The Interplay Between Social Movements and Technology: Bitcoin as a Phenomenon

Brian De Mint joins me to discuss the impact of technology on society, the psychology of totalitarianism, the importance of self-responsibility, and the incentive structure of Bitcoin. 

Brian is an entrepreneur with a decade of market strategy experience. He is the author of Bitcoin Evangelism and works as the head of Marketing at Orange Pill App. 

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// OUTLINE // 
00:00:00 - Coming up 
00:00:50 - Intro 
00:02:24 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing 
00:03:10 - Introducing Brian De Mint 
00:03:59 - Calling Out Robert for a Boxing Match 
00:05:22 - Career Background and Getting into Bitcoin 
00:07:32 - The Lure of Bitcoin Rabbit Hole 
00:09:16 - Protestant Reformation of the Catholic Church 
00:13:49 - How Technology Changes an Existing System 
00:17:28 - Ideology Fuels Human Action 
00:18:28 - Suppression Leads to Proliferation 
00:21:54 - Adapting the Monopoly 
00:25:23 - Putting the Pieces Together 
00:27:31 - How Decentralized Underground Railroads Liberated the Slaves 
00:31:33 - Bitcoin: An Idea Beyond Human Control 
00:36:02 - The Delusions of Totalitarianism 
00:39:31 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet 
00:40:28 - 1980s Artworks of Prodemocracy Movements 
00:44:16 - The Minority Rule 
00:47:22 - The Spartacus Effect 
00:52:40 - Alignment of Selfishness and Selflessness 
00:54:16 - The Psychology of Totalitarianism 
00:56:15 - Four Steps of Mass Formation 
00:59:56 - Why We Need Peer-to-Peer Interaction 
01:03:07 - The Importance of Self-Responsibility 
01:05:19 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet 
01:06:07 - Social Conformity Experiments 
01:11:42 - How Incentives Influence General Patterns of Human Behaviour 
01:16:03 - The Intersection of Bitcoin and the Social Change Movement 
01:19:11 - Bitcoin's Underlying Incentives 
01:23:25 - Morality of Telling the Truth 
01:26:15 - Where to Find Brian on the Internet

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