#133: Bitcoin Use Case in El Salvador, 1729 Network State, Become a Global Citizen, Speak Foreign Languages in 6 months with Antoine Dusséaux

My guest today is Antoine Dusséaux. Antoine is a legaltech entrepreneur based in London and co-founded Doctrine, the first legal information platform.

He’s passionate about law, economics, geopolitics, and languages.

In this episode, we discussed:

1. How to describe 1729 and Network State to children to help them understand this progressive technical concept?
2. What are the fundamental values that bonded the 1729 community? What 1729 community members in common?
3. What's so special about El Salvador? Will the World's First Bitcoin City be the protocol that other countries can learn from?
4. Share the first-hand experience of exploring bitcoin's daily user case in El Salvador.
5. How to be a responsible global citizen and make sense of our world?
6. What's the secret of learning foreign languages as an adult (Antoine is a native French speaker who learned to speak Chinese, Russian and Arabic)?
7. What others hold a stereotype about China is wrong based on your first-hand experience working in a Chinese factory?
8. What's the underground church in China?
9. The relationship between languages and ideologies
10. Why should you start to write online and build connections?

Books/links mentioned in this episode

• 1729.com
• The Network State: How To Start a New Country book by Balaji Srinivasan
• Real Bitcoin use cases in El Salvador
• Antoine’s Newsletter on Product, Law, Economics, Geopolitics, and Languages
• Underground church
• Bitcoin is now ‘legal tender’ in El Salvador
• How to be fluent in 6 months?
• Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
• Handan, City in China
• Cultural intelligence: Become a global citizen
• Linguistic relativity
• Debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters
• What do Taiwanese think of simplified Chinese?
• Transcript: Vladimir Putin’s Televised Address on Ukraine
• Learning new languages with Pimsleur
• Build a Personal Monopoly
• How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area
• 1729 Writers Collection