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Ep 180Taxation is Theft with Brandon McNaughton (WiM180)

Brandon McNaughton, fellow Bitcoiner & Austrian Economist joins me to talk to me about his future political aspirations & the need for people to get involved in their communities. We also discuss possible attack vectors on Bitcoin & how individuals can help ensure we have a safe, bright orange future.Be sure to check out Swan Private, the trusted Bitcoin financial services provider for high-net-worth individuals and businesses worldwide: https://www.swanprivate.com/breedloveGuestBrandon's Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/TheRealBrandMcNBrandon's Writings: https://extrapolation.substack.comBrandon's LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/TheRealBrandonMcNaughtonPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:Outline00:00:00 “What is Money” Intro00:00:08 Learn about Bitcoin with Swan Private at SwanPrivate.Com00:01:37 Brandon McNaughton's Background & How did you get into Bitcoin?00:05:42 Power, Technological Breakthroughs & Bitcoin being "Digital Gold"00:08:50 Bitcoin, "The Metric System of Money"00:12:23 Brian getting into Austrian Economics & Health00:15:56 Explaining why "Taxation is Theft"00:21:26 Discussing Brandon's Political Aspirations & Campaign Strategy00:25:22 Watch "Hard Money with Natalie Brunell" From Swan Studios & Bitcoin Magazine00:26:08 Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth00:27:17 Future of Tech, Bitcoin & A.I.'s Ability to Fail due to Centralization00:33:50 Explaining the new "Libertarian Party Takeover"00:41:18 Keeping Bitcoin Proof of Work & Possible Attack Vectors on Bitcoin00:50:44 Where to find Brandon's Work00:51:59 "What is Money" OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESSwan Private guides high-net-worth individuals and businesses in all areas of Bitcoin strategy: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/CrowdHealth offers an innovative health insurance model based on Bitcoin and community: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/breedloveOkcoin is an innovative and education-focused cryptoasset exchange platform—earn $50 in free Bitcoin by signing up at: https://okcoin.com/breedloveInvest with a licensed Bitcoin advisor through DAIM: https://daimio.typeform.com/RobertBreedloveJoin Me At Bitcoin 2023, pre-order your tickets now (for a chance to win 10M sats, use discount code BREEDLOVE): https://b.tc/conference/2023Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buys and Withdrawals: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

Jun 28, 202252 min

Ep 179Making Bitcoin Legal Tender in the USA with Bryan Solstin (WiM179)

Bryan Solstin is a U.S. Senatorial Candidate running from the State of Washington. In this conversation we explore how Bryan intends to fight for Bitcoin to become legal tender, impose a zero tax law & discuss how these changes would help American citizens & decrease warfare.Be sure to check out Swan Private, the trusted Bitcoin financial services provider for high-net-worth individuals and businesses worldwide: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/RobGuestBryan's Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/BryanBSolstinBryan's Campaign Website: https://solstin.orgPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Outline00:00:00 “What is Money” Intro00:00:08 Learn about Bitcoin with Swan Private at SwanPrivate.Com00:01:37 How did Bryan get into a Political Career & Bitcoin?00:04:43 Losing Tolerance for other Crypto Projects00:08:28 Privacy Technology & the Risks of CBDC's00:12:12 Is Decentralization the Main Attribute to Bitcoin Success?00:17:02 If Elected, How will you use Bitcoin?00:19:37 Introducing Bitcoin as Legal Tender & Zero Tax00:25:26 Watch "Hard Money with Natalie Brunell" From Swan Studios & Bitcoin Magazine00:26:12 Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth00:27:21 Thoughts on adding Bitcoin to U.S. Treasuries00:30:59 Learning about the Issues with Central Banking00:33:42 Building a Bitcoin Community & Bitcoin Content00:34:59 How do you answer the question, "What is Bitcoin?"00:41:15 What does "Reforming the Broken Monetary System" look like?00:45:11 Starting War for Control of the Money Printer & How Bitcoin can decrease Warfare00:48:47 Information on Bryan's Campaign00:50:36 Where to Find Bryan's Work00:52:56 "What is Money" OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESSwan Private guides high-net-worth individuals and businesses in all areas of Bitcoin strategy: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/CrowdHealth offers an innovative health insurance model based on Bitcoin and community: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/breedloveOkcoin is an innovative and education-focused cryptoasset exchange platform—earn $50 in free Bitcoin by signing up at: https://okcoin.com/breedloveJoin Me At Bitcoin 2023, pre-order your tickets now (discount code BREEDLOVE): https://b.tc/conference/2023Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buys and Withdrawals: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

Jun 28, 202253 min

Ep 178Breakdown of the Gold Standard | The Twilight of Gold Series | Episode 10 (WiM178)

My friend and fellow student of money codenamed "Lester" joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the excellent book "The Twilight of Gold" by Melchior Palyi. Be sure to check out Swan Private, the trusted Bitcoin financial services provider for high-net-worth individuals and businesses worldwide: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/GUESTLester's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProgrammableTxBOOKThe Twilight of Gold: https://archive.org/details/twilightofgold190000paly/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money” Intro00:00:08 Learn about Bitcoin with Swan Private at SwanPrivate.Com00:01:37 Similarities Between the Breaking Down of the Gold Standard to Today00:07:14 Does Inflation Lead People to Mass-Psychosis?00:10:49 Bitcoiner's Ability to Sense Upcoming Financial Turmoil00:14:34 Economic Similarities between America today and Weimar Republic00:22:09 Underestimating Hyperinflation00:24:24 Watch "Hard Money with Natalie Brunell" From Swan Studios & Bitcoin Magazine!00:25:09 Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth!00:26:18 Education System not Teaching Students about Money00:32:52 Governments Ability to Create Credit, Issue Debt, & Misallocate Capital00:37:28 Relationship between Inflation & Warfare00:40:00 Discussing the "Race to Debase"00:44:25 "What is Money" OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESSwan Private guides high-net-worth individuals and businesses in all areas of Bitcoin strategy: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/CrowdHealth offers an innovative health insurance model based on Bitcoin and community: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/breedloveOkcoin is an innovative and education-focused cryptoasset exchange platform—earn $50 in free Bitcoin by signing up at: https://okcoin.com/breedloveJoin Me At Bitcoin 2023, pre-order your tickets now (discount code BREEDLOVE): https://b.tc/conference/2023Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buys and Withdrawals: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

Jun 22, 202244 min

Ep 177The Recent Collapse in Crypto Debt Structures With Caitlin Long (WiM 177)

Caitlin Long, Founder & CEO of Custodia Bank joins me to talk about the recent collapses in various crypto debt projects and products. We explore the risks of leverage in the system, the prevalence of crypto scams, and why regulation may be coming sooner than we think due to these recent events. We also talk about Bitcoin Maximalism and the importance of the Bitcoin Hash Rate.Be sure to check out Swan Private, the trusted Bitcoin financial services provider for high-net-worth individuals and businesses worldwide: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/GuestCaitlin's Twitter Account: https://Twitter.com/CaitlinLongPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Outline00:00:00 “What is Money” Intro00:00:08 Learn about Bitcoin with Swan Private at SwanPrivate.Com00:01:37 Caitlin's background00:04:19 Leverage in the System, Bitcoin Bull/Bear Markets00:09:47 Why is this time different?00:14:59 Market Cycles, S2F & Price Models00:21:18 Explaining why "Yield on Bitcoin" is not Sustainable00:26:52 The Importance of Self-Custody00:29:35 Fractional Reserves, One to One Leverage00:33:12 Difference between being "Licensed" & being "Regulated"00:38:03 Watch "Hard Money with Natalie Brunell" From Swan Studios & Bitcoin Magazine!00:38:49 Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth!00:39:58 Is Regulation coming?00:42:19 Explaining the Damage & Ramifications of Crypto Crashes00:45:49 Are there other use cases for Blockchain & Crypto Projects?00:53:08 Could Decentralization be Achieved again?01:00:13 Discussing Bitcoin Maximalism & Culture01:07:31 What type of Indicator is Hash Rate & how do you explain it?01:11:45 Lightning Network & Final Thoughts01:15:58 Where to find Caitlin's work01:16:25 "What is Money" OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESSwan Private guides high-net-worth individuals and businesses in all areas of Bitcoin strategy: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/CrowdHealth offers an innovative health insurance model based on Bitcoin and community: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/breedloveOkcoin is an innovative and education-focused cryptoasset exchange platform—earn $50 in free Bitcoin by signing up at: https://okcoin.com/breedloveJoin Me At Bitcoin 2023, pre-order your tickets now (use discount code BREEDLOVE): https://b.tc/conference/2023Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buys and Withdrawals: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

Jun 15, 20221h 16m

Ep 176Money is Language With Dominic Frisby (WiM176)

British author, comedian, and Libertarian Dominic Frisby joins me for a conversation on his latest article, "Money is Language": how the evolution of communication rails lead us on a path of promissory money & why Bitcoin is making the need for trust less relevant.Be sure to check out Swan Private, the trusted Bitcoin financial services provider for high-net-worth individuals and businesses worldwide: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/GuestDominic's Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/DominicFrisbyDominic's Substack: https://frisby.substack.com"Money is Language" Article: https://frisby.substack.com/p/money-is-language?s=rPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Outline00:00:00 “What is Money” Intro00:00:08 Learn about Bitcoin with Swan Private at SwanPrivate.Com00:01:37 "Money is Language"00:03:27 Laying the Groundwork for Telecommunications in Europe00:06:34 The Evolution of Communication00:09:07 Sending "Promises" across the Globe00:11:44 Debts & Promissory Money00:14:55 Money being a Tool for Communication00:19:33 Explaining "Money is Language"00:26:19 The Evolution of Weights & Measures00:32:32 Watch "Hard Money with Natalie Brunell" From Swan Studios & Bitcoin Magazine!00:33:18 Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth!00:34:26 Network Effects of Language00:39:57 The Promissory Trust needed for Fiat & how Bitcoin becoming Language00:44:41 Weaponization of the Dollar & Fiat Currencies00:53:17 Bitcoin as Non-Promissory Money00:54:47 How could they issue a CBDC?01:00:47 Why Bitcoin makes "This Time Different"01:01:57 Where to find Dominic's work01:04:08 "What is Money" OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESSwan Private guides high-net-worth individuals and businesses in all areas of Bitcoin strategy: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/CrowdHealth offers an innovative health insurance model based on Bitcoin and community: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/breedloveOkcoin is an innovative and education-focused cryptoasset exchange platform—earn $50 in free Bitcoin by signing up at: https://okcoin.com/breedloveJoin Me At Bitcoin 2023, pre-order your tickets now (use discount code BREEDLOVE): https://b.tc/conference/2023Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buys and Withdrawals: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

Jun 13, 20221h 4m

Ep 175Bitcoin, Proof of Work, and The Future of War with Adam Back & Jason Lowery (WIM175)

