Peter McCormack is the host of What Bitcoin Did and the Defiance podcast. He recently returned from travel to a number of countries in South America including Venezuela and Colombia as well as the Turkey-Greece border. 

In this off-the-cuff and wide ranging conversation, Peter and @NLW discuss

• Bitcoiner politics and the bitcoin community’s reaction to the potential for increased state power in the wake of Coronavirus
• Which types of state power growth we should be most concerned with 
• How to push governments to retract power growth on the other side of crisis 
• How travel around the world has informed Peter’s perspective on bitcoin and politics
• Why nuance is both disincentivized and sorely needed in times of crisis