The "What is Money?" Show

Jimmy Song joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterful anti-state treatise “Democracy: The God that Failed” written by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTJimmy's twitter: https://twitter.com/jimmysongJimmy's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bitcoin-fixes-this/id1523910866Jimmy's writing: https://jimmysong.substack.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 Empiricism vs. Rationalism00:07:11 Isolation of Variables is a Prerequisite to Empiricism00:09:12 Keynesian Economics is Empiricism; Austrian Economics is Rationalism00:13:23 The Relationship Between Civilization and Time Preference00:19:32 The Moral Component of Time Preference00:21:40 Time Preference as a Relationship Abstract Others00:25:02 The Metaphysics of Savings and Being Saved00:29:47 Natural Interest Rate: The Quantification of Time Preference00:33:27 Time Preference as the Source Waters of Virtue00:35:52 The Thomastic Conception of Usury00:40:59 NYDIG00:42:06 Capital is Frozen Time00:47:27 Civilization as Multi-Layered Capital Accumulation00:50:10 Capital Accumulation Catalyzes a Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Civilization00:50:59 External Factors Influencing Time Preference00:56:56 Biological Factors Influencing Time Preference01:03:41 Savings Even Lowers Time Preferences of Non-Savers!01:08:22 Keynesianism Destroys Accountability and Savings01:10:46 State Interference in Free Markets is Decivilizing01:15:31 The Costs of Securing Property is Inverse to Civilization01:18:21 State Action is an Unmitigable Risk to EntrepreneurshipSOCIALBreedlove 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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic 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/BREEDLOVE22

Eric Weinstein joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering mathematics, physics, history, politics, economics, and money.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTEric's twitter: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinsteinEric's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ericweinsteinphdEric's Podcast: https://ericweinstein.org/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 Introduction to Gauge Theory00:06:06 Wittgenstein’s Ruler, Invariance, and Co-Variance00:08:36 General Relativity, Prices, and Inflation00:10:58 Gauge Theory Says There is No “Universal Level”00:13:27 Marginal Revolution Using the Wrong Differential Calculus?00:16:48 Utility Theory: Ordinal vs. Cardinal00:19:37 The St. Petersburg Paradox00:23:06 Cardinal Utility Exhibits the Structure of a Principal Bundle00:24:41 NYDIG00:25:48 Economics as the Geometry of Markets00:28:54 Competition is Critical for Scientific Progression00:32:51 How Framing Changes What We See00:37:26 Exploring Gold as a Gauge Theory00:41:01 Transactional Anonymity as a Consequence of Gauge Theory00:42:50 Conservation Laws and the Double-Spend Problem00:44:42 Satoshi as the Originator of “Logical Physics”00:46:07 The Big Problem of Bitcoin?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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic 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/BREEDLOVE22

Raoul Pal joins for me a mind-blowing exploration of global financial history, the emergence of the exponential age, Bitcoin, the metaverse, and a look into the future of humanity.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTRaoul's twitter: https://twitter.com/RaoulGMIRaoul's company: https://www.realvision.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 “The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire”00:06:22 The Weimar Hyperinflation00:08:56 World War II and The Baby Boomers00:13:29 Pax Americana and Rules-Based Global Order00:17:00 The Largest Demand Shock Ever Seen00:22:22 Economic Disparity Driving Political Polarization00:25:28 Reagan, Thatcher, and Unintended Consequences00:30:32 Financialization of the 1980s00:34:46 Introduction of the WTO00:39:45 NYDIG00:40:53 The Dark Side of the “Exorbitant Privilege”00:42:47 Central Bank Policy Tools and “Managing” the Business Cycle00:44:34 The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis00:49:35 The 2001 Dotcom Crisis00:50:51 Collapse in Labor Force Participation and Monetary Velocity00:53:46 The 2008 Great Financial Crisis and QE Infinity00:59:30 The Making of the Everything Bubble01:04:20 The Rise of Digital, Populism, and Wealth Confiscation01:09:54 The Fourth Turning and “The Pandemic”01:15:47 Universal Underwriting by The Central Bank01:19:14 The Unstoppable Truth of Demographics01:25:39 Bitcoin and the Unreality of Currency Debasement01:32:07 Lack of Segregation in Financial Instrument Property Rights01:38:14 Possible Political Responses to the Impending Financial Crisis01:41:25 Misaligned Incentives, Population Control, and The Exponential Age01:44:54 Emergence of the Metaverse and Networked States01:50:20 “The Game Is Not What You Want It To Be, The Game Is What It Is”01:56:16 A World Running on Deflationary and Programmable Money01:59:59 Digital Identity, “Capitalist UBI,” and Free Energy?02:06:36 Where Does the Value Accrue in the Exponential Age?02:13:27 The Possibility of Radical Life Extension02:15:17 Change the Money, Change the WorldSOCIALBreedlove 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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic 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/BREEDLOVE22

