2-Bit Idiots

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2-Bit Idiots episodes

July 03, 2023EP91: Can 88 Bitcoin Maxis Buy a Golf Course with MirbooHodl
We start with a quick shill for the Australian Bitcoin Industry Body’s petition for the RBA to hold 2% of assets in Bitcoin. More details at:
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN5167
CLOSING DATE FOR SIGNATURES IS 12 JULY 2023.

For more details, listen to this discussion with Dale and Jeremy on The Why Bitcoin Show:
https://fountain.fm/episode/cRv5zTAB4DiYoTqCdFs1

Brendo and I are golfers...not great golfers, but we try. So, when MirbooHodl / GreatGrandMan (Dom. A Nostr maxi. Npub below) reached out a couple of weeks ago about a Golf meets Bitcoin project – 88 Sats – we wanted to talk about it.
I’ll be honest and say there were a couple of red flags, but after some back and forth over Nostr DM’s we realised that Dom was an open book and was happy for us to question the maxi credentials of the project.
More than anything, this a pod about community building in a Bitcoin world. We discuss:
Can 88 bitcoiners buy a golf course

How long will it take and how to store the Bitcoin until then

Why 1 Aussie “oddball” from Victoria wants to own a golf course in Canada

Running golf tournaments with Satoshi prizes

Creating a Bitcoin only community and a circular economy
88 Sats: Npub1ke3gzakud8hvdpmxxkhzymf87tkznnhmlj78gdqj4t9rqqmkhlws52gfzw

Jor: Npub103m96sra82w4agghew9cdxtzs4s8sl7qsjsvw6h653yml0gjrkzqefd3h5
Finding Bitcoin without social media

Primed for Bitcoin after going down the carnivore and regenerative agriculture rabbit holes

Wearing the Bitcoin merch in your fiat world

Low time preference

Building a node within 3 weeks of buying his first Bitcoin

Leaving the nihilism behind

Allergy to bureaucracy

Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/AusBTCIndBody
https://twitter.com/farmerjen55
https://twitter.com/whybitcoinshow
https://twitter.com/KNGgolf
https://twitter.com/triggerpod
https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin
https://twitter.com/francisjfoster
https://twitter.com/saifedean
https://twitter.com/saylor
https://twitter.com/Blue_CollarBTC
https://twitter.com/dazbea1
https://twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
https://twitter.com/BTCsessions
https://twitter.com/AndyBTCAdviser
https://twitter.com/GazLarking
https://twitter.com/PeterBTCAdviser
https://twitter.com/PerthHeat
https://twitter.com/btcessex
https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin

Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
MirbooHodl: npub1jeyv5qwg4286fm68vwj93yr53xv9g799w9vcz8al8mkkz36wkt4qektpt7

Book Recommendations
The Bitcoin Standard, https://amzn.to/3PA1MIG
The Fiat Standard, https://amzn.to/3PH7loG
Golf in the Kingdom Michael Murphy, https://amzn.to/46seqQ5

Support the Kids Art Competition
https://geyser.fund/project/2bitidiots
More than a million sats to be won!
1 hr
June 23, 2023EP90: The Million Dollar Giveaway - Hats and Brendo
We've had a lot of smart guests recently, which is great, but sometimes your brain needs a break and just needs to listen to Brendo (yeah ok...me too).

In this pod we address all the low-brow issues of the day like:
Brendo not washing for 5 years and wasting so many sats on fixing a shitcoin tiler’s mistake.

How should we vett guests

Family feuds

The art competition prize up to 837,000 sats!
Details at https://bitcoin-first.com/kids-art-competition/
Giving away a million dollars to children

Imposter syndrome

Apple versus Nostr

Epic Games and Fortnite

Efficient Market Hypothesis

A ticking timebomb in Car Finance?

