2-Bit Idiots
By StackingHats & BitcoinBrendo
Normal people tell the story of how they found the greatest money ever invented. Contact www.twitter.com/2BitIdiots if you'd like to come on as a guest.
Hosted by:
www.twitter.com/StackingHats and www.twitter.com/BitcoinBrendo
More info:
www.2bitidiots.com
2-Bit IdiotsJan 15, 2022
EP100 Not Out
Thanks Idiots
It's been...emotional. Onwards.
#Bitcoin
EP99: For The Kids - Bitcoin Art Competition Winners
This is the big one!
Today, we put some Bitcoin (1,432,047 Satoshis to be precise) in the hands of kids. It’s theirs, they own it, and we don’t have any say in how they save it or spend it.
I’ll not spoil the results here, but I do have some thankyous to give.
The Artists and their Parents
Bowdog Jr; Charlotte; Jasper; Evie; Harriet; Niels; Regan; India; Luna; Archer; Sabine; Frankie; Sena; Bellemy; Claudia; Samuel; and, Ava.
The Judges
Our kids
Those who kindly donated.
With a special mention to:
Scott, Mallory and Charlotte from www.shamory.com
HaggisHodl and AnAverageSalmon whose generosity kicked this off
The Inspiration
Pixel and Paul
To see the winning entries, go to:
EP98: Weekend at Bernie's
We’ve always wanted to do an “Orange Pill Live” episode, to test our abilities in answering the questions of a precoiner and to see if (during the course of a podcast) we could convince someone to buy themselves their first Bitcoin.
That was the intention of this episode, but in the time it’s taken us to schedule the pod with Bernie, he’d already got himself off zero!
However, Bernie is Brendo’s mate, so we thought we’d go ahead with the call and press record anyway, and only publish it if we thought it might help someone out there.
It turns out, Bernie has gone from zero to well down the road of hero in 2 short months, but he gave us a great perspective on the issues and questions a new Bitcoiner has right now.
We discuss:
Bulked-up Brendo
“Crypto” misconceptions
What made Bernie take the first step into Bitcoin
The challenge of buying a home and deposit requirements
University (HECS) debt indexation
Lack of government support, lies about inflation, stimulus cheques, UBI and something having changed
Trying to outrun inflation
Savings accounts, stocks, risk taking and having a go
What Bernie did practically when he decided to buy some Bitcoin
Hot and Cold wallets
Understanding a non-physical asset
Personal responsibility, 2FA and key storage
Steel Seedplates
Speaking in Bitcoin or Sats
The gradually then suddenly event horizon
Volatility, risk taking and bag pumping
Rewards programmes
Why does Bitcoin crash and is it a buying opportunity
Murrurundi golf
Pod Shout-outs
HardBlock
https://www.hardblock.com.au/join/hats
The Bitcoin Adviser (Peter Dunworth)
*** Get your first 3 months free with The Bitcoin Adviser when you use referral code "SECURE" at www.thebitcoinadviser.com/contact
Bitcoin Bush Bash
Contact Us
EP97: Dunworth Squared
*** Get your first 3 months free with The Bitcoin Adviser when you use referral code "SECURE" at www.thebitcoinadviser.com/contact
If you’ve not heard Peter Dunworth’s valuation model for Bitcoin (frankly, what are you doing with your life), go back and listen to episodes 70 and 77, but although he’s been spruiking it all over town and asking someone to challenge it, no one has...until now.
We, completely unfairly invited Pete back on under false pretences and then hit him with “his nemesis waiting in the green room”. We wanted to see if we could shake his conviction or rattle his composure. Listen to find out if we could.
Settle in with a coffee. This is long one. We discuss:
Exponential rise of Bitcoin and fall of Fiat
Positioning and wealth preservation
The distinction between risk and volatility
Resistance to change
The opportunity of buying in a SMSF
The importance of mobile
Kids with Bitcoin wallets
Never needing a bank account
Blackrock, ETF’s and what does Larry Fink
Liquidity drain
Client’s will demand Bitcoin exposure from their financial adviser
Banking restrictions
Why does the bull run ever stop and the point of no return
Taking profit, a risk on behaviour
What happens when AI and the machines start draining liquidity
Why ransomware only ever wants Bitcoin
Uber
ELI5 and ELI2
The Bitcoin Adviser
Starved of original thought
Unit bias
Moving towards self-actualisation
Lambos and Yachts
Holy Moly and It’s a Knockout
An App Store for Keys
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/MichaelDunwort1
https://twitter.com/w_s_bitcoin
https://twitter.com/luke_broyles
https://twitter.com/BTCSchellingPt
https://twitter.com/AndyBTCAdviser
https://twitter.com/JakeBTCAdviser
*** Get your first 3 months free with The Bitcoin Adviser when you use referral code "SECURE" at www.thebitcoinadviser.com/contact
Contact Us
EP96: The Purest Truth We’ve Come Across with Jesse
Jesse (@Jessenostr) is a cafe owner (Rise Mofo in Toukley) and former pastor based on the Central Coast in NSW, Australia. This one was an absolute pleasure to do. I hope you get as much from it as we did. We hope we offend you all at least once. Deal with it, it’s fine.
We discuss:
Emerging from the Bitcoin wilderness
Was COVID the orange pill tipping point for learning
Starting a Central Coast Bitcoin meetup after attending the Newcastle meetup
I, Pencil
How to orange pill a lady who just popped in for a coffee
The power of asking a question
A growth and fixed mindset
Encouraging effort over success
Being drawn into Christianity, becoming a pastor and then ultimately disillusioned
Having everything invested in your religion and losing it all
The similarities and differences between finding religion and finding Bitcoin
Don’t Trust, Verify
Community building in Bitcoin
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Faith
Evolutionary science
The HeartMath Institute
Energy shift in a room
Brain wallet bitcoiners
Pure truth
Accepting Bitcoin in your business and helping others to do the same
Long-term thinking for the Central Coast
Paying your staff to learn about Bitcoin
Bitcoin discounts
VoltPay
Freedom
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/MichaelDunwort1
https://twitter.com/HodlersWay
https://twitter.com/VoltPayApp
https://twitter.com/theamberapp
https://twitter.com/Nackoo2000
Book Recommendations
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck
*** Get your first 3 months free with The Bitcoin Adviser when you use referral code "SECURE" at www.thebitcoinadviser.com/contact
Contact Us
EP95: ABIB, Banking, Scams and Conspiracy with Jeremy Majid
Jeremy Majid is the CEO of the Australian Bitcoin Industry Body www.bitcoinindustrybody.org.au whose mission statement is:
“To serve as a voice for the Australian Bitcoin Industry. We welcome open and constructive dialogue with Government and Media and are available to assist with any and all Bitcoin related matters.”
There will be sceptics amongst you (I’m one of them), but not about the intentions of ABIB, more the willingness of government to engage in an honest and sincere dialogue. In this one we discuss the problem and how ABIB can be part of the solution. As always...make your own mind up.
“Knowing” bitcoiners you’ve never met
Anger at fiat jobs
Forex trading, gold, silver and why we're not going back to a gold standard
Taking control of your finances
Finding like-minded friends at a Bitcoin meetup
Product Manager at HardBlock
Self-taught learning
Blockchain Australia
Long-term thinking makes volatility easier to manage
You don’t need a lot
Use Bitcoin and testnet
Price inflation examples
Changing beliefs
Survivors guilt
Feature development at HardBlock
Who is ABIB
Interacting with AUSTRAC
Holding 2% of foreign exchange reserves in Bitcoin
The Moon Landings and conspiracy
Scams in Bitcoin
Bitcoin business networking
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/AusBTCIndBody
https://twitter.com/rusty_twit
https://twitter.com/JP_Technology
https://twitter.com/stephanlivera
https://twitter.com/citadeldispatch
https://twitter.com/PrestonPysh
https://twitter.com/EthanBitcoin
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr
https://twitter.com/OdyseeTeam
https://twitter.com/BitcoinMoonFund
Book Recommendations
The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
Enter or Support the Kids Art Competition
https://bitcoin-first.com/kids-art-competition/
At least 1,432,047 sats to be won!
*** Get your first 3 months free with The Bitcoin Adviser when you use referral code "SECURE" at www.thebitcoinadviser.com/contact
Contact Us
EP94: Reverse Kanga’s and Upper Deckers with Daz Bea
If you don’t know what they are, whatever you do, don’t look it up or listen to this podcast.
There is no one that can segue from high voltage power transmission to upper decker’s and back quite like Daz Bea. Yes, what’s happening in our world right now is damn serious, but we all need to find the fun in it too and that’s why we keep asking Daz onto the pod.
He brings a wealth of knowledge around electricity, net zero targets, issues and opportunities in Australia and beyond, is a founding member of Looking Glass Education, is a proud family man and Queenslander, sings at the weekend and writes books in his ‘spare’ time. I’m tired just reading that!
