The Bitcoin Matrix

You will not want to miss this epic rip with the Bitcoin Radical. In this wide-ranging and free-flowing conversation with gnarley libertarian, independent thinker & truth seeker Surfer Jim, the Bitcoin Radical, we cover his life-long passion of surfing, the parasites that write rules on paper, Chamath, shitcoins, regulatory capture, toxic maximalism, Bitcoin's immaculate conception, integrity, honesty, trustworthiness, the desire to do good, the seven habits of highly effective people and why Bitcoin is even money. I hope that you enjoy this fantastic chat as much as I did. This episode was brought to you by LEDN, Bitcoin Magazine and the Bitcoin 2022 conference. LEDN.IO is a secure, simple and easy to use platform for managing and growing your digital wealth. If you want to see what it’s all about and get $50 free in USDC when you take out your first LEDN loan head over to start.ledn.io/bitcoinmatrix. Bitcoin2022 Conference which celebrates bitcoin over 4 days (April 6-9th, 2022) with 4 different passes. The four days include Industry day, 2 days of main events and speakers, and lastly, a festival day which is a day of music and networking. Prices will continue to rise over the next few months so get in early and use my affiliate code for 10% off My affiliate code is: CEDRIC2022 My affiliate link is: tixr.com/pr/CEDRIC2022/26217 Make sure to subscribe, listen, learn and share the Bitcoin Matrix podcast. Folllow Surfer Jim on twitter at @surferjimw Follow the Bitcoin Matrix on twitter at @delabtcmatrix Follow me on Twitter at @CedYoungelman iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/bitcoinitunes YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/bitcoinonyoutube Google Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/bitcoingoogle https://www.facebook.com/TheBitcoinMatrixPodcast Web: https://bitcoinmatrix.libsyn.com/ Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/bitcoinspotify

Ben Kaufman is a young, shadowy, super-coder, unlicensed software engineer, coding at Specter Wallet and Chief Conspiracy Theorist at Clown World Today News. In this very special episode, Ben calls in from an undisclosed location to discuss leaving Israel, building the open-source Bitcoin project Specter Wallet, utilizing the Bitcoin Network as an underground railroad system for the 21st century and deplatforming. This episode was brought to you by LEDN, Bitcoin Magazine and the Bitcoin 2022 conference. LEDN.IO is a secure, simple and easy to use platform for managing and growing your digital wealth. If you want to see what it’s all about and get $50 free in USDC when you take out your first LEDN loan head over to start.ledn.io/bitcoinmatrix. Bitcoin2022 Conference which celebrates bitcoin over 4 days (April 6-9th, 2022) with 4 different passes. The four days include Industry day, 2 days of main events and speakers, and lastly, a festival day which is a day of music and networking. Prices will continue to rise over the next few months so get in early and use my affiliate code for 10% off My affiliate code is: CEDRIC2022 My affiliate link is: tixr.com/pr/CEDRIC2022/26217 Make sure to subscribe, listen, learn and share the Bitcoin Matrix podcast. Folllow Ben Kaufman on twitter at @_benkaufman Chief Conspiracy Theorist at @cwt_news Coding @SpecterWallet Substack: https://benkaufman.substack.com benkaufman.info Follow the Bitcoin Matrix on twitter at @delabtcmatrix Follow me on Twitter at @CedYoungelman iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/bitcoinitunes YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/bitcoinonyoutube Google Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/bitcoingoogle https://www.facebook.com/TheBitcoinMatrixPodcast Web: https://bitcoinmatrix.libsyn.com/ Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/bitcoinspotify