US public debt increase in 11 days

Bitcoin Ratchet Theory

A turd on your sandwich

Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/MichaelDunwort1
https://twitter.com/PeterBTCAdviser
https://twitter.com/Bitkiwi1
https://twitter.com/satstothemoon
https://twitter.com/BVBTC
https://twitter.com/geyserfund
https://twitter.com/getAlby
https://twitter.com/Dale21M
https://twitter.com/the_Bowdog
https://twitter.com/allenf32
https://twitter.com/DylanLeClair_
https://twitter.com/Bitcoinfinity
https://twitter.com/_Checkmatey_

Tweet of the Week
https://twitter.com/Bitcoinfinity/status/1583951526657417216

Dick of the Day
@Apple

Ways to Earn Bitcoin
https://bitcoin-first.com/earn

Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9

Support the Kids Art Competition
https://geyser.fund/project/2bitidiots
Nearly a million sats to be won!
33 min
June 15, 2023EP89: Who Has the Best Hair with @btcessex
Anyone we’ve met in person will verify that my hair isn’t one of my strengths. Brendo would claim it’s one of his, but that’s a matter of opinion. So, you’d be forgiven for wondering what the hell we’re doing talking to a hairdresser on the podcast.

Frankly, if you’d asked us a month ago if that would ever happen, I imagine a hearty laugh would have been the response. But...a month is a long time in Bitcoin!

Aaron reached out to have a chat and told us that we needed to hear about the confluence of Bitcoin and Hairdressing. So, who the hell are we to dismiss something we had zero knowledge of. And, you know what, he was totally right!

We discuss:
Irresponsible parenting and nasty DM’s

Eurovision

Bitcoin meetups in Essex www.t.me/bitcoinessex

Mainstream clickbait and weather warnings

Extreme career change and the importance of enjoying what you do even if it means starting from the bottom

Supermodels and A-listers

Fiat sucking the life out of the UK hairdressing industry

Shrinkflation

Fear of speaking up

The problem with minimum wages

Unintended consequences when you remove the free market and skew incentives

www.GoSalon.uk

Our poor shampoo choices

Rip-off culture

The power of the QR code. Connecting the physical with the digital.

Win/Win relationships

95% rejection to begin with, but those early adopters are winning

Bizarro Superman

Discounts for Bitcoin gives you a double dip

“Bitcoin Accepted” on invoices

Looking for the pain points in your industry

Static URL’s for curry

Bcash trolling

Small businesses getting rekt by lockdowns

Bitcoin being easier to navigate in real life

Hanging on to a maximalist

Buying the Bitcoin domain for your town

Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/Excellion
https://twitter.com/Bitkiwi1
https://twitter.com/satstothemoon
https://twitter.com/aantonop
https://twitter.com/saifedean
https://twitter.com/ToneVays
https://twitter.com/BitcoinErrorLog
https://twitter.com/mollsoneminding
https://twitter.com/OneMinding_
https://twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
https://twitter.com/BitcoinerEvents
https://twitter.com/Bridge2Bitcoin

Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9

Support the Kids Art Competition
https://geyser.fund/project/2bitidiots
Nearly a million sats to be won!
1 hr 1 min
June 13, 2023EP88: Kids Art Competition (SPECIAL)
Do you have a creative kid? Are you always talking about Bitcoin? Could they create a piece of art that is their interpretation of what it is you go on about all the time?

To celebrate reaching 100 shows on the 2-Bit Idiots podcast, we’ve decided to run a Kids Art Competition and give away 50,000 sats to the winners in each age group.

The Rules
There are 4 ages categories (4 and under, 5-8, 9-12, and 13-16). Age on 31/7/23

We will accept a maximum of 21 entries in each category

Any type of art is accepted (painting, drawing, digital, sculpture, photograph etc)

Winners will be judged by our kids. Their decision is final.

You keep the original art. All entries to be submitted to [email protected] by 31st July 2023 or when the group has received the maximum number of entries (whichever comes sooner).

Please include their name (pseudonyms are fine), age group, country and a contact e-mail address for their parent/guardian if they win.

Winners will be invited on to our 100th podcast with their parent to tell us about their art and be awarded their prize.

All entries will be displayed by age group at: https://bitcoin-first.com/kids-art-competition

Good luck. We can’t wait to see what you come up with.