Adam Back, co-founder & CEO of Blockstream & the Inventor of HashCash, and Jason Lowery from the US Space Force join me for an incredible conversation around Adam's invention of "Proof of Work," the impact of Bitcoin on war-fighting, the future of power projection strategies.Be sure to check out Swan Private, the trusted Bitcoin financial services provider for high-net-worth individuals and businesses worldwide: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/GuestAdam Back's Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/Adam3usJason Lowery's Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/JasonPLoweryPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Outline00:00:00 “What is Money” Intro00:00:08 Learn about Bitcoin with Swan Private at SwanPrivate.Com00:01:37 Jason Lowry & Adam Back Intro00:02:34 What is HashCash?00:10:36 What does a “Collision” mean?00:13:01 Explaining the “Birthday Example”00:15:44 Differences between HashCash Stamping & Bitcoin’s Difficulty Adjustment00:20:39 How Adam Defines “Expensive” in HashCash’s Protocol00:24:27 Creating a “Trap Door Free” Cost Function00:30:07 The Origin of the Term, “Proof Of Work”00:35:54 Cost Association with Proof of Work00:46:29 Explaining Proof of Work & Hash Functions00:48:27 When did Adam realize how Important Proof Of Work is?00:54:40 Why do Stable-coin Protocols Fail?00:58:41 Taking “Brute Force” Power away from Kinetic Energy to Electrical Energy01:07:21 Explaining the “Byzantine Generals Problem”01:12:04 Bitcoin taking the “Rules of Man” out of Trust01:18:42 Watch "Hard Money with Natalie Brunell" From Swan Studios & Bitcoin Magazine!01:19:28 Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth!01:20:36 How do you Enforce Rules without Trust?01:25:41 Skepticism & Questioning Bitcoin01:30:07 Bitcoin Immutability & Trust01:33:10 Defining the “Resource War”01:39:23 Brute Force, Power Projection & the State01:42:58 History from Kinetic Hardware to Computational Software01:56:11 Bitcoin’s Protocol Incentivizing Coordination amongst users02:03:30 Could Bitcoin Reduce Warfare?02:11:40 Can Bitcoins Protocol be Exploited?02:21:08 “Unbounded Cost”, Trying to 51% Attack Bitcoin02:28:37 The Future of “SoftWar” & Bitcoin Mutually Assured Defense02:36:04 Drone Warfare vs Bitcoin, Brute Force Power Projection02:38:58 Darwinism & Mans need for Competition02:46:44 Bitcoin Non-Lethal & Peaceful Protocol02:55:47 Where to find Jason & Adam’s Work & Social Media02:56:40 “What is Money” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESSwan Private guides high-net-worth individuals and businesses in all areas of Bitcoin strategy: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/CrowdHealth offers an innovative health insurance model based on Bitcoin and community: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/breedloveOkcoin is an innovative and education-focused cryptoasset exchange platform—earn $50 in free Bitcoin by signing up at: https://okcoin.com/breedloveJoin Me At Bitcoin 2023, pre-order your tickets now (discount code BREEDLOVE): https://b.tc/conference/2023Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buys and Withdrawals: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

Jun 10, 20222h 56m

Ep 174Only Individuals Engage in Action | The Twilight of Gold Series | Episode 9 (WiM174)

My friend and fellow student of money codenamed "Lester" joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the excellent book "The Twilight of Gold" by Melchior Palyi. Be sure to check out Swan Private, the trusted Bitcoin financial services provider for high-net-worth individuals and businesses worldwide: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/GUESTLester's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProgrammableTxBOOKThe Twilight of Gold: https://archive.org/details/twilightofgold190000paly/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money” Intro00:00:08 Learn about Bitcoin with Swan Private at SwanPrivate.Com00:01:37 How Bitcoin Tokens and IOUs Will Inflate in a Fiat-Based Financial System00:10:30 Bitcoin Deters Inflation and Credit Systems00:16:56 Hypothesizing Banks as Decentralized Smaller Nodes in a Future Scenario00:23:38 Can Government and Central Banks Remain Solvent Given History?00:28:27 Watch "Hard Money with Natalie Brunell" From Swan Studios & Bitcoin Magazine!00:29:13 Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth!00:30:21 A Coercion-Free Society is Self-Organization Into Smaller Groups00:37:49 Is there a Time to Sell Bitcoin?00:45:01 How Taxation, Inflation, and Regulation are Unproductive00:48:22 On Neutral Ground: Is all Government Action a Misallocation of Capital?00:54:32 “Only Individuals Exist and Only Individuals Act”00:59:29 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESSwan Private guides high-net-worth individuals and businesses in all areas of Bitcoin strategy: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/CrowdHealth offers an innovative health insurance model based on Bitcoin and community: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/breedloveOkcoin is an innovative and education-focused cryptoasset exchange platform—earn $50 in free Bitcoin by signing up at: https://okcoin.com/breedloveJoin Me At Bitcoin 2023, pre-order your tickets now (discount code BREEDLOVE): https://b.tc/conference/2023Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buys and Withdrawals: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

Jun 8, 202259 min

Ep 173Will America Adopt Bitcoin? with Lawrence Lepard (WiM173)

Investment Manager and Austrian Economist Lawrence Lepard joins me for a conversation on the history of currency debasement, how we are living in "peak fiat", and how hard times will require new leadership in America.Be sure to check out Swan Private, the trusted Bitcoin financial services provider for high-net-worth individuals and businesses worldwide: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/GuestLawrence Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/LawrenceLepardLawrence's PE Firm: https://www.ema2.com/teamPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Outline00:00:00 “What is Money” Intro00:00:08 Learn about Bitcoin with Swan Private at SwanPrivate.Com00:01:37 What is Money?00:03:39 What Properties make Gold Valuable?00:06:14 How Gold Advanced Human Civilization00:07:38 The Attack Vector “Stability” brings00:10:05 Does Lack of Financial Education cause Financial Corruption?00:11:39 Timeline on how we chose Gold00:13:05 Why did we leave a Gold Standard?00:20:24 Can Productivity & Growth Plateau?00:22:05 Money Printing and War Financing00:25:57 The Risks of Statism00:31:09 Bitcoin Giving you a Chance by Opting Out00:33:24 Private Property leading to Individualism00:35:27 Discussing Mass Formation Psychosis00:37:26 Will Mass Formation Psychosis increase as we print more Dollars?00:39:18 Where is this headed?00:45:14 Is the Nation State Model going to Dissolve or Reform?00:47:23 Watch "Hard Money with Natalie Brunell" From Swan Studios & Bitcoin Magazine!00:48:09 Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth!00:49:18 What Happens to Government under the Sovereign Individual Thesis?00:51:55 Viewing the State through a Christian Lens00:53:30 Was Gold’s Price Suppression Planned/Organized?00:56:26 Russian Sanctions & Bretton Woods events in American History01:09:16 Freezing of Bank Accounts in Canada & Russia01:14:37 Mistakes Larry made as an Investor & Understanding Network Effects01:18:54 Byzantine Generals Problem & Nations Inability to get around it01:21:03 America Adopting Bitcoin01:24:33 Is America Lacking Critical Thinkers?01:26:35 New Leaders in America01:28:57 Speaking out about what is going on in Society01:30:10 Where to find Larry!01:30:43 “What is Money” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESSwan Private guides high-net-worth individuals and businesses in all areas of Bitcoin strategy: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/CrowdHealth offers an innovative health insurance model based on Bitcoin and community: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/breedloveOkcoin is an innovative and education-focused cryptoasset exchange platform—earn $50 in free Bitcoin by signing up at: https://okcoin.com/breedloveJoin Me At Bitcoin 2023, pre-order your tickets now (discount code BREEDLOVE): https://b.tc/conference/2023Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buys and Withdrawals: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

Jun 6, 20221h 30m

Ep 172A Brief History of Money and Bitcoin with Brian Estes (WiM172)

CEO & CIO of 'Off The Chain Capital' Brian Estes join me for a conversation on monetary history, why Bitcoin matters so much in the current landscape of money, and how to value networks.Be sure to check out Swan Private, the trusted Bitcoin financial services provider for high-net-worth individuals and businesses worldwide: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/GuestBrian Estes Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianEstes32Brian Estes Website: https://offthechain.capitalPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Outline00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Learn About Bitcoin with Swan Private at SwanPrivate.Com00:01:37 Brian’s Background & How he got into Bitcoin00:04:36 What is Brian doing now?00:05:46 The History Of Money00:10:35 Bitcoin’s Distributed Ledger00:12:24 What is the Petrodollar?00:15:02 The Dollar being Devalued00:17:13 What is the “Everything Bubble”?00:22:15 How does Bitcoin Fix Problems?00:24:53 UBI & Managing the Collapse00:27:06 What is Bitcoin’s Trajectory?00:29:13 Gold’s Scarcity vs Bitcoin’s Scarcity00:31:37 Bitcoin becoming a Non-Correlated Asset00:33:49 Bitcoin being Voluntary00:35:15 Similarities with Building the Internet & Building Bitcoin00:39:58 Watch "Hard Money with Natalie Brunell" From Swan Studios & Bitcoin Magazine!00:40:44 Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth!00:41:52 Milton Friedman, Sending Cash Digitally00:43:25 How to Combat Censorship?00:45:49 A Bitcoin-Only Future?00:47:39 S-Curve Analysis00:52:08 Explaining Bitcoins Immutability00:55:11 Do we need a Federal Reserve?00:56:06 Bitcoin: A Necessary Asset in Portfolios01:01:11 Issues with Understanding Exponential Growth01:02:42 Dealing with Drawdowns in the Bitcoin Market1:04:49 Investing in Protocols vs Blockchain Companies1:08:46 People saying “Governments Won’t Allow Bitcoin To Succeed”1:13:06 Government Collecting Taxes on Crypto1:14:34 What is Bitcoin Relationship with Time & Energy?1:19:32 Relationship Between Government Issued Money & Warfare1:24:10 Final Thoughts & Where to find Brian1:25:00 “What Is Money?” Outro SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESSwan Private guides high-net-worth individuals and businesses in all areas of Bitcoin strategy: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/CrowdHealth offers an innovative health insurance model based on Bitcoin and community: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/breedloveOkcoin is an innovative and education-focused cryptoasset exchange platform—earn $50 in free Bitcoin by signing up at: https://okcoin.com/breedloveJoin Me At Bitcoin 2023, pre-order your tickets now (discount code BREEDLOVE): https://b.tc/conference/2023Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buys and Withdrawals: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

Jun 2, 20221h 25m

Ep 171Bitcoin Fixes The Great Reset? with Chris Sullivan (WiM171)

Chris Sullivan joins me for a conversation on the role Bitcoin plays in thwarting those who seek to undermine the foundations of Western Civilization—life, liberty, and property.Be sure to check out Swan Private, the trusted Bitcoin financial services provider for high-net-worth individuals and businesses worldwide: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/GuestChris Sullivan Website: https://www.hyperiondecimus.comPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Outline00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Learn about Bitcoin with Swan Private at SwanPrivate.Com00:01:37 Chris’s Background00:06:21 Chris’s Reading List on Freedom and the Humanities00:13:01 The History of Currency Debasement00:18:49 The Corruptibility of Money and its Influence on Warfare00:22:02 Learning the Propaganda of Markets & Wall Street00:29:54 Bitcoin Allows you to “Play The Game”00:33:52 Technology Making it Easier to Manipulate Money00:37:11 Exposing the Corruptibility of Money & Man00:46:14 Happiness Leading to Economic Booms00:47:36 Watch "Hard Money with Natalie Brunell" from Swan Studios & Bitcoin Magazine!00:48:22 Take Control of Your Healthcare with Crowd Health!00:49:30 The History & Morality of Taxation00:53:22 Describing how Bitcoin helps Property Rights & Ownership00:58:18 Government & Markets in a Post-Bitcoin Future01:01:28 Explaining Futures Contracts, Bitcoin ETFs, & Commodity Trading01:05:32 Do we need Regulation or could Free Markets Settle Financial Corruption?01:08:00 What would our Founding Fathers say About Today?01:13:29 Production Growth vs Asset Price Growth01:16:00 Alternatives to our current Monetary Theory01:18:14 Decentralization is Equivalent to Anti-Corruption01:19:54 Truth & the Perception of New Ideas01:22:00 Explaining Natural Law01:25:03 Zombie Companies & Fiat Culture01:28:45 What is the WEF?01:29:44 Explaining “The Great Reset”01:32:06 Debunking the need for Sustainable Energy, Solar, & Wind01:35:26 How can an Economy Function without Private Property Rights?01:40:07 Where to find Chris’s Work01:41:31 “What is Money” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESSwan Private guides high-net-worth individuals and businesses in all areas of Bitcoin strategy: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/CrowdHealth offers an innovative health insurance model based on Bitcoin and community: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/breedloveOkcoin is an innovative and education-focused cryptoasset exchange platform—earn $50 in free Bitcoin by signing up at: https://okcoin.com/breedloveJoin Me At Bitcoin 2023, pre-order your tickets now (discount code BREEDLOVE): https://b.tc/conference/2023Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buys and Withdrawals: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

