The Reinvention of the Financial Markets with Steve Patterson and Aaron Day

Claire V.
March 17, 2026

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with Steve Patterson and Aaron Day

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15 Comments

  1. I had to pull over to comment.
    Catherine, you understand this better than your guests.
    Anything digital can be surveilled. Anything. And yes, it’s a governance problem and digital currencies are part of the plan. Extracting from fiat and going to digital is not an extraction it’s jumping from the pan to the fire.

    The other issue is that there’s an entire group of people who do use credit cards, have experience and backgrounds in finance and tech and are not the slightest bit interested in having to learn tech. Plus, the tech changes, companies bought, rules changed.
    I can’t believe that people who have watched independent people being censored and deplored from social media would sponsor and support any form of digital tech,

    I can’t even advertise my rental property for free because Zillow bought the syndicator I used and now created a paywall and also puts the big players at the top of the searched. Mine gets lost.
    I could go on forever about this. I started in Banking. Worked in IT in applications, comm, and infrastructure.
    I saw the Banks inching towards KYC and Basel 2.0. I don’t know those in detail but one doesn’t have to study them to see the control agenda.

    They already got pulled in with honey. The honey is called BitCoin. They hooked in the people who gre up playing video games who also have a penchant for gambling and addiction. Hence the speculative technical instrument. I won’t call it a financial instrument. It’s not. It’s a bit and bite. An electrical impulse controlled, ultimately, by the Energy sector, who loses control in a storm.

    Healthcare also another trap. Get rid of middleman and pay out of pocket for wellness. Would one use their homeowners insurance to pay to replace shingles? No! For lawn care? No! Would one use their car insurance for preventative maintenance of your car? No! Why do people understand with HOs and Auto but not health insurance. You want Health insurance when you’re 2-3 standard deviations from the mean, not when you’re healthy floating around the mean. Ugh. So frustrated.

    1. De-platformed…is that even a word. We’ve had to invent new words for tech.

      Another issue is aging. As a population ages, the tech changes and becomes more difficult to learn, for that user. Even if it’s not difficult for them it is. The elderly is a whole population being ignored so if they don’t have advocates they can trust or have the means to pay, they’re done. They become prey.
      I experienced the tech thing with my mother. She was young enough and intelligent enough to learn email and even MS Access for her clients. And use web apps for her business. Then Web 2.0 with the annoying, jarring popups and suddenly she’s getting viruses and expenses for things she hard no idea she signed up for. At first I thought it was dementia, until I watched her and I thought, OMG, what do people do that don’t have children or have children who don’t pisses this knowledge? What’s in my future and those of my peers?

  2. Per Solari’s urging I read (with great interest & illumination) Hijacking Bitcoin. Until I read that book, I never knew or understood the benefits of the original Bitcoin premise. I only thought I missed a (another) great investment opportunity and saw just the downside!

    I have been accused (not without cause) of being not less than a borderline Luddite. I know this is not sustainable or even a legitimate philosophy yet the alternatives seem mostly worse.

    I struggle with “new” especially when there are a seemingly endless amount of (good and bad) options. Nearly impossible for the technologically obtuse/resistant! It took me a year to figure out how to use Solari. I eventually did and I suppose that’s part of the point.

    I have never viewed or read a “waste of time” Solari post. this one is in the 10% musts.

    Thank you.

    1. Lot of hype, lot of crime, lot of neurowarfare. The whole thing is a giant honey trap – perhaps I should call it a venus fly trap – to get us to embrace programmable money.

  3. The guys reporting at the 30 minute mark about bot farms does a YouTube channel about wildwood NJ (Jersey shore) real estate and development I don’t think anyone thinks about privacy since cash has always been around and once you make a real amounts of money it is typically no longer cash transactions. The upper middle class and upper class. And then the lower class who live on debt have no concept of keeping stuff private. Direct deposit. All electronic payments from clients. Electronic payments from the government. Immediate purchases on credit cards. Both ends of the spectrum can’t function in the last 3 decades if they required privacy. Also all the statins and cholesterol drugs given to the older generation makes them less likely to be Able to think about complex ideas. Many do not have the cognitive abilities of 70 year olds did back in the 80s prior to the RX s. And many people have been trained by bonuses for using credit cards when they introduced airline miles and then points in the late 90s. It was school for basically going back to company script. I think many would understand it if you explained it as company script. Mill or coal mine script.

  4. One complaint, the sreen shots you put up of various articles are way too quick. They are up for one second only, how can we look at them? Don’t bother to put them on the screen if you don’t want us to look a them. Thanks, sorry to whinge but those 1 second screen shots are so common now, why bother? Ok I suppose I could stop the video.

  5. Great video.

    Please have Arthur Brock on to discuss mutual credit currencies. It ticks all your boxes and he also works with agent(human)-centric post-blockchain technology.

    Been asking since Uluṟu and I am right on this.

    Thanks for another great interview.

  6. Hello, Catherine

    Tonight I asked my husband and my son in law if I could borrow them in the midst of our family’s post Easter visits. We watched the first 30 minutes of this interview, and equally important I confessed to them that even though I have the time they do not have to study your content, I was afraid to ask them for their attention on these governance and financial matters. I asked that we open up a forum as a family to communicate regularly. It is truly Easter, I feel a stone has been rolled away from the tomb of my guilt for carrying this information on my own. The two dear men watched this with me, we discussed a little, I got their feedback and they both assured me whenever I have something that bothers me I can ask for time to talk to them about it. I am truly blessed. Just now, my husband even watched the end of the interview. Thank you so. much you are a hero. Happy Easter Jenny from Saint Joe

    1. How wonderful! Tip of the hat to your husband. Family wealth grows from working together strategically. If you have not listened to my very old interview with James Hughes or read his book Family Wealth, may be some good ideas that help you keep this going. One of the things he recommends is a monthly dinner dedicated to the helping understand what each other need to succeed and what each can do to help the others do so.

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