This time we discuss:
State of Origin
LIV Golf
Family priorities
Twitter v Nostr (particularly Primal)
Protocols v Platforms
Nostr documentary
Puppies
Net zero future and 100% renewables
Energy mix, grid stability and Bitcoin mining in Australia and beyond
Understanding at a regulatory and political level
Who pays for the grid
National Electricity Market Data
Pumped hydro, solar and hydrogen production efficiency
Being able to argue the counter argument
Electricity transmission and cost
Paid Zoom and AirBNB shitcoiners
Snakes, frogs and spiders
Rural power demands
National grid v Local generation
SWER network and outback Australia
Getting vocal with your MP
Bitcoin Bush Bash, 29-30 July, Palm Cove Surf Club, QLD
Seizing the right opportunity
Pod Shout-outs
@MirbooHodl (Nostr)
https://twitter.com/itsmaxdemarco
https://twitter.com/BTCBrisket
https://twitter.com/LookingGlassEdu
https://twitter.com/Croesus_BTC
https://twitter.com/BitcoinAlive
https://twitter.com/roger__9000
https://twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
https://twitter.com/Mtheadventuross
https://twitter.com/Lightsats21
Book Recommendations
B is for Bitcoin, by Daz Bea and Seb Bunney
Enter or Support the Kids Art Competition
https://bitcoin-first.com/kids-art-competition/
At least 1,432,047 sats to be won!
Contact Us
*** Get your first 3 months free with The Bitcoin Adviser when you use referral code "SECURE" at https://www.thebitcoinadviser.com/contact
EP93: Life’s a Breez with Ivan Makedonski
www.breez.technology has been around for a while, and to be honest I didn’t know much about it, so when Ivan reached out to have a chat it seemed like as good a time as any to start learning.
Located in Sofia, Bulgaria, Ivan (@Nackoo2000) is the Chief of Staff (Chief of Stuff) and first non-developer to work for Breez. He’s my favourite type of bitcoiner...the ones that are here for the mission first, knowing the money will take care of itself.
We discuss:
Primal on Nostr (desktop). 100x improvement
Being orange-pilled by your lady
Devoting a holiday to prove her wrong
We’re all on the same team. Love not money
Bitcoiners with conviction are those who first tried to prove it a scam
Bitcoin striking an intense emotional button
The ultimate measuring stick is unit of energy
The challenge of explaining Bitcoin to loved ones
Not asking for permission. Just starting and trying to make an impression
The practicalities of remote working
Being aligned on the mission and genuine care for your colleagues
Bitcoiners coming out of the shadows in Bulgaria
The functionality of Breez and the importance of Lightning as the medium of exchange
Lightning Service Providers
Business and Personal Goals
Custodial versus Non-Custodial and improving reliability
Saving versus Using Bitcoin
Spending Sats creates another node in the network
Instant settlement
Aligning incentives and split payments
Consequences for cheating
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/Breez_Tech
https://twitter.com/JasonPLowery
https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss
https://twitter.com/natbrunell
https://twitter.com/knutsvanholm
https://twitter.com/fountain_app
https://twitter.com/BullBitcoin_
https://twitter.com/Mtheadventuross
Enter or Support the Kids Art Competition
www.bitcoin-first.com/kids-art-competition
At least 1,222,047 sats to be won!
Plus, prizes from www.shamory.com
Contact Us
EP92: Bitcoin Karma with Scott, Mallory and Charlotte Sibley
Some would call it Karma. The more you try to do good, the more good seeks you out.
We started the Kids Art Competition with a modest 200,000 Satoshi’s to give away and our fingers crossed, but at time of writing, that prize is now 1,222,047 sats. Cool, right (thanks to all the supporters).
We also got an e-mail from Scott and Mallory Sibley, whose daughter Charlotte wanted to enter the competition, and they wanted to add a few prizes as well (if that didn’t disqualify Charlotte!)
They have kindly offered to donate a copy of their books “Goodnight Bitcoin” and “If You Give a Monster a Bitcoin” to the winner of the 0–4-year-old competition, and a copy of their game “SHAmory” to the winners of the other 3 age groups. Plus, there will be a 50% discount at www.shamory.com to all those who enter the competition.
We are very grateful for this kind gesture. So, get creative kids!
We asked them to come on the podcast to tell their story. We discuss:
Pacific Time minimalism
Recognising that Bitcoin families working and learning together is important
Teaching in a fun way
Bringing the skills you have into Bitcoin
Realising that you’re part of something special
Simplifying complex concepts
Satoshi and Hal
Manufacturing a product with no experience
SHAmmy for Africa
Built with Bitcoin
Raising money to build a water well
Finding a Bitcoin designer
Selling bracelets for Satoshis
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/TheBitcoinConf
https://twitter.com/rjames_BTC
https://twitter.com/builtwithbtc
https://twitter.com/BitcoinerJobs
https://twitter.com/pacificbitcoin
https://twitter.com/BitcoinAlive
https://twitter.com/geyserfund
https://twitter.com/Paulbuybtc
https://twitter.com/PrinceySOV
https://twitter.com/CryptoCloaks
Book Recommendations
Goodnight Bitcoin, https://shamory.com/product-category/books/
If You Give a Monster a Bitcoin
Bitcoin Money: A Tale of Bitville Discovering Good Money, https://amzn.to/44BpOr7
Enter or Support the Kids Art Competition
https://bitcoin-first.com/kids-art-competition/
At least 1,222,047 sats to be won!
Contact Us
EP91: Can 88 Bitcoin Maxis Buy a Golf Course with MirbooHodl
We start with a quick shill for the Australian Bitcoin Industry Body’s petition for the RBA to hold 2% of assets in Bitcoin. More details at:
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN5167
CLOSING DATE FOR SIGNATURES IS 12 JULY 2023.
For more details, listen to this discussion with Dale and Jeremy on The Why Bitcoin Show:
https://fountain.fm/episode/cRv5zTAB4DiYoTqCdFs1
Brendo and I are golfers...not great golfers, but we try. So, when MirbooHodl / GreatGrandMan (Dom. A Nostr maxi. Npub below) reached out a couple of weeks ago about a Golf meets Bitcoin project – 88 Sats – we wanted to talk about it.
I’ll be honest and say there were a couple of red flags, but after some back and forth over Nostr DM’s we realised that Dom was an open book and was happy for us to question the maxi credentials of the project.
More than anything, this a pod about community building in a Bitcoin world. We discuss:
Can 88 bitcoiners buy a golf course
How long will it take and how to store the Bitcoin until then
Why 1 Aussie “oddball” from Victoria wants to own a golf course in Canada
Running golf tournaments with Satoshi prizes
Creating a Bitcoin only community and a circular economy
88 Sats: Npub1ke3gzakud8hvdpmxxkhzymf87tkznnhmlj78gdqj4t9rqqmkhlws52gfzw
Jor: Npub103m96sra82w4agghew9cdxtzs4s8sl7qsjsvw6h653yml0gjrkzqefd3h5
Finding Bitcoin without social media
Primed for Bitcoin after going down the carnivore and regenerative agriculture rabbit holes
Wearing the Bitcoin merch in your fiat world
Low time preference
Building a node within 3 weeks of buying his first Bitcoin
Leaving the nihilism behind
Allergy to bureaucracy
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/AusBTCIndBody
https://twitter.com/farmerjen55
https://twitter.com/whybitcoinshow
https://twitter.com/triggerpod
https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin
https://twitter.com/francisjfoster
https://twitter.com/Blue_CollarBTC
https://twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
https://twitter.com/BTCsessions
https://twitter.com/AndyBTCAdviser
https://twitter.com/GazLarking
https://twitter.com/PeterBTCAdviser
https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
MirbooHodl: npub1jeyv5qwg4286fm68vwj93yr53xv9g799w9vcz8al8mkkz36wkt4qektpt7
Book Recommendations
The Bitcoin Standard, https://amzn.to/3PA1MIG
The Fiat Standard, https://amzn.to/3PH7loG
Golf in the Kingdom Michael Murphy, https://amzn.to/46seqQ5
Support the Kids Art Competition
https://geyser.fund/project/2bitidiots
More than a million sats to be won!
EP90: The Million Dollar Giveaway - Hats and Brendo
We've had a lot of smart guests recently, which is great, but sometimes your brain needs a break and just needs to listen to Brendo (yeah ok...me too).
In this pod we address all the low-brow issues of the day like:
Brendo not washing for 5 years and wasting so many sats on fixing a shitcoin tiler’s mistake.
How should we vett guests
Family feuds
The art competition prize up to 837,000 sats!
Giving away a million dollars to children
Imposter syndrome
Apple versus Nostr
Epic Games and Fortnite
Efficient Market Hypothesis
A ticking timebomb in Car Finance?
US public debt increase in 11 days
Bitcoin Ratchet Theory
A turd on your sandwich
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/MichaelDunwort1
https://twitter.com/PeterBTCAdviser
https://twitter.com/satstothemoon
https://twitter.com/geyserfund
https://twitter.com/the_Bowdog
https://twitter.com/DylanLeClair_
https://twitter.com/Bitcoinfinity
https://twitter.com/_Checkmatey_
Tweet of the Week
https://twitter.com/Bitcoinfinity/status/1583951526657417216
Dick of the Day
@Apple
Ways to Earn Bitcoin
https://bitcoin-first.com/earn
Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
Support the Kids Art Competition
https://geyser.fund/project/2bitidiots
Nearly a million sats to be won!
EP89: Who Has the Best Hair with @btcessex
Anyone we’ve met in person will verify that my hair isn’t one of my strengths. Brendo would claim it’s one of his, but that’s a matter of opinion. So, you’d be forgiven for wondering what the hell we’re doing talking to a hairdresser on the podcast.
Frankly, if you’d asked us a month ago if that would ever happen, I imagine a hearty laugh would have been the response. But...a month is a long time in Bitcoin!
Aaron reached out to have a chat and told us that we needed to hear about the confluence of Bitcoin and Hairdressing. So, who the hell are we to dismiss something we had zero knowledge of. And, you know what, he was totally right!
