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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• “So, why Bitcoin? Because the 21st century needs a 21st century system of internet money that is open, borderless, neutral, censorship-resistant, immutable and permission-less… and that’s Bitcoin.” — Andreas M. Antonopoulos
• “We are not ‘losing’ cash, it is being deliberately taken away from us as a means of transaction” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos
  • “When you take away this [financial] privacy, you lose your freedom, all of the other human rights start to crumble” — Andreas M. Antonopoulos
• Modern credit cards and payment systems surveil you in 3 ways:
  • Monitor the associations you form – your network
  • Content of your purchases – Which books are you buying or organizations are you supporting
  • Track your geographical location – Every transaction reveals your location (no need to activate GPS on your phone)
• The future is 100% digital currency and you have to choose which form of money you use:
  • Under government control – completely centralized and surveilled end-to-end
  • Border-less, neutral, permission-less digital currencies that cannot be turned off
• Governments can coerce payment processors into blocking payments to recipients they deem unfit, Bitcoin fixes this
• Andreas’ advice for new comers to Bitcoin:
  • Invest in education, not speculation
  • Don’t buy Bitcoin, earn it in exchange of your skills
  • Remember: “Not your keys, not your coins”

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Location: New York
Date: Thursday 11th July 2019
Company: Casa & BlockFi
Role: Founder & Founder/CEO

During the previous bull run, the hype led to an influx of companies using Bitcoin or 'blockchain' to inflate value and attract investment. Many of these were questionable projects, and some were outright scams. Even legitimate companies struggled with the difficulty of creating value with Bitcoin, as companies failed two thrived: Casa and BlockFi.

BlockFi is building financial products for Bitcoin holders which allow them to use their crypto as collateral for taking out a loan or lend out their Bitcoin to earn interest. Casa is improving security by simplifying multisig.

So why have BlockFi and Casa been able to grow and thrive during the bear market while so many others have failed?

In this interview, I speak with Casa Founder Jeremy Welch and BlockFi Founder Zac Prince, we discuss Bitcoin utility, non-financial and sometimes unexpected applications and why Bitcoin is more than a financial system.

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Connect with Zac:
- On Twitter @BlockFiZac
- On LinkedIn
- On Crunchbase
- On AngelList

Connect with Jeremy:
- On Twitter @jeremyrwelch
- On LinkedIn
- On Crunchbase
- On Medium
- On AngelList

Connect with BlockFi
- On Twitter @TheRealBlockFi
- On Crunchbase
- The Website

Connect with Casa
- On Twitter @CasaHODL
- On Twitter@SatsApp
- On Crunchbase
- The Website

Mentioned in the interview:
- Casa and BlockFi Partnership
- Mastering Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Legality by Country
- Facebook’s David Marcus In Front of Senate
- Bitcoin Timelock
- North Korea Mining Bitcoin

Other relevant WBD podcasts:
- WBD128: Juthica Chou on The First Physically Settled Bitcoin Futures
- WBD122: Brad Stephens & Spencer Bogart on How Venture Capital Thinks About Bitcoin Investing
- WBD117: Jeremy Welch on Why Bitcoin Changes Everything
- WBD107: Daniel Buchner on Why Microsoft is Building Decentralised IDs on Bitcoin
- WBD084: Amber Baldet on Surveillance Capitalism
- WBD082: Andreas M. Antonopoulos Podcast Interview - What Happens When Bitcoin Takes Over
- WBD073: Bill Barhydt on How ABRA Is Building a Global Bank With Bitcoin
- WBD067: Gab's Andrew Torba on Why Bitcoin Is Free Speech Money
- WBD056: Alex Gladstein on Why Bitcoin Matters for Freedom
- WBD055: Vijay Boyapati's Bullish Case for Bitcoin
- WBD051: Zac Prince on the Future of Banking With Bitcoin
- WBD047: Adam Back on a Decade of Bitcoin
- WBD045: Brave's Brendan Eich on Fixing Online Advertising
- WBD034: Why Crypto Privacy is Important with Monero's Riccardo "FluffyPony" Spagni

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0:56 Jason intros David Heinemeier Hansson (@DHH) and asks about the work-from-home paradigm shift

5:28 Measuring programming success via budgets instead of estimates, quantifying creativity

9:57 Are incentive systems inherently bad?

13:01 How terrible commutes turned the tides for remote work in Silicon Valley, why do executives subject themselves to horrible working conditions?

17:59 What is the optimal amount of work hours per week?

19:58 Benefits of higher minimum wage

23:28 How can America "get to Denmark"? Should we rein in capitalism?

27:19 How do educational stipends work in Denmark? Benefits of state-sponsored education & healthcare

32:27 Is American bureaucracy able to change quickly?

35:52 Are gig workers being exploited? Why or why not?

45:57 Flexibility vs. Security in the gig-economy

51:20 Has the American Dream become false in America?

1:00:26 Are ISA schools (like Lambda School) an innovation or a bandaid on the failing capitalist system?

1:06:30 What do successful numbers look like for ISAs?

1:12:28 Starting Basecamp & raising from Jeff Bezos in the early days

1:19:43 Roasting Jeff Bezos on Twitter, socialism, progressivism in America

1:28:13 Amazon disappointments & how can Bezos save face?

