TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast - #643: The Bitcoin Big Long: Wall Street's Coming Derivatives Crisis with DarkSide2030_

Episode Date: July 23, 2025

Marty sits down with Scott (@DarkSide2030_), a former Wall Street options trader, to discuss his "Big Long" thesis about how Bitcoin's unique properties as a digital bearer asset will create an unprecedented short squeeze in derivatives markets that could trigger systemic collapse of the traditional financial system. Scott on Twitter: https://x.com/DarkSide2030_ STACK SATS hat: https://tftcmerch.io/ Our newsletter: https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ TFTC Elite (Ad-free & Discord): https://www.tftc.io/#/portal/signup/ Discord: https://discord.gg/VJ2dABShBz Opportunity Cost Extension: https://www.opportunitycost.app/ Shoutout to our sponsors: Coinkite https://coinkite.com Unchained https://unchained.com/tftc/ Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TFTC21/videos Clips YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQcW3jxfQfEUS8kqR5pJtQ Website https://tftc.io/ Newsletter tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ Twitter https://twitter.com/tftc21 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tftc.io/ Nostr https://primal.net/tftc Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr https://primal.net/martybent Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://www.tftc.io/tag/podcasts/

you've had a dynamic where money's become freer than free if you talk about a fed just gone nuts all all the central banks going nuts so it's all acting like safe haven i believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency bitcoin wins in the world of fiat currencies bitcoin is the victor i mean that's part of the bull case for Bitcoin. If you're not paying attention, you probably should be. All right, take two. I think we're good to go here, Scott. Thank you for joining me. It's a pleasure to be here, Marty. Thanks for having me. Well, I'm really excited about this discussion because as I was telling you, I had drinks a

couple of times over the last two weeks with Puncher down here at the Jersey Shore, and he was singing your praises and trying to explain your thesis around the big long, which is what I would like to dive into during this discussion. But before we dive into your thesis around the Bitcoin big long, how about we jump into your background, introduce you to the audience? Yeah, sounds good. So not to date myself, I started on the Philadelphia Options Exchange in 1989 as a market maker. And kind of did a 25-year sentence on Wall Street, trading Philadelphia, then out to San Francisco on the Peat Coast, eventually landing in Chicago at the CBOE.

Finally moved upstairs towards the internet bubble and was trading sort of an upstairs hedge fund, for lack of a better description. And then after 9-11, kind of took some time off, came back to the business on the brokerage side, which was very interesting, and eventually leading into the construction of Dash Financial. So I built, you know, I saw the writing on the wall with the extensive electrification, for lack of a better term, of the options markets, everything going electronic and digital. and began to develop algorithms really focused around transparency in the options market and founded a firm by the name of Dash Financial, which I think today is one of the largest options executions house on Wall Street. 2013, I was on a flight to Spain to visit our clients at Banco Santander. And on that flight, I happened to grab a bunch of computer magazines. And funny enough, one of the center cutouts of the magazine was the white paper.

And I remember reading it the first time. And then I think seven consecutive times on that flight, landed in Spain and downloaded an app called LocalBitcoins, met a random Spaniard behind the hotel in Madrid, took 500 euro out of the ATM machine. And I became a Bitcoiner in October of 2013. Then two weeks later, retired from Wall Street and set out on a journey to really explore distributed ledger technology, blockchain technologies at a deeper level. Started a firm by the name of Alter Software Solutions, really focused on database security using distributed ledger technologies and built that firm into quite a nice size. I exited in 2019 and have been traveling the country with my wife for the last five years in a 45 foot RV, really set out to explore the country and touch grass and get to meet the local people.

It's been an amazing experience. But yeah, now we're kind of retiring formally from the RV life and just living my best life, Marty. i'd love to hear that we're very um i want to say similar i wouldn't say similar because i think the uh the pedigree and the degree to which you dove into options and wall street is way uh way different than my experience but around the same time 2013 fall of 2013 is when i i graduated college earlier that year and Got my first job in a managed futures fund in Chicago, sitting in an office with a bunch of ex-CBOT traders. And they were talking about, reminiscing about the days on the floor before the servers took over. And that's when I got into Bitcoin in earnest, too.

It was that fall, winter, getting my first bonus check from the firm. And it's just funny. I always find that traders, particularly with options and commodities experience out of Chicago, get Bitcoin almost intuitively. Yeah, it's funny, right? I think there's a natural skepticism of the system that comes with having traded the markets. You know, I like to think of options traders, commodities traders as the grease that makes the engine turn, right? You know, we're so hands on every day and we see all the shortcomings and the failings of the system. So that naturally, I think, is an inclination to get involved in Bitcoin, which is a sort of an off ramp of traditional finance.

Let's dive into that. What are some of the the boogeyman that you see up front and close and personal trading options and commodities? is? Well, I see a lot of big boogeymen, unfortunately. Look, the modern system as constructed is what I call a debt-based fiat policy scheme. The way the system is constructed puts the banks and what I'll call the banking cartel above the people, right? You know, Having lived through 08, 09 and being on the floor during that time period, you really got to see how the system moved to save itself at what I would call at the expense of the ordinary man. A perfect example, and I think Larry Lepard touches on this beautifully in his book, The Big Print, was the banning of short selling. Markets require a short selling in order to function. You have to have two sided markets. But all of a sudden, you know, with one day's notice, the rules changed and the system morphed into something that really was anything but free markets, money printing, which at that time seemed large by today's by today's scale, extremely small.

um yeah i mean everything i witnessed and and even you know going back well before that we can go back to the russian uh default yeah russian default uh long-term capital management you know like i've lived through these things and i've seen the system kind of lurch and and struggle at times um and that's the way the system is constructed right the system is constructed uh to be an inflationary system. And when there's a problem, the only way out of it is to print more money. And now we've sort of achieved escape velocity in the system with money printing that I would call out of control. And there is really one real off-ramp, non-centralized off-ramp, and that's Bitcoin. And I would add, I was a gold and silver bug long before Bitcoin came around.

