The Nature of Money

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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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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