“Imagine, everything there is and everything that will ever be , divided by 21 million” @knutsvanholm I’m going to do something a bit different with these show notes. I’m giving you the questions we had for Knut, to let you be the judge of whether we stuck to the script. I hope the answer is “somewhat”, but I also hope you enjoy the off-script chat as well: Q1. Are you still a pleb? Q2. What was the lightbulb moment for you in the Infinity / 21m idea? Q3. What is toxic maximalism? (The shitcoine...
May 01, 2022•1 hr 50 min
We’ve recovered from the visit of Fozz (just) and we’re back with a Hats and Brendo, giving you our opinion (we know nobody asked for it) on this week in Bitcoin and the drama on Twitter. We cover: Being a scammer being a pre-requisite of operating a bank in the UK. Why you should never use PayPal, or at least never hold any significant value there. Earning Bitcoin on Fold via the Spin Squad. use.foldapp.com/r/ALTHXAUK (referral link which will give you 5000 free sats) Guy Swann’s wizard scar. h...
Apr 25, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 39
We love the internet. We love Bitcoin. But we also love the real world, and there’s nothing better than hanging out with proper bitcoiners in meatspace. *WARNING* This one gets messy. Fozz arrived armed with beer and port, I may have chipped in with one of the good whiskies (I give the cheap stuff to the normies), and Brendo contributed nothing and stacked sats instead (not true, he now has his own beer shelf in my fridge!) The language gets colourful, and the slurs get worse as we go. You’ve be...
Apr 17, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Based on the feedback (1 person told us once) you love Hats and Brendo episodes. So, by “popular demand”, here’s another one. It’s taken me 5 days to get this one out, so I’d imagine it’s all irrelevant by now, but you’re going to listen anyway, so here’s what you’re going to hear: Is criticism of Bitcoin 2022 warranted Stable coins. Tokens pegged to fiat! Don’t do it. Macro fire from Lawrence Lepard The Powell Pivot Blaming Bitcoin for an economic crash Cancelling debt MMT is here in Australia ...
Apr 12, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Hats: “I know nothing about audio mate, have you got that covered?” Brendo: “Sure. I’m your man” Hats: *facepalm emoji [Apologies (particularly to Albert) for the sound quality on this one, but the content is good.] You may have seen Albert (@bitcoin_hostel) go viral recently, with his “We are building a Bitcoin Hostel at one of the most beautiful beaches in Europe” tweet. We wanted to get him on the pod to tell you the full story. It’s exciting, and what’s more, you can be part of making it hap...
Apr 06, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 36
We’re out of isolation and back in the dungeon. So basically, I’ve just walked down the stairs and Brendo’s allowed to visit again. The rock and roll lifestyle of a Bitcoin podcaster. We can’t all be influencers, I guess. As usual we hit all the big topics: Surviving covid Floods in Australia “cHAnge thE CoDE” If you’ve got 100,000 sats you’ve got enough (but get more) Jack Mallers and Apple Should Bitcoin Magazine give a platform to scammers Pragmatism Who we reject from the pod Quadriga QX Kra...
Apr 01, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 35
If you’ve been listening to us recently, you can’t have missed us waxing lyrical about Fountain app ( www.fountain.fm ), so, we were delighted that Oscar Merry accepted our invitation to come on and tell us all about it. We were aware of some of the implications of podcasting 2.0, but this episode will give you an insight into Oscar’s vision for the future and how we all benefit. We talk about: The Bitcoin back-story starts with a tech/engineering background, the ignored introduction by a friend...
Mar 26, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 34
We first met Sven at the inaugural Bush Bash at Murrurundi, and have been following his work since then. I’m sure you’ll have seen some of it on Twitter or heard about it on other pods, but if not, go check out his feed @StarfuryFlames. Here’s a high-level rundown of the topics covered, in a refreshingly open, honest and personal conversation: The story and meaning behind the Twitter handle. Falling deep and quickly into Bitcoin in 2017, coming with a libertarian mindset and a software engineeri...
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Brendo is on tour, and he left me in the dungeon. So much for teamwork! But we didn’t want to let our loyal fans (both of you) down, so the show must go on. General ramblings again tonight. Here’s the talking points (apologies for Brendo’s filthy mouth): Was Adam Back an extra on NCIS 80% good pod. 15% abysmal pod. 5% private Lightning over Fountain podcasting Why everything will stream Sats Value for Value Perth Heat and why we should all be buying their merchandise NZ protests and us being des...
Mar 07, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 32
It really is fun to sit down to record a pod and have no idea what direction it’s going to go. This week we predominantly discussed library policies. I know, I know that sounds unbelievably depressing, but I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised...seriously! If that’s not for you, then maybe something else from the following list will be: Brendo looking tired and my hair looking amazing. My struggle orange-pilling my family, and everyone at Brendo’s work being sick of him. Why we laugh like Muttl...
