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Chris Fisher
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ChrisLAS 11 months ago
I'm back from my trip with a PACKED This Week in Bitcoin. Everything that has happened in the last two weeks can be explained in two words: cheap debt. I get deep into it this week. Full episode:
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This Week in Bitcoin • Playing with Fire • Listen on Fountain
The bond market is whispering, Trump’s shouting, and Bitcoin is listening. What happens when the debt machine needs a reboot—and how that despe...
 Player of choice link: https://episodes.fm/1733733790/episode/ZWQ0NTdiZGYtYjZjOC00YmUyLTgzMmYtNTM3ZTVlM2UxYjEy?view=apps&sort=popularity
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ChrisLAS 11 months ago
Bitcoiners may feel rugged, but zoom out: the U.S. sees stablecoins as a route to dollar dominance, making everything else in crypto secondary. Bitcoin doesn't need them; the stablecoin industrial complex does. Bitcoin doesn't need anything from these people. But the stablecoin industrial complex (every major bank wants in) needs them badly. So, incentives were always going to align. I don't think this means the Bitcoin Reserve idea is dead, but it does mean it's taking a back seat to what they think is the "bigger picture." image
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ChrisLAS 11 months ago
Are you enjoying the cheap seats? I think people have the wrong perspective on the recent dip. Considering a global trade war is heating up, the Memecoin bubble is collapsing, stagflation is setting in, and AI money is slowing down, Bitcoin is doing great. But the bumpy ride is far from over, and I explain why in today's This Week in Bitcoin: https://www.thisweekinbitcoin.show/episodepage/48 Grab it in your app of choice: https://episodes.fm/1733733790/episode/NjgzOTQwNTItODc4My00OWQxLTlmYzEtMmI1MmQ0NTAzNmRi image
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ChrisLAS 1 year ago
🎉 It's out a bit late so I could slip in the latest news, but a fresh This Week in Bitcoin is out, and I'd love it if you checked it out. I recap why the Bitcoin community declared war on Ripple/XPR this week, why I think Trump is walking into an economic trap and much more! On Fountain:
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This Week in Bitcoin • Strategic Ripple War • Listen on Fountain
Why many Bitcoiners went to war with Ripple/XRP this week, the Fed policy's impact on Bitcoin post-Q1, and why I think Trump is walking into an eco...
 On the web: https://www.thisweekinbitcoin.show/episodepage/44
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ChrisLAS 1 year ago
Nearly $1.5tn in stock market value wiped out today on the news of DeepSeek being cheap. And people say Bitcoin is risky. 🤣 image
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ChrisLAS 1 year ago
The hits keep coming when the market is already down! 📰 JUST IN - Chinese DeepSeek AI launches multimodal "Janus-Pro-7B" model with image input and output. "This new model beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion across GenEval and DPG-Bench benchmarks." image It's already posted, too:
deepseek-ai/Janus-Pro-7B · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
 And it's also under the MIT License. The market might be taking a beating on this news, but in the long term, this surely only increases competition, right? I'm already hearing talk of "AI's Sputnik Moment." Chances are, in my humble opinion, that in the long term, this only serves to pump the AI bubble harder and faster. What do you think?
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ChrisLAS 1 year ago
Hey look a surprise Bitcoin sale! It's a blood bath out there today. As I post this: - NVIDIA shares dropping like a stone. Last down over 16%. (NVIDIA has erased more than -$600 BILLION of market cap today.) - Microsoft almost down 4% - Google almost 3% - Taiwan Semi Conductor down 14% - Oracle down almost 13% Not everyone is down tho... - META up 1.46% and Apple up 2.25% The only two in the bunch. Both of whom have focused on open source / local AI. It's all in reaction to DeepSeek exposing how much waste has been going into US AI projects. DeepSeek is ~96% CHEAPER than ChatGPT. - Cost of OpenAI o1: $60.00 per 1M output tokens - Cost of DeepSeek R1: $2.19 per 1M output tokens And, again DeepSeek R1 is MIT Licensed. Total panic at the tech companies and the wider market today. And they should be. I have been trying out DeepSeek R1, locally on my LAPTOP - and it works great. And fast. This is a win for open-source. image
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ChrisLAS 1 year ago
Ross Ulbricht's journey from Silk Road to a presidential pardon is one of the most legendary stories in Bitcoin's history. I'll dive into his arrest, the government's tactics, Ross thoughts from behind bars, and more. This episode is a celebration of Ross release, don't miss it! https://www.thisweekinbitcoin.show/episodepage/43
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ChrisLAS 1 year ago
I am so thrilled about Ross's pardon. The promise was kept. If you don't have the background, or maybe you have a friend or SO who does not understand why everyone is so thrilled, this Reason video does a decent job as an introduction. The story is even wilder than they have time to explore, but I think it's a good starting point.
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