Andy Schoonover is the founder of CrowdHealth, a community-funded healthcare initiative that is changing the reality of healthcare coverage in the US.
In this episode, we discuss:

• Where the idea for CrowdHealth came from
• Why the current (centralized) model of health insurance is so effed up
• How CrowdHealth removes the middle-man (government and/or insurance company) from the doctor-patient relationship
• How Bitcoin is part of the CrowdHealth business model
• How inflation caused by unsound money has eroded our communities, and how Bitcoin as sound money is bringing the importance of community back
• How CrowdHealth works, and what their future plans are for reshaping the experience of healthcare in the US and around the world

If you would like to learn more about CrowdHealth, please visit them at www.joincrowdhealth.com, and find them on X @joincrowdhealth

You can find out more about the podcast @deathandbitcoin on X and Instagram, or feel free to shoot me an email at [email protected]

Thanks for being here, enjoy the episode!

Tracy Chalmers is an end-of-life doula, a hospice volunteer, the co-founder of a grief support and resource group, and an end-of-life doula course facilitator at Douglas College in Vancouver BC.

This is an episode that everyone needs to hear. Tracy is full of invaluable heart wisdom and real-life experience in the areas of aging, dying, grieving, living, and loving.

The capacity to companion the dying is something that we all inherently know how to do, but over the last century we have become disconnected and fearful from the sacred and inevitable ending of the life-cycle.

Join us as we discuss how we can go about reclaiming death, and how we can companion one another through this sacred transition and open ourselves more fully to experiencing everything that life has to offer.

Find more from Tracy at: 

www.the griefwell.ca
www.endwell.ca
www.douglascollege.ca

And connect with me on Instagram and X @deathandbitcoin, or via email at [email protected]

Thank you for being here, enjoy the episode.

"It is the resistance to death that is painful, not death itself"

Today's guest is Ioni Appelberg: Doctor, Bitcoiner, YouTuber, Author, and Psychonaut.
Ioni is currently researching psychedelic use and efficacy in palliative care.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The State vs. Psychedelics
• How psychedelics impact our brain and our psychology to change our relationship with trauma, fear, and anxiety
• The next medical paradigm in treating age-related illness
• How Bitcoin and psychedelics intersect
• Our relationship with death and how to practice dying

You can find Ioni on X @IoniAppelberg and on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/@IoniAppelberg

His new book "Abundance through Scarcity" is available on Amazon.

You can find me on X @deathandbitcoin or contact me via email  at  [email protected]

In this episode I speak with Terrence Yang; managing director at Swan Bitcoin and expert in all things related to the economy and retirement planning.
We discuss:

• the current state of the economy and what people need to know about the coming decade
• how money printing is devaluing the dollar and how that affects your retirement savings
• why you may want to consider adding Bitcoin to your investment portfolio and how it acts as a hedge against inflation
• inheritance planning
• what Terrence learned about caring for both of his parents in late elderhood and considerations for this challenging life transition

If you'd like to learn more from Terrence you can follow him on X @TYonClubhouse or via email at [email protected]

If you have any feedback about this episode or the podcast in general, you can find me on X @deathandbitcoin or via email at [email protected]

Thanks for listening.

Stephen Nielsen is a hospice nurse and Bitcoiner.

In this episode, we discuss:

• the thread of truth that binds death and Bitcoin
• what is hospice and the challenges it faces in a centralized system
• how to prepare for and experience a beautiful death
• what we can do as sovereign individuals to decentralize death and how we can facilitate a better end-of-life experience

Stephen also shares some personal stories from his years as a hospice nurse which are particularly powerful and poignant. 
You can follow Stephen on Twitter @stephenfnielsen

Find me on Twitter @deathandbitcoin, or email [email protected] with your questions, comments, or ideas for future episodes.

Welcome to Season Two of the Decentralizing Death podcast: formerly known as the Death and Bitcoin podcast.

After a (long) hiatus of 16 months, we are back to discuss how the properties of decentralization can be applied to the process of aging and dying for the betterment of humanity.

With the properties of decentralization as our foundation (no central point of failure, community, peer-to-peer consensus, freedom to opt-in/out, sovereign decision-making, crowd-funding, privatization, etc.), we can initiate an end-of-life renaissance: a return to nature, a return to the sacred, a return to community. This process begins with a sovereign group of individuals agreeing to take on the responsibility of allocating our resources and how we distribute them for the betterment of the collective.

If you have comments, ideas for topics of conversation, or must-have guests, I can be reached on X (Twitter) @deathandbitcoin, or via email at: [email protected]

Thanks for being here and let's get on with Season 2!

My good friend and fellow Bitcoiner DJ Valerie B Love and I sit down at her home in Colorado to discuss some of what's been on our minds lately: Bitcoin, life, death, relationships, God, and living intentionally.

Val and I are both on a mission to increase the amount of love in the world. 
Thank God for Bitcoin, and for bringing such incredible people like Val into my life.
I am blessed - we are all blessed!

Feel free to email me with any questions or comments, or to request to come on the show.
[email protected]

Thanks for listening!

Solo episode.
Let me know what you think!

If you're interested in coming on to talk about your own journey with finding God through Bitcoin, shoot me an email at [email protected]

Peace and love, 
Beef and Bitcoin.

Erin

Rubin reached out to me to have a conversation about Bitcoin and death, and as with most of my conversations, we ended up wandering into all different facets of the life experience.
We discuss Bitcoin, the death of his father, legacy, a decentralized future, raising kids, and how the inclusion of psychedelics can help in all of those areas.

Follow Rubin on his YouTube channel "Help Find the Others" here -->
https://www.youtube.com/c/HelpFindTheOthers
And if you're interested in learning more about his hostel project in New York state you can contact him via email at [email protected]

Comments? Questions? Want to be a guest on the show?
Email me at [email protected]

Until next time :)

I put out a call on Twitter for people involved in death work/elder care and Bitcoin to come on the show, and Travis answered the call.

As a Bitcoiner and hospice nurse practitioner, Travis shares his journey about transitioning from a financial advisor to a hospice nurse, as well as valuable insight about end of life comfort care, how people and families can best prepare for end of life, and how Bitcoin can help to create a world in which more people have the means to afford, and access to, end of life services.

This is the first of what I hope are many conversations involving Bitcoiners who work in end of life care. It is up to us to create the world we not only want to see, but the one we need. To leave this place better than we found it. To restore the sacred to the end of life transition.

I'm on a mission to bring Decentralized Death to fruition. I hope you join in on the conversation.

You can connect with Travis (Coin on the Cob) on Twitter @dueyfromstlouis

Get in touch, let me know what you think, be a guest on the show! 
Email me at [email protected] or shoot me a DM on Twitter @Erincrawford41