At Freedom Fest 2025 last month, I joined a very sensible panel - grown up people saying intelligent things - in a gold vs bitcoin debate, from which I came way thinking, “Oh, that was quite good”.
It has just been released, so I thought I would share it for your Sunday thought piece.
Moderated by the brilliant Efrat Fenigson, the panel included:
Ethan Peck, who laid out the case for bitcoin’s digital scarcity.
Adam Trexler, a pioneer in physical gold currency, who argued passionately for gold’s eternal role as a store of value.
Wolf von Laer, who made the libertarian case for bitcoin as a sovereign, decentralised hedge against government overreach.
And of course, myself. I believe you should own both bitcoin and gold.
We covered the usual subjects: inflation, central bank buying, digital portability, monetary history, and what all of this means.
Enjoy.
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ICYMI here is this week’s commentary - on forex
Currencies in Crisis — Except Two
I wanted to consider the Great (irony klaxon) British pound today, and indeed currencies more generally.
Finally, here is a trailer for new film from Kane Guglielmi, in which yours truly appears. Apparently both Tucker Carlson and Barack Obama are fans, so it is straddling the divide. Haven’t seen it yet, but wow are some of the shots in the trailer beautiful.
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