To hear the background and inspiration for this project please listen to:
https://fountain.fm/episode/tjXExsVmrqO21cd98sNR

If you’d like to donate some sats to the project, please do so via our GeyserFund page.
https://geyser.fund/project/2bitidiots

All sats donated here will be given to the kids. Let’s see if we can do something special and mint some new maxis!
Thank you to Pixel, Paul, Haggis, Salmon and our kids for your generosity and inspiration.

#ForTheKids
10 min
June 08, 2023EP87: Orange-Pilling Countries with Samson Mow
While most of us spend years trying to convince our cousin/sibling/mum that we’re not crazy and that “it might make sense just to get some in case it catches on”, there are others among us that are operating at an altogether higher level. Samson Mow is one of those people.

As the CEO of JAN3, he’s working on nation-state adoption and accelerating hyperbitcoinization, but he didn’t set out to do that, it just happened one day.

He kindly took some time out of his hectic schedule to hang out with a couple of Idiots. Here’s what we discussed:
Will we ever operate on block time so that time difference is no longer a thing (we sound rough in the morning!)

The state of DMs when you have a large following

How to prioritise your workload
The mission of JAN3 (top-down and bottom-up)

How opportunities present themselves

Varying levels of knowledge, understanding and receptivity

Explaining that Bitcoin is just Money

Awareness of money being devalued versus the high time preference nature of politics
The next El Salvador. Mexico?

Bitcoin becoming a key part of political discourse. RFK

The importance of face-to-face, particularly in removing the fear of asking questions

How many of us must understand Bitcoin

Taking a break after hyperbitcoinization and the timescale for that
The most powerful force is necessity (Argentina, Lebanon)

Adopting Bitcoin before your value is destroyed

The problem with centralised power

The pros and cons of living on a Bitcoin standard

The decline in developed countries
Brendo’s unsuccessful application

Infinite Fleet and gaming

Fads

Australia and Canada

Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/JAN3com
https://twitter.com/Pixelmatic
https://twitter.com/InfiniteFleet
https://twitter.com/jackmallers
https://twitter.com/Bitcoinbeach
https://twitter.com/nayibbukele
https://twitter.com/Blockstream
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr
https://twitter.com/MiprimerBTC
https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre
https://twitter.com/BitcoinAlive
https://twitter.com/BTCBrisket
https://twitter.com/THNDRGAMES
https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss
https://twitter.com/AlboMP

Book Recommendations
Check Your Financial Privilege by @gladstein
https://amzn.to/45Q2nM1

Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9

Support the Podcast
https://geyser.fund/project/2bitidiotspodcast

Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
45 min
June 05, 2023EP86: Another Bloody Dunworth with @MichaelDunwort1
It's like buses. You don't see one for ages and then 2 come along at once! But seriously, Christmas dinner at the Dunworth’s must be an interesting experience.

Michael is the time travelling bitcoiner, that has locked Bitcoin in 2140 to ensure miners still have an incentive to mine even once the final block reward is issued. That’s a great story – it's a wonderful story – but you may have heard it at Bitcoin Alive, a bush bash or on another podcast that Michael has done (we’d recommend EP96 of Meyrick’s Dabbling Path, EP5 with Discovering Bitcoin and the recent release from The Why Bitcoin Show).

We’ve delayed doing this one, because frankly we didn’t know what we could add, but once we realised the answer to that was Nothing, we decided to just get together and shoot the shit because he’s a fun bloke to share a beer with. We discuss:
The return of the alpha

Sats or Bits

Halving, Halvening or Hal Finney-ing

Iron Man and Proof or Work

Having someone on your journey

Consistently showing up

Fixed interest rates in Australia

Dropping/Opting out of university

Startup culture, strategies, risk and Wyre

Egotistical restaurant owners

When you should change your beliefs and opinions

Seeing life through the Bitcoin filter

Bitcoin miners are just monkeys

Seeing the tech before the money

Satoshi

AI as the biggest inflection point of Bitcoin adoption

SegWit2x and the power of the node

Ordinals

Backing yourself, but having support in your corner

The warped VC industry

Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/C_Shaughnessy
https://twitter.com/nwoodfine
https://twitter.com/richardbensberg
https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss
https://twitter.com/BitcoinAlive
https://twitter.com/TonyRobbins
https://twitter.com/_k3tan

Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9

Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
1 hr 10 min
May 22, 2023 EP85: The Wellington Elbow with @Bitkiwi1 and @satstothemoon
Lurk on Twitter – Tick
Attend a BushBash – Tick
Wearing the Bitcoin Alive T-Shirt – Tick
What next - Maybe it’s time for you to cross the ditch?

