#509: Sustaining Bitcoin For Generations with Michael Goldstein
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
Marty sits down with Michael Goldstein to discuss the Nakamoto Institute, timeless ideas, and bitcoin rhetoric.
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0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Nakamoto Institute origins
5:42 - Timeless ideas
12:08 - River & Unchained
13:24 - Popularity drivers for Austrian econ
22:26 - Distractions from bitcoin as money
27:39 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
29:16 - Framing fiat’s weakness
36:28 - Art of Bitcoin Rhetoric
43:11 - Don’t let haters dictate terms
50:08 - “Trust in human institutions”
1:01:29 - The power of effective messaging
1:19:40 - Highlighting solutions
1:25:19 - Advertisements and algorithms
1:33:35 - Nakamoto Institute revitalization
2:00:06 - Ossification discourse
2:08:40 - Telethon brainstorm and plugs
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| 0:00.0 | This rip of TFTC was brought to you by River. |
| 0:07.5 | It's the best place to buy Bitcoin. |
| 0:09.7 | Go to river.com slash TFTC and enjoy this episode. You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free. |
| 0:24.7 | If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts. |
| 0:30.3 | So it's all acting like safe haven. |
| 0:32.5 | I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency, |
| 0:38.5 | Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor. I mean, that's part of the |
| 0:44.3 | bold case for Bitcoin. If you're not paying attention, you probably should be. |
| 0:51.3 | All right. It should be. Michael Goldstein. |
| 0:56.2 | We're rolling. |
| 0:57.2 | We're rolling. |
| 0:57.7 | It's been seven years you've never been on the show. |
| 0:59.4 | This is embarrassing if this is the first time. |
| 1:02.0 | Yes. |
| 1:03.7 | It's happening, though. |
| 1:05.1 | It is. |
| 1:05.7 | It's happening. |
| 1:07.8 | It's happening. |
| 1:09.2 | It just started out of nowhere. I don't know where to go with it all right |
| 1:13.2 | that's the show i'm kidding there's plenty to talk about you've got a lot going on |
| 1:20.9 | would you define what you're doing with the nakamano institute as a rebirth of the institute |
| 1:25.7 | itself i don't know that it died it definitely didn't die it didn't die um i think if it is Institute has a rebirth of the Institute itself. |
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