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- EP61: Back Again with @beefbackbetter
It’s great having new guests on to tell us how they found their way to Bitcoin or explaining what they are doing in the Bitcoin ecosystem, but it’s also interesting to follow a story and see the progress over time.
Owen is an example of the latter. We first met at the OG Bitcoin Bush Bash in Murrurundi in 2020, then we travelled to his farm in northern NSW to check out his beef operation (EP22). We spoke again as he went over to El Salvador on a scouting mission to see if it really was somewhere he thought he could live (EP43) and now we catch up with him as he’s finding his feet in San Salvador. He’s not a talker...he’s a doer! He’s also a good talker...we discuss:
- Being top of the 2 Bit league
- Making the decision to sell the farm and leave Australia
- Living next door to the President’s mum
- Making friends in San Salvador
- The general cost of living (rent, fuel, food, quality beef, motorcycles)
- Travel restrictions
- Where’s Jordy
- Nomad or Expat
- Optimising tax status
- The perfect San Salvador climate
- Paying in Bitcoin/Lightning
- Problems with payments generally
- Where is the most chilled out Bitcoin conference
- Using the local health system
- Gringos having an edge
- No scamming or woke culture, completely safe and much less regulation
- Business ideas
- Adopting Bitcoin Lightning Summit, Nov 15-17
- https://adoptingbitcoin.org
- Bitcoin Landing Spot
- https://twitter.com/BTCLandingSpot
- Visas. Escape to El Salvador
- https://www.escapetoelsalvador.org
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/ThorupMikkel
https://twitter.com/AdoptingBTC
https://twitter.com/MuunWallet
https://twitter.com/walletofsatoshi
https://twitter.com/Bitcoinbeach
https://twitter.com/GaloyMoney
https://twitter.com/maxkeiser
https://twitter.com/stacyherbert
https://twitter.com/RealDougCasey
https://twitter.com/nayibbukele
https://twitter.com/BeefInAustralia
https://twitter.com/ElSalvadorVisas
https://twitter.com/BTCLandingSpot
57 min - EP60: Guess Who's Back - Hats and Brendo
Life’s been busy, but thanks for sticking around and waiting for us to put out another pod. Thanks also to Brisket and Daz for stepping up with some quality content while we were away.
Reasons (excuses) and topics today include:
- Did we miss each other?
- Getting out of your bubble
- The Twitter detox
- Being scammed for billion-dollar notes in Zimbabwe
- How normal people operate in a country that has persistently high inflation
- How to get money out of the country (without Bitcoin)
- How missing the boat helps you talk about Bitcoin
- Is being early good or just frustrating
- Extremes of rich and poor
- Is insurance a shitcoin?
- Newcastle now has a Bitcoin meetup
- Bush Bash WA
- Bitcoin Moon Fund OMG
- Ubuntu Node Box Tutorials
- www.ministryofnodes.com.au
- Why shitcoins are still a thing
- Lack of political options
- The BoE, GBP and the general UK mess
- How to bet against a sovereign debt default
- Reserving library books
- Bush Bash Murrurundi, 26-27 November 2022
- https://bitcoinbushbash.info/
- 35,000 sats a haircut
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/dazbea1
www.twitter.com/BTCBrisket
www.twitter.com/_k3tan
www.twitter.com/WABBB_21
www.twitter.com/BTCSchellingPt
www.twitter.com/bronzefozzz
www.twitter.com/BitcoinMoonFund
www.twitter.com/VP
www.twitter.com/hodloncomrades
www.twitter.com/2300btc
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 12,900 Sats
Brendo 14,300 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
www.twitter.com/StackingHats
www.twitter.com/BitcoinBrendo
1 hr 1 min - EP59: What to do if You Can’t Afford Bitcoin – Hats and Brendo
We’ve all got that friend that “can’t afford Bitcoin” or says, “it’s too risky”, right? Well, this episode is for them.
Please forward it on to them and we’ll talk them through risk free and no cost ways to earn Bitcoin (sats).
