Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the forty-eighth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 01:15 What is the printing press? 03:03 Liability one: Notes 07:15 Liability two: Reserves 11:39 How big is the Notes % of Base money? 12:59 What about coins? Here we look at the 108 year, 5...
Mar 29, 2023•17 min•Season 7Ep. 56
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the forty-seventh video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:47 Small numbers long ago, vs. big numbers now? 03:28 All-time trendline 04:50 Pre-2008 trendline 09:00 Post-2007 trendline 13:00 Always comes back to compound growth rate 13:30 Fed bala...
Mar 28, 2023•25 min•Season 7Ep. 55
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the one hundred forty-eighth podcast episode from Crypto Voices. Show support appreciated: donations.cryptovoices.com Matthew and Alec interview Yaël Ossowski from the Consumer Choice Center, who is also a visiting fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute. He recently started up a great new pod about Bitcoin, Fix the Money. Contents 00:00 Intro 0...
Mar 27, 2023•45 min•Season 7Ep. 54
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the forty-sixth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:36 Used to be hard to find this data... 01:14 Log scale 01:39 What is the Fed's balance sheet? 04:42 What kind of assets do they buy with printed money? 07:01 What about gold? 08:15 Histor...
Mar 24, 2023•32 min•Season 7Ep. 53
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the forty-fifth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 01:22 Bond price and yield are inversely related 00:50 How important is the bond market? 01:59 10-yr note price sensitivity per 1% YTM change 07:10 Other duration bond price sensitivity 09:18...
Mar 23, 2023•21 min•Season 7Ep. 52
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the forty-fourth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:25 Bonds... and two charts! 00:50 How important is the bond market? 03:40 Importance of 10-year note 04:34 Components of a bond (Yield most important!) 06:14 YTM history of US Treasury 10...
Mar 22, 2023•28 min•Season 7Ep. 51
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the forty-third video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:43 Log scale 02:20 Bitcoin all-time power regression (95% R-squared) 05:57 1-sigma percentile moves 06:30 2-sigma percentile moves 08:30 3-sigma percentile moves 10:36 3-sigma+ percentile ...
Mar 21, 2023•26 min•Season 7Ep. 50
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the forty-second video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:56 Bitcoin on log scale, in terms of gold 02:27 Tops and bottoms in USD, what does it mean for BTC.AU? 18:15 Bitcoin priced in gold power trendline (95% R-squared) 18:57 1-sigma percentil...
Mar 20, 2023•27 min•Season 7Ep. 49
This clip is a recap from #32 Decoding Money: Total money supply USA. Why do bitcoins economically compare to base money, and not bank money? Full ep here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zghGPfY3J8I&t=2007s
Mar 17, 2023•4 min•Season 7Ep. 48
This clip is a recap from #32 Decoding Money: Total money supply USA. Pinpointing the difference between market money and state money as a basis for monetary philosophy! Full ep here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zghGPfY3J8I&t=2007s
Mar 15, 2023•2 min•Season 7Ep. 47
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the one hundred forty-seventh podcast episode from Crypto Voices. Show support appreciated: donations.cryptovoices.com Matthew interviews Alex Gladstein from the Human Rights Foundation on recent banking turmoil, CBDCs, and HRF's new CBDC tracker fellowship he will be working on, together with Janine from This Month in Bitcoin Privacy, and Nick...
Mar 13, 2023•29 min•Season 7Ep. 46
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the forty-first video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 04:50 Remember PSR is gross ratio (before expenses) 05:20 PSR doesn't compare across industries 08:07 PSR all-time average 10:30 PSR power regression trendline (60% R-squared) 13:30 1-sigma p...
Mar 10, 2023•26 min•Season 7Ep. 45
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the fortieth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:28 Origins of metric 01:54 Numerator: Market cap ($) 03:42 Denominator: Trailing-12 month miner network revenue ($) 05:55 Ratio recap and importance 09:10 "Price-to-sales" (PSR) ratio for Bit...
Mar 09, 2023•21 min•Season 7Ep. 44
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the thirty-ninth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:31 Bitcoin supply in BTC-terms 02:07 Bitcoin supply in USD-terms (market cap) 02:41 Four basic regression trendlines 03:09 Bitcoin market cap power trendline (96% R-squared) 05:13 Log sca...
Mar 08, 2023•23 min•Season 7Ep. 43
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the thirty-eighth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 01:37 Block epochs ("halvings") 05:50 Projected supply until 2030 08:11 Genesis block (and client release) 11:14 How does this compare with gold and resources? 15:12 Market cap (supply in dollar-...
Mar 07, 2023•16 min•Season 7Ep. 42
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the thirty-seventh installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:42 Trailing-12 month revenue: Fees 01:02 Trailing-12 month revenue: Issuance 01:33 Issuance component % of total revenue 07:48 How does this compare to more established industries? Dissecting...
