Welcome back to The Gwart Show! Today, Andrew Bailey–fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute– joins Gwart to discuss Bitcoin's role as resistance money, the philosophical implications of cryptocurrency, and why simplicity might trump utility in digital assets.

Follow our guest on Twitter: @resistancemoney

TOPICS

-Bitcoin as Resistance Money

-Philosophy in Cryptocurrency

-Stablecoins vs Bitcoin

-Ethical Money Creation

-Future of Financial Freedom

CHAPTERS

00:00 Start

01:07 Andrew bio

01:55 Why philosophy & Bitcoin?

04:26 Bitcoin background

06:31 What is resistance money?

07:14 Why is this book important?

10:24 Examples of BTC as resistance money

13:14 Tron is the People's Blockchain

18:12 ETH as alternative

20:48 Long EVM, Short ETH

32:40 What new-coiners care about

35:27 The philosophy of ETH

36:07 Vitalik's writing

41:50 Legitimate use cases

46:13 What is "utility"?

51:21 Lightning & MoE

54:16 What crypto tech should come to BTC?

1:03:05 Worldcoin

1:09:17 Effective altruism

1:14:16 Ends justify means?

1:17:28 When David Hoffman cries

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