The Bitcoin Path: Recent Episodes
Jon Chenot
Growing a deeper understanding of Bitcoin through podcasts and private events.
Learn more at TheBitcoinPath.com
For this episode, I join Seb in the lobby of the Driskill hotel in downtown Austin Texas. Seb is an OG Bitcoiner who has used this new money to empower a life of adventure and freedom for himself and his family.
I hope you enjoy our conversation.
As always, check out TheBitcoinPath.com for more information about our projects, or any other events that are coming up!
May you live a meaningful life, and enjoy your freedom as a sovereign individual.
I’m excited to share this special episode with Michael Skiles.
Michael is an American expat who has been living in Nicaragua for the last 6 years. He is an incredible man of action who has carved out a successful and adventurous life for himself in Central America. He builds and manages vacation homes and permanent residences and helps westerners properly integrate into life in this beautiful and unique corner of the world.
Be sure to check out more information about Michael’s work at https://emeraldinvestmentnica.com/
We talk about all kinds of topics around life in Nicaragua.
– Michael’s personal story of transition from Philadelphia to Nicaragua.
– What it is like to aquire land and build in Nicaragua.
– What are some of the unique benefits and drawbacks of living or spending a significant amount of time in Nicaragua.
– How a mindset of self reliance and personal responsibility are essential to thriving in this kind of environment.
– The unique opportunities for investment and increased jurisdictional optionality in this area.
As always, if you want to support the show be sure to like, subscribe, and share with anyone that you think might resonate with it, and visit TheBitcoinPath.com to learn about other events and ways to contribute.
May you live a meaningful life and enjoy your freedom as a sovereign individual.
I’m very excited to introduce you all to Blake. He and I met at the Bit Block Boom Conference in Dallas this last august. I was interested to hear his perspective and thoughts on what exactly the total addressable market of Bitcoin actually is. I think you’ll enjoy our chat.
Find out more about Blake by following him on Twitter @LogicaliBtcoinr
As always, check out TheBitcoinPath.com for more information about our projects, or any other events that are coming up!
May you live a meaningful life, and enjoy your freedom as a sovereign individual.
For this episode I’m excited to share my conversation with MADEX. Madex is the creative director at Bull Bitcoin and creator of extremely unique physical art pieces. You can find some of his work at https://21x.io/collections/art. Be sure to follow him on twitter here: https://twitter.com/SPACEBULL
In this episode we talk about:
- Older trucks and why “they don’t make em like they used to.”
- The history of art, money, and capitalism.
- Brand exploitation and coasting by private equity finance with the decline in product quality.
- The pursuit of skill and quality in our work.
- The meaning behind the MVDEX brand name.
- How important it is to be working with your hands to be fulfilled.
As always, if you want to support the show be sure to like, subscribe, and share with anyone that you think might resonate with it, and visit TheBitcoinPath.com to learn about other events and ways to contribute.
For this episode I’m excited to share my conversation with Jason Jawn. Besides being a good friend of mine, Jason is an Advisor at Liberty X which is the largest network of Bitcoin ATMs in the US, as well as a producer for the No Agenda Show.
I had the pleasure of meeting Jason at my first ever Bitcoin Meetup in the fall of 2020 and we became quick friends. He and I threw the Have Fun Staying Pleb Party in Miami just before the Bitcoin 2021 conference and are planning a repeat for 2022 this April. You can follow Jason on Twitter @jayzio.
In this episode we talk about:
- Some of Jason’s memories from the earlier days of Bitcoin.
- The difference between gold and silver bug culture and Bitcoiners.
- How we see Bitcoin and the community thriving amid the clown world devolving around us.
- How Bitcoin fixes engineered obsolescence.
- What a hyperbitcoinized world might look like.
- How the demonetization of real estate will change what property ownership looks like.
- Citadel theory and the vulnerabilities of a single geographical focus.
- Hope for the American experiment as the “cleanest dirty shirt.” The government is not America.
- How the social layer of Bitcoin with its robust distribution of relationships and communities are what really matters for when the shit hits the fan.
- The reality of relational poverty among the highly wealthy.
- The key roll that meetups have played in Jason’s career and involvement with Bitcoin.
