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Podcast: On The Brink with Castle Island
Episode: Izabella Kaminska (The Blind Spot) on Reconsidering Bitcoin Skepticism
Description: Former FT Alphaville Editor and founder of The Blind Spot, Izabella Kaminska joins the show. In this episode: Izabella's pre-FT career Izabella's Polish ancestry and how that informed her monetary worldview Why Izabella was a skeptic about Bitcoin – and why she revisited her stance Izabella's interest in anacyclosis and cyclicality in political systems Jeremy Bentham and his views on utilitarianism Consequentialism and its influence on contemporary elite ideology What Covid-19 policies revealed about freedoms in the West The flaws inherent in bureaucracy Izabella's changing view on the politicization of finance The failure of AML/KYC rules in the West...