Tariffs, AI, and Bitcoin in a De-Globalizing World
The April 28, 2025 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Mark Moss arguing that de-globalization and tariff-driven reshoring shift power toward decentralized money.
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Analysis of artificial intelligence, its economic effects, institutional implications, and governance challenges
Fiat Strain and the Digital Reserve Transition
The April 27, 2025 episode of the Jordi Visser Podcast has Visser arguing that the post-1971 fiat regime is losing global trust. He explains how stablecoins, Bitcoin, and tokenized assets are merging with legacy finance to build a new monetary stack while AI transforms real-economy dynamics.
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Bitcoin’s Role in an Accelerating AI Race
The April 22, 2025 episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s Bitcoin Policy Hour features Matthew Pines, Zach Shapiro, and Zach Cohen examining how near-term artificial-intelligence breakthroughs collide with geopolitics and monetary policy.
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Autonomous AI Labs Upend the Pace of Discovery
The April 17, 2025 episode of FYI — For Your Innovation features Geoffrey von Maltzahn detailing how Lila couples AI, proprietary data, and fully automated laboratories to build “scientific super‑intelligence.”
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Restructuring Finance Amid Uncertain Markets
The April 13, 2025 episode of the Jordi Visser Podcast explores volatile market dynamics driven by rapid basis trade unwinding, tariff shocks, and structural shifts in safe haven assets.
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Distributed Bitcoin Mining: Challenges and Opportunities
The April 04, 2025 episode of the Bitcoin Magazine podcast featured Troy Cross discussing how economies of scale have driven mining centralization and how emerging technologies, such as AI and renewable energy, are fostering a shift toward distributed mining.
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Forecasting the Intelligence Explosion and Systemic Risks
The April 03, 2025 episode of the Dwarkesh Patel Podcast with Scott Alexander and Daniel Kokotajlo outlines a detailed month-by-month forecast of AI progress toward superintelligence, highlighting acceleration factors, alignment challenges, and looming economic and geopolitical shifts.
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Navigating Markets, Fiscal Policy, and AI Hardware Shifts
The March 23, 2025 episode of Jordi Visser's podcast examines how fiscal measures, evolving market technical indicators, and the shift to embodied AI are reshaping market dynamics.
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Bitcoin and AI: Converging for Scalable Payments
The March 28, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Source featuring Matt Ahlborg explores Bitcoin’s dual role as a medium of exchange and digital gold while examining AI-integrated payment solutions like PPQ.
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AI Decentralization & Bitcoin’s Future
On March 28, 2025, the What is Money Show with Matt McDonagh examined how advanced AI - from deep and reinforcement learning to decentralized architectures - can transform healthcare, finance, and Bitcoin’s protocol.
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Bitcoin & AI: Shaping Decentralized Futures
The March 18, 2025 Unchained podcast with Drew D’Agostino, founder of Crystal, explores how a Bitcoin treasury strategy transformed an AI-focused business, fostering disciplined capital management and operational resilience.
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Forecasting Rapid AI Changes and Their Governance Implications
The March 11, 2025 episode of 80,000 Hours with Will MacAskill explores how recursive AI improvements and rapid technological acceleration could upend traditional governance, regulation, and ethics.
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