We discuss:
Irresponsible parenting and nasty DM’s
Eurovision
Bitcoin meetups in Essex www.t.me/bitcoinessex
Mainstream clickbait and weather warnings
Extreme career change and the importance of enjoying what you do even if it means starting from the bottom
Supermodels and A-listers
Fiat sucking the life out of the UK hairdressing industry
Shrinkflation
Fear of speaking up
The problem with minimum wages
Unintended consequences when you remove the free market and skew incentives
Our poor shampoo choices
Rip-off culture
The power of the QR code. Connecting the physical with the digital.
Win/Win relationships
95% rejection to begin with, but those early adopters are winning
Bizarro Superman
Discounts for Bitcoin gives you a double dip
“Bitcoin Accepted” on invoices
Looking for the pain points in your industry
Static URL’s for curry
Bcash trolling
Small businesses getting rekt by lockdowns
Bitcoin being easier to navigate in real life
Hanging on to a maximalist
Buying the Bitcoin domain for your town
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/satstothemoon
https://twitter.com/BitcoinErrorLog
https://twitter.com/mollsoneminding
https://twitter.com/OneMinding_
https://twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
https://twitter.com/BitcoinerEvents
https://twitter.com/Bridge2Bitcoin
Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
Support the Kids Art Competition
https://geyser.fund/project/2bitidiots
Nearly a million sats to be won!
EP88: Kids Art Competition (SPECIAL)
Do you have a creative kid? Are you always talking about Bitcoin? Could they create a piece of art that is their interpretation of what it is you go on about all the time?
To celebrate reaching 100 shows on the 2-Bit Idiots podcast, we’ve decided to run a Kids Art Competition and give away 50,000 sats to the winners in each age group.
The Rules
- There are 4 ages categories (4 and under, 5-8, 9-12, and 13-16). Age on 31/7/23
- We will accept a maximum of 21 entries in each category
- Any type of art is accepted (painting, drawing, digital, sculpture, photograph etc)
- Winners will be judged by our kids. Their decision is final.
- You keep the original art. All entries to be submitted to 2BitIdiotsPodcast@gmail.com by 31st July 2023 or when the group has received the maximum number of entries (whichever comes sooner).
- Please include their name (pseudonyms are fine), age group, country and a contact e-mail address for their parent/guardian if they win.
- Winners will be invited on to our 100th podcast with their parent to tell us about their art and be awarded their prize.
- All entries will be displayed by age group at: https://bitcoin-first.com/kids-art-competition
- Good luck. We can’t wait to see what you come up with.
To hear the background and inspiration for this project please listen to:
https://fountain.fm/episode/tjXExsVmrqO21cd98sNR
If you’d like to donate some sats to the project, please do so via our GeyserFund page.
https://geyser.fund/project/2bitidiots
All sats donated here will be given to the kids. Let’s see if we can do something special and mint some new maxis!
Thank you to Pixel, Paul, Haggis, Salmon and our kids for your generosity and inspiration.
#ForTheKids
EP87: Orange-Pilling Countries with Samson Mow
While most of us spend years trying to convince our cousin/sibling/mum that we’re not crazy and that “it might make sense just to get some in case it catches on”, there are others among us that are operating at an altogether higher level. Samson Mow is one of those people.
As the CEO of JAN3, he’s working on nation-state adoption and accelerating hyperbitcoinization, but he didn’t set out to do that, it just happened one day.
He kindly took some time out of his hectic schedule to hang out with a couple of Idiots. Here’s what we discussed:
Will we ever operate on block time so that time difference is no longer a thing (we sound rough in the morning!)
The state of DMs when you have a large following
How to prioritise your workload
The mission of JAN3 (top-down and bottom-up)
How opportunities present themselves
Varying levels of knowledge, understanding and receptivity
Explaining that Bitcoin is just Money
Awareness of money being devalued versus the high time preference nature of politics
The next El Salvador. Mexico?
Bitcoin becoming a key part of political discourse. RFK
The importance of face-to-face, particularly in removing the fear of asking questions
How many of us must understand Bitcoin
Taking a break after hyperbitcoinization and the timescale for that
The most powerful force is necessity (Argentina, Lebanon)
Adopting Bitcoin before your value is destroyed
The problem with centralised power
The pros and cons of living on a Bitcoin standard
The decline in developed countries
Brendo’s unsuccessful application
Infinite Fleet and gaming
Fads
Australia and Canada
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/Pixelmatic
https://twitter.com/InfiniteFleet
https://twitter.com/jackmallers
https://twitter.com/Bitcoinbeach
https://twitter.com/nayibbukele
https://twitter.com/Blockstream
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr
https://twitter.com/MiprimerBTC
https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre
https://twitter.com/BitcoinAlive
https://twitter.com/BTCBrisket
https://twitter.com/THNDRGAMES
https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss
Book Recommendations
Check Your Financial Privilege by @gladstein
Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
Support the Podcast
https://geyser.fund/project/2bitidiotspodcast
Contact Us
EP86: Another Bloody Dunworth with @MichaelDunwort1
It's like buses. You don't see one for ages and then 2 come along at once! But seriously, Christmas dinner at the Dunworth’s must be an interesting experience.
Michael is the time travelling bitcoiner, that has locked Bitcoin in 2140 to ensure miners still have an incentive to mine even once the final block reward is issued. That’s a great story – it's a wonderful story – but you may have heard it at Bitcoin Alive, a bush bash or on another podcast that Michael has done (we’d recommend EP96 of Meyrick’s Dabbling Path, EP5 with Discovering Bitcoin and the recent release from The Why Bitcoin Show).
We’ve delayed doing this one, because frankly we didn’t know what we could add, but once we realised the answer to that was Nothing, we decided to just get together and shoot the shit because he’s a fun bloke to share a beer with. We discuss:
The return of the alpha
Sats or Bits
Halving, Halvening or Hal Finney-ing
Iron Man and Proof or Work
Having someone on your journey
Consistently showing up
Fixed interest rates in Australia
Dropping/Opting out of university
Startup culture, strategies, risk and Wyre
Egotistical restaurant owners
When you should change your beliefs and opinions
Seeing life through the Bitcoin filter
Bitcoin miners are just monkeys
Seeing the tech before the money
Satoshi
AI as the biggest inflection point of Bitcoin adoption
SegWit2x and the power of the node
Ordinals
Backing yourself, but having support in your corner
The warped VC industry
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/C_Shaughnessy
https://twitter.com/richardbensberg
https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss
https://twitter.com/BitcoinAlive
https://twitter.com/TonyRobbins
Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
Contact Us
EP85: The Wellington Elbow with @Bitkiwi1 and @satstothemoon
Attend a BushBash – Tick
Wearing the Bitcoin Alive T-Shirt – Tick
What next - Maybe it’s time for you to cross the ditch?
We sit down Paul and Dan (2/3 of the Bit Kiwi movement) to find out exactly how things are in New Zealand (Paraparaumu) at grass roots level, the projects they are involved in and hear just how loose meetups are in Auckland. We also discuss:
Getting children to buy beer to gain KYC free sats ;-)
Remembering Anon's names in real life
Getting into Bitcoin with your childhood friends and becoming a maximalist within a few months
Showing up at a CRYpTocurrEnCy shit show, showed them the need to create a Bitcoin only alternative
The secrets to being a “professional” podcaster
Attending their first meetup in Auckland inspiring the creation of Bit Kiwi, which started in Wellington, then Christchurch but is now going national and becoming an event
Using lightning to engage new bitcoiners
A meetup library and a lightning ATM
Orange-pilling your family
Running an S19 in your house and heating your swimming pool with immersion mining, and using 0% government loans to pay for it
Being accused of being in a cult in work meetings
The Wellington Elbow and the Sleeve of Shame
Cost of living in NZ
Contact Bitcoinmagazine@bitkiwi.co.nz if you want a copy of Bitcoin Magazine in New Zealand or Australia (issues 27 and 28).
Bit Kiwi Meetup Schedule
VI: 22nd Jul 2023. Fork and Brewer. Wellington. 2pm
VII: 28th Oct 2023. Brothers Beer. Mt Eden, Auckland. 2pm
VIII: 17th Feb 2024. Venue TBC. Queenstown.
Pod Shout-outs
twitter.com/tip_nz
twitter.com/jamesviggy
twitter.com/kiwilambnz
twitter.com/simonocollins
twitter.com/BitcoinAlive
twitter.com/walletofsatoshi
twitter.com/r0bertclarkson
twitter.com/BTCNautilus
twitter.com/TTOVpodcast
twitter.com/babeswhobitcoin
twitter.com/BTCsessions
twitter.com/the_wild_chiro
And go eat at the Khmer restaurant in Christchurch
Link to the Beer tweet
twitter.com/Bitkiwi1/status/1652587379625189379
Book Recommendations
The Little Bitcoin Book by The Bitcoin Collective
Sovereignty Through Mathematics by @knutsvanholm
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin by @real_vijay
The Bitcoin Standard by @saifedean
B is for Bitcoin by @dazbea1 and @sebbunney
Dick of the Day
twitter.com/Airbnb
Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
Contact Us
www.2bitidiots.com
EP84: Building Resilience into your Business with @Paulbuybtc
Paul is a husband, dad, business owner and now bitcoiner, based in Victoria, Australia.
We first met at a BitcoinBushBash (are you noticing a theme) in 2022, again at Bitcoin Alive in 2023 and now he joins us on the pod to tell his story.
