#43 - Mak Kemenosh: "Bitcoin is Freedom"

Mak Kemenosh is a Venture Capital / Private Equity Talent Evaluator, Startup Founder, Surfer, and longtime Bitcoin Maximalist. Mak originally began investing in Bitcoin back in 2015 and currently keeps 99% of his financial assets in BTC. He has lived coast-to-coast over the past decade and his extensive startup experience has included companies in the logistics, aviation, and financial services industries. ***TIMESTAMPS*** 6:18 - The religiousness of Bitcoin; Mak’s early days of finding Bitcoin through gold; People can’t get ahead; Money & Health; Money as Tech; Government open to BTC?; Problems with The Fed; “The Bitcoin Standard” by Saifedean Ammous 23:50 - Peter Schiff; Transaction speed of Bitcoin; Bitcoin is like the sun; FDR & the gold bullion recall; Germany post WWI & Venezuela as examples of government currency manipulation gone wrong 40:34 - Who is the real Satoshi Nakamoto?; the Cyprus Crisis of 2013 that drove Bitcoin adoption; Bitcoin as a unit of account; Mak’s earliest days in crypto; The top-down nature of money & BTC; Bitcoin is freedom; private keys explained; The media is terrible; The tradeoff of critical thinking for safety 1:06:11 - Politicians in Covid; Ron DeSantis & Francis Suarez; One issue voters; Barack Obama and the drones question; Osama Bin Laden; Sound money means no wars?; Janet Yellen & Nepotism; The Cantillon Effect 1:26:24 - New York City in Covid; “The State has become God”; End of Roman Empire vibes?; What’s going on Miami right now; Self-driving cars and Covid 19 1:40:40 - Julian recounts his recent visit to NYC; With political ruin of Covid can an outside-the-system thing like Bitcoin “win?”; 1:49:00 - Brainwashing through repetition (with video of KGB Defector, Yuri Bezmenov’s 1984 warning to America about this very problem); Revisiting Nick Gurol’s Flat-Earth Psychology experiment with his round-earth-doubting students (from TRENDIFIER #37 - Nick Gurol) 1:56:28 - What were we doing a year ago when the Pandemic started?; Covid destroyed critical thinking; Jeffrey Epstein and how he is the ultimate symbol of the Fiat Currency System; 2:04:52 - Are all Bitcoiners “good people?”; Bitcoin faucets; Laszlo Hanyecz and the first exchange of Bitcoin for pizza; Bitcoin as a core pillar of basic human needs; The energy usage of Bitcoin mining and why Mak thinks Bitcoin mining will be beneficial to the environment in the long run 2:26:42 - Did Satoshi own BTC ahead of its first day trading on January 3rd, 2009?; Satoshi is Jesus; “I’m here to end the Federal Reserve”; Prominent Bitcoiner, Russell Okung, and his video tweet of the lint roller security guard; We’re at an inflection point in history 2:34:40 - Libertarians, Libertarianism, & Bitcoin; “The Fourth Turning” & Societal Cycles; Can we live in a world of total personal responsibility?; Breaking down the problems with the healthcare system; Covid should’ve been a massive AB Test; Why Trump left office as a member of the swamp; Can BTC be adopted in our two party world?; “It’s time to flip the board over” 2:50:46 - Why Altcoins feature so many scams; Ri