Bitcoin’s $100M Horizon: Volatility, Policy & Power
The April 21, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Matrix features American HODL outlining how a potential $100 million Bitcoin would reorder finance, politics, and personal sovereignty.
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Murray Rudd
Dr. Murray Rudd is an applied environmental economist and policy researcher. His full attention is now on the economic, social, technical, and environmental impacts and potential of emerging technologies.
ETF‑Era Bitcoin: Custody, Leverage, and Lightning Risks
The April 21 2025 Robin Seyr Podcast features Stephan Livera unpacking why ETFs and corporate treasury strategies, not retail euphoria, drive the current Bitcoin cycle.
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Bitcoin’s Low‑Time‑Preference Ethic and Emerging Circular Economies
The April 21, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Edge with Paula features Matthew Mastro arguing that Bitcoin’s fixed supply encourages patience, durable craftsmanship, and family resilience.
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Tariff‑Driven Liquidity Crunch and Digital Safe Havens
The April 20, 2025 episode of the Jordi Visser Podcast finds Visser warning that aggressive U.S. tariffs have frozen Treasury market depth and forced policymakers toward emergency liquidity tools.
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Freedom Money for Real‑World Needs
The April 18 2025 Bitcoin Magazine pod features Femi Longe describing how Bitcoin’s borderless settlement bypasses Nigeria’s costly remittance maze and offers censorship‑resistant finance for activists.
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Bitcoin Optionality for Hawaii: Savings, Remittances, and Self‑Custody
The April 18, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Source features educator Britney Miyashiro outlining how Bitcoin offsets Hawaii’s steep living costs, streamlines Pacific remittances, and empowers Native and local communities.
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From FUD to Policy: Bitcoin’s Energy‑Driven Legitimacy
The April 19, 2025 episode of the Robin Seyr Podcast features author Tim Niemeyer explaining why politicians now champion Bitcoin’s externalities, from landfill‑methane mining to district‑heating pilots.
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CBDCs or Bitcoin: Choosing Monetary Sovereignty
The April 19 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Edge with Paula features Israeli journalist Efrat Fenigson, who dissects central‑bank digital‑currency (CBDC) plans and contrasts them with Bitcoin’s self‑custody model.
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Bitcoin’s Role in the Coming Yield‑Curve‑Control Era
The April 18 2025 episode of the Brandon Gentile Podcast features investor David Foley explaining why soaring U.S. debt and likely yield‑curve control will debase fiat currencies and redirect capital into Bitcoin.
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Property Flight to Bitcoin Self‑Custody
The April 17 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Edge with Paula features adviser Peter Dunworth explaining why he sold his Sydney home and shifted capital into self‑custodied Bitcoin.
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Will Structural Reforms Keep Treasury Yields Tame?
The April 17, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Layer features Nik Bhatia explaining why steady 2‑3 % inflation, leverage‑ratio relief for banks, and buy‑backs of illiquid off‑the‑run bonds could anchor Treasury yields over the next decade.
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Re‑Balancing the Dollar: Pathways to Industrial Renewal
The April 17, 2025 episode of Coin Stories features Lyn Alden analyzing how reserve-currency mechanics shape U.S. trade deficits, capital flows, and industrial policy.
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