Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
BTC Takeover
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S1 E3
Zack Voell on Bitcoin as a Political Mean, The Opt-In Economy, and Dating as a Bitcoiner
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00:50 Introduction
01:58 Our common academic background in political science
03:25 Bitcoin’s impact on politics
04:10 Vlad’s journey to Bitcoin;
07:58 The power of Bitcoin to create alternative markets;
10:59 The opt-out power than Bitcoin grants you;
13:11 Even the US dollar was illegal in its first days;
14:45 The creation of the US dollar is similar with the creation of Bitcoin;
19:00 Why Bitcoin is a paradoxical American invention;
31:35 Bitcoin is more American than the post-FDR USA;
35:00 Thoman Jefferson’s gold and silver monetary system and why he didn’t like fiat money;
39:30 18th century philosophy (Rousseau, Voltaire, French Revolution, American Revolution);
43:00 We aren’t taught how money works and why it exists, so Bitcoin is a crash course in human civilization;
47:15 Bitcoin teaches you a lot, and your background counts a lot;
52:00 Why did Zack Voell describe himself as a Bitcoin Noob?
55:15 Dating as a bitcoiner;
1:00:50 Going on dates and paying the bill with bitcoin;
1:06:20 Russia turning BTC into a reserve currency?
1:10:00 Russian economist thinks that Bernard Madoff is Satoshi Nakamoto;
1:14:00 Will developed or underdeveloped nations adopt Bitcoin first?
1:16:30 The paradigm shift in terms of Bitcoin narrative: free speech money will bring more adoption than sound money;
1:22:19 The convenience of centralization & the responsibility of freedom;
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