Bitcoin Fixes This

Michael Flaxman is a startup veteran, investor and Bitcoiner. We talk about startup valuations, inflation’s effect on investment and the Silicon Valley obsession with unicorns. Michael also tells us about how Bitcoin will change the flow of money to Venture Capital.

I answer listener questions about quantum computing, DeFi, Communism, the pandemic and many other things.

Adam Back is the CEO of Blockstream and an original cypherpunk. We talk about his cypherpunk roots, how protecting rights changes with technology and why privacy is important. Adam also tell us about how Bitcoin helps with self-sovereignty.

Stephan Kinsella is a patent attorney, Austrian economist and author of Against Intellectual Property. We talk about IP law’s monarchist origins and how it’s a tool for monopoly. Stephan also tells us about how information is not the same thing as physical property and how IP and Bitcoin both suffer from labor theories of value.

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert are the couple behind Keiser Report. We talk about broadcast media, how the news is a lot like the bread and circuses from Roman times and how they’re driven by pharmaceutical and defense industries. Max and Stacy also tell us about how they see a financial system collapse coming and how Bitcoin will be the safe haven.

Saifedean Ammous is the author of The Bitcoin Standard. We talk about the university system, how money has made it highly inefficient and how the internet is routing around it. Saifedean also tells us about how government money has made colleges into ineffective research institutions, how PhD students are abused as cheap labor and how competition will ultimately help everyone.

Michael Caras is known as the Bitcoin Rabbi and the author of Bitcoin Money. We talk about education, how money plays a role, and how Bitcoin can help. Michael also tells us about the importance of moral education, how competition can make the quality of education better and how public school is like keeping your Bitcoins on Coinbase.

Parker Lewis is the Head of Business Development at Unchained Capital. We talk about one of the greatest lies about money out there, how incentives are misaligned in the financial system and how Bitcoin changes the management of money. Parker also tells us his story of how he learned about the Fed and Bitcoin coming from a background of investment banking at Deutche Bank.

Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation.  In this episode we talk about what human rights is, how money plays a role and how Bitcoin is already helping in surprising ways. Alex also tells us how he first heard about Bitcoin, why he's pushing for Human Rights activists to use it and why he thinks privacy is such a critical part of Bitcoin's future.

Stephan Livera is a Bitcoin podcaster, speaker and Austrian economist. In this episode we talk about how fiat money has changed the workplace and how Bitcoin changes the nature of work. Stephan also tells us his story of how he went from financial auditor to Bitcoin podcaster and what he sees with the industry going forward. Mentioned in this episode:  Ethics of Money Production The Zero Inte...