2024-09-23
58 分钟Matthew Pines is the director of intelligence for SentinelOne Strategic Advisory Group and is a veteran of the national security world. Matthew is also the author of several papers on cryptocurrencies and their implications for national security, including a recent one titled, *Great Power Network Competition & Bitcoin,* and he joins David on Macro Musings to talk about these linkages. Specifically, David and Matthew also discuss the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve proposal, the problems with our current network approach to national security, how digital currency can enhance dollar dominance worldwide, and much more. Transcript for this week’s episode. Matthew’s Twitter: @matthew_pines Matthew’s Bitcoin Policy Institute profile David Beckworth’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth Follow us on Twitter: @Macro_Musings Check out our new AI chatbot: the Macro Musebot! Join the new Macro Musings Discord server! Join the Macro Musings mailing list! Check out our Macro Musings merch! Related Links: *Great Power Network Competition & Bitcoin* by Matthew Pines *National Security in the Digital Age: Bitcoin as a Tool for Modern Statecraft* by authors Matthew Pines, Ben Kincaid, Robert Malka, James McGinniss, Lee Bratcher, Pierre Rochard, Lindsey Daley, Gabriel Royal, Thomas Wood, Ian Gaines, and Kyle Schneps *Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order* by Paul Tucker Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Intro (00:01:35) – Matthew’s Journey into the National Security Space (00:07:56) – Evaluating the Current Level of Defense Expenditures (00:12:17) – An Executive Summary of *Great Power Network Competition & Bitcoin* (00:16:11) – Problems with Our Current Network Approach to National Security (00:26:24) – The Intersection of Monetary Policy and National Security (00:29:55) – How Can Digital Currency Enhance Dollar Dominance Across the Globe? (00:38:32) – Breaking Down the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Proposal and Its Implications (00:48:13) – The National Defense Authorization Act and the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act: Basics and Implications (00:57:29) – Outro
Welcome to Macro musings, where each week we pull back the curtain and take a closer look at the most important macroeconomic issues of the past, present, and future.
I am your host, David Beckwourth, a senior research fellow at the Mercator center at George Mason University.
And I'm glad you decided to join us.
Our guest today is Matthew Pinesh.
Matt is the director of intelligence for Sentinel one strategic advisory group and a veteran of the national security world.
Matthew is also the author of several papers on cryptocurrencies and their implications for national security, including a recent one titled great Power, Network Competition, and Bitcoin.
Matthew joins us today to discuss these linkages.
Matthew, welcome to the show.
Thanks for having me.
Well, it's a great time to have someone like you on the show.
There's a lot of crypto issues in the news.
We have a presidential election when one of the candidates claims to be going to be the president for crypto industry.
We also have talks of stablecoins, lots of things happening in that space.
So I'm delighted to have you on.
Matt, you covered this in your work, but you are also a part of a national security world that I'm not very familiar with, and you kind of bridge the gap between those two.
And I think that's our connection.
We've met before, and that connection is because I'm more in the finance world, you're in the national security world, and the linkages between national security and finance come together, and we have become a coin because of that.
Tell us about your career and your journey into that space.
Yeah, I'll give you the abridged version.
So, as an undergrad at Hopkins, I studied physics and philosophy.