Episode 15: Pete Winn (bitcoinforhumans.com) discusses his bitcoin journey, sound money, the importance of community, and becoming an anarchist in a polo shirt living in a super capitalist cult.

The Australian Bitcoin Podcast is focused on Australian bitcoin and privacy content, including educational episodes, recent news, and guest interviews.   Thanks to our guest: https://twitter.com/pete_winn of https://bitcoinforhumans.com Host: https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin Sponsored by HardBlock - Australia's first and oldest bitcoin-only exchange: https://www.hardblock.com.au Notes - Beach swims and bouldering - Pete's history before discovering bitcoin - Sound versus unsound ladders - Corrupt intermediaries eroding aid money for humanitarian causes - Sound money is anti-corruption money - Community is an important part of the solution - Scale of organisations is a significant part of the problem - What would a bitcoin bank be like? - Who'll build the roads with no or less government? - Morals and acceptable behaviour conforms to the rules of the game being played - It's not about the left or right - there's a vertical liberty line too - Starting and working on bitcoin education (https://bitcoinforhumans.com) - Local institutions are key to a bitcoin solution (e.g., community-level banks or currency exchanges) - Investing back into the community (in cash flow businesses), while storing long-term wealth in bitcoin - Good money allows specialisation and division of labour - Focusing career/vocation on education, exploring ways to generate dividends from bitcoin, helping people start with bitcoin and custody their keys - Educating people early is important, because the shitcoin allure can be very distracting - Shitcoins are a metaphoric eclipse attack on pre-coiners - Orange pill strategies: understanding their position and identifying the problem - What's the thing you're most disappointed about in life?  - Being a fiat debt slave - Nobody really knows what they're doing - Living in a super capitalist cult with a clubhouse in the middle - Figuring out where to stand in an earthquake and teaching others to think the same way - Currency and debt catastrophes are escalating - Deflation is a good thing, except for in a debt-based economy - It's impossible to measure and organise a complex system using a linear or flawed unit of account (e.g., GDP, CPI) - Decentralizing power and building local small businesses and institutions will be the key to a hyperbitcoinized world - It's still early to change to a bitcoin vocation - Using CFDs with DLCs to smooth out bitcoin price volatility - Being unbanked blocks people from society - Censorship-resistance and permissionless are two of bitcoin's most important qualities - Bitcoin is a mirror that encourages you to figure out a better moral framework - Becoming an anarchist in a polo shirt - Bitcoiners are generally a valid and reliable sounding board - Preparing for the citadel building stage - Statism is based on a logical fallacy - Central planning cannot work in an emergent system - Voluntaryism and anarchism are a more dynamic and responsive way to organise society - Get involved in bitcoin - just dip your toe in!