Episode 15: Pete Winn (bitcoinforhumans.com) discusses his bitcoin journey, sound money, the importance of community, and becoming an anarchist in a polo shirt living in a super capitalist cult.
Apr 17 2022 • 2hr 21m
Show Notes
Thanks to our guest:
https://twitter.com/pete_winn of https://bitcoinforhumans.com
Host:
https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
Sponsored by HardBlock - Australia's first and oldest bitcoin-only exchange: https://www.hardblock.com.au
Notes
- Beach swims and bouldering
- Pete's history before discovering bitcoin
- Sound versus unsound ladders
- Corrupt intermediaries eroding aid money for humanitarian causes
- Sound money is anti-corruption money
- Community is an important part of the solution
- Scale of organisations is a significant part of the problem
- What would a bitcoin bank be like?
- Who'll build the roads with no or less government?
- Morals and acceptable behaviour conforms to the rules of the game being played
- It's not about the left or right - there's a vertical liberty line too
- Starting and working on bitcoin education (https://bitcoinforhumans.com)
- Local institutions are key to a bitcoin solution (e.g., community-level banks or currency exchanges)
- Investing back into the community (in cash flow businesses), while storing long-term wealth in bitcoin
- Good money allows specialisation and division of labour
- Focusing career/vocation on education, exploring ways to generate dividends from bitcoin, helping people start with bitcoin and custody their keys
- Educating people early is important, because the shitcoin allure can be very distracting
- Shitcoins are a metaphoric eclipse attack on pre-coiners
- Orange pill strategies: understanding their position and identifying the problem
- What's the thing you're most disappointed about in life?
- Being a fiat debt slave
- Nobody really knows what they're doing
- Living in a super capitalist cult with a clubhouse in the middle
- Figuring out where to stand in an earthquake and teaching others to think the same way
- Currency and debt catastrophes are escalating
- Deflation is a good thing, except for in a debt-based economy
- It's impossible to measure and organise a complex system using a linear or flawed unit of account (e.g., GDP, CPI)
- Decentralizing power and building local small businesses and institutions will be the key to a hyperbitcoinized world
- It's still early to change to a bitcoin vocation
- Using CFDs with DLCs to smooth out bitcoin price volatility
- Being unbanked blocks people from society
- Censorship-resistance and permissionless are two of bitcoin's most important qualities
- Bitcoin is a mirror that encourages you to figure out a better moral framework
- Becoming an anarchist in a polo shirt
- Bitcoiners are generally a valid and reliable sounding board
- Preparing for the citadel building stage
- Statism is based on a logical fallacy
- Central planning cannot work in an emergent system
- Voluntaryism and anarchism are a more dynamic and responsive way to organise society
- Get involved in bitcoin - just dip your toe in!