A Pretty Intense Bitcoin Conversation with Robert Breedlove (WiM367)

In this episode with Danica Patrick of the Pretty Intense podcast, we discuss the corruption of money, the history of central banking, the human ego, and how to fix broken incentives.

Danica Patrick is a former race car driver. She was the first woman to win an IndyCar championship event in 2008.

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// OUTLINE //
00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:33 - Intro
00:02:06 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:02:52 - Introducing Robert Breedlove
00:03:25 - The 3-Step Process of Understanding
00:05:23 - Robert's Fields of Interest
00:09:28 - The Habit of Reading
00:11:25 - Finding the Answer to the Question: What is Money?
00:15:28 - What Backs the US Dollar
00:17:40 - Debt Accumulation and Fiat Currencies
00:18:43 - Bitcoin: Complicated & Unknown
00:25:52 - Society is Choosing the Bitcoin Path
00:28:30 - Bitcoin's Creation and Price Factors
00:33:32 - Central Banking is a Political Scheme
00:34:24 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:35:20 - The History of Central Banking
00:39:14 - Corruption of Money
00:41:45 - The Titanic Conspiracy
00:44:00 - Controlling the Money
00:48:16 - The Devil Inside
00:50:44 - The State as a Macrocosm of the Ego?
00:54:34 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
00:55:26 - The One World Government
00:58:44 - Stopping Bitcoin & Internet
01:02:10 - Fix the Money, Fix the World
01:05:37 - Fixing the Incentives
01:07:24 - A Government Without Central Banking
01:11:57 - Democracy vs. Monarchy
01:15:41 - When the Democracy Fails
01:16:45 - A Piece of Advice

// PODCAST //
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