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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#333: Building beautiful small towns on a Bitcoin Standard with Jaime "the storefront guy"

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8804 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Jaime "the storefront guy" to discuss building strong local communities with beautiful aesthetics and sound money.

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Read more about Jaime at The Vertical Sidewalk

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up, freaks at your boy, Marty Bent, here to introduce Rep 333.

0:05.9

Uh-oh.

0:06.7

333, 33 of TFTC.

0:11.7

I sat down with Jamie, the storefront guy to talk about bringing beautiful design to small towns, to strong small towns, and to bring a Bitcoin standard to these small businesses

0:25.4

to these small towns.

0:26.4

It's a great conversation.

0:29.4

Jamie's from Ecuador.

0:31.2

We talked about hyperinflation in Ecuador 20 years ago, what that was like, how

0:36.5

the lingering after effects are still

0:39.2

there today, how he's seeing some similar trends here in the U.S. now that he lives here and is

0:45.3

paying close attention to the economy, the monetary system, and the government's reaction

0:51.2

to losing control, essentially. I think the shining

0:57.7

message here is that we need to bring beauty back to the world and we need more and more people

1:02.7

to realize that trying to control complex systems in the top down fashion is simply untenable

1:09.1

in the long run. It does not work. We need to give power

1:12.0

back to individuals and grassroots movements and have these complex systems evolve as they should

1:18.8

granularly and locally and letting local decision makers make decisions based off of local information, not some people in a stuffy

1:30.8

room trying to micromanage things while being completely disconnected from that information

1:37.8

on the ground. Incredible episode, and Jamie's doing some incredible things again to make small businesses stronger, to make small towns stronger and to do that via good design, urban design and incorporating Bitcoin into these local economies.

1:55.3

A lot of, a lot of alpha here. If you're living in a small town, running a small business and looking to make things better for your town, you're if you're living in a small town running a small business and looking to to

2:02.4

make things better for your for your town your particular situation this right was brought to you

2:07.3

by our good friends at unchained capital unshane capital is here to bring you

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