As always, if you want to support the show be sure to like, subscribe, and share with anyone that you think might resonate with it, and visit TheBitcoinPath.com to learn about other events and ways to contribute.
In this episode, I’m excited to share part two of my “Meet the Miami Plebs” series. I’m sharing conversations with local Miami Bitcoiners so that you can peer into the solid community that is growing in the area.
This is a conversation with Ben from the north, as we like to call him. Ben and I met at the Miami Bitcoiners Meetup and have become good friends over the last few months. We had some great conversations while we were on a ski and snowboard trip in the Rockies with some other plebs and I wanted to get him on the show to talk about his personal journey in Bitcoin so far.
We talk about:
- The lonely road of a Bitcoiner working in a fiat system.
- The particular opportunities for incentivizing open source development.
- The personal transformation that comes as a result holding Bitcoin.
- Citadels and physical “meat space” security concerns.
- The value of in person Bitcoiner gatherings for building the Social Layer of Bitcoin.
As always, if you want to support the show be sure to like, subscribe, and share with anyone that you think might resonate with it, and visit TheBitcoinPath.com to learn about other events and ways to contribute.
What’s going on, my fellow bitcoiners!
In this episode, I’m excited to share part one of my “Meet the Miami Plebs” series. I’m sharing conversations with local Miami Bitcoiners as we approach the Bitcoin 2021 conference so that you can peer into the solid community that is growing here.
Shaun is a fellow Bitcoiner who has been leading the Bitdevs South Florida meetup out of Fort Lauderdale. It’s been a pleasure getting to know him over the last few months during my time here in Miami and I really enjoyed this chat with him.
We talk about:
- Shaun’s background in Bitcoin up to this point.
- What it’s like maintaining a skeptical view of Bitcoin.
- Shawn’s experience with the Bitdevs meetup.
- How dollars only have value because people are forced to use them.
- The untold history of Bitcoin.
- The recent ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline
- Shaun’s thoughts on Bitcoin and Miami.
Be sure to follow Shaun on Twitter with the handle @ShaunApps.
As always, if you want to support the show be sure to like, subscribe, and share with anyone that you think might resonate with it, and visit TheBitcoinPath.com/contact-support to learn about other events and ways to contribute.
With The Bitcoin Path, my goal is to grow my understanding about Bitcoin and help others do the same with podcasts and private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
In this episode, I’m excited to share my conversation with Mr. Pseu AKA Phil Gibson.
Phil and I got to meet in person around the Bear Arms and Bitcoin Conference in Austin Texas last month. We connected over the fact that we both host a bitcoin podcast and had a similar journey to arriving at Bitcoin through our libertarian principles.
Phil is a Bitcoiner, a musician, and hosts the podcast A Boy Named Pseu which is about all things Bitcoin.
Phil and I had an excellent deep talk about the following:
- The Bitcoin social layer.
- Citadels.
- Love.
- religion and spirituality.
- The harsh yet beautiful reality of the free market that bitcoin is bringing about in the world.
Be sure to follow Phil on Twitter with the handle @MrPseu.
As always, if you want to support the show be sure to like, subscribe, and share with anyone that you think might resonate with it, and visit TheBitcoinPath.com/contact-support to learn about other events and ways to contribute.
Also, for those of you coming out to Miami for the Bitocin 2021 conference this June, my buddy Jason and I are throwing the Have Fun Staying Pleb unofficial kickoff party on Thursday June 3rd. Tickets are on sale at PlebParty.com and if you pay with Bitcoin or Lighting you will get a 10% discount with the code PLEBSUSEBITCOIN. Hope to see you there.
With The Bitcoin Path, my goal is to grow my understanding about Bitcoin and help others do the same with podcasts and private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
In this episode, I’m excited to share my conversation with Robert Breedlove.
Robert is an author and entrepreneur who has made incredible contributions to the Bitcoin community through his writings and eloquent discussion of many deeper philosophical implications of bitcoin.
In this talk we cover a lot of ground between what his daily routine looks like as well as the social and religious transition that Bitcoin is enacting in the world today.
-Robert’s optimal daily routine.
-What does success look like in a Bitcoin.
-Sovereignism and crossing the chasm into the digital age.
-The danger of the tyrant or the competence hierarchy to ossify and the role of the logos of free speech and true price signals to challenge it.
