In this episode I talk with Faris Mali about his journey growing up in the Middle East and North Africa, working in the academic world in Australia, and his upcoming book ‘Bitcoin Begins, beginner's guide to money, currency and Bitcoin’.
Faris is the co-host of The Bitcoin Basics Podcast, based out of Nelson, New Zealand and he also runs a company providing info about Bitcoin risk mitigation.
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Links:
Fari Mali's Website + Book Info - https://www.farismali.com/
Bitcoin Basics Podcast - https://bitcoinbasics.help/
Muhammad Yunus (Is credited with the idea of microcredit) - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammad-Yunus
The Social Dilemma (Film) - https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan (Book) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30689343-the-silk-roads
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher (Book) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6763725-capitalist-realism
In this episode I speak with Mikey Smith, a Kiwi Bitcoiner working in the world of mortgages and finance. Mikey gives some perspectives on the New Zealand housing situation, the slow train wreck that is the Government, and what the longer term outlook might be for the country. We also dive into personal responsibility, creating value, and fishing off of Norfolk Island.
Dr. Murray Rudd is an environmental economics and policy researcher by training and now Science Advisor for Satoshi Action Education, providing input on economics and environmental science as it relates to Bitcoin. We discuss Murray’s background and work, his new project The Bitcoin Distillery, which is a resource for following and understanding developments in Bitcoin. Finally we explore the way the academic world can engage with Bitcoin in terms of research and collaboration opportunities.
I talk with Christian Lewe from Blockstream Research. Christian is working on Simplicity, a more robust programming language designed as an alternative to Bitcoin Script. The project that has been in the works for over ten years and has been described by Adam Back as “the last soft fork”, and as Christian shares, enabling simplicity could bypass a lot of the contentious soft fork discussions about things like covenants as this functionality is possible with Simplicity.
I talk with Konrad Hurren, a New Zealand Economist. We cover a lot of topics, looking at Austrian economics and how it can be considered in a New Zealand context, the challenges and inherent biases with trying to measure an economy with things like GDP and CPI, and the difference between the science and practice of economics.