We sit down Paul and Dan (2/3 of the Bit Kiwi movement) to find out exactly how things are in New Zealand (Paraparaumu) at grass roots level, the projects they are involved in and hear just how loose meetups are in Auckland. We also discuss:
Getting children to buy beer to gain KYC free sats ;-)
Remembering Anon's names in real life
Getting into Bitcoin with your childhood friends and becoming a maximalist within a few months
Showing up at a CRYpTocurrEnCy shit show, showed them the need to create a Bitcoin only alternative
The secrets to being a “professional” podcaster
Attending their first meetup in Auckland inspiring the creation of Bit Kiwi, which started in Wellington, then Christchurch but is now going national and becoming an event
Using lightning to engage new bitcoiners
A meetup library and a lightning ATM
Orange-pilling your family
Running an S19 in your house and heating your swimming pool with immersion mining, and using 0% government loans to pay for it
Being accused of being in a cult in work meetings
The Wellington Elbow and the Sleeve of Shame
Cost of living in NZ
Contact [email protected] if you want a copy of Bitcoin Magazine in New Zealand or Australia (issues 27 and 28).

Bit Kiwi Meetup Schedule
VI: 22nd Jul 2023. Fork and Brewer. Wellington. 2pm
VII: 28th Oct 2023. Brothers Beer. Mt Eden, Auckland. 2pm
VIII: 17th Feb 2024. Venue TBC. Queenstown.

Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/tip_nz
https://twitter.com/jamesviggy
https://twitter.com/kiwilambnz
https://twitter.com/simonocollins
https://twitter.com/BitcoinAlive
https://twitter.com/walletofsatoshi
https://twitter.com/r0bertclarkson
https://twitter.com/BTCNautilus
https://twitter.com/TTOVpodcast
https://twitter.com/babeswhobitcoin
https://twitter.com/BTCsessions
https://twitter.com/the_wild_chiro
And go eat at the Khmer restaurant in Christchurch

Link to the Beer tweet
https://twitter.com/Bitkiwi1/status/1652587379625189379

Book Recommendations
The Little Bitcoin Book by The Bitcoin Collective
Sovereignty Through Mathematics by @knutsvanholm
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin by @real_vijay
The Bitcoin Standard by @saifedean
B is for Bitcoin by @dazbea1 and @sebbunney

Dick of the Day
https://twitter.com/Airbnb
Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9

Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
1 hr 3 min
May 15, 2023EP84: Building Resilience into your Business with @Paulbuybtc
Paul is a husband, dad, business owner and now bitcoiner, based in Victoria, Australia.

We first met at a BitcoinBushBash (are you noticing a theme) in 2022, again at Bitcoin Alive in 2023 and now he joins us on the pod to tell his story.

This one will resonate with business owner/operators who have had to navigate through a difficult few years, since that thing which we cannot mention and the government overreach in response to the thing that we cannot mention. You know the thing. THE THING.

But more importantly, as we come out the other side, the hope we all feel thanks to the positive changes and outcomes we see in our move towards a Bitcoin Standard.

We discuss:
Brendo selling his chairs

Why are Bitcoin conversations more comfortable

Surviving the business turmoil caused by the hardest lockdown in the world

Burning through the rainy-day account

The “recession we had to have”

The inevitability of our high inflation environment

Working on a 200-year plan

The manipulation of the system against everyday people

Operating in both the Bitcoin and Fiat systems

Personal responsibility

Estate planning

Government poor decision-making forcing individuals to find answers elsewhere

The Bitcoin safety net

Interest rate rises and black swan events

Spending less than you earn and living frugally

Giving yourself choices in life

Families attending Bitcoin meetups, and allowing kids to learn by being in the room

Art by Pixel

Being the example for your children and creating learning experiences

The difficulties incorporating Bitcoin payments into your business

Australians not appreciating the hardships being felt in other countries

Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/BitcoinAlive
https://twitter.com/SharkGregNorman
https://twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
https://twitter.com/theamberapp
https://twitter.com/jack

Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9

Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
55 min
May 10, 2023EP83: How to Make Bitcoin a Lifestyle with @mary_imasuen
We’re testing ourselves. We’ve been around this sausage-fest so long that we’re not sure if we can still talk to girls.
But we outright refuse to do it for diVersiTY’s sake. Meritocracy in all things. And quite frankly, this young woman is way ahead of most of you guys.

