Parker Lewis is a writer and Head of Business Development at Unchained Capital, which provides Bitcoin financial services. The Duke University graduate is the author of the well-known series of articles "Gradually, Then Suddenly."
🐦 Follow Parker on Twitter at / parkeralewis
🗒️ IN THIS EPISODE:
00:00 Okcoin promo
01:00 Parker Lewis live from Austin, Texas
02:48 Bitcoin++ Conference, Hackathon
05:38 Early goals, studying economics at Duke
06:47 Relationship with money, chaos during financial crisis
08:02 Questioning financial system, Keynesian economics
09:38 Impact of 2008 recession, vanilla debt
14:14 10-to-1 ratio of debt to real dollars, down from 1100:1 in 2007
16:19 Researching gold
18:15 Going down the Bitcoin rabbit hole in 2016
20:53 Road to Unchained Capital in 2018, securing BTC
26:40 Bitcoin on the balance sheet
30:23 Bitcoin 2023 promo
31:29 Fold app promo
32:11 El Salvador's future
34:26 Fed hiking rates, fighting inflation, CPI
37:52 Vulnerability of Bitcoin falling
42:33 BTC uncorrelated to economic conditions
45:07 "Nothing more American than Bitcoin"
46:46 Self-custody
52:35 Explainaing multisig
58:34 Lending, building generational wealth
1:01:37 Fiat loans to buy Bitcoin
1:02:20 Go deeper down the rabbit hole, Bitcoin is the solution
1:05:51 Natalie was rejected from Parker's Bitcoin 2021 party
1:03:46 Transition to parallel system
1:07:54 How can Bitcoin fix healthcare?
1:11:51 "Things are going to be ugly this year."
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- Unchained Capital: unchained.com/blog/author/ple...
- "Gradually, Then Suddenly" unchained.com/blog/category/g...
- Parker on Twitter: / parkeralewis
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