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Monetary Anarchy with Alex Jeser (WiM392) Nov 15, 2023

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Alex Jeser joins me to talk about his book, “Monetary Anarchy: The Separation of Money and State”. We discuss the origin of knowledge, how warfare benefits the state, the difference between democracy, anarchy and minarchy, and whether monetary anarchy is possible on the Bitcoin standard.
Alex Jeser is an economist, author, and technology entrepreneur.
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// OUTLINE //
00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:33 - Intro
00:02:06 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:02:52 - Alex Jeser’s Economic Background and Discovering Bitcoin
00:06:18 - The Origin of Knowledge
00:10:23 - Empiricism and Rationalism
00:13:32 - What is Money?
00:17:16 - Different Types of Money
00:21:08 - What is Inflation?
00:23:56 - Why Free Market Money Gets Outlawed?
00:30:37 - Fractional Reserve Banking
00:38:03 - Emergence and Purpose of Nation States
00:48:52 - Is Democracy a Success or Failure?
00:50:42 - Run Your Business from Anywhere with NetSuite
00:51:47 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:52:44 - How Warfare Benefits the State
00:57:10 - Interstate Anarchy and Fiat System
00:59:12 - Anarchy Based on Morals and Markets
01:10:47 - Anarchy and Bitcoin
01:17:22 - What is Minarchy?
01:23:00 - True Democracy of Bitcoin
01:26:15 - A World Without States
01:29:08 - Bitcoin: An Incorruptible Economic Voting System
01:31:05 - Enhance Your Brain Power with Mind Lab Pro
01:32:11 - Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth
01:33:13 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
01:34:05 - Can the State Stop Bitcoin?
01:38:52 - Strong Points of Bitcoin
01:42:27 - Illustrating Monetary Anarchy
01:47:36 - Does Monetary Anarchy Advance Civilization?
01:52:15 - Where to Find Alex on the Internet

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A New Theory of Violence Cycles with Rahim Taghizadegan (WiM391) Nov 13, 2023

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Rahim Taghizadegan joins me to discuss his published paper, “The Praxeology of Coercion: A New Theory of Violence Cycles".
Rahim Taghizadegan is an economist, author, physicist, philosopher, investor, and entrepreneur. He is the last Austrian economist of the Austrian School in the direct tradition.
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Paper: https://mises.org/library/praxeology-coercion-new-theory-violence-cycles
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// OUTLINE //
00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:43 - Intro
00:02:16 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:03:02 - Introducing Rahim Taghizadegan
00:03:47 - Abstract of Rahim's Paper
00:11:00 - Subjectivism and Marginalism of Praxeology
00:17:50 - Catallactics vs. Cratics Methods and Structures
00:27:59 - The Worst Aspects of Cratic Society
00:34:26 - Economic Implosion of Large Empires
00:36:10 - Run Your Business from Anywhere with NetSuite
00:37:15 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:38:11 - Bright Lines in Persuasion, Psychological Manipulation, and Coercion
00:43:56 - Fate of a Coercive Society
00:46:51 - Negative Impact of Long Peace
00:49:16 - The Problem with Distortion from Reality
00:51:40 - Does Bitcoin Provide an Alternative?
00:55:55 - Reliability of a Hard Material Incentive
00:57:06 - Enhance Your Brain Power with Mind Lab Pro
00:58:13 - Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth
00:59:15 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
01:00:06 - Is Fiat Currency a Deception in the Marketplace?
01:04:12 - Does Private Property Actually Exist?
01:09:20 - How to Manage the Vulnerability of Social Technology
01:12:26 - The Rule of Law and Cratic Structure
01:18:12 - Where to Find Rahim on the Internet

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Economic Science and the Austrian Method with Knut Svanholm (WiM390) Nov 10, 2023