Links to all the ways discussed in this episode can be found at:
www.bitcoin-first.com/earn
(Fountain –Breez – Fold – Lolli – Satsback – Thndr Games – Zebedee – Bitcoiner Jobs – Accepting Bitcoin)
We also go off on our usual tangents, including:
- Being offended by deaf jokes
- Kate Bush
- Daz Bea: Live
- Bitcoin Bush Bash (25-27th November)
- Chris Farley
- Affiliate Programmes
- Domain Envy
- Jobs in Bitcoin
- Games
- Harry Handjob
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/dazbea1
https://twitter.com/PodcastindexOrg
https://twitter.com/MattSenter
https://twitter.com/wlrvs
https://twitter.com/SwanBitcoin
https://twitter.com/zebedeeio
https://twitter.com/VoltPayApp
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 12,900 Sats
Brendo 14,300 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
www.twitter.com/StackingHats
www.twitter.com/BitcoinBrendo
54 min - EP58: The Pan-demic, Beef, and Health Insurance
Hats is away and Brendo don't do show notes.
Suffice to say, and as you'll hear, this was an easy ep to record...
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/modernTman
https://twitter.com/dazbea1
https://twitter.com/BTCBrisket
https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss
www.2bitidiots.com
41 min - EP57: 2 Itty Bitty Idiots
Even if we get Morpheus himself, these 2 will always be our favourite guests.
Today, we welcome Itty and Bitty (our daughters) onto the pod to tell us what they know about Bitcoin, how annoying Bitcoin dads are and to give a kid's perspective on all these things we keep going on about.
I think they surprised themselves with how much they know, and it just proves that if kids can ‘get it’ there’s no excuse for anyone else not to.
Plus, it’s a doxx fest, so it’s gonna cost us!
We also talk about:
- Who pays the doxx fine
- A virtual money, a hard cap supply, no bank, peer-to-peer
- Getting better at knowing is easier when it’s something you enjoy
- What the girls believe money to be
- Shrinking Toblerone's, Big Mac’s and Pringles
- My terrible description of a 10p mix up
- Advertising tricks and mashed potato ice cream
- Scarcity
- Roblox and Robux
- Rollerskates and Dolls
- Buskers
- Turning anything into a Bitcoin conversation
- Do they talk about Bitcoin at school
- No more radio
- Accents
- Pocket money jobs
- eBay challenge
- How old is an old person, and how to convince them digital things have value
- Most people won’t know how Bitcoin works
- What’s your favourite part about Bitcoin
- We try to explain the difficulty adjustment
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/fold_app
https://twitter.com/LookingGlassEdu
https://twitter.com/THNDRGAMES
https://twitter.com/PlaySHAmory
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 14,900 Sats
Itty 3,000 Sats
Brendo 19,300 Sats
Bitty 4,000 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
1 hr 6 min - EP56: Bitcoin 4 India with @AbhilashNair11
We were wrong.
We keep doing pods with plebs from all over the world looking for how things are different where they are. And the answer is always...they’re not. Brendo even broke into “We Are the World” (sorry).
This week it was our pleasure to chat with Abhilash Nair (Abi) from Hexa Wallet (hexawallet.io) the first product from BitHyve. A fully remote team, predominantly based in India, the conversation focussed on Abi’s personal journey, the parallel journey of the Hexa Wallet and the Bitcoin 4 India conference on November 5th and 6th in Goa. We also touch on:
- Accents changing every 20km, language changing every 100km.
- Educating 1.3 billion people in India.
- NO CONNECTION TO HEX COIN (please avoid)
- Simplifying Hexa Wallet for ease of use, and the introduction of “Pledge” (fundraising) and “Keeper” (storage) to be released in a couple of months.
