Bitcoin Rapid-Fire

By John Vallis

Technology

What's Bitcoin Rapid-Fire about?

Bitcoin is the future of money, that is my firm belief. I use this show to learn more about this phenomenon, and its various implications, from some of the brightest minds in the space, and beyond. I'm not trying to educate or inform anyone, I'm sharing my own journey of attempting to understand bitcoin, and delving in to some of the less obvious, but incredibly profound, aspects of its emergence in the global culture.

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Critiquing Jordan Peterson'...

09.12.2023

Over the last year or so, Jordan Peterson has been very critical of the quality of online discourse, attributing much of the problem to anonymous/pseudonymous accounts. He refers to such accounts as 'troll demons' or 'dark tetrad types', and has ...

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09.12.2023 Critiquing Jordan Peterson's Views On Anonymity Online Over the last year or so, Jordan Peterson has been very critical of the quality of online discourse, attributing much of the problem to anonymous/pseudonymous accounts. He refers to such accounts as 'troll demons' or 'dark tetrad types', and has ...
09.08.2023 The Launch of 'Dare to Dream: A Story From El Salvador' In November of 2021, I was fortunate enough to be involved in the filming of a documentary about Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador. Over the last two years, the director and producer have turned it into a beautiful feature-length documentary, ...
09.04.2023 Is China About To Crash? Bitcoiners Discuss China Macro The Economic Situation in China has recently been attracting more attention, as a result of several economic indicators showing worrying signs. Despite it's robust growth over several decades, there have long been worries about how much has been fuelled by ...
08.31.2023 The Ramaswamy Candidacy w/ Jordan Schachtel & Vijay Boyapati Vivek Ramaswamy burst onto the American political scene in early 2023, after announcing his presidential campaign (on the Republican side). I was immediately struck by his thoughtfulness and eloquence, but even more so by his 'radical' policy positions (which I ...
08.27.2023 Bitcoin Mining on the Homestead w/ Rev.Hodl Rev.Hodl (@HodlRev) has been building out his homestead operation in Michigan for several years. I had him on the podcast about a year ago to discuss how and why he got started, what he has learned, the details of his ...
08.18.2023 HODL HANG #9 - Bitcoin is the (new) solution to the 'meaning crisis' After a fun trip to Miami where we recorded the first couple episodes of a new in-person show ('Portal Orange'), we got back together for a good old-fashioned Hodl Hang. Enjoy! -- More from the boys: TWITTER (Rob): ⁠@Breedlove22⁠ TWITTER ...
08.10.2023 Bitcoin is For Anyone, Not Everyone w/ Fernando Nikolić Fernando is the Marketing and Communications Director at the diversified bitcoin company, Blockstream. He is also the creator of bitcoinerbooks.com, a website with lists and links to books recommended by certain bitcoiners. He recently published an op-ed in Bitcoin Magazine ...
08.01.2023 The 'Physics' of Truth and Bitcoin w/ Noam Hazan Noam Hazan is a physical therapist and independent bitcoin researcher. He recently contacted me and shared with me a link to a nearly 3-hour video presentation in which he delves into bitcoin from 'first principles', through the lens of physics, ...
07.25.2023 Building An Off-Grid Homestead in Hawaii w/ Jordan Urbs Jordan Urbs is a musician, digital content creator, bitcoiner, and host of the 'Sovereign States of Mind' podcast. As a result of his views on sovereignty and independence, Jordan and his wife and two young kids are been working on ...
07.20.2023 Finding God Through Bitcoin w/ Reed (@FreedomMoney21) Reed reached out to me a while back, saying that his journey of understanding bitcoin, and all the different disciplines required to do so, had ultimately led him back to god. This inspired him to begin writing about his shift ...
07.12.2023 Coinjoins, Blacklists, Softforks, & The Beginning of Civilization w/ Max Hillebrand Max Hillebrand is a 'free software entrepreneur', the CEO of ckSNACKS (The company leading the development of Wasabi Wallet), a strong proponent of individual liberty, bitcoin educator, and a long-time friend of mine. Max was one of the first guests ...