right uh you know i was i was stacking gold and silver and staying out of markets uh as early as 2002 after the internet bubble and seeing what wall street did there with the just mass printing of paper companies adding dot com to their name you know simply to try to gain a valuation so yeah you know you become so skeptical of of markets and of the uh of the status quo and then Bitcoin comes along and you see something that's peer to peer. And probably most important and least talked about is the bearer asset that is Bitcoin, right? The ability to take self-custody. I remember back in the late 80s, there was still bearer bonds floating around Wall Street and people would buy bearer municipals, right? And they'd have little coupons on the

bottom of them and you could clip them. And then interestingly enough, the government did away with bear bonds, again, in the name of, I guess, terrorism or whatever the term du jour is. But yeah, the ability to take delivery of Bitcoin is what really separates itself from any other asset, and in turn, is going to create the big problem. To touch on the big long, we'll talk a lot about the bear nature of Bitcoin and why that's going to present a real problem. Yeah. And while I haven't heard you explain the thesis in depth yet, I imagine it ties into the big long because it's a bearer instrument. And I believe your thesis revolves around derivatives markets, which are essentially paper synthetic positions on top

of underlying commodities, which have become extremely popular since the 1980s. I think famously, at least a couple of years ago, there was rumors swirling around that Deutsche Bank alone had something like a quadrillion dollars worth of derivative exposure, which seems crazy to me that that's even possible. And so I think diving into the nature of derivatives and how they've evolved over the years is probably a good jumping off point. Yeah, well, I think the nature of derivatives is that they are contracts between two parties, right? Now, one of the terms that became very famous during 08-09 was the term counterparty, right? Well, what type of counterparty exposure does Bank A have to Bank B? Like we learned during the GFC that AIG, right, had such

counterparty exposure to Goldman Sachs, that it turned out AIG had to be bailed out. If not, Goldman Sachs would have failed. And if Goldman Sachs would have failed, well, probably every major money center bank in the world, not just in the country, but in the world would have failed, right? Because they have massive counterparty exposure to each other. And we saw this with when Lehman failed, right? I was running a self-clearing broker dealer at the time. and the day they shut down Lehman and people just walked out the door, well, what about all the trades that were settling T plus three, right? That we didn't know whether they were good trades or bad trades. So the entire street had massive counterparty exposure to, you know, Lehman going

down. Now the government came in and made those trades good, but just imagine if they hadn't, right? What does it look like when, you know, you could take a major bank like Society General, Credit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, even UBS, the large Japanese banks, if any one of them were to go down, the counterparty exposure that they have to each other is so great, and nobody understands it. Warren Buffett called derivatives financial weapons of mass destruction. Ray Dalio touches on this subject quite a bit. Nobody really understands what the counterparty exposure looks like from institution to institution and the way i've understood it because it seems like the potential for mass re-hypothecation of

these positions and these contracts exist in derivatives and so it's like to your point of the counterparty risks that exist the way i've come to understand it is that it exists because is the banks will sort of get use the same instrument to get multiple points of exposure across the system and so you may think you own one thing but somebody else also thinks they own that as well yeah i mean and now you're hitting on the main point which is that bitcoin by its very nature and the ability to to verify on chain the ability to do chain analysis is a game changer Wall Street's never seen a product like this. The gold market's a perfect example. Most of the gold is centralized. It's held in large vaults by banking institutions, bullion banks. And quite frankly, we have no idea how many claims there are, how many times those gold bars have been leased out to different entities. I mean, some speculate it's 100x, some speculate it's 300x.

But with Bitcoin, you have a different type of security or asset. Bitcoin is verifiable on chain, right? So when we get to the point that Bitcoin treasury companies, Bitcoin holdings, ETFs, Bitcoin exchanges hold, let's just pick a number, 17 million Bitcoin, right? well, then how are you how are you able to shorten it? Right. We're going to reach a point where you can actually verify and audit the amount of Bitcoin that exists. And just to kind of step back so the audience understands any functioning derivatives market, well-functioning derivatives market requires that the asset that the derivatives are based on is freely available for loan.

That is a fundamental characteristic of any derivatives market. You know, I would suggest to you that Saylor hitting the ATM so hard in MicroStrategy in the previous year was partly, you know, because he was converting, you know, Bitcoin, converting shares into Bitcoin and capturing the spread between the premium to that asset value premium to the price of Bitcoin. But more importantly, he was producing enough shares into the options market and derivatives market that it was freely available to be borrowed. And that was critical for him to have a freely functioning, well-oiled derivatives market on MicroStrategy or on strategy stock. Now, with Bitcoin, we have a different scenario, right? There's no CEO to turn to and say, hey, we need to print more Bitcoin, right?

There's a limited amount of Bitcoin and it's verifiable and auditable on chain. So that that's a very different asset than I've ever seen on Wall Street. Nothing like this has ever existed. And we can just look to two of them, the major short squeezes of the last few decades. Right. So let's start with Porsche Volkswagen. I don't know if you remember that, Marty. It might be before your time.

Uh, but, uh, there was a large short interest, I think 13% short interest in, uh, Volkswagen at the same time, Porsche was quietly acquiring a significant stake at some point, uh, in, I think it was a wait in that area. They come out and announce that they own 74% of Volkswagen, um, and basically taking a controlling stake. Well, the problem was that the local state, the German government, owns 20% of Volkswagen. So 94% of Volkswagen, we now know who owns it, but 13% of the float was short. And if you do the basic math, that means you have a problem.

So what happens? Volkswagen goes up about 5x in a couple of days. I think it was trading somewhere around 200 euro, topped out at 1,000 euro. But the way they resolved the short squeeze was they got Porsche to go ahead and sell 5% of their stake in Volkswagen to create the shares available for the shorts to cover. Let's fast forward to GameStop, right? That's a memorable short squeeze. GameStop trades, you know, goes ballistic. The first thing they do is they try to shut down the buy button.

