I speak with Andrew L. Wilson, Author and Professor of History of Christianity as well as a Bitcoiner and host of The Disentanglement Podcast, exploring privacy tech and the surveillance state.
We talk about infrastructure, AI, money, and democracy: the challenges of our generation.
We also discuss an article that Andrew wrote from before he knew about Bitcoin, about local currencies and circular economies that has some interesting parallels.
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BTC Prague Link - https://btcprague.com/?promo_id=19708&key=8847c7d6a512fc3cbdb9abf3d64045d9
Here I Walk: A Thousand Miles on Foot to Rome with Martin Luther Andrew L. Wilson - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28280211-here-i-walk
The Disentanglement Podcast - https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5245113
Danchi Dreams: Japanese Public Housing - https://danchi-dreams.com/
Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better Lyn Alden - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197566578-broken-money
Why Everything is Becoming a Game - https://www.gurwinder.blog/p/why-everything-is-becoming-a-game
Does your Town need its own Currency? - https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/7/20/does-your-town-need-its-own-currency
Grid Brief - https://www.gridbrief.com/
Doomberg Substack - https://substack.com/@doomberg
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America Colin Woodard - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11140803-american-nations
Cain The Oricle is a freelancer visual designer who has recently worked with Fedi on their launch and conference brand identity design. We discuss the importance of creativity alongside the technological and monetary revolution that is Bitcoin. We talk about the role of art, whether it is visual, writing or music, to communicate and reflect big ideas back to society. We also talk about how artists can be empowered by Bitcoin thinking through self-patronage and the ability to work on meaningful long-term projects and get away from the fiat grind.
Brandon Bucher is a Bitcoiner based in New Zealand working on several Bitcoin-related projects and an important figure in the local Kiwi Bitcoin community. We zoom out to discuss the recent high on-chain transaction fees, and what we can expect from discussions about scaling solutions moving forward. We talk about how rough consensus works for making changes to Bitcoin and what the situation was like during the period of the Blocksize Wars and SegWit activation from 2015 to 2017. Finally we discuss the importance of education and support for self-custody of bitcoin.
Jason Crowe is a business leader who has worked with Iconic New Zealand product brands such as phil&teds, Garage Project, and Goodnature. We discuss Jason’s time working in the banking world and his decision to leave it, as well as how he has come to understand Bitcoin and how it impacts business and finance.Finally we talk about the proof of work of sports and how athletes and sports teams may be able to incorporate Bitcoin thinking into the way they fund and organise themselves, and our new search to find New Zealand’s top Bitcoin sportsperson.
I speak with Antony Dapiran, a prominent Australian lawyer and award-winning author, who has become widely known for his writing and commentary on the protest movement in Hong Kong and the reaction from the State. We talk about his book City On Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong, we explore the history of the city and its unique monetary and political situation, as well as the role of censorship, Bitcoin, freedom technology, and more.
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.