Mar 06, 2023•11 min•Season 7Ep. 41
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the thirty-sixth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:54 Trailing-12 month revenue: Issuance 05:13 Trailing-12 month revenue: Fees 07:55 How long until the breakdown % crosses? Dissecting the total issuance (block reward), PLUS network fees, paid ...
Mar 03, 2023•10 min•Season 7Ep. 40
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the thirty-fifth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 02:00 Terminology: Block reward and issuance 07:08 Note: Gross not net! This is revenue before expenses 08:13 Nature of this chart: Trailing 12-month run rate 17:03 Block reward and issuance in US...
Mar 02, 2023•36 min•Season 7Ep. 39
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the thirty-fourth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:45 TTM fees in BTC terms 10:30 TTM fees in USD terms 17:00 Power regression on USD TTM fees (90% R-squared) 23:00 1-sigma percentile bands 24:11 2-sigma percentile bands Dissecting the total f...
Mar 01, 2023•29 min•Season 7Ep. 38
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the one hundred forty-sixth podcast episode from Crypto Voices. Show support appreciated: donations.cryptovoices.com Matthew and Alec review the Western stance toward Ukraine one year after Russia's invasion, the total US money supply, and phone number privacy. Contents 00:00 Intro-UFOs 05:25 Ukraine 38:18 Total money supply USA 01:03:50 Privac...
Feb 28, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 7Ep. 37
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the thirty-third installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 01:47 M0 02:48 M1 non-M0 03:33 M2 non-M1 03:44 M3 non-M2 07:37 Assets vs. Liabilities of CCs 11:40 Batching 13:18 CC purchase volume in 2022 = $9.56 trillion 14:40 Revolving credit USA 17:08 Credi...
Feb 27, 2023•25 min•Season 7Ep. 36
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the thirty-second installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 01:33 Bank reserves 02:35 Fed repos 03:55 Vault cash 05:55 M0 08:30 M1 non-M2 (Demand deposits) 10:20 M2 non-M1 11:55 M3 non-M2 14:50 State money % of Total money 15:05 Total money supply 22:40 H...
Feb 24, 2023•40 min•Season 7Ep. 35
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the thirty-first installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 03:10 Monetary base 07:50 Gold on Fed's balance sheet (Market value) 16:30 Gold on Fed's balance sheet (Native ounces) 24:20 Gold 'reserved' at market price 33:36 Gold 'reserved' at statutory pric...
Feb 23, 2023•38 min•Season 7Ep. 34
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the thirtieth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 02:05 Inside versus Outside money 07:50 M0 is a part of both Inside and Outside money 09:20 Be cautious: M0 as defined by different central banks! 10:30 Vault cash 11:28 Bank reserves 17:30 Physical ...
Feb 22, 2023•35 min•Season 7Ep. 33
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the twenty-ninth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 01:13 M0 03:04 M1 04:50 M2 06:40 M3 (Fed discontinued) 09:30 M3 19:03 M0 % of M3 21:52 M1% of M3 25:40 M2% of M3 30:27 Next up is base money Here we have concluded the entire breakdown (and recons...
Feb 21, 2023•32 min•Season 7Ep. 32
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the twenty-eighth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:58 Money supply "stack" 02:38 What is a Eurodollar? 05:50 How did the Federal Reserve count Eurodollars? 08:35 Eurodollars (Fed discontinued) 10:56 Eurodollars (Porkopolis) 20:30 Argentina's s...
Feb 20, 2023•32 min•Season 7Ep. 31
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the twenty-seventh installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:48 Money supply "stack" 02:47 Federal Reserve presser on M3 discontinuation 05:05 Repo market summary 05:28 Why repos: #1 Shadow banking 08:57 Why repos: #2 Liquidity 10:41 Why repos: #3 Leve...
Feb 17, 2023•34 min•Season 7Ep. 30
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the twenty-sixth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 01:42 Money supply "stack" 06:37 Institutional time deposits 08:40 M3 non-M2 Total (Fed discontinued) 12:45 Institutional money market funds 16:45 Large time deposits % of M3 non-M2 Total Here we ...
Feb 16, 2023•19 min•Season 7Ep. 29
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the twenty-fifth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 01:30 Money supply "stack" 02:50 M0 03:37 M1 05:30 M2 09:24 M0 % of M2 11:00 Remember, fiduciary media 14:15 M1 % of M2 Here we look at the next level up for the United States money supply: the M2...
Feb 15, 2023•26 min•Season 7Ep. 28
Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ This is the twenty-fourth installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast. Contents 00:00 Intro 00:30 Money supply "stack" 02:25 Savings deposits 09:00 M2 non-M1 Total 11:10 Retail money market funds 15:50 Small time deposits 20:10 Savings deposits % of M2 non-M1 Total Here we look at the n...
Feb 14, 2023•24 min•Season 7Ep. 27
