The "What is Money?" Show

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/

Michael Saylor joins me to discuss anthropology, energy, and technology from first principles as we build the intellectual foundation necessary to truly grasp the historic significance of Bitcoin.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMichael's twitter: https://twitter.com/saylorMichael's company: https://www.microstrategy.com/enMichael's website: https://www.hope.com/CHANNELPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8...RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Bitcoin Technical Applications: Treasury Management00:03:40 “When the Ducks Are Quacking, Feed the Ducks”00:06:12 Bitcoin as the Base Property Protocol00:08:30 “Currency is an Application of Money”00:10:26 Bitcoin Enables Universally Accessible Application Development00:11:33 How Some Governments Can Use Bitcoin to Eliminate Taxation00:13:13 How an Energy Company Can Play the Bitcoin Mining Game00:15:17 The Hierarchical Nature of Wealth00:16:30 How an Insurance Company Can Integrate with Bitcoin00:19:03 How to “Juice” Bond Fund Returns by Blending with Bitcoin00:21:32 How Bitcoin Can Augment Traditional Financial Structured Products00:23:33 How Bitcoin Can Enhance Trusts and Endowments00:25:32 “$100T of Bonds and Fixed-Income Assets are Broken”00:26:36 Why Bitcoin Can Never be Overvalued00:27:45 The Hardware Applications of Bitcoin00:29:37 How Operating Systems Can Integrate with Bitcoin00:30:58 NYDIG00:32:06 How Cloud-Based Applications Can Integrate with Bitcoin00:33:36 Adding Social Network User “Skin in the Game” with Bitcoin00:36:59 Incentivizing Digital Civility with Bitcoin Security Deposits00:39:21 Zero-Cost Spamming Leads to DDOS Attacks Ad Infinitum00:41:15 Proof of Work Originated as an Countermeasure to Spam00:45:44 How Bitcoin Can Change Entertainment, News, and Service Sectors00:50:24 How Bitcoin Impacts the Legacy Credit Card Networks00:54:08 Robert's OutroSOCIALBreedlove 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?l...All 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/RBree...Dollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=178435...The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=328431...RECOMMENDED 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/bitcoinco...Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3h3lL0jIBAC 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/

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 Rights of Animals00:05:01 Animals Exhibit Proto-Purposeful Action?00:09:36 Self-Reflection as the Ultimate Evolutionary Advantage00:12:37 Does “Might Make Right?”00:18:54 Participation in the Division of Labor is the Line of Action00:24:23 Rothbardian Libertarianism and Darwinism00:29:05 NYDIG00:30:13 Liberty: Ethics vs. Strategy00:35:31 How Ethics Can Be Corrupted00:41:17 Property Rights are a Universal Ethic00:46:22 The Unreasonableness of Zero-Sum Games00:47:47 Pooling Pressure and Institutional Collapse00:49:11 Why Bitcoin is at The Pinnacle of Human Reason00:53:42 Why Merchant Full Nodes Matter for Bitcoin00:56:11 All Technologies are Backed by People00:56:57 Bitcoin Assumes the Axis of ResistanceSOCIALBreedlove 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 Introduction to The Power of Mythology00:03:25 Logos vs. Mythos00:05:16 The Metaphor00:06:42 Metaphor, Insight Realization, and Humor00:09:46 Metaphor and Cross-Domain Insight “Explosion”00:10:53 Metaphor’s Connection to Procedural Knowledge00:13:00 “Understanding, Grasping, Getting, and Seeing”00:14:44 Relevance Realization: “Game Theory All The Way Down”00:16:14 The Symbol00:17:26 “How to Hold Justice In Mind”00:18:32 The Cerebellum: Justice, Voluntary Movement, and Balance00:19:56 Perspectival Knowing: Holding “Justice is Blind” in Mind00:21:50 “You Don’t Just Know About Balance, You Enact It”00:23:24 Proprioception: To Be “In Touch” With Something00:24:19 How Things Shape the Mind: Material Engagement Theory00:27:12 The Imaginal00:29:50 “Trying on a Worldview”: Imaginal Augmentation of Reality00:32:36 Virtue and the Construction of Sacred Canopies00:33:52 NYDIG00:35:02 Virtue is the Beauty of Wisdom00:36:22 Supernatural Selection: The Human Capacity for “Religio”00:37:57 “Narrative Turns You Into a Temporally-Extended Agent”00:38:39 Personal Identity is Apriori and Allows for Aspiration00:40:28 “Why A Dog Can Never Tell You About Its Parents…”00:42:44 Mythos: A Psychotechnology for Perennial and Pertinent Patterns00:44:08 Mythos in Action: Predator Emulating Prey00:46:26 “A Dream is a Private Myth; A Myth is a Public Dream”00:48:32 Alchemy Was the Dream from which Science Was Born00:50:27 The Interdependence of The Mythos and The Logos00:51:47 Metabolic Work and Reversal Theory; Goals and Activities00:55:06 Play vs. Candy00:57:06 “Play Relates to The Eternal; Work Relates to The Immortal”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/

