SurferJim Yells a Little Bit with SurferJim & American HODL - WBD346
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
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🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Location: El Salvador Date: Wednesday 5th May Company: n/a Role: n/a
Bitcoin is an open and permissionless system that, by design, is available to anyone and everyone who wants to participate, without prejudice or bias. However, while the system is open to all, some of the participants in the system push strong narratives.
As a decentralised system with no single entity in control, these bitcoiners and their narratives have been fundamental in helping protect the network from bad actors and those looking to exploit it for personal gain.
Some of these narratives are clearly beneficial, such as running a full node to help decentralise the network or pushing self-sovereignty through things such as not your keys, not your coins. However, several other narratives have become things that some groups of bitcoiners identify with, such as following a carnivore diet, anarchism and scepticism regarding vaccines.
How important are these narratives to bitcoin? And what makes someone a 'real' bitcoiner?
In this interview, I talk to American HODL and Surfer Jim. We discuss bitcoin narratives & purity, shitcoins, NFTs, the bitcoin plebs and Surfer Jim's battle with Chamath Palihapitiya.
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| 0:00.0 | If we lived in a world where you could trust your money, you could then trust your ability to just go work hard like you already do when the money is fixed, all this bullshit goes away. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi there, from Sunny El Salvador. |
| 0:18.0 | What a beautiful country. |
| 0:19.0 | I actually first came here 18 months ago to visit the Bitcoin Beach Project and it's a real |
| 0:25.5 | pleasure to be back here in the country and see how that seed that Michael Peterson |
| 0:29.5 | planted has grown. It's pretty impressive actually all the stuff that's happening with |
| 0:33.7 | Bitcoin down here. I can't wait to tell you all more about it. Anyway how you're |
| 0:37.2 | doing? Did you have a good weekend? Welcome to the What Bitcoin did |
| 0:40.4 | podcast which is brought to you by Gemini the only place I am using for |
| 0:43.9 | buying Bitcoin I'm your host Peter McCormack and today I've got another rehab |
| 0:47.4 | show with American Hold All and this time we are joined by Surfer Jim but before |
| 0:51.9 | that I do have a message from my show sponsors and today we're going to kick off with Ledger, the world's most popular hardware wallet. |
| 0:59.0 | Now a Hardware wallet allows you to take custody of your Bitcoin. And I have been a Ledger customer since |
| 1:05.0 | early 2017 and I'm still using the same nanowess I bought back then. Ledger makes it easy for you to |
| 1:12.1 | safely manage your Bitcoin using their Ledger makes it easy for you to safely manage your Bitcoin using their Ledger Live software, which interfaces with your device. |
| 1:17.0 | And if you are an Android phone user, you can connect that to your Nanos and manage your Bitcoin on the go. |
| 1:23.0 | If you want to find out more, please do head over to ledger.com, which is L-E-D-G-R.com. |
| 1:29.0 | Next up we have Gemini, my new exchange sponsor, who I am using for buying this selling Bitcoin exclusively |
| 1:34.8 | but I'm not selling at the moment we're in a bull market I'm only buying and I've been using |
| 1:39.4 | their awesome app I've been buying the dips but I've also set up my DCA with twice monthly buys of |
| 1:45.1 | Bitcoin and I've yet to see a better and easier interface for buying Bitcoin. |
| 1:50.0 | I do want to give a massive shout out to Cameron and Tyler. Thank you for supporting the show and also for everything you're doing to support Bitcoin. I've reached out to them before. |
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