May 31, 20221h 41m

Ep 170God, the role of the state, and Bitcoin with Josh Jalinski (WiM170)

My friend, fellow investor and man of faith, Joshua Jalinski joins me to explore how as a Nation we are losing our sight to see God and the Christian values we were built upon and how that is leading to increased statism and confusion.Be sure to check out Jalinski.Org where you can find a link to Josh's newsletter and more great insight on investing.GUESTJosh's Twitter: https://twitter.com/yourfinancialqb?s=21Josh's Website: https://jalinski.orgJosh's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JoshJalinskiTheFinancialQuarterbackPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI OUTLINE00:00:00 - “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 - Learn About Bitcoin With Swan Private at SwanPrivate.Com00:01:37- Josh’s Background & How They Met00:04:13 - What Is Sphere Sovereignty?00:08:03 - God being replaced by Gov00:11:13 - Describing the nihilist impulse00:14:49 - Is lack of faith giving lead to false idols?00:23:02 - The challenge of conveying meaning in language00:27:12 - Explaining the “righteousness of God”00:30:12 - The meaning of the word “Gospel”00:32:57 - How did we go from “equity & private property” to a “debt based money”?00:39:14 - The rejection of faith due to wrongful association00:42:09 - Material abundance creating division from faith00:46:05 - History showing how statism leads to failed societies00:48:57 - Issues with associating identity & faith with statism00:54:52 - How are the rich continuing to getting richer?00:56:05 - Watch "Hard Money With Natalie Brunell" from Swan Studios & Bitcoin Magazine!00:56:51 - Take Control of Your Healthcare with Crowd Health!00:57:59 - Central Banking Being The Root Cause Of Division01:00:47 - What Is Fiat From A Biblical Perspective?01:04:48 - Lack of Justice In The Last Century01:08:34 - Covenants, Truth & Bitcoin01:14:21 - How Do We Get Back To A Balanced Society?01:17:38 - “The Cult of Democracy”01:23:08 - Homeschooling & The Issues With Public Education's Agenda01:29:04 - Is Statism A Necessary Evil?01:33:28 - The Need For The Ability To Self-Govern01:38:58 - Explaining “The Materialist World View”01:41:27 - Complexities Of The “Materialist World View”01:44:48 - Human Imagination & The Meaning Of The Word “Agape” In Christianity01:46:54 - “Agape” & Humans Need For A Covenant01:50:43 - What Can We Do To Change Where We’re At?01:54:39 - The Definition Of “Man”01:58:26 - The Need For The Pursuit Of Private Property To Enhance Others Lives02:02:23 - What Are The Inalienable Rights?02:06:03 - Are Statism & Christianity Becoming Wrongfully Intertwined?02:12:00 - Getting Beyond Statism With The Ability To Opt Out With Bitcoin.02:13:58 - Where To Find Josh!SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESOff the Chain Capital is the best performing value investment fund over the past 5 years: https://offthechain.capital/Iris Energy is focused on building mining Bitcoin operations with sustainable energy: https://irisenergy.co/Swan Private guides high-net-worth individuals and businesses in all areas of Bitcoin strategy: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/Noah is the mobile money app of the future—the all-in-one money app for everyone, everywhere: https://noah.com/?referral=iseqvom&refSource=copyOkcoin is an innovative and education-focused cryptoasset exchange platform—earn $50 in free Bitcoin by signing up at: okcoin.com/breedloveJoin Me At Bitcoin 2023, pre-order your tickets now (discount code BREEDLOVE): https://b.tc/conference/2023Looking Glass is a free, all-in-one educational platform built with the intention of empowering individuals to take control of their financial future: http://www.lookingglasseducaation.com/Trammell Venture Partners (TVP) is a venture capital firm that launched the industry's first institutional venture fund series focused on Bitcoin startups: https://tvp.fund/

May 27, 20222h 14m

Ep 169Bitcoin is Insurance on a Failing Financial System with Greg Foss (WiM169)

Greg Foss joins me as my first in-person guest for a discussion on how his 30-year career trading government bonds informed his thoughts on the impending failure of the fiat currency complex and, thus, the supreme relevancy of Bitcoin.Be sure to check out Swan Private, the trusted Bitcoin financial services provider for high-net-worth individuals and businesses worldwide: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/GUESTFoss’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FossGregfossFoss’ Financial Education Platform: https://lookingglasseducation.com/ PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 - Learn About Bitcoin With Swan Private at SwanPrivate.Com00:01:37 Government Bonds, Then and Now00:10:10 Debt-Based Commercial Banking Is Dependent on Inflation00:13:36 Foss’ Experience with the Cyclical Financial “Ponzi” System for 40 Years00:21:51 Credit, Bonds, and Equity: “Credit is the Dog and Equity is the Tail”00:27:40 The Standard 60/40 Bond-Equity Portfolio is Unsustainable00:32:08 Simple Math Analyzes Debt Markets with Total Global Debt/Global GDP00:35:52 Impending Default Risk of Countries and Bitcoin as Fiat Insurance00:45:18 Bitcoin Price Target00:46:20 - Watch "Hard Money With Natalie Brunell" from Swan Studios & Bitcoin Magazine!00:47:07 - Take Control of Your Healthcare with Crowd Health!00:48:16 QE Infinity and Debt Spiral Doubles US Debt-to-GDP Since 198000:52:34 Asymmetric Opportunity01:00:56 The $2M Price Estimate for Bitcoin01:07:36 Foss’ Personal Journey Launching “Looking Glass Education”01:16:00 You Don’t Learn About Sitting in a Risk Chair From Traditional Education01:23:19 Foss’ Role and Thoughts on the Freedom Convoy Protests01:34:59 Looking at the Future of Canada with Bitcoin01:39:15 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESSwan Private guides high-net-worth individuals and businesses in all areas of Bitcoin strategy: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/CrowdHealth offers an innovative health insurance model based on Bitcoin and community: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/breedloveOkcoin is an innovative and education-focused cryptoasset exchange platform—earn $50 in free Bitcoin by signing up at: https://okcoin.com/breedloveJoin Me At Bitcoin 2023, pre-order your tickets now (discount code BREEDLOVE): https://b.tc/conference/2023Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buys and Withdrawals: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

May 25, 20221h 39m

Ep 168Bitcoin as an Incorruptible System of Value with Jordan Peterson (WiM168)

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson joins for me a special edition episode exploring the philosophic implications of Bitcoin as an incorruptible system of value. This episode was recorded in front a live studio audience on April 8th, 2022 during the Bitcoin 2022 Conference in Miami, FL.Be sure to check out Swan Private, your dedicated partner in developing and executing a Bitcoin strategy: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/GUESTDr. Peterson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpetersonDr. Peterson's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_f53ZEJxp8TtlOkHwMV9QDr. Peterson's LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/DrJordanBPetersonPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Intro by John Vallis00:04:38 Standup Comedy Opening by JP Sears00:27:22 Show Intro by Robert Breedlove00:31:52 Welcoming Jordan Peterson00:32:39 The Concept of Fiat and the Ethical Optimality of Voluntary Games00:43:57 Voluntary Games Optimize the Genuine Motivation of Positive Emotion00:45:03 Fiat Currency as an Involuntary Game and its Psychological Implications00:48:10 What Justification is there for Use of Force or Fiat?00:52:32 “Whenever You’re Doing a Thing You Want, You’re Playing.”00:55:50 Defining Truth (and its Antagonism to Fiat)01:00:43 The Spirit of Truth, the Process of Inquiry, and Freedom of Speech01:04:11 Free Speech is How Humans Contend with an Incomputable Future01:07:11 How an Incorruptible Money Could Impact the Free Market Process01:11:44 How The Free Market Enhances Our Relationship with Value01:13:39 Inflation Penalizes Prudence and, In Doing So, Destroys Civilization01:16:58 Giving Gratitude to our Sponsors01:29:40 Controlling Speech and Money as Unerring Hallmarks of Totalitarianism01:35:04 The Costliness of Signaling and the Sanity of Communication01:39:18 “The Monetary Standard and Moral Standard are Inexorably Linked”01:45:09 What are the Unexpected Consequences of Bitcoin?01:49:00 Systemized Violations of Property and the Inducement of Irresponsibility01:53:51 Bitcoin and The Philosopher’s Stone02:00:15 Money is a Promise: A Contract with the Future02:03:44 The Impact of Technological Innovation on Trust in Society02:07:02 Christ and the Value of Absolute Truthfulness02:10:56 The Personal Transformations Occurring in the Lives of Bitcoiners02:13:05 Bitcoin as a Means of Detaching Exploitation From Economic Success02:17:03 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESOff the Chain Capital is the best performing value investment fund over the past 5 years: https://offthechain.capital/Iris Energy is focused on building mining Bitcoin operations with sustainable energy: https://irisenergy.co/Swan Private guides high-net-worth individuals and businesses in all areas of Bitcoin strategy: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/Noah is the mobile money app of the future—the all-in-one money app for everyone, everywhere: https://noah.com/?referral=iseqvom&refSource=copyOkcoin is an innovative and education-focused cryptoasset exchange platform—earn $50 in free Bitcoin by signing up at: okcoin.com/breedloveJoin Me At Bitcoin 2023, pre-order your tickets now (discount code BREEDLOVE): https://b.tc/conference/2023Looking Glass is a free, all-in-one educational platform built with the intention of empowering individuals to take control of their financial future: http://www.lookingglasseducaation.com/Trammell Venture Partners (TVP) is a venture capital firm that launched the industry's first institutional venture fund series focused on Bitcoin startups: https://tvp.fund/

May 2, 20222h 17m

Ep 167Philosophy as Life Education | The Yaron Brook Series | Episode 3 (WiM167)

Yaron Brook joins me for a discussion on Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism where we discover how Reason has created progress, freedom, and the pursuit to a good life. This series will loosely follow Ayn Rand's written work "The Virtue of Selfishness."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUESTYaron’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/yaronbrookYaron’s Show: https://yaronbrookshow.com/The Virtue of Selfishness: http://ikesharpless.pbworks.com/f/AynRand-TheVirtueofSelfishness.pdf PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 The Differences Between Intrinsic, Objective, and Subjective Values00:07:22 Objectivism and Similarities with Austrian Theory of Economics00:13:08 Distinguishing Humans as Conceptual From Perceptual00:17:13 Language and Time are Products of Conceptual Thinking00:22:10 Go Beyond Staying Alive to Living as Human Beings00:29:48 NYDIG00:30:56 Does Rand Accept Pursuing Self-Interest by Exploiting Another?00:35:44 Governments Should Have Limited Roles; Focus on Eliminating Violence00:41:14 How Do You Express Vigilance on Governments?00:44:19 The Free Market of Currency Without Centralized Intervention00:49:58 Good and Evil Exist Because Humans Have Reason and Can Ignore Reason00:57:50 Learning to Philosophize, Think, and Create01:05:20 Consider Philosophy: “Bitcoin Can’t Win Unless it Has the Right Ideas”01:12:40 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2023, pre-order your tickets now: https://b.tc/conference/2023Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Apr 13, 20221h 14m