Michael Saylor joins me to discuss anthropology, energy, and technology from first principles as we build the intellectual foundation necessary to truly grasp the historic significance of Bitcoin.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMichael's twitter: https://twitter.com/saylorMichael's company: https://www.microstrategy.com/enMichael's website: https://www.hope.com/CHANNELPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8...RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 The Relative Energy and Technology Intensity of Bitcoin Mining00:03:58 Encrypted Energy is Used to Secure the Network00:06:24 Bitcoin Mining Evolves from Energy to Technology Intensity00:09:25 Bitcoin Miners Face Continuous Darwinian Pressures00:12:05 Approaching Bitcoin Mining Peak Energy Consumption?00:14:06 Adam Smithian and Darwinian Aspects are Critical Advantages00:17:48 An Open, Competitive Market is an Honest Market00:19:57 Bitcoin Mining Profitability: A Function of Hash to Hodl Rates00:23:12 The World is in a “Digital Gold Rush” Until 203500:26:48 The Evolution of Bitcoin Mining Business Models00:28:41 Misunderstanding the Economics of Bitcoin Mining00:30:06 Proof of Work is Synchronization with Political and Physical Reality00:33:11 The Layered Scaling of Bitcoin00:37:59 NYDIG00:39:07 The Lightning Network as a Logical Scaling Layer00:42:28 Layer 2 Protocols Tradeoff to Gain Performance or Functionality00:45:19 Centralization and Decentralization at Layer 200:47:27 Higher Layer Applications and Regulatory Compliance00:50:34 The Range of Bitcoin Financial Applications00:54:36 Bitcoin Technical Applications: Mobile Money and Finance01:00:17 Robert's OutroSOCIALBreedlove 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?l...All 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/RBree...Dollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=178435...The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=328431...RECOMMENDED 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/bitcoinco...Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3h3lL0jIBAC 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/

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 Police and the Proportionality of Crime00:04:05 Blurring the Individual into Group Identity00:07:40 An Unshakable Epistemic Foundation00:10:58 Are Children the Property of their Parents?00:13:44 The Legality of Abortion00:16:40 The Rights of Children and Parents00:23:05 A Free Market for, Children!?00:28:12 Libertarian Children are Free to Run Away00:35:43 Implementing Libertarian Philosophy00:39:54 The Free Market Make Families Freer00:44:13 The Legal System: A Measure of Last Resort00:47:56 Blackmail00:53:46 Intellectual Property is a Scam00:56:08 You Don’t Own Your Reputation00:59:58 Libel is Discriminatory Against the Poor01:04:26 NYDIG01:05:34 Bribery: An Asymmetry of Legitimacy01:11:13 “You Have the Right to Slap Bureaucrats”01:17:04 The Evil of Legal Monopolies01:18:33 Boycotts01:25:51 “What About the Roads!?”01:31:39 Property is the Basis of CivilizationSOCIALBreedlove 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/