz transitioned to talking about blue chip stocks and the stock market. Wilson believes that yield chasing in the crypto space is the most dangerous mentality to have right now. “I feel better about holding dividend-paying stocks, rather than dividend-paying crypto.” Wilson does believe blue chip stocks are okay to hold in your broad portfolio for retirement but you need a mitigation strategy. The most important thing is understanding you total risk profile and your thesis on what is happening.
Olszewicz wraps up the episode by telling crypto users that they have to decide what they are here for. “You need to decide your time horizons, why you are here, what you are here for, what are your goals, and if you can sleep at night.”
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Sep 17, 2022
41 The Energy Crisis and Bitcoin w/ C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz
C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz of Bitcoin Bottom Line discuss Off-grid and gas miners Nordstream energy issues in this week's episode.
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Sep 13, 2022
40 Coding bitcoin at a young age w/ Daniela Brozzoni
In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz interview Daniela Brozzoni a young bitcoin coder.
In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz interview Daniela Brozzoni, a young bitcoin coder. Brozzoni has recently been working on a library for building wallets called BDK (Bitcoin Dev Kit). This library includes codes for generating addresses and sending money to offer a wider variety of options to crypto users.
Wilson asks Brozzoni about the QR codes that are interchangeable between lighting and on-chain and the cost that comes with this. She believes that in the future we will have different wallets for different needs, but it is difficult to explain to users that they might pay less than one cent in fees or up to two euros. For advanced crypto users, having the option for a transaction to be either lightning or on-chain could be highly beneficial. Brozzoni states, “I believe the single seed wallets t…
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Jul 15, 2022
38 Is the Bitcoin Bottom In? How To Navigate the Bitcoin Market w/ Josh Olszewicz
In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz are covering the down market and sell pressures.
They begin discussing the crypto bear market, Wilson starts “We are in a bit of a spin right now… What a lot of people want to figure out is how do you find a bottom and what affects the bottom but I think that is maybe in the middle of the conversation, the beginning of the conversation is how connected and interconnected are all of us in this crazy crypto world?’’
They continue on to talk about the stress on miners especially, Olszewicz explains, “I hope people have started to realize the true scale of this stuff as it become more public… they are locking in capital months in advance for something that they don’t get delivered on till months later… not only that but lenders are calling back these loans- not because they are underwater but because they are concerned that not everybody is solvent or able to pay them back.”
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Jul 14, 2022
39 The Financialization of Bitcoin w/ Alyse Killeen
In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz are joined by Alyse Killeen, founder and managing partner of Stillmark.
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Wilson begins by asking, “Having some focus or a lot of focus on Bitcoin makes your experience as a venture capitalist totally fascinating to me.. where does it all start?”
Killeen responds, “I started in venture capital about a decade ago and always focused primarily on infrastructure technologies. As I was doing that, I discovered Bitcoin and specifically recognized an opportunity for a financial technology that well served poor people and the world's very large unbanked and underbanked population. To me, that was so compelling…”
Turning more towards Stillmark, Olszewicz says “You’ve really focused, at least based on yourporto list, recently, on lightning. Was that a decision early on as it was develo…
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Jun 30, 2022
37 The Life of a Bitcoin Core Developer w/ Gloria Zhao
37 The Life of a Bitcoin Core Developer w/ Gloria Zhao
In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz are joined by Gloria Zhao, a Bitcoin core dev to break down the behind the scenes action of a developer.
Wilson begins by asking “what got you into Bitcoin in the first place?” To which Zhao responds, “... There are a lot of ideologies in there from the beginning that I found very appealing, and on top of that there are a lot of very interesting engineering technical challenges to work on, and as a computer science student obviously I was drawn to that...”