Once Brendo got passed his awkward giggling, we discuss:
The Scottish accent being better than the Aussie

Whilst freelance writing during a gap-year from studying Law, a client wanted to pay with Bitcoin.

The regret of selling your early Bitcoin

How you cannot be a personal finance “expert” without ever owning Bitcoin

Creating a savings plan with Bitnob, reviewing the app, interviewing the CEO and ultimately becoming the manager of their podcast.

Streaming Bitcoin games on Twitch, and creating your setup and affiliate account

Streaming Sats to viewers

Satoshi TV “Bitcoin Lifestyle”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDM1eWTtcfE
Her understanding of Nigeria, Turkey and the Philippines (and how different cultures see, engage and adopt Bitcoin)

International trade between Nigeria and China using Bitcoin to settle

Raising children with the culture you set for yourself

Why living on a Bitcoin standard is easier in the Philippines

Adoption through gaming

Orange-pilling in a way that is relevant to the person you’re speaking to.

The parallel market for the Nigeria Naira
Twitch streaming THNDR games
https://solitaire.thndr.games/r/MwnY
Zebedee streamer
https://streamer.zebedee.io/login
BitRefill
https://www.bitrefill.com/signup?code=tu6wub71
Streaming sats to your viewers

Bitcoin eSports

The use case for Bitcoin is better seen in developing countries

Watch Mary play Bitcoin Games
www.twitch.tv/maryimasuen

Ways to Earn Bitcoin
www.bitcoin-first.com/earn

Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/timevalueofbtc
www.twitter.com/btcturk
www.twitter.com/Pouch_PH
www.twitter.com/Bitnob_official
www.twitter.com/BitcoinEkasi
www.twitter.com/THNDRGAMES
www.twitter.com/jackeveritt
www.twitter.com/zebedeeio
www.twitter.com/getAlby
www.twitter.com/PerthHeat

Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9

Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
1 hr 2 min
May 01, 2023EP82: Satoshi ‘73 with @roger__9000
Bitcoin sends you off in directions you never dreamed you would go. In the next couple of weeks, I’ll be helping Roger at a woman’s wellness Bitcoin chocolate making session. A bunch of words I never thought I’d use in the same sentence! But here we are.

Roger is first and foremost a lovely guy, but he also has a unique story...so let’s tell it:

We discuss:
The origins of his pseudonym

My Captain Pugwash facts were NOT true

Bitcoiners as constant dreamers or the most grounded people around

Imagination and creativity

Self-Identity

The pursuit of truth

His unique style of driving

Improving your eyesight

Fasting

Trust in institutions

Bitcoin’s inclusivity

Freedom of expression

Fear of acceptance as an artist

Leaning into your weird

Satoshi ‘73

Chocolate workshops

Conferences to become festivals

Links to all of Roger’s work (music, chocolate, podcast, YouTube etc) can be found @
www.roger9000.com

Ways to Earn Bitcoin
www.bitcoin-first.com/earn

Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/BitcoinAlive
www.twitter.com/maxkeiser
www.twitter.com/stacyherbert
www.twitter.com/BTCBrisket
www.twitter.com/knutsvanholm
www.twitter.com/nozomimagine
www.twitter.com/wavlake
www.twitter.com/fountain_app
www.twitter.com/rjames_BTC
www.twitter.com/JoeMartinMusic
www.twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
www.twitter.com/Shevacai
www.twitter.com/jacobcollier
www.twitter.com/Mtheadventuross
www.twitter.com/BTC_honeybadger
www.twitter.com/HodlersWay

Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9

Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
1 hr 30 min

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