

The Bitcoin Infinity Show
Knut Svanholm and Luke de Wolf
The Bitcoin Infinity Show is a Bitcoin podcast hosted by Knut Svanholm and Luke de Wolf. In each episode, we explore everything from deep philosophy to practical tools to emit freedom dioxide to expand your freedom footprint. Join us as we head toward the orange glowing light together!
Episodes
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Jan 3, 2023 • 1h 8min
Santos Hernandez Introduces Emeralize - A Lightning-Powered E-Learning Platform
Santos Hernandez joins the Freedom Footprint Show to introduce Emeralize, a new education platform described as a cross between Substack and Udemy and powered by Lightning! Santos also shares his views on education and his educational background, which have both informed the development of Emeralize and underline why it's important to spread quality education while providing earning potential for educators.
Connect with Santos on Twitter: https://twitter.com/5antoshernandez
Follow Emeralize on Twitter: https://twitter.com/emeralizeapp
Visit Emeralize! https://emeralize.app
Find out more about Santos at his website: https://santos.lol/
More Santos links:
https://zebedee.io
https://nbd.wtf
https://azb.tc
00:01:01 - Introduction to Santos Hernandez of Emeralize
00:02:06 - Santos' background - personal and Bitcoin
00:05:37 - Why Santos dropped out of school
00:09:49 - Introduction to Emeralize
00:15:14 - New Possibilities with Bitcoin
00:17:19 - Timeline and Roadmap for Emeralize
00:22:02 - How Editing Works on Emeralize
00:27:35 - Potential for Homeschooling with Emeralize
00:31:43 - Grades and the Education System
00:34:04 - Teaching Others as a Way to Learn
00:38:16 - Building Emeralize with Bitcoin and Lightning
00:45:12 - The Importance of User Experience
00:47:38 - The Goal of Emeralize
00:53:04 - Free vs Paid Education
01:00:58 - The Effect of Technological Advancement
The Freedom Footprint Show is hosted by Knut Svanholm and BTCPseudoFinn. We are concerned about your Freedom Footprint! Join us as we talk to #bitcoin philosophers about how #bitcoin can expand your Freedom Footprint and much more!
The show is sponsored by Orange Pill App, the social network for bitcoiners aiming to increase hyperbitcoinization in your local area. Download the Orange Pill App today! See https://www.theorangepillapp.com/ for details and connect with them on Twitter https://twitter.com/orangepillapp
The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the first #bitcoin only publishing house. Check out Konsensus.Network for Bitcoin books in more than a dozen languages, both original and in translation.
Follow us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/FootprintShow
https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm
https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn
https://twitter.com/KonsensusN
Visit our websites for more info:
https://konsensus.network/
https://bitcoinbook.shop/
https://www.knutsvanholm.com/