She continues, “I grew up in Silicon Valley so I think that gave me perspective on how endless it is to chase this idea of ‘innovation’ and profit, and that always struck pretty empty to me so Bitcoin was very different and I had an immediate draw to it.” Olszewicz then asks, “what is your day to day like? Zoom calls and meetings or do you work independently as a decentraliz…
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Jun 24, 2022
36 Bitcoin & Inflation w/ Josh Olszewicz
Is Bitcoin the Key to save yourself from Inflation w/ Josh Olszewicz
In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts C.J. Wilson and Josh Olszewicz are discussing the latest in the Crypto space and the Bipartisan Responsible Payments Innovation bill.
Wilson begins by discussing the New York state bill that focuses on Bitcoin mining, “Its kinda weird because they singled out bitcoin mining as a target to say hey we need to limit bitcoin mining, or eliminate bitcoin mining, unless it is from totally renewable sources, which is kind of a weird catch all because I don't think there is any industry in america that has more renewable sources being applied to it than bitcoin.”
Wilson then goes onto discussing inflation effects, “as inflation starts to hit more things, we’re seeing the things we need the most... those industries are all the most impacted, so natural resources need to be managed a certain way and the best way to do that is to incentivize people to be innovativ…
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Jun 9, 2022
35 Bitcoin Policy Institute w/ Matthew Pines
Bitcoin Policy Institute w/ Matthew Pines
In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson are joined by guest Matthew Pines, a managing consultant at Krebs Stamos and National Security fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute.
Wilson begins by asking Matthew, “What is the discovery path to Bitcoin?”
To that, Pines describes the increase in “tangible action taking place across various government agencies.”
McClurg asks from the perspective of Bitcoin; “which countries do we see as a potential threat to bitcoin being a global digital currency? Which countries are really embracing it more,... where does the U.S. fall on the spectrum of support?”
Pines responds that “The United States is a remarkably pro-bitcoin place, and while the policy action and social media hostility tends to get a lot of attention… if you kind of look at where the conversation was 2 or 3 years ago and compare it with today, the trend has been uniformly positiv…
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Jun 3, 2022
34 Does Bitcoin need regulation? w/ Yankun Guo
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In this week’s episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts C.J Wilson and Josh Oszelwicz are joined by guest Yunkun Guo, a corporate and financial regulations attorney at Ice Miller, to discuss crypto regulations and the intersections of law and cryptocurrency.
Guo’s interests lie in bridging the gap between technology and law, she explains her tasks as “working with companies to help navigate new emerging technologies.” She highlights the complex and evolutionary nature of the relationship between cryptocurrency and regulation, “One thing that is exciting about crypto is that depending on what you do with it you fall under a different jurisdiction, a different law or regulation.” As they dive deeper into this relationship, Wilson explains; “Crypto is 24/7, Bitcoin trades 24/7, a lot of people think the law is sort of like 9-5” he goes on to ask, “Is it going too fast for laws to catch up? Or are there certain instances where the laws have been rea…
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May 31, 2022
33 The Case for Athletes to Buy Bitcoin w/ Josh Olszewicz
This week on The Bitcoin Bottom Line, Co-host C.J. Wilson met with Josh Olszewicz, Head of Research at Valkyrie, to discuss macro-finance and its link to Bitcoin.
The conversation was kicked off by Olszewicz sharing the kinds of markets in which he was involved before his introduction to Bitcoin. Olszewicz discusses his interest in the technology and decentralization of the Bitcoin network.
Wilson goes on to share an applicable story from his childhood about how he saved up his money for a fancy bike. This experience helped him cement the idea of savings within his young mind. Wilson shares about his past life as a pro baseball player, and the duo talks about why many professional athletes are Pro-Bitcoin. For many, it largely involves a forward-looking mindset of saving for the future.
After spending some time on this topic, Wilson discusses his past investments and how at the time, he thought Bitcoin was a scam. After hearing this, Olszewicz asks what changed Wilson's mind, and he…
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May 25, 2022
32 The Quality Of Life Is Defined By Energy w/ Harry Sudock
This week on The Bitcoin Bottom Line, Co-hosts Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson met with Harry Sudock, Vice President of Strategy and Management at GRIID Mining.
