Matthew Kratter's Bitcoin University on Odysee

Please help to support this channel's work: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University/join In this video, I discuss Bitcoin's recent price meltdown, and the importance of keeping perspective: Bitcoin is still up over 130% for the year, and nothing has changed with its fundamentals. Bitcoin is always volatile, but you can expect increased volatility with the new Trump administration cut...

Please help to support this channel's work: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University/join In this video, I discuss how River makes it possible to earn BTC yield on a US dollar savings account. This is not a product that lends out your BTC for yield, but rather earns a fiat yield that accrues daily and is used to purchase BTC for your account that is paid monthly. I also discuss the folly o...

Please help to support this channel's work: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University/join In this video, I discuss the many differences between XRP and Bitcoin. XRP is the complete antithesis of Bitcoin. XRP is highly centralized, had a 100% premine, and the parent company Ripple is actively collaborating with governments to build CBDCs (central bank digital currencies) that can be used to...

Get advanced Bitcoin education here: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/join In this video, I discuss the interplay between Bitcoin's scarcity, its utility, and its valuation. Scarce things are not necessarily valuable, unless they are also useful. Bitcoin is an extremely useful monetary technology that allows anyone to exchange economic value with anyone else in the world, without needing to...

Please help to support this channel's work: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University/join In this video, I discuss the feedback loop, where companies like MicroStrategy get added to stock market indices, which enables passive stock index flows to flow into BTC itself. As more companies add BTC to their balance sheets, it pumps BTC, which pumps the stocks of these companies, increasing thei...

Please help to support this channel's work: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University/join In this video, I discuss the quantum threat to Bitcoin. A really powerful quantum computer (which probably doesn't exist yet) could use Shor's algorithm (or other quantum algorithms) to reverse-engineer Bitcoin private keys from Bitcoin public keys, thus making it possible to steal someone&#...

Please help to support this channel's work: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University/join In this video, I discuss the recent Tucker interview with Roger Ver, early Bitcoin adopter and cheerleader for the failed B-Cash fork. Unfortunately, Tucker's ignorance about Bitcoin and Bitcoin history enables Roger to put forward a history of the blocksize wars that is simply not true. In addit...

Please help to support this channel's work: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University/join In this video, I answer more questions related to BlackRock and Bitcoin, including attacks on Bitcoin mining, node operator consensus, and exerting control over ASIC manufacturers. I conclude that there is no way for BlackRock to take control of Bitcoin. I finish the video discussing easy ways to prof...

Get advanced Bitcoin education here: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/join In this video, I discuss BlackRock's supposed plans to take over Bitcoin, by buying up Bitcoin mining companies, buying up lots of BTC, wielding influence over Bitcoin devs, and possibly even attempting to change the 21 million max supply cap. Fortunately, because Bitcoin runs on a proof of work consensus mechanism, o...

Get advanced Bitcoin education here: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/join In this video, I answer more listener questions about Bitcoin including: 1) What happens if the electricity goes out? 2) Can you buy things with Bitcoin? 3) Does Bitcoin still have value even though it's intangible? 4) Can Bitcoin be copied? 5) Does Bitcoin have a moat? 6) Is Bitcoin like the tulip bubble? 7) Can you...

Get advanced Bitcoin education here: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/join In this video, I examine common misconceptions about Bitcoin, by discussing the points raised in a thread by two people who are discussing Bitcoin hitting $100,000. I discuss whether Bitcoin is in a bubble, whether Bitcoin should be backed by gold or something else, and I also discuss how it is impossible "to miss the...

Become a channel member: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University/join Donate to Open Sats: https://opensats.org/ In this video, I discuss Bitcoin's move to $100,000 in the context of Bitcoin's global utility and price predictions from early cypherpunks like Hal Finney. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Bitcoin $100,000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ItceSk2D8k&am...

