Today for the 5th episode of the Humans of Crypto we welcome the one and only, US based, unbanked Joël Valenzuela. Can he really be living the cypherpunk dream, and how?

Dash Force partner and editor of Dash Force News. He is a veteran writer and journalist in the cryptocurrency space, and had a long professional history in public policy, having worked for organizations such as the Cato Institute and the White House under George W. Bush. He also manages civic action organization the Rights Brigade and runs a taekwondo club, which he tell us a bit more about in the Show & tell.

Timeline

00:00 Intro

04:00 New Hampshire crypto scene

08:50 Free State Project

13:43 Chicago Bitcoin Pizza

15:32 Joel’s origin story

20:20 White House internship

29:00 Back to the Free State Project

35:18 Becoming unbanked

48:30 How to live unbanked

1:02:30 Living outside the system

1:07:20 Spending cryptocurrencies

1:16:40 What is Dash?

1:26:00 Scaling

1:30:00 Funding

1:40:00 Market cap ranking and the free market

1:51:20 Cryptocurrencies have their own use case

1:54:40 Dash Evolution

2:01:30 DeFi & DAOs

2:11:30 Blockchain trilema

2:12:20 Show & Tell

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