This episode was filmed live at the Bitcoin 22 Conference in Miami, and the conversation was kicked off with a discussion on the friendliness of their fellow conference-goers. McClurg explained how there is a collective feeling of support between otherwise competitive businesses at the convention. The trio opens a discussion on the Bitcoin mining industry.
After touching on the subject of competition in the mining space, Wilson asks, “How do you manage being all over the place?” Sudock explains how local the mining industry is, “There is a local contractor, a local electrician and a local group embedded at that level”. Sudock goes on to describe how working in rural areas is a great way to show that mining companies can help the community grow with large power deals.
McClurg asks,“How can someone mine bitcoin on the…
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May 20, 2022
31 You need to secure your bitcoin w/ Jameson Lopp
Jameson Lopp, one of the foremost experts in bitcoin security, joins Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson on this week’s Bitcoin Bottom Line episode from an undisclosed location. Lopp is the co-founder and CTO of bitcoin security provider Casa.
They kick off the episode discussing Lopp’s anonymity, how he has been avoiding public appearances, and the importance of privacy for the role he plays in his field.
The group talks about Casa, and how their security is so high that even if a wrench attack did happen, there’s no way that could lead to any loss of funds or compromise for their clients. On the Casa website, they offer a “well security protocol”, consisting of up to 40 pages of in-depth explanations covering how they architected their product using multi-sig protocols, multiple manufacturers, hardware devices for keys, and figuring out how to distribute them geographically. “We don’t want this to be a security through obscurity. An attacker should be able to completely un…
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May 13, 2022
30 The Brandolini Effect Explained w/ Mike Hobart
Mike Hobart returns for Episode 30 with C.J. Wilson, co-host of Bitcoin Bottom Line, for a live broadcast from the Bitcoin 22 conference.
The two begin by discussing the conference and meeting Bitcoin celebrities, and the approaching one year anniversary of El Salvadorian adoption. “El Salvador making the move was like the one person willing to go against the flow. Since that country doesn’t have a history of innovation in that way, people didn’t follow them right away”,
Wilson states. Things are changing. The two go on to discuss the role that Bitcoin is playing in the war, and how the currency is helping the Ukrainian government. Wilson continues the conversation, mentioning that “If the government is running out of FUD weapons, and Bitcoin is growing at the same time, you’re going to have more voices that can attack those FUD vectors faster.”
Hobart is releasing an article through Bitcoin Magazine in which he interviewed one of Bitcoin twitters’ favorite female pe…
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May 3, 2022
29 Professional Wrestler is Bullish On Bitcoin w/ Summer Rae
Professional Wrestler is Bullish On Bitcoin w/ Summer Rae
This time, co-hosts Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson are joined by horse racer, nascar driver, wrestler, and bitcoiner Summer Rae. She also holds an executive position at Hedge, a wire transfer program to set up your accounts so you can get paid in bitcoin. Rae is one of the top women in the WWE at the moment. She took a 5 year break due to an injury, and just returned at the Royal Rumble, taking a percentage of her winnings in crypto through Hedge.
On an environmental note, they go on to discuss the hot topic of bitcoin mining, its efficiency, and how it works in terms of the Texas power grid specifically. In terms of our national energy usage, Rae says, “Bitcoin and bitcoin mining has helped increase awareness of renewable energy usage and how we can do a lot more.” The trio goes on to discuss dollar cost averaging, wrestling, athletes accepting paychecks in Bitcoin, and more.
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Apr 29, 2022
28 Protecting Bitcoin Mining w/ Nick Hansen
In this week’s Bitcoin Bottom Line episode, Co-hosts Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson are joined by guest Nick Hansen, CEO of Luxor, and Valkyrie’s Head of Research Josh Olszewicz.