If you remember at Robinhood, they shut off the buy button. And that didn't work. And then the next thing you know, of course, the company has agreed to sell $3 billion worth of common stock. And of course, the stock gets cratered. And then the company sells the common stock. I believe the same people that tapped Robinhood on the shoulder and asked him to shut off the buy button are the same people that tapped the board on the shoulder and said, hey, we need you to sell stock because if not, you can't stop these things. Now, in the case, when you look at both of those squeezes, they both came to an end with the creation of more supply, right? But that's not going to be the case in Bitcoin.

There's nobody to tap on the shoulder, right? So ultimately, you have a derivatives market that's growing exponentially, and at the same time, you have an underlying asset, which is infinitely scarce, and you can't print more of it, and you can't force people to sell it. Now, make the situation even, I mean, unlimited. I don't even know how to explain how much worse this is. But imagine that in 08, 09, had we had Bitcoin and, you know, as people became absolutely frightened about the stability of banks, imagine they had an asset that they could actually

buy and take delivery of in a matter of hours, right? What would have happened? Well, everybody would have pulled their money out of the banks, right? Bought Bitcoin and taken delivery. Now, I foresee in the next financial crisis, and we will have the next financial crisis, we always do, right, you're going to have this feedback loop where hedge funds, asset investors of all types are going to run to Bitcoin and take delivery. And when they take delivery of Bitcoin, it's going to be removed from the market. So the amount of Bitcoin available for loan is going to decrease rapidly at the very time in which they need it the most. And that's the kind of driving concepts behind the big log thesis, is that we have an asset that's infinitely scarce.

There's nobody to tap on the shoulder to print more of. And worse yet, in a time of crisis, every investor or the smartest investors will immediately take delivery, causing the derivatives market to lock up. And I can foresee a scenario in which this becomes systemic well beyond just the Bitcoin markets and permeates throughout the entire banking system. Sup freaks, this rip of TFTC was brought to you by our good friends at CoinKite They make the cold card queue My favorite hardware wallet, the most secure hardware wallet on the market As you can see, it's got the BlackBerry form factor Full keyboard, it's got two secure enclaves

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cost dot app well before we get to that it's interesting because i think we've already had like a small example of this happen particularly within the bitcoin space at the end of 22 beginning of 23 with that mini banking crisis that played out like we saw it at 1031 a bunch of our portfolio companies they were playing basically bank hot potato after uh after silvergate went down or was taken i would argue taken down unlawfully uh forced to close its doors or their hand was forced to uh independently and under their own volition closed down the bank but then get signature first republic silicon valley bank like those were a few of the banks that were at the time amenable to banking bitcoin companies and particularly when signature first

republic in silicon valley um got in trouble we saw a number of founders and portfolio companies just simply wire the funds they had from the bank to exchanges like unchained uh and then put the bitcoin in a two or three multi-sig vault because like we're just going to wait it out and put all of our cash in Bitcoin because we have this bear instrument that we can have a high degree of certainty and we can be ultimately certain that it's not going to get rugged by the bank because we hold the keys. Yeah, that's it, right? That's exactly the thesis, except it plays out on a global scale much larger than those

three banks. Imagine a major money center bank and we get a cascading of potential bank failures or bank trouble. I would see, especially now that Bitcoin, I think, has crossed the Rubicon from a retail product to an institutional product. I think so many players, large players, are well aware of Bitcoin. I just think we're in a new world today. And I don't see how they're going to stop this problem once it starts. There's no one to tap on the shoulder. It's global. There's exchanges located around the world, right? So it's not just a US or a Western banking cartel situation. This is a global asset, highly liquid. I don't see how they stop it once it

starts. Well, let's dive into this and sort of get into the dynamics of the landscape and how This may unfold. And before we talk about the future, let's talk about the past. And we've had examples, not necessarily of derivatives markets, but institutions within the Bitcoin economy that have essentially lent out Bitcoin to counterparties who destroyed it or simply lost it. I mean, go all the way back to Mt. Gox, when we were first getting into Bitcoin, they were hacked and a number of their customers had claims to X amount of Bitcoin, but the hackers had stolen Y and they found themselves short Bitcoin. And so that went under and it took over a decade for the Mt. Gox customers to get any other money back. Fast forward to 2020 to 2022, that's when Genesis was lending, Genesis BlockFi, Celsius, others were lending Bitcoin out, FTX, to traders who were taking risk in altcoin markets and promising that they would get a return and return the Bitcoin.

Those markets blew up and you found many situations where people thought they had Bitcoin, but learned that their counterparty their trusted third party where they were storing their bitcoin had lent it out and wasn't going to get it back um so we're scaling up and now as a san state 2025 as you mentioned across the rubicon institutions getting in how do you see something like that playing out moving forward and what are the different dynamics that exist today that could act as an accelerant to that process? Yeah, I mean, it's a great question. So, you know, today, the Celsius BlockFi kind of thing of today is now Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, you know, tremendously huge banks. And now it becomes a systemic issue

rather than a localized issue that can be stomped out by regulators and sort of the losses going to the investor, what happens when the losses are taken by large financial institutions, which then need to be bailed out or bailed in, whichever way we can, and that's another subject. But ultimately, the game has now gone upstream of small players to the largest players in the world. And that should be a tremendous cause for concern, because if you understand the very nature of derivatives, like I said earlier, you need, you absolutely need to have the underlying asset freely available for loan for the derivatives markets to function. You know, I'll give you an example. A lot of people view shorting as betting the price is

going to go down, but that's really not how derivatives markets work. A great example would be this. Just as an example, I hold 1,000 Bitcoin. I'm an old school Bitcoiner. I go to Goldman Sachs and I say, look, I'd like to buy insurance on my Bitcoin price insurance. I'd like to buy, let's say Bitcoin is now a million dollars. I'd like to protect it at 800,000. So I'm going to buy the 800,000 puts. OK, Goldman comes up with a price where they sell you an over-the-counter derivative product. Well, in order for them to hedge themselves, they need to go out and short Bitcoin, right? Because they have downside exposure. Now, nobody in this transaction that I just explained is betting on Bitcoin going down. Matter of fact, everybody in the transaction

wants Bitcoin to go higher. However, because of an insurance type product, like a put contract or portfolio insurance, you need to cover your downside exposure. So in this case, Goldman has gone out and shorted Bitcoin. But they need to borrow that Bitcoin to short it. Now, if we end up in a situation where, like you explained, people take Bitcoin off the market, they take delivery of their Bitcoin, throw it in Unchained and a multi-sig, well, where's Goldman going to get the Bitcoin? Right now, Goldman already has a short Bitcoin position on, but all of a sudden, they get a call saying, hey, we need the Bitcoin. And now we end up in a short squeeze. So what started out as being a small problem can quickly mushroom into a gigantic problem that's global. It's not just here in the US. It's not just Europe. It's all over the world. And as this derivative market grows, we're adding potential fuel to a fire that could really grow out of control at a very quick pace.

