Episode 21: @BTCBrisket discusses his bitcoin journey, upgrading his privacy and security, permaculture, carnivore diet, bitcoin enabling resilience and autonomy, homeschooling, and citadel building.
Thanks to our guest: https://twitter.com/btcbrisket
Host: https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
Sponsored by HardBlock: https://www.hardblock.com.au
Notes
- Bitcoin Bush Bash reflections - appreciating the thriving genuine Aussie bitcoin tribe
- Setting up a pfSense router for better home network privacy and security
- Running CalyxOS on a Pixel and learning about Samourai Wallet and BIP47 PayNyms
- Learning better coin control (UXTO management) and taking care of bitcoin privacy
- Brisket's bitcoin journey
- Learning about bitcoin through the carnivore diet (eg, carnivore is the answer to fiat food, and bitcoin is the answer to fiat money)
- Understanding (the hard way) about why we don't trade or use leverage
- Technical Analysis is horoscopes for men
- Finding quality signal on Bitcoin Twitter
- Learning about permaculture and taking forward those philosophies into other aspects of life
- Bitcoiners operate on first principles, with firm beliefs, held lightly
- Experiences with and science behind carnivore diet and removing seed oils (polyunsaturated fatty acids)
- John K Vallis iconically not wearing a shirt in podcasts
- Discovering bitcoin is a framework to live your life better, like an immune system
- The benefits of generalising and localisation over specialising and globalisation
- Harnessing the bitcoin community to learn skills to be more self-sufficient and be apart of something greater
- Bitcoin is based on solid underpinning principles and is about freedom, autonomy, and personal responsibility
- Fiat systems are full of complexity which become impossible for most people to fully understand
- Bitcoin is a cheat code that helps you think better
- We're all working for bitcoin, only some of us get paid for it
- The fiat world becomes increasingly unrelatable the further down the bitcoin rabbit hole you go
- Shill lightly, if at all (as per Gigi)
- You'd be amazed at the things you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit - an open source ethos
- Complacency and indifference is a long-term threat to bitcoin
- Appreciating the blocksize wars and how resilient the bitcoin code and network is
- Toxic maximalism is part of bitcoin's immune system
- Things to be bullish about: Jack Mallers' announcement, global deterioration, bitcoin being normalised, bitcoiners
- Bitcoin is a one way street
- Keeping extra meat in the freezer for if someone, anyone, needs to be fed
- Having kids, home schooling, and citadel (bitcoin community) building
- Using Obsidian to document ideas and knowledge
- Bitcoin is hope!