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The COLDCARD Hack Was Bitcoin’s 9/11 The COLDCARD exploit was an emperor-has-no-clothes moment for Bitcoin. In this episode of the Hell Money Podcast, Casey Casey and Erin Redwing Erin Redwing break down what happened, how AI may have changed the balance between attackers and defenders, and what the fallout...

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Hell Money

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I spoke with Jordi Visser this week to break down: - AI mid-cycle slowdown - $90 trillion AI infrastructure buildout - memory and Micron's role in AI bottleneck - Fed under Warsh - what rate cuts could mean for markets - why bitcoin is positioned to be the best performing assets once the negatives of AI start to show up YouTube: Apple: Spotify: TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 1:20 - Has bitcoin bottomed? 6:03 - Bitcoin vs the Mag 7: is the correlation breaking? 9:00 - Sam Altman, OpenAI & the government getting involved 11:11 - American open source vs Chinese AI models 14:28 - AI compute demand & the infrastructure buildout 20:37 - AI slowdown: how bad, how long? 22:44 - Where do markets go from here? 27:30 - AI agents in the workplace & security risk 34:50 - Memory, Micron & the AI bottleneck 39:53 - The next 10-20 years: robots, AI & society 44:18 - The Fed, rate cuts & inflation's impact on AI 49:55 - Why bitcoin wins in the end
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I spoke with Jordi Visser this week to break down: - AI mid-cycle slowdown - $90 trillion AI infrastructure buildout - memory and Micron's role in AI bottleneck - Fed under Warsh - what rate cuts could mean for markets - why bitcoin is positioned to be the best performing assets once the negatives of AI start to show up YouTube: Apple: Spotify: TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 1:20 - Has bitcoin bottomed? 6:03 - Bitcoin vs the Mag 7: is the correlation breaking? 9:00 - Sam Altman, OpenAI & the government getting involved 11:11 - American open source vs Chinese AI models 14:28 - AI compute demand & the infrastructure buildout 20:37 - AI slowdown: how bad, how long? 22:44 - Where do markets go from here? 27:30 - AI agents in the workplace & security risk 34:50 - Memory, Micron & the AI bottleneck 39:53 - The next 10-20 years: robots, AI & society 44:18 - The Fed, rate cuts & inflation's impact on AI 49:55 - Why bitcoin wins in the end

Anthony Pompliano 🌪

64,370 views • 1 month ago