Dec 27, 2022 • 1h 28min
Björn Tisjö the Swedish Bitcoin Author and Translator
Björn Tisjö is a Swedish former politician turned Bitcoin author and translation editor, working on growing Bitcoin adoption locally in Sweden. Björn is the editor of the Swedish edition of the Bitcoin Standard and is about to release his own Bitcoin book in Swedish.
You can find Björn on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/bjorntisjo
The Swedish version of the Bitcoin Standard is available here: https://konsensus.network/product/sverige-bitcoinstandarden/
Björn's book is Bitcoin Handboken and you can find more information on his website: https://bitcoinhandboken.se/
For more Swedish Bitcoin resources, check out Bitcoin Sverige: https://www.bitcoinsverige.org/
00:00:56 - Introduction to Björn Tisjö - Former Politician and Editor of Swedish Bitcoin Standard
00:07:08 - Björn's Bitcoin Story - Bitcoin and Politics
00:14:23 - Bitcoin is Zero to One
00:16:45 - The Biggest Takeaway from The Bitcoin Standard
00:22:10 - Bitcoin and Chess - Common Rules
00:23:49 - Nobel Prizes for Bad Economists
00:25:36 - Conspiracy Theory Rabbit Holes
00:31:28 - Björn's Bitcoin Book - Bitcoin Handboken
00:33:48 - Bitcoin Books by non-Bitcoiners (initially)
00:36:41 - Conference Experiences
00:38:02 - Orange Pill App
00:39:02 - More About Conferences
00:40:44 - Helping People Find Bitcoin
00:44:12 - The Importance of Bitcoin Resources in Your Own Language
00:48:34 - Praxeology - Knut's New Book and More
00:51:49 - Profits - If You're Against Profits, You're For Losses
00:54:51 - How Bitcoin Fixes This From First Principles
00:58:08 - The Philosophy of Hodling
01:06:38 - The Difference Between Saving and Hodling
01:10:09 - Finding Bitcoin at the Right Time
01:11:31 - Where to Find Björn's Bitcoin Book?
01:16:54 - Engaging Politics to Further Bitcoin
01:20:56 - Explaining Bitcoin to People
01:24:23 - Conclusions and Summarizing
The Freedom Footprint Show is hosted by Knut Svanholm and BTCPseudoFinn. We are concerned about your Freedom Footprint! Join us as we talk to #bitcoin philosophers about how #bitcoin can expand your Freedom Footprint and much more!
The show is sponsored by Orange Pill App, the social network for bitcoiners aiming to increase hyperbitcoinization in your local area. Download the Orange Pill App today! See https://www.theorangepillapp.com/ for details and connect with them on Twitter https://twitter.com/orangepillapp
The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the first #bitcoin only publishing house. Check out Konsensus.Network for Bitcoin books in more than a dozen languages, both original and in translation.
Follow us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/FootprintShow
https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm
https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn
https://twitter.com/KonsensusN
Visit our websites for more info:
https://konsensus.network/
https://bitcoinbook.shop/
https://www.knutsvanholm.com/

Dec 20, 2022 • 1h 42min
Matteo Pellegrini Introduces Orange Pill App
Matteo Pellegrini is the founder of Orange Pill App - a new Bitcoin social network for connecting with local Bitcoiners to build the circular Bitcoin economy and to speed up hyperbitcoinization. Matteo joins the Freedom Footprint Show to tell us his story, including his background in economics and entrepreneurship, his Bitcoin Orange Pill journey, and all about Orange Pill App.
You can find Orange Pill App at their website: https://www.theorangepillapp.com/
More Orange Pill App links: https://linktr.ee/orangepillapp
And their Twitter: https://twitter.com/orangepillapp
You can find Matteo on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/RyanDelongpre
00:00:00 - Intro Clip
00:00:51 - Introduction to Matteo and Orange Pill App
00:09:32 - Matteo's Background - Economics Studies and Entrepreneurship
00:22:26 - Matteo's Orange Pill Story - How Matteo Found Bitcoin
00:40:33 - The Importance of Bitcoin and Comparison to Keynesian Economics
00:55:15 - More about the Bitcoin Standard
01:02:45 - Orange Pill App Deep Dive
01:32:38 - Summarizing and Concluding
The Freedom Footprint Show is hosted by Knut Svanholm and BTCPseudoFinn. We are concerned about your Freedom Footprint! Join us as we talk to #bitcoin philosophers about how #bitcoin can expand your Freedom Footprint and much more!
The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the first #bitcoin only publishing house.
Follow us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/FootprintShow
https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm
https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn
https://twitter.com/KonsensusN
Visit our websites for more info:
https://konsensus.network/
https://bitcoinbook.shop/
https://www.knutsvanholm.com/

