2-Bit Idiots

Feels like a while since we’ve done a Hats and Brendo.  Let’s be honest, the guest shows are better, BUT these are the ones where we just muck about, say whatever garbage comes into our heads and see if we can trigger each other.  It’s a lot of fun. We can’t even promise it’s always going to be Bitcoin related (even though everything is if you try hard enough).  In this we discuss:...

This one is an open riff with a fellow pleb.  There was no agenda and no list of questions to get through. Brisket is a beef maximalist.  He was a bitcoiner waiting for Bitcoin, when he was introduced via the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Shawn Baker, Zach Bitter with Saifedean Ammous and Michael Goldstein as guests (Episode 28). As a self-described “fat bastard” we talk about his 10-yea...

Richard James (@rjames_BTC) is best known in Bitcoin circles as the creator of the films Hard Money, Petrodollars and Anatomy of the State, but he’s also a small business owner from Melbourne, Australia who holds his balance sheet in Bitcoin.  He’s a proper bitcoiner! We first met Richard at the Murrurundi Bitcoin Bush Bash, where unfortunately Brendo let us all down with his audio skills 😉...

Owen is a bitcoiner and cattle farmer who we first met at the Bitcoin Bush Bash in 2020.  He gave a Bitcoin for Beginners presentation then and followed that with a Regenerative Agriculture presentation in 2021. There’s no better way to learn about something than to see it for yourself, so Brendo and I jumped in the car and headed north to visit the farm and see his farming philosophy in acti...

Happy New Year.  Hope you’ve all survived hanging out with your normie family, and that you’re suitably refreshed and ready to smash it in 2022. If you like hearing us ramble about nothing in particular, this is the show for you! As well as talking about the disgraceful state Brendo got himself into at New Year, we also talk about: Orange-pilling another neighbour, learning to follow your gut...

We lied to you.  We said we would do interview/us/interview/us and it’s been all interviews recently.  It’s hard to say no to people though, and it’s great to get other people’s perspectives to help you refine your own.  We hope you’ve enjoyed them too. This week, however, it’s back to just the 2 idiots in the garage, with very little preparation, just spit-balling about Bitcoi...

Once you truly see the potential in Bitcoin, you go all in, and don’t look back. This week, we learn from THE Bitcoin Baseball team’s CBO (Chief Bitcoin Officer) Patrick O’Sullivan, that the first movers are Perth Heat. www.bitcoinperthheat.com We go right back to the start of Patrick’s Bitcoin story – the first Christmas lunch orange-pilling – all the way to his appointment as CBO, and what that...

The weekend was awesome, the audio is appalling.  As I frequently remind him, Brendo is responsible for the audio, so please direct complaints his way. I’ll not doxx anyone here, but just summarise to say 40-50 bitcoiners rocked up to Murrurundi (rural New South Wales) for the 4th bush bash.  It’s the first time we’ve returned to a town, and we’ll definitely be back.  There are...

Actually no, that’s not strictly true... Brendo has a troll.  Call us naïve, but what better way to engage than to invite him on the pod.  And it turns out, we all got on well.  Why?  Because we’re all bitcoiners, that’s why. Frankly, I wish Brendo had got a harder time, but apart from a few sly digs, BowDog let him off easy. 😉 This was a fun one for us.  We spoke about:...

The giants of Bitcoin Australia just keep showing up on the 2-Bit Idiots pod, and there is no better than WizardofAus. I’m also pleased to say it was our first meatspace interview, as Wiz joined us for a BBQ (before the mics were turned on) and whisky (while they were on). The pod had 2 main topics - Security and the Bitcoin Bush Bash: Security Security is a journey. Having Bitcoin is better than...

Hats and Brendo shoot the shit about all things Bitcoin.  This week we cover: Elon Musk, THAT Twitter poll, unrealised capital gains and could he be selling stock to buy Bitcoin.  Are FAANG stocks becoming yesterday’s news. Tim Cook is now holding Bitcoin (and eTh) but Apple has no plans to purchase. We talk about when that will change and whether it’ll be company led, or shareholder for...

Quick fire pods this week, and this time our guest is @MattSenter , CTO, Co-Founder of Lolli.com and Jason Mamoa lookalike. Mostly based in North Carolina and launched in 2018, Lolli is a service which requires no technical skills, but allows people to earn Bitcoin rewards whilst shopping online, without having to buy it directly. Through their browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari)...