And again, the trigger to this can have nothing to do with Bitcoin. We could see some banking problem in Japan having to do with the long end of their bond curve or some crisis coming out of Europe. But ultimately, Bitcoin will be the off-ramp from the modern banking system. And that off-ramp combined with self-custody will lead us into a crisis the likes of which we've never seen before. okay a couple questions here no i think it's a great point and describe that's one thing i don't think most people realize too is with these derivatives like you can literally go to a bank and if you have your your sort of books in order and your thesis in order and you present it to them they will go and make the product i mean most famously the scene in the big short when michael berry goes to all the banks on wall street and sort of gives them the binder about creating that credit default swaps and they go and make a market for him so you're saying similar sort of dynamics will come into play with people who want different sort of different derivative hedge

products for their bitcoin they're going to have to go to the bank yeah absolutely you know look as institutions pour into bitcoin they will manage risk because that's what institutions are paid to do is to manage risk so they will be looking to create derivatives to protect against downside price moves, right? That's the way the system is built, is to manage volatility, to manage risk. But Bitcoin wasn't designed for this purpose. And therefore, we kind of have the immovable object hitting the immeasurable force at some point, and it becomes a really scary situation. Add to that, again, and I think this is the part that most people take for granted, is the ability to self-custody in a matter of hours or even less, right?

That changes the entire game, right? Because all of a sudden, in any type of crisis, people will pull their money out of Coinbase or out of any of the major exchanges or even out of banks, and they will move it to self-custody, right? Unchained, we'll see their balances explode. And what does that do to the derivatives complex, right? it only puts it under more stress. And you can almost see the feedback loop, right? The worse it gets, the more people will pull money out of the system. And that will just create more and

more stress. So, yeah, when I look at this from a derivatives perspective, what I see is a potential disaster brewing, right? Now, right now, it's not a problem because Bitcoin is freely available to loan. Funding rates are very low. Add to that, Marty, that we now have futures, perps, right? All different types of paper Bitcoin, ETFs, iBit, right? Like imagine what happens when all of those markets lock up in a very short amount of time. So futures will trade at a discount to the spot price, right? Funding rates will go through the roof. Perps will become extremely illiquid. I-Bit puts will trade at an extreme premium to the calls. I-Bit will become hard to borrow.

All of these things will happen in a very short period of time in any type of a financial crisis. And everything just becomes, again, I'll keep repeating the term, it becomes a negative feedback loop where you just can't stop it. And there is no solution. You're not going to be able to turn to the regulators to solve this problem. You're not going to be able to turn to governments to solve this problem. I don't know how they're going to solve this problem once it starts right I don't see how

it resolves itself and and that's why I call it the big long right the inverse of Michael Berry's big short and I think there's two important things first thing is really highlight the point that this doesn't necessarily have to manifest within the bitcoin economy it can be an external factor an external crisis in Japan Europe here in the United States within the banking sector whatever it may be and it does seem like some of the banks are are beginning to weaken materially i've read some reports on wells fargo bank of america uh morgan stanley and others even though some of them have had uh an increase in earning per share and revenues if you look into the balance sheets it's really driven by um trading which isn't a sustainable revenue line if you

look at like loan origination deposits all are trending in the wrong direction which is a long term sort of revenue drivers consistent revenue drivers of those companies and then the follow-up question i'd like it we're led to believe and i led to believe being uh doing a lead doing the most the most work in that sentence that wall street finance types are some of the smartest people in the world and it is just baffling to me that none of them can would be able to recognize that bitcoin is this digital bearer asset with this ability to take delivery within minutes to hours if if anybody still wanted to that they wouldn't understand that these knock-on domino effect risks exist and like so i guess what i'm trying to get at is like how does that

not recognized on wall street or is it simply a product of like their mindset is like we're going to go trade as many products as possible because that's how we're going to make money in the short term and there's just like no avoiding it this is what we're here to do yeah with you know it's such a great point um the capital uh structures the incentive the incentive structures of a wall street employee haven't changed since 08 or 09 right They're still paid on a quarterly basis or annual basis, bonus, and it's based on the amount of money you made this year or the amount of money you made this quarter, right? And all of that is misaligned incentives, right?

So people are incentivized purely to make as much money as they can today. Today, Bitcoin is freely available to borrow. The derivatives market is exploding. Companies like Susquehanna, Jane Street are making fortunes of money in the Bitcoin complex. So we're in. The other problem, and we learned this through 08-09, and I've experienced it personally, is you're stuck in this situation when a large client comes to you and says, I want you to build this derivative for me. You have the problem that if you don't do it, another bank will, and you'll lose your client. And we saw that in 08-09, and we see it today.

So why would somebody write a derivatives complex that could potentially, a derivatives contract that could potentially become extremely dangerous two years from now, a year from now? Well, because if they don't do it, somebody else will, and they'll lose their client. And I think that's the incentive behind, you know, getting yourself into trouble and maybe trouble down the line. But what choice do you have when your boss taps you on the shoulder and says, come up with a structure, we need to keep this client happy.

