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Graham Rittener wants a mainstream audience to understand the impact Bitcoin is having on humanity. This is why he produced Dare to Dream: A Story from El Salvador — one of the biggest Bitcoin documentaries ever made. In this interview, Graham discusses the process of making the film, what he learned from his time in El Salvador and spreading the message of Bitcoin beyond the Bitcoin echo chamber....

Brindon Mwiine is an inspiration. He's the type of person who succeeds at doing whatever he puts his mind to. His projects, Gorilla Sats, a Bitcoin educational platform, and Bitcoin Kampala, a Bitcoin circular economy in Uganda, have begun to garner attention from the international Bitcoin community because of the effort that Brindon has put into both of them. In this interview, we talk about how...

Willem Schroé is a cryptographer and hardcore Bitcoiner who's on the verge of making bitcoin a currency capable of fueling transactions via the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) through the use of spiderchains. Put another way, Willem's company Botanix is building a Layer 2 on Bitcoin on which bitcoin (BTC) will be used instead of ether (ETH) when transacting on the dApps, DEXes, etc. that currently...

Master Guantai has earned the title master. Intensely-focused and highly-disciplined, he's put in his 10,000 hours of studying Bitcoin, and he now teaches Kenyans all that he knows of this new form of money that solves a number of problems for everyday Africans. He's also founded BitcoinMtaani, an educational platform on which materials are translated into various African languages, and Bitcoin Ma...

Kal Kassa doesn't play. Hailing from Ethiopia and a part-time resident of Texas, he's quick witted and on a mission to educate the Ethiopian people about Bitcoin. When he's not updating Bitcoin Birr (https://github.com/BitcoinBirr) — the open-source Bitcoin education platform he created — he's supporting Bitcoin-related tech start ups in Ethiopia or speaking about Bitcoin at an event. Steadfast an...

Win Ko Ko Aung was a well-known author and personality in Myanmar when he had to flee the country due to his being threatened by the authoritarian government that took control of the country in February 2021 after he spoke out against it. Now, he's based in the United States and is a McCourt Scholar in a Data Science for Public Policy program at Georgetown University, a contributor to Bitcoin Maga...

It seems like there's nothing Man Like Kweks can't do. From recently summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro — the highest peak in his home country of Tanzania — to making music to educating the youth, Man Like Kweks is the type of Renaissance Man we like to be associated with here at new renaissance capital. In this interview, he details how the Bitcoin and Nostr communities helped him get to the peak of "Kili...

Noelle Acheson is extremely knowledgeable when it comes to Bitcoin, crypto and macroeconomics, and she shares her thoughts with great nuance, calm and compassion. As the author of the Crypto Is Macro Now newsletter — https://noelleacheson.substack.com/ — and as a contributor to CoinDesk — https://www.coindesk.com/author/noell… — Noelle examines the power shifts at play in the world, especially in...

Lorraine Marcel believes that if we're ever going to reach hyperbitcoinization, women are going to need to be a part of the Bitcoin space. Hence she started Bitcoin Dada ("Dada" means "sister" in Swahili) to educate the young women or Kenya, and now other African countries, about what Bitcoin is and how to use it. She also recently hosted the launch party for Machankura Kenya, which was a smashing...

Isaiah Jackson is exactly the type of Renaissance Man we like to interview here at new renaissance capital. He's the author of Bitcoin and Black America, plus a handful other other books including his latest: Stacks Sats Motherf*cker (link below). He's the co-host of The Gentlemen of Crypto, the second longest running Bitcoin/crypto show and the co-founder of Black Bitcoin Billionaires. And he's c...

Mauricio Di Bartolomeo believes that it's essential to understand the nature of money if you want to be financially successful. Growing up in Venezuela and witnessing his country's political and economic systems unravel, Mauricio learned the hard way that hard work doesn't matter much if you save in fiat. In 2015, his brother discovered Bitcoin and started mining it. Upon witnessing his brother's...

Luthando Ndabambi is doing extremely important work. He's teaching the youth of a township in South Africa how to do two very difficult things: understand Bitcoin and surf. He does this work two programs that compliment one another — Bitcoin Ekasi and the Surfer Kids non-profit. In this interview you'll learn about how Luthando helped developed Bitcoin's Ekasi's circular bitcoin economy, how Bitco...

Kemal ' El Flako' Yaşar is an model Bitcoiner. He discovered Bitcoin almost 10 years ago when he began using the network for remittance payments. Not long after, he began participating in a Bitcoin meet-up in Munich, Germany (one of the oldest Bitcoin meet-ups; it started in 2010). After years of educating people in Germany's Bitcoin scene, Kemal and his family moved to Istanbul, Turkey, where the...

Kumi Nkansah is an inspiration. Using his skills as a professional radio broadcaster and a digital marketer, he's in the process of orange-pilling the nation of Ghana. Inspired by those he met at the first ever African Bitcoin Conference (https://www.afrobitcoin.org/) in December 2022, Kumi took to the streets and started educating everyday Ghanaians as well as members of the Ghanaian government a...

Nikolai 'OKIN' Tjongarero began using the Bitcoin network for remittances out of necessity. A few years after he first used the network, he fell deep down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. Now, he orange pills everyone from everyday Namibians to members of the Namibian Central Bank about Bitcoin. Learn more about OKIN here: https://tnnbtjongarero.wixsite.com/ok… 00:00 — Introduction 01:08 — Black Vulcanite...