Brad Rettler: How Bitcoin changed my worldview | BFM075

Bradley Rettler is Director of the Bitcoin Research Institute and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wyoming. He is a co-author of Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin and a Senior Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute.

› Follow Bradley on https://x.com/rettlerb

› ‘Resistance Money” book: http://resistance.money

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TIMESTAMPS 🕑

00:00 - Introduction and Background

02:42 - The Philosophical Angle of Bitcoin

05:31 - Bitcoin as Resistance Money

09:37 - Comparing Bitcoin's Fixed Monetary Policy to Fiat Currencies

14:14 - The Importance of Privacy and Autonomy in Bitcoin

28:20 - Understanding the Volatility of Bitcoin

37:16 - Evaluating Bitcoin's Potential as a Global Monetary System

39:02 - The Uncertain Future of Bitcoin Adoption

44:41 - The Influence of Bitcoin's Immutable Ledger

48:07 - The Importance of Academic Research on Bitcoin

51:00 - Bitcoin: A Manifestation of Cooperative Activities and Democracy