In this wide-ranging chat with Phil Gibson aka Mr Pseu the host of podcast A Boy Named Pseu, we wax philosophically about music, culture & freedom in society today, our love for musical earworms, music as a universal language, his Bitcoin rabbit hole story & how Bitcoin is a beautiful & poetic response to the 2008 crisis & not just a random occurence & so much more in this free-flowing conversation I had with one of the freshest & dopest Bitcoiners around.
May 29, 2021•1 hr 48 min•Season 1Ep. 57
In this engaging conversation, Brady Swenson the Head of Education at Swan Bitcoin & fellow Bitcoin podcaster joins me to discuss: - The significance of Satoshi's disappearance - Bitcoin as pushback against fiat - How civilization doesn't work without money - Lessons learned from the Roman Empire - Bitcoin as the future foundation for the empowerment of individual expression - His experience in the Peace Corps, starting Citizen Bitcoin, joining Swan & his rabbit hole story - & more...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 56
In this deep & wide ranging chat, David Bailey the CEO of Bitcoin Magazine & I discuss going from a hodler to a builder, what keeps him up at night, challenges that force you to figure out who you are, the Bitcoin 2021 conference, piles of Venezuelan cash to take home, Sumo wrestling for Taproot activation, his rabbit hole story, replacing the monetary system with one that is free & open to all, transforming society for a millenium, how revolutions don't pause for a pandemic & so...
May 24, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 55
In this fresh & timely chat, Flip from Bitcoin Magazine & I discuss: - A very exciting day in Bitcoin, $10k candles & Elon Musk - Bitcoin 2021 FOMO, surprises & anticipation - Bitcoin as a ubiquitous data layer - Proof of existence, decentralized identity & sparse data - How Bitcoin is really a global database for deriving truth - Working at a media company squarely in the middle of a financial revolution - His rabbit hole story & how Bitcoin made him think deeply about f...
May 20, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 54
In this insightful & endearing conversation with Mir Liponi, the Godmother of Italy's Bitcoin Community, co-founder of the BHB Network & former CEO of Satoshi Design, we discuss her article Bitcoin & Motherhood, the history of the Bitcoin scene in Europe, the Milan Protocol, always doing the best thing for Bitcoin, how Bitcoin is for normal people & what a better future for our children in a Bitcoin world would look like. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did....
May 19, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Nick Neuman & Jameson Lopp, CEO & CTO of Casa join me to talk about the world of multi-signature, hardware wallets, personal security & more. We discuss: - The dos & don'ts of Bitcoin key management & security - The differences between wallet types - The spectrum of security options - The tradeoffs between security & convenience - Hardware wallets, paper wallets, multi-sig, seeds vs seedless, decoy wallets, honeypots & the $5 wrench attack - How Casa secures your bitc...
May 18, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Justin Rhedrick is best known as the Bitcoin Vegan & a Bitcoin Educator. After getting released from prison, Justin was tired of running the rat race, the seemingly never-ending paycheck to paycheck cycle & that’s when he decided to learn about Bitcoin. We discuss: - His opportunities & plans coming out of prison - Breaking cycles - Mindset of an early adopter - How to stop caring about obstacles - Levelling up & staying the course - How there is no privilege here - & more...
May 17, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Erik Cason is a crypto-anarchist, makarismos, & iconoclast thinker writing about the social ramifications of bitcoin & the Director of Client Services at Unchained Capital. We discuss: - The place of law in society - Who gets to create the exception - How Bitcoin creates a new social contract - The perpetual & exceptional state of emergency since WW2 - Bitcoin as the base layer for a new kind of commonwealth - The secret nature of the war against you - Blinding the sovereign - & ...
May 08, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Greg Foss has over 30 years experience in high-yield credit trading & capital structure arbitrage. We sit down to discuss: - High yield trading, credit default swaps & Bitcoin as the Anti-Fiat - Why Bitcoin is extremely cheap default insurance & the best asymmetric trade - The wholesale transfer of risk to government - If the next financial crisis is the last - How there is no other buyer of last resort - 2008 GFC, The Big Short, QE, TARP, bailouts, LTCM, CBDCs & pension funds - ...
May 04, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Knut Svanholm author of Sovereignty through Mathematics, Independence Reimagined, Everything There is Divided by 21 Million Bitcoin & Bitcoin & the Separation of Money & State calls in to discuss: - Bitcoin is a mathematical battery & positive force for humanity - The connection between central banking, statism & nationalism - The State as a network in the way that Cancer is a network - How something born of the internet is taking hold of the physical world outside of it - At...
