Eric Weinstein on Bitcoin - WBD356
Mr Obnoxious
Peter McCormack
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 157 minutes
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Summary
Location: Los Angeles
Date: Thursday 27th May
Project: Thiel Capital
Role: MD
Bitcoin can be a toxic place. If you question a narrative or fall on the wrong side of a debate, you will quickly find yourself on the receiving end of the ‘bitcoin plebs’, and rarely a day passes without a fight of some kind exploding on Twitter.
Earlier this year, Eric Weinstein found himself amongst a heated discussion after challenging the narratives of bitcoiners across Clubhouse and Twitter.
Eric is a cultural commentator who has been aware of Bitcoin since as early as 2010. Whilst supporting Bitcoin and the community, he does not consider himself a bitcoiner.
In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin maximalism & toxicity, Elon Musk and whether Bitcoin fixes everything. My friend Travis Kling joins me as co-host for this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like the Bitcoin community is one of the best communities to take on the future. |
| 0:09.0 | We've got rich, smart, heterodox, idealistic, iconoclastic pirates. |
| 0:16.0 | Okay, what are we doing? |
| 0:18.5 | Hello there from Miami, how are you all doing? |
| 0:22.0 | Are you here from the conference or are you at home? |
| 0:24.3 | You miss it out. If you are, I'm really sorry, I'm really feel bad for you. It's going to be an |
| 0:30.3 | amazing week. I've been here for 24 hours. I've already had a great time. |
| 0:35.0 | Now, after a long 18 months with all this COVID bullshit. We've all been locked away. |
| 0:40.0 | We haven't had the chance to spend some time with each other, so it is great to finally get down here to Miami, hang out with some Bitcoiners, talk about the last 18 months, especially in the last few weeks, and start planning for a big couple of years ahead. |
| 0:53.0 | Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin did podcast, |
| 0:56.0 | which is brought to you by Gemini, |
| 0:58.0 | the only place I am using for buying Bitcoin. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm your host Peter McCormack, |
| 1:02.0 | and today I have an interview that I've been trying |
| 1:03.8 | for quite some time now. I finally got Eric Weinstein to come on the podcast |
| 1:08.7 | get a mic in front of him and ask him a whole bunch of questions about Bitcoin. But also on this one I have been |
| 1:15.5 | joined by my buddy Travis Kling who joined me as co-host so a big thanks to |
| 1:19.6 | Travis thank you for coming out for this. Anyway before before we get into the interview, I do have a message from my show sponsors. |
| 1:26.0 | Okay, first up to day at sportsbet.io. Now, next to Bitcoin. I have a couple of big other passions. One is football and the other is cars. |
| 1:34.7 | Now Sports Betoio is the most fun, fast and fair way to bet on sports with Bitcoin and as a thank you |
| 1:40.9 | to the Bitcoin community which has supported Sports Bet Dio since 2016 at the conference. |
| 1:47.6 | They are giving away a Lamborghini to one delegate at Bitcoin 2021. |
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