"The only way to learn is to begin by admitting to yourself: 'I don't know'. This is also the only way to be free." - Tomer Strolight Tomer Strolight is a long time bitcoiner who has recently started writing prolifically about the insights he has gained over the years. Tomer is the host of For The Love Of Bitcoin podcast and a popular writer within the Bitcoin space. Tomer Strolight strives for and believes in sovereignty, truth and integrity. In this very special chat, Tomer reads from and we discuss the following amazing pieces of his: - "Rich or Poor Bitcoiners Have What Money Can’t Buy" - "Bitcoin is a Test" - "Why Everything That Should Hurt Bitcoin Only Makes It Stronger" - "Why Bitcoin is the Most Important Thing Happening in the World Right Now? I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did as Tomer really brings the wisdom, lots of beautiful insights and his calming demeanor in this fantastic rip. This episode was brought to you by LEDN, Bitcoin Magazine and the Bitcoin 2022 conference. LEDN.IO is a secure, simple and easy to use platform for managing and growing your digital wealth. If you want to see what it’s all about and get $50 free in USDC when you take out your first LEDN loan head over to start.ledn.io/bitcoinmatrix. Bitcoin2022 Conference which celebrates bitcoin over 4 days (April 6-9th, 2022) with 4 different passes. The four days include Industry day, 2 days of main events and speakers, and lastly, a festival day which is a day of music and networking. Prices will continue to rise over the next few months so get in early and use my affiliate code for 10% off My affiliate code is: CEDRIC2022 My affiliate link is: tixr.com/pr/CEDRIC2022/26217 Make sure to subscribe, listen, learn and share the Bitcoin Matrix podcast. Folllow Tomer Strolight on twitter @TomerStrolight Follow the Bitcoin Matrix on twitter @delabtcmatrix Follow me on Twitter @CedYoungelman

"What happens when the oil & gas lobby become pro bitcoin? Do we even need a #btc lobby at that point!?! The Oil & Gas industry is really powerful and really wealthy!" - Adam O Adam O AKA Denver Bitcoin is the business development officer for the US market for Upstream Data, a company that pairs modular bitcoin mining datacenters to natural gas engines, to convert waste energy (natural gas), into the best form of money the world has ever known - bitcoin. Adam is a pioneer in this emerging industry, and he brings a ton of passion and energy to Bitcoin mining and the upstream oil and gas industry. His articles have been published in Bitcoin Magazine and Coinbeast Media where he also provides 1 on 1 consultations on bitcoin mining. Denver Bitcoin is also the co-founder of Stranded Energy Investments. We discuss the oil & gas industry, bitcoin mining, the moralization of the production and consumption of energy and those crazy digital wildcats that are squatting on magic internet money getting it from stranded and wasted energy sources. “The government pioneered the shitcoin” This episode is brought to you by LEDN. LEDN is a secure, simple and easy to use platform for managing and growing your digital wealth. LEDN is the first digital asset lender with transparency and security of a formal Proof of Reserves attestation - raising the bar in the space. If you want to see what it’s all about, head over to start.ledn.io/bitcoinmatrix and get $50 free in USDC when you take out your first LEDN loan. Get started earning interest now on your Bitcoin and USDC with the industries best rates Or, use your Bitcoin as collateral with LEDN Loans to get quick access to dollars or double your bitcoin savings with the popular B2X Loan. Make sure to subscribe, listen, learn and share the Bitcoin Matrix podcast. Folllow AdamO on twitter @DenverBitcoin Follow the Bitcoin Matrix on twitter @delabtcmatrix Follow me on Twitter @CedYoungelman

In this chat with heavyweight boxing contender Adam Kownacki we talk about his time growing up in the Polish neighborhood of Greenepoint, Brooklyn, how he got into boxing, experiencing his first loss, his upcoming rematch with Robert Helenius in Las Vegas this October and proving yourself. This episode is brought to you by LEDN. LEDN is a secure, simple and easy to use platform for managing and growing your digital wealth. LEDN is the first digital asset lender with transparency and security of a formal Proof of Reserves attestation - raising the bar in the space. If you want to see what it’s all about, head over to start.ledn.io/bitcoinmatrix and get $25 free in USDC when you take out your first LEDN loan. Get started earning interest now on your Bitcoin and USDC with the industries best rates—at 6.1% APY on your first 2 BTC and 8.5% for all your USDC. Or, use your Bitcoin as collateral with LEDN Loans to get quick access to dollars or double your bitcoin savings with the popular B2X Loan. Make sure to subscribe, listen, learn and share the Bitcoin Matrix podcast. Folllow Adam Kownacki on twitter @AKbabyface Follow the Bitcoin Matrix on twitter @delabtcmatrix Follow me on Twitter @CedYoungelman