May 02, 2021•2 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Gigi, author of 21 Lessons, What I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole, Bitcoin is Time & Proof of Life sits down to discuss: - Bitcoin as a force away from a centralized structure - perfect error correction in the digital world - Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment as the magic sauce - can privacy be reclaimed - Bitcoin as a form of speech - how speech is inherently linked to value - time as a non sensical concept - is time even real - is Bitcoin alive - & so much more...
Apr 24, 2021•2 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Marty Bent, Editor in Chief of Marty’s Bent, Host of Tales from the Crypt & bringing market to molecule at Great American Mining sits down to discuss: - Harvesting organic waste fuels while securing the world’s first engineered monetary network aka Bitcoin - The moralization of energy cosumption - Government overreach - The amount of energy it takes to secure the US Dollar - Bitcoin, Covid, Dave Portnoy, Barstool Sports, Coinbase, Ben Hunt, Clubhouse & his outlook for 2021 - & so muc...
Apr 19, 2021•1 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Mark Yusko, Founder, CEO & CIO of Morgan Creek Capital & the Managing Partner of Morgan Creek Digital Assets sits down to discuss: - the difference between price & value - hanging out with the bad guys - the importance of conviction - cash as an investment - the mathematics of loss - the 3:15 train problem- the fads, the frauds & the phonies - demographics as destiny - in & out politics - how money over IP is a substantive, transformative, technological advance - & much m...
Apr 15, 2021•1 hr 58 min•Season 1Ep. 45
In this episode, I sit down with Max Hillebrand, the Rothbardian Crypto Anarchist, Sound Money Agorist, Free software entrepreneur building Bitcoin defensive weapons of war at Wasabi Wallet to discuss: - What the State Is Not - What the State Is - How the State Preserves Itself - Is Science the New God of the State - How the State Transcends Its Limits - The Use of Intellectuals by the State - What the State Fears - How States Relate to One Another - History as a Race Between State & Social ...
Apr 11, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 44
In this episode, Cedric sits down with Isaiah Jackson, author of Bitcoin & Black America to discuss: - the effects of the Federal Reserve & inflation on the Black middle class - the relationship between Black America & the media - the Golden Age of Black businesses & entrepreneurship - the circulation of the Black dollar - the state of household wealth in black america - how the Black community should prepare for the next 100 years - & so much more...
Apr 04, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 43
In this special episode, Cedric sits down with Vijay Boyapati to discuss his seminal piece, The Bullish Case for Bitcoin. We discuss: - digital scarcity & how to value monetary goods - why do humans value scarcity - how money evolves through four stages - path dependence, Gartner hype cycles & the standard S curve - is this the final cycle - the real threats to Bitcoin - the future value of Bitcoin - the moral case for Bitcoin - & so much more...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Race car driver and former professional baseball pitcher C.J. Wilson zooms in to discuss: - Dealing with setbacks and playing through pain - Life as a game and a series of calculated bets - Not letting anything get in your way - His Bitcoin rabbit hole story (of course) - 10 ways to be an All Star Bitcoiner - and much more Need to starting stacking sats or looking for the best place to DCA. Here's $10 of free Bitcoin to get you started: www.swanbitcoin.com/CedricYoungelman/...
Mar 22, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Kiara Bickers, author of Bitcoin Clairity: The Complete Beginners Guide to Understanding Bitcoin sits down with Cedric to discuss: - the challenges to understanding Bitcoin - separating technical concepts from industry jargon - finding the signal in the noise - control loops & feedback - the magic of double entry accounting & double think - how full nodes & miners are similar to the manager worker relationship - the alchemy of mining - the potential dangers of blockchains - and much ...
Mar 20, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Stephan Livera sits down with Ced to explore Austrian Economics from the Bitcoiners Perspective. We discuss: - How did government intervention make money what it is today - Is the government drinking your milkshake - How does number go up technology really work - Does fiat remove the future consequences of our bad decisions - How does soft money cut against the role of the family & community - What are the issues with fractional reserve banking - Is this the final cycle - & much, much, m...
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Ced sits down with Jordan Bush, co-author of Thank God For Bitcoin to explore the ways in which the current monetary system is broken & what can be done to fix it. We look at how Bitcoin is redeeming the ills of society & how the ongoing transition to sound money is a source of hope for a broken world.
