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- EP51: Dox Fest – Hats and Brendo
The quality of guests on the Australian Bitcoin Podcast hit a new low this week, so we thought we’d drop one at the same time, to go head-to-head with Justin.
Hope this gives the bitcoiners heading home from Yeppoon some low-brow content after having your brain tested over the weekend.
We discuss:
- What we’ll do with any boosts and streams
- Back to the Future
- Brendo not being fazed by the bear
- The pros and cons of being “all in” Bitcoin
- Managing consumer debt
- Why banks don’t act in your best interest
- Mortgage stress and the RBA
- Deterioration of living standards
- How many people want to be free?
- Tyranny and the degradation of liberties
- Italian stereotypes. Sorry Italy.
- Progress with a normie mostly down to improved UI/UX
- 1 on 1 orange pilling
- Are we saving people or do we just want to talk about Bitcoin
- Public library information sessions
- Urology and STDs!
- The Line
- Stackchain
Tweet of the Week
https://twitter.com/ParikPatelCFA/status/1552000171499741192
Earn Sats
www.bitcoin-first.com/earn
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/bi_t_crispy
https://twitter.com/Breedlove22
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
https://twitter.com/haggishodl
https://twitter.com/anaveragesalmon
https://twitter.com/stilgray
https://twitter.com/AriZonanHODL
https://twitter.com/BTCBrisket
https://twitter.com/fountain_app
https://twitter.com/bluewalletio
https://twitter.com/CitizenBitcoin
https://twitter.com/PrestonPysh
https://twitter.com/SwanBitcoin
https://bitcoinonly.store/
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 9,900 Sats
Brendo 10,300 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
1 hr 12 min - EP50: Becoming Antifragile with @Talej
There are bitcoiners who are made, and there are bitcoiners who are born. The former are to be respected. They have a different perspective on life, but when presented with new information, they change their mind. Totally logical, but all too rare. However, the latter have always been bitcoiners. They’ve had a Bitcoin mindset forever; Bitcoin just didn’t exist.
Michael – @Talej – is definitely in the second group, and his recent article in Bitcoin Magazine proves it.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/becoming-antifragile-with-bitcoin-and-beyond
In this conversation we dig deeper into each section of the article to find out how and why Michael lives the way he does, what motivates him, and the process of making himself Antifragile. We discuss:
- Food
- Health and Fitness
- Income and Finances
- Community
- Skills/Knowledge Development
- Dependency and Mindset
We also go on to talk about what he’s creating at www.voltpay.app - a point of sale solution for merchants wanting to accept Bitcoin via the Lightning Network. Find out how it could help you, or how you could help it. Team member 2 could be you!
Earn Sats
www.bitcoin-first.com/earn
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/VoltPayApp
https://twitter.com/ck_SNARKs
https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine
https://twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
https://twitter.com/shouldbuybtc
https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss
https://twitter.com/IBEX_Mercado
https://twitter.com/PrinceySOV
https://twitter.com/PerthHeat
https://twitter.com/beefbackbetter
https://twitter.com/dazbea1
https://theurbanfarmer.co/
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 5900 Sats
Brendo 8300 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
1 hr 25 min - EP49: Haggis is Back!
One of the things I’m enjoying the most about doing the pod, is that we are starting to develop a little community of like-minded, no-nonsense bitcoiners. So, it’s great to have one of them back for another chat, to see where things have changed since we last spoke, what we got right and what we got wrong.
Scotland has given the world many things, from the TV and telephone to the fridge and the toaster, but none of it is better than Haggis. So, if you need a good Bitcoin twitter handle, @HaggisHODL is it.
In this one we talk about:
- Drunken DM’s
- Scottish football
- A new bet and meme-ing bitcoin onto the balance sheet of our teams
- St Mirren not Helen Mirren
- The new little chip is born. Listen to see if you won the sats.
- A Twitter hiatus
- Being over-exposed in a bear market
- The impact of consumer price inflation in Scotland and Turkey
- Anti-theft devices on cheese and baby milk
- The rise of crime
- Misreporting of news around the world
- UK cost-of-living payment. UBI creeps in.
- Acting normal when things aren’t normal
- Are people ready to face scary?