07.01.2023 Hollywood Producer on Bitcoin Book 'Proof of Money' w/ Terence Michael Terence Michael is Hollywood producer, entrepreneur, real-estate investor, and author. His most recent work is the excellent book 'Proof of Money: The Big Idea Behind Bitcoin (What You Don't Know About Why You Need It). Terence booked himself on the ...
06.26.2023 Building 'The Regenaissance' - Education, Apparel, Community w/ Ryan Griggs Ryan Griggs is the founder of the 'Regenaissance'. According to their website: "The primary mission of The Regenaissance is to permeate the mainstream consciousness with the truth via education, apparel, and community. Ushering in the regeneration of our health via ...
06.21.2023 'The Anatomy of Bitcoin' (Film) w/ @pedromvpg Pedro is a content creator, communications designer / UX specialist, and the driving force behind a film project called 'The Anatomy of Bitcoin'. Though this project is still under development, parts of it are available to watch, and it appears ...
06.15.2023 Why Are So Many People 'Revisiting' Religion? A Deep Dive w/ Michael Millerman Michael Millerman is a philosopher, the founder of MillermanSchool.com, and the author of the books 'Inside Putin's Brain', and 'Beginning With Heidegger'. I invited him on the show to discuss the seeming trend toward revisiting religion, the role of philosophy, ...
06.09.2023 Exploring Bitcoin 'Acceleration Theory' w/ Jared Webber Jared is a young bitcoiner from Canada who recently wrote an article about bitcoin 'acceleration theory', a perspective which basically asserts that it's better to accelerate the decline of fiat, so that bitcoin can replace it sooner, rather than delaying ...
05.29.2023 A Bitcoiner Discusses His Interest In Anarchism w/ Michael Matulef Michael Matulef is a bitcoiner with an interest, or who is ideologically aligned, with 'anarchy'. He booked himself on the show (via my public Calendly link) to come on and discuss it, as well as what bitcoin means to him ...
05.21.2023 Fix The Money, Fix the...Soil? From Coal Mining To Regenerative Ranching w/ Jason Wrich Jason Wrich is the founder of Wrich Ranches, a regenerative cattle ranch focusing on holistic practices in Crawford, Colorado. The connection between regenerative cattle raising and bitcoin is one that I have been following for a few years now, and ...
05.19.2023 Writing The Ultimate 'Bitcoin Basics' Article w/ DNComply 'DNComply' is a pseudonym for a writer who wishes to remain anonymous, but has nevertheless recently written a thorough introduction to the topic of bitcoin. A lifetime writer, and long-time bitcoiner, he felt that many of the intros out there ...
05.12.2023 Nostr Deep Dive & Inflation in Argentina w/ Pablo Fernandez Pablo Fernandez is an Argentinian software engineer, ‘Head of R&D;’ at Swan Bitcoin, advisor to ‘ego death capital’, and most recently, developer of a number of projects on the Nostr protocol. In this discussion, I ask Pablo about the economic ...
05.06.2023 30 Years in China: A More Nuanced Comparison Of Socio-Economic Approaches Between China and 'The West' w/ Peter Alexander Peter Alexander is an entrepreneur who’s been living and doing business in Shanghai, China for nearly 30 years. He reached out to me recently after hearing one of the ‘Macro Hang’ episodes, where we briefly touched on the subject of ...
04.30.2023 Everything You Wanted To Know About Moving To El Salvador In 2023 w/ 'Escape To El Salvador' Jeremy is the founder of 'Escape To El Salvador', a business which provides services to people seeking to move to El Salvador. As many places around the world today appear to be pursuing nonsensical, increasingly authoritarian, and ultimately unsustainable policies, ...
04.25.2023 Macro Hang #5 w/ Jeff Booth, Preston Pysh & Greg Foss Hanging out with some of my bitcoin pals discussing the macro climate at the end of April 2023. Enjoy! -- More from the guys: TWITTER (JEFF): ⁠https://twitter.com/JeffBooth⁠ TWITTER (PRESTON): ⁠https://twitter.com/PrestonPysh⁠ TWITTER (FOSS): ⁠https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss More from me: TWITTER: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/2P7PUjA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ YOUTUBE: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3aBbZxg⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ...
