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Will Bitcoin Lead to Anarchy? with Max Borders (WiM372) Sep 29, 2023

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Max Borders joins me to discuss the bloodless revolution of Bitcoin, the development of morality, how incentives influence people, and the pursuit of happiness.
Max Borders is the author of The Social Singularity and Underthrow. He is also the Executive Director at Social Evolution.
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00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:40 - Intro
00:02:13 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:02:59 - Introducing Max Borders
00:03:32 - Underthrow: What & Why?
00:06:10 - Gandhi's Truth Force
00:07:48 - Bitcoin is a Bloodless Revolution
00:09:06- A Subversive Innovation
00:12:05 - Anarchy vs 'Panarchy'
00:16:50 - Bitcoin Changes the Incentives and Morality
00:19:00 - What is Panarchy?
00:23:05 - Free Market Policy and Statism
00:26:57 - Protection Racket of the State
00:29:10 - Coercion is Inevitable
00:31:02 - Advantages and Disadvantages of Statism
00:34:26 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:35:22 - How Bitcoin Undermines the State Paradigm
00:39:40 - The Blanket of Morality
00:42:34 - Role of Religion in Moral Intuition
00:47:17 - Replacing Religion with Politics
00:49:46 - GOD vs GOV
00:51:01 - Material Incentives & Moral Orders
00:56:47 - Changing the Incentives
01:00:32 - Development of Morality
01:03:02 - Genetic Predisposition
01:05:58 - Effects of Centralization
01:08:35 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
01:09:27 - Alexander Bard's Notion of Narratology
01:14:45 - Reviving the Original Intent of the Constitution
01:18:07 - The Pursuit of Happiness
01:20:34 - The Constitution of Consent Contest
01:23:10 - Where to Find Max on the Internet
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The $100,000 Bitcoin Bet with Adam Back (WiM371) Sep 27, 2023

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Adam Back joins me to discuss the next Bitcoin halving, the utilization of untapped power, the aesthetic value of Bitcoin, and the probability of another Blocksize War.
Adam Back is a British cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is the CEO of Blockstream and the inventor of Hashcash.
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00:00 - Coming up
00:47 - Intro
02:20 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
03:07 - Introducing Adam Back
03:38 - The Bitcoin Price Bet
07:17 - Trend Analysis of Bitcoin’s Price
08:07 - Impact of Bitcoin’s Halving Pattern
12:50 - One Zeta Hash
15:59 - Bitcoin Mining Dynamics
21:14 - Gold Bull Market
22:25 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
23:21 - Bitcoin Takes on the Duck Curve
27:35 - Wealth of Nations and Power Capacity
29:13 - Utilizing the Untapped Power
30:45 - Bitcoin is Right
32:53 - Is Bitcoin Art?
37:07 - The Aesthetic Value of Bitcoin
39:39 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
40:31 - The User Activated Soft Fork
43:44 - Impact of UASF on Bitcoin
46:02 - Probability of Another War in the Bitcoin Network
48:41 - The Unique Feature of Bitcoin
52:57 - Why did the Bitcoin War Occur?
56:00 - Where to Find Adam on the Internet
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How Fiat Fails and Bitcoin Succeeds with Dylan LeClair (WiM370) Sep 25, 2023

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Dylan LeClair joins me to discuss the upcoming Bitcoin halving, the war narratives, the effects of political pressure on inflation, and the impact of derivative markets on Bitcoin price.
Dylan LeClair is the Director of Market Intelligence at UTXO Management. He is the Co-Founder of 21st Paradigm.
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00:00 - Coming up
00:37 - Intro
02:10 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
02:56 - Introducing Dylan LeClair
03:37 - Dylan's View of Upcoming Bitcoin Halving
07:50 - The Significance of Price Action
12:42 - Fiat Failure and Bitcoin Success
16:50 - The War Narratives and the World Banking Cartel
20:47 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
21:43 - General Macroeconomics Overview
26:34 - Political Pressure and Inflation
29:48 - Tight Monetary Policy
31:20 - Collapse of Stocks and Bonds
33:47 - The Policy Pendulum
36:46 - The Necessity of Recession
39:37 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
40:28 - Unpacking the Derivative Markets
44:03 - Impact of Derivative Markets on Bitcoin Price
48:15 - Can the Government Suppress the Bitcoin Price
50:45 - Where to Find Dylan on the Internet
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The Most Important Question in the World Today | Episode 5 | (WiM369) Sep 22, 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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00:00 - Coming up
01:11 - Intro
02:44 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
03:14 - The Highest Form of Energy that Humans Can Channel - Michael Saylor (WiM221)
11:35 - Money is a Really Important Perceptual Apparatus - Curt Jaimungal (WiM228)
15:03 - Money is a Tool of Power - Jane Adams (WiM222)
17:34 - The Most Desirable Money - Louis Liu (WiM231)
33:27 - The Characteristics of Good Money - Louis Liu (WiM231)
37:23 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
38:20 - Money is The Most Important Technology - Nozomi Hayase (WiM232)
42:51 - What is Money? - Joseph Wang (WiM234)
49:35 - The Importance of Understanding Money - Godfrey Bloom (WiM220)
59:24 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
01:00:16 - Money is The Most Important Message that You'll Ever Send to Somebody - Justin Rezvani (WiM240)
01:04:12 - Money Amplifies the State You're Currently In - Peter Crone (WiM243)
01:06:11 - Money is a Distributed Data - Chase Perkins (WiM244)
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Bitcoin for Liberty with Robert Breedlove (WiM368) Sep 20, 2023

