Cape Breton Bitcoin Culture

Brad Mills invites fellow Cape Breton bitcoiners Steven Manley and Dominic onto the show to discuss early adoption of crypto and its relation to Cape Breton culture. Steven talks about his past involving early cryptography, Brad elaborates on the state and history of Cape Breton. Dominic talks about his history retiring from the military and retirement in Cape Breton. The group criticizes governments and their stances on Bitcoin and altcoins, as well as the problems facing not just Bitcoin, but the entire crypto space as regulators come to collect. Time Stamps 00:00:18 - Introduction 00:02:10 - The Post-Trust World 00:08:25 - Show Start and Guest Intro 00:15:04 - Getting into Bitcoin Early 00:19:38 - The current state, Challenges facing Bitcoin 00:27:51 - What is money and the violation of social contracts 00:42:21 - Government relations with cryptocurrencies 00:46:07 - Cape Breton culture 00:52:06 - Bitcoin dominance, relation to altcoins and fiat 00:59:28 - Questioning what money is and government control 01:09:08 - Debt defaults and hyperinflation 01:19:27 - Institutions and speculation, money wrapped up in assets 01:26:01 - Factionalism in the cryptocurrency community 01:32:37 - Bitcoin “a threat to the US dollar”, regulation and institutions 01:42:30 - Trust and altcoin centralization, Bitcoin community vs Altcoin community 01:55:27 - Jack Dorsey, the Twitter API, and relation to Bitcoin 02:02:06 - Bitcoin not going away, life changes, institutional control of finance 02:10:00 - Bitcoin and energy consumption 02:15:40 - Updating away from equalization, Cape Breton modernizations 02:24:03 - Social media plugs and closing remarks

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My name is Brad Mills, I am a Bitcoiner. I'm an average person, I just got into Bitcoin early. I'm not a coder, I look at this space from the point of view of a regular user. I believe BTC is the best form of money. It’s free speech money. Digital Gold. Programmable money for the age of the Internet, uncensorable, peer to peer cash. A new asset class, a store of value. One of the most important open source inventions of our time, gifted to the world by an anonymous creator whose identity is still not known! I fell down the rabbit hole & have been following Bitcoin since 2011. This podcast is my evolving journey in the world of cryptocurrency as I try to reconcile my bitcoin maximalist philosophy & my respect for the Austrian Economic, Libertarian & Cypherpunk roots of bitcoin's creation with the desire to stack BTC by investing in the rest of the space. I hope you enjoy the conversations.