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Aug 2021
2h 12m

#265: Monetary reset, Malthusian wizardy...

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
About this episode

Join Marty as he sits down with LaserHodl to discuss:

- Monetary reset

- Zooming out and viewing the world through a specific lens

- Tactics used by the power structure to divide

- The 2030/2050 Agendas

- Why Bitcoin throws a wrench in all of this

- much more

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