-The power of the social layer of Bitcoin.
-“If value determines both how you see the world and what you see in the world, then doesn’t bitcoin affect your consciousness?”
-The afterlife.
-What if the market is the representation of God in the world.
-Creating the kingdom of heaven in the world through adhering to libertarian principles.
Be sure to follow Robert on twitter @Breedlove22 and find more of his writings on his medium page https://breedlove22.medium.com/. Also, you can support his effort towards his new book entitled Time. Money. Soul. Through various means on his linktree here: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22
I really enjoyed this conversation with Robert and I hope you do as well.
As always, if you want to support the show be sure to like, subscribe, and share with anyone that you think might resonate with it.
With The Bitcoin Path, my goal is to grow my understanding about Bitcoin and help others do the same with podcasts and private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
In this episode, I get to share with you conversation with Matt Hill of Start 9 Labs.
Start 9 Labs is the creator of the Embassy, which is a plug and play personal server, offering one-click installation and simple configuration of open source software services that run over Tor V3. It enables you to run Bitcoin, Lighting, Burn After Reading, Bitwarden, CUPS along with a growing number of other open source projects.
Be sure to visit www.Start9Labs.com for more information about their product offering as well as follow them on twitter @Start9Labs.
I really enjoyed talking to Matt and am extremely excited to see what the future holds for Start 9 Labs as they aspire to revolutionize the personal computing world for the sovereign individual.
With The Bitcoin Path, my goal is to grow my understanding about Bitcoin and help others do the same with podcasts and private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
*Intro and outro music is the song Hearts, graciously licensed to us by Blackbird Blackbird. Be sure to check out his other great songs on Spotify!
In this episode, I get to share with you conversation with Cory Klippsten.
For those of you who don’t know Cory, he is the founder of SwanBitcoin.com and GiveBitcoin.io. He also serves as an advisor to Unchained Capital and Riot Blockchain and is a partner in Bitcoiner Ventures. As an advisor he has supported more than $250M of fundraising since 2016, and as an angel has invested in more than 20 VC-backed tech companies.
- In our conversation I talk with Cory in depth about his what inspired him to become so highly focused on networking and what practical strategies he has implemented throughout his career.
- This is an amazing resource for those of us who are looking to grow our own social and professional networks to expand our influence and contribute to Bitcoin’s growth at the same time.
- We also talk about clubhouse and how Cory thinks that it holds the potential for extreme growth as a platform this year.
Cory is an exceptional conversationalist and I wanted to include our pre-show conversation of this episode to showcase this.
Be sure to follow Cory on twitter @CoryKlippsten and check out SwanBitcoin.com for setting up your personal automatic dollar cost average as well as one time purchases of Bitcoin.
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With The Bitcoin Path, my goal is to grow my understanding about Bitcoin and help others do the same with podcasts and private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
*Intro and outro music is the song Hearts, graciously licensed to us by Blackbird Blackbird. Be sure to check out his other great songs on Spotify!
In this episode, I’m excited to share with you Session 6 of the Cosmic Deep Dive with Robert Breedlove.
For those of you not familiar with Robert Breedlove, he is an the founder and CEO of Parallax Digital and has authored many spectacular articles about Bitcoin from a deeper philosophical perspective. He is also working on his first book entitled Time. Money. Soul.
In this talk, Robert continues his elaboration of his article entitled An Open Letter to Ray Dalio re: Bitcoin. You can listen to the episode where he goes over the first few points with Anthony Pompliano here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0N9qj4gjmg
You can read his full letter to Ray Dalio here: https://breedlove22.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-ray-dalio-re-bitcoin-4b07c52a1a98
Robert and his work was a major inspiration for me to start working on TheBitcoinPath.com so it was an honor and a privilege to have him on.
With The Bitcoin Path, my goal is to grow my understanding about Bitcoin and help others do the same with podcasts and private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole in a compressed amount of time with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
*Intro and outro music is the song Hearts, graciously licensed to us by Blackbird Blackbird. Be sure to check out his other great songs on Spotify!
For today's episode, I'm thrilled to share session number 5 of the Cosmic Deep Dive with Erik Cason.
