Austrian Economics, Hard Money & Bitcoin Cycles

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Argument: central banks are stockpiling gold and building CBDCs and a government-controlled digital payments network as the practical fallback, not Bitcoin; Bitcoin is technically superior as money but gets ruled out politically. Surprise numbers: about 93% of Bitcoin already mined, US debt ~121% of GDP (Netherlands ~49%). Examples: IMF pressure on El Salvador, on/off ramps and exit-tax proposals in the Netherlands, and countries mining Bitcoin (Kazakhstan, Venezuela, Iran). Claim: only a full systemic collapse would let Bitcoin function as a reserve, and that scenario brings rule-of-law risks.

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1. 0:00Welcome
2. 1:47Central banks and gold
3. 6:57Bitcoin’s financial role
4. 11:39Geopolitical risks
5. 17:25Countries adopting Bitcoin
6. 22:04Financial repression strategies
7. 24:15Bitcoin vs gold
8. 27:24End of petrodollar
9. 29:17Panel on state adoption

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