The "What is Money?" Show

Preston Pysh joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring two books: 1) The Brain by David Eagleman, and 2) The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTPreston’s twitter: https://twitter.com/PrestonPyshPreston's podcast: https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 The Power Struggle00:05:45 What Every Body is Saying00:15:40 Intelligence is Error-Correction00:20:51 Error-Correction in Relation to Money00:21:40 Connection Between Economics and Neural Phenomena00:24:40 The World Without Inflationary Monetary Policy00:32:52 A Standardized Global Currency00:38:20 “Nothing Vast Enters the Life of Mortals Without a Curse”00:45:06 Dealing With Abundance vs Scarcity00:50:15 NYDIG00:51:33 Generational Wealth00:59:02 Existing Eternally on the Cloud01:02:40 Transhumanism and Meta-Intelligence01:04:44 Resetting Our Epigenetic Settings01:06:30 Preview to “The Seat of the Soul”SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22

Preston Pysh joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring two books: 1) The Brain by David Eagleman, and 2) The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTPreston’s twitter: https://twitter.com/PrestonPyshPreston's podcast: https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Reality as a Biological Interface00:02:44 Ecological Perception in Relation to Bitcoin00:05:59 Influence by Robert Cialdini00:06:45 Forming Cognitive Bias on Veblen Goods00:10:15 Commitments and Consistency Bias00:14:36 Cognitive Precursors that Influence People00:17:10 The Line Between Influence and Manipulation00:19:01 Bitcoin is the Solution to Central Banking00:26:59 The Inevitability of Disruption00:28:33 Bitcoin as the Natural Antidote to Financial Market Manipulation00:29:35 The Debilitation that Affects the Signaling Mechanism of the Brain00:31:20 The Neuroscience of Reality00:35:09 Sensory Substitution Devices and Artificial Intelligence00:41:54 The Human Brain’s Capacity is Limitless0045:20 What Does Bitcoin Mean for Future Technological Advancement?00:51:04 The Dollar as a Global Reserve Currency00:53:30 The Importance of Humility00:54:26 Why Bitcoin is Unstoppable01:03:48 Classical Conditioning and How it Shapes Politics01:06:30 The Law of Decimation01:11:08 The Schizophrenia of Fiat01:16:38 NYDIG01:17:46 Finding Your Life’s Work Through Past Experiences01:23:34 Operating on a Flow State: Leveraging Your Subconscious to Play the Game01:32:09 Priming: How One Stimulus Influences A Response to a Subsequent StimulusSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22

Preston Pysh joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring two books: 1) The Brain by David Eagleman, and 2) The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTPreston’s twitter: https://twitter.com/PrestonPyshPreston's podcast: https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Tenser-Flow Playground: A Neural Network Playground00:03:53 The Indelible Footprints of the Nervous System00:04:31 Emulating Your Heroes00:08:01 Conditioning Your Brain by Corrupting its Hard Drive00:09:22 What Separates Humans from Animals00:10:16 Memory and the Emotional Evaluation System00:11:29 Our Brain’s Processing Power, Temporal Illusions, and Time Distortion00:14:21 Money is a Collective Memory00:15:21 An Identity Based on Memory00:19:58 NYDIG00:21:06 The Ability to Forecast Our Future00:25:33 The Case Against Reality00:28:26 Seeing the World Through Our Own Biological Interface00:30:43 The Big Bang Theory00:32:05 “The Only Thing You Know is You Know Nothing at All”00:33:46 Getting Stuck in The “Do Loop”00:34:31 Super Forecasters00:41:31 Bitcoin Counterarguments SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22

