Syz the Future

Adam Back (https://x.com/@adam3us) is the legendary cypherpunk whose early work on Hashcash inspired Satoshi Nakamoto's Whitepaper on Bitcoin. Fast forward 16 years and the next evolution of money is in the equity markets with Bitcoin treasury companies and Adam is heavily involved both as an investor but also as a founder and financial product engineer with the BTCTC, the Bitcoin Standard Treasur...

Dr. Richard Petty (https://cccw.hku.hk/team/petty-richard/) is an international professor, entrepreneur, investor and public policy expert on business, finance, accounting and technology. A prolific author, advisor and speaker on economics, finance, and policy solutions to technological disruption, he is a common keynote speaker at events and programs by financial media, academic institutions, ind...

Sander Andersen (https://x.com/sanderandersenn) is the CEO of H100 ($H100:NGM, $GS9:FSE, $HOGPF:OTC) (https://h100.group), the Swedish Stock Exchange listed Healthcare Tech Company with this year's most aggressive cap raising strategy to quickly accumulate Bitcoin on its balance sheet. The company listed only in April 2025 at a USD 11mn market cap and introduced the BTC acquisition strategy in May...

In the inaugural episode of our new BTCTCs subseries at Syz the Future, Simon Gerovich (https://x.com/gerovich) of Metaplanet (3350:JP / $MTPLF) joins Richard (https://x.com/RichardByworth) in the studio for part 2 of our ongoing conversation on Metaplanet and other Bitcoin treasury companies (BTCTCs). The discussion goes in depth on the ins and outs of a functioning BTCTC, from the different mech...

Dr. Chris Knobbe is an ophthalmologist, clinical professor emeritus, researcher and leading voice in health policy unveiling the hidden dangers of seed oils (aka vegetable oils) in our food supply. Driven by the data showing stark correlations between rising chronic disease (coronary heart disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, alzheimers/dementia, age-related macular degeneration) and the integra...

David Knight Legg ( https://x.com/knightlegg ) joins us one year after this pod was first conceived to reflect on a rather tumultuous twelve months. As anticipated David cuts through the headlines and performative politics to precisely hone in on what really is going on underlying the present geopolitical turmoil: the current energy play involving Russia and Iran, Trump's territorial assertions to...

Simon Gerovich (https://x.com/gerovich) is the President and Board Rep Director of the top company in the world right now in stock performance, Metaplanet ($MTPLF). After adopting a bitcoin treasury strategy following the footsteps of Michael Saylor's Strategy formerly Microstrategy ($MSTR). Metaplanet shot up to the top of the Japanese stock market and the globe in 2024 and maintains that top ran...

Charles-Henry Monchau (https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-henry-monchau-cfa-cmt-caia-4003096/) is the Chief Investment Officer at Bank Syz and leading voice on investing in global markets. Charles-Henry is a true citizen of the world -- Swiss-French by birth, growing up in Africa and having worked all over Europe and the Middle East. He drops into the studio to share his distinctive insights on t...

The Bitcoin Public Initiative is a direct democratic effort by Luzius Meisser and Yves Bennaïm for the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to include bitcoin in its reserves. Luzius is a board member of Bitcoin Suisse and Bitcoin Association of Switzerland as well as founder of Meisser Economics and Frankencoin. Yves is founder of 2B4CH, a think tank on bitcoin's impact on society, and part of the Swiss rep...

Jennifer Wines ( https://x.com/jennifer__wines ) is the Author of Invisible Wealth and a Certified Wealth Planning Advisor with novel insights into the evolution of wealth in our modern age. After many years spent at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Fidelity, she observed that clients were reconceptualizing their definition of wealth (largely in part due to the standstill caused by the pandemic) and it...

Geophysicist and glaciologist Professor Jason Box (https://x.com/climate_ice) joins Richard in the studio to discuss extreme weather, water security and the politics of it all. As a scientist, Dr. Box has spent 30 years in the field studying empirical data collecting quantitative metrics on ice, meltwater and other earth atmospheric measurements in Greenland, the Arctic Circle and throughout the w...

As a bonus to the regular programming of the Syz the Future Podcast, we are providing this keynote address from one of our favorite guests, Jeff Booth, at the Syz Capital Alternatives Summit held in Zurich in May 2024. Please enjoy this little new year gift from Jeff and us!   X (Twitter): https://x.com/syzthefuture Richard's X (Twitter): https:// x.com/RichardByworth   Find us on your favorite po...

Willy Woo (https://x.com/woonomic) is the Managing Partner of CMCC Crest Fund and an innovative financial markets leader truly at the vanguard of on-chain analysis of blockchain data. He joins Richard in the studio after a 3 year hiatus from the public to discuss the historical framework measuring technological innovation, the evolution of money and what his financial market trading models project...

Chris Wood, the award winning equity strategist at Jefferies/CLSA, author of the long-running investing newsletter GREED & Fear and former Bureau Chief at The Economist joins us to discuss the tectonic shifts in macroeconomics and financial markets in the age of Trump's re-election. This episode explores the incoming administration, US-China geopolitics, monetary policy, portfolio allocation and p...

Samson Mow ( https://x.com/Excellion ) of JAN3 / ex-Blockstream fame, is a regular advisor to Nation States on integrating Bitcoin to manage sovereign debt and an accomplished gaming and tech entrepreneur. He discusses how his work with digital money and technology has come into contact with notions of privacy and freedom and how our love of more and more convenience may end up costing us more tha...

Jeff Booth is the celebrated bestselling author of the Price of Tomorrow, GP of Ego Death Capital and a well-known thought leader in investment strategies involving Bitcoin. We sit down with Jeff to discuss the mounting pressure we are all feeling in money markets as a result of the out of control money printing by central banks, including, especially the US Federal Reserve over the past few decad...

Syz the Future is a monthly podcast hosted by Richard Byworth, partner at Syz Capital, the alternative investment arm of the Syz Group. The show dives into the critical issues shaping our world today and its uncertain future. From forever wars to energy security, sustainability and monetary debasement to disruptive technology and geopolitics, each episode features an expert guest who can shed ligh...

Eric Syz is the inspirational innovator that founded the iconic Swiss bank, Bank Syz. The discussion covers the challenges and bright spots in building Bank Syz, his view for the legacy of the bank, advice to other entrepreneurs and alternative portfolio construction.   X (Twitter): ⁠ https://x.com/syzthefuture ⁠ Richard's X (Twitter): ⁠ https://x.com/RichardByworth ⁠   Find us on your favorite po...

In a wide-ranging discussion with Benjamin J Butler (https://x.com/englishfuturist), we discuss the growing distrust of our public institutions, the future of government, environmental sustainability, systemic corruption, and the real way forward: bypassing the catchy slogans to truly address the real problems. Inflation as a permanent issue versus the natural state of the economy being deflation....

David Legg is an expert on global geopolitics and advisor to governments on energy security. This discussion covers the various forever wars being fought across the globe and their linkage to energy security. How we can actually have a significant impact on the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and how nuclear can shake its negative stigma. As always, we discuss how to position portfolio...