# Bitcoin Age, the Dollar Mind Trick & Why Gold is Old | Nik Bhatia @timevalueofbtc | EP271

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Podcast: [The Bitcoin Matrix](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bitcoin-matrix-2537137)
Published: 2026-04-20T15:00:29+00:00
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Duration seconds: 5540

## Resource

Nik Bhatia called Bitcoin a once-in-a-millennium monetary event before most people understood what Bitcoin was. Now he has a second book, a course at USC Marshall, and the global monetary system is doing exactly what he said it would do. This is one of the most important conversations we have had on this show. We discuss: Why the dollar is a Jedi mind trick almost everyone has fallen for\ How Bitcoin and the dollar can coexist — and why that matters\ Why gold is old and Bitcoin is young\ The liquidity cycle that determines where Bitcoin goes next Subscribe so you never miss an episode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ GUEST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Nik Bhatia @timevalueofbtc → https://x.com/timevalueofbtc The Bitcoin Layer → thebitcoinlayer.com Bitcoin Age → Amazon and Audible Layered Money → Amazon and Audible ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰 SPONSORS & DISCOUNTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔑 Stamp Seed — Between 3-6 million Bitcoin are lost forever. Most of it paper. Hammer your seed words into solid titanium — fire-resistant to 3,000°F. 15% OFF stampseed.com | code MATRIX 🐟 Firefish — Non-custodial Bitcoin-backed loans. Your keys stay in multisig. $100M+ in volume. 10,000+ users. Zero fees on your first loan through April 30. firefish.io/?ref=MATRIX | code MATRIX 🔐 Unchained — 90,000+ BTC secured in collaborative multisig since 2016. Bitcoin-only. Never lent out a sat. IRAs, loans, inheritance planning. 10% OFF unchained.com/matrix | code MATRIX10 🏕️ Camp Nakamoto — Bitcoin summer camp. Private island. Lake Winnipesaukee, NH. June 18-21. I'll be speaking there. 15% OFF campnakamoto.com | code MATRIX 💎 River — Buy Bitcoin the right way. Up to $100 FREE Bitcoin. river.com/matrix 🛡️ Meanwhile — The world's first Bitcoin life insurance policy. Premiums and payouts in Bitcoin. meanwhile.b…

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