Dec 15, 2022 • 1h 52min
Troy Cross Talks Bitcoin Philosophy with Knut Svanholm
Troy Cross joins the Freedom Footprint Show and discusses Bitcoin Philosophy with Knut Svanholm. The conversation is wide-ranging, including comparing praxeology and decision theory, ethics, the natural state of money, the benefits of printing money (none), and much more.
You can find Troy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thetrocro
00:00:21 - Introduction and welcoming Troy to the show
00:01:53 - Being an "actual" philosopher means nothing
00:04:27 - Constructs and models of Bitcoin
00:06:50 - The validity of science - a priori vs a posteriori
00:16:00 - Austrian Economics book recommendations
00:18:51 - Descartes and the relationship between praxeology and mathematics
00:26:31 - The Ethics of Liberty
00:34:10 - Decision Theory vs Praxeology
00:40:31 - Praxeology Thought Experiments
00:46:47 - The Natural State of Money
00:53:34 - The Benefit of Printing Money
01:15:19 - The Natural Money Supply
01:20:40 - Bitcoin as a measuring stick
01:22:41 - Blockspace, Clockspace, Spacetime, and Timespace
01:33:48 - Quantum Attack on Bitcoin
01:38:41 - Conclusions and Summarizing
The Freedom Footprint Show is hosted by Knut Svanholm and BTCPseudoFinn. We are concerned about your Freedom Footprint! Join us as we talk to #bitcoin philosophers about how #bitcoin can expand your Freedom Footprint and much more!
The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the first #bitcoin only publishing house.
Follow us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/FootprintShow
https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm
https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn
https://twitter.com/KonsensusN
Visit our websites for more info:
https://konsensus.network/
https://bitcoinbook.shop/
https://www.knutsvanholm.com/

Dec 6, 2022 • 1h 14min
Tomer Strolight on Bitcoin and the Nature of Truth
Tomer Strolight (possible Knut Svanholm clone) joins the Freedom Footprint Show to discuss interesting projects and the nature of Bitcoin and truth.
You can find Tomer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TomerStrolight
Get Tomer's book Why Bitcoin for free: https://event.swanbitcoin.com/whybitcoin/
You can also buy his book at: https://www.blurb.com/user/TomerStrolig
The Blocksize War article: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/block-size-war-soldier-freedom
00:00:00 - Preview Clip
00:01:17 - Introduction
00:03:09 - Tomer Strolight joins the show and introduces himself
00:04:30 - Satoshi - the Cyber Opera
00:14:37 - Contributing to Bitcoin in different ways
00:16:10 - Conference Recaps (Pacific Bitcoin, Baltic Honey Badger, and others)
00:22:44 - Playing the cards you're dealt and the relation to praxeology
00:27:10 - The nature of Bitcoiners
00:32:32 - Bitcoin and Truth
00:41:33 - The Goal of the Pursuit of Truth
00:44:10 - The truth about Bitcoin ownership
00:47:29 - Bitcoin can only improve
00:52:29 - Bitcoin's strategic importance and surrounding ideas
00:58:44 - Sumarizing - what is the aim of learning about Bitcoin?
01:00:53 - The true value of NFTs (none)
01:06:57 - Where to find Tomer and his work
The Freedom Footprint Show is hosted by Knut Svanholm and BTCPseudoFinn. We are concerned about your Freedom Footprint! Join us as we talk to #bitcoin philosophers about how #bitcoin can expand your Freedom Footprint and much more!
The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the first #bitcoin only publishing house.
Follow us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/FootprintShow
https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm
https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn
https://twitter.com/KonsensusN
Visit our websites for more info:
https://konsensus.network/
https://bitcoinbook.shop/
https://www.knutsvanholm.com/