Please help to support this channel's work: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University/join In this video, I discuss Bitcoin hitting $100,000, and what it means for both Bitcoin and humanity's bright future. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. My favorite Bitcoin dashboard: https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/ Peter Schiff was very wrong indeed: https://x.com/PeterS...

Join Bitcoin University Premium: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/join In this video, I discuss whether Satoshi Nakamoto's "Genesis Wallet" is close to being breached, with the result that over 1 million BTC will be stolen and dumped on the market. My conclusion is that this particular "news item" is the result of a trolling post about Kentucky fried chicken. BIP-39 walle...

Get my options trading course: https://www.trader.university/join https://www.trader.university/courses/5627-learn-to-trade-options-like-a-pro In this video, I discuss how institutional investors are using MicroStrategy's convertible bonds in convertible arbitrage. The most common structure is to be long the convertible bonds and short the stock, in an effort to be delta neutral and profit mo...

Please help to support this channel's work: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University/join In this video, I discuss the daily compounding effects that make it risky to hold leveraged ETFs for any longer period of time than intraday trading. There is also the risk that the ETF might not be able to get enough exposure for the next day, if MSTR experiences a volatile market close. In conclusio...

Join Bitcoin University Premium: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/join In this video, I discuss various price targets for MicroStrategy's common stock, as well as what blowup risk might look like, if Bitcoin were to go down a lot and MSTR was forced to liquidate its BTC holdings in order to pay off bondholders. If BTC and MSTR rally a lot, this debt gets converted to equity, so I include thi...

Get my paid options and trading courses: https://www.trader.university/join https://www.trader.university/courses/5627-learn-to-trade-options-like-a-pro In this video, I discuss how MicroStrategy uses convertible bonds to raise more capital to buy BTC, as well as how convertible bonds work. Convertible bonds are a strange hybrid of stock and bond, and include an embedded call option that allows ho...

Get advanced Bitcoin education here: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/join In this video, part 2 of a series on MicroStrategy, I discuss how MSTR uses the mNAV premium to acquire more BTC by issuing shares-- without diluting existing shareholders, but rather increasing the number of BTC held per share. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. MicroStrategy Deep Dive (Part 1): https://w...

Please help to support this channel's work: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University/join In this video, I discuss MicroStrategy's Bitcoin treasury reserve asset strategy by beginning to go over the basics of raising cash through company operations, debt financing, and equity financing. I discuss the risks of too much debt, as well as the risks from too much shareholder dilution from...

Get advanced Bitcoin education here: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/join In this video, I discuss the tradeoffs between holding a bearer asset like BTC, and holding stocks. I also examine Bitcoin mining stocks (like RIOT and MARA) and spot Bitcoin ETFs like IBIT. In a fragile financial system in the late stages of a sovereign debt crisis, I prefer bearer assets over all other assets that have c...

Get advanced Bitcoin education here: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/join In this video, I discuss the common regrets that many Bitcoiners have about not having stacked enough sats, as well as indicators that we are still very early to this game: 1) You're still the weirdo at the party if you bring up Bitcoin 2) Your neighbors don't own any Bitcoin 3) No one at work owns any Bitcoin 4)...

Get channel emojis and extra videos: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University/join In this video, I discuss whether Satoshi understood money's function as a "store of value." I also discuss the common critique that Bitcoin has failed as a medium of exchange. The monetary functions of "store of value" and "medium of exchange" are conjoined at the hip, and canno...

Learn how to buy non-KYC Bitcoin: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/join In this video, I discuss the problems associated with reusing Bitcoin addresses. Not only does it hurt your own privacy and the privacy of everyone else on the Bitcoin network, reusing Bitcoin addresses could also leave your BTC vulnerable to a quantum attack in the future. Always use a fresh Bitcoin address whenever you rece...

Please help to support this channel's work: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University/join In this video, I discuss James Baxter-Derrington's article "Whine all you want, Bitcoin is still worthless," as well as James Ball's article "Thanks to Trump, Bitcoin is booming." Both articles are full of misinformation and outright howlers. While James and James believe...