Collapse Life, Released on 2/15/25

The narrative on Bitcoin as the go-to anti-establishment cryptocurrency has shifted, and the question that needs to be asked is: why? This week on the Collapse Life podcast, financial analyst Matthew Piepenburg, partner at Von Greyerz/Gold Switzerland, takes a deep dive into how Bitcoin, once the darling of maverick anti-establishment types for its anonymity, is now being embraced by governments and institutional giants like BlackRock. What does this mean for its future — and for ours? Taking a 30,000-foot macro view, Piepenburg connects disparate dots with startling evidence to create a compelling argument: Bitcoin was never what it was originally promoted to be. In fact, he argues, it is likely to have been a controlled intelligence asset right from the start, designed to usher in a financial system that’s even more centralized than what we have today.

Key topics discussed:
• How Bitcoin went from a rebellion against fiat to being embraced by Wall Street and governments
• Why Bitcoin has been used to divert attention from the real monetary hedge – gold and other precious metals
• Historical parallels between the petrodollar system and Bitcoin’s role in US debt strategy
• Whether Bitcoin is a Trojan Horse that sets the stage for central bank digital currencies
• How infrastructure for digital financial control was built long before Bitcoin emerged as the brainchild of a mystery figure, Satoshi Nakamoto
• The possibility that Bitcoin’s rise and eventual collapse might very well be part of a larger financial reset on the grounds of safety and security of the financial system

Matthew Piepenburg began his finance career as a transactional attorney before launching his first hedge fund during the NASDAQ bubble of 1999-2001. Thereafter, he began investing his own and other HNW family funds into alternative investment vehicles while operating as a General Counsel, CIO and later Managing Director of a single and multi-family office. Matthew worked closely as well with Morgan Stanley’s hedge fund platform in building a multi-strat/multi-manager fund to better manage risk in a market backdrop of extreme central bank intervention/support. The conviction that precious metals provides the best protection against potential systemic risk led Matt to join Matterhorn Asset Management. Read Piepenburg’s writings here: https://vongreyerz.gold/author/matthew-piepenburg…

  bitcoin, CBDC, Crypto, Matthew Piepenburg