Preston Pysh joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring two books: 1) The Brain by David Eagleman, and 2) The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav. Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTPreston’s twitter: https://twitter.com/PrestonPyshPreston's podcast: https://www.theinvestorspodcast.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 Remediating Trauma and Phobia00:05:02 The Soul: The Place Beyond Paradox00:07:22 The Dancing Wu Li Masters00:08:23 The Transition from External to Authentic Power00:11:30 Consciously Formulating Intentions00:13:02 Honoring the Freedom of Choice00:14:22 Mankind’s Pursuit of Power and Desire for Dominance00:15:46 Global Monetary Coordination and Rapid Technological Progress00:23:41 The Transformation of Consciousness00:27:31 The Seen vs. The Unseen00:31:09 Money: A Symbol of External Power00:34:48 Universal Utilitarianism00:40:44 Value Creation is Born from Free Exchange00:42:16 NYDIG00:43:24 Money and Movement Towards Authentic Power00:47:32 The Polysemy of Power00:51:55 Bitcoin and Personal Transformation00:53:14 Bitcoin and Radical Responsibility00:56:49 Bitcoin is an “Unriggable” GameSOCIALBreedlove 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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic 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/BREEDLOVE22

Preston Pysh joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring two books: 1) The Brain by David Eagleman, and 2) The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTPreston’s twitter: https://twitter.com/PrestonPyshPreston's podcast: https://www.theinvestorspodcast.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 Introduction to the “The Seat of the Soul”00:02:25 How Intention Shapes our Reality00:04:49 The Risks Associated with Providing Criticism00:10:51 Karmic Balance: Intentions and Incentives00:19:40 Creating Economic Abundance Through Open Energy Exchange00:21:18 Modern-Day Slave Labor00:24:09 Bitcoin is Karmic Money00:26:04 Intention: The Atonement of Cause and Effect00:29:28 NYDIG00:30:36 Intentions Create Karma00:34:06 The Blurry Line Between Good and Bad00:37:06 Identifying and Rectifying Mal-intent00:41:44 Taking Accountability of One’s Own Self-Deception00:51:47 Radically Accepting Objective Criticism00:56:30 Central Banking as the Parasite that Distorts the Entire Network Dynamic00:58:16 “Courage is the Most Important Virtue”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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic 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/BREEDLOVE22

Preston Pysh joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring two books: 1) The Brain by David Eagleman, and 2) The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTPreston’s twitter: https://twitter.com/PrestonPyshPreston's podcast: https://www.theinvestorspodcast.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 The Power Struggle00:05:45 What Every Body is Saying00:15:40 Intelligence is Error-Correction00:20:51 Error-Correction in Relation to Money00:21:40 Connection Between Economics and Neural Phenomena00:24:40 The World Without Inflationary Monetary Policy00:32:52 A Standardized Global Currency00:38:20 “Nothing Vast Enters the Life of Mortals Without a Curse”00:45:06 Dealing With Abundance vs Scarcity00:50:15 NYDIG00:51:33 Generational Wealth00:59:02 Existing Eternally on the Cloud01:02:40 Transhumanism and Meta-Intelligence01:04:44 Resetting Our Epigenetic Settings01:06:30 Preview to “The Seat of the Soul”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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic 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/BREEDLOVE22