Feb 28, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Interview time again, and this week I’m out of my depth, while Brendo shines! I know...who’d have guessed?! Our guest is @BitcoinSampo, and we’re delighted to go international again. We want to hear perspectives from all over the world and get out of our own echo chamber. So, we’re (virtually) off to Finland. Despite sounding like an assassin, Sampo is a prolific Twitter poster about both Bitcoin and human rights. An English teacher by profession, he currently operates a small business that offe...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Hat’s and Brendo episode tonight guys...switch off now if you hate these ones. Kidding, of course, and thanks for coming on this journey with us. As usual, it’s just the 2 of us riffing on the current news stories and how they affect Bitcoin...or should that be how Bitcoin affects them. We cover: The “hot asian chick who wants to know how our trade is going”. Podcast 2.0 Brendo’s thought process Hats in the bath Episode BTC065 of the We Study Billionaires podcast: What does the BIS, IMF and Worl...
Feb 18, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Justin is the education, content and privacy lead at HardBlock (the oldest Bitcoin only exchange in Australia), helping no-coiners become bitcoiners and bitcoiners become self-sovereign and privacy conscious. But – perhaps more importantly – he is a psychologist who is bringing those skills into the Bitcoin economy. We’ve been wanting to do pod about depression/hope/desperation/purpose for a while now, but (understandably) no one has wanted to come on the pod to open themselves up to that. So, t...
Feb 13, 2022•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 28
We squeezed in a quick Hats and Brendo before we spoke to @DazBea1. We discuss: Rogan (190 million downloads a month) and free speech. Why is he being cancelled now? The vast majority of people are afraid, and that fear is being exploited. Removing your content from Spotify purely for engagement. The ongoing saga with Bitbo. Brendo’s low time preference chest freezer for Hats the cow (resilience), dryer and using as much energy as he can. Next up a Bitcoin miner. 2 Bit Idiots is (almost) availab...
Feb 08, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 27
If you could pick a skill set to hit the ground running in Bitcoin, you’d struggle to be ‘luckier’ than Daz. A sparky by trade, with a science degree in engineering, experience in marketing, an interest in macroeconomics, an ability to communicate (written and spoken) and an all-round good bloke...he’s a Venn diagram of a bitcoiner. He started stacking in March 2020 – coming from the value investing angle (ht Preston Pysh) and has contributed lots already since he spends “most of my waking time”...
Feb 06, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Feels like a while since we’ve done a Hats and Brendo. Let’s be honest, the guest shows are better, BUT these are the ones where we just muck about, say whatever garbage comes into our heads and see if we can trigger each other. It’s a lot of fun. We can’t even promise it’s always going to be Bitcoin related (even though everything is if you try hard enough). In this we discuss: Water parks, CrossFit, old-man injuries and the noise you make getting into a bean bag. Brutal honesty. Why Star Trek ...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 25
This one is an open riff with a fellow pleb. There was no agenda and no list of questions to get through. Brisket is a beef maximalist. He was a bitcoiner waiting for Bitcoin, when he was introduced via the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Shawn Baker, Zach Bitter with Saifedean Ammous and Michael Goldstein as guests (Episode 28). As a self-described “fat bastard” we talk about his 10-year journey trying to figure out his best diet and how carnivore was the last one he tried and the one t...
Jan 21, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Richard James (@rjames_BTC) is best known in Bitcoin circles as the creator of the films Hard Money, Petrodollars and Anatomy of the State, but he’s also a small business owner from Melbourne, Australia who holds his balance sheet in Bitcoin. He’s a proper bitcoiner! We first met Richard at the Murrurundi Bitcoin Bush Bash, where unfortunately Brendo let us all down with his audio skills 😉 and the quality was just not good enough to include in the roundup. So, we wanted to make up for it and si...
Jan 15, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Owen is a bitcoiner and cattle farmer who we first met at the Bitcoin Bush Bash in 2020. He gave a Bitcoin for Beginners presentation then and followed that with a Regenerative Agriculture presentation in 2021. There’s no better way to learn about something than to see it for yourself, so Brendo and I jumped in the car and headed north to visit the farm and see his farming philosophy in action. We met his Mum, Jordy the dog (named after Jordan Peterson) and the cows. If lunch is anything to go b...
Jan 06, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Happy New Year. Hope you’ve all survived hanging out with your normie family, and that you’re suitably refreshed and ready to smash it in 2022. If you like hearing us ramble about nothing in particular, this is the show for you! As well as talking about the disgraceful state Brendo got himself into at New Year, we also talk about: Orange-pilling another neighbour, learning to follow your gut instincts and where to send people first Do price drops test your resolve Why all price predictions, hero...
