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Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Wednesday Night Live 13 August 2025

In this episode, Stefan explores Bitcoin's complexities through engaging listener call-ins. The discussion starts with a skeptical caller questioning Bitcoin's legitimacy, which Stefan counters by addressing its historical value and role in the digital economy. He emphasizes Bitcoin's advantages over fiat currencies, such as protection from inflation and central manipulation, while making a case for its potential in promoting peace. The episode also covers practical topics like Bitcoin mining, the Lightning Network, and the differences between proof-of-work and proof-of-stake, ultimately celebrating Bitcoin as a transformative force in global finance.

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0:00.0	Good evening. Welcome to the 13th. Oh my God. Friday the 13th. No. Wednesday. So close. I'm self-employed, so I don't know what day of the week it is. 13th of August 2025. And it's our Wednesday night live show. We can talk about Bitcoin or whatever's on your mind, and we will get straight to
0:21.8	Millennial Thinker.
0:24.4	You can now speak, whisper sweet reason to my ear.
0:31.0	Hey, Stefan, can you hear me?
0:32.5	Yeah, can you cut your background noise, brother?
0:34.6	Do me a solid.
0:36.1	I don't see how I could do that all.
1:00.4	You know what? I'm in a hotel lounge. I don't think I'm going to be able to. Yeah, I'm sorry, I can't do, if you can get someplace quieter, but I can't do background music and all that kind of stuff because I don't know what's copyrighted and what's not and that's kind of the way things roll. But we will switch to Pedro. What's on your mind, my friend?
1:09.9	I'll forget to unmute. Really? Yeah, just in general, if you're going to do a call-in, maybe don't be at a stadium or a disco or someplace that's really loud. Usually you can go ahead into the parking lot or someplace just a little quieter. It just seems to be a rather polite thing to do. And Pedro, are you with me? Yes or now?
1:28.0	All right.
1:25.7	My patience is not much tonight. Hi, I'm here. I'm here. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. I'm just want to thank you so much for being so important in my life first. Thank you. I appreciate that. You've really changed my life. Since I was a child, by the way. And I just want to ask you a simple thing. what's her best argument in favor of Bitcoin?
1:44.3	Someone is going to argue with me, what's your best argument in favor of Bitcoin?
1:47.1	Someone is going to argue with me, what's the best argument?
1:49.4	Compared to what?
1:52.1	Okay, so you'd be a Bitcoin skeptic, all right?
1:56.3	So come at me with your, it's a Ponzi scheme, whatever nonsense you've got, I mean,
2:18.2	give me the best skeptical, like, what would somebody say that you'd have to respond to? Well, you know, let me think about this. It's just a bubble. We do not know the price. It can never compete with gold. There's no tradition. I think that's the best. No, it can be hacked. There's no tradition. And it's a bubble. I think those are the three biggest. It's hard to go against Bitcoin, you know? Okay. So then I would say, what is your
2:23.4	definition of a bubble? A bubble would be something in which its price is defined only by the
2:33.1	demand of people, only by the demand of everyone,
2:36.2	and not by actually any real use case.
2:39.7	You know, it's just a speculation bubble.
2:42.0	That would be the definition of a bubble.
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