Preston Pysh joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring two books: 1) The Brain by David Eagleman, and 2) The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTPreston’s twitter: https://twitter.com/PrestonPyshPreston's podcast: https://www.theinvestorspodcast.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 Reality as a Biological Interface00:02:44 Ecological Perception in Relation to Bitcoin00:05:59 Influence by Robert Cialdini00:06:45 Forming Cognitive Bias on Veblen Goods00:10:15 Commitments and Consistency Bias00:14:36 Cognitive Precursors that Influence People00:17:10 The Line Between Influence and Manipulation00:19:01 Bitcoin is the Solution to Central Banking00:26:59 The Inevitability of Disruption00:28:33 Bitcoin as the Natural Antidote to Financial Market Manipulation00:29:35 The Debilitation that Affects the Signaling Mechanism of the Brain00:31:20 The Neuroscience of Reality00:35:09 Sensory Substitution Devices and Artificial Intelligence00:41:54 The Human Brain’s Capacity is Limitless0045:20 What Does Bitcoin Mean for Future Technological Advancement?00:51:04 The Dollar as a Global Reserve Currency00:53:30 The Importance of Humility00:54:26 Why Bitcoin is Unstoppable01:03:48 Classical Conditioning and How it Shapes Politics01:06:30 The Law of Decimation01:11:08 The Schizophrenia of Fiat01:16:38 NYDIG01:17:46 Finding Your Life’s Work Through Past Experiences01:23:34 Operating on a Flow State: Leveraging Your Subconscious to Play the Game01:32:09 Priming: How One Stimulus Influences A Response to a Subsequent StimulusSOCIALBreedlove 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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic 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/BREEDLOVE22

Preston Pysh joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring two books: 1) The Brain by David Eagleman, and 2) The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTPreston’s twitter: https://twitter.com/PrestonPyshPreston's podcast: https://www.theinvestorspodcast.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 Tenser-Flow Playground: A Neural Network Playground00:03:53 The Indelible Footprints of the Nervous System00:04:31 Emulating Your Heroes00:08:01 Conditioning Your Brain by Corrupting its Hard Drive00:09:22 What Separates Humans from Animals00:10:16 Memory and the Emotional Evaluation System00:11:29 Our Brain’s Processing Power, Temporal Illusions, and Time Distortion00:14:21 Money is a Collective Memory00:15:21 An Identity Based on Memory00:19:58 NYDIG00:21:06 The Ability to Forecast Our Future00:25:33 The Case Against Reality00:28:26 Seeing the World Through Our Own Biological Interface00:30:43 The Big Bang Theory00:32:05 “The Only Thing You Know is You Know Nothing at All”00:33:46 Getting Stuck in The “Do Loop”00:34:31 Super Forecasters00:41:31 Bitcoin Counterarguments 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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic 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/BREEDLOVE22

Preston Pysh joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring two books: 1) The Brain by David Eagleman, and 2) The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTPreston’s twitter: https://twitter.com/PrestonPyshPreston's podcast: https://www.theinvestorspodcast.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 Identifying Cognitive Biases in Investments00:06:39 Self-Programming Through Reading00:13:29 Conditioning the Subconscious00:22:14 Passing Patterns Across Generations00:23:30 NYDIG00:24:38 Adopting Patterns From Your Environment00:27:28 Training Pathways: Bringing the Subconscious to Consciousness00:29:50 Pushing Back Data to the Subconscious00:34:08 Selective Attention Theory00:37:06 Why You Need to Ask Yourself “Why?” Five Times00:41:37 Civilization is a Fractal of the Individual Mind00:43:54 “The Anatomy of Any System Has to Contain Within it a Model of the Environment in which that System is Immersed"00:48:17 The Brain Tumor that Caused a Mass Shooting: The Charles Whitman Case00:52:35 Nature vs. Nurture: Assimilating New Patterns and Programs00:54:29 A Broken Monetary System00:59:29 The Toilet Paper Test01:04:27 Intelligence as Error-Correction01:05:23 The Efficient Market Hypothesis is Inefficient01:07:05 Money as an Extension of MindSOCIALBreedlove 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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic 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/BREEDLOVE22

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMax’s twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMaxMax’s Website: https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/wxB4qDBjfaZNqn9vSidLnn4dGbV/pos 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 Origin Story of The State00:12:12 Toward a Theory of Strategy for Liberty00:17:00 Liberty is the Highest Political End00:20:32 Libertarianism: The Philosophical Bedrock of the Cypherpunks00:24:00 Liberty: A Moral Principle of Justice00:27:20 Instantaneous Abolition of Statism is Ideal00:30:17 “Gradualism in Theory is Perpetuity in Practice”00:34:15 A Strategy Must Never Undercut its End00:37:33 A Thought Experiment on Ends and Means00:41:29 Liberty as the Ultimate Aim of Human Action00:43:02 Bitcoin as a Force Multiplier for Liberty00:47:49 Human Reason Zeroes-In on Self-Sovereignty00:49:51 NYDIG00:50:59 Accepting All Reductions of Statism with Alacrity00:55:04 An Absolutist Approach Toward Liberty00:57:20 Education is a Necessary Condition for the Victory of Liberty01:04:00 Education is the Ultimate Psychotechnological Tool01:09:59 Bitcoin Incentivizes the “Living Out” of Liberty01:13:50 Right Opportunism vs. Left Sectarianism01:20:46 A Free Mind Never Concludes01:24:24 The Transjectivity of Adaptation, Price, and Fitness01:28:16 Reasons for the Optimism of Libertarianism01:32:02 Equilibrated vs. Disequilibriated Structures01:37:21 “Once You Get Bitcoin, You Can’t Un-get It”01:40:32 Did Digital Technology and Globalization Extend the Run of Statism?01:43:00 What is There Left to Try But Freedom?01:46:11 The De-Sanctification of The State01:53:39 Bitcoin: The Libertarian “Ace in the Hole”01:56:21 Bitcoin: The Ultimate Weapon of Individual LibertySOCIALBreedlove 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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic 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/BREEDLOVE22