Preston Pysh joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring two books: 1) The Brain by David Eagleman, and 2) The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTPreston’s twitter: https://twitter.com/PrestonPyshPreston's podcast: https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Identifying Cognitive Biases in Investments00:06:39 Self-Programming Through Reading00:13:29 Conditioning the Subconscious00:22:14 Passing Patterns Across Generations00:23:30 NYDIG00:24:38 Adopting Patterns From Your Environment00:27:28 Training Pathways: Bringing the Subconscious to Consciousness00:29:50 Pushing Back Data to the Subconscious00:34:08 Selective Attention Theory00:37:06 Why You Need to Ask Yourself “Why?” Five Times00:41:37 Civilization is a Fractal of the Individual Mind00:43:54 “The Anatomy of Any System Has to Contain Within it a Model of the Environment in which that System is Immersed"00:48:17 The Brain Tumor that Caused a Mass Shooting: The Charles Whitman Case00:52:35 Nature vs. Nurture: Assimilating New Patterns and Programs00:54:29 A Broken Monetary System00:59:29 The Toilet Paper Test01:04:27 Intelligence as Error-Correction01:05:23 The Efficient Market Hypothesis is Inefficient01:07:05 Money as an Extension of MindSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMax’s twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMaxMax’s Website: https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/wxB4qDBjfaZNqn9vSidLnn4dGbV/pos PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Origin Story of The State00:12:12 Toward a Theory of Strategy for Liberty00:17:00 Liberty is the Highest Political End00:20:32 Libertarianism: The Philosophical Bedrock of the Cypherpunks00:24:00 Liberty: A Moral Principle of Justice00:27:20 Instantaneous Abolition of Statism is Ideal00:30:17 “Gradualism in Theory is Perpetuity in Practice”00:34:15 A Strategy Must Never Undercut its End00:37:33 A Thought Experiment on Ends and Means00:41:29 Liberty as the Ultimate Aim of Human Action00:43:02 Bitcoin as a Force Multiplier for Liberty00:47:49 Human Reason Zeroes-In on Self-Sovereignty00:49:51 NYDIG00:50:59 Accepting All Reductions of Statism with Alacrity00:55:04 An Absolutist Approach Toward Liberty00:57:20 Education is a Necessary Condition for the Victory of Liberty01:04:00 Education is the Ultimate Psychotechnological Tool01:09:59 Bitcoin Incentivizes the “Living Out” of Liberty01:13:50 Right Opportunism vs. Left Sectarianism01:20:46 A Free Mind Never Concludes01:24:24 The Transjectivity of Adaptation, Price, and Fitness01:28:16 Reasons for the Optimism of Libertarianism01:32:02 Equilibrated vs. Disequilibriated Structures01:37:21 “Once You Get Bitcoin, You Can’t Un-get It”01:40:32 Did Digital Technology and Globalization Extend the Run of Statism?01:43:00 What is There Left to Try But Freedom?01:46:11 The De-Sanctification of The State01:53:39 Bitcoin: The Libertarian “Ace in the Hole”01:56:21 Bitcoin: The Ultimate Weapon of Individual LibertySOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMax’s twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMaxMax’s Website: https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/wxB4qDBjfaZNqn9vSidLnn4dGbV/pos PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 The Moral Status of Relations to The State00:03:27 “Everything The State Has is Stolen, Everything It Says is A Lie”—Nietzsche00:06:29 “All is Fair in Love and War”00:12:31 A Free Market for Dispute Arbitration00:16:49 The Immorality of Holding Government Bonds00:21:09 Death, Taxes, and 21M Bitcoin00:25:56 NYDIG00:27:04 The Relations Between States00:31:13 Weapons and Violations of Property00:35:11 A Global Disarmament Under Libertarianism?00:40:47 WMDs are Less Useful in a Libertarian World00:43:11 The Moral Equivalent of War00:47:06 Statism Exists to Harvest Taxpayers00:50:23 Bitcoin and Geopolitical Defection00:56:15 Two Types of State Violence: Vertical and Horizontal01:02:38 Political Power vs. Economic Power; Statism vs. Entrepreneurship01:11:05 “War is the Health of The State”01:14:54 Politics is a Mass-Psychosis Premised on Property Violations01:21:00 Sovereignism: Bitcoin-Enabled Anarcho-Capitalism01:27:07 Slavery Abolished by the Progression Toward Capital IntensitySOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMax’s twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMaxMax’s Website: https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/wxB4qDBjfaZNqn9vSidLnn4dGbV/pos PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Physical Property Rights in a Post-Bitcoin World00:03:15 Taxation Bifurcates Society into Rulers and Ruled00:06:53 All State Action is a Misallocation of Capital00:09:53 To Truly Understand Statism is To Fix Statism00:11:49 Individual Self-Ownership as Philosophical Steel00:14:25 Statism is Self-Inflicted Suffering00:16:27 Humans are Smart, Yet Self-Deceptive00:18:39 The Invalidity of Constitutional Documents00:21:23 The Praxeological Lens Purifies Perceptions00:23:56 “If I Cannot Live in Heaven, then I Will Rule in Hell”00:28:06 NYDIG00:29:15 Incentives and The Propensity to Turn a Blind Eye00:33:08 “Bitcoin Incentivizes Tremendous Character Change”00:38:11 Property is the Proper Boundary for Actors00:39:49 The Law Largely Emerged From Non-State Institutions00:42:50 Distorting Discovery Processes Pathologizes00:48:26 Dealing With Failure in a Libertarian World00:51:40 The More Voluntarism You Put In, The More Wealth Comes OutSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMax’s twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMaxMax’s Website: https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/wxB4qDBjfaZNqn9vSidLnn4dGbV/pos PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 The Inevitability of Statism?00:05:55 A Thought Experiment on Statism: Alien Invasion00:09:28 The Chimera of “Limited Government”00:14:04 Why is Defense Different Than Any Other Industry?00:15:31 Did Nation-States Arise from Technological Realities?00:17:07 A Thought Experiment on Statism: Individual Invincibility00:22:15 Unassailable Property Makes Statism Irrelevant00:26:00 The Zero-Sum Revenue Model of Statism00:33:07 Bitcoin’s Price in Relation to The Demand for Security00:34:38 Can Bitcoin Miners Operate At a Loss?00:38:48 NYDIG00:39:56 The Rise and Fall of States Across History00:43:09 Inviolable Property Makes Statism Irrelevant?00:47:19 Is Bitcoin a Regulator on The Growth of Statism?00:50:45 The Ratio of Resistance to StatismSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMax’s twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMaxMax’s Website: https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/wxB4qDBjfaZNqn9vSidLnn4dGbV/pos PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Humans Mediate Between Heaven and Earth00:05:25 Ethical Strategies Outcompete Unethical Strategies00:06:50 Reason Tells Us to Protect Ourselves From Others’ Unreasonableness00:09:44 The Cypherpunk Ethos00:14:19 Strategy for Overcoming Central Banking00:16:30 Statism: An Ideology of Violating Private Property Rights00:22:05 Statism is All About Controlling Resources00:24:14 Liberty: A Stateless State00:26:24 The State and Psychotechnological Bootstrapping?00:30:36 NYDIG00:31:45 Is Statism Transitory?00:34:23 Human Action Aimed at “Something For Nothing”00:38:25 Bitcoin and the Realignment of Truth and Power00:40:49 “The Further a Society Drifts From the Truth…”00:43:52 Bitcoin Combines “Carrots and Sticks”00:46:29 Bitcoin as a Forcing Function for Fixing The World00:50:20 Bitcoin: Rothbardian Ethics in a Strategic Implementation00:52:45 “Read Rothbard and Use Bitcoin”SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