This one will resonate with business owner/operators who have had to navigate through a difficult few years, since that thing which we cannot mention and the government overreach in response to the thing that we cannot mention. You know the thing. THE THING.
But more importantly, as we come out the other side, the hope we all feel thanks to the positive changes and outcomes we see in our move towards a Bitcoin Standard.
We discuss:
Brendo selling his chairs
Why are Bitcoin conversations more comfortable
Surviving the business turmoil caused by the hardest lockdown in the world
Burning through the rainy-day account
The “recession we had to have”
The inevitability of our high inflation environment
Working on a 200-year plan
The manipulation of the system against everyday people
Operating in both the Bitcoin and Fiat systems
Personal responsibility
Estate planning
Government poor decision-making forcing individuals to find answers elsewhere
The Bitcoin safety net
Interest rate rises and black swan events
Spending less than you earn and living frugally
Giving yourself choices in life
Families attending Bitcoin meetups, and allowing kids to learn by being in the room
Art by Pixel
Being the example for your children and creating learning experiences
The difficulties incorporating Bitcoin payments into your business
Australians not appreciating the hardships being felt in other countries
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/BitcoinAlive
https://twitter.com/SharkGregNorman
https://twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
https://twitter.com/theamberapp
Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
Contact Us
EP83: How to Make Bitcoin a Lifestyle with @mary_imasuen
We’re testing ourselves. We’ve been around this sausage-fest so long that we’re not sure if we can still talk to girls.
But we outright refuse to do it for diVersiTY’s sake. Meritocracy in all things. And quite frankly, this young woman is way ahead of most of you guys.
Once Brendo got passed his awkward giggling, we discuss:
The Scottish accent being better than the Aussie
Whilst freelance writing during a gap-year from studying Law, a client wanted to pay with Bitcoin.
The regret of selling your early Bitcoin
How you cannot be a personal finance “expert” without ever owning Bitcoin
Creating a savings plan with Bitnob, reviewing the app, interviewing the CEO and ultimately becoming the manager of their podcast.
Streaming Bitcoin games on Twitch, and creating your setup and affiliate account
Streaming Sats to viewers
Satoshi TV “Bitcoin Lifestyle”
Her understanding of Nigeria, Turkey and the Philippines (and how different cultures see, engage and adopt Bitcoin)
International trade between Nigeria and China using Bitcoin to settle
Raising children with the culture you set for yourself
Why living on a Bitcoin standard is easier in the Philippines
Adoption through gaming
Orange-pilling in a way that is relevant to the person you’re speaking to.
The parallel market for the Nigeria Naira
Twitch streaming THNDR games
Zebedee streamer
BitRefill
Streaming sats to your viewers
Bitcoin eSports
The use case for Bitcoin is better seen in developing countries
Watch Mary play Bitcoin Games
Ways to Earn Bitcoin
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/timevalueofbtc
www.twitter.com/Bitnob_official
Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
Contact Us
EP82: Satoshi ‘73 with @roger__9000
Bitcoin sends you off in directions you never dreamed you would go. In the next couple of weeks, I’ll be helping Roger at a woman’s wellness Bitcoin chocolate making session. A bunch of words I never thought I’d use in the same sentence! But here we are.
Roger is first and foremost a lovely guy, but he also has a unique story...so let’s tell it:
We discuss:
The origins of his pseudonym
My Captain Pugwash facts were NOT true
Bitcoiners as constant dreamers or the most grounded people around
Imagination and creativity
Self-Identity
The pursuit of truth
His unique style of driving
Improving your eyesight
Fasting
Trust in institutions
Bitcoin’s inclusivity
Freedom of expression
Fear of acceptance as an artist
Leaning into your weird
Satoshi ‘73
Chocolate workshops
Conferences to become festivals
Links to all of Roger’s work (music, chocolate, podcast, YouTube etc) can be found @
Ways to Earn Bitcoin
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/JoeMartinMusic
www.twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
www.twitter.com/Mtheadventuross
www.twitter.com/BTC_honeybadger
Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
Contact Us
EP81: Seize the Day with @beefbackbetter (Chapter 4)
We’re telling a story. We didn’t set out to tell a story – in fact we rarely set out with any coherent plan – but we’re telling a story, nonetheless.
This is Owen’s story.
He’s an Aussie with a background in organic farming certification. We first met at a Bitcoin Bush Bash in 2020, visited his farm in 2021 (Episode 22), spoke to him from his El Salvador scoping trip in May 2022 (Episode 43) from next door to Mrs Bukele (Episode 61) and now here we are again. It’s a fascinating progression of a doer rather than a talker, and I’d highly recommend you go back over the previous episodes to get the full picture.
We discuss:
Starting a beef business in El Salvador and partnering with pro-Bitcoin locals
Types of farming and the challenge of the wet and dry seasons
The current quality of beef and the inclusion of chemical additives (fiat incentives)
Only accepting Bitcoin in the business
Blink wallet
Hedging volatility
Residency and visa options
Brain drain starting to reverse
Opportunity everywhere with huge tax incentives
Seeking entrepreneurial influence
Bukele’s majority means that all bills pass
Muh roads in Guatemala. Government versus Private
News from El Salvador
Nostrica
General Bitcoin adoption and friction in all financial transactions
Paying almost all bills in Bitcoin
Where to Buy Beef in El Salvador
Ways to Earn Bitcoin
https://bitcoin-first.com/earn
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
www.twitter.com/BitcoinJungleCR
www.twitter.com/ElSalvadorVisas
Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
Contact Us
EP80: Bitcoin Alive After Party
Are you home? Did you survive?
A huge shout out to @lungdoge, @dylanhashmurray and Jess (the @BitcoinAlive team) for putting together a fantastic first Bitcoin Only conference for Australia.
We’re yet to speak to someone who didn’t enjoy the day, and the opportunity it gave so many solid bitcoiners to be in the same city at the same time.
Many of us milked it and made it a loonnngggg weekend. Too many people to thank, but you know who you are.
For those who didn’t manage this time, here’s a glimpse into what happens in Jack’s closet.
Til next time.
PS – The language is appalling in this one. Blame Brendo.
For Jack from Brisbane
Ways to Earn Bitcoin
https://bitcoin-first.com/earn
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/Mtheadventuross
www.twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
www.twitter.com/jakeeswoodhouse
www.twitter.com/BTCSchellingPt
Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
Contact Us
EP79: Smart as Saylor – Hats and Brendo
It’s been all interviews the last little while, so we thought it was about time we burned our listener stats and did another Hats and Brendo.
It’s largely inane waffle, but there’s some good stuff in there too, including:
Why Brendo takes his shorts off in my house.
Bitcoin Alive
When: 15th April 2023
Where: The Roundhouse, Sydney
Tickets: www.bitcoinalive.io
Discount: 10% off with codes HATS or BRENDO at checkout
Property debt
Fixed rate mortgage maturities
Credit card debt
Millennials versus Boomers
How long would your savings last?
Bankruptcy
Anaerobic digestion mining (if anyone can put us in touch with Tom Campbell please get in touch)
Solar power
How much Bitcoin does each country need to HODL
Microstrategy is the 27th biggest country in the world
Hash rate
Rising political tensions
Tweet of the Week
https://twitter.com/Inchhighprivate/status/1639642006434504704?s=20
Ways to Earn Bitcoin
https://bitcoin-first.com/earn
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/ScillingMining
www.twitter.com/dunworth_peter
www.twitter.com/MichaelDunwort1
www.twitter.com/elsultanbitcoin
Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
Contact Us
EP78: Behind Enemy Lines with @Dale21M
(Pushing this one out quickly for those making the trek to Beechworth. Have a great weekend)
Those of you that pay attention (or those that attended the last bush bash at Murrurundi) will recognise Dale from there, but for those that don’t, we wanted to have him on the pod to give us an insight into the incentives at play in shitcoin land, working behind enemy lines for a shitcoin publication.
Dale is a South African who has lived in Australia for 5 years. His background is in law and political philosophy, which he credits with his ability to think critically. As Wiz would say, he’s “found his tribe” in Bitcoin.
We discuss:
His path to Bitcoin only
Challenges of visas in Australia, regional living and covid restrictions
The difficulties of “working in Bitcoin”
Revenue streams (adverts, affiliates, paid articles etc) and the machine behind media
Learning to think like a normie
The race to the bottom (CumRocket)
NFTs
The sophistication (or lack thereof) of readers
The dangers of AI
Commercial real estate
UFC
Gaming
The potential for a shitcoin casino sting
What is exciting us in Bitcoin right now
South Africa
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
www.twitter.com/SimonDixonTwitt
www.twitter.com/LynAldenContact
www.twitter.com/dunworth_peter
Npubs
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
Contact Us
EP77: Crazy Numbers with @PeterBTCAdviser
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Please listen til the end as Pete will blow your tiny mind.
We spoke with Pete just a few short weeks ago (EP70) about what high-net-worth clients think of Bitcoin. You liked him. Actually, you liked him a lot. A lot of you tuned in... thank you.
We got nowhere near the end of that conversation, as we also wanted to talk to him about inheritance planning. So, he kindly agreed to go again. Settle in and pour yourself a coffee, this is a long one!
If you’re a connoisseur of bullish price valuation models, this one is also for you. He gets more bullish as we go, and we can’t fault any of his logic.
*** Get your first 3 months free with The Bitcoin Adviser when you use referral code "SECURE" at https://www.thebitcoinadviser.com/contact
We discuss:
What is a family office. Generational wealth, legal structures, preservation of capital.