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMax’s twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMaxMax’s Website: https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/wxB4qDBjfaZNqn9vSidLnn4dGbV/pos 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 Moral Status of Relations to The State00:03:27 “Everything The State Has is Stolen, Everything It Says is A Lie”—Nietzsche00:06:29 “All is Fair in Love and War”00:12:31 A Free Market for Dispute Arbitration00:16:49 The Immorality of Holding Government Bonds00:21:09 Death, Taxes, and 21M Bitcoin00:25:56 NYDIG00:27:04 The Relations Between States00:31:13 Weapons and Violations of Property00:35:11 A Global Disarmament Under Libertarianism?00:40:47 WMDs are Less Useful in a Libertarian World00:43:11 The Moral Equivalent of War00:47:06 Statism Exists to Harvest Taxpayers00:50:23 Bitcoin and Geopolitical Defection00:56:15 Two Types of State Violence: Vertical and Horizontal01:02:38 Political Power vs. Economic Power; Statism vs. Entrepreneurship01:11:05 “War is the Health of The State”01:14:54 Politics is a Mass-Psychosis Premised on Property Violations01:21:00 Sovereignism: Bitcoin-Enabled Anarcho-Capitalism01:27:07 Slavery Abolished by the Progression Toward Capital IntensitySOCIALBreedlove 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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 6% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic 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/BREEDLOVE22

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMax’s twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMaxMax’s Website: https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/wxB4qDBjfaZNqn9vSidLnn4dGbV/pos 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 Physical Property Rights in a Post-Bitcoin World00:03:15 Taxation Bifurcates Society into Rulers and Ruled00:06:53 All State Action is a Misallocation of Capital00:09:53 To Truly Understand Statism is To Fix Statism00:11:49 Individual Self-Ownership as Philosophical Steel00:14:25 Statism is Self-Inflicted Suffering00:16:27 Humans are Smart, Yet Self-Deceptive00:18:39 The Invalidity of Constitutional Documents00:21:23 The Praxeological Lens Purifies Perceptions00:23:56 “If I Cannot Live in Heaven, then I Will Rule in Hell”00:28:06 NYDIG00:29:15 Incentives and The Propensity to Turn a Blind Eye00:33:08 “Bitcoin Incentivizes Tremendous Character Change”00:38:11 Property is the Proper Boundary for Actors00:39:49 The Law Largely Emerged From Non-State Institutions00:42:50 Distorting Discovery Processes Pathologizes00:48:26 Dealing With Failure in a Libertarian World00:51:40 The More Voluntarism You Put In, The More Wealth Comes OutSOCIALBreedlove 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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMax’s twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMaxMax’s Website: https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/wxB4qDBjfaZNqn9vSidLnn4dGbV/pos 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 Inevitability of Statism?00:05:55 A Thought Experiment on Statism: Alien Invasion00:09:28 The Chimera of “Limited Government”00:14:04 Why is Defense Different Than Any Other Industry?00:15:31 Did Nation-States Arise from Technological Realities?00:17:07 A Thought Experiment on Statism: Individual Invincibility00:22:15 Unassailable Property Makes Statism Irrelevant00:26:00 The Zero-Sum Revenue Model of Statism00:33:07 Bitcoin’s Price in Relation to The Demand for Security00:34:38 Can Bitcoin Miners Operate At a Loss?00:38:48 NYDIG00:39:56 The Rise and Fall of States Across History00:43:09 Inviolable Property Makes Statism Irrelevant?00:47:19 Is Bitcoin a Regulator on The Growth of Statism?00:50:45 The Ratio of Resistance to StatismSOCIALBreedlove 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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgAutomatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMax’s twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMaxMax’s Website: https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/wxB4qDBjfaZNqn9vSidLnn4dGbV/pos 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 Humans Mediate Between Heaven and Earth00:05:25 Ethical Strategies Outcompete Unethical Strategies00:06:50 Reason Tells Us to Protect Ourselves From Others’ Unreasonableness00:09:44 The Cypherpunk Ethos00:14:19 Strategy for Overcoming Central Banking00:16:30 Statism: An Ideology of Violating Private Property Rights00:22:05 Statism is All About Controlling Resources00:24:14 Liberty: A Stateless State00:26:24 The State and Psychotechnological Bootstrapping?00:30:36 NYDIG00:31:45 Is Statism Transitory?00:34:23 Human Action Aimed at “Something For Nothing”00:38:25 Bitcoin and the Realignment of Truth and Power00:40:49 “The Further a Society Drifts From the Truth…”00:43:52 Bitcoin Combines “Carrots and Sticks”00:46:29 Bitcoin as a Forcing Function for Fixing The World00:50:20 Bitcoin: Rothbardian Ethics in a Strategic Implementation00:52:45 “Read Rothbard and Use Bitcoin”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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