04.22.2023 Starting A (High-Quality) Beef Business In El Salvador w/ 'Beef Back Better' Owen Gwilliam, also known as 'Beef Back Better', was on the show about a year ago, as he was making his first trip to El Salvador, doing research on the regenerative / organic ranching situation in the country. Since that ...
04.16.2023 Ditching Spotify For 'Streaming Sats': The Future Of Independent Music Publishing w/ Joe Martin Joe Martin is a musician and a pioneer in the emerging use of the so-called 'value 4 value' model for digital product publishing (and likely more in the future). Joe is about to launch his first full album 'Empty passenger ...
04.05.2023 Ditching Marxism & Finding Bitcoin w/ Mercedes Juárez Mercedes Juárez is a 70+ year old Mexico native, who was introduced to me by a mutual friend. An advocate for Marxism earlier in life, she has more recently found bitcoin, gone down the rabbit hole, and is now pursuing ...
03.29.2023 Bitcoiner Book Club: 'Secrets of the Federal Reserve' w/ Daniel Prince, Ray Youssef, & Jace Hartzler This is another instalment in the 'Bitcoiner Book Club' series. When either myself, or others read a book that they thought was interesting, relevant to bitcoin, and worthy of further discussion, we put together one of these chats. The guests ...
03.21.2023 What Is The 'Spirit' Of Bitcoin? - Broadening The Discussion On 'Upgrades' w/ Guy Swann Guy Swann is a friend, bitcoiner, and creator and host of 'Bitcoin Audible', a podcast where he reads the top articles in the bitcoin space, and provides extensive and valuable commentary on them. Last week Guy and I recorded a ...
03.20.2023 Hodl Hang #8: The Banking Crisis, $1M Bitcoin Bet, Nostr, The Future of Politics & More After a 7 month hiatus, the Hodl Hang crew is back to discuss some of the wild events and encouraging developments of the last half year. Enjoy! -- More from the boys: TWITTER (Rob): @Breedlove22 TWITTER (Erik): @Erikcason TWITTER (HODL): ...
03.14.2023 A Bitcoiner's Perspective on the Banking 'Crisis' w/ Guy Swann Guy Swann is a friend, bitcoiner, and creator and host of 'Bitcoin Audible', a podcast where he reads the top articles in the bitcoin space, and provides extensive and valuable commentary on them. I've known Guy since I've been in ...
03.10.2023 Getting A Job In Bitcoin w/ Andy & Eric of Bitcoin Talent Co It's a very common phenomenon that when people get orange-pilled, and begin heading down the 'bitcoin rabbit-hole', they have an increasing desire to shift their job / career to work in bitcoin. Additionally, while the bitcoin-only industry is still fairly ...
03.05.2023 Rethinking 'Toxicity', Shifting Focus, Publishing His First Book & The Pace of Bitcoin Adoption w/ Aleks Svetski Aleks Svetski is an entrepreneur, friend, prolific writer in the bitcoin space, and author of the recently released book 'The UnCommunist Manifesto', a logical, and piercing takedown of 'Communist' thinking, and a simple explanation of the rationale (and virtues) of ...
02.28.2023 Starting (in 2019) and Scaling a Successful Regenerative Ranching Business w/ Jacob Wolki Jacob Wolki is an Australian entrepreneur and regenerative farmer. He started out in his family's record store, then moved to selling bicycles, and in 2019, went down the regenerative farming rabbit-hole, which he's now built into a rapidly growing full-time ...
02.23.2023 A Conversation About Truth With A 'Christian Anarchist' I often ask the twitterverse if there are any bitcoiners out there who would like to jump on the podcast for a discussion about whatever they're into (or want to discuss). This man (who wishes to remain anonymous) hit me ...
02.17.2023 BoltObserver, Risks to Lightning, & The 'Value Enabled Web' w/ Aljaz Ceru Aljaz is the CEO and Co-Founder of BoltObserver, software which provides monitoring and management services for lightning nodes. He's also the co-founder of the Bitcoin Ljubljana meetup, and has worked in the bitcoin space for several years. He is another ...
02.10.2023 Giving Up A 'White Collar' Career For Regenerative Ranching w/ Eyvy The Farmer (Norwegian Bitcoiner) Eyvy is a young Norwegian bitcoiner who, after hearing the stories of other bitcoiners who became interested and got involved in regenerative farming, decided to give up on his 'white collar' career and do the same. He has since bought ...
