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Nic Carter is a general partner at Castle Island Ventures, investing in crypto-financial infrastructure and the restoration of property rights on the internet. He is cofounder and chairman of Coin Metrics, host of the On The Brink podcast, columnist for Coindesk, and an advisor to the Bitcoin Clean Energy Initiative and to Core Scientific. You can follow Nic at www.twitter.com/nic__carter
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00:00 Promo codes
01:59 Intro, thoughts about Oslo
03:29 Born to British family in Swaziland (now Eswatini)
04:53 Going to French school in Poland, father works for World Bank
05:59 Wanted to pursue finance
07:37 Studying philosophy at University of St. Andrews
09:13 Ethics in Bitcoin
11:40 Orthodox Keynesian economic theory
13:30 Concept of money growing up
15:33 Discovering Bitcoin in 2012
17:04 Dogecoin
18:15 Going down the BTC rabbit hole
20:05 Investing in gold
20:14 The Bitcoin “aha” moment
22:18 Finished undergrad, became journalist covering corporate law, attended University of Edinburgh for Master’s to become a Bitcoin analyst
26:00 Environmental impact of Bitcoin mining
35:00 Fossil fuels vs. renewable energy, ESG investing
42:02 Financial freedom vs. government system
46:03 Fed tightening
48:08 China preparing for war?
53:57 Bearish case for Bitcoin
56:28 Bullish case for Bitcoin
58:56 BTC competition
59:24 Terra LUNA meltdown
1:02:57 What should investors know?
1:08:34 Letting experiments fail
1:09:27 In Bitcoin more than 100%, leveraged
1:09:56 What will happen in the near future?
1:13:04 What does Nic wish he was asked?
1:13:42 What are the bad things that can happen to Bitcoin?
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