Citizen Bitcoin

Latest Episodes:

Parker Lewis: Bitcoin is Inevitable Feb 13, 2020

Show notes

In this episode Parker and I discuss much that ails our economic system: Kenyesianism, quantitative easing and modern monetary theory. Then we get into the fix. We discuss Parker’s latest addition to the Gradually then Suddenly series titled “Bitcoin Obsoletes All Money”. I steelman some FUD and precoiner questions and arguments and Parker expertly delivers the answers. In the end we get bullish on the inevitable bitcoin future and the society it will create.

Citizen Bitcoin on Twitter

Citizen Bitcoin Podcast

Citizen Bitcoin Lightning Shop

Citizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collection

Music: Moon in the Sky by Hobotek

Links from the episode:

Bitcoin Obsoletes All Money

Unchained Capital Blog

Parker on Twitter

Cory Klippsten: Starting Up a Bitcoin Company Feb 06, 2020

Show notes

Cory Klippsten is the founder and CEO of Swan, a bitcoin company. Cory and I hang out and chat about what it takes to start up a bitcoin company, we discuss the Taleb inspired Swan brand, how bitcoin is an incredibly positive black swan event and we riff on bitcoin’s antifragility. We get into how fundraising for bitcoin companies is different from fundraising for traditional tech companies and we go down some random rabbit holes that pop up in the conversation.

Citizen Bitcoin on Twitter

Citizen Bitcoin Podcast

Citizen Bitcoin Lightning Shop

Citizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collection

Music: Moon in the Sky by Hobotek

Links from the episode:

Swan

Swan on Twitter

GiveBitcoin

GiveBitcoin on Twitter

Cory on Twitter

Andy Edstrom: Investing in Bitcoin Jan 30, 2020

Show notes

Andy Edstrom is a wealth manager who has fallen down the bitcoin rabbit hole. He started writing content to justify a small stake in bitcoin for his clients and that turned into the new book “Why Buy Bitcoin” - a great book to recommend to family and friends thinking about an investment in bitcoin. Andy’s history in the finance industry gives him a valuable perspective as one of early adopters of bitcoin from the industry. In this episode we get into that history and perspective, we discuss where the finance industry currently is in terms of moving toward embracing bitcoin as an asset. We talk about monetary maximalism and how bitcoin might change our economy. As any good wealth manager should, Andy has a thorough examination of bitcoin’s risk as an investment in the closing chapters of his book and we discuss them.

Citizen Bitcoin on Twitter

Citizen Bitcoin Podcast

Citizen Bitcoin Lightning Shop

Citizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collection

Music: Moon in the Sky by Hobotek

Links from the episode:

Andy on Twitter

Andy's website

Andy's book on Amazon

Knut Svanholm: Freedom and Hyperbitcoinization Jan 23, 2020

Show notes

Knut Svanholm is the author of Sovereignty Through Mathematics. Knut and I talk about how this fiat monstrosity erodes our basic freedoms and how the discovery of absolute scarcity that is bitcoin will restore and protect those freedoms. We talk a bit about lightning and close out by riffing for quite a while on the prospects of hyperbitconization and how it could affect our social order.

Citizen Bitcoin on Twitter

Citizen Bitcoin Podcast

Citizen Bitcoin Lightning Shop

Citizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collection

Music: Moon in the Sky by Hobotek

Links from the episode:

Sovereignty Through Mathematics

Knut on Twitter

Yan Pritzker: The Money Red Pill, Bitcoin Tech and Swan Bitcoin Jan 17, 2020

Show notes

Yan Pritzker, author of Inventing Bitcoin and cofounder/CTO of Swan Bitcoin, joins me to talk about his background, the money red pill that bitcoin serves up to us, bitcoin tech and his book.

Citizen Bitcoin on Twitter

Citizen Bitcoin Podcast

Citizen Bitcoin Lightning Shop

Citizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collection

Music: Moon in the Sky by Hobotek

Links from the episode:

Inventing Bitcoin

Yan on Twitter

GiveBitcoin - The Thoughtful Gift of Better Money

Swan Bitcoin - The Best Way to Buy Bitcoin with Recurring Buys

Bitcoin Investment Sites

Kiara Bickers: Bitcoin Clarity, Bitcoin's Challenges and Adversarial Thinking Jan 10, 2020

Show notes

Kiara Bickers is a longtime bitcoiner, one of those who discovered Austrian economics before bitcoin. She was an intern at Blockstream and has been there ever since, these days working as a Systems Administrator. She also recently published Bitcoin Clarity, a great overview of bitcoin as a system. It’s full of useful diagrams and illustrations that help visualize the system. For the first half of the episode we discuss the bitcoin system and the book. In the second half of the episode Kiara and I just rap about bitcoin, like ya do.

Citizen Bitcoin on Twitter

Citizen Bitcoin Podcast

Citizen Bitcoin Lightning Shop

Citizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collection

Music: Moon in the Sky by Hobotek

Links from the episode:

Kiara on Twitter

Kiara on YouTube

Bitcoin Clarity book

Basement Bulletin w/ Guy Swann: Looking Back on 2019 Jan 03, 2020

Show notes

I sit down with my buddies Tom Pearson and Guy Swann to shoot the shit about bitcoin's 10th year, and it was an incredible one.

Citizen Bitcoin on Twitter

Citizen Bitcoin Podcast

Citizen Bitcoin Lightning Shop

Citizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collection

Music: Moon in the Sky by Hobotek

Andreas M. Antonopoulos: Money as a System of Control, Decentralization vs Centralization, Base Layer and Lightning Tech Dec 23, 2019

Show notes

In this episode Andreas and I talk about the early PC and Internet era and why it is often analogized to bitcoin’s evolution, we talk about how money has become coopted by governments drunk of Keynesian ideology, how money is used as a system of control and how bitcoin fixes this. In the second half of the discussion we talk tech - first base layer tech and then Lightning. We finish up with Andreas’ vision of a bitcoin future.

Citizen Bitcoin on Twitter

Citizen Bitcoin Podcast

Citizen Bitcoin Lightning Shop

Citizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collection

Music: Moon in the Sky by Hobotek

Links from the episode:

GiveBitcoin

Citizen Bitcoin merch at Layer One

The Let's Talk Bitcoin Network

Andreas on Twitter

Andreas' website

Lucho Poletti: Bitcoin Art, Renaissance, Memes, Lightning, Finance Dec 19, 2019

Show notes

Lucho Poletti is a bitcoin artist with an incredibly unique and beautiful style. Lucho has an interesting background in business and finance before he followed his passion into a career in art which eventually merged with another of his passions: bitcoin. In this episode Lucho and I discuss his that background story, delve into our economic situation and the state of global finance, we then move into his art career, his process and how it has evolved, we discuss a couple of his recent works and Lucho speculates about how a bitcoin future might unfold.

Citizen Bitcoin on Twitter

Citizen Bitcoin Podcast

Citizen Bitcoin Lightning Shop

Citizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collection

Music: Moon in the Sky by Hobotek

Links from the episode:

GiveBitcoin

SaveBitcoin on Twitter

The Let's Talk Bitcoin Network

Lucho's website

Lucho on Twitter

Lucho's collection in Instagram