This is an extremely relevant discussion for the current political and economic situation. This will really help to get a higher level view of how the government overreach has developed through history as well as a pragmatic approach to how we can respond as free individuals. I hope you enjoy it!
Be sure to follow Erik on Twitter @ErikCason. Also, to read more of his excellent articles about Bitcoin, political theory, and cryptography visit https://medium.com/@erikcason.
With The Bitcoin Path, my goal is to grow my understanding about Bitcoin and help others do the same with podcasts and private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole in a compressed amount of time with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
Check out our upcoming events here.
*Intro and outro music is the song Hearts, graciously licensed to us by Blackbird Blackbird. Be sure to check out his other great songs on Spotify!
In this episode, I’m excited to share with you Session number 4 with Max Hillebrand of the Cosmic Deep Dive. This was an interactive online event that took place on December 12th and 13th of 2020. It was two full days of back to back immersive Bitcoin educational webinars with some of the leading educators in the space.
Keep an eye out for more events like this one coming up at TheBitcoinPath.com
Also, you can find Max on twitter with the handle @HillebrandMax and check out his website towardsliberty.com.
With The Bitcoin Path, my goal is to grow my understanding about Bitcoin and help others do the same with podcasts and private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole in a compressed amount of time with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
Check out our upcoming events here.
*Intro and outro music is the song Hearts, graciously licensed to us by Blackbird Blackbird. Be sure to check out his other great songs on Spotify!
In this episode, I’m excited to share with you Session 3 of the Cosmic Deep Dive online event lead by Gigi.
Gigi is the author of 21 Lessons, a popular book about lessons learned from falling down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. He launched various projects in the space such as bitcoin-resources.com, bitcoin-quotes.com, “Einundzwanzig”, and others. Prior to taking the orange pill he was a researcher and software engineer leading multiple development teams that worked on critical large-scale apps. He is passionate about security, privacy, and of course, Bitcoin. He is also the Senior Engineer at Swan Bitcoin.
This was an interactive online event that took place on December 12th and 13th of 2020. It was two full days of back to back immersive Bitcoin educational webinars with some of the leading educators in the space.
Keep an eye out for more events like this one coming up at TheBitcoinPath.com.
Also, you can find Gigi on twitter with the handle @DerGigi and check out his website www.dergigi.com.
With The Bitcoin Path, my goal is to grow my understanding about Bitcoin and help others do the same with podcasts and private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole in a compressed amount of time with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
Check out our upcoming events here.
*Intro and outro music is the song Hearts, graciously licensed to us by Blackbird Blackbird. Be sure to check out his other great songs on Spotify!
For today's podcast, I’m excited to share Cosmic Deep Dive session number 2 with John Vallis.
John is a deeply appreciated podcastor and educator in the Bitcoin community.
On his show Bitcoin Rapid Fire, John delves into the deeper side of the Bitcoin rabbit hole through long form conversations with many of the amazing people building and contributing to this revolutionary new industry.
He is a firm believer in bitcoin as the future of money and has a knack for extracting gems of profound insight in his discussions with other Bitcoiners.
Follow John on Twitter @johnkvallis.
With The Bitcoin Path, my goal is to grow my understanding about Bitcoin and help others do the same with podcasts and private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole in a compressed amount of time with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
Check out our upcoming events here.
*Intro and outro music is the song Hearts, graciously licensed to us by Blackbird Blackbird. Be sure to check out his other great songs on Spotify!
It's my pleasure to share this special episode of the Bitcoin Path with Dan Held.
This was recorded as Session 1 of the CosmicDeepDive.com online event December 12th through 13 of 2020.
Dan is an extremely bright thought leader in the Bitcoin space. He is currently Growth lead at Kraken, one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges in existence. Dan is a prolific writer and speaker with massive contributions to the Bitcoin educational ecosystem. He was even part of the original 2013 crypto meetup group in San Francisco which was comprised with the founders of Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, Litecoin, and others.
In this talk, Dan offers a comprehensive introduction to Bitcoin itself that will help anyone to gain a comprehensive understanding of how it works and why it is significant. He also elaborates on what proof of work is and why it is a key element for the Bitcoin protocol to function.
I hope you enjoy this episode.
