
About this episode
How can economic bubbles be good for the world?
Byrne Hobart is a financial analyst known for his newsletter "The Diff" which covers tech, trends and economics. Byrne has been on the periphery of crypto for longer that this podcast has existed
In this podcast we discuss the book he has co-authored, Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation, where he makes the case for why human progress has stagnated and why speculative bubbles might be the only way out.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
7:29 Byrne’s Crypto Background
10:13 Bitcoin Inception
28:17 Blockspace Economics
34:20 BOOM Thesis
45:35 The Great Stagnation
1:16:46 Civilizational Risk
1:32:31 Good Bubbles vs Bad Bubbles
1:40:04 Identifying the Next Bubble
1:47:53 Closing & Disclaimers
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RESOURCES
Byrne Hobart
https://x.com/ByrneHobart
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
https://a.co/d/f7m2OG8
The Diff Newsletter
https://www.thediff.co/
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