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Knut Svanholm joins me to explore the excellent book "Economic Science and the Austrian Method" by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. In this episode, we discuss why the axiom of action is irrefutable, and rationalism vs empiricism.
Knut Svanholm is an author, former tall ship sailor, singer, and crew manager at an offshore shipping company. He is the co-host of the Freedom Footprint Show.
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// OUTLINE //
00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:24 - Intro
00:01:57 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:02:43 - Introduction to the Book
00:05:16 - Economic Theory vs. Economic History
00:08:57 - Theory and Logical Deduction
00:12:01 - Testing of Economic Propositions
00:15:03 - Empiricism and Absolute Truth
00:18:18 - Why Austrian Economics Don't Need Empirical Testing
00:20:07 - Run Your Business from Anywhere with NetSuite
00:21:12 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:22:09 - Action Bridges Subjective and the Objective
00:25:36 - The Domain of Transjectivity and Relevance
00:29:28 - Causality is a Category of Action
00:31:25 - The Axiom of Action
00:35:50 - Choosing a Primary Course of Action
00:37:58 - Profits of Consensual and Voluntary Exchange
00:42:18 - Action Based on Priority and Ordinal Value
00:44:16 - Money and Price
00:47:56 - Valuation, Price Prediction and Marginalism
00:50:30 - Enhance Your Brain Power with Mind Lab Pro
00:51:36 - Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth
00:52:38 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
00:53:30 - Why Axiom of Action is Irrefutable
00:59:37 - Empirical Proposition vs. Analytical Knowledge
01:04:45 - The Sun and the Earth Example
01:08:46 - Self-contradiction of Empiricism
01:11:43 - Where to Find Knut on the Internet

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Between Chaos and Order | Maps of Meaning Series | Episode 2 (WiM389) Nov 08, 2023

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Luke de Wolf joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the excellent book "Maps of Meaning" by Jordan Peterson. In this episode, we discuss the domain of known and the unknown, the importance of taking responsibility, and the difference between normal life and revolutionary life.
Luke de Wolf is the co-host of the Freedom Footprint Show.
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// OUTLINE //
00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:23 - Intro
00:01:56 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:02:42 - Introducing Luke de Wolf
00:03:07 - Understanding the Narrative
00:06:50 - Does Mythology Explain Praxeology?
00:10:58 - Mythology Provides Moral Lessons
00:14:12 - Collapse of the Meaning
00:17:12 - Metaphors We Live by
00:20:27 - The Domain of Known and the Unknown
00:23:39 - The Meaning of the Word “Way”
00:25:53 - Taking the Proper Action
00:28:00 - The Chaos of the Unknown
00:30:46 - The Four Myths
00:31:53 - Novelty Resides in the Unknown
00:34:51 - Reaching the Ideal Future
00:37:24 - Dealing with Phobias
00:41:04 - Run Your Business from Anywhere with NetSuite
00:42:09 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:43:05 - Transforming the Unknown and Making it Known
00:44:27 - Pragmatic Value of Religion
00:48:04 - Conceiving the Highest Good
00:51:01 - The Importance of Taking Responsibility
00:54:50 - Push Yourself to the Edge
00:57:38 - Among Failures, Success Lies
01:00:44 - What Makes Human Unique
01:03:30 - Acting Without Thinking
01:06:01 - The Value of Knowledge
01:07:00 - Three Levels of Analysis
01:09:18 - Enhance Your Brain Power with Mind Lab Pro
01:10:25 - Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth
01:11:27 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
01:12:18 - Normal Life vs. Revolutionary Life
01:13:59 - The Business Meeting Example
01:22:40 - When Survival is the Only Way
01:25:26 - The Importance of Wealth
01:26:57 - Where to Find Luke on the Internet

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The Most Important Question in the World Today | Episode 8 | (WiM388) Nov 06, 2023

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"What is Money?" is the rabbit that leads us down the proverbial rabbit hole. It is the most important question for finding truth in the world. In this series, we will pursue this "rabbit" by engaging in a diversity of deep conversations with deep thinkers from different walks of life.

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// OUTLINE //
00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:51 - Intro
00:02:25 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:03:11 - Money as Extraction of Human Time and Energy - Samson Mow (WiM275)
00:13:34 - What is Money - Salim Ismail (WiM278)
00:17:04 - Money Determines What Gets Produced - (WiM280)
00:18:47 - What is Money - Barry Habib (WiM282)
00:20:48 - Money is Your Passion - Benjamin Dichter (WiM284)
00:24:39 - Run Your Business from Anywhere with NetSuite
00:25:44 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:26:41 - Money is Superordinate to the Rule of Law - Jeff Booth (WiM288)
00:38:46 - Money is a Language of Value - Leon Wankum (WiM291)
00:41:17 - Money is What Emerges Naturally - Des Dickerson (WiM290)
00:44:20 - Boost Your Brain with Mind Lab Pro
00:45:27 - Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth
00:46:29 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
00:47:20 - Money is a Network - Aneesh Karve (WiM286)
01:02:45 - What is Money - Erik Cason (WiM293)

// WRITTEN WORK //
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"What is Money?" in Argentina with Ariel Aguilar (WiM387) Nov 03, 2023

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Ariel Aguilar joins me to discuss the history of Argentina and its multi-decade economic crisis, the importance of learning from history, and why Bitcoin is the only thing that can possibly fix mankind’s long addiction to money printing, politicking, and propagandizing.
Ariel Aguilar is the founder of the European Bitcoineta.

