Mike and Matt discuss:
- What are bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
- Bitcoin vs Fiat
- Why people are interested in bitcoin and what makes it appealing?
- Why is bitcoin considered digital gold and an inflation hedge?
- Ethereum
- Fiat currencies push people to risk assets - the role of inflation
- What is Bitcoin mining
- Burying money in the backyard
- Mike's bad Bitcoin pun
- Russia's exclusion from SWIFT
- The shifting from trading in US dollars to country specific currencies
- Countries developing their own digital currencies
- Using crypto to avoid sanctions
