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Jordan Bush: The Creation, Corruption & Redemption of Money Mar 01, 2021

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Ced sits down with Jordan Bush, co-author of Thank God For Bitcoin to explore the ways in which the current monetary system is broken & what can be done to fix it. We look at how Bitcoin is redeeming the ills of society & how the ongoing transition to sound money is a source of hope for a broken world.

John Vallis: Bullish on Bitcoiners Feb 23, 2021

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In this deep & wide ranging conversation with John Vallis, the host of the Bitcoin Rapid Fire podcast we sit down to discuss the most important virtues in his life: truth, freedom, curiosity, possibility & how after an unforgettable year, he's most bullish on Bitcoiners.

John Vallis is cool as fuck and this chat with him was such a blast.

Just fuck me already Bitcoin.

Christopher Gimmer: The Final Stair Step: Combining Bitcoin, Business & Personal Passion Feb 16, 2021

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In this wide ranging chat with Christopher Gimmer, the co-founder of Bitbo.io & Snappa.com we discuss how to turn your life into a giant flywheel and:

- Why Snappa is holding Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset - Why it pays to play the long game - Building a great team - Scaling to $1M ARR with a marketing flywheel - Purchasing the Snappa.com domain for $40,000 - Co-founding Snappa: from idea to product market fit - & so much more

Kalle Rosenbaum: Grokking Bitcoin, Cryptography & Encryption Feb 09, 2021

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Author of Grokking Bitcoin, Kalle Rosenbaum joins Ced to discuss:

- How does the Bitcoin network prevent cheating - What is a cryptographic function & is it a defensive weapon of war - Will government punish their people harshly for using Bitcoin & how bloody and violent will it get - How cyptographic tools & encryption are the only ways to maintain privacy and security during the age of big brother -- Hard forks vs soft forks - Backwards compatability vs forward compatitability - & so much more

Michael Goldstein: Everyone's A Scammer, Praxeology & Advanced Geopolitical Meme Warfare Feb 02, 2021

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Cedric sits down with @Bitstein, founder of the Nakamoto Institute, co-host of Noded podcast & the meme lord himself to discuss:

- How to meme Bitcoin to the moon - Who wants to scam your Bitcoin - Why we relish the Federal Reserve's absurd actions - Praxeology and rejecting certain forms of activism for pragmatic reasons - How to reframe, agree and amplify and then completely dominate it on social media - His call for ethical trolling - The rejuvenation of the Great American West - How to cultivate the lowest time preference possible - & much more

Robert Breedlove: Bitcoin, the Tyranny of Time Scarcity & the Masters & Slaves of Money Jan 26, 2021

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Robert Breedlove sits down with Ced to discuss:

- Is Bitcoin the incorruptible substance that alchemists strived for

- How the Central Bank is the greatest institution of tyranny in human history & will Bitcoin disrupt it

- Why ancient wisdom such as yoga, meditation & pyschedelics like ayahausca are making a return

- How property rights are the expression of the human territorial imperative

- Can we be sovreeign on a Fiat Standard?

- How inflation is a cancer on the socioeconomic & moral fabric of reality

"We're transcending the false statist dichotonomy between capitalism & communism & Bitcoin enables a new mode of socioeconomic organization I'm calling sovreignism." - Robert Breedlove

Jimbo: The Intersubjective Value of Bitcoin Jan 19, 2021

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Jimbo, the author of Orange Coin Good: The Value of Bitcoin sits down with Cedric to discuss:

- Why green paper is bad

- How money really enters the system

- How have humans prevented cheating throughout history

- The role of reciprocity in human evolution and behavior

- What is the perspective of a holder

- How scarcity is the feeling of not having enough of something

- The invention of digital rivalry

- How we measure the value of the things that we buy

- How Bitcoin is the thing against which all other opportunities have to justify themselves

- How unit bias effecfts the price of Bitcoin

- Meme the change you want to see in the world

- And so much more in this wide-ranging, free-flowing conversation about Bitcoin, economics and human behavior

Yuri de Gaia: Building Bitcoin Kingdoms, Monarchies & Your Inner Citadel Jan 13, 2021

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Yuri de Gaia, Partner at BTC Reserve HQ, Founder of Liquiditi HQ, host of Citadelium, Bitcoin blogger and author of Bitcoin as a Sucession Tool sits down with Cedric to discuss:

- How to deal with Imposter Syndrome

- How do you build your inner Citadel

- Is there an end to material desire

- How Bitcoiners are better people

- Does Bitcoin changes your brain and habits

- How to scam the planet using neuralistic and subliminal messaging via material perceptions

- What is the difference between the sheep and the shepard

- What is the natural hierarchical order of humans

- Why he chose to move back to Russia

- Advantages of Liquidity and federated sidechains

- And so much more

Ben Prentice: The History of Central Banking & Inflation Jan 11, 2021

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In this wide-ranging conversation with the co-founder of the website, blog and meme WTF Happened in 1971? Ben Prentice and Cedric discuss:

- The history of coin clipping

- What the temptation to money printing must be like

- Is their a 500 year Central Banking cabal

- The history of bank holidays and the suspension of the redemption of specie

- What is the most scary thing to people in power

- Central Banking monetary colonialism and the next 100 years

- What is the biggest problem with inflation

- How do Central Banks compete with each other

- The future of CBDCs

- Do we need UBI or not

- Ben's Bitcoin and Austrian economics rabbit hole story

- How the meme WTF Happened in 1971? was born

- How Julian Assange was the body cam to the whole world

- And so much more

Nico: Bitcoin Gave Me Purpose Jan 05, 2021

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Nico is a Venezuelan American entrepreneur who found himself immediately drawn to Bitcoin because of the immense implications the technology has to change the world and himself.

Nico and Ced chat about:

- Getting everything he ever wanted growing up

- How the 2008 financial crisis changed everything for him

- Dealing with loss through escapism

- Bitcoin gave him reason to get up

- Why he dropped out of college and flew to Venezuela

- Why his Uncle was mining in the Venezuelan "bush" with generators and a used helicopter

- Why he left Venezuela

- The new counterculture of responsibilty

Nico co-founded BITVOLT.com, a miner hosting company. Nico currently produces @SimplyBitcoin_, a 10 minute weekday show on YouTube tailored to deliver daily news from the Bitcoin-Maximalist-Pleb perspective.

Follow Nico on Twitter @BITVOLT7

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