Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species with Brandon Quittem (WiM161)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

Bitcoin, Breedlove, What Is Money, Investing, Rabbit Hole, Cryptocurrency, Money, Finance, Education, Robert Breedlove, History

4.8 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Brandon Quittem joins me for a discussion to deconstruct the often misunderstood relationship between energy and Bitcoin. This conversation also touches on points from Brandon’s article “Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species” where he uses an ecological framework to map out the abundant future of Bitcoin mining. (apologies: we lost Robert's camera footage on this episode)

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the What Is Money Show. I'm sitting down today with my friend and fellow Bitcoin author, Brandon Quidam.
0:17.2	Brandon is the head of comms at Swan Bitcoin. And as I mentioned, also a very well-known author,
0:24.7	specifically in this juncture of kind of like Bitcoin meets complexity meets biology.
0:32.0	You've written some good stuff. And today we're going to be talking about your latest piece.
0:40.2	Bitcoin is a pioneer species.
0:47.0	It's Brandon. Welcome to the show. Thank you very much, Robert. I've been looking forward to this. We've got a long history and had a lot of good chat, so I'm excited to record one today.
0:52.3	Yeah, man, that's great to see you again.
0:57.8	I still reflect back on our early conversations.
1:01.1	I think we were in Arawan in Los Angeles.
1:03.2	You visited at one point.
1:04.1	It was the first time we met.
1:09.3	And yeah, we just immediately hit it off going down all these rabbit holes related to Bitcoin.
1:14.4	That was in 2017, right? I think it was 2018. Or 2018? Okay. Yeah. You mind if I tell an embarrassing story about that? Please.
1:24.7	So I'm going out to L.A. I live in Minneapolis. And I just tweeted the standard, hey, Twitter, I'm going to L.A.
1:31.2	What Bitcoiners want to meet up. And this relatively unknown meathead DM'd me named Robert. And he said he read my recent mycelium piece and he wanted to get together. I'm like, all right, who's this guy?
1:44.5	I don't know who he is.
1:45.3	Let's get together.
1:47.0	Okay, we go to the grocery store.
1:48.6	We have some smoothies.
1:50.2	And it turns into a like three, four hour conversation that completely blew my mind.
1:54.6	And I was like, wow, is that brother from another mother?
1:58.7	What just happened?
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