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The Bitcoin Magazine Podcast is on a mission to stay on top of what's happening with everything Bitcoin, guiding listeners through the major stories shaping the price, philosophy and community around the financial revolution. The show will also feature brief interviews from leading experts in the space.
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Feb 22, 2023 • 1h 1min
BM Pro - Bitcoin vs the Dollar w/ Preston Pysh and Dylan LeClair
Preston Pysh visits the BM Pro podcast to break down his thoughts about Bitcoin vs the Dollar.
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Feb 19, 2023 • 58min
FedWatch 132 - US CPI and EU Banks told to Cap Bitcoin Purchases
Hosts: Ansel Lindner and Christian Keroles
Fed Watch is a macro podcast with a clear contrarian thesis of a deflationary breakdown of the financial system leading to bitcoin adoption. We question narratives and schools of thought, and try to form new understanding. Each episode we use current events to question mainstream and bitcoin narratives across the globe, with an emphasis on central banks and currencies.
(Find all associated charts at bitcoinandmarkets.com/fed132)
In this episode, we discuss US CPI for January 2023 and use different commodities and macro prices and indicators to understand and interpret the data. We look at things like the bitcoin price, the dollar, energy and shipping costs. The latter two were the main drivers behind the 2021-2022 CPI rises.
What we found was that there are no price pressures whatsoever in the economy. Nothing that could duplicate the effects from the last couple of years.
We also talk about the updates to the CPI calculations and try to come to a conclusion, whether they pushed CPI higher in January or lower.
Then we get into a new policy statement by the ECB, which threatens European banks that, although not legally binding and not even through the approval process, banks must comply with the new Basel limits on bitcoin in reserves. Of course, this is crazy, and going to lead to tons of problems when bitcoin pumps.
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US January CPI release
ECB threatens banks
Bitcoin Magazine coverage of Basel tiers for bitcoin
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Written by Ansel Lindner
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Feb 17, 2023 • 1h 10min
Cosmic Bitcoin - The Bitcoin Singularity w/ Luke Broyles
On this Cosmic Bitcoin, Luke Broyles explains how Bitcoin the singularity will change our world as we know it and provide the foundation for massive advances as society.
Hosts: Spencer Nichols and CK
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Feb 13, 2023 • 55min
FedWatch 131 -This Will Crash the Economy, Credit Creation Plunges
Hosts: Ansel Lindner and Christian Keroles
Fed Watch is a macro podcast with a clear contrarian thesis of a deflationary breakdown of the financial system leading to bitcoin adoption. We question narratives and schools of thought, and try to form new understanding. Each episode we use current events to question mainstream and bitcoin narratives across the globe, with an emphasis on central banks and currencies.
In this episode, we discuss niche economic data from the Federal Reserve called the Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey or SLOOS report. Then our conversation turns to the UK’s attempts to build a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) which they have dubbed “Britcoin”.
The SLOOS data shows lending practices and state of the market according to a very broad survey of banks, mainly in the US but it does include some foreign banks. January’s data was categorically bad news.
There are two sides to a lending market, the lender and the borrower. Then the survey breaks it into two broad types of loans, business and households, and then further into two more components for each of those sub-types, commercial and industrial (C&I) and commercial real estate for business, and consumer real estate and consumer loans for households.
Almost every component was worse in January. Lending standards by banks tightened nearly across the board, and demand for loans fell in each.
This is a bad sign because, as we discuss a lot on the show, lending is where money is actually printed. If lending (AKA credit creation) is slowing rapidly, that puts immediate deflationary pressure on the economy.
Next we look at the UK’s attempt to build a CBDC. At this stage, their attempts remain confined to convincing people there is an actual need for a CBDC. Despite the fear-mongering rhetoric from many quarters, they are about as far away from a CBDC launch as they’ve always been.
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Federal reserve SLOOS report
UK Eyes CBDC, Banks Restrict Bitcoin - Bitcoin Magazine
UK Steps Up Planning for Digital Pound Currency Backed by BOE - BNN Bloomberg
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Written by Ansel Lindner
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Feb 11, 2023 • 56min
Cosmic Bitcoin - Bitcoin Is Love w/ Nozomi Hayase
Nozomi Hayase visits the Cosmic Bitcoin Podcast to dive into how Bitcoin can produce a more loving and prosperous society through its beautiful incentives.
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Feb 9, 2023 • 54min
BM Pro Market Update w/ Dylan LeClair
Dylan LeClair gives us a BM Pro market update and talks ordinals with the Bitcoin Magazine Team.
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Feb 5, 2023 • 1h 4min
Freedom And Money w/ Mills and Gigi
Spencer Nichols hosts a podcast with Mills and Gigi that discusses why Bitcoin is freedom money and why that is so important for a healthy society.