Learn more about Dan and subscribe to his newsletter at DanHeld.com
Follow him on Twitter @DanHeld.
With The Bitcoin Path, my goal is to grow my understanding about Bitcoin and help others do the same with podcasts and private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole in a compressed amount of time with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
Check out our upcoming events here.
*Intro and outro music is the song Hearts, graciously licensed to us by Blackbird Blackbird. Be sure to check out his other great songs on Spotify!
Joining me today is Econoalchemist.
Econo Alchemist is a solid Bitcoiner who has made some excellent contributions on his website www.EconoAlchemist.com with a focus on self-custody, censorship resistance and building a non-kyc bitcoin on-ramp. You can follow him on twitter @econoalchemist to find more of his work.
In this show we have an extremely insightful conversation about the following topics.
- What inspired him to focus so much on bitcoin self-custody and censorship resistance.
- What he thinks about coin-joining KYC (Know Your Customer) bitcoin.
- Why he is an avid user and proponent of samurai wallet.
- Outlining the process of self custody for a new-coiner.
- I also ask about some recommendations he would have for someone moving to a mobile lifestyle to secure their bitcoin.
Here are some of the resources we mention in this episode:
- Learn more about Cold Card hardware wallet: https://coldcardwallet.com/
- Learn more about Samourai wallet for desktops and androids https://samouraiwallet.com/
- Learn more about Ronin Dojo https://ronindojo.io/
I hope you enjoy this episode.
Until next time, may you live a meaningful life and enjoy your freedom as a sovereign individual.
I’m thrilled to introduce CK for today’s pod.
CK is product manager and prolific content creator at Bitcoin Magazine, host of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, FedWatch with Ansel Lindner, as well as the POV Crypto Podcast where he is the token “Bitcoiner.”
CK and I have an intense conversation about
- Conspiracies, social engineering attacks, and sheeple accepting truth from top down authorities.
- The toxicity and looser mindset of the victim mentality that comes along with many libertarian ideologies.
- How the money you adopt effects every single aspect of your life.
- How iron sharpens iron. Orienting around bitcoin challenges us to improve ourselves and our work.
- How an orientation around bitcoin is truly closer to reality and some observations of that orientation starting to propagate into the mainstream.
- Why CK is always trying to question reality, and what he means by a “know nothing” world view.
- Bitcoin maximalism and CK’s take on the role of shitcoins in the world of Bitcoin.
Be sure to follow CK on Twitter at @ck_SNARKs.
It was a privilege to talk to Ck and I hope you enjoy our conversation.
With The Bitcoin Path, my goal is to grow my understanding about Bitcoin and help others do the same with podcasts and private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole in a compressed amount of time with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
View our upcoming events here: https://www.thebitcoinpath.com/events/
I’m thrilled to have Gigi join me for today’s pod.
Gigi is a bitcoiner and Austrian, writing words and code for Bitcoin. His first book, 21 Lessons, is one of the most recommended books among bitcoiners. He has launched various projects in the bitcoin space and is currently working on his second book called 21 Ways. His main focus is on privacy, security, free software, open-source education, and of course: bitcoin.
We get into some fascinating discussion around
- The “prismatic” nature of identity.
- The value of personal privacy and the what the world looks like as the bitcoin circular economy grows and flourishes.
- The value of Bitcoin as a final settlement payments system.
- The tension between the investment side of the community and the privacy/sovereignty focused Bitcoiners.
- How Bitcoin combines the best of ledger based money and token based money.
- The potential dark side of bitcoinization and what blind spots we might have at the moment.
- Gigi’s perspective on talking to people who are still deeply embedded in the “legacy system.”
- Memes and the symbiotic relationship between idea structures and their human hosts. Is there a point where the the bitcoin organism doesn’t need humans any more?
You can learn more about Gigi and see his latest work by going to https://dergigi.com and following him on Twitter @dergigi.
Links we mention in the episode:
- Jameson Lopp’s curated Bitcoin resources: https://Bitoin.Page
- Gigi’s curated Bitcoin resources: https://BitcoinResources.com
I hope you enjoy our conversation.
With The Bitcoin Path, my goal is to grow my understanding about Bitcoin and help others do the same with podcasts and private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole in a compressed amount of time with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
The opportunity cost for not understanding Bitcoin is staggering and it’s growing by the day.