Luxor is one of the top 10 bitcoin mining pools in the world. They have a Hash Rate Index, and through that they are aiming to provide great data about the mining ecosystem. In addition, they have an ASIC Index, and are just about to launch Energy Markets which tracks the value of energy over time, which they view as very integral to bitcoin mining. In addition to a suite of other products.
Wilson says, “Hash rate is worldwide, machines are getting better every couple of years, and now there are new innovations because people like Luxor are getting involved with the firmware side” He goes on to ask, “How do you see growth in bitcoin mining in the next couple of years?
Hansen explains that he doesn’t see the consistent “all time highs” stopping, but the only thing that could stop that trend i…
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Apr 13, 2022
27 Bitcoin and Gaming w/ Desiree Dickerson
On this episode of “Bitcoin Bottom Line,” hosts Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson are joined by Josh Olszewicz from Valkyrie and Desiree Dickerson who has experience in the Bitcoin space in a nontraditional way. She is coming from Lightning Labs and is now CEO and Co-Founder of THNDR Games. Dickerson opens by sharing about THNDR Game’s strategy for gaining new users. She states that many users have no background in crypto but have found some of their applications or have been referred by a current user. “Once they earn Bitcoin through one of the applications, they have an incentive to continue using the game and become a Bitcoiner.”
#Bitcoin #Gaming #BBL
Wilson states that he frequently gamed as a child and as he got older, he was more focused on beating other players instead of the game itself. He asks Dickerson if they are focused on single versus multiplayer games and if there are different levels of interest between age groups. Dickerson says that all of their games are si…
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Mar 17, 2022
26 The Impact of Biden's Executive Order On Crypto
On this episode of “Bitcoin Bottom Line,” hosts Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson are joined by Josh Olszewics from Valkyrie. They open by discussing the new crypto executive order. Bitcoiners have been hearing about the possibility of a crypto related executive order over the past few months and many have been pulling coins off exchanges, coing-joining, and selling in preparation. After the release of the order, there was nothing that would majorly impact users and the price skyrocketed.
Wilson asks for McClurg’s perspective on if this is a positive or negative sign for the market. McClurg explains that anytime there is a sideways market and the macro perspective is not great but they have not yet gone down, the news cycle has complete control over the price. Historically, many people traded based on the news and it continues today.
The trio goes on to discuss Senator Elizabeth Warren’s letter to the United States Treasury. The letter stated how crypto could be used as a weapon…
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Mar 11, 2022
25 Governmental Bitcoin Adoption w/ Congressional Candidate Taylor Burks
On this episode of “Bitcoin Bottom Line,” hosts Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson are joined by congressional candidate Taylor Burks.
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Burks grew up on a fifth generation cattle farm in Missouri. After graduating as a first generation college student, he joined the United States Navy over 15 years ago where he is now a Lieutenant Commander in the Reserves.
Burks started hearing about Bitcoin around 5 years ago and has since been a proponent for the innovation of blockchain technology and Bitcoin in particular.
Host Steven McClurg relates his similar experience, explaining how his grandparents never used banks, always kept cash, and therefore he also grew up with a mistrust of banks.
“We don’t need some big institution to take care of our finances for us. We want that independence, because we don’t trust them to have our best interest at heart.” He continues, “Bitcoin is the ability to be independent from these macro factors that don’t ha…
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Mar 2, 2022
24 Understanding Bitcoin's Energy Consumption w/ Mike Hobart
On this episode of “Bitcoin Bottom Line,” host C.J. Wilson is joined by veteran and contributor to Bitcoin Magazine, Mike Hobart. Wilson and Hobart share similar backgrounds in exercise, physiology, and kinesiology. Hobart’s journey started in 2013 when he joined the military. He gives credit to the book, Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl for opening himself up to finding purpose after being in a dark place. He studied exercise science while in school allowing him to now write articles on a wide variety of topics.