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financial system that people will be pissed at bitcoin or is like how do you see this playing out well again bitcoin is money for your enemies right so i don't think bitcoin cares whether the global financial system detonates itself through derivatives, I think that the seeds for this problem have long been sown. But yeah, I do think that at some point it could become systemic. And that's probably, I mean, please don't take this the wrong way, but that's probably a good thing, right? Look at the system we have today and realize just how toxic it is. uh you know we could go into suicide rates and all of the all of the metrics around you know where we stand today young people you know not being able to afford a home uh you know multiple

jobs the the fertility rates right the birth rates everything is pointing in the wrong direction and that probably has a lot to do with broken money uh that's probably a a full show of its own But, you know, are we better off having the current system, you know, implode? Probably. Does that mean in the short term, it wouldn't be an extremely painful event? Of course it would be. But out of the ashes of that old system would be born a new system based on hard money and abundance would flourish. Right. You know, I just think we'd find ourselves in a better world. Right. So ultimately, you know, you never know how much pain you're in until you get out of that pain. And sometimes it just feels to me like it just continues to get worse. So, you know, that's my take. You know, a lot of people will say, well, what you're presenting is a Doomer thesis. And I think it's the exact opposite. Right. I think a Doomer is the one who's sitting in a burning building telling everybody to stay put. We're going to put out the fire. Right. And what I'm saying is get out of the burning building. There's a better way to do this. Completely agree. I think that's what we have outside of our studio in Austin, Texas.

Currently not there, but it's fix the money, fix the world. And I think I've been labeled a doomer as well many times. And I think that's like the big question. Because I remember in 2013, my wife, my then girlfriend, she would come to Chicago. we were long distance and we'd go to brunch and i got in trouble the first long distance trips because i was so obsessed with bitcoin in the financial system i was convinced in 2013 i was like this is there's not sustainable they're printing too much money too many derivatives out there like bitcoin exists now like people are going to funnel in and i was convinced back in

2013 2014 that it was going to happen rather quickly fast forward to 2020 2021 same thing but every time post 2008 specifically that a little crisis has bubbled 2023 with the banking crisis the system seems to be able to self temporarily self-repair itself and that's always a question of my mind i'm sure many others minds like you know that's why i think lawrence larry wrote the big print like it seems like the big print could be on the way like how confident are you if at all that we're on the cusp like is there a timeline to this or is it is it one of those things where it's like you don't know when but you know it's definitely going to happen at some point yeah i think i'm in that latter camp i i don't know when could be next week could be next month five years

ten years i doubt we make it ten years um the metrics are just are really bad i was talking to a good friend of mine uh who's a mayor of a town thomas young is a mayor of a small town in New Jersey. And he said currently, you know, they're having a tough time hiring police officers. And he was pointing out that a young police officer, I don't know, cost their town $50,000, $60,000 first year, but the health benefits and all the other benefits cost above $60,000. They're $60,000 to $70,000 a year, right? And that number is going up towards $100,000 a year. So at what point does the system just break? I don't know, but we're probably a lot closer to that point today than we were at any point. Plus, I'll just add, I think the Fed used to back, let's go back

to 08, probably owned, I don't know, small single digits of our balance sheet. They're now up to, I think, 26% of our balance sheet is owned by the Fed. So, I mean, at what point does this become a problem? Then just add in Japan, which we all understand is a complete train wreck. But Ultimately, they are, Japan, Europe, right, they are held afloat in any type of financial crisis by the U.S. government and the Fed's willingness to provide them dollar liquidity, right, swap lines. If you look at where we're headed with a new Fed chair, assume it's someone like Scott Bessette, I don't think the willingness is there to bail out the world. I don't think the willingness, the political will, is there to bail out the U.S. banks. right so i think we go more into a bail-in scenario than a bailout scenario and that's the most scary right the concept of the great taking i don't know if you're familiar with that

marty david rogers webb's piece um you know if we go down that road with the dtcc problems you know failures at the banks and the dtc recapitalize itself through great taking you know that that's absolutely catastrophic but you just get the sense that the willing the political will will not be there for the next bailout yeah part of david's thesis right like he's read all the legal contracts that exist and in the the sort of small print details of the contracts that everybody has with the dtcc it's like you actually don't own these shares at all at the end of the day correct Yeah, no, we live in an IOU world. You know, you don't own, you can go out and buy Apple stock today, but you don't own it, right? What you own is a claim on the broker dealer you bought it

through. So let's just assume you use Charles Schwab. Okay, so I buy 100 shares of Apple. What I own is a claim on Charles Schwab for 100 shares of Apple stock. Charles Schwab owns a claim on the DTCC and the DTCC owns your Apple stock. Now, post Lehman Brothers, and I think the case that he's really pointing at was a legal case between J.P. Morgan and Lehman Brothers, where the courts came and ruled that, well, J.P. Morgan was senior to Lehman Brothers and therefore the clients of Lehman Brothers would lose their assets to J.P. Morgan. Well, that means that the gtcc is senior to your uh to your claim on charles schwab so so the gccc's claim on charles schwab is senior to yours if charles schwab was to fail well then they're not your shares of apple anymore

they belong to the gtcc yeah and so what type of what type of uh data points are you following outside of like bond yields obviously this week japan's 40-year bonds screaming higher yeah the 30-year uk guilt hitting 2007 levels is this in your mind in the beginning like alarm bells going off that something's breaking uh in terms of liquidity in the back end of the system well that's the other question too excuse me for rambling here a little bit but is it like at this time around is it even a liquidity crisis or is it more of a confidence crisis i think more and more people are becoming skeptical of the idea that government bonds are these grade A sort of savings vehicles for the long term. Yeah, and I think you hit the nail on the head. It's both

liquidity. It starts as a liquidity crisis, but quickly becomes a confidence crisis and made exponentially worse by social media, where you can actually explain to people what's really happening, right? People are able to get information outside of the traditional media, which would tell you, oh, this is just a small problem. We're going to print money. Congress needs to step in. I just don't think that's going to happen this time. But yeah, I mean, all of the things you mentioned, right, from Japan to the UK, obviously, capital flight out of the UK is a big one. We've seen all kinds of crazy capital flights. And then let's just kind of throw stable coins in there. Since we just had the genius bill passed,

a lot of people are extremely bullish on stable coins, and they're going to provide on-ramps to Bitcoin, which is all true, 100% true. But I think there's unintended consequences to where we're headed with stablecoins. And that is to destabilize smaller governments and then larger governments around the world as we look to have dollar dominance. One of the things stablecoins will do is they will get dollars in the hands of everyone throughout the world on crypto rails. Right. So today, if you try to send dollars, let's say, to Egypt, let's just use Egypt as an example. Right. It's almost impossible to get dollars to a friend in Egypt. Right. You've got to send them through the SWIFT system.