John Vervaeke joins me for a deep conversation exploring his work as a cognitive scientist and his YouTube lecture series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTJohn’s twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_johnJohn’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaekeJohn’s Lecture Series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY 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 Domicide: The Loss of Home00:03:19 The Meaning Crisis as Cosmic Domicide00:06:17 Niche Construction, Baldwin Effect, and Co-Creation of Identities00:08:48 Worldview Attunement: Mutual Shaping of Agent and Arena00:10:00 Conspiracy Theory: An Attempt to Use Mythos to Home Reality00:12:29 Domicide and the Violation of Property Rights00:16:45 Democracy’s Contribution to Domicide00:18:02 The Original Meaning of Violence is “To Violate”00:18:49 Property Consists of the Things Which Constitute Identity00:19:44 Niche Construction: Mediation Between Territory and Property00:21:03 Christianity Turned the Ancient Roman Empire into a Home00:22:25 “Call No Man a Philosopher Who Has Not Alleviated the Suffering of Others”00:23:29 The Ancient Roman Monopoly on Violence00:26:50 “It’s Not the State that Makes Us Persons, It’s Agape”00:28:21 “The Narcissist is Hungry to Be At Home, But Conquers Territory Instead”00:30:09 Inviolable Property is the Immortality of Civilization00:35:37 The Tension Between Time Preference and Presence00:38:11 A Point of Processing Between Ontological Modes00:41:24 The Domicidal Case of the Grassy Narrows00:45:03 The Hellenistic Domicide, Stoicism, and Valorization of The Logos00:48:07 “It’s Not What You Set Your Heart On, It’s How You Set Your Heart”00:50:10 NYDIG00:51:18 “He Who Has a Why Can Bear Any How”00:52:22 Domicide as the Scarcity of Meaning00:58:22 Post-1971 Centralization, Corruption, and Zombie Mythology01:02:23 Zombie Mythology as an Inversion of Christianity01:03:41 Property as a Socioeconomic “Optimal Grip”01:06:06 The Connection Between Self-Ownership and Optimal Grip of Virtue01:08:38 The Paradox of Courage: Water and Wine01:10:19 The Mythos of Moby Dick01:13:17 Zombie: The Symbol of The Meaning Crisis01:15:39 “Of Course They’re Called Zombie Companies!”01:18:22 Secular Religiosity: The Deep Faith In Ideological Stances01:19:54 Philosophy: The Resolution to The Age of Anxiety01:21:27 Christianity as Mediator of “Individuation” and “Participation”01:23:41 Attraction Between The Christian Mythos and Neo-Platonic Logos01:24:46 Wisdom: Transcendence of The Meaning Crisis01:28:30 The Cognitive Conceptual Grammar vs. The Scientific Worldview01:31:06 The Paradox of Religiosity in America: Non-Theist Theism01:33:38 Fundamentalism and Perceived Perfection01:34:49 Nihilism is Fundamentalism in The Scientific Worldview01:36:30 The Paradox of Science: “Science Has No Part of The Scientific Worldview”01:38:49 Transjectivity: Transcending Subject-Object DualitySOCIALBreedlove 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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