More about the upcoming Cosmic Deep Dive online event is here.
Check out all the other upcoming events here.
*Intro and outro music is the song Hearts, graciously licensed to us by Blackbird Blackbird. Be sure to check out his other great songs on Spotify!
I’m thrilled to have Brian Harrington join me for today’s pod.
Brian is the organizer of the Orange County Bitcoin Network, which meets every Thursday in Anaheim California. He is an elected official for the Orange County Republican Party Central Committee. He is helping entrepreneurs and small business owners retain their independence by accepting Bitcoin settlement with BTCPay Server. He is a proud husband and a Jesus follower.
Be sure to follow him on twitter @BrianHarrington and check out his website www.BrianHarrington.org.
In this conversation we dive deep into these topics and more:
- How BTCPay Server is helping small business owners and entrepreneurs build resilience in the face of restrictions and “lock downs.”
- Brian’s journey through political activism and his developing views on the optimal approach to advocate for freedom in today’s world.
- Brian’s experience with the OC Bitcoin Network and the tremendous amount of value that has come out of meeting with other Bitcoiners and on-boarding newbies in an in-person format.
- A philosophical discussion about how Bitcoin is intertwined with peoples’ morality, ethics, and even spirituality.
- What it means to be a freedom fighter where do we draw the line and take a stand against tyranny.
I had an amazing time talking to Brian. I hope you enjoy the conversation.
With The Bitcoin Path, my goal is to deepen my understanding of Bitcoin and help others do the same with podcasts and private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole in a compressed amount of time with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
The opportunity cost for not understanding Bitcoin is staggering and it’s growing by the day.
More about the upcoming Cosmic Deep Dive online event is here.
Check out all the other upcoming events here.
*Intro and outro music is the song Hearts, graciously licensed to us by Blackbird Blackbird. Be sure to check out his other great songs on Spotify!
I’m thrilled to have Aleks Svetski on the pod today.
Aleks is the CEO of Amber App (https://amber.app/) and editor at The Bitcoin Times. He is a passionate author and educator about Bitcoin, money, philosophy, business, startups and entrepreneurship. You can learn more about what he’s up to by following him on twitter @alekssvetski and read his most recent articles at his medium page https://svetski.medium.com/.
We have a truly fascinating discussion about:
- The relentless pursuit of truth as an essential part for anyone who wants to be a free and independent thinker in a world of growing misinformation, propaganda, and scams.
- The danger and idiocy of isolating one aspect of a complicated system which is how most of the established institutions attempt to solve problems, thus creating more problems as a result.
- How the large tech monopolies like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google actually came into existence, and why their dominance is not a function of free market capitalism, but instead a result of the fiat infused top down monetary system.
- The opportunities that failed states leave for future wealthy Bitcoin entrepreneurs as they continue the path towards toppling over their own weight as parasitic entities.
- The likelihood of more countries and smaller jurisdictions succeeding from overbearing regimes in the coming decade as centralized nation states overreach their control.
- How quickly broad sweeping changes can occur in society do to their mimetic nature and the dynamic properties of life.
- What roll private cities could play in preserving or restoring free societies the wake of the failed governments when there is nothing left for them to feed off of.
- What are some options that Bitcoiners have in order to best prepare for the times ahead.
- The second amendment and whether it helps the US to be a bastion for individual liberty.
I had a blast talking to Aleks, I hope you enjoy listening in.
With The Bitcoin Path, my goal is to grow my understanding about Bitcoin and help others do the same with podcasts and private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole in a compressed amount of time with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
The opportunity cost for not understanding Bitcoin is staggering and it’s growing by the day.
More about the upcoming Interactive Deep Dive online event is here.
Check out all the other upcoming events here.
*Intro and outro music is the song Hearts, graciously licensed to us by Blackbird Blackbird. Be sure to check out his other great songs on Spotify!
I'm thrilled to have Erik Cason joining me for this episode of the pod.
Erik is a Crypto-anarchist, farmer, and iconoclast. He is obsessed with Bitcoin, and has been working in the industry since 2013. Erik has a deep understanding of cryptography technology and brings a unique perspective with his research in philosophy, political theory, and economics.
