Rob Wallace | Bitcoin NewsOver 15% of the US money supply is now flowing into the AI and data center buildout. Rising Bitcoin star, Miles Harris ( @milesharris5315 ) says that's not the real story. It's a trillion dollar cover for something much bigger.
Miles Harris, an emerging macro voice focused on collateral, credit, and monetary architecture, joins the show to break down the real financial system being quietly built behind the AI narrative, why your mortgage could become part of it, and why he believes Bitcoin was tailor made for exactly this moment.
Here is what we cover:
• Why Miles believes the AI boom is largely a cover story for a much bigger financial restructuring
• The core thesis: a financial system can't run out of money with a printer, but it can run out of collateral
• How data centers themselves are being built as a new form of scarce, pledgeable collateral
• The shift from an income statement economy to a balance sheet economy since 1971
• Why debt to household net worth is a more revealing metric than debt to GDP
• The database permissioned society Miles fears is being built, and what automatic enforcement of smart contracts could mean
• Social credit style risk scoring and why two people pledging the same asset could get very different loan terms
• Why European data centers are swallowing farmland and what that means for food security
• Ursula von der Leyen's comments calling European savings lazy money, and what Miles thinks that really signals
• Tokenized bank deposits explained and why they may be a quieter, more palatable alternative to a CBDC
• The Genius Act, the Clarity Act, and how stablecoins create structural demand for US Treasury bills
• The Triffin dilemma revisited and how stablecoins could change the incentives around dollar recklessness
• The Bank of England's tokenization pilot and why owning assets free of debt may be the best protection
• The three reasons Miles believes Bitcoin may have been created specifically for this new collateral-based system
• The UK's recent decision to remove capital gains tax on Bitcoin pledged as collateral, and why that matters
• Why Bitcoin held its ground against a strengthening dollar during the Iran conflict, and what that could signal
• What the financial world could look like five and ten years from now
• Why CBDCs might be a red herring compared to what's actually being built
• Miles's honest fears about a coming permission age, and where he still finds hope
This is one of the most detailed and original breakdowns of the real financial system being built beneath the AI narrative that you will find anywhere.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - The AI Boom As A Trillion Dollar Cover Story
01:25 - Miles Harris's Background In Economics And Credit Cycles
04:26 - Why A Financial System Runs Out Of Collateral, Not Money
07:26 - How We Got To $40 Trillion In Debt
12:00 - The Shift From Income Statement To Balance Sheet Economy
15:47 - Building The Database Permissioned Society
18:55 - Is The AI Compute Pipeline Sustainable Or A Surveillance Grid
20:12 - The State Of AI And Data Centers In Europe
21:06 - Are Data Centers An Ecological Disaster
24:04 - Debt To Household Net Worth vs Debt To GDP
31:14 - The Genius Act, Clarity Act, And Tokenized Bank Deposits
39:24 - The K-Shaped Economy And Who Actually Benefits
41:55 - Why The Rich Avoid This System And Everyone Else Gets Pulled In
47:23 - Why Bitcoin May Have Been Created For This Exact System
50:16 - What The Financial World Looks Like In 5 And 10 Years
54:03 - Abundance Or Permission — What The Average Person Faces
56:14 - Miles's Closing Thoughts And Where He Finds Hope
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