I’ve been invited to a student radio show as a guest.
I work as a sound designer in the film industry and I live on a Bitcoin standard. The conversation will touch on my position in the market and how I see money today.
I’m curious:
If you were sitting in that studio, how would you briefly explain that today’s market is not truly free, and why hard money like Bitcoin matters, without hype, price talk, or ideology?
How would you spark interest in people who’ve never thought about free markets or sound money, but who will feel the consequences of the current system?
Short answers welcome. I’d love to bring some of your perspectives into the conversation.
To understand Bitcoin it first helps greatly to understand fiat.
Most people don't.
Explain how fiat money operates to give huge privilege to bankers and governments.
Explain how fiat money is created everytime a bank issues debt and how that debases all other fiat money within the same system.
Then explain how Bitcoin operates on a different program of issuance that treats all participants equally without fear or favour.
Thank you!
it really depends how long your talk or interview is going to be.
if you have the time, I recommend including a bit of general sociological/archaeological history[1]; how human societies got from the point where outstanding debts and favors were simply remembered and passed on by word-of-mouth, through the emergence of various technologies [monetization of jewelry, written records, eventually currency that functioned only as such]. I think it's an important perspective when introducing Bitcoin, otherwise the problem of coordinating all of humanity with one financial technology seems a little contrived.
covering this in any significant level of detail takes time, so if you're pressed maybe at least mention that there is this background and you don't have time to go into detail. The most important point is how inflation of modern currencies dilutes the poor into wage-slavery, making the modern world with its cognitive dissonance in some ways bleaker than the less "enlightened" civilizations that preceded it.
I always liked Nick Szabo's blog post on this topic, and the Nakamoto Institute site has a copy of it: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/shelling-out/ ↩
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I like using Jeff Booth's starting point as my own: "The natural state of the free market is deflationary."
A short explainer why, ie. increases in productivity & availability drive costs of production down. And if you can get agreement on that, the rest follows smoothly.
The next question then is why, despite the deflationary tendency, do prices continue to rise for everyone.
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Mention some of the best other resources (books, articles, videos) at the beginning and the end. Maybe middle too.
I'm also interested in more details on how you're living a bitcoin standard!
"Ok guys, tinfoil hat on. Maybe there's something wrong with the way money and banks work. You know the money in your bank account isn't yours and isn't money, right?"
Good luck. Don't envy you.
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When silver runs up the U.S. mint halts silver purchases. (1980,2013,2015,2019)
When GME ran up, Robinhood halted buying.
The market is rigged against retail. Anytime they get ahead, the market intervenes.
The fed is printing 40 billion dollars between December 13th, 2025 and April 2026. That's enough to give every home in america fiber internet or terraform the Nevada desert into something lush and inhabitable (twice). Instead its being used to devalue the honest saver.
The M2 money supply quintupled during Covid.
AT LEAST 9 Billion dollars of fraud in Minnesota...
Hard to describe without sounding like a schitzoid, tbh.
Thank you!
Start with reading these simple points:
@DarthCoin refuses to attach btc capable LN wallets to his SNs account.
He claims to live on the BTC Standard but cannot even bother using it here on SNs.
@DarthCoin is the supreme BTC Maxi hypocrit.
Do not zap arsemilking parasites like @DarthCoin who pretend to be bitcoiners but who deliberately boycott SNs BTC LN circular economy.