Venture on a bitcoin standard with Allen Farrington

About this episode

Allen Farrington discusses how bitcoin reveals fiat distortions in venture capital and the implications for payments and stablecoins.

Allen Farrington is an investor at Axiom BTC Capital and a writer known for sharp, contrarian takes on bitcoin and adjacent topics like bitcoin venture capital, fiat “plumbing,” and stablecoins. With Axiom, Allen uniquely focuses on clients’ returns not coming from financial engineering, but from productive deployment of capital to solve real world problems. In this episode, Allen joins The Bitcoin Frontier to share how bitcoin exposes the fiat distortions inside venture capital, why clear lines between saving and investing change founder and limited partner (LP) behavior, and what a bitcoin-first stack means for payments and stablecoins. We dig into local capital allocation on a sound-money standard, free/open-source dynamics and moats, and why lightning + ecash may be the endgame for stablecoins. SUPPORT THE PODCAST: → Subscribe → Leave a review → Share the show with your friends and family → Send us an email: podcast@unchained.com → Learn more about Unchained: https://unchained.com/?utm_source=you... → Book a free call with a bitcoin expert: https://unchained.com/consultation?ut... TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 – Intro & disclaimer; setting up VC in a world of finite money 2:12 –…

People in this episode

Host: Unchained Capital, Inc

Guest: Allen Farrington

Topics covered

• bitcoin venture capital
• fiat distortions
• capital allocation
• stablecoins
• sound money

Keywords

• bitcoin
• venture capital
• fiat
• stablecoins
• capital deployment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Axiom BTC Capital

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