Can Bitcoin Fix Politics? With Troy Cross & Margot Paez - WBD676
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Margot Paez is a Bitcoin Mining consultant & Troy Cross is a Professor of Philosophy, and both are Fellows at BPI. In this interview, we discuss the fracturing of political movements (particularly the progressives), why the left is in favour of CBDCs, how Bitcoin is a political tool, the Bitcoin Policy Summit, Bitcoin's image problem, and the issues and strengths of higher education.
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On this episode, we welcome back two eminent friends of the show: Margot Paez and Troy Cross. At the start of 2022, What Bitcoin Did actively searched for progressive voices within the community. It was soon apparent that there was a huge untapped well of thoughtful and brilliant people who had identified the powerful impact Bitcoin could have in supporting progressive causes.
However, it is apparent that there is now a shift happening within the left: a fracturing of beliefs and approaches. Some progressives within Bitcoin are starting to align themselves with a more holistic ideology predicated on financial fairness, which is open to debate and collaboration with those on the other side of the aisle.
At the root of this conversion is the belief that the promotion and use of Bitcoin itself is a political act. As Margot states: "it's an act of defiance", but an act of defiance with teeth. Finally, activists have a tool that can take on the established centres of power. But, if we are to accelerate adoption and battle those who work against Bitcoin, education and advocacy still require a solid evidence base.
Unfortunately, the FUD directed at Bitcoin has left an ingrained stain in the minds of many progressives. Margot, one of the main people within our community looking to bring academic rigour to support the claims being made about Bitcoin's societal benefits, has suffered directly as a result of this. She has effectively been kicked out of university because of her desire to study Bitcoin, by people with a progressive ideology.
We must all do what we can to support people like Margot and Troy. They are the ones providing the Bitcoin movement with the analytical heft needed to protect it from institutional attacks. They do it quietly and diligently, pushing against stiff headwinds. We owe them a massive debt of gratitude.
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| 0:00.0 | the project evaluating the gridless model, |
| 0:02.8 | whether it's sustainable under various price scenarios, |
| 0:05.4 | whether it's sustainable in the local environment |
| 0:07.9 | with water resources, like that is a vital research project |
| 0:11.7 | for humanity. We're talking about the potential for tens of millions of people, |
| 0:17.1 | let's say, conservatively, to get electricity who don't have it. This is kind of a project we desperately need and people aren't doing it. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello there, Bitcoin us, how are you doing? I had an amazing weekend. I went to see Muse |
| 0:30.2 | last night at the MK Bold, my kids, we rocked out, we loved it. Also my boys, |
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| 0:39.8 | about this season. I think we've got a good chance of winning another league title and |
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| 0:47.3 | project. Just think of it as another Bitcoin project and if we're winning |
| 0:51.5 | maybe Bitcoin's winning. |
| 0:52.6 | Anyway, listen, welcome to the What Bitcoin did podcast, |
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| 1:01.7 | I'm your host, Peter McCorm McCormack and today I've got Troy |
| 1:04.4 | Cross back on the show joined by Margot Piers and we're gonna get into the |
| 1:08.8 | political side of Bitcoin. Now this is a super interesting conversation because over the last year or so we've made a |
| 1:15.2 | conservative effort to have more progressives, more liberals, more lefties on the show because we know |
| 1:21.7 | for Bitcoin to succeed. It has to get through to all ends of the |
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