They're going to get taken by the Egyptian government and then the Egyptian banks will take what's left. And the Egyptian citizen gets the Egyptian pound. Right. which is hyperinflating away. Now, if you go ahead and introduce stable coins into that system, my question to you would be, well, are we going to create more North Koreas, right? Because as these countries begin to see their ability to print money taken away from them, right, what do they do, right? In a world where they can shut off the internet and they can do all kinds of crazy things to their people. Are we running the risk of destabilizing the third world? They're completely destabilizing the third world. And then what happens in Japan when people can

use dollars rather than yen? Do we run the risk of hyperinflating away the yen? And if we do that, you know, as we talked about earlier, what are the consequences for Japanese banks and counterparty exposure? I can just see how the introduction of stable coins, which seems like a great idea, right? On its surface, I understand it. But I think if you look to the second order effects and the knockdown effects of policy decisions like this, they can have lasting consequences, which may not be what we're looking for. You know, I've learned in my few years here on the planet that, you know, what looks like a good idea up front can usually when the U.S. government flexes its muscles abroad it has negative consequences yeah the whole stable

coins thing is very interesting i said this yes i think that's one thing i'm interested to see if it actually plays out um we got a few points on this topic the genius act as it's written it's unclear to me like it seems pretty clear that the reason that the act came up in the first place because circle was pissed off that tether is absolutely eating their lunch in the global stablecoin market so they want to create some regulatory moat uh and i wonder it's not clear to me the way the bill's written that tether can operate in the way it has up to this point outside of the borders of the united states and if that's the case that they can't like i could see demand for u.s dollar stablecoins falling significantly but i think they may still be able

to operate an el salvador entity and do what they've been doing not trust kyc aml compliance on their users and just have free floating dollar instruments uh across the world but your point to there like maybe it's like the second order sort of destabilization effect is intentional in the sense that if you and this is where we get like alex jones like like this is anybody listening to this is just a theory but it would uh would be pretty interesting it's like you get the stable coins out there you destabilize in a parallel on the back end as a government and as a country individual citizens within that country really leaning into bitcoin and i think that's the big question we've had this u.s dollar reserve system

for many decades now and that's everybody's talking about fourth turning just like cyclicality of how all this stuff happens and if you're u.s government acknowledging like okay it seems pretty clear the writing's on the wall that the u.s dollar is a reserve currency it's on its way out like how do we extend the american empire into the future it's like you push the dollar destabilize everything else get them all pissed off at you but then on the back end accumulate as much bitcoin as possible be like okay we'll go to this neutral reserve asset and by the way we've accumulated a in our country is going to be on good footing coming out of this. Yeah, I think that's a very reasonable take.

Albeit for me to take off my tinfoil hat, I tend to like to wear it. But yeah, I think that if I listen to the administration closely, what they're saying is they want a devalued dollar. At the same time, they want dollar dominance to increase. And those two things would seem antithetical to each other. But, you know, if you look through the clouds, right, I think you see that stable coins can accomplish both. But again, I get concerned when we begin to meddle in foreign affairs to this degree. and, you know, you're going to remove the foreign government's ability to manage their currency and you're going to push dollars into the wild in all types of countries all over the world, you know, what is that second order effect? It scares me. I think it's inflationary. Now,

obviously, we'll export as much of that inflation as we possibly can. But again, How much can you mess with the rest of the world before it comes back and hits you on the head? I don't know the answer to that question, but it would seem that that's where this is headed. Yeah, that's a question that has been lingering in my mind the last two years. Is there, I mean, it is basically trying to think theoretically through things like running with the meme soft landing, which Janet Yellen and others put out there post-2021 stimulus and trying to navigate the waters of inflation and Fed interest rate policy. And I think it's pretty clear that you can't really, they can't manufacture a soft landing.

But I do, and it's part of what we do at 1031 and why I have this show and the media companies that educate people about Bitcoin, is I do earnestly believe that if you can get Bitcoin into the hands of enough individuals, if you can get it into structured credit products the right way like that's the way you manufacture a soft landing because you're going to have to hyperinflate the currency at some points the writing's on the wall it's mathematically impossible that that's not going to be the the ultimate outcome whether that's next year or 10 years from now is is another question but like can you integrate bitcoin enough into the system where as everything's hyperinflating if you have

enough bitcoin exposure hopefully it's it's rising in value faster than your money's being debased and you sort of get out of the other side of a hyper inflationary super inflationary event whatever it may be and you're somewhat okay because you have bitcoin exposure yeah look that's that's the thesis behind bit bonds and for the individual i've been talking a lot about bid annuities. This is the way to improve the balance sheet. You're not going to improve the debt problem. Our system is based on creating more debt. But what you can do is improve the balance sheet. You can bring debt to GDP down to manageable levels. If you introduce bit bonds, I know that theory's been out there for a while now. I think that's one way of taking on the

problem head on. However, that's not without major secondary and knock-on effects, right? If it turns out that the real free cost of money is somewhere around 12%, what happens to mortgage rates? What happens to long-term bonds? What happens to the existing bond market, right? The reality is that we're in a box, right? There is no easy way out. Yes, if you introduce hard money into the system through bid bonds, bid annuities, whichever way you want to do it, you're going to solve one problem and you're going to cross probably a bigger second one, right? Ultimately, the system is in trouble.

