Bitcoin Rehab: Straight Toxic with CJ Wilson & American HODL - WBD367
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
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🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Location: Remotely Date: Friday 25th June Project: CJ Wilson Racing, WBD Employee of the Month Role: Owner and founder, N/A
CJ Wilson has led an exciting life. He was a two-time All-star during his decade-long major league baseball career, and he went on to found a professional sports car racing team.
Given his understanding of sound money, bitcoin was something he had to pursue to protect his wealth. CJ is a bitcoin maximalist, a term initially coined as a pejorative and now worn as a badge of honour.
The culture of toxicity is under constant criticism, with opponents suggesting it pushes people away from Bitcoin, while bitcoiners maintain it's an essential defence against scams and misinformation. Critics claim that maximalism itself is in opposition to liberty, but taking a hard stance is a cornerstone of sovereignty.
Is maximalism anti-freedom? Or is it simply the free market's rallying cry of a monetary revolution?
In this interview, I talk to American HODL & MLB all-star and sports car racer CJ Wilson. We discuss CJs sports career, racing fast cars and the role of toxic bitcoin maximalism.
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| 0:00.0 | Hero worship leads to disappointment, broken hearts, and posters torn off the wall. |
| 0:10.0 | Everybody is subjected to the same rules on the internet. |
| 0:14.0 | She by street, block my block, |
| 0:18.0 | taking it on back. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello that from Bedford in the United Kingdom. How you all doing? How you feeling about |
| 0:25.2 | the football tomorrow? |
| 0:26.7 | England play the Ukraine for a shot at reaching the semi-finals of the Euros. |
| 0:30.3 | You'll say I'm pretty nervous. Last time we got there was in 1996, a year in 96 and we went out to Germany and I had a little cry. |
| 0:38.0 | So fingers cross, hopefully we're going to win tomorrow and we will be in the semi-finals next week's |
| 0:43.0 | fingers crossed. Anyway how are you all? Welcome to the What Bitcoin did |
| 0:47.0 | podcast which is brought to you by Gemini the only place I am using for buying |
| 0:50.8 | Bitcoin. I'm your host Peter McCormack and today I've got an interview |
| 0:53.8 | with Baseball Star CJ Wilson and American Hoddle where we're going to be discussing |
| 0:58.2 | Bitcoin Maximism and a whole bunch of other shit. Now listen there is a lot of |
| 1:02.0 | swearing in this episode so if you're |
| 1:03.7 | one of those people who writes to me to complain about swearing you might want to |
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