Systemic risk in “risk free” bonds.
Credit Suisse, bank runs and what’s happening in trad fi markets right now.
Interest rates and mortgage pain.
Why everyone focuses on the US.
Are US regulators starting to take a more pro Bitcoin stance.
Legal entities for holding your assets.
The importance of a will or testamentary trust.
Multi-sig security with clients
Time locking Bitcoin
Element zero at absolute zero
The first triple point quantum asset.
Solving bond duration risk with Bitcoin
Bitcoin valuations for those who love “crazy numbers”
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/MichaelDunwort1
Couldn’t find the timelock article, but start here for great content
www.twitter.com/juniorwaugh349
www.twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
Npubs – cya Twitter
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
Contact Us
EP76: Bitcoin Mining with Renewables in NZ with @simonocollins
There’s nothing a bitcoiner enjoys more than bursting a mainstream narrative.
If we really are “bOiLinG tHE oCEans”, why is it that Simon and his colleagues at www.Stackr.co.nz are Bitcoin mining with renewable energy and providing stability to the electricity grid in New Zealand’s South Island. It really is a head scratcher, isn’t it.
We talk to Simon about:
- The abundance of energy sources the further south you go in New Zealand (Hydro, Wind, Solar and Geothermal)
- Flexible demand management to lift the performance of the grid
- Texas and power purchasing agreements
- Vertical integration with power producers
- The transition from public sector consultant to full-time degen Bitcoin miner
- Is NZ one of the best places to mine
- His progress from CPU to GPU to Shitcoins to Bitcoin mining
- Scaling up, building resilience and staying profitable in a bear market
- The current explosion in hash rate
- Funding
- Home mining
- Using “crypto” as a test bed for anything worth doing on Bitcoin
- Ethereum rugpulls
- Doing a PhD on the last financial crisis
- The duck curve
- Bitcoin Alive
When: 15th April 2023
Where: The Roundhouse, Sydney
Tickets: www.bitcoinalive.io
Discount: 10% off with codes HATS or BRENDO at checkout
- What Brando does when the video is switched off
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/LynAldenContact
Npubs – cya Twitter
Hats: npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
Brendo: npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
Contact Us
EP75: Empty Passenger Seat with @JoeMartinMusic
Bitcoiners branching out into other industries is great, but what I really want to see is people in other industries adopting Bitcoin.
I’m particularly keen for musicians, athletes and sports teams to figure this out (shout out to Perth Heat for leading by example). That's why I was very excited to discover Joe Martin.
Joe is a singer-songwriter who is a musician first but also a bitcoiner. He gets it, and the best bit...he’s good!
We want Joe to be able to take a message to his friends in the music industry, so we’re passing on all donations (streams, boosts etc) from value-for-value enabled podcasting apps.
Have a listen to Joe's story and his current single / title track from his new album. If you like what you hear, please send a few sats his way.
We discuss:
- His backstory as Country/Americana artist
- Crafting story-based songs and the creative process of making an album
- What it means to be a professional (completely independent) musician today
- Generating a revenue from gigs and merchandise.
- How many streams you need to make $1
- Personal investment and risk
- Nashville, networking and playing at the Bluebird Cafe
- UK Tour – kicks off April 13th @ the Yacht Club in Teignmouth
- Monetising information that wants to be free
- Lightning and microtransactions
- Removing friction to value transfer
- Nostr
- Selling tickets for Bitcoin!
- Value 4 Value pack
Links to Joe’s Music, Merch, Tour and Socials:
Npub19r9qrxmckj2vyk5a5ttyt966s5qu06vmzyczuh97wj8wtyluktxqymeukr
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/KaceyMusgraves
www.twitter.com/ChrisStapleton
www.twitter.com/bluebirdcafeTN
Contact Us
EP74: Bitcoin Alive FOMO Update with @lungdoge and @dylanhashmurray
When: 15th April 2023
Where: The Roundhouse, Sydney
Tickets: www.bitcoinalive.io
Discount: 10% off with codes HATS or BRENDO at checkout
With less than 6 weeks to go, we catch up with the boys from Bitcoin Alive (Chris and Dylan) to find out how the planning for Australia’s first big-scale, Bitcoin Only conference is going.
When we last spoke in mid-December (EP67) they had just announced the event and location, but tickets hadn’t been released and speakers hadn’t been confirmed. Less than 3 months on (which I’m sure has felt like 3 days to them), we thought it was time for an update for those of you that know you’re attending and others that might still be on the fence.
We discuss:
- Brendo wins a competition with The Bitcoin Company
- https://links.thebitcoincompany.com/q5rP
- Not checking the price
- Is the next bull run the panic cycle
- BitRefill
- https://www.bitrefill.com/signup?code=tu6wub71
- Spending Sats (and replacing)
- Real estate
- Speaker announcements and diversity of topics
- Format of the day (groups, firesides, presentations, workshops)
- Exhibitors, bar, break-out space and VIP
- Ticket pricing
- High and lows of organising an event on this scale
- Turning away shitcoiners
- Raising capital in a bear market
- Bitcoiner Events/Jobs/List
- https://www.bitcoinerevents.com/
- https://bitcoinerjobs.com/
- https://www.bitlist.com/
- Peer to peer trading
- Bitcoin versus CBDC’s
For Twigs
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/beefinitiative
www.twitter.com/jakeeswoodhouse
www.twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
www.2bitidiots.com
EP73: Bear Market Crickets with @dazbea1 and Special Guest
3 is the magic number. 4, and we talk all over each other (I’m probably the worst at it).
But hey, we wanted to have a special guest and we got a special guest. We just didn’t count on the crickets!
This episode contains the following ramble:
- Non-existent pods
- Sydney sleeping arrangements
- Diet and addictions
- Coals versus Gas
- Lake Tinaroo
- www.lookingglasseducation.com
- Who is it for?
- Assumed knowledge
- Follow up courses
- Creating timeless content
- School curriculum
- Bitcoin for beginners
- Book launch
- Block 777,777
- Nostr
- Protocol, Nodes, Relays, Notes, Events
- Clients: Damus, Amethyst, Iris, Nostrgram, Nostros, Snort
- www.getalby.com
- www.zaplife.lol
- www.voltpay.app
- Bitcoin Alive
- Building a node box
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/LookingGlassEdu
www.twitter.com/Blue_CollarBTC
www.twitter.com/Mtheadventuross
Npubs – cya Twitter
npub1evkn6h4dgkk6ey8mqy90spv2fmfnnzgj8u3h8dgqyql32gs9tywqhdruxp
npub1jsauhxc6hjyk5th86qc5z02c9f0cfc7dwszzlj7e9s8wt54w490q4kglr9
npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee
npub1jmy8weweqzckna0amz7pn0uhhkxx693l7st23829ewmu43yvjsesfp6xcq
Contact Us
EP72: Talking the Corn with @GazLarking
I finally stepped out of Brendo’s shadow and did one of these interview thingies by myself. Turns out the tech side is way easier than he makes it sound!
The problem though, is that Gary (Gaz) and I can talk the corn! I think it was 3 hours 53 minutes to be precise, but don’t worry we only recorded an hour or so.
Gaz is as bullish on Bitcoin as the rest of us, but his knowledge and life experience also gives him a perspective on risk that many of those that have recently been rekt by leverage could learn from. You don’t need to risk the farm; you just need to get off zero.
We discuss:
- Brendo. A man on the edge.
- Gaz’s Bitcoin story, international work life and approach to investing
- Learning via books, podcasts, YouTube, Twitter and ultimately real-life humans
- The Bitcoin Standard: http://amzn.to/3KwBTDq
- 100 Baggers: www.amazon.com.au/100-Baggers-Stocks-100-1/dp/1621291650
- Finding your tribe
- Correcting “journalists”
- Will the mainstream turn up to Bitcoin Alive
- Adoption
- Rebel FM
- www.rebelfm.com.au
- Contract negotiation in an inflationary environment
- Value investing, diversification and investing in Bitcoin companies
- Risk management
- Fidelity
- https://www.fidelitydigitalassets.com/sites/default/files/documents/bitcoin-first.pdf
- Debt in the system
- Microstrategy. Strike. Pouch.
- Nostr
- Sats for Stats
Pod Shout-outs
- www.twitter.com/PrestonPysh
- www.twitter.com/saylor
- www.twitter.com/BTCSchellingPt
- www.twitter.com/paybtc_au
- www.twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
- www.twitter.com/BitcoinAlive
- www.twitter.com/LawrenceLepard
- www.twitter.com/dunworth_peter
- www.twitter.com/FossGregfoss
- www.twitter.com/parkeralewis
- www.twitter.com/stevennelkovski
Contact Us
EP71: Can I Speak to Your Manager - Hats and Brendo
It’s easy to talk a big game. Backing it up is harder. However, what we’ve found over the last 7 years, is that the closer you align yourself with Bitcoin, the better things turn out.
Look at all aspects of your life; health; work; relationships; family; education et al and apply the Bitcoin filter. Allow it to affect your decision making and voila...things magically improve.
