

The Bitcoin Matrix
Cedric Youngelman
Let's explore Bitcoin, the future of money and the social, cultural, economical and philosophical implications of this new technology. Hosted by Cedric Youngelman.
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Feb 16, 2021 • 1h 48min
Christopher Gimmer: The Final Stair Step: Combining Bitcoin, Business & Personal Passion
In this wide ranging chat with Christopher Gimmer, the co-founder of Bitbo.io & Snappa.com we discuss how to turn your life into a giant flywheel and:
- Why Snappa is holding Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset - Why it pays to play the long game - Building a great team - Scaling to $1M ARR with a marketing flywheel - Purchasing the Snappa.com domain for $40,000 - Co-founding Snappa: from idea to product market fit - & so much more

Feb 9, 2021 • 1h 21min
Kalle Rosenbaum: Grokking Bitcoin, Cryptography & Encryption
Author of Grokking Bitcoin, Kalle Rosenbaum joins Ced to discuss:
- How does the Bitcoin network prevent cheating - What is a cryptographic function & is it a defensive weapon of war - Will government punish their people harshly for using Bitcoin & how bloody and violent will it get - How cyptographic tools & encryption are the only ways to maintain privacy and security during the age of big brother -- Hard forks vs soft forks - Backwards compatability vs forward compatitability - & so much more

Feb 2, 2021 • 1h 53min
Michael Goldstein: Everyone's A Scammer, Praxeology & Advanced Geopolitical Meme Warfare
Cedric sits down with @Bitstein, founder of the Nakamoto Institute, co-host of Noded podcast & the meme lord himself to discuss:
- How to meme Bitcoin to the moon - Who wants to scam your Bitcoin - Why we relish the Federal Reserve's absurd actions - Praxeology and rejecting certain forms of activism for pragmatic reasons - How to reframe, agree and amplify and then completely dominate it on social media - His call for ethical trolling - The rejuvenation of the Great American West - How to cultivate the lowest time preference possible - & much more

Jan 26, 2021 • 1h 26min
Robert Breedlove: Bitcoin, the Tyranny of Time Scarcity & the Masters & Slaves of Money
Robert Breedlove sits down with Ced to discuss:
- Is Bitcoin the incorruptible substance that alchemists strived for
- How the Central Bank is the greatest institution of tyranny in human history & will Bitcoin disrupt it
- Why ancient wisdom such as yoga, meditation & pyschedelics like ayahausca are making a return
- How property rights are the expression of the human territorial imperative
- Can we be sovreeign on a Fiat Standard?
- How inflation is a cancer on the socioeconomic & moral fabric of reality
"We're transcending the false statist dichotonomy between capitalism & communism & Bitcoin enables a new mode of socioeconomic organization I'm calling sovreignism." - Robert Breedlove

Jan 19, 2021 • 1h 43min
Jimbo: The Intersubjective Value of Bitcoin
Jimbo, the author of Orange Coin Good: The Value of Bitcoin sits down with Cedric to discuss:
- Why green paper is bad
- How money really enters the system
- How have humans prevented cheating throughout history
- The role of reciprocity in human evolution and behavior
- What is the perspective of a holder
- How scarcity is the feeling of not having enough of something
- The invention of digital rivalry
- How we measure the value of the things that we buy
- How Bitcoin is the thing against which all other opportunities have to justify themselves
- How unit bias effecfts the price of Bitcoin
- Meme the change you want to see in the world
- And so much more in this wide-ranging, free-flowing conversation about Bitcoin, economics and human behavior

Jan 13, 2021 • 1h 41min
Yuri de Gaia: Building Bitcoin Kingdoms, Monarchies & Your Inner Citadel
Yuri de Gaia, Partner at BTC Reserve HQ, Founder of Liquiditi HQ, host of Citadelium, Bitcoin blogger and author of Bitcoin as a Sucession Tool sits down with Cedric to discuss:
- How to deal with Imposter Syndrome
- How do you build your inner Citadel
- Is there an end to material desire
- How Bitcoiners are better people
- Does Bitcoin changes your brain and habits
- How to scam the planet using neuralistic and subliminal messaging via material perceptions
- What is the difference between the sheep and the shepard
- What is the natural hierarchical order of humans
- Why he chose to move back to Russia
- Advantages of Liquidity and federated sidechains
- And so much more

Jan 11, 2021 • 1h 15min
Ben Prentice: The History of Central Banking & Inflation
In this wide-ranging conversation with the co-founder of the website, blog and meme WTF Happened in 1971? Ben Prentice and Cedric discuss:
- The history of coin clipping
- What the temptation to money printing must be like
- Is their a 500 year Central Banking cabal
- The history of bank holidays and the suspension of the redemption of specie
- What is the most scary thing to people in power
- Central Banking monetary colonialism and the next 100 years
- What is the biggest problem with inflation
- How do Central Banks compete with each other
- The future of CBDCs
- Do we need UBI or not
- Ben's Bitcoin and Austrian economics rabbit hole story
- How the meme WTF Happened in 1971? was born
- How Julian Assange was the body cam to the whole world
- And so much more

Jan 5, 2021 • 1h 24min
Nico: Bitcoin Gave Me Purpose
Nico is a Venezuelan American entrepreneur who found himself immediately drawn to Bitcoin because of the immense implications the technology has to change the world and himself.
Nico and Ced chat about:
- Getting everything he ever wanted growing up
- How the 2008 financial crisis changed everything for him
- Dealing with loss through escapism
- Bitcoin gave him reason to get up
- Why he dropped out of college and flew to Venezuela
- Why his Uncle was mining in the Venezuelan "bush" with generators and a used helicopter
- Why he left Venezuela
- The new counterculture of responsibilty
Nico co-founded BITVOLT.com, a miner hosting company. Nico currently produces @SimplyBitcoin_, a 10 minute weekday show on YouTube tailored to deliver daily news from the Bitcoin-Maximalist-Pleb perspective.
Follow Nico on Twitter @BITVOLT7

Jan 4, 2021 • 1h 19min
Dominic Frisby: Bitcoin Is the Pin not the Bubble
Dominic Frisby author of Life After The State, Bitcoin: The Future Of Money, and magnum opus Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future zooms in with Cedric to discuss:
- Why does every Cuban father want his daughter to be a prostitute
- His journey down the goldbug and libertarianism rabbit hole in 2005/2006
- How humans learn best through the spoken word and ear
- The hunt for Satoshi
- Are we freer now
- Were we freer in The Stone Age
- How technology enables us
- How Covid has accelerated everything
- Big Tech vs The State and who will win
- How income tax will be harder to collect in the future
- Brexit, Trump, and social media
- The future of Hollywood, Film and Stand-Up
- How governments have set a new precedent to shut down economies
- and much more

Dec 30, 2020 • 1h 2min
Jeff Booth: Bitcoin is the Forcing Function in the Age of Inflation
Jeff Booth, the author of The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future, zooms in with Ced to discuss:
- How money and inflation are constructs of our time
- How pricing is an illusion out of money printing
- How do you measure the productivity growth of technology
- US, China, CBDCs, and The Great Reset
- Is it too late for governments to stop Bitcoin
- How Bitcoin is our best chance for a peaceful transition
- much more