El Salvador Accepts BTC as Legal Tender! Now What?
https://decrypt.co/73125/el-salvador-approves-bitcoin-law-btc-is-legal-tender
We Discuss:
- Merchants (including Tesla) operating in El Salvador now have to accept Bitcoin as payment.
- What does this mean for capital gains taxes? Independent contractors with U.S. citizenship who are paid for services in El Salvador? Where is our amicus brief? Get excited.
- Why are Latin American countries leading the charge?
- DeFi vs. CeFi vs. C-Sharp-Fi, and the global financial ecosystem
- Why the revolution will not be centralized
- Amanda & Maurice on rules without rulers
- Why does Elizabeth Warren hate sustainable currency mined with sustainable energy? https://www.coindesk.com/volcano-powered-bitcoin-mining-goes-from-twitter-idea-to-state-policy-in-el-salvador
- Amanda recommends: Raoul Pal on the Exponential Age: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tJrla31t8I
Gavin with the Good Hair: Loves Platitudes, Hates Science
https://deadline.com/2021/06/gavin-newsom-state-of-emergency-californis-june-15-1234769594/
We Discuss:
- Gavin’s good hair
- Why you should care about Friday headlines
- The pandemic that wasn’t (more than a few months long)
- Increased deaths from things that aren’t Covid: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-finds-deaths-heart-disease-diabetes-climbed-amid-covid-u-n1270260
- Policies that would have actually helped people of color
- Maurice explains: Policies that would have actually helped people of color