Bitcoin, Fiat & Rock'n'Roll

About Bitcoin, Fiat & Rock'n'Roll

Digital currencies are here to stay. In this podcast, we dive into the world of the new money. We explore Bitcoin, stablecoins, central bank digital currencies, and many other innovations in the realm of digital currencies. For more information, visit: [http://alexanderbechtel.com/podcast](http://alexanderbechtel.com/podcast)

Publisher

Alexander Bechtel, Michael Blaschke, Jonas Gross, Manuel Klein

Category

business

Language

de

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Jun 2019

Latest episode

8 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

418 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Nov 2026

   Inside BNY: Why the World's Largest Custodian Is Betting on Digital Money

   How is BNY building the infrastructure for digital money? Nader Souri discusses the bank's journey from Libra to OpenUSD, stablecoins, tokenized deposits and the future of finance.

2. 

   1 Nov 2026

   Pontes, Banks Become Custodians, Crypto Firms Become Banks | Monthly Briefing

   Michael Blaschke and Stefan Grasmann unpack October's institutional DLT: the SEC tokenized-stock fight, Börse Stuttgart's DLT licence, and ESMA, EBA and OCC stablecoin deadlines in January 2027.

3. 

   25 Oct 2026

   Leverage Needs Trust: Chuck Mounts on What Changes When Finance Moves On-Chain

   What keeps a financial system standing, and what changes when it moves on-chain? Stefan sits down with Chuck Mounts, who has seen finance from more chairs than most. He started as an international bank examiner at the New York Fed, spent almost two decades as a top-ranked sell-side analyst covering global banks at Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and UBS, where he was global co-head of FICC research, and most recently served as Chief DeFi Officer at S&P Global. The two met in early September at the RWA Summit in Brooklyn and quickly found that they read the market the same way. Chuck speaks for himself in this episode. Chuck tells how he went from complete skeptic to convert: ten minutes into the Bitcoin white paper, which he read for a project on debt capital market structure, he knew that this technology could transform how markets work. He learned by doing, with his own wallet and real swaps and trades on DeFi protocols, and by upskilling a whole organization, executives included. From there the conversation turns to trust. Financial systems rest on leverage and opacity, and that is why finance works so differently from manufacturing. Blockchain can reduce opacity and counterparty risk through atomic settlement, while the leverage stays in the system. Chuck explains why he favors principles-based policy, why big shifts in policy usually need an external catalyst, and why he expects public blockchains to be where the momentum lands. The second half looks ahead. Chuck sees the meeting of agentic AI and on-chain execution as the most exciting development in markets: bespoke portfolios for individuals and companies, built, risk-managed and executed by agents, with the question of fiduciary responsibility to be answered first. Stefan adds his view that programmable money has switched sides, from the issuer to the user. They discuss stablecoins as a systemic risk, from Treasury holdings and yield curves to ripple effects across on-chain credit markets, and how tokenized deposits and CBDCs fit in. Along the way Chuck develops a new thought live on air: could a world of agents drawing on a thousand data sources change the nature of financial panics? The episode closes with his message to European regulators: keep enough room for entrepreneurs so that financial innovation happens in Europe. Enjoy the episode.

Who has been a guest on Bitcoin, Fiat & Rock'n'Roll

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• Ulrich Bindseil
• Joachim Schwerin
• Matthias Wyss
• Tony McLaughlin

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

156 ratings

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