Citizen Bitcoin

Anil has been a bitcoiner since 2015 ever since the first ever Bitcoin ATM was installed in his neighborhood. He has traveled down the rabbit hole steadily ever since until he was eventually able to start working independently full time educating about Bitcoin. He’s been producing some very high quality threads, courses and workshops .As you all know, I’m all about Bitcoin education, so definitely had to have Anil on for a chat. Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestSwan Bitcoin - Buy bitcoin with your bank accountMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekLinksAnil on TwitterDelete Coinbase Account in Three Easy StepsBitcoin Wallets: How, Why and When to Hold Your Own Private KeysSwan Bitcoin: The best way to buy bitcoin from your back account with automatic recurring buys 

For episode 100 I went back into the early interview episodes and grabbed some clips of me sharing about the early days of my journey when I lacked any conviction at all about what was going on here up to recent episodes where I am bullish as fuck and utterly convicted that we’re all living through the dawn of the bitcoin renaissance right now. In between are clips that represent the ideas that I have gleaned from the great Bitcoiners I’ve had the opportunity to interview and discuss Bitcoin with over the past couple years and have become foundational to my understanding of Bitcoin. 

Croesus BTC is a nym, of course, pretty fresh on the scene. He’s burst on the scene with some killer threads and viral tweets. We talk through his most widely shared thread giving yet more credibility to Plan B’s Stock to Flow models. Then this one got cosmic pretty quick. It was a great rip - let’s dive in. Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestSwan Bitcoin - Buy bitcoin with your bank accountMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekLinksCroesus on TwitterDelete Coinbase Account in Three Easy StepsBitcoin Wallets: How, Why and When to Hold Your Own Private KeysSwan Bitcoin: The best way to buy bitcoin from your back account with automatic recurring buys 

Reed Wommack joined the Swan team a couple months ago as our support ninja. He’s turned out to be a Swiss Army knife, filling in on lots of different projects. Reed is an interesting guy and in this episode we get into his experience with meditation and Zen Bhuddism, discuss Bitcoin’s effect on society, Reed’s bitcoin journey through the shitcoin and stocks casino and safely out the other side. There’s a lot more, it was a pretty dense conversation, let’s just dive in. Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestSwan Bitcoin - Buy bitcoin with your bank accountMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekLinksReed on TwitterDelete Coinbase Account in Three Easy StepsBitcoin Wallets: How, Why and When to Hold Your Own Private KeysSwan Bitcoin: The best way to buy bitcoin from your back account with automatic recurring buys 

Obi  Nwosu is co-founder and CEO of Coinfloor - a UK based Bitcoin exchange. Coinfloor was founded in early 2013, so Obi has been on the scene for a long time. In this episode we talk about Obi’s background, the founding and growth of Coinfloor, get some Bitcoin history stories and dive into a bit of tech at the end - Obi has an engineering background. Obi is one of the good ones, it was a real treat to get to spend some time with him - I think you’ll agree.  Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestSwan Bitcoin - Buy bitcoin with your bank accountMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekLinksObi on TwitterDelete Coinbase Account in Three Easy StepsBitcoin Wallets: How, Why and When to Hold Your Own Private KeysSwan Bitcoin: The best way to buy bitcoin from your back account with automatic recurring buys 

Pretty much all of you will know Guy, he’s the creator and host of Bitcoin Audible, one of the most valuable educational resources in Bitcoin.  He’s also a buddy of mine and it’s always fun to chill and chat with him for a couple hours. We go all over the place in this one - we talk open source software, privacy, our post-truth society, go pretty deep on Taproot and why it’s such an important soft-fork upgrade, the emerging bitcoin-only industry and at the end we get bullish on price and the official beginning of the next bull run. Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestSwan Bitcoin - Buy bitcoin with your bank accountMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekLinksGuy on TwitterDelete Coinbase Account in Three Easy StepsBitcoin Wallets: How, Why and When to Hold Your Own Private KeysSwan Bitcoin: The best way to buy bitcoin from your back account with automatic recurring buys 

Today we sit down with  Vake. He's been around for a long time. In this one we go back in history and talk about bitcoin in the 2013-2016 era, a lot of fun to dive back and will be some new stuff to a lot of you who, like me came in 2017 or later. We then talk about bitcoin in the here and now and move on to some speculation about the coming decade. This is good stuff - I know all you bitcoiners will enjoy!Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestSwan Bitcoin - Buy bitcoin with your bank accountMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekLinksVake on TwitterDelete Coinbase Account in Three Easy StepsBitcoin Wallets: How, Why and When to Hold Your Own Private KeysSwan Bitcoin: The best way to buy bitcoin from your back account with automatic recurring buys 

This week we sit down with Robert Allen - a bitcoiner who has taken the buidl ethos to heart and built the beginnings of the moneda network - a remittance app that uses the lightning network for payment rails. we talk about building on lightning, the future of the lightning net work and We also get into monetary policy, and more.Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestSwan Bitcoin - Buy bitcoin with your bank accountMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekLinksMoneda NetworkRobert on Twitter

