EP28: Despair, Depression, Hope and Purpose. Psychology meets Bitcoin with @mission_bitcoin
Justin is the education, content and privacy lead at HardBlock (the oldest Bitcoin only exchange in Australia), helping no-coiners become bitcoiners and bitcoiners become self-sovereign and privacy conscious. But – perhaps more importantly – he is a psychologist who is bringing those skills into the Bitcoin economy.
We’ve been wanting to do pod about depression/hope/desperation/purpose for a while now, but (understandably) no one has wanted to come on the pod to open themselves up to that. So, the next best thing is to look at those issues from a professional perspective and Justin knocks this one out of the park.
We cover loads of different angles, but here’s a summary of the topics we discussed. We genuinely hope it helps someone.
- Justin’s journey into Bitcoin through psychology, through his interest in privacy and government overreach.
- How the current system prevents psychology from being a confidential service, and how implementing Bitcoin (and privacy tools) into a practice could improve the service to the client.
- Looking at the world though a Bitcoin lens and realising that it’s solving the problem of corrupt/broken money.
- How you can see the misallocation of fiat in healthcare, nutrition, farming practices, the education system, science...the list goes on.
- Society being robbed of Zero to One moments.
The Price of Tomorrow, Jeff Booth - https://amzn.to/3j0r8y2
The Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean Ammous - https://amzn.to/3Azt1YE
Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas Antonopolous - https://amzn.to/3BfF1Ao
- Increase in lack of meaning, emptiness and cognitive dissonance, despite leading a “full” life.
- General free-floating stress and anxiety.
- Emotional regulation systems. Enjoyment, Achievement and Soothing.
- Turning off the stress system.
- Understanding that you are not the cause of the negative things you are observing in the world.
- Balancing delayed gratification with foregoing the present.
- Shitcoins being fractional reserve banking on steroids (but we like familiarity)
- Eclipse attacks.
- The most successful orange-pill technique starts with, “How is Bitcoin relevant to you, and what concerns you?”
- The HardBlock story. Being a customer and liking the ethics before joining the team.
- Thinking of Bitcoin as a savings account.
- Turning down offers to shitcoin.
- No deposit (auto buy) or trade fees, withdrawal (auto send) just 99 sats! Make money purely from the spread.
- Complexity being abstracted away.
- Building trust and engaging with local businesses.
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