- Building an easy on-ramp to the Bitcoin ecosystem with a polished UI/UX
- Gifting sats
- Integrated exchange functionality (Swan, Ramp and Wyre)
- The polarising view of Testnet
- Sentiment in India for Bitcoin and cRYptO
- Family gatherings
- Transformative books
- The BitHyve team and the use of advisors
- Bitcoin4India for Indian bitcoiners
- Job satisfaction “through the roof”
- Choose to be a cynical optimist
Bitcoin 4 India
https://bitcoin4india.org/
Bitcoin ONLY conference. 5/6 November. Goa, India.
https://twitter.com/Bitcoin4India
Hexa Wallet
https://hexawallet.io/
A feature-rich, Bitcoin-only, self-custody wallet.
https://twitter.com/HexaWallet
Book Recommendations
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
https://amzn.to/3BQplpj
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/Raahulc369
https://twitter.com/sachintr_
https://twitter.com/mrugakshee
https://twitter.com/BitcoinKeegan
https://twitter.com/Prinsu777
https://twitter.com/pseudonymous369
https://twitter.com/RajarshiMaitra
https://twitter.com/anant_tap
https://twitter.com/Pras_Bit
https://twitter.com/saiy2k
https://twitter.com/saravananmani_
www.2bitidiots.com
1 hr 5 min - EP55: Learn to Love the Bear - Hats and Brendo
We’re back where we belong. My dingy garage. But, we do have a piece of art on the wall now. It’s a $50 note that we’re calling “nostalgia”.
No guest this week I’m afraid, just Brendo asking stupid questions and then humouring my ranting responses. We cover:
- Modern art. That banana.
- Remembering every person you’ve ever met
- Taking time off Twitter and not checking the Bitcoin price
- The build, slog, patience phase is where you prepare for the bull
- Forcing someone to become a hodler
- Bitcoiners that don’t yet know about Bitcoin
- Muun wallet
- BIP39. Brendo was right
- Support your struggling local businesses
- How easy it is for us in Australia compared to the rest of the world
- Debt to GDP
- Strikes
- The UK Furlough response compared to the Energy response
- Rent freeze in Scotland
- The size of the Mona Lisa
- Christine Lagarde's inflation hump
- UK open to yield curve control. The world becomes Japan.
- Meter maids
- The Mayer Multiple
Tweet of the Week
https://twitter.com/fabushka_/status/1567515097437769729
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/_k3tan
https://twitter.com/EthanBitcoin
https://twitter.com/danWilcz
https://twitter.com/SGBarbour
https://twitter.com/LookingGlassEdu
https://twitter.com/saylordotorg
https://twitter.com/MeyrickDabs
https://twitter.com/rabbitholerecap
https://twitter.com/MuunWallet
https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss
https://twitter.com/jackmallers
https://twitter.com/DylanLeClair_
https://twitter.com/TIPMayerMultple
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 10,900 Sats
Brendo 12,300 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
www.twitter.com/StackingHats
www.twitter.com/BitcoinBrendo
53 min - EP54: The Dabbling Path with @MeyrickDabs
I know, I know...we’ve been slack. More accurately, I’ve been slack, and Brendo’s been pulling his weight (I know right!). Feeble excuse given in the pod. Sorry.
But we’re back, and you’ll be pleased to hear we have a guest. Meyrick kindly invited us on to his pod (Meyrick’s Dabbling Path) a month or so ago, and we decided to continue the conversation here. Born in India but now an Australian citizen, he brings a different perspective that we are keen to hear more of. Bitcoin is for everyone, and we all need to spread the message as far as we’re able.
We discuss:
- How he emerged from the shitcoin and NFT maze
- Working at a crypto research firm
- Stopping mining in the early days because it was “making Counter Strike laggy”
- Working in the banking sector in India
- Removing legal tender status of the 500 and 1000 rupee note
- Is it wasting time or is it learning
- Can you outperform Bitcoin
- How can Bitcoin fail
- Meatspace v Twitter at Melbourne Bitcoin meetup
- The “best” shitcoins are just loyalty programmes
- Fiat mining for Bitcoin
- Saylor Academy. Bitcoin for Everyone
- Backlash from switching to Bitcoin
- Thoughts on religion and where Bitcoin intersects
- Are bitcoiners better people
- Bitcoin in India
- How Bitcoin fits with the Islamic view of money
- Podcast plans
- Privacy and KYC free coins
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/stephanlivera
https://twitter.com/PrinceySOV
https://twitter.com/BTCSchellingPt
https://twitter.com/parman_the
https://twitter.com/johnkvallis
https://twitter.com/Bitcoin4India
https://twitter.com/summerofbitcoin
https://twitter.com/HexaWallet
https://twitter.com/HodlersWay
https://twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact
https://anchor.fm/meyrick-john-dabreo
https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=468§ionid=17128
https://www.swanbitcoin.com/StackingHats
https://unchained.com/
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 10,900 Sats
Brendo 12,300 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
www.2bitidiots.com
1 hr 13 min - EP53: Finding your Conviction with @RHodlr
Let’s be honest. HODLing through a bear market is difficult. But you know what’s more difficult...coming in at the all-time high, and still HODLing.