Brendo and I talk all things Bitcoin, with tangents along the way:
- Stopping smoking
- Bitcoin Alive ticket discount
- 10% off. Use code “HATS” or “BRENDO”
- https://bitcoinalive.io/
- Selling your house for Bitcoin
- Legionella
- Phillip Hammond
- US interest rates rise 0.25%
- 90% currency devaluation in Lebanon
- https://fountain.fm/episode/13105194653 (the Bitcoin Standard pod)
- US debt ceiling
- Satsback companies
- The Bitcoin Company
- https://links.thebitcoincompany.com/xadB
- Fold
- https://use.foldapp.com/r/ALTHXAUK
- Lolli
- https://lolli.com/ref/iwsWU5BUz3
- The Jacks
- Nostr
- Value 4 Value Music
- Lightning remittances
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/BitcoinAlive
https://twitter.com/dunworth_peter
https://twitter.com/honeybadgerdabs
https://twitter.com/MikeStillBTC
Tweets of the Week
3rd Place
https://twitter.com/dazbea1/status/1616734150274478080?s=20&t=EvZSwzr9MzeGn7W6mXlgow
2nd Place
https://twitter.com/jackmallers/status/1620486166964477952?s=20&t=EvZSwzr9MzeGn7W6mXlgow
1st Place
https://twitter.com/AbhayHodl/status/1620476538516041729?s=20&t=EvZSwzr9MzeGn7W6mXlgow
Dick of the Day
The Jacks
EP70: What the High-Net-Worth think of Bitcoin with @PeterBTCAdviser
Peter Dunworth, runs a multi-family office and leads The Bitcoin Adviser, offering tailored Bitcoin investment services to high-net-worth clients. Specialising in Collaborative Custody, Estate Planning, and Bitcoin Education, he's a trusted guide in the complex world of Bitcoin. Engage with Peter on Twitter @PeterBTCAdviser
*** Get your first 3 months free with The Bitcoin Adviser when you use referral code "SECURE" at https://www.thebitcoinadviser.com/contact
Our conversation touches on:
- Our prize winner, fraternising with the enemy and leech trauma
- Bitcoin custody and estate planning
- Bitcoin being the rational choice when considering all major asset classes
- Providing conservative financial/investment advice for those 60+
- Being cognitive of your own biases
- Property
- Capital destruction in bonds
- Preservation of capital being the No.1 concern
- Asymmetric risk
- Peak debt
- Being a professional financial advisor when all markets move on the decision of the US Federal Reserve
- Hope, inspiration and your outlook on life
- Stupid numbers
- How to prevent losing Bitcoin
- The truest form of altruism
- Censorship resistance. Seizure resistance. Absolute scarcity. Immutable ledger.
- Timelocks
- Self-Actualisation and the Bitcoin Golden Age
- Price manipulation
- Volatility versus Risk
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/jakeeswoodhouse
www.twitter.com/MichaelDunwort1
www.twitter.com/BTCSchellingPt
www.twitter.com/100trillionUSD
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-is-time-traveling-energy
www.2bitidiots.com
EP69: Paging @Terla
We tried to give away 111,000 sats but Terla hasn’t got in touch! Terla...are you out there? Call me. DM me. Swipe right.
Anyway...Happy New Year bitcoiner. It’s good to be back.
Just Brendo and I today talking shit and helping you pass the time until hyperbitcoinisation, or at least until next week when we have a really good guest. Seriously...next week is important.
For now, we talk:
- Not being able to give away sats!
- Price. Is it a temporary pump?
- Global recession incoming
- Doxx jar binned
- Job cuts Coinbase, Blackrock, Amazon, Salesforce
- Blackstone
- Gradually then Suddenly
- Who or What can move the price?
- Fidelity
- Why you should only compare you with you
- How good is Solitaire, but you need a Sudoku!
- Satsback in Australia
- Mortgage rollovers in Australia in 2023
- 2022 CPI numbers
- Is there another bubble to blow?
- We are only 3 halving's in
- Not seeing your privilege
Tweet of the Week
Alan B Watts
https://twitter.com/alanbwt/status/1607150830418886656?s=20&t=MJvdlcGNyaV-Tz85-yUKVg
Dick of the Day
Mary Daly, Federal Reserve President of San Francisco
https://twitter.com/sidewayskoyote/status/1554996402165452800?s=20&t=MJvdlcGNyaV-Tz85-yUKVg
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/sidewayskoyote
Contact Us
For Norma. Xx
EP68: Christmas Doxx Jar Giveaway
The Bitcoin conversation in this one is minimal at best, but there are free sats to be won, so you might have to listen to find out if you’re the winner!
Thanks to everyone that’s contributed to the podcast this year. Guests, listeners, boosters, sat streamers, trolls, people that gave us gifts, everyone at the bush bash and all the Twitter psychopaths. We appreciate you all.
Bitcoin will fix the world. It’s the only money. But...IT’S ONLY MONEY. Take some time off at Christmas with your people and enjoy life. Otherwise, what are we doing this for?
Merry Christmas and see you in 2023,
Hats and Brendo
Tweet of the Week
www.twitter.com/DrBitcoinMD/status/1604044848562339845
Original by @0xMajinBobo but of course CZ deleted his reply.
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
Plus many more, including...Matt, Ben, Stephan, Parman, Ketan and Fozzz. Go find them yourself. ;-)
Contact Us
EP67: Bitcoin Alive – Saturday, April 15th, 2023 – Sydney, Australia
The list of large-scale Bitcoin only events is growing all over the world, but we didn’t have one in Australia. Until now.
Quick Links
@BitcoinAlive
@dylanhashmurray
@lungdoge
Website
Frustrated by the time and expense required to attend the conferences overseas, Chris, Dylan and Jess have decided to put that right.
On Saturday, 15th of April 2023, Bitcoin Alive will make its debut. A single day conference at the Roundhouse, Sydney ( www.arc.unsw.edu.au/roundhouse ), Bitcoin Alive will “bring together Australia’s Bitcoin community for a day of the highest quality Bitcoin content from the best minds in Bitcoin from both Australia and overseas”.
We sat down with Chris and Dylan to find out more about their motivations and plans for the day. We discussed:
- Why we need a Bitcoin conference in Australia
- Who the event is pitched at
- Event management experience
- The value of meeting bitcoiners face-to-face
- Providing a platform for the bitcoiner talent in Australia
- Date, Location, Venue Capacity, 20+ Speakers
- 900-seat main stage, keynote presentations, VIP area, breakout rooms, panels, fireside chats and beer garden
- Fitting in to the circuit of global Bitcoin events and adding an Aussie spin with satellite events
- Risks involved and work required
- Timescales for announcement of Speakers and Costs (sign up for Presale Tickets)
- Swell reports from Coogee Beach
- Support from and giving back to the Bitcoin community
- Sponsorship and maintaining your integrity while staying Bitcoin Only
- Positive/negative feedback and being judged on their Proof of Work
- Not looking at the Bitcoin price for a year (and guessing where we are now)
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/BTCSchellingPt
www.twitter.com/pacificbitcoin
Contact us:
www.2bitidiots.com
EP66: The Bitcoiner Next Door with @plebHODLBadger
We live in the sticks. We’re happy living in the sticks. You couldn’t pay us enough (even sats!) to live in the city. The problem with living in the sticks, however, is that you may be the only bitcoiner.
That was true until Brendo came along. 2 of us fighting the good fight.
But...it turns out we weren’t even the first in our part of the sticks. Enter plebHODLBadger!
We’ve found another Maxi and he has a friend too! 4 of us. IN THE STICKS! More Bitcoin Maxis than Post Offices. We’re winning, and each one of you is the reason why. Here’s his story:
- Running core in 2011, but turning it off to not waste his sister’s electricity
- Always stacking
- Getting burned in shitcoins and learning not to spend time thinking about them
- When does a scam become a scam
- The progress of the Lightning network and what’s still required
- Maintaining your passion for your fiat life and what comes next
- Hallucinogens and the mixing of the senses
- Rights, freedoms and your political opinions through a Bitcoin filter
- Getting paid in Bitcoin
- Validation
- Misconceptions around Bitcoin meetups
- What does the “fight you” stage look like
- Real estate. Investment or the family home
- SBF and FTX
- Working out what’s important to you
- The Bush Bash Tour
NB:
I was quiet for the first ten minutes. Apparently, I still don’t know what I’m doing.
You’re Welcome / Sorry (delete as appropriate)
Tweet of the Week
https://twitter.com/milessuter/status/1598151381189550080?s=20&t=vJv3acOj56IiFab33XsUgA
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/BTCSchellingPt
https://twitter.com/timevalueofbtc
https://twitter.com/BitarooExchange
https://twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
https://twitter.com/tommyemmanuel
https://twitter.com/johnkvallis
https://twitter.com/Burning_Seed
https://twitter.com/FractalEncrypt
https://twitter.com/beefbackbetter
Contact Us
EP65: Murra Roundup
This is our light-hearted take on the Bitcoin Bush Bash in Murrurundi, NSW.
It was just as expected. A few words that spring to mind:
Welcoming. Old friends. New friends. Honest (sometimes brutally). Intellectually Stimulating. Steak. Beers. Art. Proof of Work. Growing. Committed. Humble. Curious. Family. Fun.
That was our third and certainly not our last. We’d love to make it to QLD, VIC and WA to attend theirs someday. Let’s see.
Most importantly. If you haven’t yet been to a bush bash and you’re wondering whether to come, please do. You’ll certainly be made welcome. Better yet, start your own and send us all an invitation.
Thank you to all those that didn’t want to be thanked! Bitcoin for the win.
If we have not made the connection yet (Twitter is best), please reach out to one/both of us as it’s not always easy to connect the online persona with the real-life human. Safe travels.
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
https://twitter.com/AP_Bitcoin
Contact Us
EP64: Hats and his Weird Questions - Hats and Brendo
It’s nearly Bush Bash time again, so here’s one for the road.
