#473: Banks Without Bankers with Eric Yakes
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast · Marty Bent
January 12, 20241h 26m
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Show Notes
<p>Marty sits down with Eric Yakes to discuss his piece written for Axiom, federated mints, and the newly approved Bitcoin ETF.</p>
<p>Eric on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericyakes</p>
<p>Axiom article: https://www.axiombtc.capital/banks</p>
<p>Eric's book: https://yakes.io/book/</p>
<p>0:00 - Intro<br />
6:40 - Can we really have banks without bankers?<br />
12:44 - Tradeoffs<br />
16:10 - Fedimints<br />
23:48 - Federated model cost/benefit<br />
35:23 - Implementing incentives<br />
42:08 - Fedi in the future<br />
45:53 - Speculating on possibilities<br />
51:35 - Mint distribution and crossing chasms<br />
59:23 - Ark<br />
1:07:57 - Spoiling final thoughts<br />
1:11:31 - Multi-institution custody<br />
1:15:03 - ETF<br />
1:22:59 - Falling empire<br />
1:25:46 - Wrapping up</p>
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