Lyn Alden joins me to explore the evolution of money, ledger money vs token money, why gold won the commodity war, and the unified theory of money. We discuss why gold failed to scale, how the telegraph sped up information but not final settlement, how inflation distorts both markets and minds, and how Bitcoin will change the world. Lyn Alden is an investor, best-selling author of “Broken Money”, and worldwide speaker with a focus on the intersection of money and technology.
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0:00 - WiM Episode Trailer
1:26 - Broken Money: What is Money?
3:36 - Ledger vs Token Money
6:55 - Why did Gold Win?
8:30 - Abstracting Gold and Silver into Paper
11:19 - Telegraph, Speed of Information vs Speed of Gold
15:14 - A Unified Theory of Money
18:33 - Gold vs Bitcoin: Scaling
24:59 - Central Banking and the Telegraph
30:35 - The Impacts of Inflation
34:22 - Psychological Impacts of Inflation
37:22 - Does Bitcoin Fix This?
41:07 - Bitcoin and the Automobile
44:29 - How will Bitcoin Change the World?
48:38 - The Fiat Flywheel
53:20 - “Risk Free” Bitcoin Rate
56:54 - Where to Find Lyn Alden
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