Hobart's curiosity in Bitcoin sparked during his deployment to the Middle East in spring of 2017. This was the first time he had a salary which led him to research investment theory. One of the most well known theories is, “You have to put your money where the market is going to go before the market goes there.” After watching bitcoin quadruple in four months he decided to invest. He studied the market for hours each day during his deployment.
Hobart has…
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Feb 24, 2022
23 Why Bonds Are Worthless w/ Greg Foss
On this episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line, host Steven McClurg is joined by Greg Foss and Josh Olszewics to discuss bonds. Steven and Greg met while being co-investors in the same company that is responsible for bringing ETFs into Canada. This company gave people in Canada comfort that a spot Bitcoin ETF will work and cannot be manipulated. #Bitcoin #Bonds #Investing #Crypto McClurg mentions that the last time he was with Greg they discussed gas flaring. Greg mentioned what had been happening in Alberta and shortly after, China decided to shut down all of its miners. McClurg asks how Foss has seen this progress in Canada. Foss states, “We do not have much flare gas in Canada. The US has more flare. We have 400 megawatts of power that are former peaking plants. They're located right along the TransCanada natural gas pipeline and we will be mining Bitcoin at those plants.” McClurg and Foss go on to discuss the two different Bitcoin audiences. The first is the intermediary audience, whic…
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Feb 9, 2022
22 International Bitcoin Adoption
Host Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson open the episode by talking about international bitcoin adoption. Wilson asks McClurg if he believes the criticism that leaders of countries face will diminish after more countries begin to adopt Bitcoin. McClurg does not anticipate this to change. He recognizes that “a lot of people that come into power and want to make positive changes in their country have a difficult time doing it all at once.” He includes an example of Saudi Arabia taking small strides to improve their country, but it cannot change all at once.
McClurg states, “Changing your entire currency system to bitcoin with the hope of financial freedom is one step in the direction to overall freedom.” Wilson says we must look at these situations on a broad, long-term scale; have a low-time preference, and be patient. Like the government, it can be difficult for companies to change quickly, especially if they are public.
Many people have been moving to or visiting El Salvador rec…
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Feb 2, 2022
21 Traditional Banks and Bitcoin
Hosts Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson discuss regional and digital banks with the CEO of Fourth Capital, Brian Heinrichs. Fourth Capital believes in combining digital tools with the human touch. They strive to be a type of bank that has never been built before with their creativity, ideas, process, and customer service. Heinrichs explains that Fourth Capitol is unique because they are privately held, single shareholders, and do not plan on going public.
There are two segments of banking today: there are the large incumbent national regional players, and opposingly, there is the community bank player. Fourth Capital believes that banking should be sitting down with your client, meeting their needs, and doing research to make it happen. Heinrichs ensures a “yes” mindset to his clients.
Wilson talks about banks encouraging people to have their stock portfolios attached to their savings accounts to incentivize them to trade more. It is currently challenging to operate in a Bitcoin-onl…
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Jan 26, 2022
20. Bonds and Crypto
Hosts Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson meet for another episode of the Bitcoin Bottom Line to discuss bonds and crypto. Wilson opens by asking McClurg what changes he has seen in the bond market.
McClurg states that when it comes to bond yields, the FED tightens and makes it more expensive to borrow. More prominent institutional investors must have a certain amount of their assets in fixed income for safety; therefore, large institutions will push the yield down for companies issuing debt that should go out of business. Sears and Toys R Us survived longer than they should have, while Nordstrom is struggling to keep their doors open and cannot get credit to buy inventory. As the FED begins to tighten, they increase the size of their balance sheet by continuing to upper growth of purchasing. He believes that the market is finally starting to price in tapering but has failed to price in interest rate heights. This year, the FED has mentioned three types of interest rate heights, meaning th…
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Jan 20, 2022
19 Fixed Supply
Host C.J. Wilson opens the episode by talking about the mystery of Bitcoin’s fixed supply. There are only twenty-one million Bitcoins that will ever exist, giving folks a grasp on how much Bitcoin there will be in supply at any given time.