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In this episode with Leyla Taghiyeva from Students for Liberty, we discuss the nature and properties of money, people's biases toward the dollar, and how Bitcoin is the libertarian cheat code in battle over state coercion.
Leyla Taghiyeva is a musical artist, social media influencer, and youth worker. She works as a content creator at Students For Liberty.
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00:00 - Coming up
00:29 - Intro
02:03 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
02:49 - Introduction to the Topic
04:31 - Introducing Robert Breedlove
05:28 - Robert's Financial Revelation
08:11 - First Time Hearing about Bitcoin
09:50 - What is Money?
14:30 - Properties of Money
19:34 - Bitcoin: A Money with Perfected Properties
21:05 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
22:01 - Does Satoshi Nakamoto Work for the Government?
25:55 - Money with the Least Flexible Supply
29:22 - People's Biases toward Dollar
31:47 - Understanding Money & Bitcoin
33:15 - Exploiting People with Propaganda
34:25 - What Can We Do?
37:25 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
38:16 - Questioning Keynesian Economics
41:40 - Upcoming LibertyCon International
42:29 - Why Bitcoin is a Big Deal and How it Complements Libertarianism
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A Pretty Intense Bitcoin Conversation with Robert Breedlove (WiM367) Sep 18, 2023

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In this episode with Danica Patrick of the Pretty Intense podcast, we discuss the corruption of money, the history of central banking, the human ego, and how to fix broken incentives.
Danica Patrick is a former race car driver. She was the first woman to win an IndyCar championship event in 2008.
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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 - Introducing Robert Breedlove
00:03:25 - The 3-Step Process of Understanding
00:05:23 - Robert's Fields of Interest
00:09:28 - The Habit of Reading
00:11:25 - Finding the Answer to the Question: What is Money?
00:15:28 - What Backs the US Dollar
00:17:40 - Debt Accumulation and Fiat Currencies
00:18:43 - Bitcoin: Complicated & Unknown
00:25:52 - Society is Choosing the Bitcoin Path
00:28:30 - Bitcoin's Creation and Price Factors
00:33:32 - Central Banking is a Political Scheme
00:34:24 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:35:20 - The History of Central Banking
00:39:14 - Corruption of Money
00:41:45 - The Titanic Conspiracy
00:44:00 - Controlling the Money
00:48:16 - The Devil Inside
00:50:44 - The State as a Macrocosm of the Ego?
00:54:34 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
00:55:26 - The One World Government
00:58:44 - Stopping Bitcoin & Internet
01:02:10 - Fix the Money, Fix the World
01:05:37 - Fixing the Incentives
01:07:24 - A Government Without Central Banking
01:11:57 - Democracy vs. Monarchy
01:15:41 - When the Democracy Fails
01:16:45 - A Piece of Advice
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The Love of Money with Robert Breedlove (WiM366) Sep 15, 2023

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In this episode with Jason Marc Campbell of the Selling With Love podcast, we discuss the nature and evolution of money, how Bitcoin fixes the problems of central banking, and notion of "loving money."
Jason Marc Campbell is an author and international speaker. He is the host of the Selling With Love podcast.
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00:00 - Coming up
00:27 - Intro
02:01 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
02:47 - From Finance to Bitcoin
09:43 - Surprises About Bitcoin
14:40 - Is Centralization Bad
21:31 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
22:28 - Attempts in the Past
27:52 - Satoshi Nakamoto
30:24 - Getting Rich With Bitcoin
33:58 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
34:49 - The Energy Consumption of Bitcoin
41:27 - Can You Love Money
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Bitcoin: A Money with Zero Percent Inflation with Robert Breedlove (WiM365) Sep 13, 2023

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In this episode with Tim Braheem, we discuss the properties of sound money, central banking, the incentives for armed conflict, and why Bitcoin is the best peace-making technology.
Tim Braheem is the Founder and CEO of Performance Experts and the host of The 360 Experience podcast.

