Bitcoin as an Escape Option

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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