Episode 21: @BTCBrisket discusses his bitcoin journey, upgrading his privacy and security, permaculture, carnivore diet, bitcoin enabling resilience and autonomy, homeschooling, and citadel building.

Episode • May 29, 2022 • 1h 54m

- 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!

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