In May 2022, the block issuance went from eighteen hundred to nine hundred. People did not know how to address the supply being different. How much were folks willing to pay due to the psychological mechanism of the fear of missing out?
About 18.9 billion Bitcoin has already been mined, but early Bitcoiners did not know what to do with the money because it could not be traded and was not yet worth much.
The total worth of the world is roughly six hundred trillion dollars. There are 100 billion pieces of one Bitcoin called Satoshi. If you were to take one dollar, you would get about seven hundred Satoshis. People view it as an added saving mechanism.
You can be a Satoshi millionaire for a couple of hundred dollars. You will see growth in the val…
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Jan 19, 2022
New Years Live Stream
Host and Valkyrie CIO, Steven McClurg, met via livestream with five special guests, all experts in the Bitcoin space.
Bitcoiner C.J. Wilson begins the round table discussion about the hopes and expectations of the new year. Wilson gives a short recap of the terrible flood attacks, adoption of Bitcoin from El Salvador, creation of the Bitcoin Football Club, as well as the action of mining reaching all-time highs during 2021.
Justine Harper of Unchained Capital speculates that adoption will be a significant focus of 2022 after seeing notable institutions adopting Bitcoin, while Kristy-Leigh Minehan of OhGodAGirl discusses hash rates and mining. Minehan believes that this will be the year that some mainstream guys join the ASIC development business due to all of the mining moving into the United States after China’s ban and the increased market saturation.
Charlie Lee, Founder of Litecoin agrees with Harper and Minehan that the adoption of Bitcoin will be prominent this year. He disc…
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Jan 13, 2022
18 What is Open Source?
Host C.J. Wilson joins us again for a solo episode to break down the topic of Open Source.
Open Source says that everything about Bitcoin must have visibility and auditability, meaning that anyone, including average non-coders, has access to download the entire language.
This encourages folks to participate in an open socratic manner, having conversations with logic and not necessarily emotion.
Wilson explains the BIP Process, which is a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal run on Github by core developers. The developers are working on Bitcoin Core, posting the proposals written by Bitcoiners to the network. After these are posted, a formative argument is made to discuss the process and decide whether or not it should pass.
Since all bitcoin iterations are reverse compatible, if a BIP is approved, each user can choose whether or not to upgrade to that version.
Another aspect of Open Source includes the transparency of all transactions on the blockchain. This explains that there is a leve…
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Jan 5, 2022
17 What is a Miner?
Host C.J.Wilson goes solo for a short informational episode answering the question, “What is a Miner?”
Wilson explains that a “miner” is an “asic”, and shows what one looks like in the video version of this episode (on Youtube). It’s a 30 pound shoe box shaped machine with fans and plugins that connects to your laptop.
After purchasing the asic, the next step is joining a mining pool. A mining pool is a group of computers that all work together to share the hash rate. The brand new miners are usually somewhere between 90-110 terra hashes per second, which is a computing speed measurer.
For every 100 terra hashes, you are averaging around .02 bitcoin per month, in terms of how much you will actually win.
There are competing pools that are headquartered in different countries, many of which have been around for about 10 years allowing people to share the winnings. Every ten minutes or so, a block is mined and the winner gets 6.25 bitcoin. So, if you are participating in…
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Dec 22, 2021
16 With Tron's Justin Sun
Host StevenMcClurg and Founder of Tron , Justin Sun, meet over zoom for an episode discussing all things Blockchain.
The two discuss meeting at Satoshi Roundtable in Mexico, and how the event was affected by the Covid-19 virus.
Sun explains how he got into Bitcoin back in 2013, and the inaccessibility of the cryptocurrency in China back at that time. He shares how he would bring cash to McDonalds in exchange for Bitcoin, and how it felt like an illegal drug deal.