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 51 min•Season 1Ep. 38
In this deep & wide ranging conversation with John Vallis, the host of the Bitcoin Rapid Fire podcast we sit down to discuss the most important virtues in his life: truth, freedom, curiosity, possibility & how after an unforgettable year, he's most bullish on Bitcoiners. John Vallis is cool as fuck and this chat with him was such a blast. Just fuck me already Bitcoin.
Feb 23, 2021•2 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 37
In this wide ranging chat with Christopher Gimmer, the co-founder of Bitbo.io & Snappa.com we discuss how to turn your life into a giant flywheel and: - Why Snappa is holding Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset - Why it pays to play the long game - Building a great team - Scaling to $1M ARR with a marketing flywheel - Purchasing the Snappa.com domain for $40,000 - Co-founding Snappa: from idea to product market fit - & so much more...
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 48 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Author of Grokking Bitcoin, Kalle Rosenbaum joins Ced to discuss: - How does the Bitcoin network prevent cheating - What is a cryptographic function & is it a defensive weapon of war - Will government punish their people harshly for using Bitcoin & how bloody and violent will it get - How cyptographic tools & encryption are the only ways to maintain privacy and security during the age of big brother -- Hard forks vs soft forks - Backwards compatability vs forward compatitability - &a...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Cedric sits down with @Bitstein, founder of the Nakamoto Institute, co-host of Noded podcast & the meme lord himself to discuss: - How to meme Bitcoin to the moon - Who wants to scam your Bitcoin - Why we relish the Federal Reserve's absurd actions - Praxeology and rejecting certain forms of activism for pragmatic reasons - How to reframe, agree and amplify and then completely dominate it on social media - His call for ethical trolling - The rejuvenation of the Great American West - How to c...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 53 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Robert Breedlove sits down with Ced to discuss: - Is Bitcoin the incorruptible substance that alchemists strived for - How the Central Bank is the greatest institution of tyranny in human history & will Bitcoin disrupt it - Why ancient wisdom such as yoga, meditation & pyschedelics like ayahausca are making a return - How property rights are the expression of the human territorial imperative - Can we be sovreeign on a Fiat Standard? - How inflation is a cancer on the socioeconomic & ...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Jimbo, the author of Orange Coin Good: The Value of Bitcoin sits down with Cedric to discuss: - Why green paper is bad - How money really enters the system - How have humans prevented cheating throughout history - The role of reciprocity in human evolution and behavior - What is the perspective of a holder - How scarcity is the feeling of not having enough of something - The invention of digital rivalry - How we measure the value of the things that we buy - How Bitcoin is the thing against which...
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Yuri de Gaia, Partner at BTC Reserve HQ, Founder of Liquiditi HQ, host of Citadelium, Bitcoin blogger and author of Bitcoin as a Sucession Tool sits down with Cedric to discuss: - How to deal with Imposter Syndrome - How do you build your inner Citadel - Is there an end to material desire - How Bitcoiners are better people - Does Bitcoin changes your brain and habits - How to scam the planet using neuralistic and subliminal messaging via material perceptions - What is the difference between the ...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 31
In this wide-ranging conversation with the co-founder of the website, blog and meme WTF Happened in 1971? Ben Prentice and Cedric discuss: - The history of coin clipping - What the temptation to money printing must be like - Is their a 500 year Central Banking cabal - The history of bank holidays and the suspension of the redemption of specie - What is the most scary thing to people in power - Central Banking monetary colonialism and the next 100 years - What is the biggest problem with inflatio...
Jan 11, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Nico is a Venezuelan American entrepreneur who found himself immediately drawn to Bitcoin because of the immense implications the technology has to change the world and himself. Nico and Ced chat about: - Getting everything he ever wanted growing up - How the 2008 financial crisis changed everything for him - Dealing with loss through escapism - Bitcoin gave him reason to get up - Why he dropped out of college and flew to Venezuela - Why his Uncle was mining in the Venezuelan "bush" with generat...
Jan 05, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Dominic Frisby author of Life After The State, Bitcoin: The Future Of Money, and magnum opus Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future zooms in with Cedric to discuss: - Why does every Cuban father want his daughter to be a prostitute - His journey down the goldbug and libertarianism rabbit hole in 2005/2006 - How humans learn best through the spoken word and ear - The hunt for Satoshi - Are we freer now - Were we freer in The Stone Age - How technology enables us - Ho...
Jan 04, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 28
