1 hr 14 min

Ben Prentice: The History of Central Banking & Inflation The Bitcoin Matrix

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In this wide-ranging conversation with the co-founder of the website, blog and meme WTF Happened in 1971? Ben Prentice and Cedric discuss:
- The history of coin clipping
- What the temptation to money printing must be like
- Is their a 500 year Central Banking cabal
- The history of bank holidays and the suspension of the redemption of specie
- What is the most scary thing to people in power
- Central Banking monetary colonialism and the next 100 years
- What is the biggest problem with inflation
- How do Central Banks compete with each other
- The future of CBDCs
- Do we need UBI or not
- Ben's Bitcoin and Austrian economics rabbit hole story
- How the meme WTF Happened in 1971? was born
- How Julian Assange was the body cam to the whole world
- And so much more 
 

In this wide-ranging conversation with the co-founder of the website, blog and meme WTF Happened in 1971? Ben Prentice and Cedric discuss:
- The history of coin clipping
- What the temptation to money printing must be like
- Is their a 500 year Central Banking cabal
- The history of bank holidays and the suspension of the redemption of specie
- What is the most scary thing to people in power
- Central Banking monetary colonialism and the next 100 years
- What is the biggest problem with inflation
- How do Central Banks compete with each other
- The future of CBDCs
- Do we need UBI or not
- Ben's Bitcoin and Austrian economics rabbit hole story
- How the meme WTF Happened in 1971? was born
- How Julian Assange was the body cam to the whole world
- And so much more 
 

1 hr 14 min

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