Ep 166Principles of Liquidity | The Twilight of Gold Series | Episode 8 (WiM166)

My friend and fellow student of money codenamed "Lester" joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the excellent book "The Twilight of Gold" by Melchior Palyi. Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUESTLester's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProgrammableTxTwitter Thread Reference: https://twitter.com/naturalmoneybtc/status/1361036765293735937BOOKThe Twilight of Gold: https://archive.org/details/twilightofgold190000paly/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Looking at Liquidity Principles in the Bitcoin Era00:04:34 Considering Global Base Money is Approximately 29.3 Trillion00:08:11 If There Was a Massive Unwind in Debt…00:13:51 There is Plenty of Sats in the Bitcoin Sea00:18:47 The Difference Between Money Supply and Purchasing Power00:21:09 NYDIG00:22:17 “It is Interest Being Bought With Money and Not Money Being Rented With Interest”00:29:52 Credit Should Incentivize and Not Hamper Productivity in Borrowers00:34:53 There Is No Need for a Planned Interest Rate00:39:14 Policy Manipulates Interest Rate Levers00:44:45 How Homes are Kept Unaffordable00:48:12 Pain Now or Pain Later: Delaying the Crippling Interest Structure00:53:42 Acknowledging Differing Viewpoints on Banking Schools00:55:30 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Apr 13, 202257 min

Ep 165King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: The Value of Archetypes | The Mike Hill Series | Episode 10 (WiM165)

Mike Hill joins for me for a multi-episode exploration of the masterful book “Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals” written by best-selling author Robert Pirsig. This book may be one of the most undervalued ever written, as it proposes an alternative interpretation of reality that Pirsig calls “The Metaphysics of Quality” (MOQ). According to MOQ, reality is not made up of substance, but rather it is composed of distinct patterns of value. In a Copernican-like revolution of perspective, MOQ sheds new light on age-old debates such as moral relativism, the nature of subject-object duality, good vs. evil, science vs. religion, the importance of freedom, and the primacy of action.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMike’s Website: https://www.mikehill.design/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 How the Stacked Layers of Static Value Interoperate00:01:38 The Philosopher’s Stone and the Value of Archetypes00:05:50 Metaphysics of Quality and the Jungian Archetypes00:09:04 Emergence of the King Archetype and Human Consciousness00:11:44 The Necessity of Physical and Mimetic Exchange to Childhood Development00:14:39 Etymology of King and Kingdom: The Organizing Principle00:16:49 What is Light is the “Shadow” of Dynamic Quality?00:21:21 Why Pathologies are Born in Darkness00:24:14 NYDIG00:25:23 Metaphors We Live By00:28:51 Flatland and the Other Dimensions of Reality00:31:04 Plato’s Cave and the Shadows of Metaphysical Principles00:33:36 “The Return” and its Relationship to “Resolution”00:36:35 Linguistic Relativity: Language Shapes Thoughts00:39:16 Categorizing Metaphors00:41:40 “What is Money?” IntroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Apr 3, 202243 min

Ep 164The Power of Human Reason | The Yaron Brook Series | Episode 2 (WiM164)

Yaron Brook joins me for a discussion on Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism where we discover how Reason has created progress, freedom, and the pursuit of a good life. This series will loosely follow Ayn Rand's written work "The Virtue of Selfishness."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUESTYaron’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/yaronbrookYaron’s Show: https://yaronbrookshow.com/The Virtue of Selfishness: http://ikesharpless.pbworks.com/f/AynRand-TheVirtueofSelfishness.pdf PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Morality is Objectively True, Reality Snaps Back at You00:03:11 The Guide to Human Success is Constant Knowledge Acquisition and Refinement00:09:52 Discovering Reason Brings Us Out of a Mindless, Dull “Paradise”00:15:20 Reason Creates Morality With the Choice of Good and Evil00:18:50 Evil Takes Many Forms: Banishing Access to Truth00:23:47 How Governments Have Dehumanized Groups of People00:29:33 NYDIG00:30:41 For the State to Grow it Must Appeal to Anti-Reason, Fear, and Emotion00:35:53 Yaron's Concept: Separate State From Economics, Education, Healthcare, and Ideas00:40:19 Achieving The Hypothetical Concept with Better Ideas00:47:07 Is the Problem With The State or With People That Don’t Reason?00:52:11 Pursue Self-Interest Without Overstepping: “Someone’s Success is Not My Loss”00:56:53 Rand Linked Mathematics With the Formation of Concepts01:00:00 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Apr 3, 20221h 1m

Ep 163Bitcoin and The Fall of Nation-States with James Davidson (WiM163)

Author James Davidson joins me for another conversation exploring topics from his prescient book “The Sovereign Individual."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUESTJames’ Investment Newsletter: https://strategicinvestment.com/page/str/ PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 The Overlap of Economic, Political, and Mega-Political Games00:08:35 Considering Cyber Warfare and the Current Russia-Ukraine Turmoil00:15:33 Did Russia Not Anticipate the Suspension of SWIFT?00:20:37 Predicting Bitcoin as the Ultimate Offshore Bank00:26:20 21st Century Taxpayers "Growing Wings"00:32:14 Will Bitcoin Co-Exist With Fiat?00:37:04 “Efficiency Will Become More Important Than the Dictates of Power”00:47:06 The Scale of Violence Changes in a Cashless World00:58:37 NYDIG00:59:45 The Connection of Microbes and Technology as Mega-Political Variables01:06:16 “People Have a Way of Knowing When Their Bread is Buttered”01:11:04 Smaller, Micro-Processed Entities Will be More Efficient Than Nation-States01:23:19 How Would We Reach a Point of Dissolution?01:28:53 Pension Will Become a Lesser Factor in Decision-Making01:35:53 Bitcoin Will Transform Violence-Dependent Democracy01:41:07 Register with James for Success-Backed Forecasting01:46:55 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Apr 1, 20221h 48m

Ep 162Bitcoin and The Sovereign Individual with James Davidson (WiM162)

James Davidson joins me to discuss themes from his book “The Sovereign Individual” that touch on mega political variables, changing powers in the world, and predictions of his about the 21st century. This conversation is a re-airing that was originally released on Real Vision.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUESTJames’ Investment Newsletter: https://strategicinvestment.com/page/str/ PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Introducing James Davidson’s Book “The Sovereign Individual”00:03:30 Governance Structure Scale: Gunpowder and Violence00:08:48 Rules Instead of Rulers Will Render Institutions Anachronistic00:14:32 Being Sovereign Individuals in the Era of Decentralization00:20:19 Market Forces Driven by Bitcoin Post-Industrial Capitalism00:28:40 Will Encryption Lead Us to a More Peaceful World?00:33:54 NYDIG00:35:02 States and Crony Capitalists Fight For Relevance in the Digital Age00:42:35 Modern Censorship and how “Cancel Culture" is Really Stupid00:48:09 James’ Thoughts on the Accelerated Pace of Cryptocurrency Adoption00:54:14 Predicting City States and Modern Healthcare01:01:22 A Brief Discussion on James’ Writing and Past Market Predictions01:07:04 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 28, 20221h 8m

Ep 161Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species with Brandon Quittem (WiM161)

Brandon Quittem joins me for a discussion to deconstruct the often misunderstood relationship between energy and Bitcoin. This conversation also touches on points from Brandon’s article “Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species” where he uses an ecological framework to map out the abundant future of Bitcoin mining. (apologies: we lost Robert's camera footage on this episode)Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUESTBrandon’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/BquittemBrandon’s Writing: https://brandonquittem.com/Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species: https://medium.com/the-bitcoin-times/bitcoin-is-a-pioneer-species-38f42ecdbb88 PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Why Use Biology and Evolution as a Lens for Bitcoin Mining?00:05:23 Energy Kickstarts Life, Wealth, and Bitcoin00:10:10 Who is the Scapegoat for Blame in an Unevenly Distributed Economy…00:15:08 “Bitcoin Mining is Everything You Don’t Understand About Energy”00:20:01 Disconnecting More Energy as More Pollution00:24:31 Kearney, Nebraska: A Town Benefiting from Bitcoin Mining00:28:01 Three Unique Traits of Bitcoin Miners as Attractive First and Last Resort Energy Buyers00:35:33 How Bitcoin Miners Act as a Pioneer Species to Resurrect Deserted Land00:38:43 Complex Systems Come From Accumulated Trade and Exchange00:42:36 Traditional Cities and Network States: Parallels of Succession in Modern Society00:49:42 Bitcoin Energy Sponge: More Energy is Wasted Than Consumed on an Average Day00:56:06 The Great Spreading Out and the Concept of Self-Sovereign Network States01:03:31 NYDIG01:04:39 The Carrot to Warfare is Smaller in the World of Network States01:09:23 Bitcoin Incentives and the Moral Equivalent of War01:13:30 A Fatal Deceit is That Policy is the Only Way to Order01:18:00 The Mining Synthesis Monetizes Energy for an Abundant Future01:25:17 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 23, 20221h 27m

Ep 160Dynamic Tension and the Development of Moral Virtue | The Mike Hill Series | Episode 9 (WiM160)

Mike Hill joins for me for a multi-episode exploration of the masterful book “Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals” written by best-selling author Robert Pirsig. This book may be one of the most undervalued ever written, as it proposes an alternative interpretation of reality that Pirsig calls “The Metaphysics of Quality” (MOQ). According to MOQ, reality is not made up of substance, but rather it is composed of distinct patterns of value. In a Copernican-like revolution of perspective, MOQ sheds new light on age-old debates such as moral relativism, the nature of subject-object duality, good vs. evil, science vs. religion, the importance of freedom, and the primacy of action.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMike’s Website: https://www.mikehill.design/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 A Purpose of Evil is to Test the Integrity of the Good00:06:09 Christ on the Cross as Emblematic of the Dynamic Tension of Being Human00:07:37 Society Frees Individuals from the Biological Chains of Necessity00:10:28 The Dynamic Tension Between The Individual and Society00:14:35 Authoritarian Government as a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing00:16:54 Evaluating the Sovereign Individual through the Lens of MoQ00:19:55 “Every Consciousness is a Center of the Universe”00:22:16 A High Quality Socioeconomic System Assimilates a Maximal Quantity of Perspectives00:25:25 A Human Being is a Collection of Ideas…00:27:07 NYDIG00:28:15 The Dynamic Tension Between the Biological and Social Layers00:32:30 The Role of Totalitarianism in the Bootstrapping of Societies00:36:22 Conditions of Oppression as a Precursor to Liberation00:39:09 Nietzsche’s Three Metamorphoses: The Camel, The Lion, and The Child00:43:17 “The Moral Equivalent of War” and Life as Disobedience to Gravity00:46:35 The Dynamic Tension Between Central Banking and Bitcoin00:51:57 What Happens after The Lion Becomes The Child?00:53:31 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 18, 202255 min

Ep 159Philosophy Resolves Conflict with Tuur Demeester (WiM159)