1:36:31 Wealth tax debate

1:43:23 Which major tech companies should be broken up?

1:52:04 Will GDPR-like policies work in America?

1:55:59 What is David doing with Hey.com? Should there be two-sided consent in email read-receipt tracking?

2:03:29 Could there ever be an open-source Twitter or messaging app? Was WhatsApp it before being bought by Facebook?

2:09:34 Thoughts on tech journalism vs. big-tech

2:12:22 Can big-tech regulation fix the competitive landscape?

Thousands of books have been written about the latest and greatest diets that will help people lose weight and improve health. But a key element in any successful nutritional health program is a tried-and-true method that most people haven’t thought about—yet it could be revolutionary for taking health to the next level. This ancient secret is fasting.

I’ve often said that health is not just an individual endeavor—a multitude of other factors contribute to it, including our food system. In this episode of Revolution Health Radio, I talk with Dr. Mark Hyman about his upcoming book Food Fix, which delves deeply into the problems in our food system and discusses how they can worsen global crises like the chronic disease epidemic, climate change, poverty, and more.

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Successful startups are born from insights about the future
• Startups aren’t companies; they’re a group of people with a set of proprietary insights that are a result of them living in the future
• “I think startups are so impossible that if you’re not 100% committed, you almost have no chance” – Mike Maples
• Great founders can easily answer the question, “Why is now the perfect time for your startup?”
• Great entrepreneurs:
  • Are like artists—they move people beyond their logic
  • Don’t seek approval; they seek the truth
  • Willingly identify and tackle key company risks
  • Are antifragile—they get stronger under pressure
• Startups don’t have markets; they have potential energy behind a movement
• As a founder, it’s essential you drop your ego and focus on a continual search for the truth

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Mike Maples, partner at the VC firm Floodgate, shares how mental models shape his decision making process, where to find the next big idea, and how to rally people to your cause.

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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Everybody is unique—customize your fasting routine based on your age, metabolic health, cholesterol levels, weight, and family history of neurodegenerative disease 
  • (Think of the above as the “fasting algorithm”)
• In general, the higher your body fat percentage, the more often you should be fasting
• Just as with exercise, the benefits of fasting come with consistency

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Customizing your fasting window is a common question nowadays.

Hopefully this short podcast will add some context and clarity that'll help YOU figure out what's best for your body.

➢ Enroll in our latest Fasting, Autophagy and Ketogenic Nutrition eCourse: https://courses.highintensityhealth.com

➢ Kick-start your fast with Berberine HCl by MYOXCIENCE: http://bit.ly/pure-berberine-hcl

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• In animal models, the ketogenic diet upregulates innate immune system activity in lung tissue. Because of this:
  • The ketogenic diet may offer protection against influenza (and the coronavirus)
  • The ketogenic diet may be a viable treatment method for chronic Lyme disease
• To further improve immune system health:
  • Get enough sleep
  • Use the sauna and expose yourself to cold temperatures
  • Supplement with vitamin A & vitamin D (2,500-1000 IU/day) as well as zinc (25 mg/day)
  • Supplement with a strain-specific probiotic; Mike recommends Myxoscience’s Probio Supreme

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This snippet is from a panel discussion at Metabolic Health Summit 2020 in Long Beach, CA. A participant asked a wonderful question about emerging trends in the realm of ketogenic diet applications and infectious disease.

Access all the Metabolic Health Summit Videos: http://bit.ly/39eCDv7

Check out the research from Yale University suggesting keto diet applications maybe helpful in the context of immune health: http://bit.ly/31CQvwe

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Everybody is unique—customize your fasting routine based on your age, metabolic health, cholesterol levels, weight, and family history of neurodegenerative disease 
  • (Think of the above as the “fasting algorithm”)
• In general, the higher your body fat percentage, the more often you should be fasting
• Just as with exercise, the benefits of fasting come with consistency

Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org



Subscribe to the High Intensity Health Podcast

Customizing your fasting window is a common question nowadays.

Hopefully this short podcast will add some context and clarity that'll help YOU figure out what's best for your body.

➢ Enroll in our latest Fasting, Autophagy and Ketogenic Nutrition eCourse: https://courses.highintensityhealth.com

➢ Kick-start your fast with Berberine HCl by MYOXCIENCE: http://bit.ly/pure-berberine-hcl

Eric sits down with leading fitness geek, guru, thinker and human guinea-pig Ben Greenfield to learn how one of the world's most highly regarded trainers and fitness experts cuts through the nightmare that is our medical literature. 

The academic and medical literature in health and medicine is a disaster. Studies are performed and reported in non-standard and idiosyncratic ways which are then further distorted by a press often looking more for headlines and scoops than facts and rigor. In this episode we get to ask one of the most sought after fitness optimizers how ordinary people can better understand their own minds, brains and bodies in light of the cacophony of 'expert' opinion. Ben, here in his role of master pedagogue, gives detailed implementable answers as well as simple to follow priorities that sum up his years of study and training for the mere mortals who wish to better everything in their lives by tackling health at the fundamental level.  

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One of Jay Shetty’s favorite books is The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman. In this video, Jay Shetty breaks down his six steps to understanding your partner’s love language and improve your communication now.

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