On the agenda today:
- Welfare checks from your postman
- Weird questions
- Sugar is the biggest shitcoin
- Lightning node problems
- The friend that will tell you when you look like shit
- Why citadels won’t work
- Our favourite bush basher
- Are you prepared to not be liked
- Grayscale and Coinbase
- Proof of Reserves are a shitcoin
- Microstrategy
- Volcano bonds
- How did you feel safe as a child
- Taking responsibility for yourself
- Can you trust Bitcoin more than you trust yourself
- Why you will not beat bitcoiners
- Selling and buying back in
- Capital gains tax. Terrible “advice”. Don’t do this.
- Spending your time doing something constructive
Tweet(s) of the Week
https://twitter.com/shouldbuybtc/status/1590994002408804352?s=20&t=u28DP-9voPIO-VTMSyZriA
https://twitter.com/econoalchemist/status/1594467372047290368?s=20&t=u28DP-9voPIO-VTMSyZriA
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/BTCBrisket
https://twitter.com/the_Bowdog
Coinkite
https://store.coinkite.com/promo/F7F47F1AF0ECB0D7E907
Saylor Academy
https://learn.saylor.org/course/PRDV151
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 14,900 Sats
Itty 3,000 Sats
Brendo 19,300 Sats
Bitty 4,000 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
Contact Us
EP63: Fly Ninja - Hats and Brendo
Possibly our best work. Definitely Brendo’s.
Other than Fly Ninja we cross off the latest big topics:
- The Albury Shushing Conference
- The FTX shitshow
- Solvency, Liquidity and Contagion
- Fiat term deposits are the same as staked shitcoins
- Bank runs
- Learning hard lessons
- Holding your own Bitcoin
- Giving hope to drain the hope
- Hitler
- Diversification
- Leaning into the thing you don’t want to do
- Gay earrings
- Drink while you think
- Grass roots
- Tipping your favourite player
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
www.twitter.com/BitarooExchange
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 14,900 Sats
Itty 3,000 Sats
Brendo 19,300 Sats
Bitty 4,000 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
Contact Us
EP62: While We Wait with @danWilcz
Bitcoin is a game of patience. Daniel has been here a while and has shown more patience than most.
Founder of HardBlock.com.au – Australia's oldest Bitcoin only exchange – he's stayed true to his principles since finding Bitcoin in 2013. There have been hurdles and challenges along the way. Brendo and I sat down with him to hear his story and seek his advice. It left us with plenty to consider. We discuss:
- What it’s like being in Bitcoin full-time for 9 years
- Starting a Bitcoin business 4 months after discovering Bitcoin
- Jumping in on the 2013 price spike, and being underwater for 2 years
- Coming from a computer system engineering and economics background
- His rapid fall down the rabbit hole
- Never really having a “real job”
- Seeing a Bitcoin therapist
- Being part of a social revolution
- Managing risk in a Bitcoin business
- Being de-banked more than 20 times
- Building a service you’re happy to recommend to family and friends
- Encouraging customers to self-custody
- Shitcoin casinos
- Can you build a Bitcoin only business and why
- Industry bodies
- The ethics of advertising
- How you reach decisions
- Can a business outperform Bitcoin
- Local not global
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/BitcoinAdelaide
www.twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
Contact Us
EP61: Back Again with @beefbackbetter
It’s great having new guests on to tell us how they found their way to Bitcoin or explaining what they are doing in the Bitcoin ecosystem, but it’s also interesting to follow a story and see the progress over time.
Owen is an example of the latter. We first met at the OG Bitcoin Bush Bash in Murrurundi in 2020, then we travelled to his farm in northern NSW to check out his beef operation (EP22). We spoke again as he went over to El Salvador on a scouting mission to see if it really was somewhere he thought he could live (EP43) and now we catch up with him as he’s finding his feet in San Salvador. He’s not a talker...he’s a doer! He’s also a good talker...we discuss:
- Being top of the 2 Bit league
- Making the decision to sell the farm and leave Australia
- Living next door to the President’s mum
- Making friends in San Salvador
- The general cost of living (rent, fuel, food, quality beef, motorcycles)
- Travel restrictions
- Where’s Jordy
- Nomad or Expat
- Optimising tax status
- The perfect San Salvador climate
- Paying in Bitcoin/Lightning
- Problems with payments generally
- Where is the most chilled out Bitcoin conference
- Using the local health system
- Gringos having an edge
- No scamming or woke culture, completely safe and much less regulation
- Business ideas
- Adopting Bitcoin Lightning Summit, Nov 15-17
- https://adoptingbitcoin.org
- Bitcoin Landing Spot
- https://twitter.com/BTCLandingSpot
- Visas. Escape to El Salvador
- https://www.escapetoelsalvador.org
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/ThorupMikkel
https://twitter.com/AdoptingBTC
https://twitter.com/MuunWallet
https://twitter.com/walletofsatoshi
https://twitter.com/Bitcoinbeach
https://twitter.com/GaloyMoney
https://twitter.com/stacyherbert
https://twitter.com/RealDougCasey
https://twitter.com/nayibbukele
https://twitter.com/BeefInAustralia
EP60: Guess Who's Back - Hats and Brendo
Life’s been busy, but thanks for sticking around and waiting for us to put out another pod. Thanks also to Brisket and Daz for stepping up with some quality content while we were away.
Reasons (excuses) and topics today include:
- Did we miss each other?
- Getting out of your bubble
- The Twitter detox
- Being scammed for billion-dollar notes in Zimbabwe
- How normal people operate in a country that has persistently high inflation
- How to get money out of the country (without Bitcoin)
- How missing the boat helps you talk about Bitcoin
- Is being early good or just frustrating
- Extremes of rich and poor
- Is insurance a shitcoin?
- Newcastle now has a Bitcoin meetup
- Bush Bash WA
- Bitcoin Moon Fund OMG
- Ubuntu Node Box Tutorials
- www.ministryofnodes.com.au
- Why shitcoins are still a thing
- Lack of political options
- The BoE, GBP and the general UK mess
- How to bet against a sovereign debt default
- Reserving library books
- Bush Bash Murrurundi, 26-27 November 2022
- https://bitcoinbushbash.info/
- 35,000 sats a haircut
Pod Shout-outs
www.twitter.com/BTCSchellingPt
www.twitter.com/BitcoinMoonFund
www.twitter.com/hodloncomrades
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 12,900 Sats
Brendo 14,300 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
Contact Us
EP59: What to do if You Can’t Afford Bitcoin – Hats and Brendo
We’ve all got that friend that “can’t afford Bitcoin” or says, “it’s too risky”, right? Well, this episode is for them.
Please forward it on to them and we’ll talk them through risk free and no cost ways to earn Bitcoin (sats).
Links to all the ways discussed in this episode can be found at:
(Fountain –Breez – Fold – Lolli – Satsback – Thndr Games – Zebedee – Bitcoiner Jobs – Accepting Bitcoin)
We also go off on our usual tangents, including:
- Being offended by deaf jokes
- Kate Bush
- Daz Bea: Live
- Bitcoin Bush Bash (25-27th November)
- Chris Farley
- Affiliate Programmes
- Domain Envy
- Jobs in Bitcoin
- Games
- Harry Handjob
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/PodcastindexOrg
https://twitter.com/MattSenter
https://twitter.com/SwanBitcoin
https://twitter.com/VoltPayApp
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 12,900 Sats
Brendo 14,300 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
Contact Us
EP58: The Pan-demic, Beef, and Health Insurance
Hats is away and Brendo don't do show notes.
Suffice to say, and as you'll hear, this was an easy ep to record...
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/modernTman
https://twitter.com/dazbea1
https://twitter.com/BTCBrisket
https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss
www.2bitidiots.com
EP57: 2 Itty Bitty Idiots
Even if we get Morpheus himself, these 2 will always be our favourite guests.
Today, we welcome Itty and Bitty (our daughters) onto the pod to tell us what they know about Bitcoin, how annoying Bitcoin dads are and to give a kid's perspective on all these things we keep going on about.
I think they surprised themselves with how much they know, and it just proves that if kids can ‘get it’ there’s no excuse for anyone else not to.
Plus, it’s a doxx fest, so it’s gonna cost us!
We also talk about:
- Who pays the doxx fine
- A virtual money, a hard cap supply, no bank, peer-to-peer
- Getting better at knowing is easier when it’s something you enjoy
- What the girls believe money to be
- Shrinking Toblerone's, Big Mac’s and Pringles
- My terrible description of a 10p mix up
- Advertising tricks and mashed potato ice cream
- Scarcity
- Roblox and Robux
- Rollerskates and Dolls
- Buskers
- Turning anything into a Bitcoin conversation
- Do they talk about Bitcoin at school
- No more radio
- Accents
- Pocket money jobs
- eBay challenge
- How old is an old person, and how to convince them digital things have value
- Most people won’t know how Bitcoin works
- What’s your favourite part about Bitcoin
- We try to explain the difficulty adjustment
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/LookingGlassEdu
https://twitter.com/THNDRGAMES
https://twitter.com/PlaySHAmory
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 14,900 Sats
Itty 3,000 Sats
Brendo 19,300 Sats
Bitty 4,000 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
EP56: Bitcoin 4 India with @AbhilashNair11
We were wrong.
We keep doing pods with plebs from all over the world looking for how things are different where they are. And the answer is always...they’re not. Brendo even broke into “We Are the World” (sorry).