Michael Saylor joins me to discuss anthropology, energy, and technology from first principles as we build the intellectual foundation necessary to truly grasp the historic significance of Bitcoin.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMichael's twitter: https://twitter.com/saylorMichael's company: https://www.microstrategy.com/enMichael's website: https://www.hope.com/CHANNELPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8...RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Bitcoin Technical Applications: Treasury Management00:03:40 “When the Ducks Are Quacking, Feed the Ducks”00:06:12 Bitcoin as the Base Property Protocol00:08:30 “Currency is an Application of Money”00:10:26 Bitcoin Enables Universally Accessible Application Development00:11:33 How Some Governments Can Use Bitcoin to Eliminate Taxation00:13:13 How an Energy Company Can Play the Bitcoin Mining Game00:15:17 The Hierarchical Nature of Wealth00:16:30 How an Insurance Company Can Integrate with Bitcoin00:19:03 How to “Juice” Bond Fund Returns by Blending with Bitcoin00:21:32 How Bitcoin Can Augment Traditional Financial Structured Products00:23:33 How Bitcoin Can Enhance Trusts and Endowments00:25:32 “$100T of Bonds and Fixed-Income Assets are Broken”00:26:36 Why Bitcoin Can Never be Overvalued00:27:45 The Hardware Applications of Bitcoin00:29:37 How Operating Systems Can Integrate with Bitcoin00:30:58 NYDIG00:32:06 How Cloud-Based Applications Can Integrate with Bitcoin00:33:36 Adding Social Network User “Skin in the Game” with Bitcoin00:36:59 Incentivizing Digital Civility with Bitcoin Security Deposits00:39:21 Zero-Cost Spamming Leads to DDOS Attacks Ad Infinitum00:41:15 Proof of Work Originated as an Countermeasure to Spam00:45:44 How Bitcoin Can Change Entertainment, News, and Service Sectors00:50:24 How Bitcoin Impacts the Legacy Credit Card Networks00:54:08 Robert's 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?l...All 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/RBree...Dollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=178435...The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=328431...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/bitcoinco...Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3h3lL0jIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMax’s twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMaxMax’s Website: https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/wxB4qDBjfaZNqn9vSidLnn4dGbV/pos 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 Rights of Animals00:05:01 Animals Exhibit Proto-Purposeful Action?00:09:36 Self-Reflection as the Ultimate Evolutionary Advantage00:12:37 Does “Might Make Right?”00:18:54 Participation in the Division of Labor is the Line of Action00:24:23 Rothbardian Libertarianism and Darwinism00:29:05 NYDIG00:30:13 Liberty: Ethics vs. Strategy00:35:31 How Ethics Can Be Corrupted00:41:17 Property Rights are a Universal Ethic00:46:22 The Unreasonableness of Zero-Sum Games00:47:47 Pooling Pressure and Institutional Collapse00:49:11 Why Bitcoin is at The Pinnacle of Human Reason00:53:42 Why Merchant Full Nodes Matter for Bitcoin00:56:11 All Technologies are Backed by People00:56:57 Bitcoin Assumes the Axis of ResistanceSOCIALBreedlove 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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

John Vervaeke joins me for a deep conversation exploring his work as a cognitive scientist and his YouTube lecture series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTJohn’s twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_johnJohn’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaekeJohn’s Lecture Series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY 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 Introduction to The Power of Mythology00:03:25 Logos vs. Mythos00:05:16 The Metaphor00:06:42 Metaphor, Insight Realization, and Humor00:09:46 Metaphor and Cross-Domain Insight “Explosion”00:10:53 Metaphor’s Connection to Procedural Knowledge00:13:00 “Understanding, Grasping, Getting, and Seeing”00:14:44 Relevance Realization: “Game Theory All The Way Down”00:16:14 The Symbol00:17:26 “How to Hold Justice In Mind”00:18:32 The Cerebellum: Justice, Voluntary Movement, and Balance00:19:56 Perspectival Knowing: Holding “Justice is Blind” in Mind00:21:50 “You Don’t Just Know About Balance, You Enact It”00:23:24 Proprioception: To Be “In Touch” With Something00:24:19 How Things Shape the Mind: Material Engagement Theory00:27:12 The Imaginal00:29:50 “Trying on a Worldview”: Imaginal Augmentation of Reality00:32:36 Virtue and the Construction of Sacred Canopies00:33:52 NYDIG00:35:02 Virtue is the Beauty of Wisdom00:36:22 Supernatural Selection: The Human Capacity for “Religio”00:37:57 “Narrative Turns You Into a Temporally-Extended Agent”00:38:39 Personal Identity is Apriori and Allows for Aspiration00:40:28 “Why A Dog Can Never Tell You About Its Parents…”00:42:44 Mythos: A Psychotechnology for Perennial and Pertinent Patterns00:44:08 Mythos in Action: Predator Emulating Prey00:46:26 “A Dream is a Private Myth; A Myth is a Public Dream”00:48:32 Alchemy Was the Dream from which Science Was Born00:50:27 The Interdependence of The Mythos and The Logos00:51:47 Metabolic Work and Reversal Theory; Goals and Activities00:55:06 Play vs. Candy00:57:06 “Play Relates to The Eternal; Work Relates to The Immortal”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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

