89: Capitalism, Socialism, and Cryptocurrency with Andrew Bergel

Andrew Bergel is an instructor of environmental governance at Dalhousie university in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He joins us for the second part of the interview where we talk about Andrew's experience as an instructor at Dalhousie University. The conversation ventures generally into socialism, capitalism, with an overtone of cryptocurrency and bitcoin.

 

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Discussing Andrew's educational background

(03:57) - Discussing regulations, and how do traditional finance norms work here?

(12:46) - How regulation and normalization of crypto trading might affect hedge funds

(15:08) - What led Andrew towards crypto

(31:33) - Does increase in price make Bitcoin less risky? And Crypto in the classroom

(37:47) - Portfolio diversity philosophy, 'trying to catch a falling knife', and Sector Rotation

(51:09) - The monetary policy of Bitcoin, and reading patterns as a trader

(58:45) - Dialog about crypto and capitalism in the classroom

(1:14:29) - Tangential talk about philosophy, money systems and sci-fi dystopias

(1:22:10) - Bitcoin, Energy and Sustainability

(1:32:15) - Discussing outlooks towards crypto when it comes to buying/holding

(1:39:53) - Some life advice from Andrew, and closing thoughts

Edited and Mixed by Kaushik Sethunath.

 

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