#7 - Nell Hunter - Building Bitcoin Communities

In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Nell Hunter to unpack what it actually takes to build a real Bitcoin circular economy and live with sovereignty in a world designed to make people outsource their power.We dig into the Bitcoin Basin in Queenstown, New Zealand and why building peer to peer community is both inspiring and brutally hard. Nell breaks down how circular economies solve the chicken and egg problem, HODL vs spend, and how 43 local businesses accepting Bitcoin becomes a living proof point that the money can work in real life, not just on Twitter.From raw milk regulations to cash bans to broken incentives in farming and business, we explore how central planning quietly rewrites entire economies one rule at a time. The thread running through it all is simple: when you insert a third party into every transaction, you delete the free market and you delete responsibility.Finally, we bridge Bitcoin and plant medicine as parallel initiations. Both demand proof of work. Both reveal how much you cannot explain to people who have not lived it. And both push you toward the same destination: radical responsibility, clearer perception, and a life you actually chose.If you want a grounded conversation about Bitcoin adoption, circular economies, sovereignty, and the deeper psychology behind why people refuse to see what is right in front of them, this one is for you.Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠⁠⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/ ⁠⁠Follow Nell's Socials:⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Bitcoin BasinFollow Matt Blanco's Socials:⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Youtube