Hosts: Spencer Nichols
Guests: Mills and Gigi
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Feb 3, 2023 • 58min
FedWatch 130 - The Fed Just Made This HUGE Mistake
Hosts: Ansel Lindner and Christian Keroles
(Find links below or, along with charts, at bitcoinandmarkets.com/fed130)
In this episode, we dive into all the central bank policy announcements this week, focusing on the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank (ECB).
To set the stage for analyzing central bank monetary policy discussion, we look at the several macro charts, including bitcoin, the S&P 500, the dollar index (DXY), and US Treasury yields.
The Federal Reserve raised its Fed Funds target range to 4.50% to 4.75%, emphasizing stable prices, inflation fighting, and employment. To help take us through this announcement, we listen to a couple clips of Chairman Jerome Powell at the press conference following the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting.
Powell also signaled that more rate hikes are coming, using the term “ongoing increases”. It’s a fine line the Fed has to walk. Since they don’t do anything mechanical to set rates, the forward guidance and word choices make all the difference.
After a long discussion about the Fed’s decision, we jump to the ECB’s latest monetary policy change.
The ECB raised their policy rates by 50 bps, as expected. However, they did slightly shift their forward guidance more dovish, differing from the Fed’s choice to remain rhetorically more hawkish. Instead of confirming two more 50 bps hikes eluded to in past statements, the ECB confirmed only one more before reevaluating.
They also introduced “Climate QE” as part of their balance sheet reduction strategy. Each month, they allow a certain number of securities to mature and roll-off their balance sheet, reinvesting the remainder into new securities including corporate bonds. They will now take into consideration companies’ ESG-type score, when deciding which corporate bonds to buy.
Thanks for joining us. If you are reading this, hit the like and subscribe button!
Constant updates on bitcoin and macro
Free weekly Bitcoin Fundamentals Report
Find More and Follow
Ansel Lindner On Twitter
Christian Keroles On Twitter
Watch this Episode: YouTube || Rumble
Slide deck
Federal Open Market Committee policy statement
Powell FOMC press conference video
ECB Policy Release
Powell got more dovish the longer he talked
Andreas Steno substack on BLS data
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Feb 2, 2023 • 1h 16min
Cosmic Bitcoin - Bitcoin and Religion w/ John Vallis
John Vallis visits Cosmic Bitcoin to discuss how religion affects our world and how it relates to Bitcoin.
Hosts: CK and Spencer Nichols
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Jan 31, 2023 • 56min
FedWatch 129 - US GDP Numbers and Japan’s New Money Bazooka
Hosts: Ansel Lindner and Christian Keroles
Fed Watch is a macro podcast with a clear contrarian thesis of a deflationary breakdown of the financial system leading to bitcoin adoption. We question narratives and schools of thought, and try to form new understanding. Each episode we use current events to question mainstream and bitcoin narratives across the globe, with an emphasis on central banks and currencies.
(Find links below or, along with charts, at bitcoinandmarkets.com/fed129)
In this episode, CK has returned from his trip to India and joins us for a big day of new economic data from the US.
On deck for this episode is a quick discussion about the US debt ceiling and then we get into the main topic in my opinion, US GDP numbers for Q4 2022 and the whole year.
US real GDP in Q4 rose at an annual rate of 2.9%. That is a pretty significant number for people expecting recession any day now. For the year of 2022, real GDP increased by 2.1% These numbers are in-line with my predictions of returning to a post-GFC (Great Financial Crisis) normal of low growth and low inflation.
The last topic of today’s episode is all about Japan’s new monetary bazooka, an amendment to “Principle Terms and Conditions for Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled-Capital.” That’s just a long label for a program where the Bank of Japan (BOJ) lends money to banks to buy government bonds so the central bank doesn’t have to buy them directly. They’ve made it possible to give these loans at negative interest rates, and extended the term to up to 10 years. That means, they could pay banks to buy JGBs.
Thanks for joining us. If you are reading this, hit the like and subscribe button!
Constant updates on bitcoin and macro: https://t.me/bitcoinandmarkets
Free weekly Bitcoin Fundamentals Report: https://bitcoinandmarkets.com
Find More and Follow
Ansel Lindner: https://twitter.com/AnselLindner
Christian Keroles: https://twitter.com/ck_snarks
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Slide deck https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MXyQLIpFQC2YNy8p8BTzUnoEqLs1_Dv6PCYc3JzC4X8/edit?usp=sharing
US debt ceiling https://archive.ph/ipQoF
Q4 real GDP report https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/gdp4q22_adv_fax.pdf
Article on Japan’s new bazooka https://archive.ph/Mvw1p
If you enjoy this content please LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, REVIEW on iTunes, and SHARE!
Written by Ansel Lindner
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