Bitcoin Tech Talk #300

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What I've been working on

1. Fiat Knowledge - I wrote a piece as an encouragement to everyone in the community to level up and verify. The problems of centralization are worse than ever because so much knowledge is handed down by authorities and not verified. Real decentralization requires real knowledge. Our brains have to be servers as well as clients.

2. Mimetic Desire - I recorded another episode of my podcast with Johnathan Bi about mimetic desire, with particular focus on Bitcoin. The philosophical world view has captivated my mind the last month or so as I’ve been diving deep into the world of desire and how status and envy play into everything, especially economic decisions. I enjoyed this conversation about why people buy altcoins, the imitation of Vitalik and much more.

3. Austin Bitcoin Club - I spoke on a panel at Bitcoin Commons for the Austin Bitcoin Club this past week. We talked about freedom and how it’s enabled by Bitcoin. The main insight for me is how responsibility is really the flip side oof freedom and you can’t have one without the other. By saving, we learn responsibility and are ready for more freedom and really demand it. Skip to the 1 hr mark to get to the panel.

What I'm up to

1. El Salvador - I will be going to the country next week to teach my seminar to some Salvadorans! I don’t think I’ll have much time to do anything other than the teaching, but if you’re in El Salvador, feel free to propose doing something.

2. CFA Franc - I recorded a podcast with Fode Diop about his experience growing up in Senegal and the injustice of the CFA Franc. Few people know anything about how money is used as a tool of modern day imperialism and Fode shared how the system works to deprive him and his countrymen of their labor and resources. Please have a listen later this week to understand why ending the current central-bank backed fiat monetary system is so important.

3. Fiat Meaning - I’m working on an article for Bitcoin Magazine on this idea that the meaning people derive is constantly debased. I’ve seen childhood dreams slowly degrade from changing the world to hoping for retirement. It’s a sad reality and something I want to explore in the next week or so.

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What I’m Shilling

• Books

  • Bitcoin and the American Dream

  • Thank God for Bitcoin

  • The Little Bitcoin Book

  • Programming Bitcoin

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