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Today we sit down with ObiWan Kenobit. We talk about what he calls the Decade of Discontent ahead of us as we transition through a currency collapse and into a new monetary era based on bitcoin. We talk about history through the lens of generational change guided by the ideas of William Strauss and Neil Howe and we talk about the second anniversary of his viral piece “Hyperbitcoinization: Winner Takes All” - about how the article holds up and any updates he might make to it 2 years on.Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekObiwan on Twitter

Today we sit down with Prateek Goorha, an economist, professor and autodidact. Prateek has written some of the most underappreciated Bitcoin content out there. His writing runs the gamut from price cycle analysis to contract theory to philosophy.  In this one we discuss all three. Be sure to check the show notes for a link to Prateek’s medium page and dive in for some great reading! Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekPrateek on TwitterPrateek on Medium

Alessandro Cecere is CEO at Coinspree, a leading LATAM Bitcoin business based in Caracas, Venezuela. Coinspree provides custodial solutions to institutional investors and merchants. Coinspree has also launched the PandoraBox - a beautiful full node solution. El Sultan Bitcoin made waves on Bitcoin Twitter recently with his cypherpunk satellite setup. Alessandro is incredibly passionate and this episode is insanely bullish. Get yourself ready to get hyped - prep some fiat in case you need to smash that buy button during this ep. Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekAlessandro on TwitterCoinspree

Today we sit down with Bheki Mahlobo, an economics student and active bitcoiner from South Africa. Bheki appears in the new bitcoin documentary Banking on Africa - which is great and you should definitely check it out. Bheki discovered Austrian economics in high school and has gone on to study economics, albeit of the Keynsian variety, at university but describes how he studies Austrian economics on his own. We discuss the state of the economy and of bitcoin in South Africa and running a full node! Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekBheki on Twitter

Today we sit down with Stephen Cole, bitcoiner and investor.  Stephen is well known on Bitcoin Twitter for his insightful, often funny and expert distilled tweets. He’s an investor in several great Bitcoin companies, including Swan. We talk about Stephen’s Bitcoin background, how he came to learn Austrian economics, the evolution of his political beliefs, and investing in bitcoin companies.  Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekStephen on Twitter

Today we sit down with Jeff Booth author of the new book The Price of Tomorrow. Jeff is a long time tech entrepreneur - He led BuildDirect, a technology company that aimed to simplify the building industry, for nearly two decades and he invests in and sits on the boards of many tech companies. Needless to say Jeff has his finger on the pulse of the global tech industry. In this disucssion we dive into the ideas he’s fleshed out in The Price of Tomorrow - deflationary technology in the time of inflationary monetary policy - the deep societal problems caused by inflationary money - how deflationary technology could combine with the deflationary money that is Bitcoin. We soberly examine the current state of affairs but also consider a bright future ahead and the path to get there.    Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekJeff on Twitter

Today we sit down with Justine, aka @MsHodl - Justine is a bitcoiner who drops smart takes on Twitter and I wanted to sit down and chat some bitcoin with her - we get into her background and rabbit hole story, we talk about how bitcoin could help rebuild society from the bottom up, about coming to bitcoin from different political perspectives, about “toxicity” in the space and much more. Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekJustine on Twitter

Erik is a crypto-anarchist, iconoclast, and thinker that has been working in the bitcoin ecosystem since 2012. His primary concerns are the intersections of political, economic, and social theory as they relate to bitcoin specifically - and in this episode we get into all these topics and we start with talk about his time at Coinbase - it’s a wide ranging discussion that was very interesting from start to finish. Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekErik on TwitterErik's writing

Aleks Svetski is founder and CEO of Swan’s Aussie autostacking ally - Amber. In this episode we talk about principles of liberty, freedom, short term thinking vs long term thinking, how an economy is complex like natural systems and natural money arises organically from a free market. It’s always great to hang out with Aleks.Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekLinks from the episode:Aleks on TwitterAleks on MediumAmber

Brandon Quittem published last week the fourth and final installment of his wonderful mycelium/mushroom/medicine/symbiosis series. John Vallis, host of the Bitcoin Rapid Fire podcast, and I both slid right into Brandon’s DMs to schedule him for a pod. I love these two guys and it occurred to me that it’d be a ton of fun to do this thing all together. So we did. This is the first half of our 2 hour 40 minute conversation - you will find the second half on the Bitcoin Rapid Fire podcast feed. This was a blast, we had a wide ranging conversation that was not at all limited to Bitcoin. In the second half we get crazy cosmic so be sure not to miss it. Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekLinks from the episode:Bitcoin is a Decentralized Organism (Mycelium) — Part 1 / 4Brandon on TwitterJohn on TwitterBitcoin Rapid Fire podcast    

Robert and I dive into the ideas of Nassim Taleb, laid out in his Incerto series, as they relate to bitcoin. A lot of Bitcoiners will know of and have read Taleb’s work, surely there are some of you listening who haven’t - this episode is great for both - enjoy!Citizen Bitcoin on TwitterCitizen Bitcoin PodcastCitizen Bitcoin Layer One merch collectionBitcoiner's BestMusic: Moon in the Sky by HobotekLinks from the episode:Robert on TwitterRobert on MediumParallax Digital