He bought his first bitcoin at around 50 cents, and became distracted from studying for the LSAT Test. While his parents warned him to stay focused on his studies, bitcoin rose to one dollar. He continued focusing on Bitcoin, and gave up law school. “Then, it went up to $1,000, which was beyond my wildest dreams”, he says, “I started to realize the response of serious people building our industry.”
“Justin wanted to be a lawyer, Bitcoin fixes that.” McClurg says.
McClurg was also planning to go to law school,…
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Dec 15, 2021
15 With Black Bitcoin Billionaire's Lamar Wilson
Lamar Wilson, freedom maximalist, OG Bitcoiner, and founder of Black Bitcoin Billionaires (the largest Bitcoin based club on Clubhouse) joins C.J. Wilson on this week’s episode of the Bitcoin
Bottom Line.
The two sit side by side in Austin, TX, taking a break from writing a book together (along with
others) that focuses on how to change the narrative of Bitcoin on Capitol Hill.
Lamar starts off the episode with a bang, mentioning that in regards to Bitcoin, “It’s not about the
price for me, it’s all about the freedom and the sovereignty.”
When asked how Bitcoin has changed his life, Lamar explains how Bitcoin is the freest money
we can have. He goes on to explain that, “It’s money that no one can censor, no one can tell you
what to do with it, you can hold it on your own without having to interact with anyone else, you
can send it.... All kinds of things that you can’t do with the current financial system.”
He goes on to share how he likes to introduce peopl…
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Dec 8, 2021
14 With Litecoin's Charlie Lee
Legend Charlie Lee, founder of Litecoin, joins hosts Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson on the podcast this week to talk about Bitcoin and Litecoin. Lee shares his story about starting out in the crypto space by buying bitcoin at an ATH of $30 before it dipped to $2. Even after this dip, he bought more, explaining that the community didn’t lose faith. He tells the hosts that back in the day, he used to buy bitcoin by meeting up with a stranger at a Starbucks or McDonalds with cash. However, he would wait there for the transaction to confirm which was around 10 minutes, but sometimes it would take up to an hour. He also shares that he’s done cash-bitcoin transactions in bank lobbies and at the steps of police stations, where it felt like a drug transaction. “For certain people who aren’t very technical, being on an exchange is safer,” Lee advises, “For people who are more technical, I would recommend they handle it themselves. For those who can’t do it themselves, I recommend…
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Dec 6, 2021
13 The Birthday Episode
Hosts C.J. Wilson and Steven McClurg kick off this episode with a fun new intro and some birthday wishes. McClurg shares his excitement about taproot, “Taproot is the biggest upgrade to the system in the last twelve years”. Wilson’s birthday wish is for a point of sale and figuring out a way to use it as a method for onboarding more people at his car dealership, saving the percentage fees that come out of paying with USD. The hosts talk about Bitcoin related ETFs, and how they differ from cryptocurrency trusts. McClurg, CIO of Valkyrie Investments, shares the behind-the-scenes of the single asset trusts as well as how a Bitcoin Futures ETF has been able to come to market. According to McClurg, “The CME and Bitcoin futures are regulated by the CFTC, which gives the SEC comfort.” Wilson shares that “The SEC has approved bitcoin related instruments, regardless of if they are futures based or spot based, and that’s really interesting. You can even get them through your broker…
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Nov 17, 2021
11 ETFs & More
In this informational episode, BBL host and Valkyrie CIO Steven McClurg invites Nasdaq’s Head of ETPs Giang Bui to discuss ETFs and more. The two kick it off with a discussion about the process of getting an ETF up and launched. This process, lasting anywhere from 30 to 240 days, must go through several checkpoints set up by Nasdaq and the SEC to ensure all requirements are met for approval. Bui explains that if a product listing doesn’t meet Nasdaq’s generic listing standards, they must file a 19b4 with the SEC to seek their approval. “Issuers choose Nasdaq because our brands align so well with them in terms of innovation and driving to the market for the future. We support them from a regulatory standpoint, when a product is traded and listed from a capital market standpoint, as well as marketing and distribution”, Bui shares. “It was great to see one of the first Bitcoin related ETFs come to market the other week, and we are excited to be able to support Valkyrie as a fi…