This week it was our pleasure to chat with Abhilash Nair (Abi) from Hexa Wallet (hexawallet.io) the first product from BitHyve. A fully remote team, predominantly based in India, the conversation focussed on Abi’s personal journey, the parallel journey of the Hexa Wallet and the Bitcoin 4 India conference on November 5th and 6th in Goa. We also touch on:
- Accents changing every 20km, language changing every 100km.
- Educating 1.3 billion people in India.
- NO CONNECTION TO HEX COIN (please avoid)
- Simplifying Hexa Wallet for ease of use, and the introduction of “Pledge” (fundraising) and “Keeper” (storage) to be released in a couple of months.
- Building an easy on-ramp to the Bitcoin ecosystem with a polished UI/UX
- Gifting sats
- Integrated exchange functionality (Swan, Ramp and Wyre)
- The polarising view of Testnet
- Sentiment in India for Bitcoin and cRYptO
- Family gatherings
- Transformative books
- The BitHyve team and the use of advisors
- Bitcoin4India for Indian bitcoiners
- Job satisfaction “through the roof”
- Choose to be a cynical optimist
Bitcoin 4 India
Bitcoin ONLY conference. 5/6 November. Goa, India.
https://twitter.com/Bitcoin4India
Hexa Wallet
A feature-rich, Bitcoin-only, self-custody wallet.
https://twitter.com/HexaWallet
Book Recommendations
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/Raahulc369
https://twitter.com/mrugakshee
https://twitter.com/BitcoinKeegan
https://twitter.com/pseudonymous369
https://twitter.com/RajarshiMaitra
https://twitter.com/saravananmani_
www.2bitidiots.com
EP55: Learn to Love the Bear - Hats and Brendo
We’re back where we belong. My dingy garage. But, we do have a piece of art on the wall now. It’s a $50 note that we’re calling “nostalgia”.
No guest this week I’m afraid, just Brendo asking stupid questions and then humouring my ranting responses. We cover:
- Modern art. That banana.
- Remembering every person you’ve ever met
- Taking time off Twitter and not checking the Bitcoin price
- The build, slog, patience phase is where you prepare for the bull
- Forcing someone to become a hodler
- Bitcoiners that don’t yet know about Bitcoin
- Muun wallet
- BIP39. Brendo was right
- Support your struggling local businesses
- How easy it is for us in Australia compared to the rest of the world
- Debt to GDP
- Strikes
- The UK Furlough response compared to the Energy response
- Rent freeze in Scotland
- The size of the Mona Lisa
- Christine Lagarde's inflation hump
- UK open to yield curve control. The world becomes Japan.
- Meter maids
- The Mayer Multiple
Tweet of the Week
https://twitter.com/fabushka_/status/1567515097437769729
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/EthanBitcoin
https://twitter.com/LookingGlassEdu
https://twitter.com/saylordotorg
https://twitter.com/MeyrickDabs
https://twitter.com/rabbitholerecap
https://twitter.com/MuunWallet
https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss
https://twitter.com/jackmallers
https://twitter.com/DylanLeClair_
https://twitter.com/TIPMayerMultple
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 10,900 Sats
Brendo 12,300 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
Contact Us
EP54: The Dabbling Path with @MeyrickDabs
I know, I know...we’ve been slack. More accurately, I’ve been slack, and Brendo’s been pulling his weight (I know right!). Feeble excuse given in the pod. Sorry.
But we’re back, and you’ll be pleased to hear we have a guest. Meyrick kindly invited us on to his pod (Meyrick’s Dabbling Path) a month or so ago, and we decided to continue the conversation here. Born in India but now an Australian citizen, he brings a different perspective that we are keen to hear more of. Bitcoin is for everyone, and we all need to spread the message as far as we’re able.
We discuss:
- How he emerged from the shitcoin and NFT maze
- Working at a crypto research firm
- Stopping mining in the early days because it was “making Counter Strike laggy”
- Working in the banking sector in India
- Removing legal tender status of the 500 and 1000 rupee note
- Is it wasting time or is it learning
- Can you outperform Bitcoin
- How can Bitcoin fail
- Meatspace v Twitter at Melbourne Bitcoin meetup
- The “best” shitcoins are just loyalty programmes
- Fiat mining for Bitcoin
- Saylor Academy. Bitcoin for Everyone
- Backlash from switching to Bitcoin
- Thoughts on religion and where Bitcoin intersects
- Are bitcoiners better people
- Bitcoin in India
- How Bitcoin fits with the Islamic view of money
- Podcast plans
- Privacy and KYC free coins
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/stephanlivera
https://twitter.com/PrinceySOV
https://twitter.com/BTCSchellingPt
https://twitter.com/parman_the
https://twitter.com/johnkvallis
https://twitter.com/Bitcoin4India
https://twitter.com/summerofbitcoin
https://twitter.com/HexaWallet
https://twitter.com/HodlersWay
https://twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash
https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact
https://anchor.fm/meyrick-john-dabreo
https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=468§ionid=17128
https://www.swanbitcoin.com/StackingHats
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 10,900 Sats
Brendo 12,300 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
www.2bitidiots.com
EP53: Finding your Conviction with @RHodlr
Let’s be honest. HODLing through a bear market is difficult. But you know what’s more difficult...coming in at the all-time high, and still HODLing.
Rauri (twitter.com/RHodlr) is a relatively new bitcoiner (he’s just approaching his 1st anniversary), but he has a rock-solid conviction and we wanted to know where it comes from. We dig into the following to find out:
- Orange-pilled by @BronzeFozzz
- Winemaking and balancing the demands of work and family life
- Mental health challenges
- Green candles versus reality
- A value system that seeks truth and the importance of curiosity
- Scarcity is understood intuitively
- Conspiracy theories, fear and government control
- Did you see the Sri Lankan, Netherlands or Hunter Biden story on MSM?
- Absolutely ZERO shitcoins
- Becoming a completely different person
- Farming
- https://beefinitiative.com/
- Men’s Retreat
- https://amberhawken.com
- Your answers are inside you
- Complete lifestyle changes
- Genuine responses and gratitude
- The growing bond with his kids
- Meditation and self-discipline
- Changing friendships
- Time is more important than Bitcoin
Book Recommendations
Choose Life (Daniel Prince)
21 Lessons (Gigi)
The Price of Tomorrow (Jeff Booth)
The Bitcoin Standard (Saifedean Ammous)
Green Murder (Ian Plimer)
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/bronzefozzz
https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss
https://twitter.com/modernTman
https://twitter.com/jakeeswoodhouse
https://twitter.com/johnkvallis
https://twitter.com/amber_hawken
https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
https://twitter.com/Iceman_Hof
Contact Us
EP52: The Saddest Episode Ever – Hats and Brendo
We’ve had a review...and it’s not good. To be fair, it was good for Brendo and shit for me. You can’t please all of the people all of the time. We’ll try to please some of the people some of the time.
Other than our mediocrity, we discuss:
- Brendo’s best ever tweet
- First-hand experience of struggle and poverty
- Divergence of consumer debt and savings
- The battle of the $50 and why Brendo might get fired
- The Bitcoin Bush Bash wrap-up
- https://twitter.com/bitcoinbushbash/status/1554332450917994496
- Coping with CPI round the world
- Desperate people do desperate things
- Whiplash in the Bitcoin price
- Lottery tax and how Bitcoin fixes gambling
- https://bitcoinorshit.com/
- Ricin poisoning
- European gas pricing
- https://www.statista.com/statistics/1201743/russian-gas-dependence-in-europe-by-country/
- Why my dad wants to buy more Bitcoin
- Public/Private keys analogy
- THAT review
Tweet of the Week
https://twitter.com/CasuallyGreg/status/1554200445286899712
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader
https://twitter.com/camilacampton
https://twitter.com/MeyrickDabs
https://twitter.com/ICOffenderII
https://twitter.com/Cryptic_Oz
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 9,900 Sats
Brendo 12,300 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
Contact Us
EP51: Dox Fest – Hats and Brendo
The quality of guests on the Australian Bitcoin Podcast hit a new low this week, so we thought we’d drop one at the same time, to go head-to-head with Justin.
Hope this gives the bitcoiners heading home from Yeppoon some low-brow content after having your brain tested over the weekend.
We discuss:
- What we’ll do with any boosts and streams
- Back to the Future
- Brendo not being fazed by the bear
- The pros and cons of being “all in” Bitcoin
- Managing consumer debt
- Why banks don’t act in your best interest
- Mortgage stress and the RBA
- Deterioration of living standards
- How many people want to be free?
- Tyranny and the degradation of liberties
- Italian stereotypes. Sorry Italy.
- Progress with a normie mostly down to improved UI/UX
- 1 on 1 orange pilling
- Are we saving people or do we just want to talk about Bitcoin
- Public library information sessions
- Urology and STDs!
- The Line
- Stackchain
Tweet of the Week
https://twitter.com/ParikPatelCFA/status/1552000171499741192
Earn Sats
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/bi_t_crispy
https://twitter.com/Breedlove22
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
https://twitter.com/haggishodl
https://twitter.com/anaveragesalmon
https://twitter.com/AriZonanHODL
https://twitter.com/BTCBrisket
https://twitter.com/fountain_app
https://twitter.com/bluewalletio
https://twitter.com/CitizenBitcoin
https://twitter.com/PrestonPysh
https://twitter.com/SwanBitcoin
Brisket’s Doxx Jar
Hats 9,900 Sats
Brendo 10,300 Sats
Daz 300 Sats – paid!
Contact Us