Published: March 14, 2022, 10 a.m.
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Former FT Alphaville Editor and founder of The Blind Spot,\\xa0Izabella Kaminska joins the show. In this episode:\\xa0
- Izabella\\u2019s pre-FT career
- Izabella\\u2019s Polish ancestry and how that informed her monetary worldview
- Why Izabella was a skeptic about Bitcoin \\u2013 and why she revisited her stance
- Izabella\\u2019s interest in anacyclosis and cyclicality in political systems
- Jeremy Bentham and his views on utilitarianism
- Consequentialism and its influence on contemporary elite ideology
- What Covid-19 policies revealed about freedoms in the West
- The flaws inherent in bureaucracy
- Izabella\\u2019s changing view on the politicization of finance
- The failure of AML/KYC rules in the West
- Reflections on the FT\\u2019s Wirecard story
- Izabella\\u2019s view on stablecoins and why she first compared them to Eurodollars
- Why stablecoins are mini central banks
- The paradoxes of Web3 and DeFi and the veil of decentralization
- Do crypto systems end up inherently recentralizing
- Why Central Banking is so obscure and difficult to penetrate
- Bitcoin narratives in the context of Bitcoin\\u2019s apparent failure to be a real rates hedge
- Is gold genuinely a good inflation hedge?
- Are there Bitcoiners Izy pays attention to?
- Izabella\\u2019s thoughts on Bitcoin ESG questions
- Is Bitcoin security worth paying for?
- Why Izabella is leaving the FT and starting the Blind Spot
Learn about The Blind Spot and follow Izabella on twitter.
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