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Ben Jarvie is a writer and kiwi Bitcoiner working for Amber App, a Bitcoin-only exchange.
We talk about Ben’s recent travels to El Salvador and Madeira, and we reflect on the declining situation of my beloved home country, New Zealand, and in particular the economic violence that the State and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand continues to unleash upon the people through its egregious manipulation of the money.
But that said, we know that Bitcoin fixes this, and we are here to build bridges and meet people where they are at!
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Links:
Previous episode with Ben - https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/maori-sovereignty-and-self-determination-through-bitcoin-with-ben-jarvie
Amber App - https://amber.app/
Reserve Bank considers the digital dollar: 'NZ's money must innovate to stay relevant' - https://archive.md/wip/QLHtP
The Crypto Sovereignty Project by Erik Cason - https://cryptosovereignty.org/
NZ On Nostr - https://primal.net/p/npub1fvzm7pn3p0hjxkdvsdlc2lyjew02xhsnsr9pw2pj9f4zzas0gjxs3er9hy
The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/588138
BIP 85 deterministic entropy info - https://bip85.com/
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert L. Moore, Douglas Gillette - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/91781
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