Ep. 600: Roger Ver Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Roger Ver, also known as “Bitcoin Jesus”. He started his first company in Silicon Valley while still in college and made his first million before 25. Roger is a libertarian who has dedicated his life to the pursuit of getting individuals to interact outside the state system. He has been a relentless advocate for blockchain currency, pouring all his capital and energy into the startup. Roger is currently starting a non-government run territory. This non-country will have no government, but instead will be run by principles of the Anarcho-Capitalism philosophy. Right now he has over $100 million dollars of private capital committed to this non-country. Money raised will be used to purchase a plot of land for the free society to operate. He has the hope of purchasing other pieces of land and continuing to grow his non-government led society.

The topic is Bitcoin.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Voluntarism
Libertarianism
Bitcoin in Tokyo
Victimless crimes
Morality
Free Society

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Coval.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.1	Before I jump into my guest today, a quick reminder,
0:40.0	support the cause, support the podcast.
0:47.7	Go to your friendly neighborhood Amazon, the monopoly dealer of everything that you might possibly buy, and I say that with all due respect, because they sell my stuff.
0:53.9	Go to Amazon. Check out my newest. Trend following
0:58.3	edition. The fifth edition, 600 plus pages. Get the hardcover. The Kendall is whatever. Get the hard
1:06.6	cover. The hardcover's cool. Or for you audiobook fans, all 34 plus hours, go dig into the
1:14.6	newest trend following edition, support this podcast, support the very interesting guest that I try to
1:21.0	get on this show. Oh, also, my book, The Complete Turtle Trader, has been, for who knows what reason, racing up the Amazon charts once again.
1:32.2	It seems like every couple of years it becomes a bestseller all over again.
1:36.7	People finding that story and being inspired that you can actually learn how to trade and make some freaking money and perhaps get outside
1:47.3	of the grid, get outside of the man, do your own thing, and not let the state control every step
1:56.7	of your way for your entire life.
2:03.8	I mean, that's what this making money stuff is all about, right?
2:07.1	It's all about having some freedom.
2:10.9	And freedom seems to be the driver for my guest today. Roger Vair, affectionately known across circles as Bitcoin Jesus is a former U.S. citizen. He renounced his U.S. citizenship.
2:22.8	He has been an early investor in Bitcoin-related startups, made his first million selling memory,
2:29.4	I believe, at a young age, early 20s, resides in Japan now, self-taught, Japanese speaker, I love that,
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