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Jeff Park

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
335 total appearances

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The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

And that's why international law is so nebulous because who's going to enforce it?

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

the US, right?

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

And so- You saw the meme.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

Go ahead.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

You saw the meme.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

Oh, boy, did I see the memes.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

The fighter jet.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

That's the international law, baby.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

But that's the thing with Bitcoin.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

In some ways, it's a little bit scary because you think it's unenforceable because it's code, and yet there are rails in which you have on-ramp and off-ramp, and those things can be enforced.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

And so that's where sometimes Bitcoin, even though it touts it as its main strength, could also be its downfall, whereas gold...

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

You can literally just put that in a stash and it cannot be seized.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

And you don't really need on-ramp or off-ramp to transact in gold in some ways because there's like a decentralized marketplace for that wherever you go.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

You can really bring like a gold bar anywhere and then someone will bid you for it.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

You might not get the best price, but there's a bid and it's a decentralized bid.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

Whereas Bitcoin...

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

it's very hard to transact unless you're on ramp to some kind of centralized infrastructure.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

And so this is that kind of fine tune trade off of enforcement where sometimes Bitcoin is not in fact the preferred choice of collateral for criminals.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

Not if they're fake diamonds, but maybe not authentic diamonds, perhaps.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon | Jeff Park

Okay.