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A reading of Ben Hunt’s latest essay “In Praise of Bitcoin.”

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and NEAR.org.

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Ben Hunt is the author of the wildly popular and always provocative “Epsilon Theory.” In his recent essay “In Praise of Bitcoin,” he calls on bitcoiners to rise up and recognize that the “bitcoin” being adopted by Wall Street is an abstraction that comes with unacceptable compromises.

See also: Will Wall Street Ruin Bitcoin? Featuring Ben Hunt and Alex Gladstein

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