Earn Sats
www.bitcoin-first.com/earn
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
https://twitter.com/anaveragesalmon
https://twitter.com/dazbea1
https://twitter.com/bougatsas1
https://twitter.com/glennhodl
https://twitter.com/bi_t_crispy
https://twitter.com/BTCBrisket
https://twitter.com/the_Bowdog
https://twitter.com/DWhitmanBTC
https://twitter.com/rjames_BTC
https://twitter.com/efebitcoin
https://twitter.com/DudeJLebowski
https://twitter.com/donnerheid
https://twitter.com/BTC_SCO
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 5900 Sats
Brendo 8300 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
www.twitter.com/StackingHats
www.twitter.com/BitcoinBrendo
1 hr 14 min - EP48: The Brendo and Daz Show
Brendo doesn’t have many good ideas, but every now and then he surprises us all. I hope you enjoy the intro.
He appears on podcasts more often than Nic Carter shills a shitcoin, but since Brendo was eating his steak (not a euphemism) it seemed only fair that we have @dazbea1 back on to tell us where we’re going wrong in life.
Strangely though, for a Queenslander, the more you dig with Daz the more interesting he becomes...and it turns out...Brendo can sing, so it really just begs the question, what exactly do I offer the plebs. You judge. I know you will, and I love you for it bitcoiner.
We cover:
- Growing weed or Bitcoin mining. Which will be the most illegal
- My Bitcoin back story
- Watching our heroes fall, and the maxi pile-on
- www.lookingglasseducation.com
- Bitcoin education and the ladder to self-sovereignty
- DINO (Decentralised in Name Only)
- Normies will resonate with different voices
- Clothes pegs, wicker chairs and fat fingers
- The Brisket system...the rainy-day fiat
- Yield in Bitcoin
- Fountain
- Value for Value
- Mining at home
- Apologies for the sound at my end. All my fault.
Book Recommendations
Atlas Shrugged - https://amzn.to/3NEUEGf
Earn Sats
www.bitcoin-first.com/earn
Tweet of the Week
https://twitter.com/InterstellarBit/status/1542441170449494016
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/maxkeiser
https://twitter.com/stacyherbert
https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins
https://twitter.com/CitizenBitcoin
https://twitter.com/PrestonPysh
https://twitter.com/Excellion
https://twitter.com/sebbunney
https://twitter.com/JeffBooth
https://twitter.com/ICOffender
https://twitter.com/gregzaj1
https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
https://twitter.com/bi_t_crispy
https://twitter.com/BTCBrisket
1 hr 23 min - EP47: Orange-Pilled by Dad with @bi_t_crispy
Last time out, we finished recording early and had a bit of spare time. We could think of nothing to say to each other! So, we put out a tweet to see if anyone was up for a pleb chat, and I’m delighted to say we got Crispy (www.twitter.com/bi_t_crispy)
With zero planning and zero agenda, what you get is a totally natural conversation, and it turns out, Crispy’s a top bloke...but then, he is a bitcoiner, so...
* Win 30,000 Sats *
Crispy is also about to have his 2nd child, so we have a competition for you. Leave a comment on this episode on Fountain, guessing the block height when the baby is born. If you have the closest guess, Crispy, Brendo and I will each give you 10,000 sats.
Rules at the end of the pod.
We discuss:
- The various contributing factors that led Crispy to Bitcoin (including a monsoon in Vientiane)
- Bitcoin being his biggest catalyst for a career change
- Why curious generalists are naturally attracted to Bitcoin
- Being orange-pilled by mistake
- Why no-one moves on from Bitcoin
- Believing in shared truths
- Money being a communication tool
- Starting to engage with bitcoiners in real life
- Underdogs
- Humans adopting tools that help them co-ordinate
- Bitcoin only Telegram
- Understanding the source code
- www.bitcoinonly.store
Book Recommendations
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
https://amzn.to/3NobmJI
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/Iam_Satoshi
https://twitter.com/dazbea1
https://twitter.com/aantonop
https://twitter.com/HassMcCook
https://twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
https://twitter.com/hodloncomrades
https://twitter.com/the_Bowdog
https://twitter.com/_k3tan
https://twitter.com/SatoshiSale
https://twitter.com/clarkmoody
https://use.foldapp.com/r/ALTHXAUK
Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
www.twitter.com/StackingHats
www.twitter.com/BitcoinBrendo
1 hr 6 min - EP46: Bond to Unbind – Bitcoin and El Salvador with @Iam_Satoshi
We all talk about Bitcoin in El Salvador, but what do we really know?