Michael Saylor joins me to discuss anthropology, energy, and technology from first principles as we build the intellectual foundation necessary to truly grasp the historic significance of Bitcoin.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMichael's twitter: https://twitter.com/saylorMichael's company: https://www.microstrategy.com/enMichael's website: https://www.hope.com/CHANNELPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8...RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 The Relative Energy and Technology Intensity of Bitcoin Mining00:03:58 Encrypted Energy is Used to Secure the Network00:06:24 Bitcoin Mining Evolves from Energy to Technology Intensity00:09:25 Bitcoin Miners Face Continuous Darwinian Pressures00:12:05 Approaching Bitcoin Mining Peak Energy Consumption?00:14:06 Adam Smithian and Darwinian Aspects are Critical Advantages00:17:48 An Open, Competitive Market is an Honest Market00:19:57 Bitcoin Mining Profitability: A Function of Hash to Hodl Rates00:23:12 The World is in a “Digital Gold Rush” Until 203500:26:48 The Evolution of Bitcoin Mining Business Models00:28:41 Misunderstanding the Economics of Bitcoin Mining00:30:06 Proof of Work is Synchronization with Political and Physical Reality00:33:11 The Layered Scaling of Bitcoin00:37:59 NYDIG00:39:07 The Lightning Network as a Logical Scaling Layer00:42:28 Layer 2 Protocols Tradeoff to Gain Performance or Functionality00:45:19 Centralization and Decentralization at Layer 200:47:27 Higher Layer Applications and Regulatory Compliance00:50:34 The Range of Bitcoin Financial Applications00:54:36 Bitcoin Technical Applications: Mobile Money and Finance01:00:17 Robert's 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?l...All 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/RBree...Dollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=178435...The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=328431...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/bitcoinco...Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3h3lL0jIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMax’s twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMaxMax’s Website: https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/wxB4qDBjfaZNqn9vSidLnn4dGbV/pos 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 Police and the Proportionality of Crime00:04:05 Blurring the Individual into Group Identity00:07:40 An Unshakable Epistemic Foundation00:10:58 Are Children the Property of their Parents?00:13:44 The Legality of Abortion00:16:40 The Rights of Children and Parents00:23:05 A Free Market for, Children!?00:28:12 Libertarian Children are Free to Run Away00:35:43 Implementing Libertarian Philosophy00:39:54 The Free Market Make Families Freer00:44:13 The Legal System: A Measure of Last Resort00:47:56 Blackmail00:53:46 Intellectual Property is a Scam00:56:08 You Don’t Own Your Reputation00:59:58 Libel is Discriminatory Against the Poor01:04:26 NYDIG01:05:34 Bribery: An Asymmetry of Legitimacy01:11:13 “You Have the Right to Slap Bureaucrats”01:17:04 The Evil of Legal Monopolies01:18:33 Boycotts01:25:51 “What About the Roads!?”01:31:39 Property is the Basis of 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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

John Vervaeke joins me for a deep conversation exploring his work as a cognitive scientist and his YouTube lecture series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTJohn’s twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_johnJohn’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaekeJohn’s Lecture Series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY 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?” Intro00:00:05 NYDIG00:01:25 Distributed Cognition Can Be Self-Deceptive00:05:18 Collapse of the Bronze Age and The Logic of Violence00:09:44 Economics of Violence: Knighthood and Gunpowder00:14:26 Insight Machinery: Finding vs. Solving Problems00:16:31 Distributed Cognition: An Adaptive Response of Ancient Man00:19:21 General Systems Collapse00:25:53 Voluntary Exchange and Habermas’s Discourse Ethics00:31:21 Reconciling Science and Religion?00:35:33 The Purposes of Religion?00:39:42 Sacred Canopies: Religion and Money?00:43:37 Assimilating and Accommodating with Religion00:45:01 Religion as Distributed Cognition’s Salience Landscaping00:48:57 Bitcoin as the Lapis Philosophorum00:53:24 “Symbolic Machinery of Identification Changes Behavior”00:57:50 “Now We are Becoming Friends”01:01:52 Theory, Morality, and Virtue Epistemology01:03:36 Personal Transformations through Bitcoin01:07:55 “Software Updates” to Distributed Cognition01:11:37 The Self-Disruption of Social Institutions?01:12:43 The Old Virtue of Being UnderstandingSOCIALBreedlove 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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