Nov 29, 2022 • 2h 10min
Max Hillebrand on Praxeology, Austrian Economics, and Bitcoin
Max Hillebrand is a free software entrepreneur and sound money philosopher. Max joins the Freedom Footprint show to deep dive into praxeology, the theory of human action underpinning Austrian economics, and to explore the connection to Bitcoin.
You can find Max on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMax
Max's website is https://towardsliberty.com/
And check out Wasabi Wallet at https://wasabiwallet.io/
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:02 - Max Hillebrand joins the Freedom Footprint show
00:03:48 - Praxeology book recommendations
00:05:57 - Introduction to Praxeology
00:16:14 - The definition of property, and action as purposeful behavior
00:24:20 - What prices really are - ordinal values vs cardinal prices
00:28:49 - Scarcity, abundance, time, and technology
00:37:44 - The true scarcity of Bitcoin
00:43:29 - Privacy and protecting Bitcoin - the guy with the gun scenario
00:50:49 - What is time preference?
00:55:55 - Theory on Capitalism and Socialism in Austrian economics
01:03:08 - Gresham's law and Bitcoin
01:10:04 - Bitcoin optimism - how Bitcoin supports the goodness of humanity
01:15:23 - The problems of inflation and how Bitcoin fixes it
01:22:17 - Saving vs Hodling, and the cost of moving and storing Bitcoin
01:31:47 - Bitcoin and the concept of property
01:35:36 - Why praxeology is important and useful to know about
01:41:06 - The rules of praxeology and Knut's alternatives
01:45:27 - Political implications of praxeology
01:49:54 - Bitcoin and praxeology as universal ethics
01:54:32 - What Bitcoin does to Bitcoiners
02:01:23 - Wrapping up - where to find Max
Referenced Books:
The Ethics of Liberty - Murray Rothbard
Economic Science and the Austrian Method - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The Last Knight of Liberalism - Ludwig Von Mises
A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The Freedom Footprint Show is hosted by Knut Svanholm and BTCPseudoFinn. We are concerned about your Freedom Footprint! Join us as we talk to #bitcoin philosophers about how #bitcoin can expand your Freedom Footprint and much more!
The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the first #bitcoin only publishing house.
Follow us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/FootprintShow
https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm
https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn
https://twitter.com/KonsensusN
Visit our websites for more info:
https://konsensus.network/
https://bitcoinbook.shop/
https://www.knutsvanholm.com/

Nov 24, 2022 • 1h 5min
Annonymal the Bitcoin Metal Band
Annonymal is the first Bitcoin metal band, aiming to orange pill metalheads, and metal-pill bitcoiners at the same time! We discuss the philosophical connection between Bitcoin and metal, how metal music is resistance against stateism, and the influence of music on all our lives.
You can find Annonymal on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Annonymal_btc
To support Annonymal's album, check them out on Geyser.fund: https://geyser.fund/project/anonymal
Annonymal is also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@annonymal
00:00:00 - Introduction, Fountain, and Konsensus
00:04:19 - Welcome and introduction to Annonymal
00:06:36 - Sepultura, Slayer, and the connection between metal music and Bitcoin
00:09:50 - The Annonymal concept, raging against stateism and promoting Bitcoin with metal
00:15:32 - The role of metal in Knut's life
00:22:40 - The philosophy of Bitcoin and metal - family, statism, satanism, freedom of speech, and property rights
00:34:04 - How to support the upcoming Annonymal album - https://geyser.fund/project/anonymal
00:38:30 - Annonymal's orange pill goals - orange pill tour, orange pill app, and more
00:43:30 - Appealing to Bitcoiner non-metalheads and metalhead non-Bitcoiners
00:53:25 - Spending sats to support something tangible, spend and replace
00:57:53 - Wrapping up, where to find Annonymal, how to support Annonymal and Freedom Footprint
The Freedom Footprint Show is hosted by Knut Svanholm and BTCPseudoFinn. We are concerned about your Freedom Footprint! Join us as we talk to #bitcoin philosophers about how #bitcoin can expand your Freedom Footprint and much more!
The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the first #bitcoin only publishing house.
Follow us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/FootprintShow
https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm
https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn
https://twitter.com/KonsensusN
Visit our websites for more info:
https://konsensus.network/
https://bitcoinbook.shop/
https://www.knutsvanholm.com/