02.07.2023 A Discussion About Making Changes/Upgrades To Bitcoin w/ James O'Beirne James O'Beirne is a friend and contributor to Bitcoin Core since 2015. He is also the author of the recently published 'OP_VAULT' white paper. While I tend to focus more on the socio-cultural or 'philosophical' aspects of bitcoin, I still ...
01.30.2023 Jameson Lopp: Bitcoin Covenants, OP_VAULT, Upgrade vs. Ossification & Casa Changes Jameson Lopp is a technologist who has been involved in the bitcoin space for over 10 years. He has worked at bitcoin companies, created and contributed to several educational resources, and co-founded Casa, a service which helps customers self-custody their ...
01.26.2023 Running for Governor, The Pursuit of Mental Clarity, & Psilocybin for Vets w/ Shane Hazel Shane Hazel is a veteran, bitcoiner, founder of the B.R.A.V.E PTSD Experience, and a political candidate, most recently in the Georgia gubernatorial race for the Libertarian Party. I watched some of the live debates for that race, and was impressed ...
01.17.2023 Resolving 'Attachment Trauma', and Delivering Orange-Pills, w/ 'Honest Sharing' I've recently been trying a new method of booking guests for the show, by posting a Calendly link, and allowing anyone who wishes to come on to book themselves in. I ask them to give a brief summary of what ...
01.11.2023 MADEIRA UPDATE w/ Andre, Niko, & Rob At the bitcoin 2022 conference, the President of Madeira got on stage, and announced that Madeira was 'adopting' bitcoin. While this led to much excitement about another potential 'bitcoin citadel' emerging, it also left many questions. Since that time, a ...
01.10.2023 Bitcoin is a Source of Creative Inspiration w/ @ReelRichard Richard is the creator of some of the most awesome bitcoin-inspired music videos, which are always a big hit with the ‘bitcoin maximalists’ on twitter. I really enjoy his work, and feel its another beautiful example of how bitcoin is ...
12.31.2022 2022 in Bitcoin w/ Alex Leishman & Rodolfo Novak Sometimes I like to put together an episode that is just meant to be a hangout with some of my friends in the bitcoin space. They are usually pretty open discussions about all things bitcoin and related topics. As both ...
12.26.2022 Taking Back Your Attention & Generating a Market for it w/ VIDA Most people in the world don't yet realize that the internet is currently entering a new era. Thanks to the capabilities of bitcoin and the lightning network, a seamless, frictionless, value transfer layer is coming to our online actions and ...
12.19.2022 Bridging Worlds and Making 'In-Game' Economies 'Real' by Integrating Bitcoin w/ Sovtoshi I recently posted a Calendly link to my twitter account, telling people that I've made a few time slots available for people who wish to come on the podcast to book themselves in. Sovtoshi was the first to take me ...
12.13.2022 The Perils of a Narrow, Unexamined Perspective, and the Influence of Fiat w/ Tyler Lindsay Tyler responded to one of my recent tweets inviting people to join me on the podcast for a discussion. He DM'd me saying that he had an interesting perspective on the 'two monetary bubbles' in Aspen, Colorado, and would also ...
12.09.2022 Redefining ‘Wealth’ on a Bitcoin Standard w/ Ethan Hampton I met Ethan at the 'What is Money' live event with Robert Breedlove and Jordan Peterson around the Bitcoin 2022 conference. We had a nice but brief conversation, so I was happy when he hit me up recently to continue ...
12.07.2022 The Orange Era Cometh w/ a Pseudonymous Newfie Bitcoin Pleb 'Harry Cooper' (pseudonym) responded to a recent tweet of mine saying that he was a bitcoiner from my home province of Newfoundland (Canada), and that he'd be up for a chat on the podcast sometime. So, we recorded one. Enjoy! ...
12.02.2022 The Bitcoin Rapping Revolutionary - The Extraordinary @tip_nz Tip, in my opinion, is the creator of some of the most entertaining and educational videos in the bitcoin space. She combines informative and clever lyrics, with captivating imagery, and engaging music, to create something that anyone can enjoy and ...
11.30.2022 'Treating' Depression w/ Psychedelics & Bitcoin, and Dissolving Perverse Incentives w/ @Ricardo Negri Rick messaged me on twitter mentioning that he'd be interested in coming on for a discussion. What followed was an honest, open, and fascinating discussion about how bitcoin and psychedelics allowed him to get off of his dependency on pharmaceutical ...

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