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How Monopolies Sow the Seeds of Their Own Destruction, Feat. Tuur Demeester
The managing partner of Adamant Capital joins for a conversation about what the Protestant Reformation and the French Revolution can teach us about bitcoin.

Tuur Demeester of Adamant Capital joins for a conversation about what the Protestant Reformation and the French Revolution can teach us about bitcoin.
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This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace.
Today on the Brief:
- A consumer spending rebound
- A new crypto regulatory regime in Europe
- A bitcoin warning from a famed investor
Our main discussion with Tuur Demeester:
Tuur Demeester is the managing partner of Adamant Capital, a bitcoin investment firm that earlier this year published “The Bitcoin Reformation.”
See also: Is Scam Selling Suppressing the Price of Bitcoin?
In this conversation, he and NLW discuss:
- The four preconditions for a reformation, and how they apply today
- How hyperinflation contributed to the French Revolution
- Why inflation is becoming a more significant threat today
- How bitcoin memes function like unifying doctrines from past revolutions
- Why millennials could be the Greatest Generation 2.0
Find our guest online:
Twitter: @TuurDemeester
On the web: Adamant Capital
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Nathaniel Whittemore
NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.
