WBD Live in Bedford with Jeff Booth, James Lavish, Lawrence Lepard & Ben Arc - WBD652

On the 14th of April What Bitcoin Did hosted a live show in
Bedford. The guests were the founder of LNBits Ben Arc,
CEO/Chairman of Ego Death Capital Jeff Booth, Investment Manager
Lawrence Lepard and Macro analyst James Lavish. Across these
interviews, we discussed Nostr, censorship-resistant
marketplaces, hyperinflation, debt, deflationary economics,
Bitcoin and AI.


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I have taken the What Bitcoin Did podcast all around the world:
across the United States, South America and Europe. However, I
have always dreamed of hosting a live event in my home town.
Never would I have believed that I could have been lucky enough
to have 4 of the best voices within the community come to the
inaugural What Bitcoin Did Live in Bedford event.


The show covered the main issues affecting not only the Bitcoin
community at the moment, but the wider economic and social
landscape. We discuss the development of the decentralized
censorship-resistant social media network Nostr with one of it’s
inventors, the amazing Ben Arc, and his work in expanding its
application to develop censorship-resistant marketplaces.


Lawrence Lepard and James Lavish set out their analysis of the
macroeconomic environment in which the current sovereign debt and
deficit situation could result in triple-digit inflation in
Western economies within the next few years. We discuss balancing
mitigating the resultant risk with investment strategies focused
on both gold and Bitcoin.


Finally, Jeff Booth explains his deflationary thesis, where an
unmanipulated economic system allows technology and competition
to provide productivity gains to flow through society, how
Bitcoin is the only way to measure the productivity falling in a
system with monetary inflation, and, the potential for AI to
create a superintelligence that will be smarter than humans.