Host: Brian Harrington Guest: Trent Dudenhoeffer Record Date: March 17, 2022 Record Location: Remote The 3rd episode in our orange pilled Certified Financial Planner series is Trent Dudenhoeffer of Watchdog Capital. Brian and Trent center the discussion around Trent’s recent article for Bitcoin Magazine about the role of financial advisors in a hyperbitcoinized world. Defining hyperbitcoinization, Trent’s personal Bitcoin budgeting process, and Watchdog Capital are also covered. Trent wraps up w...
Mar 25, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Host: Brian Harrington Guest: Jason Lowery Record Date: February 10, 2022 Record Location: Remote This episode is our most cosmic episode to date (pun intended) with Jason Lowery of MIT and the Space Force. Brian and Jason cover everything from MIT grounded theory analysis, helping no coiners visualize Bitcoin, Bitcoin and property rights, home bitcoin mining with solar, and more! This is also the shortest interview currently available that Jason has done so if you’ve seen his name around and ar...
Mar 18, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Host: Brian Harrington Guest: Mitch, Brian, and Don of Kansas City Bitcoin Meet Up Record Date: February 25, 2022 Record Location: Kansas City, MO The Choice crew had a ton of fun in Kansas City visiting the local Bitcoin meet up. While we were there we sat down with Mitch, Brian, and Don to hear about Bitcoin in their town and asked them about how they all manage their personal finances during these transitionary times. Sign Up for Choice at https://www.choiceapp.io/ https://twitter.com/choiceb...
Mar 11, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Host: Brian Harrington Guest: Sam, My Financial Friend Record Date: January 25, 2022 Record Location: Remote Sam has a wild story of leaving his day job and starting his YouTube channel. So many people learn about Bitcoin and crypto from YouTube that we wanted to really get to know the person behind one of these popular crypto channels. Brian and Sam cover Sam’s journey through working at a bank, investing in the stock market, buying a house, and investing in Bitcoin/crypto. Hit up both Brian an...
Mar 04, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Host: Brian Harrington Guest: Jeff Fenster, CEO of Everbowl Record Date: February 16, 2022 Record Location: Remote In a super public announcement, Jeff Fenster, CEO of Everbowl launched his company onto the Bitcoin standard. Citing “excessive debasement of the US Dollar” among his reasons for making the move the company put it’s reserves into Bitcoin. Everbowl is also pursuing integrating Bitcoin into their company in other ways through giving the option to pay with Bitcoin at their point of sal...
Feb 25, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Host: Brian Harrington Guest: Marty Bent Record Date: February 9, 2022 Record Location: Remote Marty Bent and his co-host Matt Odell have had an immeasurable impact on moving the world from a fiat standard to a Bitcoin standard through their motivating and inspiring podcast Tales from the Crypt. Their show has truly had a big impact on my life and the way that I look at Bitcoin and use Bitcoin for me and my family. In a brief 40 minutes, Marty and I cover how we are the generation that will writ...
Feb 18, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 15
CK is the Managing Director of Bitcoin Magazine and a self avowed personal finance enthusiast. Brian and CK have been going back and forth about Bitcoin and personal finance for a couple years now and we wanted to bring him onto Bitcoin is Hard to get CK’s current Bitcoin budgeting strategy and thoughts. The conversation gets deep quick on the need for financial literacy and ends talking about real estate which is a hot underreported topic in Bitcoin. Hope you enjoy this episode and send any fee...
Feb 11, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Host: Brian Harrington Guest: Joel Valenzuela Record Date: January 20, 2022 Record Location: Remote Joel stopped using a bank account in 2016 and has never looked back. We had to get him on Bitcoin is Hard to tell us about his personal finance journey and his cryptocurrency journey to learn how he does that and makes that life decision work. Joel has a channel on YouTube called the Digital Cash Network and covers lots of different topics around how people are using cryptocurrency as day to day m...
Feb 04, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Host: Brian Harrington Guest: Andrew Begin Record Date: January 19, 2022 Record Location: Twitter Spaces This was our first live recording during our Choice twitter spaces. Andrew Begin from Galoy stopped by to cover his great blog post on lessons learned from Bitcoin Beach. Bitcoin Beach was the tip of the spear several years ago with micro communities beginning to all adopt Bitcoin as money and Galoy came along side them to develop a Bitcoin wallet to match their needs. Andrew and Brian talk a...
Jan 28, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Host: Brian Harrington Guest: Britt Kelly Record Date: January 7, 2022 Record Location: Remote Brian and Britt jammed on BTC Pay Server and talked about Bitcoin budgeting and talked about how the tools that Bitcoiners have available to them have evolved over time. The conversation explores how the tools evolving overtime have had a real impact on how each class of adopters perceive and understand the way that Bitcoin can be used in their personal finances. Sign Up for Choice at https://www.choic...