Brendo and I speak to “Bond to Unbind” Director and Producer Tomer Kantor, who wanted to know the answer to that question, so he bought a plane ticket, picked up his camera and went to find out for himself.
We found the documentary to be an honest portrayal of how Tomer found it. No hype, no hopium, just a real representation of the opinions of Salvadorans less than a year after President Bukele announced the Central American country would be the first in the world to recognise Bitcoin as legal tender.
The conversation led us to discuss:
- The film-making process, and how a project like this comes together
- The benefit of not having a pre-determined story to tell...no confirmation bias
- The skill of listening and allowing people to speak
- The interesting content that surprises you whilst editing
- The willingness of Salvadorans to appear on film, and how welcoming local people were
- What Salvadorans really think of Bitcoin (good and bad)
- The political backdrop in El Salvador and lack of opposition to the President
- Willingness of businesses to accept Bitcoin as payment
- Bitcoin being blamed by some for inflation
- The need for education (everywhere, not just in El Salvador) and how that should be done
- The Bitcoin national diploma
- International businesses opening offices in El Salvador
- How taxi drivers spent their $30 of Bitcoin from the government
- The documentary being seen as honest by local people and the analytics showing that it’s being watched by Salvadorans
- Will people relocate to El Salvador because of Bitcoin?
We highly recommend you watch the documentary yourself, follow @Iam_Satoshi and look out for his future work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx-QWOHuug0
Other Documentaries by Tomer Kantor (twitter.com/Iam_Satoshi)
https://www.youtube.com/c/SatoshiPollenIamSatoshiDocumentary
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/beefbackbetter
https://twitter.com/LakeBitcoin
https://twitter.com/IBEX_Mercado
https://twitter.com/Bitcoinbeach
https://twitter.com/MyfirstBitcoin_
https://twitter.com/OpenNode
https://twitter.com/Strike
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 3900 Sats
Brendo 6300 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
48 min - EP45: The Tax Man Buys Bitcoin – Hats and Brendo
Brendo had the shits, that gave me the shits and now we’re back talking shit. Hi.
If any of these tasty nuggets grab your attention, press play:
- Congratulations to Matt and Marty
- Tubby Little Library Waddlers
- Would you like to know what guests are coming on so you can ask them a question?
- 2-Bit Idiots show stats
- Anchorman
- Plugging the other Australian podcasters
- Shitcoins are a car crash it’s hard not to look at
- Inflation is now stealing (at least) 1 month of your salary
- Explaining why Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) is not accurate
- Grifter of the Year. Janet Yellen.
- Brendo orange-pills the tax man
- The priority of rich people is wealth preservation
- Buying Bitcoin versus Earning Bitcoin
- www.bitcoin-first.com/buy
- www.bitcoin-first.com/earn
- Delivery driver Bob’s discretionary spending
- Why you should grow your own avocados
- Australia is still, comparatively, a good place to be
- Emirates to start taking payments in Bitcoin
- Primary research in Zimbabwe
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/the_Bowdog
https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
https://twitter.com/jakeeswoodhouse
https://twitter.com/AP_Bitcoin
https://twitter.com/efebitcoin
https://twitter.com/_k3tan
https://twitter.com/LookingGlassEdu
https://twitter.com/saylor
https://twitter.com/beefbackbetter
http://amzn.to/3KwBTDq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VT_zpHQzBE
Tweet of the Week
https://twitter.com/anilsaidso/status/1533846334528028672
Dick of the Day
Richard Heart...but I refuse to @ him. What a dick.
Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
www.twitter.com/StackingHats
www.twitter.com/BitcoinBrendo
45 min - EP44: Back to Work – Hats and Brendo
This one felt a bit depressing as we were doing it, but listening back, it doesn’t sound that bad. I’m definitely not being contacted by advertising companies looking for a salesman! Let us know what you think.
