In this special episode Cedric sits down with Michael Goldstein aka Bitstein the Memelord himself to discuss his seminal essay Toward a Node World Order: How Bitcoin Obsoletes Inflation and Promotes Human Flourishing.

Michael Goldstein is the founder and president of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, a co-host of the Noded Bitcoin Podcast, a software engineer and the he just started the Bitcoin Brief which is a newsletter focusing on insights into bitcoin and the future of money and society, drawing primarily from the Austrian economic tradition.

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