83: Seb Bunney ON: How Bitcoin Can Heal the Damage Fiat Created

Scott and Seb Bunny are long-time friends and thinkers in the Bitcoin space who focus on the philosophical, societal, and spiritual implications of sound money.

In this episode, you're going to learn how fiat money distorts our perception of time and value, why Bitcoin could be the antidote to rising anxiety and survival-driven living, how inflation and state-controlled money affect everything from relationships to food quality, what the future might look like with AI, simulation theory, and Bitcoin intersecting, and why smaller, tighter communities might be the key to a more meaningful life.

Timestamps:

[00:00] Introduction

[01:40] The spiritual side of Bitcoin

[02:18] How Bitcoin relates to time

[03:01] Money as a measurement of time

[04:03] Energy, time, and the Bitcoin standard

[05:56] How government intervention distorts value

[06:39] The tyranny of the clock explained

[08:02] TikTok and shortened attention spans

[09:04] State-controlled money as a modern parasite

[09:56] How Bitcoin breaks the survival mindset

[10:41] Consciousness model: past, present, future

[12:57] Money working better in the past

[13:50] TikTok, dopamine, and attention collapse

[15:46] Financial stress and lack of meaning

[16:32] Masculine and feminine energy imbalance

[17:56] Fiat food and declining food quality

[18:34] Why beauty in architecture is disappearing

[20:00] Government subsidies and the grain boom

[21:45] Why our diets no longer match evolution

[22:31] Fiscal responsibility under a Bitcoin standard

[23:10] Why endless money printing kills innovation

[24:29] Nestlé and the World Economic Forum

[25:01] How legal tender laws protect bad money

[25:39] Capital gains tax and Bitcoin adoption

[26:20] Sea’s law and merchants choosing Bitcoin

[27:04] Nation states conflicted over Bitcoin

[28:04] Trump, Bitcoin, and US debt

[28:44] The dollar milkshake theory explained

[29:57] Ignoring hard money has real consequences

[30:22] Why universal basic income doesn’t work

[31:45] Technological progress an