Inflation, the inflation boogeyman has just run wild. The cost of everyday goods is going up, you know, at high levels. And look, I don't believe the current inflation numbers as they're presented to us, CPI, I don't believe GDP. I mean, CPI is an example, right? We count microchips, we count things that go down in value, but how many SD cards do I need, right? But I need steak, I need food, I need beef, right? The price of steak goes up, so then they shift to ground beef in the CPI number, right? Like, it's just constantly juggling, you know, the statistics to try to create a narrative. But in the end, you know, you can't convince somebody who goes to the grocery store that the price of goods today is only 2% higher than it was last year when they know it's 20% higher, right? Like, that's just a fact. So, yeah, we're running up against, you know, the amount of lying that can happen in a believable society. At some point, just everybody calls BS and confidence begins to break.

And I think you made the point earlier about confidence. Look, we are a confidence-based system. The US dollar is based on faith, right? What makes a $100 bill worth 10 times more than a $10 bill? Well, they're both, the paper is worth the same, right? So it's purely faith. I like to say the US dollar is the world's largest religion, right? And in contrast, if you own 10 Bitcoin, there's no question that you own 10 times more than if you own one Bitcoin, right?

So that's the real difference in a hard money system versus a faith-based system like the U.S. dollar. Yeah, and bring this back to Bitcoin and how it reacts in a situation where things begin to unravel in the global financial system. I mean, you mentioned that it's the big long, like how big are we talking? Like how weird is this like hyper Bitcoinization? What does it look like? Well, you know, I obviously don't exactly know what it looks like, but it doesn't look good. Right. I think that the existence of Bitcoin and the institutional adoption of Bitcoin will create a systemic problem for the entire system.

Right. The ability to have capital that you're able to take delivery of through as a bearer asset, right, through self-custody. That's not something we had during 08, 09. Right. That didn't exist. That's sort of why Bitcoin was created. I would like to suggest Satoshi's vision was a monetary system outside of the banking cartel. So what does it look like when the banking cartel implodes? it probably looks really bad but really really bad and they will um try you know a cbdc of some type you know i imagine going back to david webb's thesis uh but i i just think bitcoin wins in the end and um i think we'll we'll end up on some type of hyper bitcoinization what do you think the system looks like on the other side let's just assume that the big long thesis is correct and

it plays out like how do we reorient the global economy around a bitcoin standard in your mind that's a great question i've kind of speculated that but at the time that happens and of course it depends on timing um will we have a fully built out layer two like lightning and people will live on bitcoin and i mean imagine you know i like to look back at history right so we go through the dark ages have we come out of the dark ages uh the medici family in florence introduced the florin and the government of Florence, right? And they had a hard currency. It was a standard unit weight measure of gold, a gold coin that was then adopted throughout Europe. And it came out of the dark ages and went into the Renaissance. What did it look like? I'm sure

it didn't look good, right? But you look, you get to a point where you're in so much pain that the next system is better, right? And I think we're quickly going down that road. I mean, The system we're on now with the inflation rates we have is not sustainable. Agreed. And that's like the other thing. I'd be interested to get your thoughts on this sort of flogging of Jerome Powell publicly over the last month. It's really accelerated. It's really been going on since before the election, even last year, Trump's been berating him. But now you've got pile on effect from senators and representatives and other academic economists sort of in the Trump circle. And it seems clear to me that the ultimate goal is to merge the Fed and the Treasury, just eliminate any illusion that there is an independent Fed and just get the people in place at the Fed who are going to move in lockstep with the Treasury, with whatever they want to do.

um and that's my big question going back to like confidence and this is a confidence game like that is like emerging market like activity that yeah that's crazy right that would happen like i know they have goals and intentions to just really turn it on turbo and you need the fed and the treasury to move in lockstep to effectuate your policy goals but is that a step too far in the minds of the public in terms of their confidence in the system overall? Well, I don't really think the public even understands the Fed, nor less has confidence in it. Look, you know, we're at a point now where we can't even print our own money the way the system is designed without paying a bunch of banksters interest for the pleasure of doing so. And so

when the Fed goes out into the open market and buys back a bunch of 20-year bonds, essentially monetizing the debt. We're printing money, but at the same time, the Fed now owns those bonds, and we as the citizenry get the pleasure of paying them interest for printing our money. That's a ridiculous system. Everything about it makes no sense. I would suggest to you, that we replace the Fed with the difficulty adjustment, completely predictable. Everybody will understand how much money is being created when it's being created on what time series it's being created and we can get past our monetary issues and focus on creating a better society and as somebody who's been in this for almost 12 years now like how

how do you view this cycle compared to cycles of of years past is it i hate to ask the question does it feel different? That's a good question. Yeah. So look, I believe that the four-year cycle is dead. I actually think it died the last four years, but of course, Chokepoint 2.0, I believe FTX, Celsius, all of these things were sort of born out of a government's desire to kill Bitcoin. I just, in my heart of hearts, I have a tough time understanding why at the same time that they were cutting off and debanking any entrepreneurs in the space, right? At that same time, we had FTX, Celsius, all of these things. And they all seem to be in one way or another attached to government FTX, obviously giving a tremendous amount of money back to

politicians. So yeah, my take is that those cycles are dead. The four-year cycle is dead. We're in a new era for Bitcoin. That doesn't mean there won't be bear markets and US dollar and bull markets and U.S. dollar price. But yeah, I'm one of those that focuses on one Bitcoin equals one Bitcoin. And what really is volatile right now is the U.S. dollar. So when you see U.S. dollar price and Bitcoin, focus on the fact that it's really the dollar that's fluctuating in value. One Bitcoin is equal to one Bitcoin, and that hasn't changed.