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// OUTLINE //
00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:20 - Intro
00:01:53 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:02:39 - Introducing Ariel Aguilar
00:03:13 - Javier Milei and Argentina Presidential Elections
00:08:43 - Engineering Election Results and Controlling the Prices
00:13:35 - Milei's Plan to Revive the Economy
00:15:37 - Income Tax Situation in Argentina
00:17:54 - A Financial Ticking Bomb and IMF
00:20:26 - Etymology of Argentina
00:21:50 - History of Argentina
00:26:11 - Run Your Business from Anywhere with NetSuite
00:27:16 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:28:12 - The Virus of Socialism
00:30:26 - How the Decline Began
00:34:35 - History of Argentina’s Currency Devaluation
00:37:37 - How Taxation Led to Crisis
00:41:30 - Trap of the Central Bank and Political Unrest
00:45:37 - The Asymmetric 'Pesification'
00:47:37 - Learning from History
00:49:44 - Enhance Your Brain Power with Mind Lab Pro
00:50:50 - Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth
00:51:52 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
00:52:44 - Current Financial Affairs
00:58:16 - Ignorance of Economics and Keynesianism
01:02:45 - Insider Information and Libertarian Ideology
01:04:40 - Financial Awakening
01:07:58 - Emergence of Bitcoin
01:08:34 - What is Bitcoineta
01:10:35 - Where to Find Ariel on the Internet

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Fiat Ruins Everything with Jimmy Song (WiM386) Nov 01, 2023

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Jimmy Song joins me to discuss the debasement of fiat money and family values, the triumph of post-modern investing, and why Bitcoin puts humanity into a proper relationship with reality.
Jimmy Song is a long-term bitcoiner and author. He is the author of his latest book 'Fiat Ruins Everything.'
// GUEST //
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jimmysong
Website: https://vida.page/jimmysong
Book: https://a.co/d/fqkbW6s

// OUTLINE //
00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:43 - Intro
00:02:16 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:03:03 - Introducing Jimmy Song
00:04:28 - Inspiration for the Book
00:07:15 - Debasement of Money and Morality
00:10:44 - Fiat Money is a Tool of Enslavement
00:13:12 - The Immorality of Printing Money
00:19:04 - Stolen Purchasing Power
00:22:17 - How Incentives Affect Morality
00:25:34 - Time Preference Influence on Morality
00:27:46 - Run Your Business from Anywhere with NetSuite
00:28:50 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:29:47 - What is Belief?
00:33:38 - Belief and Action
00:34:50 - How Fiat Money Debases Reality
00:37:50 - Desperation and Victimhood Narratives
00:43:03 - Fiat Addiction Disrupting Market Feedback
00:46:00 - Money Debasement and Marriage
00:48:22 - Corporation and Government Induced Dependency
00:51:00 - Prioritizing Job Instead of Family
00:53:55 - Centralizing Force of Fiat
00:56:06 - Collapse of Capitalism and the Rise of Socialism
00:59:08 - Fiat Money and Debasement of Family
01:01:41 - Enhance Your Brain Power with Mind Lab Pro
01:02:47 - Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth
01:03:49 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
01:04:41 - Triumph of Post-Modern Investing
01:08:26 - Fiat Money and Leveraged Buyout
01:10:05 - The Keynesian Beauty Contest of Stock Market
01:13:56 - The Perception Game of Wall Street
01:16:41 - Lack of Sound Savings Device
01:19:25 - Carthago Delenda Est
01:23:09 - Fiat Delenda Est
01:25:31 - Imposing Fiat Reality
01:30:20 - Bitcoin: An Actual Reality
01:32:12 - Where to Find Jimmy on the Internet

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Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/

The Most Important Question in the World Today | Episode 7 | (WiM385) Oct 30, 2023

