In today's show we discuss the GoFundMe scandal, Truckers for Freedom and attacks on Joe Rogan and free speech generally.

In this weeks episode David discusses: Russia's central bank proposing to ban Bitcoin miningRio De Janeiro mayor announces that the city will invest 1% of its treasury into Bitcoin and allow citizens to pay taxes in crypto with a 10% discount.WEF (Davos) week ends with another attack on bitcoin regarding its environmental credentials. Read the full episode notes: https://bitcoin-briefing.com/

In today's show we cover the weeks top Bitcoin news: Legendary value investor Bill Miller reveals he has 50% of his net worth exposed to #Bitcoin.Jack Dorsey launches a legal defence fund to protect Bitcoin developers being sued by Craig S Wright and his company Tulip Trading.Jack Mallers, Strike CEO who was instrumental in El Salvador's adoption of Bitcoin and the roll-out of the nations Chivo wallet has started operations in Argentina.Fidelity Digital released a report outlining how a very high stakes game theory situation may be about to play out with nation states. Read the full podcast notes here.

“I don’t want to own coins with a bad provenance, for instance one’s mined in china or blood coins.” Kevin O’Leary   I asked reddit about fungibility and the replies were pretty shocking. Hardly anyone seemed to understand the concept, either confusing it with privacy or authenticity. A day later Kevin O’Leary announces his change of attitude towards bitcoin and confirmed he would weight his portfolio with 3% bitcoin. However, the billionaire only wants virgin coins mined by himself with renewable technology. Read the full podcast notes here.

“Investing in Bitcoin isn’t like investing in a company. It’s a technology..” David Black   In today’s show David talks about his history with Bitcoin and all the money and mistakes lost on alt coins. There’s a long journey we all have to make with Bitcoin before we understand how important and valuable it really is. Read the full podcast notes here.

“It’s strange we didn’t have any significant market correction during covid, but of course the money printers were working in overdrive.”   In today’s show we discuss Tesla purchasing $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin and the reason for large public corporations beginning to move their balance sheets and treasury reserves into BTC. In the second half, David makes the case for why Tim Cook will follow Elon Musk’s and Michael Saylor’s example. Apple will not only buy Bitcoin, but very much realize it needs to. Read the full podcast notes here.

“Bank of America went through it’s customers financial data after the Capitol Hill riots and sent a list of names to the government.”   In today’s show we cover Bank of America auditing its own customers to tell the authorities which of them were in and around DC during the Capitol Hill riots. Jim Cramer gets fiery in support of Wall Street Bets A German man convicted of fraud refuses to hand over the password to access 50 million Euros. Read the full podcast notes here.

“Money is a technology and always has been.”   In today’s Bitcoin Briefing we discuss the success of the Microstrategy Bitcoin for Corporations conference. SEC start investigating Reddit Wall Street Bets users. Bank of England gives a 6 month warning before the ‘possibility’ of negative rates. Read the full podcast notes here.

“Spill the beans man. They want to know why you stopped GameStop buys and they demand answer. People want to know the truth!”   In today’s show we listen to the full audio clip of Elon Musk asking Vlad Tenev to explain Robinhood’s actions over stopping its customers to buy GME, AMC Blackberry share among others. Read the full podcast notes here.

In today’s show we listen to a VP of Visa discussing the companies strategic move into Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency. Followed by our running story of the “The War of the Shorts” and Elon’s tweets sending BTC back up to nearly $40k Read the full podcast notes here.

In today’s show we cover the ongoing Wall Streets Bets saga pumping GME and other stocks to infinity while Wall Street hedge funds are left with massive debts. Robinhood has terminated buy options of GME and other stocks which many are calling obvious market manipulation. Article Source: FT Watch the full podcast notes here.

In today’s show we discuss the short squeeze of the decade driven by the popular subreddit Wall Street Bets who are taking on the establishment in Wall Street itself with massive buys of GameStop stock. As the sore losers they are, calls are already being made for more regulation to ‘protect ordinary investors’, which of course is code for stopping ordinary people making the same market returns as the professionals. Read the full podcast notes here.

In today’s show we cover the recent rhetoric from Janet Yellen of the Federal Reserve and the ECB’s Christine Lagarde who are both calling from global Bitcoin regulation. Read the full podcast notes here.

In today’s Bitcoin Briefing we cover Ivy League universities such as Harvard, Yale & Brown, investing in BTC for at least 12 months. In other news, ex-CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein says ‘Bitcoin might work’, but that a currency must be both a store of value and a medium exchange and in the case of the latter it fails. The Bank of England also snubs Bitcoin claiming digital currencies aren’t built to last, while proceeding to design their own. Read the full show notes here.