Yeah. And you mentioned a couple of things like BitBonds, BitAnnuities. you'd like to see second layers like lightning network mature like what else sort of tickles your fancy in terms of like bitcoin products going into the cycles to your point about bit bonds and bit annuities like that's what like we're the sole outside capital for battery finance and that's something that we've been really bullish on for years now and it seems like they're um really at a point of maturation where they're going to be able to go out and create these structured credit products with dual collateralized commercial real estate and

bitcoin like i think that this in my opinion this is the cycle of bitcoin not only being recognized but preferred as collateral in debt instruments and when you think about what that does for the market structure of bitcoin particularly if you get longer duration credit instruments that bitcoin is playing within that it was like i think i'm in agreement with you that the four-year cycle is not going to look how it has in the past simply because of products like these coming to market that allow you to create like a forward-looking duration curve of bitcoin that you can have certainty is going to be locked up yeah and to that point look i think that's what sailor's up to right so when he's introduced strife stride strike uh the three

perpetual preferreds uh strife is really i mean if you really think about what that product is it is a high, essentially, he's creating a fiat yield curve on Bitcoin. And we saw that come out at somewhere around 12%. It's now down into the eights. As that approaches the sixes and the fives, I think that product will absolutely at some point trade better than long-term treasuries. And boy, is that going to be an interesting time. But the circle back to the big long and what you were just talking about, structured products, mortgages, annuities, BitBonds, all of these products require the sequestration of Bitcoin. You can't map a BitBond unless you have Bitcoin backing it. If you're going to do a 10-year BitBond, you're going to have to take

Bitcoin and sequester it for 10 years, right? Well, that Bitcoin is not going to be available for loan, right? You can see where all of where we're headed with the financialization of Bitcoin is that it's going to create a lower supply of Bitcoin for the derivatives market, right? So when I look at these products, what I see is just more trouble on the horizon. And I think the BitBonds thing is coming. I don't know who goes first. I imagine it's coming really soon. I know CJ Konstantinous has talked about it, People's Reserve.

I know you guys are working on that. But when it comes and people are able to get essentially AAA rated paper that looks to yield north of 10 percent, what does that do? I mean, what does that do to our markets? What does that do to the derivatives market as all of this Bitcoin gets sequestered on chain with proof of reserves? And that's another thing, like when when Jack Ballard and 21 went full proof of reserves, you know, again, these are all of these things, all of these pieces to the puzzle that are going to create extreme tightness in the Bitcoin market. And when you're able to actually identify on chain where this Bitcoin lives, well, we're going to get to a point where, you know, what happens if we know that the Bitcoin treasury companies own 22 million Bitcoin? well that would become a problem wouldn't it right so i mean this is this is what i mean by keeping the system honest and wall street's never seen a product like that's right where you can

verify and audit the network every 10 minutes on average like this is something new and while it's working well and everyone's making money today i can see where this is headed tomorrow yeah and that's why i've been a long-term advocate and i really am happy that jack and 21 to prove reserves but like i wanted to go a step further like bring the unchained collaborative multi-sig model to all of these products just to basically force the hand of we're not even going to give you the potential to re-hypothecate because i want it in this two or three three or five m of n multi-sig whatever it comes out to be and i want to be able to like look at it and have certainty that it's not moving and that you're not rehypothecating and if you're trying to um give somebody else

a claim to that bitcoin they can also see that it's in this multi-sig and sort of assume we it seems like that's tied up with some other instrument right now i don't really trust this yeah i think that's where we're headed right i really do i think that the market's going to demand it. More people are going to offer it. And as it becomes popular, these Bitcoin treasury companies are going to compete with each other, not just on their ability to buy more Bitcoin, but also on their ability to show proof of reserves. I think that's where we're headed. Yeah, it's a brave new world. And do you see the, I mean, they're going to compete on that. And I think that's a big question in my mind. I think there is a level of complacency that

exists in the market right now that really is enforcing people to take delivery of utxs and that's not your keys not your coins january 3rd um sort of historically but in recent years really hasn't been that big like pull your coins off the exchange and make sure they have it like part of me where is that sort of mentality has been getting weaker over the years and complacency can drive people just to not take custody and allow these problems to become exacerbated or blow up even more than they would let the bubbles blow bigger than they otherwise would if if self-custody was taken more seriously than it is today and with that being said i think more than half of all bitcoin on the market today isn't self-custody but you could squint and see

the trend going in the wrong direction if people get comfortable with ibit with banks cussing Bitcoin for them, all stuff like that. Yeah, that's a great point. And obviously, Bitcoin in self-custody is the gold standard. I think it's going to take that financial crisis we were talking about earlier to reverse the trend. But the trend will reverse. We will hit trouble. One thing I've learned in markets is that there's always troubled water over the horizon. um so yeah i'm i'm convinced that you know the next financial crisis might be the last one but will certainly lead to a mass exodus from traditional custody solutions can't wait to see that day take control of your bitcoin it's a beautiful thing

it's a it's a digital bear asset the first one we've ever had it's fun it's a bit unnerving at times can can uh can be a bit stressful but practice makes perfect there are options on the market we've explained uh unchained others out there that'll help help hold your hand as you're taking self-custody but i think uh don't wait too because that's last that's the other thing like you you don't want to be complacent because when shit does ultimately hit the fan there is a chance that when you go to get your bitcoin it's not going to be there better to be safe than sorry safe now as opposed to sorry five years from now or whenever a crisis may emerge yeah i think that's great advice marty um look if you've got to get out in front of a

crisis uh once the crisis hits uh it will be too late um you know the coin bases of the world will probably be shut down by the government, as we saw. Let's just go back to 08-09 when you couldn't short sell. They will do the same thing around taking delivery to Bitcoin. So yeah, the time is now. Take your Bitcoin into self-custody. Enjoy it. It's an incredibly empowering experience. And the options that are available today compared to 2013, oh boy. I mean, yeah, for $250 a year, Unchained does an incredible job of walking through the process to create a really safe

environment for you to self-custody Bitcoin. And that's just one example. Casa, there's a whole bunch. Yeah. Yeah, you don't have to spin up an Electrum wallet on your desktop and save a wallet.dat file. It's much easier these days. And only going to get easier

from here, too. Scott, thank you for taking some time to discuss all this with me today is there any parting notes final thoughts things we didn't touch on that you think the audience should be aware of no look just thank you so much you know be careful um self-custody your bitcoin i think we hit on all those major points um you know be prudent uh hope for the best but explain a plan for the worst and um you know it's you know it's coming it's just a matter of time so uh get out in front of it and do the right thing get on it freaks get on it scott i

I hope you have a great rest of your day and great weekend, and hopefully we can do this again at some point in the future. Absolutely, Marta. I really enjoyed it. Thanks so much for having me. All right. Peace and love, freaks. Okay.

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