Jan 03, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 21
We lied to you. We said we would do interview/us/interview/us and it’s been all interviews recently. It’s hard to say no to people though, and it’s great to get other people’s perspectives to help you refine your own. We hope you’ve enjoyed them too. This week, however, it’s back to just the 2 idiots in the garage, with very little preparation, just spit-balling about Bitcoin. You could say that the lack of preparation was lazy (and you’d be right), but it also means you get our genuine opinions...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 20
Once you truly see the potential in Bitcoin, you go all in, and don’t look back. This week, we learn from THE Bitcoin Baseball team’s CBO (Chief Bitcoin Officer) Patrick O’Sullivan, that the first movers are Perth Heat. www.bitcoinperthheat.com We go right back to the start of Patrick’s Bitcoin story – the first Christmas lunch orange-pilling – all the way to his appointment as CBO, and what that means for the team. We discuss: His research, self-directed education and conscious decision to shar...
Dec 12, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 19
The weekend was awesome, the audio is appalling. As I frequently remind him, Brendo is responsible for the audio, so please direct complaints his way. I’ll not doxx anyone here, but just summarise to say 40-50 bitcoiners rocked up to Murrurundi (rural New South Wales) for the 4th bush bash. It’s the first time we’ve returned to a town, and we’ll definitely be back. There are also ‘bashes’ in Beechworth (VIC) and Yeppoon (QLD). We’d love to see TAS, SA, WA, ACT and NT events as well. Special ment...
Dec 09, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Actually no, that’s not strictly true... Brendo has a troll. Call us naïve, but what better way to engage than to invite him on the pod. And it turns out, we all got on well. Why? Because we’re all bitcoiners, that’s why. Frankly, I wish Brendo had got a harder time, but apart from a few sly digs, BowDog let him off easy. 😉 This was a fun one for us. We spoke about: How we all come in from different angles (BowDog came the Austrian economics route) but arrive at the same place. Remembering the ...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 17
The giants of Bitcoin Australia just keep showing up on the 2-Bit Idiots pod, and there is no better than WizardofAus. I’m also pleased to say it was our first meatspace interview, as Wiz joined us for a BBQ (before the mics were turned on) and whisky (while they were on). The pod had 2 main topics - Security and the Bitcoin Bush Bash: Security Security is a journey. Having Bitcoin is better than not having Bitcoin. You don’t need to be running a 3 of 5 multi-sig, with multiple hardware devices ...
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Hats and Brendo shoot the shit about all things Bitcoin. This week we cover: Elon Musk, THAT Twitter poll, unrealised capital gains and could he be selling stock to buy Bitcoin. Are FAANG stocks becoming yesterday’s news. Tim Cook is now holding Bitcoin (and eTh) but Apple has no plans to purchase. We talk about when that will change and whether it’ll be company led, or shareholder forced. Hats says that Laser Eyes are a shitcoin, and it didn’t go down well. Why wildly swinging markets are your ...
Nov 12, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Quick fire pods this week, and this time our guest is @MattSenter , CTO, Co-Founder of Lolli.com and Jason Mamoa lookalike. Mostly based in North Carolina and launched in 2018, Lolli is a service which requires no technical skills, but allows people to earn Bitcoin rewards whilst shopping online, without having to buy it directly. Through their browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari), iOS app (with Android beta testing shortly) or website, Lolli generates leads for a retailer, for ...
Nov 09, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 14
When you sit down with a Scotsman to talk Bitcoin, the conversation inevitably turns to freedom. We start with a shout-out to Haggis’ meatspace mate @anaveragesalmon who helped his transition from “buying Bitcoin to speculate in a myth” to becoming a “freedom coin stacker”. Haggis tells us how during the first lockdown in Scotland he turned to Bitcoin education (multi-tasking with podcasts and being one of the plebs on Twitter) day and night to learn “what Bitcoin is, what it can do and what it ...
Nov 07, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 13
We have a couple of guests over the weekend, so thought we’d squeeze in an extra ‘Hats and Brendo’ episode for you. We riff on: The Commonwealth Bank (Australia’s biggest bank with 15.9 million customers) announcing they are adding ‘digital assets’ to their banking app, and why that’s a good and a bad thing. Why no one likes a guy without a cake. Coinbase adding up to $1m Bitcoin collateralised loans. We discuss why that brings the Michael Saylor speculative attack opportunity to everyone. Why f...
Nov 04, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Hats and Brendo riff on all things that have caught their attention this week in Bitcoin. Why technology is difficult, and why that’s no different in Bitcoin. If you find it easy, you must become the go-to person in your friend and family group. Toxic Brendo trends on Twitter Business and Finance and tells us why he looks through all financial advice books for mentions of Bitcoin, and why most of the content is crap. If you want a list of good Bitcoin books, go to www.bitcoin-first.com/learn We ...
Oct 30, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 11
