GameStop, DTCC, and How Liquidations Worked

David Weisberger is a 40-year Wall Street veteran, former CEO of CoinRoutes, and one of the world's leading experts on market structure and quantitative finance.

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🕑 TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Is the Stock Market Rigged?02:34 Market Structure Biases03:26 The GameStop Short Squeeze06:53 Bitcoin as a Fix to the Broken Financial System07:23 Historical Money: Seashells, Gold, and Fiat Currency08:49 Debasement of Currency and Government Incentives10:14 Inflation, Asset Prices, and the Devaluation of Money12:04 Bitcoin's Potential to Fix Systemic Flaws18:35 Bitcoin vs Gold and the Future of Money25:21 Bitcoin's Transparency as a Trust Mechanism26:13 Ray Dalio's Views on Bitcoin and Central Banks33:03 Risks of Quantum Attacks and Bitcoin's Resilience39:49 The Future of Bitcoin Adoption49:39 The Big Opportunity and Core Beliefs in Bitcoin56:56 Future Predictions: Bitcoin in 10 Years59:09 Importance of Ease of Use and Security in Adoption

ℹ️ EPISODE SUMMARY

Bram Kanstein and Wall Street veteran Dave Weisberger discuss whether markets are actually rigged, and why that story is mostly backwards. He breaks down GameStop, DTCC, and how 2008 was mispriced risk, not cartoon villain market makers. They confront fiat debasement, the Cantillon effect, and how inflation quietly rebuilds feudalism through asset inflation. Dave challenges Ray Dalio on central banks, Bitcoin transparency, and quantum computing risk. Bitcoin lands as a scarce, auditable base layer, but UX, custody, and tax friction still block mass adoption.

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