Season 7 quotes

“It’s such a waste of time, and the opportunity cost is that I could have used this money to help a living artist create something they’ve always wanted to create.”

“It’s a tough one, because I’ve never actually done a test. But I do think that skin in the game, spending your own Bitcoin on artworks, is the best teacher.”

“I don’t think that acquiring wealth and just making more money is the most noble purpose in itself that we might have.”

“Hopefully the taxes will get resolved, and that will allow us to actually use Bitcoin as money.”

“This market of famous artworks, or artworks made by famous artists, is inflated, and sometimes you can get something that’s not genuine, which the artist never touched.”

“It has greater value as money and greater acceptance, because we have to move on from store of value to medium of exchange at some point.”

“Realizing the greatest ambitions of living artists today: to me, that’s the most important thing I could possibly be spending Bitcoin on in the future.”

“With movies, you get the accent, you understand how they speak, how they interact, how they modulate their voices and tones to express something, because it’s always different in different cultures.”

“I think of it as unlocking human potential, and making sure we don’t lose that potential simply because of a lack of funding. All through history, there have been countless lives that could have contributed their genius to the world.”

“I don’t think I ever owned a video game on that system that was official and actually generated some revenue for the creators.”

“Like most people, I have interests outside of Bitcoin, and I like to talk about them. But whenever someone talks to me, usually all they care about hearing is what I think about Bitcoin, or what I think about what others think about Bitcoin.”

“There must be something to them that I’m not getting, because millions and millions of people love them. I always try to keep that in mind when I’m playing a game I’m not really enjoying.”

“I didn’t play The Last of Us, which I hear is excellent and a must-have, just because I don’t own a PS4 or a PS5.”

“The Wii was popular because your grandma could play it. But even though it sold really well, it kind of fucked the company up until the Switch. The Wii U nearly put that company under.”

“It depends on the perspective, but it doesn’t get boring, and you don’t have to get bored by it, at least not graphically, aesthetically or in terms of gameplay.”

“I don’t imagine that in 1990, or even in the year 2000, there were many 30-year-olds playing video games.”

“I have the Rift, and I barely use it, because it’s kind of a pain in the ass, frankly. It’s cool, but there’s also the issue that most people experience motion sickness the first time they play.”

“One thing you can always do, and should always do: you’re under no obligation to use your real name. So you shouldn’t use your real name.”

“If you want to be careful, and you want people to understand you… people are more reactionary than they’ve ever been.”

“I don’t want to put words in his mouth, but that was the impression I got from that tweet.”

“Gold is very, very interesting for the mainstream, because it’s rare, and it was the only thing that was both rare and liquid. It has a history of storing value, and a lot of people had a grandpa who held gold.”

“People would hold their gold at the vault, because walking around with lots of silver and gold in your pockets is dangerous.”

“Human rights, and the idea that life is sacred and that you should try to protect people, is not new; it has been around for thousands of years. It’s a pretentious demand for me to make, but we should study ethics a lot more and try to understand the complexity of our choices.”

“I understand people saying they don’t like guns where they are, because then people shoot each other, but I also understand the other side. America is just so full of guns that you can’t just take them away.”

“Currently we need governments for certain things, I totally agree with you. But I do feel we should constantly be sitting down and philosophizing about how certain structures could work peacefully while keeping people safe, without paying a protection racket to protect them from yourself and others.”

“I tweeted this morning that government has protected people from risk for so long.”

“It happens more often than not in a car, because you don’t see the other person’s face. And the same thing happens online.”

“That’s a direct effect of people being able to spew the worst venom they can think of without feeling any physical threat, and really destroying lives. It’s really unfortunate, because that’s where we could have come together as a community a little bit better.”

“I feel that the school system really doesn’t teach people how to think.”

“People think that they know how you should live your life better than you do, and that’s how you get a government.”

“I think it’s great that you’re doing this series, because it’s important to highlight that we are not a monolith.”