When you sit down with a Scotsman to talk Bitcoin, the conversation inevitably turns to freedom. We start with a shout-out to Haggis’ meatspace mate @anaveragesalmon who helped his transition from “buying Bitcoin to speculate in a myth” to becoming a “freedom coin stacker”. Haggis tells us how during the first lockdown in Scotland he turned to Bitcoin education (multi-tasking with podcasts and bei...

We have a couple of guests over the weekend, so thought we’d squeeze in an extra ‘Hats and Brendo’ episode for you. We riff on: The Commonwealth Bank (Australia’s biggest bank with 15.9 million customers) announcing they are adding ‘digital assets’ to their banking app, and why that’s a good and a bad thing. Why no one likes a guy without a cake. Coinbase adding up to $1m Bitcoin collateralised lo...

Hats and Brendo riff on all things that have caught their attention this week in Bitcoin. Why technology is difficult, and why that’s no different in Bitcoin. If you find it easy, you must become the go-to person in your friend and family group. Toxic Brendo trends on Twitter Business and Finance and tells us why he looks through all financial advice books for mentions of Bitcoin, and why most of...

Camila Campton, the Swan Force lead at Swan Bitcoin, joins us to discuss what makes all of us willing to talk about Bitcoin 24/7. A self-described newbie with a willingness to learn, Camila is crushing it with Swan, who first approached her to work on their social media but is now also presenting the Bitcoin En Espanol show with Javier Bastardo @criptobastardo from Venezuela. She sees herself as a...

The Turkish Lira is in freefall and the central bank just cut interest rates by 2 percentage points, making things significantly worse for Turkish people. This week we are joined by Efe - twitter.com/efecini - a Turkish Bitcoin maximalist, who tells us what it's really like. Efe was the translator of the Bitcoin Whitepaper into Turkish on bitcoin.org.  He's also just about to start a Bitcoin...

In this episode we talk Bitcoin freestyle. No plan, just see where it takes us. We end up talking about: The housing ‘boom’.  Why you think you’re getting rich but aren’t. Hats love for Jeff Booth, and why the ‘growth forever’ system is unsustainable. Skirting around the ‘C’ word. Inflation and why the CPI metric looks bad but doesn’t even tell the whole bad story. Depression, and how Bitcoin...

Do you keep hearing about Bitcoin, but have no idea what anyone is talking about?  Do bitcoiners use terms that you don’t understand what they mean?  Do you feel like you’re asking a ‘stupid question’, so rather than look ‘stupid’ you just don’t ask? If any of that sounds familiar, this is the pod for you. We sit down with @_k3tan from @ministryofnodes to break down the most common terms...

Of course you do! Does that title seem a bit spammy?  It does, yes.  But, it is possible, and this pod will tell you how. Many people still think you must buy a whole Bitcoin, and at around AUD65k a coin you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s out of reach for the everyday person. However, this is not true.  In the same way as $1 is made up of 100 cents, 1 Bitcoin is made up of 100...

In this episode @BitcoinBrendo asks @StackingHats the question all real bitcoiners ask themselves regularly... “Are we right about Bitcoin?” The answer might surprise you! If you'd like to contact us, please do so via Twitter: www.twitter.com/2BitIdiots (here if you’d like to be a Pod guest) www.twitter.com/BitcoinBrendo www.twitter.com/StackingHats Or visit our website: www.2bitidiots.com The pod...

‘Andy B Adviser’ is from England and now lives in Australia.  He started looking around for answers about money and savings around the time of the COVID crash, and has in a short time, become a Bitcoin maxi and Self-Managed Super Fund DCAer. In this episode we dig into his fall down the rabbit hole, to help us understand why he considers Bitcoin his long-term savings solution to ensure his own fin...

Welcome back and thanks for sticking with us. In this episode Hats gives us an idiot’s guide to Central Banking and why it is their policies and actions that are making you, and almost everyone else, poorer. Using a simple analogy (and if Hats can come up with it, it must be) we guarantee you will understand the problem and why Bitcoin is the solution. We also discuss the idea of Fiat Mining, what...

I (Hats) had a DM exchange with Daniel a bit over a year ago, but other than that, we didn’t know each other. So, when we released our first episode (and had a few podcasting issues) I decided to reach out again to ask for some advice. Daniel’s podcast Once Bitten, is one of our go-to pods for all things Bitcoin, and in the last couple of years he’s really established himself as not only a great h...

A first attempt at a Bitcoin podcast (or any podcast) by @StackingHats and @BitcoinBrendo .   The purpose of the pod is to introduce Bitcoin to listeners in a way that is not filled with jargon and is approachable for the everyday person. Along the way, we hope to bring on guests that will either teach us something about Bitcoin, or just tell us the story of how and why they got involved...