The Bitcoin Matrix

In this engaging conversation, Brady Swenson the Head of Education at Swan Bitcoin & fellow Bitcoin podcaster joins me to discuss: - The significance of Satoshi's disappearance - Bitcoin as pushback against fiat - How civilization doesn't work without money - Lessons learned from the Roman Empire - Bitcoin as the future foundation for the empowerment of individual expression - His experience in the Peace Corps, starting Citizen Bitcoin, joining Swan & his rabbit hole story - & more

In this deep & wide ranging chat, David Bailey the CEO of Bitcoin Magazine & I discuss going from a hodler to a builder, what keeps him up at night, challenges that force you to figure out who you are, the Bitcoin 2021 conference, piles of Venezuelan cash to take home, Sumo wrestling for Taproot activation, his rabbit hole story, replacing the monetary system with one that is free & open to all, transforming society for a millenium, how revolutions don't pause for a pandemic & so much more.

In this fresh & timely chat, Flip from Bitcoin Magazine & I discuss: - A very exciting day in Bitcoin, $10k candles & Elon Musk - Bitcoin 2021 FOMO, surprises & anticipation - Bitcoin as a ubiquitous data layer - Proof of existence, decentralized identity & sparse data - How Bitcoin is really a global database for deriving truth - Working at a media company squarely in the middle of a financial revolution - His rabbit hole story & how Bitcoin made him think deeply about freedom

In this insightful & endearing conversation with Mir Liponi, the Godmother of Italy's Bitcoin Community, co-founder of the BHB Network & former CEO of Satoshi Design, we discuss her article Bitcoin & Motherhood, the history of the Bitcoin scene in Europe, the Milan Protocol, always doing the best thing for Bitcoin, how Bitcoin is for normal people & what a better future for our children in a Bitcoin world would look like. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

Nick Neuman & Jameson Lopp, CEO & CTO of Casa join me to talk about the world of multi-signature, hardware wallets, personal security & more. We discuss: - The dos & don'ts of Bitcoin key management & security - The differences between wallet types - The spectrum of security options - The tradeoffs between security & convenience - Hardware wallets, paper wallets, multi-sig, seeds vs seedless, decoy wallets, honeypots & the $5 wrench attack - How Casa secures your bitcoin - & more

Justin Rhedrick is best known as the Bitcoin Vegan & a Bitcoin Educator. After getting released from prison, Justin was tired of running the rat race, the seemingly never-ending paycheck to paycheck cycle & that’s when he decided to learn about Bitcoin. We discuss: - His opportunities & plans coming out of prison - Breaking cycles - Mindset of an early adopter - How to stop caring about obstacles - Levelling up & staying the course - How there is no privilege here - & more

Erik Cason is a crypto-anarchist, makarismos, & iconoclast thinker writing about the social ramifications of bitcoin & the Director of Client Services at Unchained Capital. We discuss: - The place of law in society - Who gets to create the exception - How Bitcoin creates a new social contract - The perpetual & exceptional state of emergency since WW2 - Bitcoin as the base layer for a new kind of commonwealth - The secret nature of the war against you - Blinding the sovereign - & so much more

Greg Foss has over 30 years experience in high-yield credit trading & capital structure arbitrage. We sit down to discuss: - High yield trading, credit default swaps & Bitcoin as the Anti-Fiat - Why Bitcoin is extremely cheap default insurance & the best asymmetric trade - The wholesale transfer of risk to government - If the next financial crisis is the last - How there is no other buyer of last resort - 2008 GFC, The Big Short, QE, TARP, bailouts, LTCM, CBDCs & pension funds - & so much more

Knut Svanholm author of Sovereignty through Mathematics, Independence Reimagined, Everything There is Divided by 21 Million Bitcoin & Bitcoin & the Separation of Money & State calls in to discuss: - Bitcoin is a mathematical battery & positive force for humanity - The connection between central banking, statism & nationalism - The State as a network in the way that Cancer is a network - How something born of the internet is taking hold of the physical world outside of it - Atheism, Aliencoin & more

Gigi, author of 21 Lessons, What I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole, Bitcoin is Time & Proof of Life sits down to discuss: - Bitcoin as a force away from a centralized structure - perfect error correction in the digital world - Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment as the magic sauce - can privacy be reclaimed - Bitcoin as a form of speech - how speech is inherently linked to value - time as a non sensical concept - is time even real - is Bitcoin alive - & so much more