“I got interested in this stuff largely because I was living in South Korea, where you don’t really find drugs.”

“I don’t think video games are bad, and I don’t think drugs are fine. I think different activities and different substances affect different people in different ways.”

“In and of itself, if you just want more money for the sake of more money, you’re going to run into existential questions you’re not prepared for.”

“Civilization is the only turn-based strategy game I actually ended up playing much, but I still remember starting a game at like 8 p.m.”

“It’s not quite as simple as some people having an addictive personality and some people not. I think some people have a tendency to get addicted to certain things more than others.”

“I was never super into weed myself, even though in Canada it’s long been accepted, and it’s actually fully legal here now.”

“You should watch it just for the laughs, because they look at anything that goes up and make predictions that never come true.”

“There are certain effects of money printing that increase wealth inequality, and there are also certain other effects that reverse it, like inflating away someone’s debt.”

“If that happens, I try to think about how I would like to spend the money, and I don’t want to spend a lot of it on myself.”

“I think it’s important, not so much secrecy, but shying away from presenting it, because it sparks curiosity in people who don’t know anything about Bitcoin.”

“If you have something to express, just put it out there. It’s so important, because we never know when our lives are going to end.”

“What’s the goal of those social media companies? It’s nothing except people staring at their platform, because that’s how they raise their fiat shit fucking trash garbage money.”

“You don’t have to make money out of art to actually do art.”

“If you find something like visual arts, or music, or sculpture, it just helps you get out what you’re feeling in a way that nothing else can.”

“The best advice about women I ever got was: choose a girl who chooses you. I think that’s probably the most important thing for anybody out there looking for someone to match up with.”

“We’re really doing this for the benefit of others, and, as John Galt would say, everybody should be paid for what they’re providing. But Bull Bitcoin is not a fiat business in any way.”

“One of the reasons I agreed to work with Bull Bitcoin in the first place was that it was right when I was plunging hardcore into maximalism.”

“You can’t centrally plan an economy.”

“It took a lot of experimenting, and I will always be forever grateful to my friends who bought my first pieces of art.”

“More money, more problems: I definitely think that’s real. At a certain point, you have so much money that it’s just like… what?”

“In the United States, especially being in Texas, you definitely see racism. But I always want to give people the benefit of the doubt.”

“She has some acting skills, but I don’t think she can do much outside of the kind of music she’s doing, and she may be stuck.”

“I just don’t understand why people in the Ethereum space don’t see that as the inevitability.”

“Once people realize that all these roads lead back to Bitcoin… In a digital fiat world, where you can print digital dollars, that money printer is going to keep going.”

“It’s going to be the reserve currency of it, and that’s Bitcoin. People don’t know how it’s supposed to get to a million dollars. That’s how it gets to a million dollars.”

“I don’t try to look at them and say: I can do it better.”

“I like fucking with Ethereum people, and fucking with regular crypto people. I like fucking with all of them, because I think it’s a good spot to be in.”

“You hear a lot of people call out Joseph Lubin for this. Joe Lubin’s holding Bitcoin. He’s not holding fucking Ethereum.”

“If I were to meet American HODL, I don’t think he’d be very willing, because he’d probably hit me in the face if he saw me.”

“I don’t know if I want to focus on that again, because of the whole KYC implications and the privacy issues related to it.”

“It’s funny that Bitcoin comes from this background of people who love to collect and trade cards. I think there’s some kind of cross-culture there that we’re not properly appreciating or identifying.”

“Part of the reason I like it is that it’s about him quitting his band, which is something I did.”

“I don’t want to mention the names, because I don’t know how vindictive other podcasters may be, trying to get those people on their shows too, and it would be kind of redundant.”

“He was good friends with Pearl Jam, and he was the only normal rock and roll guy still pumping out music, staying the course during the grunge era.”

“Bitcoin didn’t invent any of the cool stuff we’re trying to do with this money. People have already been solving these problems by other means, like trading art and collectibles. Gift cards are another way people solve black-market problems.”

