Sound Money Safe Mode Dr Daniel Kim BA/MA/PhD physics (Harvard), MBA (Yale) [other impressive accolades] BTC=bitcoin[surveilance coin] XMR=Monero He volunteers his time to do these presentations for Monero because he believes it is the killer app of Nakamoto Consensus, which is Money.

Pandemic Economy 5:08 [graph showing unprecidented times] Unemployment spiked to highest recorded U6 Gov concerned about deflation, so they printed graph shows MZMmoney supply/gdp shoot to over 100%. [unrelated thought: Mike maloony says over 70% is the end of a fiat currency] more graphs showing insane money printing He was also a doctor i guess and the uncontrolled exponential growth of cancerous tumors reminds him of these graphs. "monetary regiems and inflation" book recounts 29 times of hyperinflation. basically you don't want to be in that country. money printing foreran it ~20/29 times. It occurs when the entire population realizes they don't have confidence in the money anymore.

Independent Scarcity Digital Scarcity Networks describes the difference between centralized and decentralized systems: windowsvslinux, btc/xmrVScentral banks reminds everyone the federal reserve is supposed to say "don't look to us to print money out of thin air because that's not sustainable" little incentive to improve when centralized power is gatekept cathedral and bazaar idea Explains bitcoin's history and brilliance and shortcomings [intesne cryptographic warning, he goes deep. usually you have to pay for this] Explain's monero's improvements over bitcoin's shortcomings [smoother decrease, tail emission(still effectively a hard cap on the amount unless you live forever)

compares monero and bitcoin and fiat and gold and it paints a very dim picture for humanity.

bitcoin's algorithm is too easy and can be ASIC mined, and the makers are all in china. the only machines that can find btc now are china made.

monero took steps to avoid this with more powerful PoW algorithms. it's changed 4 times, monero will continue to evolve to be the best sound money, bitcoin has stagnated [and was taken over by blockstream, but that's a topic for another time]

buying the chinese hardware it takes months to deliver for "testing" while they mine btc with your machine. such is the peril of centralization.

monero has an adaptive block weight to solve the BTC fee problem.

Fungibility vs Mass Surveillance BTC is transparant, etched forever, every transaction, sender, receiver, amount. every address complete live balance history.

puts innocent people and businesses at risk. showstopper for wealthy clients. no one with wealth wants to broadcast to the world, it's indiscreet and unsafe. reputation transfers as well.

Valuation/Getting Involved