Nik Bhatia is a financial researcher, CFA charterholder, and Adjunct Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Securities where he teaches Applied Finance in Fixed Income Securities. Previously, Nik worked the US Treasuries trading desk for a large institutional asset manager and has extensinve trading experience in money markets and interest rate futures. After starting his teaching career, Nik felt the urge to bring his research on both the international monetary system and Bitcoin together as one to write Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies. He has a BA in Social Sciences from USC and a Masters in Finance from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. We discuss US Treasuries, the Gold Florin, the discipline of hard money, how banks use their balance sheets to create money, the US vs China, CBDCs, are financial panics avoidable in a fractional reserve system, Hal Finney and so much more. Ledn provides financial products to help you unlock the power of digital assets. With a secure and easy-to-use platform, it’s the simplest way to earn interest, borrow, and trade your BTC and USDC with some of the industry’s best rates. First in class when it comes to accountability and transparency, Ledn offers Proof of Reserves attestations and a highly responsive client success team, giving you peace of mind while you make the most of your Bitcoin. Learn more, sign up, and start earning at https://start.ledn.io/bitcoinmatrix. Use this code to take a LEDN loan and we both get $25 USDC. Follow Nik @timevalueofbtc Check out his website LayeredMoney.com Buy Layered Money here: www.amazon.com/dp/1736110527 Make sure to subscribe, listen, learn and share the Bitcoin Matrix podcast. Follow the Bitcoin Matrix on twitter @delabtcmatrix Follow me on Twitter @CedYoungelman

Hass McCook AKA Friar Hass is a Retired Chartered Professional Civil Engineer, researching & writing on Bitcoin's environmental, economic & spiritual impact since 2014. Recently he has written several articles about Bitcoin’s positive environmental impact including Projecting Bitcoin’s Future Energy Use, Bitcoin Emits Less Than 2% of the Worlds Military-Industrial Complex Carbon Emissions, Bitcoin Emits Less Than 5% of the Legacy Financial Sector’s Carbon Emissions & A Comparison of Bitcoin’s Environmental Impact with that of Gold & Banking all published in Bitcoin Magazine along with several other notable pieces including The Passion of the Believers which was published on his medium blog & also The Bitcoin Time Volume 2. We discuss #Bitcoin as a religion, submission, economic judgement day, hereafter, why you shouldn't let your memes be dreams & how price is the story

Freelance artist Jessica Vaugn is a writer, photographer and model who is best known for her work with the legendary brand Playboy. Jessica started tumbling down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole in 2020. She says that it completely changed her life and the way she views the world. As a freelancer, she’s always been keen on making independent choices. But it wasn’t until the pandemic lockdowns, that she realized government-run economic systems limited her personal freedoms. Aleks Svetski is the host of the dope af Wake Up podcast, the Founder and CEO of Bitcoin Exhange - Amber, the Editor of the Bitcoin Times, the author of several seminal and influential pieces including Utopian Dystopias, Discrimination and Diversity, Dumb People, Resistance is not Futile, Why Liberty Matters and the Rise of the Individual. Zooming in from on location in El Salvador, the three of us had a wide ranging conversation about reinvention, the balkanization of America, Covid, depression, slave labor in China, Hollywood, identity politics, betrayal, cultural detoxing, chemical zombies, is the MMA fight game analogous to all of life, getting arrested for not wearing a mask and how levels of consciousness are similar to floors in a Manhattan skyscraper.

In this wide-ranging & engaging conversation with Adam Meister AKA The Bitcoin Meister AKA The Disrupt Meister AKA The Strong Handed Unique Beast joins me to discuss: - The worship of complexity - Personal responsibility as the new counter-culture - The cowboy spirit of America - Will Elon Musk fork Btc? - El Salvador, Fedcoins, Roger Ver, Mike Hearn, the block-size wars, Tone Vayes, Giacomo Zuco attacking Trace Meyer in Las Vegas, Nic Carter, Richard Heart, Erik Vorhees, American Hodl, Biden, Trump, Warren, De Santis, lockdowns, tyranny of the majority, secession, Bitcoin & so much freaking more Adam was on fire for the whole time & there were even some tears. I hope you enjoy this one as much as I did.

"Most people don’t understand the cost of being free or the cost of having masters." Lamar Wilson AKA Big Marh is a long time bitcoiner, software developer & Co-founder of the Black Bitcoin Billionaires group on Clubhouse where he holds court almost every single day. In this wide-ranging conversation Lamar joins me to discuss love, freedom, humor, motivation, community building, debt slavery, the Federal Reserve, Elon Musk, entrepreneurism, spending two btc on a transmission, his rabbit hole story, the man at the bottom of the mountain, why people are in bondage because of their money & how if you're grinning, you're winning. "Bitcoin is planting apple trees, not weeds"