Tuur Demeester joins me for a conversation on philosophy, argumentation ethics, and the 4 causes of conflict and universal solutions in relation to property and self-ownership. Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUESTTuur’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeesterTuur’s Writing: https://tuurdemeester.medium.com/ PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Are We Philosophical or Philosophers?00:06:41 Tuur Reflects on How Philosophy and Bitcoin Entered His Life00:13:42 “The Most Painful Thing to Lose Are Illusions”00:20:20 Touching on the Root of Fiat as an Expression of Fear00:23:20 Tuur Demystifies the Way to Study Philosophy00:27:48 Reading is Not Page 1 to Page 100: Deviate, Target, Access Multiple Sources00:34:26 The Value of Books That Are Not Bestsellers00:38:16 Where Does Knowledge Go if it is Only Thought and Not Conveyed…00:44:21 Defining the Philosophy of Law Ties in With Political Philosophy00:49:40 Touching on the Paradox of Contract and Conflict00:52:55 Philosophers Behind Argumentation Ethics and the Universal Causes of Conflict00:56:05 Fighting Over a Steak: 4 Causes of Conflict and 4 Universal Solutions Explained01:03:44 Applying Universal Solutions to Humanize Political Factions01:07:15 Left/Right is a Useful Fiction for the Collective Narrative, Not the Individual01:11:41 Scale Variance of Compassion and Unity in Human Society01:15:20 Cultural vs. Individual Software: One is Necessary, One is Self-Autonomy01:25:34 Do We Self-Program to Fear or Reciprocal Love?01:28:53 NYDIG01:30:00 Revisiting Fiat as an Expression of Fear01:33:50 Property in Relation to Individual Self-Ownership: Are We Self-Owned?01:42:53 The Printing Press Revolution Undermined Knowledge via Dialogue01:45:50 Arguing Against Self-Ownership is Arguing For Self-Ownership01:51:12 Navigating the Territory of Property in a Collective Setting01:56:10 Revisiting the Paradox of Contract and Conflict with Consensus02:03:44 Bitcoin as a Proxy for Universal Solutions That Shrinks Conflict Space02:07:39 “What is Money?” OutroHighlight (00:56:05) to (1:03:44)SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 15, 20222h 9m

Ep 158Liquidity and Debt Structures | The Twilight of Gold Series | Episode 7 (WiM158)

My friend and fellow student of money codenamed "Lester" joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the excellent book "The Twilight of Gold" by Melchior Palyi.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTLester's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProgrammableTxBOOKThe Twilight of Gold: https://archive.org/details/twilightofgold190000paly/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 The Role of Short-Term Capital During the Gold Exchange Standard00:06:01 The Nature of Self-Liquidating Loan Instruments00:08:24 “We are Walking the Currency Toward the Graveyard”00:10:44 The Liquidity Principles of Banking00:14:19 The Emergence of Elongated Debt Maturation Structures00:19:06 Debt Restructuring as a Means of Delaying and Exacerbating Volatility00:20:07 NYDIG00:21:15 Debt Restructuring Hiding Many Modern Financial Problems00:24:57 The Political Convenience of Debt Restructuring00:28:40 “Every Monetary System Will Always Be Under Attack…”00:32:16 People are Always, Everywhere Looking for Every Loophole to Exploit00:37:00 Liquidity is the Real Social Safety Net; Bailouts are a Scam00:41:27 The Two Big Sources of Inflation in the World: Governments and Bank Credit00:43:39 The “Lender of Last Resort” Model Destroys the Real Social Safety Net00:46:51 The Self-Defeating Nature of Aiming at Price Stability…00:47:36 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 14, 202249 min

Ep 157The Virtue of Selfishness | The Yaron Brook Series | Episode 1 (WiM157)

Yaron Brook joins me for a discussion on Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism where we discover how Reason has created progress, freedom, and the pursuit to a good life. This series will loosely follow Ayn Rand's written work "The Virtue of Selfishness."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUESTYaron’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/yaronbrookYaron’s Show: https://yaronbrookshow.com/The Virtue of Selfishness: http://ikesharpless.pbworks.com/f/AynRand-TheVirtueofSelfishness.pdfPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Introducing Ayn Rand’s Virtue of Selfishness00:06:00 To Be Or Not To Be: The “Is” and “Ought” On Leading A Good Life00:09:55 Inducing Principles of Ethics from the Post-Industrial Revolution00:14:18 A Permissionless Society Creates Freedom and Innovation00:19:42 Reason Reveals Itself in the 18th Century00:23:11 The Flywheel Effect of a Free and Flourishing Society00:29:46 NYDIG00:30:55 A Moral Life is One That Pursues Self-Interest00:33:14 Reason is Objectivity: Observe, Deconstruct, Abstract, and Manipulate00:39:30 “The Price of Freedom is Constant Vigilance”00:45:45 When Force is Applied Reason Becomes Obedience00:49:52 An Ideal Society of Operationalized Individual Rights00:53:26 Rights are the Freedom of Action for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness00:57:09 Living is a Long-Term Project in the Good Place01:02:37 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 14, 20221h 4m

Ep 156Demonstrate Don’t Explicate with Hotep Jesus (WiM156)

Social scientist Hotep Jesus joins me to share his thoughts on how society has been steadily fed a pre-fabricated narrative and how he uses desire, discipline, and direction to reshape his own. Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTHotep’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotepJesusHotep’s Website: https://bryansharpe.co/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Why Emotionally Charged News Hook Better Than Facts00:05:30 The Standard Narrative of Pop Culture and Education00:10:49 Culture Influences Economics Which Informs Social Change00:13:45 Are We Creating a Less Intelligent Generation?00:17:05 Is Standard Education Part of a Long-Term Power Control Structure?00:21:35 Advice From an Autodidact: “Live Like Somebody Is Taking Away Your Time”00:24:10 Understand General Health and You Understand the Economy00:27:06 Communism: Take an Emotional Argument and Weaponize It00:32:13 NYDIG00:33:20 “The Power to Change the Rules is the Power to Win in Perpetuity”00:37:24 Would You Rather Create Your Boardroom or be a Player?00:47:56 Build Desire and Discipline But Always Follow Direction00:53:52 “If You Don’t Have Self-Discipline, Someone Else Will Discipline You”00:56:35 The “Money Man” of History Has Always Played the People01:02:15 Demonstrate Don’t Explicate: Build Yourself Instead of Arguing01:06:08 "What is Money?" OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 12, 20221h 7m

Ep 155Excellence and the Platypus Paradox | The Mike Hill Series | Episode 8 (WiM155)

Mike Hill joins for me for a multi-episode exploration of the masterful book “Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals” written by best-selling author Robert Pirsig. This book may be one of the most undervalued ever written, as it proposes an alternative interpretation of reality that Pirsig calls “The Metaphysics of Quality” (MOQ). According to MOQ, reality is not made up of substance, but rather it is composed of distinct patterns of value. In a Copernican-like revolution of perspective, MOQ sheds new light on age-old debates such as moral relativism, the nature of subject-object duality, good vs. evil, science vs. religion, the importance of freedom, and the primacy of action.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMike’s Website: https://www.mikehill.design/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Seeing Quality or Excellence as the Ultimate Reality00:06:07 Human Egotism and Our Failure to Understand the Universe…00:09:01 The Connection Between Quality and Resolution00:12:52 Money as the Most Dynamic Static Representation of Value00:14:59 An Excellent Performance Exists as the Bleeding Edge of Order and Chaos00:17:23 The Pioneers Taking Arrows in the Back in Pursuit of Excellence00:20:02 NYDIG00:21:10 Analogizing Metaphysical Perspective to Selecting the Right Map for the Job00:24:55 Metaphysics of Quality and its Role in the Destruction of Moral Relativism00:28:59 Introducing Pirsig’s Platypus Paradox…00:32:12 The Platypus Blew Out Biological Categories and Led to a Procrustean Bed00:35:51 Light as a Phenomenological Representation of Pure Dynamic Quality00:38:03 “The Whole World as a Marketplace of Kingdoms within Kingdoms within Kingdoms…”00:40:19 Life as a Strategy Stack with an Overarching Aim of Territoriality00:43:37 Property as an Abstract Expression of the Extended Human PhenotypeSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 11, 202245 min

Ep 154An Examination of Economic Value, Power, and Trust with Denise Hearn (WiM154)

Economist Denise Hearn joins me for an in-depth conversation that delves into the many faces of the economy and value—we discuss the slippery definitions of wealth, cognitive awareness, and how these concepts relate to the individual.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTDenise’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/denisehearn_Denise’s Newsletter: https://embodied-economics.ghost.io PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Introducing Denise’s Work on Anti-Monopoly00:03:12 Traditional Proxies of Economic Value and Power00:10:10 Downward and Upward Causations in Markets00:14:55 Internal Influences External: How Societal Values Shape Cities00:21:21 A Blind Man and a Moth: Extending the Cognitive World Beyond the Human Body00:28:22 Deciphering Real and Unreal in a World of Schrödinger’s Cat00:35:05 Using Rational Choice Theory Why Would Someone Buy a Purse Made of Trash?00:41:52 Dissecting Physical Power and Political Power00:48:34 Growthless Asset Maximization: How Companies Make Money00:53:49 Concentrated Industries and Monopoly Puts Power in Fewer Hands00:57:58 Is it too Simplistic to Create Policies Around a Core Productivity Metric?01:05:28 Incentivizing Consumption By Placing a Tax on Currency01:11:06 Centralization and Decentralization: The Systole and Diastole of Human History01:18:28 Bitcoin Incentivizes Wealth Acquisition via Self-Production01:22:23 Are Bitcoin and Smart Contracts a Window to a New Governance Model?01:27:47 NYDIG01:28:54 “Bitcoin is Optimized for the Self-Interest of Holders”01:33:05 Trust as a Concept for the Meta-Narratives of Our System01:43:08 Do We Act Out of Self-Interest or for the Collective Benefit?01:47:57 How Would We Implement the Building Blocks of an Optimized Collective?01:52:44 Identifying the Proxy for Wealth as Knowledge and Capital02:00:09 Measuring Productivity and the Individual: Is it still of Value if it is Unseen?02:04:44 Is Life Happening Within a Simulation02:11:08 Questioning Life Detracts from What it Means to Be Alive02:16:02 "What is Money?" OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 10, 20222h 17m

Ep 153Intricacies of The Gold Standard | The Twilight of Gold Series | Episode 6 (WiM153)

My friend and fellow student of money codenamed "Lester" joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the excellent book "The Twilight of Gold" by Melchior Palyi.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTLester's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProgrammableTxBOOKThe Twilight of Gold: https://archive.org/details/twilightofgold190000paly/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Summarizing the Intricacies of the Gold Standard00:05:48 Interest Rate Manipulation and the “Race to Debase”00:09:53 Monetary Manipulation and the Inevitability of Balance of Trade Breakdowns00:15:11 The US Dollar Hegemony and the Evisceration of its Domestic Industrial Economy00:19:32 When Money is Sound, Economic Organization is Largely Apolitical00:22:53 The Inflexibility of the Gold Standard Gave Banks the Freedom to Operate Sustainably00:27:06 Is the Prevalence of Debt is Inverse to the Portability of Money?00:32:06 Commercial Debt as a “Tokenization” of the Delivery of Products and Services00:34:57 World War 1 as an Accelerant to the Politicization of Money00:40:16 NYDIG00:41:24 A Radical Shift in Schelling Points from a Gold to a Fiat Standard00:46:17 The Modern Specter of Both Inflation and Deflation…00:49:49 Exploring an Inflection Point from an Old to a New Monetary System00:56:00 How a Market for Borrowing Will Emerge on a Bitcoin Standard…01:02:07 The Advantage of a Liquid Money Market01:07:22 Saved Capital is a Narrower Limit on Production than Knowledge and Technology01:10:45 “What is Money?” OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 10, 20221h 12m