Michael Saylor joins me to discuss anthropology, energy, and technology from first principles as we build the intellectual foundation necessary to truly grasp the historic significance of Bitcoin.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMichael's twitter: https://twitter.com/saylorMichael's company: https://www.microstrategy.com/enMichael's website: https://www.hope.com/CHANNELPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8...RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:05 NYDIG00:01:25 The Fourth Layer: Financial00:04:16 Bitcoin Mining’s Capital Intensity Recruits Large Investors00:08:04 The Fifth Layer: The Mining Network00:10:01 Bitcoin Miners as an Early Warning System00:11:35 Bitcoin Miners as “Motors of Sovereignty”00:12:55 The First Five Layers: Inertia, Antifragility, and Capital Attraction00:15:00 “Bitcoin is a Swarm Creature”00:16:43 Proof of Work as a Thermodynamic Bridge Between Worlds00:18:54 The Sixth Layer: Spatial00:20:38 Proof of Work as a Self-Distributing Security Model00:21:28 Proof of Work Self-Decentralizes Away from Attack Vectors00:23:26 The Seventh Layer: Temporal00:24:59 Bitcoin’s Spacetime Parameters: “You Only Get to Play God Once”00:26:29 What Happens if you Change Gravity?00:29:29 “Bitcoin is Like the Granite Underlying Manhattan”00:31:06 The Universal Consequences of Spacetime Constants00:33:17 “A Shockwave is When You Attack the Air Faster than it Moves”00:35:05 “Foolish to Risk the Immortality of Bitcoin for Bigger Blocks”00:36:40 Proof of Stake: A Closed, Controlled, Non-Darwinian System00:39:50 There Are No Successful Proof of Stake Networks00:42:11 Central Banks as Proof of Stake Networks00:44:52 Bitcoin is Both Digital Money and Digital Property00:45:42 Robert's 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?l...All 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/RBree...Dollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=178435...The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=328431...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/bitcoinco...Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3h3lL0jIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMax’s twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMaxMax’s Website: https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/wxB4qDBjfaZNqn9vSidLnn4dGbV/pos 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?” Intro00:00:05 NYDIG00:01:25 Proportionality of Crime and Punishment00:06:54 A Monopoly on Punishment is Inherently Evil00:08:44 The Individual is Responsible for Punishment00:12:06 Relations Between Victims, Perpetrators, and The State00:14:48 Criminal Rehabilitation and Reintegration00:18:08 Bureaucracy Distorts Prices and Property Rights00:20:25 The State is Incentivized to Criminalize Victimless Acts00:22:51 The Emergence of Voluntary Imprisonment?00:26:20 Promises to Perform vs. Transfers of Property00:30:12 The Impossibility of Slave Labor Contracts00:33:36 Conscription is Slavery; Military Desertion is JustSOCIALBreedlove 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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

John Vervaeke joins me for a deep conversation exploring his work as a cognitive scientist and his YouTube lecture series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTJohn’s twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_johnJohn’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaekeJohn’s Lecture Series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY 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?” Intro00:00:05 NYDIG00:01:25 Relating Psychotechnologies and Social Institutions00:06:44 Social Institutions as Algorithms of Distributed Cognition00:11:13 Analogizing the Industrial and Digital Ages00:15:15 Reconfiguring Procedural Intelligence00:18:01 Bureaucratic Rules are Designed to Replace Judgement00:22:38 “Judges as the Philosophers of the Legal System”00:25:37 Spirit Revivifies the Letter; Letter Concretizes the Spirit00:26:15 “Wrestling with the Ontology of Property”00:32:23 Central Banking as an Institution of Standardization00:36:01 Bitcoin is the Incorruptible Standardization of Money00:38:56 Money and Mead’s Generalized Other00:41:47 Keynesian Economics is a Pseudo-Science00:43:42 “A Needed Revision to the Anthropology of Economics”00:48:55 “Science is Corruptible Too…”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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/