Nov 1, 2022 • 1h 9min
Jeff Booth on Finding Signal In A Noisy World
Jeff Booth joins the Freedom Footprint Show to discuss the latest European Bitcoin conferences, Bitcoin monetary properties, and more about the FREE Madeira project.
You can find Jeff on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JeffBooth
The Price of Tomorrow is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Price-Tomorrow-Deflation-Abundant-Future/dp/1999257405
Jeff's article Finding Signal In A Noisy World: https://medium.com/@JeffBooth/finding-signal-in-a-noisy-world-57497df06a35
Information about the FREE Maderia project can be found at their website: https://www.freemadeira.com/
The Based In Madeira Podcast can be found at their YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaN2Zkvb4-rEYUcCdDTnbBQ
00:00 - Introduction to Jeff Booth, author of The Price of Tomorrow
02:04 - Conference recaps - Amsterdam, Bulgaria, and the borderlessness of Bitcoin
04:20 - The power of money and the connection to authoritarianism
13:15 - Finding the signal through the noise, and Bitcoin as a protocol (add article link)
24:39 - The bridge to the other side, and the power of network effects
35:36 - Humanity searching for energy, storage, and compute
40:14 - The FREE Maderia project and Jeff's involvement - shoutout @andreloja
51:35 - The distribution of Bitcoin in the future and under hyperbitcoinization
01:04:24 - Closing thoughts
The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the 1st Bitcoin only publishing house. The show is based on the mind and works of Knut Svanholm and will feature guests from the deep end of bitcoin thinkers.
Follow us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/FootprintShow
https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm
https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn
https://twitter.com/KonsensusN
Visit our websites for more info:
https://konsensus.network/
https://bitcoinbook.shop/
https://www.knutsvanholm.com/

Oct 17, 2022 • 1h 2min
Knut Svanholm on the FREE Madeira Project
Knut discusses the FREE Madeira project in the middle of a busy month filled with conferences. No guest this time, but there's still plenty of musing and philosophizing.
Information about the FREE Maderia project can be found at their website: https://www.freemadeira.com/
00:00 - Intro
06:53 - Borderlessness in the Bitcoin age
09:01 - Element Zero video with Ioni Appelberg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12zBLvoVRFQ
16:36 - Evolution of Knut's ideas over time
22:02 - Metaphors for Bitcoin and Bitcoin as money
29:26 - Satoshi and Pythagorus
36:02 - The Hodlonaut trial and why Bitcoin can't lose it
42:21 - Why it doesn't matter who Satoshi is
50:12 - The FREE Madeira Project
59:34 - Closing thoughts - October conferences and more
The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the 1st bitcoin only publishing house. The show is based on the mind and works of Knut Svanholm and will feature guests from the deep end of bitcoin thinkers.
Follow us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/FootprintShow
https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm
https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn
https://twitter.com/KonsensusN
Visit our websites for more info:
https://konsensus.network/
https://bitcoinbook.shop/
https://www.knutsvanholm.com/

Oct 3, 2022 • 1h 41min
Daniel Prince of the Once Bitten Podcast on Education and Bitcoin Projects
Daniel Prince of the Once Bitten Podcast joins the Freedom Footprint Show to discuss his perspective on education, as well as multiple ongoing Bitcoin projects including the Orange Pill App, Bitcoin Racing, and some to-be-announced news about Madeira.
00:00:00 - Introduction to Daniel with special guest Lauren
00:16:16 - Atoning for Fiat sins, and abolishing the state education system
00:22:22 - Danial pours a beer better than Stephan Livera
00:22:36 - Greedy capitalist villains will not exist under a hyperbitcoinized world
00:26:48 - Recap of Baltic Honey Badger conference in Riga and preview of upcoming conferences
00:52:56 - The ideal education system is no system
01:12:45 - Discussing Austrian Economics education books
01:16:27 - The Bitcoin blockchain height as proof of consciousness
01:21:01 - The nature of Bitcoin and reality
01:31:31 - Who would you orange pill and who would you brown pill?
01:37:33 - Conclusion - thanks to Daniel Prince!
Connect with Daniel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PrinceySOV
Listen to the Once Bitten Podcast on Fountain: https://fountain.fm/show/2oJTnUm5VKs3xmSVdf5n
Bitcoin Racing: https://bitcoinracing.co.uk/
Orange Pill App: https://mobile.twitter.com/orangepillapp
The Freedom Footprint Show is produced by Konsensus Network, the 1st bitcoin only publishing house. The show is based on the mind and works of Knut Svanholm and will feature guests from the deep end of bitcoin thinkers.
Follow us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/FootprintShow
https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm
https://twitter.com/BtcPseudoFinn
https://twitter.com/KonsensusN
Visit our websites for more info:
https://konsensus.network/
https://bitcoinbook.shop/
https://www.knutsvanholm.com/


