TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#184: Clark Moody
- Clark Moody's 10-year journey in Bitcoin data, starting with Mt. Gox trade feeds in 2011 and building the Bitcoin Dashboard as a free, donation-supported tool for network and economic metrics.
- The correlation between easy money (Federal Reserve printing and student loan programs) and societal problems—bureaucratic bloat, hyperinflation, erosion of time preference, and institutional capture.
- Political polarization, loss of faith in electoral legitimacy, and the potential for civil conflict; the case for localism, decentralization, and peaceful separation as alternatives.
- Bitcoin's role as a censorship-resistant escape hatch and sound money: enabling financial sovereignty, lowering time preference, and shifting culture toward individual responsibility.
- The remnant concept—a small, ideologically committed minority holding Bitcoin and understanding separation of money and state—as a path to systemic change.
- Optimism grounded in free and open-source software, individual empowerment through technology, and low time-preference Bitcoiners building a more resilient, locally governed future.