Ep 152Freestylin' on Freedom with JP Sears (WiM152)

Comedian and YouTube star JP Sears joins me for a freestyle conversation on the principle of freedom, how we must safeguard it, and why it is indispensable to life lived fully.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTJP’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/AwakenWithJPJP’s Website: https://awakenwithjp.com/Zion Network: https://www.getzion.com/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Bringing Life, Liberty, and Property into the New Paradigm00:03:46 “A Jail You Don’t Know You’re In”: What is Mass Formation Psychosis?00:08:30 “Inflation is Legalized Counterfeiting; Counterfeiting is Criminalized Inflation”00:11:35 The Incentive Blindness Surrounding Fiat00:15:55 Are We the Victims to a Morally Camouflaged State?00:21:43 Kill the Jester, Kill the Truth00:28:35 Bypassing the Defenses of Our Opposition with Comedy00:33:31 Identifying and Breaking From the Trance in Our Lives00:38:12 The Twisting Morality of Our Institutions00:45:07 JP Recalls the Moment He Knew He Had to Safeguard Freedom00:48:55 NYDIG00:50:02 “There’s Plenty Worse Than Death”: Violation of Freedom, Submission to Control00:55:42 Those Who are Not Threatened by Death Will Appreciate Life01:00:01 Fear Enslaves Us to Control; Do Something That Provokes Fear01:11:18 Freedom Convoy Case and Decentralized Networks Like Zion01:20:00 JP’s Thoughts on Bitcoin From a Pyramid Scheme to Becoming “An Answer”01:21:40 Joe Rogan Case Study: How Zion Functions on Non-Censorship and Self-SovereigntySOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 8, 20221h 30m

Ep 151“What is Money?” in Indonesia with Dea Rezkitha (WiM151)

Indonesian Bitcoin specialist and educator Dea Rezkitha joins me for an in-depth conversation into how money has shaped historic political and economic power structures in Indonesia. Dea also looks forward to how Bitcoin can provide people with self-agency and greater resilience.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTDea’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/dearezkithaDea’s Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dearezkithaDea’s Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/26NeuEmwYtb3iMnp2IFKyp?si=a34a81ad7a6342afKelas Bitcoin: https://kelasbitcoin.com/My Bitcoin Story: http://bit.ly/MyBitcoinStoryPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Kelas Bitcoin as an Indonesian-centric Resource for Bitcoin Newbies and Enthusiasts00:03:47 Dalio’s Framework of The Big Cycle: Rises and Declines of Big Empires00:09:47 Money as a Factor and Tool in the Changing World Order00:12:16 The History of Indonesia as a Trading Port00:17:37 How the Dutch Gained Control By Establishing VOC as the First Publicly Traded Company00:22:00 NYDIG00:23:08 How VOC as a Sovereign Power Built the Boats to Riches00:28:55 Exploitation Using Short-Term Incentives To Create More Plantation Workers00:33:32 “If You Can Control The Money, You Can Sculpt History”00:40:35 Indonesia Transitioning From a Dutch Colony to the Japanese Occupation00:51:40 Destabilizing the Indonesian Rupiah to Reclaim it as a Colony00:58:17 Economic Consequences of Indonesia Having To Pay a 4.9 Billion Dutch War Debt01:05:42 Constant Debasement of Rupiah Creates Hyperinflation of 500% in 196601:10:55 The State Grows while Money Associated with Capitalism Declines01:14:58 Foreign Investment Opens with Cascades of Corruption and Control01:19:53 “Life Finds a Way”: The Dynamic Nature of Markets During Booms and Busts01:24:48 1997-98 Mark Larger Economic Contractions, Civil Unrest, and Political Fallout01:28:54 Production vs. Consumption: Indonesia as a Microcosm of The Big Cycle01:34:34 Post-Asian Financial Crisis and the Next Changing Order Away From Fiat01:40:15 60% Unbanked in Indonesia: A Hole That Bitcoin Can Fill01:43:51 Bitcoin is Boring Money: Safe, Resistant, and Harder to Confiscate01:50:46 Indonesia is at a Crossroads Between CBDC and BitcoinSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 8, 20221h 57m

Ep 150The Beauty of The Gold Standard | The Twilight of Gold Series | Episode 5 (WiM150)

My friend and fellow student of money codenamed "Lester" joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the excellent book "The Twilight of Gold" by Melchior Palyi.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTLester's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProgrammableTxBOOKThe Twilight of Gold: https://archive.org/details/twilightofgold190000paly/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Peel’s Act: The Original Bitcoin, With a Few Exceptions…00:04:33 Satoshi’s Creation has Been Sought by Humanity for Centuries00:08:00 21M Bitcoin: Finally, Something Humanity Can Agree Upon00:09:25 Running a Full Node is Equivalent to Convertibility on the Gold Standard00:10:48 How Network Effects Propelled the Gold Standard00:14:53 International Trade Required Gold Deposits Within Each Country00:15:33 Bitcoin as the Ultimate Ulysses Contract00:18:17 A Bitcoin Full Node is Subversive to Commercial Banking00:20:20 “There’s One Economy in the World, and It’s the World Economy”00:22:07 The Three Flavors of the Gold Standard00:26:15 NYDIG00:27:23 The Balance of Trade and the Directionality of Gold Flows00:38:31 An Example of an Exporter Banking on a Gold Standard00:42:11 How Interest Rates Were Used to Manipulate Gold Flows00:45:56 The Beauty of an Idealized Gold Standard…00:49:54 The Titanic Trade Imbalance Accumulated Since 197100:51:37 An Unwitting Twisting of Incentives Across History…SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 5, 202254 min

Ep 149Bitcoin and US Geopolitical Strategy | The Jason Lowery Series | Episode 5 (WiM149)

Jason Lowery from the US Space Force joins me for a multi-episode series exploring the first principles of physics, the ubiquity of organic power projection, and how Bitcoin changes the game.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTJason's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JasonPLoweryPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 “Operational Effectiveness” vs. “Competitive Strategy” of Bitcoin Mining00:04:42 Competitive Strategy is Detected by What the Opponent is Not Doing00:08:59 The Point of Defense is to Increase the Energy Footprint of the Network00:11:34 Proof-of-Stake vs. Proof-of-Work00:16:11 In the Event of a 51% Attack on the Bitcoin Network…00:20:45 The Glaringly Obvious Problems with Proof-of-Stake…00:26:35 Bitcoin is a System that Turns Anyone’s Self-Interest into Everyone’s Self-Interest00:31:28 Good Engineering Involves Discovering and Respecting the Constraints of Nature00:35:56 How to Engineer a Good Monetary System00:39:55 The Inevitable Engineering Failure of Any Mass-Based Money00:44:09 “Nature, to be Commanded, Must be Obeyed”00:45:33 NYDIG00:46:41 Before Bitcoin, We Could Not Engineer a Money in Harmony with Human Nature00:49:40 Properly Framing the Security Properties of an Engineered System00:53:59 The Epistemological Model of Security Failures (What Gets Measured, Gets Done)00:58:55 Factoring in the Ethical, Moral, and Design Considerations of Engineered Systems01:02:23 The Strategic Significance of Bitcoin01:06:26 Bitcoin as a New Schelling Point in the Infinite Game of Power Projection01:09:44 The Immense Sacrifices Inherent to Establishing Control Structures over Property01:13:26 Bitcoin as Leading Contributor to the Future of Property Defense01:16:39 Adopt New Military Schelling Points Voluntarily, Otherwise They Will be Imposed01:18:10 The Dangers of Ignoring Disruptive Technology: Why the USG Should Buy Bitcoin01:23:00 Bitcoin as a Permanent Feature of the Competitive Terrain of the 21st CenturySOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 2, 20221h 34m

Ep 148Evil as the Cost of Creation | The Mike Hill Series | Episode 7 (WiM148)

Mike Hill joins for me for a multi-episode exploration of the masterful book “Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals” written by best-selling author Robert Pirsig. This book may be one of the most undervalued ever written, as it proposes an alternative interpretation of reality that Pirsig calls “The Metaphysics of Quality” (MOQ). According to MOQ, reality is not made up of substance, but rather it is composed of distinct patterns of value. In a Copernican-like revolution of perspective, MOQ sheds new light on age-old debates such as moral relativism, the nature of subject-object duality, good vs. evil, science vs. religion, the importance of freedom, and the primacy of action.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMike’s Website: https://www.mikehill.design/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Metaphysical Combat and Moralistic Camouflage00:06:31 Individuals as the Cells of Metaphysical Combatants00:10:35 Microbiology: The Scapegoat for Modern Global Tyranny00:16:40 The Adaptation of the Metaphysical Moral Parasite…00:19:00 Sun Tzu and Geopolitical Mergers and Acquisitions00:20:30 What Forces are at Work in the Battle Between Good and Evil?00:25:51 The Mythological Struggle Between Ego and Spirit00:28:14 The Parallel Between Film Directors and Serial Killers00:33:47 “It’s Better to be a Warrior in a Garden than a Gardener in a War”00:35:50 NYDIG00:33:23 The Search for the Source of Evil…00:40:08 Evil as the Cost of Creation00:45:50 Evil as “Working Backward”: Valuing Lower Level Layers Above Higher00:50:26 Eros, Filia, and Agape: The Three Types of Love Seen Through the MoQ Stack00:54:20 Those Pursuing the Highest Ideal Run the Risks of Great Personal Loss00:59:05 The Three Creative Principles: Freedom, Truth, and Love01:02:00 An MoQ Mapping of Archetypes, The Brain, and the Three Types of Love01:08:43 Money, Metaphysics, and MetaphorsSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 2, 20221h 13m

Ep 147Social Network Geometry | The Geoffrey West Series | Episode 4 (WiM147)

Theoretical Physicist Geoffrey West joins me for a multi-episode series exploring his excellent book "Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies." Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTGeoffrey's Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010P7Z8J0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1Geoffrey's Profile: https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/geoffrey-westPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Language as a Technology and the Discovery of the Future00:07:22 The Human Imagination as Our Most Powerful Tool00:10:36 Innovating “Imagined Orders” and the Industrial Revolution00:15:15 The City as a Scaled Representation of the Human Brain?00:20:42 Where Does the Geometric Structure of Social Networks Come From?00:24:22 The Speculation Supporting Dunbar’s Number…00:29:02 Niche Construction and the Psychological Impact of Corrupt Money00:32:52 Principles of Physics Underlying the Geometry of Social Networks?00:38:03 Dynamic Network Tension Between Physical Possibility and Information Throughput00:40:36 NYDIG00:41:44 Impact of The Digital Age on Social Network Geometry00:44:10 Historical Telecommunication Revolutions00:47:54 A Historical Look at the Physical Possibility and Information Throughput of Money…00:51:03 Geoffrey’s Trouble Conceptualizing Money…00:54:42 Energy Expenditure is the Mechanism which Secured Gold’s Money Supply00:58:37 Free Exchange, Positive Feedback Loops, and Emergent Properties01:03:33 Social Networks are Bound by the Free Exchange of Information01:06:44 Emergent Properties as the “Whines and Squeals” of Amplified Positive Feedback Loops01:10:10 Positive Feedback Loops and the Amplification of IdeasSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 1, 20221h 15m

Ep 146A Finite Time Singularity | The Geoffrey West Series | Episode 3 (WiM146)

