We dive into:
🔹 How Bitcoin enables low-cost, borderless transactions without centralized control
🔹 Bitcoin’s role as resistance money in authoritarian regimes
🔹 Why decentralized transparency makes Bitcoin hard to censor
🔹 How speculative use in the West fuels freedom in oppressed regions
🔹 Bitcoin’s energy use, renewables, and potential environmental upside
🔹 How Bitcoin could help end redlining and financial discrimination
🔹 The volatility challenge and why it may never go away
🔹 Why Bitcoin pushes governments toward better digital currencies
🔹 The Bitcoin Research Institute’s mission to fix academic misconceptions
🎙 Guest: Bradley Rettler
Resistance Money Link - https://www.resistance.money/Â
https://x.com/rettlerbÂ
Bitcoin Research Institute - www.uwyo.edu/bitcoin
00:00 – How American speculation in Bitcoin empowers global resistance
02:01 – Brad’s philosophical entry point into Bitcoin and early impressions
05:34 – What philosophy has to say about Bitcoin's nature and value
09:01 – The “veil of ignorance” test: is Bitcoin good for the world?
12:30 – Defining resistance money and how Bitcoin challenges centralized control
15:04 – Bitcoin vs. makers, managers, and mediators of money
19:48 – Comparing Bitcoin’s externalities to fiat systems
23:33 – Why Bitcoin’s energy use may lead to cleaner, waste-reducing innovation
28:26 – The academic bias against Bitcoin and the need for better research
32:51 – What most Bitcoin critics misunderstand—including Nature Climate Change
38:51 – Teaching Bitcoin through analogies, from Fort Knox to email
45:50 – How Bitcoin shifts thinking on control, trust, and monetary reform
50:00 – The powerful human rights case for Bitcoin
54:47 – Where to follow Bradley and get involved with the Bitcoin Research Institute
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