Website: https://www.performance-experts.com/
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00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:38 - Intro
00:02:11 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:02:57 - Introducing Robert Breedlove
00:03:22 - Robert's Europe Tour
00:04:36 - The Questions of Significance
00:06:03 - Insufficiency and Indispensability of Language
00:08:47 - Understanding the Nature of Money
00:10:39 - Money: A Universal Medium of Exchange
00:12:57 - Money: The Most Marketable Commodity
00:17:25 - Money Emerges from Trading
00:19:12 - Properties of Good Money
00:22:11 - Money Needs to Be Expensive to Produce
00:25:53 - Counterfeiting of Money
00:27:57 - Retaining Purchasing Power
00:32:37 - Counterfeiting Monopoly of the US Dollar
00:36:27 - Winners & Losers in Central Banking Paradigm
00:41:04 - Simplifying Currency Inflation
00:43:29 - Advantage of Investing in Real-Estate
00:47:40 - Why Gold Became Money
00:54:16 - Warehousing of Gold
00:57:23 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:58:20 - Introduction of Gold-Backed Currency Standard
01:01:12 - Problems with a Fractional Reserve Banking
01:05:57 - Central Banks and War Incentives
01:11:36 - A Centrally Controlled Gold Standard
01:13:53 - Introduction of the Fiat Standard in 1971
01:19:25 - Intital Stage of the Bitcoin Rabbithole
01:23:43 - The $100 Trillion Question
01:26:14 - What is Bitcoin
01:28:56 - The Intangibility of Bitcoin
01:34:40 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
01:35:31 - Comprehending the Non-Physical Nature of Bitcoin
01:37:22 - Bitcoin Resembles the Properties of Good Money
01:41:34 - Bitcoin: An Asset with Absolute Scarcity
01:44:01 - The Emerging Consensus of Bitcoin
01:47:32 - Bitcoin: A Money with Zero Percent Inflation
01:49:49 - Bitcoin is More Than an Invention
01:50:45 - Production Cost of Money
01:52:35 - The Supply and Demand Ratio
01:54:14 - Perfect Information in a Financial System
01:58:07 - The Biggest Fear About Bitcoin
01:59:14 - Bitcoin’s Price Prediction
02:07:20 - Why Bitcoin
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The Triffin Dilemma | The Twilight of Gold Series | Episode 15 (WiM364) Sep 11, 2023

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My friend and fellow student of money codenamed "Lester" joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the excellent book "The Twilight of Gold" by Melchior Palyi.
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00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:32 - Intro
00:02:05 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:02:51 - Money: An Abstract Battleground in Personal Relationships
00:07:16 - The Importance of Talking about Money
00:10:05 - England's Return to the Gold Bullion Standard
00:13:20 - Norman's Letter to the Bank of Norway
00:16:10 - Effects of the Gold Bullion Standard
00:20:00 - Controlling the Price Level
00:21:03 - The Power to Say 'No'
00:23:18 - Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins
00:26:13 - Central Planners Cannot Outsmart the Market
00:27:18 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:28:15 - Impact of The Gold Exchange Standard
00:33:15 - The Myth of the Gold Shortage
00:37:19 - The Triffin Dilemma
00:41:55 - The Ratio of Total Dollar and Total Gold
00:43:39 - What Triffin Got Wrong
00:45:44 - Restating Why All Pegs Break
00:47:39 - Lester on The Most Likely Outcome of Continuous Inflation
00:50:53 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
00:51:44 - Adopting Bitcoin Will Accelerate Dollar Inflation
00:54:00 - The Cross Currency Rails between Bitcoin and Fiat
00:56:49 - Advantages of the Bitcoin Standard
00:58:25 - Applying Triffin's Dilemma to Great Britain
01:04:03 - The Significance of Myths
01:05:59 - The Concept of Yield is a Lie
01:08:12 - Concluding the First Myth
01:10:13 - Where to Find "Lester" on the Internet
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The Nature of Money and Bitcoin with Robert Breedlove (WiM363) Sep 08, 2023

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In this episode with Scott McBlane, we discuss the nature of money, the attributes of ideal money, the central bank of central banks, and why Bitcoin is the closest thing to perfect money humans have ever had.
Scott McBlane is the host of the YouTube channel called Scott McBlane.
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00:02:52 - Introducing Robert Breedlove
00:03:38 - Learning the Nature of Money
00:05:13 - Introduction to The "What is Money?" Show
00:07:03 - Language and Money
00:10:52 - Money: A Medium of Exchange for Human Action
00:14:19 - Imperfection of Money
00:16:03 - Money is a Tool
00:17:33 - Attributes of Ideal Money
00:18:58 - Global Economy is a Complex Adaptive System
00:22:15 - Origins of Money and Division of Labor
00:25:34 - Money is a Primary Part of Civilization
00:28:01 - Government Didn't Create Money
00:31:40 - Money is the Most Tradeable Asset
00:32:43 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:33:39 - The Barter Problem: Non-Coincidence of Wants
00:38:20 - What is the Bank for International Settlements
00:41:50 - Organized Corruption of Money
00:45:16 - The Money Printing Machine
00:47:33 - The Need for an Immune Money to Counterfeiting
00:48:30 - The Problem with Gold
00:51:04 - Bitcoin: The Ultimate Uncounterfittable Money
00:53:05 - Like Zero, Bitcoin is an Absolute Innovation
00:54:51 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
00:55:43 - Quality of the Money Dictates Its Transaction
00:57:51 - People Want Specific Outcomes of the Goods
00:59:42 - Five Useful Properties of Money
01:02:32 - Properties of Money Determine its Purchasing Power
01:05:31 - Why Bitcoin is the Perfect Money
01:09:49 - Bitcoin: The Invention of Pure Money
01:13:07 - Experience of Meeting Jordan Peterson
01:18:13 - Fix the Money, Fix the World
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