Theoretical Physicist Geoffrey West joins me for a multi-episode series exploring his excellent book "Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies." Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTGeoffrey's Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010P7Z8J0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1Geoffrey's Profile: https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/geoffrey-westPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Geoffrey’s (Undisciplined) Approach to Writing…00:11:00 Physical Activity and Activating the Creative Juices00:14:58 Tools Geoffrey Uses in the Writing Process00:17:30 Geoffrey’s Approach to Reading…00:22:40 Just Write or Edit-as-You-Go?00:25:45 Cormac McCarthy’s Involvement with Geoffrey’s Written Work00:30:31 NYDIG00:31:39 The Scaling Characteristics Specific to Organic Growth00:37:53 “Social Metabolism”: The Super-Linear Scaling of Inorganic Growth00:42:37 Could Super-Linear Scaling have an Undiscovered Limiting Factor?00:44:12 A Possible End to Super-Linear Scaling: A Finite Time Singularity00:51:36 What is the Nature of Innovation with Paradigm Shifts?00:54:31 Sustainability as the Intelligent Exportation of Entropy00:58:18 Harnessing Fossil Fuels and the Attendant Shift to a Global Closed System01:01:52 Respecting the Role of Scientific Thinking in Socioeconomic System Design01:05:34 James Maxwell Advocating the Economic Value of Electromagnetism01:08:30 From Living on Energy Flows to Energy Stocks: The Transition to a Closed System01:16:56 My Story of Legislation Destroying the Residential Solar Power BusinessSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 1, 20221h 21m

Ep 145Bitcoin and Social Entropy | The Geoffrey West Series | Episode 2 (WiM145)

Theoretical Physicist Geoffrey West joins me for a multi-episode series exploring his excellent book "Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies." Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTGeoffrey's Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010P7Z8J0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1Geoffrey's Profile: https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/geoffrey-westPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Sub-Linear and Superlinear Scaling00:05:38 Positive Feedback Loops as Drivers of Super-Linear Scaling00:08:49 Transaction Costs Scaling Sub-Linear to Network Size and Bureaucracy00:13:18 What is the Fractal Architecture of Networks Optimizing For?00:17:43 Structural Integrity as the Limiting Factor on Network Size00:21:55 Hydrodynamics and Gravity as the Limiting Factors on Organism Size00:26:25 The Self-Regulation of Human Population Growth00:30:14 Biology is Replete with Self-Limiting Phenomenon: Is Economics?00:31:43 The Strength of Private Property Rights as Socioeconomic Structural Integrity?00:35:40 Taking a Physicist’s Perspective on Biology and Socioeconomics…00:41:47 The Super-Linear Scaling Laws of Cities00:44:11 The Super-Linear “Social Metabolic Rate” and Open-Ended Growth00:48:31 What is the Role of the Individual in Scaling Socioeconomic Systems?00:50:00 NYDIG00:51:08 All Human Rights are Derivatives of Property Rights00:56:10 The Inherent Instability of Human Consensus and Human Hierarchies01:00:24 The Pathologization of Human Hierarchies and Mass-Psychosis01:02:44 Bitcoin and the Exportation of Social Entropy01:07:45 In a World Where Property Rights Were Perfected…01:12:00 Liberalism Used to Mean Low to No Government…SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 1, 20221h 16m

Ep 144The Universal Laws of Life | The Geoffrey West Series | Episode 1 (WiM144)

Theoretical Physicist Geoffrey West joins me for a multi-episode series exploring his excellent book "Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies." Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTGeoffrey's Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010P7Z8J0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1Geoffrey's Profile: https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/geoffrey-westPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Where is the Line Dividing Living and Nonliving?00:05:40 Are there General Laws Governing Living Systems?00:09:56 The Opaque Logic of Complex Adaptive Systems00:12:22 Life as an Open System that Imports Energy and Exports Entropy00:17:20 Organic System Wear and Tear: Entropy and ATP00:21:21 Maxwell’s Demon, Uncertainty, and Entropy00:25:41 Understanding Thermodynamics: Open Systems vs. Closed Systems00:28:35 Entropy in the Shift from The Agricultural Age to the Industrial Age00:31:13 Astronomical Time as Compared with Social Time00:34:44 NYDIG00:35:52 Superlinear Scaling is Why Godzilla Isn’t Real…00:40:03 Universal Scaling Laws: Savings Percolating Beyond Biology00:44:37 On Average, All Organisms Have the Same Number of Heartbeats00:48:30 How Can it Be That All Life Obeys Universal Scaling Laws?00:53:00 The Fundamental Assumptions of Network Scaling Laws00:56:55 Fractals: The Geometry of Nature01:00:55 A Poetic Description of the Fractal Dimension…01:05:56 Using Laundry to Describe Dimensionality01:10:32 Spherical and Fractal Geometry in Regard to ExchangeSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Mar 1, 20221h 17m

Ep 143A Modern-Day Mass-Psychosis with Dr. Robert Malone (WiM143)

Dr. Robert Malone joins me for a conversation on the modern-day mass-psychosis gripping humanity...Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTDr. Malone's Substack: https://substack.com/profile/49176289-robert-w-malone-md-msDr. Malone's website: https://www.rwmalonemd.com/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Defining the Mass-Psychosis of Totalitarianism00:06:52 A Connection Between Property Violations and Mass-Psychoses?00:10:45 Historical Examples of Currency Counterfeiting Leading to Mass-Psychoses00:13:39 The Three Cohorts in a Mass-Psychosis and How to Tilt the Scales00:19:57 How Free-Floating Anxiety Contributes to the Onset of Mass-Psychosis00:24:16 In a True Totalitarian Environment, The Leader is Expendable00:25:58 The Parallels Between Hypnosis and Mass-Psychosis00:29:32 Emergent Ritualistic Behavior: “Mask Psychosis as a Symptom of Mass-Psychosis”00:31:40 Masking as an Intentional Ritual to Precondition Compliance with The State00:34:38 NYDIG00:35:46 The Conditions Necessary to Setup a Mass-Psychosis, and Where We are Today00:40:43 The Empathic Value of Properly Framing a Mass-Psychosis00:43:15 The Megalomaniacal Aspect of Mass-Psychosis00:47:29 How Bitcoin Can Shrink The State00:50:20 Bitcoin as the Hayekian “Sly Roundabout Way…”00:53:54 How Will this Modern-Day Mass-Psychosis Culminate?00:58:02 How to Resist Mass-Psychosis01:04:00 Communities of Faith Have Proven Particularly Resistant to Mass-Psychosis…SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Feb 25, 20221h 9m

Ep 142Contradiction of The Gold Standard | The Twilight of Gold Series | Episode 4 (WiM142)

My friend and fellow student of money codenamed "Lester" joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the excellent book "The Twilight of Gold" by Melchior Palyi.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTLester's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProgrammableTxBOOKThe Twilight of Gold: https://archive.org/details/twilightofgold190000paly/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Some Reflections on The Bank of England00:05:11 Bitcoin as “The Ultimate Land Grab”00:09:46 Stock-to-Flow Ratios and the Contradiction of a Gold Standard00:15:58 England’s Subjugation of India through Force and Money00:20:20 Hashes per Kilowatt Hour per Sat: The Most Stable Metric00:29:00 The Human Obsession with Automaticity00:33:21 A Potential Weakness in Bitcoin: Rule Changes00:34:27 NYDIG00:35:35 The Key to Sustainable Social Institutions: Resistance to Rule Changes00:41:34 The Weaponization of Inflation and Deflation00:45:36 Real Price Deflation and the Future of Employment00:49:29 Bitcoin Incentivizes You to Improve the Intelligence of Others00:53:00 Gold as a “Pre-Commitment Mechanism”00:56:00 Bitcoin as the Ultimate Ulysses Contract01:00:24 How the Gold Standard Directly Incentivizes War01:02:43 There are Only Two Ways to Resolve Disputes: Contract and ConflictSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Feb 22, 20221h 4m

Ep 141Order Without Organizations with Aneesh Karve (WiM141)

Entrepreneur and computer scientist Aneesh Karve joins me for a conversation on his latest written work "Order Without Organizations: Computation, Austrian Economics, and the Limits of Central Planning."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTAneesh's Twitter: https://twitter.com/akarveAneesh's Written Work: https://akarve.com/complexity-austrian-economics-computational-limits-of-central-planning/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 What is the Goal?00:02:25 Free Market as a “Distributed Computing Network”00:08:03 “Mistaking the Cat for the Washing Machine”00:11:53 Order & Taxes00:17:05 Praxeology & Subjectivity00:20:20 The Language of Markets00:25:09 Formal Systems00:28:22 Quantifying Capitalism00:33:09 Ordinal Numbers & Cardinal Numbers00:36:10 Price Signals00:41:51 Equality00:44:08 What is Wealth?00:51:00 Thomas Sowell00:53:26 Evenly Rotating Economy00:57:09 Equality of Outcome01:06:13 NYDIG01:07:24 Public Property01:14:28 Public Discerning the Truth01:18:33 Marginal Utility & Diamond-Water Paradox01:22:50 Price Discovery01:29:06 Formulating Human Action01:34:59 Algorithms01:38:32 Central Planning01:44:24 Fiat01:49:44 Bitcoin as a Common Variable01:53:58 Fighting Entropy in the Marketplace01:59:20 Perfect Scarcity02:01:33 The Irreducibility of the Market ProcessSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Feb 22, 20222h 12m

Ep 140Life, Energy, and Entropy | The Jason Lowery Series | Episode 4 (WiM140)

Jason Lowery from the US Space Force joins me for a multi-episode series exploring the first principles of physics, the ubiquity of organic power projection, and how Bitcoin changes the game.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTJason's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JasonPLoweryPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 The Scummy Membranes at the Dawn of Life00:05:10 The Problem with Trust at Scale00:10:15 Life as Any Open System that Imports Energy and Exports Entropy00:14:12 Bubbles of Order within the Maelstrom of Nature00:18:40 The Defensibility of Property and the Sophistication of Civilization00:21:49 The Species-Level Evolutionary Advantage of Aging00:25:52 Sexual Reproduction, Death, and the Intensity of Exchange00:28:59 Self-Awareness Across Time as the Ultimate Survival Strategy00:30:46 NYDIG00:31:54 Genetic Information as a River Flowing Through Time00:34:53 The Danger of Subduing Human Nature…00:38:14 The Power Projection Game is Ruthlessly Egalitarian00:40:51 To Trust Incentives is to Reduce the Need for Interpersonal Trust00:45:05 Nuclear Armament as a 51% Attack on The Global Power Projection Game00:47:39 An Intra-Speceil Surrogate to War is Necessary for Individual Sovereignty00:50:44 Proof-of-Work: A Fair Power Projection Competition over Property00:54:38 “Human in the Loop” as the Limiting Factor in All Future Warfare00:59:06 The Nuclear-Hardened History of TCP/IP and Protocol Network Effects01:05:18 The Dynamic Tension Between Centralization and DecentralizationSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Feb 19, 20221h 8m

Ep 139DMT, Spirit, and Embodied Value | The Mike Hill Series | Episode 6 (WiM139)