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Nov 12, 2021
12 Ambassadors For Bitcoin
This week on Bitcoin Bottom Line, co-hosts “Bitcoin Ambassador” C.J. Wilson and “Chart Master” Steven McClurg discuss the exciting, active times in the Bitcoin space. Wilson shares a behind-the-curtain peek into his recent meetings with Senator Ted Cruz and other key political figures about Bitcoin legislation. Wilson shares, “There are a lot of things that are happening between the Texas Blockchain Association and the values of independence found in Texan Bitcoiners.” In his meeting with Senator Cruz’s office, Wilson heard about their efforts to push bitcoin as a currency to be used during small cash transactions, which parallels the original impetus for bitcoin to be used in everyday expenses. They have ideas to implement this through a program on vending machines called “Accept”. “As more people are dollar-cost-averaging into bitcoin, it proves to be a better and better asset for everybody involved”, Wilson shares. Steven McClurg shares his tendencies to HODL b…
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Oct 13, 2021
10 Bitcoin FOMO
The tenth episode of Bitcoin Bottom Line consists of a fireside chat between host C.J. Wilson and Bitcoiner and podcaster Dennis Porter. They discuss Dennis' Bitcoin journey, his involvement in politics, educating no-coiners about Bitcoin, and much more.
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Sep 29, 2021
09 Bitcoin & Religion
Author, clubhouse host, and Bitcoiner Jimmy Song joins hosts Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson in episode 09 of Bitcoin Bottom Line to discuss religion and the production of his book, Thank God for Bitcoin.
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Sep 22, 2021
08 Impact Investing
In episode 08 of Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson invite former Tennessee Titan and philanthropist Derrick Morgan to discuss impact investing. Aligning his capital with his values, Morgan makes investing with impact a priority not only in his financial portfolio, but his everyday life as well. Enjoy their discussion!
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Sep 1, 2021
07 Art & NFTs
Episode 07 of Bitcoin Bottom Line covers one of crypto’s current hot topics- NFTs. Hosts Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson bring on Malibu artist and Marketing Associate at Valkyrie Annie Little to offer her perspective on the value of art.
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Aug 18, 2021
06 Inflation and Politics
In this episode of the Bitcoin Bottom Line, hosts Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson discuss how to alter your portfolio allocation based on inflation, what the infrastructure bill means for bitcoin, and how legislative involvement plays a part in the bitcoin space.
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Jul 28, 2021
05 Bitcoin Mining
Steven and CJ are joined by Kristy-Leigh Minehan, one of the world's experts in mining. In this episode, they discus the changing bitcoin prices and challenges miners are currently tackling around the world.
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Jul 13, 2021
04 Self Sovereignty & Crypto
Steven and C.J. are joined by Justine Harper from Unchained Capital, discussing all things from farm animals to gold and finding common ground at the Bitcoin conference.
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Jul 6, 2021
03 GMC
Steven and C.J. chat GMC's consideration to add Bitcoin as a method of payment for vehicles in addition to a discussion around small business owners adding Bitcoin to their balance sheets.
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Jun 29, 2021
02 Panama
Steven and C.J. discuss current legislation in Panama to accept Bitcoin as legal tender. With special guests from Bitcoin Magazine, the discussion examines the potential of widespread Bitcoin adoption in the region and the global impact.
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Jun 22, 2021
01 El Salvador
Steven and CJ discuss El Salvador's decision to make bitcoin legal tender. They delve into the impact of cryptocurrency on emerging markets and the future implications of this groundbreaking decision.
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