Citizen Bitcoin

Brekkie Von Bitcoin is a bitcoin artist, master of memes and Creative Director at Tantra Labs. In this episode, Brekkie and I just shoot the shit for 70 minutes or so - we get into his background, bitcoin art and memes, the bitcoin book he’s working on, Tantra labs, lightning, deep fakes and more.

Phil Geiger from Unchained Capital joins me to dig into his bitcoin story, bitcoin’s revolutionary scarcity, Austrian economics, what Unchained is up to and we talk about bitcoin as a clock.

Max Hillebrand joins Brady to discuss natural law, ethics, anarchy, agorism, philosophy, open source software, privacy and Wasabi wallet.

Conner Brown joins Brady to discuss evangelizing bitcoin, economics, deflation and intrinsic value, we chat about video games and the potential for the combo of lightning and video gaming, - we talk about scammers and shitcoins - and since Conner was a Policy Debater like myself - we finish up with Conner taking the for and against on some contentious bitcoin topics - which was particularly awesome so be sure to hang around for it.

Jeremy Welch, founder and CEO of Casa, joins Brady to discuss the founding and building of Casa, the details of Casa products like Keymaster seedless multisig, the Casa Node and their inheritance product, Covenant. We also discuss the lightning network and a bitcoin future.

Cory Klippsten, founder of GiveBitcoin, joins me to talk about the clever new way to make hodlers of the precoiners in your life. We get into Cory's background, his bitcoin education experience and how he envisions GiveBitcoin helping speed up the bitcoin education and adoption process. We finished up the discussion talking macroeconomics and bitcoin's prospects in the near and far term.

Ketominer is the cypherpunk and prolific bitcoin builder who created the Nodl, the popular plug and play personal bitcoin assistant. In this episode we get nostalgic about the early days of personal computing and the internet, discuss the Nodl news and other projects Keto is working on, discuss lightning network and privacy. I’ve got a ton of respect for the bitcoin builders and Keto is one of the greats.

Hass McCook is a civil engineer and project manager of major public and private infrastructure and large-scale residential projects and a devoted bitcoin evangelist. In this episode we discuss energy and the business of mining, we compare the environmental and social impacts of gold and bitcoin mining and then we consider Hass’ most recent work analogizing the broader bitcoin idea to the idea of a secular religion. Thus far we’ve laughed as we’ve discussed this idea with tounge in cheek but I can see a future where a secular bitcoin religion grows and spreads as a means of spreading the traditions and values of holders around the world.

Gigi is a super bullish bitcoin maximalist and, more importantly, an all around great guy. After chatting with Gigi about his experience in Riga I had to invite him back on the show to share his latest brainstorms about bitcoin with all of you. Gigi was last on the show 20 episodes ago, episode 34 - in which we explored the 21 lessons he’s learned from his trip down the rabbit hole - as with that episode I usually prepare pretty thoroughly for the interviews on this show, but for this one I didn’t make any notes or prepare any questions, this is just two bitcoiners shootin’ the shit and catching up on our latest bitcoin musings.

Giacomo and Brady discuss his time as a libertarian political advocate, his economic education, potential state level attacks on bitcoin, privacy, lightning network and third layer protocol proposals to be built on top of lightning.