Investing – Bitcoin as a hedge in zero inflation economies

Guest: Andrew Gillick

Andrew writes investment thesis reports using Brave New Coin’s institutional grade data to identify investment opportunities in the blockchain space. Gillick was a director of business at the New Zealand Herald and his interest in blockchain was piqued growing up during the global financial crisis in Ireland. After seeing the social and economic damage that the debt-based system wrought, he began to appreciate the need for an alternative to today’s monetary system.

Gillick’s investment reports do an excellent job of speaking to some of the most pressing issues facing the world today: increasing concerns around privacy and data use, fake news and the weaponization of social media, negative interest rates and the effect on the economy, and the emerging conversation around modern monetary theory.

Gillick explains why central banks want to remove cash from the system and what that means for privacy coins like Monero and Zcash. Plus he explains the coming wave of central bank digital currencies, and why they are the antithesis to permissionless cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. The key takeaway? The current macroeconomic environment could provide an upwind for new forms of commodity money such as Bitcoin.

Supporting Links

THE END OF CASH: Investing in digital privacy and scarcity as a hedge against negative interest rates and Modern Monetary Theory

ELECTION 2020: The war on fake news, an opportunity for decentralized media

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