Jan 21, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Host: Brian Harrington Guest: Trystine Payfer Record Date: January 6, 2022 Record Location: Remote George Gammon has a great quote where he says “investors have gone from having to ask themselves economics questions to having to ask themselves political questions.” Brian is joined by Trystine who is Director of Communications at Riot and a founding member of Sats Center. Trystine has years of experience in public policy and has briefed elected officials of all levels on Bitcoin. This episode cov...
Jan 14, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Host: Brian Harrington Guest: Ryan Gentry Record Date: December 2, 2021 Record Location: Capitol Factory Austin, TX The Choice Crew was on location in Austin, TX for the Bitcoin Block Party put on by Austin Bitcoin Club and Oshi App. Brian was able to sit down with Ryan Gentry of lightning labs for a quick update on all things lightning adoption. Ryan talked about his experience in El Salvador and how its fun seeing lightning adoption happen right here in Austin where he grew up! Sign Up for Cho...
Jan 10, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Host: Brian Harrington Guest: Ryan Radloff, Chief Blinko Officer at Choice Record Date: December 27, 2021 Record Location: Remote For the final episode of Bitcoin is Hard for 2021 Brian sits down with Choice CEO Ryan Radloff to discuss the biggest feature shipped in Choice App in 2021, Blinko, the game that pays you daily sats to pay attention to your retirement savings. Choice is on a mission to fix the savings crisis in America and Blinko is a game on a mission. Thanks to everyone for listenin...
Dec 31, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Host: Brian Harrington Guest: Jason Les Record Date: December 9, 2021 Record Location: Riot Blockchain office, Costa Mesa, CA Brian sits down with Jason Les, CEO of Riot Blockchain. Jason discusses Riot's mission to accumulate as much bitcoin as possible and secure the bitcoin network through proof-of-work mining, a mission that closely aligns with Jason's personal goals as a bitcoiner. Sign Up for Choice at https://www.choiceapp.io/ https://twitter.com/choicebyKT https://discord.gg/f4avvmtUzh h...
Dec 24, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In this episode of Bitcoin is Hard, Brian is in Austin for the Bitcoin Block Party and sits down with John, founder of Bitcoin invoicing software Zaprite. Zaprite was born out of John's need to find a tool for himself to personally get paid in Bitcoin for his freelancing work. As more people saw what he was building, he realized many people also need this solution. Follow: https://twitter.com/john_zaprite https://twitter.com/ZapriteApp Sign-up at: zaprite.com...
Dec 17, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Episode five of Bitcoin is Hard features Liz Wolfe, Associate Editor at Reason Magazine. Liz and Brian talk about an often times central issue to Bitcoin adoption which is capital gains tax. Liz gives a refreshing perspective on the current state of crypto affairs as someone who is in the scene tangentially but not always heavily involved in every up to the minute Bitcoin update. We super appreciate Liz giving us a few minutes of her time and want to create more in roads with non crypto focused ...
Dec 10, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Episode four of Bitcoin is Hard features Isaiah Douglas, financial advisor at Vincere Wealth Management Isaiah is one of a growing number of financial advisor Bitcoiners that can be found on Bitcoin twitter. Brian and Isaiah met while Isaiah was moderating a panel at Coindesk’s recent financial advisor conference. They quickly realized they’re on the same page in terms of thinking about how Bitcoin is becoming more and more central to personal financial decisions and are excited to keep explorin...
Dec 03, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 4
The third episode of Bitcoin is Hard features Kyle Murphy, Co-founder of Austin Bitcoin Club and CEO of Pleb Industries, and Michael Atwood, founder of Oshi App. The two arrived in Austin with one mission in mind: bring bitcoin adoption to their local community by onboarding businesses to bitcoin and through meetups. At the time of recording, Oshi App has onboarded 14 businesses to bitcoin and the team has no plans of slowing down. Brian, Kyle and Michael discuss the grassroots movement in Austi...
Nov 26, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 3
The second episode of Bitcoin is hard is a refreshing conversation with Jim Crider, a financial planner who is also a Bitcoiner. Brian and Jim discuss how the medium term is currently the hardest time frame to plan for and also discuss how having optionality between Bitcoin being a currency or an asset in the future could be a good idea. Sign Up for Choice at https://www.choiceapp.io/ https://twitter.com/choicebyKT https://discord.gg/f4avvmtUzh https://www.instagram.com/choiceapp.io/ https://www...
Nov 19, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 2
The pilot episode of Bitcoin is Hard is a natural recording of a conversation Brian and George had about how Bitcoin is becoming more central to people’s personal finances and how buying real estate is often on the minds of Bitcoiners. George has been a mortgage broker in a past life and laid out a few potential scenarios for the future of these two worlds colliding. Sign Up for Choice at https://www.choiceapp.io/?&utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=anchor https://twitter.com/choicebyKT https...
Nov 09, 2021•11 min•Season 1Ep. 1