John Vervaeke joins me for a deep conversation exploring his work as a cognitive scientist and his YouTube lecture series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTJohn’s twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_johnJohn’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaekeJohn’s Lecture Series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Domicide: The Loss of Home00:03:19 The Meaning Crisis as Cosmic Domicide00:06:17 Niche Construction, Baldwin Effect, and Co-Creation of Identities00:08:48 Worldview Attunement: Mutual Shaping of Agent and Arena00:10:00 Conspiracy Theory: An Attempt to Use Mythos to Home Reality00:12:29 Domicide and the Violation of Property Rights00:16:45 Democracy’s Contribution to Domicide00:18:02 The Original Meaning of Violence is “To Violate”00:18:49 Property Consists of the Things Which Constitute Identity00:19:44 Niche Construction: Mediation Between Territory and Property00:21:03 Christianity Turned the Ancient Roman Empire into a Home00:22:25 “Call No Man a Philosopher Who Has Not Alleviated the Suffering of Others”00:23:29 The Ancient Roman Monopoly on Violence00:26:50 “It’s Not the State that Makes Us Persons, It’s Agape”00:28:21 “The Narcissist is Hungry to Be At Home, But Conquers Territory Instead”00:30:09 Inviolable Property is the Immortality of Civilization00:35:37 The Tension Between Time Preference and Presence00:38:11 A Point of Processing Between Ontological Modes00:41:24 The Domicidal Case of the Grassy Narrows00:45:03 The Hellenistic Domicide, Stoicism, and Valorization of The Logos00:48:07 “It’s Not What You Set Your Heart On, It’s How You Set Your Heart”00:50:10 NYDIG00:51:18 “He Who Has a Why Can Bear Any How”00:52:22 Domicide as the Scarcity of Meaning00:58:22 Post-1971 Centralization, Corruption, and Zombie Mythology01:02:23 Zombie Mythology as an Inversion of Christianity01:03:41 Property as a Socioeconomic “Optimal Grip”01:06:06 The Connection Between Self-Ownership and Optimal Grip of Virtue01:08:38 The Paradox of Courage: Water and Wine01:10:19 The Mythos of Moby Dick01:13:17 Zombie: The Symbol of The Meaning Crisis01:15:39 “Of Course They’re Called Zombie Companies!”01:18:22 Secular Religiosity: The Deep Faith In Ideological Stances01:19:54 Philosophy: The Resolution to The Age of Anxiety01:21:27 Christianity as Mediator of “Individuation” and “Participation”01:23:41 Attraction Between The Christian Mythos and Neo-Platonic Logos01:24:46 Wisdom: Transcendence of The Meaning Crisis01:28:30 The Cognitive Conceptual Grammar vs. The Scientific Worldview01:31:06 The Paradox of Religiosity in America: Non-Theist Theism01:33:38 Fundamentalism and Perceived Perfection01:34:49 Nihilism is Fundamentalism in The Scientific Worldview01:36:30 The Paradox of Science: “Science Has No Part of The Scientific Worldview”01:38:49 Transjectivity: Transcending Subject-Object DualitySOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/