Feb. 1, 2025
105: The American Kingpin is Freed | Trump Is A Crypto President

Recorded Jan 29th 2025.
Lots of interesting things going on lately with Bitcoin and politics. I don't care for Trump much but let's talk about what he's doing in relation to Bitcoin, crypto, taxes and the Federal Reserve.
Notes from the show:
- Ross Ulbricht Pardoned by Trump for Silk Road
- American Kingpin book
- Digital Gold: talks about early Bitcoin personalities including Ross Ulbricht
- Trump Bitcoin Conference talk in Nashville
- Executive Order on Digital Assets
- Czech central bank head wants it to buy billions of euros in bitcoin
- States with Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bills
- Tesla Bitcoin Markup Makes Big Impact on Earnings
- Trump and Melania Memecoins
- World Liberty Financial buying Bitcoin (kind of)
- SAB 121 Rule change -> SAB 122
- Income Tax -> Repeal the 16th Amendment
- Tariffs and the External Revenue Service
- Tariffs History of Funding the Government
- Federal Reserve Secret Creation - Creature From Jekyll Island
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