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// OUTLINE //
00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:46 - Intro
00:02:20 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:03:06 - Money as Economic Water - (WiM256)
00:05:07 - Money is a Medium to Calculate Exchange Ratios - (WiM254)
00:08:11 - Money is Information - (WiM262)
00:12:23 - What is Money? - Max Keiser (WiM264)
00:19:24 - Money is a Measure of Value - Aneesh Karve (WiM265)
00:23:22 - Run Your Business from Anywhere with NetSuite
00:24:27 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:25:24 - Money is Hard to Understand - Parker Lewis (WiM267)
00:28:26 - Money is a Network of Balance Sheets - George Gammon (WiM268)
00:30:20 - What is Money? - Ryan Moran (WiM270)
00:47:01 - Boost Your Brain with Mind Lab Pro
00:48:08 - Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth
00:49:10 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
00:50:01 - Money is the Language of Value - Robert Breedlove (WiM271)
01:00:25 - Money Is a Universal Common Denominator - Aneesh Karve (WiM272)
01:04:28 - Money and Sovereignty - Whitney Webb (WiM274)

// WRITTEN WORK //
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Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/

The Relationship of Money and Culture | Bitcoin is Venice Series | Episode 4 (WiM384) Oct 27, 2023

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Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers join me for a multi-episode conversation exploring their book "Bitcoin is Venice." In this episode, we discuss the nature of capital and its connection with culture, the effects of Bitcoin on culture and ethics, and how the Bitcoin standard changes the primary incentive structure under which mankind operates.
Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers co-authored the book "Bitcoin is Venice".
// GUEST //
Book: https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/collections/books/products/bitcoin-is-venice
Allen’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/allenf32
Sacha’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/sacha_meyers

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// OUTLINE //
00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:47 - Intro
00:02:21 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:03:07 - Definition of Capital
00:06:59 - The Origin and Nature of Capital
00:10:36 - Subjectivity and Marginal Revolution
00:13:16 - Keynesian Economics vs. Real Economics
00:15:09 - Labor Theory of Value
00:19:07 - Error in Keynesian Economics
00:22:00 - Origin of Modern Keynesianism
00:27:21 - Run Your Business from Anywhere with NetSuite
00:28:26 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:29:23 - Relationship Between Capital and Culture
00:35:50 - Is Mythology a Form of Capital?
00:41:03 - Different Ways of Knowing
00:44:55 - Feedback Loop of Capital Forms
00:47:35 - How Does Bitcoin Affect Culture
00:50:10 - How Bitcoin Fixes Lying
00:55:13 - Dynamism of Culture and Consumption of Capital
01:00:00 - Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth
01:01:02 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
01:01:53 - Bitcoin Connects Ethics to Economic Incentives
01:04:43 - The Intention Behind Bitcoin’s Discovery
01:07:40 - Bitcoin Incentives vs. Fiat Incentives
01:15:18 - Luxury of Ethics
01:19:12 - Requirements for Creating Capital
01:22:35 - Where to Find Allen and Sacha on the Internet

// WRITTEN WORK //
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Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/

Bitcoin and Data Monopolies | Bitcoin is Venice Series | Episode 3 (WiM383) Oct 25, 2023

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Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers join me for a multi-episode conversation exploring their book "Bitcoin is Venice." In this episode, we discuss the business model of Facebook and Google, data monopolies and their network effects, the concept of owning your data, and whether Bitcoin can change the Internet.
Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers co-authored the book "Bitcoin is Venice".
// GUEST //
Book: https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/collections/books/products/bitcoin-is-venice
Allen’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/allenf32
Sacha’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/sacha_meyers

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// OUTLINE //
00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:47 - Intro
00:02:20 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:03:06 - Introducing Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers
00:03:50 - Facebook and Google: Fundamentally Different Economic Entities
00:09:06 - Bitcoin and Data Monopolies
00:12:26 - Why These Companies Got So Big
00:16:04 - Misunderstanding the Technology
00:18:42 - Network Business Capitals
00:22:30 - Process of Capital Accumulation
00:24:29 - An Alternative Option with Bitcoin
00:26:58 - Advertising Taken to its Logical Extreme
00:29:27 - Power of Network Effects
00:32:08 - Business Ethics and Data Integrity
00:34:09 - Run Your Business from Anywhere with NetSuite
00:35:14 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:36:10 - How Bitcoin Fixes Data Monetization
00:41:36 - How Does Facebook Work?
00:44:24 - Novel Communications Protocol of Facebook
00:47:40 - “Breaking up” the Monopoly of Network Businesses
00:54:47 - The Analogy of Surveillance
00:56:56 - The Problem with Owning Your Data
00:59:47 - Data and Network Effects
01:03:06 - Knowledge is Capital
01:05:38 - Objection to Intellectual Property
01:08:05 - Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth
01:09:07 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
01:09:59 - The Nature of the Internet
01:13:06 - Open-Source Software vs. Free Software
01:16:43 - Can Bitcoin Change the Internet?

// WRITTEN WORK //
Medium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/
Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/

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