This week’s a Hats and Brendo episode, where we discuss all the important topics and some things that will make you laugh (mostly at us):
- My complete ignorance of Marvel
- My goggles joke that seemed good in my head, but was a complete flop
- How long ago 1 trillion seconds was
- Human inability to comprehend big numbers, exponentials and compounding
- The Luna debacle “virtually risk free”
- Why we shouldn’t say shitcoin
- “Old people” and why they must hedge. Listen to @hodloncomrades
- Financial advisors and why they should be obsolete
- When will the economic collapse happen, or are we in it now and just don’t realise it
- The BBC are a shitcoin
- Could you spend 10% of your Bitcoin every year and get richer
- Brendo’s 3rd pizza day
- George W. Bush and the worst gaffe on the internet since AmericanHODL perved on Preston’s daughter
Clip of the Week
@Pete_Winn on @AusBitcoinPod
https://fountain.fm/episode/7768419329
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/FatManTerra
https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss
https://twitter.com/hodloncomrades
https://twitter.com/JeffBooth
https://use.foldapp.com/r/ALTHXAUK
https://www.swanbitcoin.com/StackingHats
Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
www.twitter.com/StackingHats
www.twitter.com/BitcoinBrendo
50 min - EP43: On the ground in El Salvador with @beefbackbetter
Don’t Trust. Verify. That’s the oft repeated mantra in Bitcoin circles. But how many of us practice what we preach?
We first met Owen at the inaugural @BitcoinBushBash in Murrurundi, and subsequently travelled to his farm in northern NSW to learn why a Bitcoin maximalist would move into regenerative organic beef production (EP22). So, when we heard that he had gone to El Salvador to judge for himself what is really happening there, we wanted to hear all about it.
In this conversation we discuss:
- Taking the opportunity to leave the country after the lockdowns
- What it’s like meeting bitcoiners every day in El Zonte (and for some people the first time they’ve met another bitcoiner ever)
- Paying for (nearly) everything in Bitcoin
- Hope House
- Bond to Unbind - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx-QWOHuug0&t=2s
- Bukele being a bitcoiner for a long time
- Zero tolerance for shitcoiners
- The Chivo wallet has given some people a bad first impression of Bitcoin
- Supermarkets having 1 aisle or 1 person who understands Bitcoin
- Learning through doing
- Is relocating to El Salvador a good option
- Informal Bitcoin meetups every day
- Surfer, bitcoiner (or both)
- Some people blame Bitcoin for rising prices
- Healthy scepticism of Bukele and Bitcoin
- Gang arrests, state of emergency and covid lockdowns
- Goods and services still priced in USD
- Opportunities (particularly farming) in El Salvador and working with local growers
- Foreign investment, residency and citizenship
- Buying land with Bitcoin
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
https://twitter.com/HopeHousesv
https://twitter.com/Bitcoinbeach
https://twitter.com/GaloyMoney
https://twitter.com/LakeBitcoin
https://twitter.com/IBEX_Mercado
https://twitter.com/bluewalletio
https://twitter.com/MuunWallet
https://twitter.com/johnkvallis
Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
www.twitter.com/StackingHats
www.twitter.com/BitcoinBrendo
52 min - EP42: Through the Looking Glass with @dazbea1 and @sebbunney
How do you convince friends and family that Bitcoin is the solution? First, they must understand the problem.
Fortunately, Daz and Seb have you covered. Through www.lookingglasseducation.com they have created their first FREE course entitled Debt, Inflation and the Bigger Picture.
The course is written in a way that makes it accessible to all and presents Bitcoin as an option (the best option) to protect your financial security. However, it in no way forces that on the student and simply offers the information and tools that allow you to think for yourself.
Don’t Trust, Verify.
In this conversation we cover:
- How the course and the people came together
- Determining the target market
- Foss’s ski-lift etiquette
- The breadth of topics Bitcoin touches
- Coercive centralisation versus passion-based decentralisation
- Very promising numbers of people doing the course
- The next course will be Bitcoin fundamentals
- Value 4 Value
- Keeping the education free for those that need it
- Creating curriculum
- The importance of self-custody
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 1900 Sats
Brendo 2300 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
Course Made Possible By
https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss
https://twitter.com/jameslavish
https://twitter.com/plebmusic
https://twitter.com/sansone_jm
https://twitter.com/dalia_platt
Other Pod Shout-outs
https://jameslavish.substack.com
The Bitcoin Standard - http://amzn.to/3KwBTDq
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin - https://amzn.to/3LfEwde
https://twitter.com/PlaySHAmory
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC32zG7alhxoCmHxId9uBl-g
https://www.hardblock.com.au/join/hats
Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
www.twitter.com/StackingHats
www.twitter.com/BitcoinBrendo
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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.
Hosted by:
www.twitter.com/StackingHats and www.twitter.com/BitcoinBrendo
More info:
www.2bitidiots.com