Mike Hill joins for me for a multi-episode exploration of the masterful book “Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals” written by best-selling author Robert Pirsig. This book may be one of the most undervalued ever written, as it proposes an alternative interpretation of reality that Pirsig calls “The Metaphysics of Quality” (MOQ). According to MOQ, reality is not made up of substance, but rather it is composed of distinct patterns of value. In a Copernican-like revolution of perspective, MOQ sheds new light on age-old debates such as moral relativism, the nature of subject-object duality, good vs. evil, science vs. religion, the importance of freedom, and the primacy of action.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMike’s Website: https://www.mikehill.design/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 DMT and Transcendental Experience00:05:06 Self-Love and Responsible Self-Leadership00:08:19 “The Master and His Emissary”: Duality of Mind and State00:13:07 Reflexivity and the Personal Transformations Inspired by Bitcoin00:16:48 Bitcoin and the Morphing of Modern Mythology00:21:17 The Protocols of Selfhood00:23:14 The Wisdom of the Body00:27:03 Connections Between the Static Layers of Value00:30:07 NYDIG00:31:16 An Analogy for Static Layers of Value: The Computer Tech Stack00:35:08 Mapping Subject-Object Onto the Static Layers of Value00:37:22 The Necessity of Layers00:42:28 Plant Medicines as a Human System Checkup00:51:21 Ignoring the Cost of Creation: A Dangerous Self-Deception00:55:36 Suffering as the Experiential Quality of Being Sacrificed00:59:49 Victims of the Residue from Creating Western CivilizationSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Feb 16, 20221h 5m

Ep 138Bitcoin: Element Zero with Knut Svanholm (WiM138)

Bitcoiner and author Knut Svanholm joins me for a philosophical conversation on Bitcoin.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTKnut's Twitter: https://twitter.com/knutsvanholmKnut's Books: https://www.amazon.com/Knut-Svanholm/e/B087WQ4H28PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Bitcoin Everything there is Divided by 21 million00:05:48 Working with Bitcoin Full Time00:09:05 Philosophy in Bitcoin00:12:03 Bitcoin: The First Form of Ownership00:20:28 All Action is an Expression of Value00:27:00 Democracy as Another Form of Religion00:32:09 NYDIG00:33:16 Morality & Politics00:37:30 “Element Zero”00:45:57 “Bitcoin is a Discovery, Not an Invention”00:48:49 Data, Information, and Patterns00:51:56 Bitcoin is a New Form of Life?00:56:30 Bitcoin the Peacemaker01:00:10 Bitcoin Immortality01:07:00 Maxwell’s Demon01:10:14 Rothbard and Deriving an "Ought" from an "Is"01:16:59 Disincentivizing Crime & Violence01:23:48 Bitcoin is Changing the Way We View Life ItselfSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Feb 16, 20221h 33m

Ep 137Submission to Truth is Freedom | The Twilight of Gold Series | Episode 3 (WiM137)

My friend and fellow student of money codenamed "Lester" joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the excellent book "The Twilight of Gold" by Melchior Palyi.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTLester's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProgrammableTxBOOKThe Twilight of Gold: https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Twilight-Gold-1914-1936-Myths-Realities-Palyi/30927065697/bdPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Gold as the Keystone to Social Order00:04:17 Lester’s Love for Gold…00:08:52 Staring into the Fog of the Future on a Bitcoin Standard…00:12:46 The Supreme Conservatism of Bitcoin00:16:12 When the Rules of Money Become Unbreakable…00:19:06 Freedom Requires Consequences when Rules are Broken00:20:35 Money Without Limitation Destroys the World00:25:06 MMT: A Descriptor for an Unjustifiable System of Theft00:28:11 The Reason Lester Sold All His Gold…00:31:41 The Specter of Crushing Poverty in a Post-Inflation World00:34:26 NYDIG00:35:34 Submission to Truth is Freedom; Life as Organized Disobedience00:38:34 Robert’s Response to The Specter of Crushing Poverty…00:40:59 Bitcoin Mining as a “Safety Net” for Failing Economies00:46:11 Convertibility as a Vote of “No Confidence”: Contract or Conflict00:48:02 Big Themes in “The Twilight of Gold”00:51:46 Central Banks Trapped in the Gravity of Government Debt00:56:31 Ritualizing Bitcoin as a Bulwark to Intergenerational Drift00:59:00 The Ineffective Application of the Interest Rate Mechanism01:10:13 Is Price Stability Natural?01:13:21 Price Stability Cloaks the Fact that Things Should be Getting Cheaper01:19:25 High-Integrity Private Property Rights as a Fix for Environmental Harm01:22:49 Hijacking the Interest Rate Mechanism to Make Government Debt Cheap01:27:42 Bitcoin is Designed to Work Whether or Not It Has Permission To01:31:31 Relying on the Enlightened, Long-Range Self-Interest of All Participants in the Game01:35:31 The Real World is Based on Simulated Ownership, Possession is True Ownership01:41:46 The US Government’s Excessive Indebtedness…01:47:05 Building Up a Wall of Bitcoin Conviction01:51:16 Lester’s Five Conditions for Investing01:55:00 Bitcoin Can Never Be Fully Understood, so It Will Always Be Undervalued01:56:34 “Every Order of Magnitude Wealthier We Become, We Add a Zero”SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Feb 15, 20222h 1m

Ep 136The Digital Paradigm with Alexander Bard (WiM136)

Author and philosopher Alexander Bard joins me for a conversation on power, politics, spacetime, and human hierarchies in The Digital Age.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTAlexander's Twitter: https://twitter.com/BardissimoAlexander's Books: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Alexander-Bard/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AAlexander+BardPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Alexander’s View on Metaphysics00:06:53 Emergence Vector & Laws of Nature00:10:11 Paradigm Shifts00:12:19 Hyper-Time as a Base Layer of Understanding Emergence00:18:05 The Impact of the Printing Press and the Internet on the Global Power Structure00:24:41 The Internet, A.I, and Truthfulness are Destroying Everything00:31:11 Central Banks and Legacy Institutions Attempting to Skew Truth00:40:09 Everybody Loses In a Tyrannical System00:42:11 Power and Modern Day Slavery00:44:50 Minimizing Political Power and Maximizing Real Power00:49:02 Big Data in a Democracy00:53:14 Power Triad00:58:30 NYDIG00:59:39 The Dissipation of Space in the Digital Paradigm01:03:58 Time in the Digital Paradigm01:06:21 Capitalism in the Digital Paradigm01:13:23 Digitizing Human Hierarchies01:17:41 What it Means to be Human in the Digital Paradigm01:20:55 Summarizing The Digital AgeSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Feb 15, 20221h 29m

Ep 135"Just Follow the Money" with Dr. Robert Malone (WiM135)

Dr. Robert Malone joins me for a conversation on medical ethics, human dignity, and the vast corruption we find in post-COVID world when we "just follow the money."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTDr. Malone's Substack: https://substack.com/profile/49176289-robert-w-malone-md-msDr. Malone's website: https://www.rwmalonemd.com/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Dr. Malone’s Credentials00:06:39 History of Informed Consent00:11:00 Informed Consent In the Modern Era00:17:12 The Tuskegee Experiment00:22:03 The Incentives Behind the Experiments00:24:03 Oppenheimer's Dilemma00:29:30 Defining Humanity Through the Lense of Economics00:32:23 NYDIG00:33:30 Regulatory Capture00:40:04 The Rise of the Medical Industrial Complex00:43:41 Being on the Front Edge of Data00:47:20 War Game Scenarios & The COVID-19 Outbreak00:56:32 Government Cash Bonuses For Hospitals01:05:23 Coercion Funding Coercion01:08:25 Hypothetical Bitcoin Nirvana01:17:05 The “Big How” QuestionSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Feb 12, 20221h 24m

Ep 134Bitcoin as a Weapons System | The Jason Lowery Series | Episode 3 (WiM134)

Jason Lowery from the US Space Force joins me for a multi-episode series exploring the first principles of physics, the ubiquity of organic power projection, and how Bitcoin changes the game.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTJason's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JasonPLoweryPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Bitcoin Establishing a New Rule of Law00:05:34 Nuclear Weapons in the Power Projection Game00:13:40 Bitcoin as a Weapons System00:15:40 Describing the Schelling Point of the Energy of Bitcoin00:19:35 What Prevents a Nation-State from Strong-Arming the Mining Network?00:25:27 The Invention of Non-Lethal Warfare00:28:46 NYDIG00:29:55 The Possibility of a Coordinated Drone Attack on Bitcoin Mining00:34:44 Dealing With a Geopolitical Coordinated Attack on Bitcoin00:43:09 A Decreasing Need for Kinetic Power Projection00:45:50 Mutually Assured Preservation00:50:20 Bitcoin: The Ultimate Shared Abstraction00:56:12 Jason Getting His Thesis In the Hands of US Policymakers00:59:51 Monetizing Energy GloballySOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Feb 9, 20221h 4m

Ep 133The Way of Freedom with Pierre Poilievre (WiM133)

Member of Canadian Parliament and Candidate for Prime Minister Pierre Poilievre joins me for a conversation on money, the proper role of government in money, individual responsibility, property rights, and freedom.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTPierre’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievrePierre’s Website: https://pierremp.ca/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Asking Canadian Parliament “What is Money?”00:03:01 Politicians Spend Money Without Understanding Where it Comes From…00:05:10 What is the Proper Role of Government in the Sphere of Money?00:07:41 Depoliticize the Central Bank and Charge them with Fighting Inflation!00:10:28 Inflation is an Illegal Form of Taxation00:12:09 NYDIG00:13:16 Inflation Disincentivizes Individual Responsibility00:16:47 Inflation Destroys Private Property and All Other Human Rights00:22:04 Housing Price Inflation in Canada Today00:25:19 QE Delays and Exacerbates Housing Market Correction00:26:36 The Canadian Trucker Freedom Convoy00:29:34 COVID: The Never-Ending Excuse Being Used by Power-Hungry Authorities…00:33:15 Reclaiming Ancient Liberties from Government DoomsayersSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Feb 6, 202236 min

Ep 132"The Brain" with David Eagleman (WiM132)

Neuroscientist, Author, Technologist, and Entrepreneur David Eagleman joins for me a conversation about his book "The Brain."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTDavid's Twitter: https://twitter.com/davideaglemanDavid's Book "The Brain": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VKAZENW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1David's Website: https://eagleman.com/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Carving Out Neurons in the Early Years00:02:58 Material Engagement Theory00:04:58 The Mind Mapping The External World00:09:17 Reality is Not a Faithful Record00:14:18 Repetition Wiring the Circuitry of the Brain00:18:59 Division of Labor00:21:19 The Power of Imitation00:24:49 NYDIG00:25:37 The Brain as a Team of Rivals00:28:31 The Danger of Centralizing Power00:33:07 Dopamine: The Error Corrector00:40:22 Ulysses Contract00:47:49 Transhumanism and Living DigitallySOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Feb 5, 202252 min

Ep 131Bitcoin and The Art of War with Kenny Florian (WiM131)

World renowned UFC athlete Kenny Florian joins me for a conversation on strategy, optionality, competitive leverage, wisdom, money, and martial arts.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTKenny's Twitter: https://twitter.com/kennyflorianPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Kenny’s Background00:08:56 Knowing your Terrain00:14:46 Using Leverage to your Advantage in Combat & Business00:19:59 Preparation is Key00:26:14 The More Options You Have, the Stronger You Become00:29:34 The Wisdom & Background of Jiu-Jitsu00:35:12 The Gracie Family’s Influence on Jiu-Jitsu00:39:36 NYDIG00:40:43 Should Everyone Learn Martial Arts or Self Defense Techniques?00:47:07 Having the Skills to Fight Actually Instills Peace00:50:50 Bitcoin and the Art of Fighting00:55:15 Kenny’s Path to Bitcoin01:04:50 Fiat Rat Race & Bitcoin as the Light at the End of the Tunnel SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Feb 5, 20221h 14m