Rauri (twitter.com/RHodlr) is a relatively new bitcoiner (he’s just approaching his 1st anniversary), but he has a rock-solid conviction and we wanted to know where it comes from. We dig into the following to find out:
- Orange-pilled by @BronzeFozzz
- Winemaking and balancing the demands of work and family life
- Mental health challenges
- Green candles versus reality
- A value system that seeks truth and the importance of curiosity
- Scarcity is understood intuitively
- Conspiracy theories, fear and government control
- Did you see the Sri Lankan, Netherlands or Hunter Biden story on MSM?
- Absolutely ZERO shitcoins
- Becoming a completely different person
- Farming
- https://beefinitiative.com/
- Men’s Retreat
- https://amberhawken.com
- Your answers are inside you
- Complete lifestyle changes
- Genuine responses and gratitude
- The growing bond with his kids
- Meditation and self-discipline
- Changing friendships
- Time is more important than Bitcoin
Book Recommendations
Choose Life (Daniel Prince)
https://amzn.to/3JYK9NW
21 Lessons (Gigi)
https://amzn.to/3AjeTFX
The Price of Tomorrow (Jeff Booth)
https://amzn.to/3bPpNtE
The Bitcoin Standard (Saifedean Ammous)
https://amzn.to/3Qq8rTi
Green Murder (Ian Plimer)
https://amzn.to/3C701vI
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/bronzefozzz
https://twitter.com/dazbea1
https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss
https://twitter.com/modernTman
https://twitter.com/MartyBent
https://twitter.com/jakeeswoodhouse
https://twitter.com/johnkvallis
https://twitter.com/amber_hawken
https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
https://twitter.com/Iceman_Hof
Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
1 hr 10 min - EP52: The Saddest Episode Ever – Hats and Brendo
We’ve had a review...and it’s not good. To be fair, it was good for Brendo and shit for me. You can’t please all of the people all of the time. We’ll try to please some of the people some of the time.
Other than our mediocrity, we discuss:
- Brendo’s best ever tweet
- First-hand experience of struggle and poverty
- Divergence of consumer debt and savings
- The battle of the $50 and why Brendo might get fired
- The Bitcoin Bush Bash wrap-up
- https://twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash/status/1554332450917994496
- Coping with CPI round the world
- Desperate people do desperate things
- Whiplash in the Bitcoin price
- Lottery tax and how Bitcoin fixes gambling
- https://bitcoinorshit.com/
- Ricin poisoning
- European gas pricing
- https://www.statista.com/statistics/1201743/russian-gas-dependence-in-europe-by-country/
- Why my dad wants to buy more Bitcoin
- Public/Private keys analogy
- THAT review
Tweet of the Week
https://twitter.com/CasuallyGreg/status/1554200445286899712
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader
https://twitter.com/camilacampton
https://twitter.com/MeyrickDabs
https://twitter.com/dazbea1
https://twitter.com/ICOffenderII
https://twitter.com/Pete_Winn
https://twitter.com/Cryptic_Oz
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 9,900 Sats
Brendo 12,300 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
www.twitter.com/StackingHats
www.twitter.com/BitcoinBrendo
1 hr 1 min
About 2-Bit Idiots
From the publisher's feed
The journey from Normie to Bitcoiner.
Normal people tell the story of how they found the greatest money ever invented. Contact www.twitter.com/2BitIdiots if you'd like to come on as a guest.
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More info:
www.2bitidiots.com