“I would say I’ve never thought about quitting so much as I’ve had some really down times, losing a lot of money, things like that, related to Bitcoin.”

“As a maximalist, and I think a good representative of one, I don’t know that we should have such a problem with people getting paid in alternative currencies, even shitcoins, because that’s not where the problem is.”

“Maybe in the future people will try to collect certain bitcoins: I want a bitcoin from the Mt. Gox hack… People collecting certain traceable types of bitcoins.”

“It’s easier to only deal with Bitcoin. Bitcoin, and then Bitcoin on Lightning, is enough of a user-experience concern for consumers and people selling things online. Never mind having to deal with a bunch of different cryptocurrencies.”

“It doesn’t make any sense, because you can’t create a game’s own economy with an existing currency; they need to create their own currency.”

“It’s not a good investment for most people. It’s always better to just invest in the coin itself, in terms of ROI.”

“I always wanted to work on games, but I never got a job working on games. And from what I hear, it’s not that fun. There’s a lot of crunching.”

“I never owned that system, but if I remember correctly, it was pretty close to the experience in arcades.”

“I’m not the main investor in Lightning Labs, but I invested enough… Bitrefill too, and a bunch of other companies. I’ve invested in quite a few Bitcoin companies.”

“It should be, right? All the money goes directly to the publisher and developer, and you don’t have to pay retailers anything.”

“One of my favorite Mario games is Super Mario 2, the US version, which is not a real Super Mario game, but I really like that game.”

“For things like that, there’s no rush. It’s good to take the time to do it right.”

“I think The Phantom Menace is underrated.”

“I don’t remember much about the bosses, but they’re definitely very different from typical Super Mario games, because it wasn’t a Super Mario game to begin with.”

“I was like: Bitcoin? Is that money? Can I spend this? Could you give me actual cash instead? Now that I think back on it, I wish I had taken the Bitcoin. But it really piqued my interest.”

“She just jumped in a puddle, because she knew that if she got dirty, she’d get to stay out longer, since she needs to be dry before she gets into the apartment.”

“We are trusting the authorities right now. I don’t personally think they know better than the people they’re hired to govern.”

“I think Canada’s always been a land of pioneers.”

“I got really heavy into gardening with this COVID lockdown, actually, because I didn’t have as much to do as I would normally like.”

“Because the engines are on, they need someone technically qualified to sit in the cockpit and monitor the equipment. So there are three cost centers when they think of heating an aircraft in the wintertime, which a lot of people wouldn’t think of.”

“I don’t think we’re going to get there, because most people are just followers. They enjoy being led and being told what to do.”

“We used to believe that we live in a democracy, with a lot of freedoms. But we’re watching Canada go very heavily socialist at this point.”

“Governments are doing some fascinating things to control people these days, and people are just letting them.”

“I figured out that most people were just like robots, not really thinking with their own minds. They knew there was someone above them, like a government official, doing all the thinking.”

“The thing about cats: they don’t have the YOLO meme, because they have nine lives. They live nine times. It’s ‘you only live nine times.’”

“If we make some money and get more successful, that’s great. But it’s mostly about wanting to be a very real voice in the Bitcoin space, because there are so many cool voices in this space that deserve a legit platform that respects the ethos of real bitcoiners.”

“It goes to the producers, and they’re like: oh no, look at all these angry people. We have to issue an apology and make it according to their expectations. Because that’s how it works.”

“You can write it like a gentleman; you don’t have to be punished.”

“I think it’s terrible when people talk too much about what they do in their private lives, because it’s detrimental to people who actually enjoy having private lives.”

“I don’t remember who directed it off the top of my head, but that’s one of my favorite movies, actually.”

“I’m not sure the world is a poorer place because I don’t do music anymore.”

“I love music, but I can’t perform it.”

“That was a little unexpected, because we’d been receiving our parcels in the summer.”

“I was even sent to the home of one of the girls in my class to practice the flute at her place, because she was so good on the flute.”