Here are some of the topics we cover:
- The risk of misunderstanding Bitcoin.
- What we actually mean by “fiat money” and the various problems it causes.
- The mass breakdown of trust in the large institutions of our time.
- How government’s abuse of power through the “exception” is fundamentally altered with the arrival of digital cryptography.
- The role of personal responsibility in Bitcoin.
- The potential messianic nature of Bitcoin.
- The profound affect that a personal savings technology can have on your life.
You can read more of Erik’s articles on his medium page at medium.com/@erikcason, and you can follow him on twitter at @ErikCason
I had a blast talking to Erik, I hope you enjoy listening in.
With TheBitcoinPath.com, my goal is to grow my understanding about Bitcoin and help others do the same with podcasts and private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The paid events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole in a compressed amount of time with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
The opportunity cost for not understanding Bitcoin is staggering and it’s growing by the day.
More about the upcoming Interactive Deep Dive online event is here.
Check out all the other upcoming events here.
*Intro and outro music is the song Hearts, graciously licensed to us by Blackbird Blackbird. Be sure to check out his other great songs on Spotify!
I'm thrilled to bring on Max Hillebrand for the second episode of the podcast.
We have an incredible conversation about the various growing forces of tyranny and how Bitcoin and other open source cryptographic software empower individuals everywhere to thrive in freedom.
Max is an open source entrepreneur supporting several Bitcoin projects that build tools for sovereign individuals to defend their property rights, liberties and privacy. He is educating his peers by sharing invaluable knowledge in several hundreds of videos online. He has an in depth understanding of the sound monetary economics of Bitcoin and the value proposition of immutable scarcity in this age of anarchy in money.
In our discussion we dig into the importance of digital privacy, the current global hyperinflation event, Bitcoin as a weapon of sovereignty, and some of Max’s ideas around citadel theory and the concept of mobile citadels.
You can find more info about what Max is up to at www.TowardsLiberty.com and you can follow him on twitter at @HillebrandMax.
Here at TheBitcoinPath.com, our goal is to learn as much as possible about Bitcoin and help others do the same with free podcasts and paid private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for deep discussions with some of the great people in the community. The paid events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole in a compressed amount of time with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
The opportunity cost for not understanding Bitcoin is staggering and it’s growing by the day.
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*Intro and outro music is the song Hearts, graciously licensed to us by Blackbird Blackbird. Be sure to check out his other great songs on Spotify!
My Bitcoin journey, similar to how others describe theirs, is akin to a spiritual journey or prolonged psychedelic trip. It is a paradigm shift that radically alters your state of consciousness. I know it sounds crazy to talk about a new internet money this way, and maybe I am a tad crazy, but you may want to hear me out and look into this a little further. It could drastically improve your life in more ways than just financially.
Usually, the Bitcoin path starts as a simple search for answers about what money is and how our economy works. This quest leads us to some very dark truths about how our modern monetary system works. Without any alternative to the way things work now, the future is utterly bleak. As uncomfortable as this is, it's an important step in the process because solutions don't make sense without a proper understanding of what the problems are that they solve.
Bitcoin fixes humanity's money problem. As a result, it makes a future possible where freedom, truth, and meaning are restored to the center focus of our world.
That's a radical statement, and I don't expect you to take it at face value. As Bitcoiners are fond of saying, "Don't trust, verify!" What i hope, is that it is such an extreme claim that it causes you to think and ask questions for yourself about what the fuck is really going on and then take a critical look at how Bitcoin improves the situation.
Here at TheBitcoinPath.com, my goal is to learn as much as possible about Bitcoin and help others do the same with free podcasts and paid private events. In the podcasts I get to sit down for long form discussions with some of the great people in the community. The paid events give you the opportunity to go deeper down the rabbit hole in less time with personal guidance from well respected Bitcoin educators.
The opportunity cost for not understanding Bitcoin is staggering and it's growing by the day.
I urge you to take this seriously and invest in your future self by taking time to learn about this new phenomenon.
More about the upcoming Interactive Deep Dive online event is here.
Check out all the other upcoming events here.
Here are the books that I mention in the podcast:
- The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin
- Dishonest Money: Financing the Road to Ruin by Joseph Plummer
